Mythology book series in reading order

by Rachel Smythe

by Rick Riordan

by George O’Connor

Rachel Smythe is the creator of Lore Olympus, a WEBTOON Originals comic that debuted in 2018. Graphic novel editions began in October 2021, and more than 2.3 million copies have been printed in the US. The work has been translated into 13 languages. The catalogue holds 13 books, from Lore Olympus: Volume One (2021) to Lore Olympus: Volume Eleven (2026), plus Lore Olympus: The Official Coloring Book (2024). Subjects include Greek mythology, retellings and romance.

Geraldine McCaughrean

155 books• 14 series

Geraldine McCaughrean, born 6 June 1951, is a British children's novelist with more than 170 books to that name. Peter Pan in Scarlet (2004) is the official sequel to Peter Pan, commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital. McCaughrean has won the Carnegie Medal twice and the Michael L. Printz Award. Myths, legends, folklore and Bible stories appear among the subjects, and series include Myths and Legends of the World, Roman Myths and Brambledown Tales. The catalogue holds 155 books from One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (1982) to Under a Fire-Red Sky (2025).

Rick Riordan

82 books• 19 series

Rick Riordan, born Richard Russell Riordan Jr. on June 5, 1964, is an American author. Riordan is best known for the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, which take in Percy Jackson & the Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus, The Trials of Apollo and The Nico di Angelo Adventures. The catalogue holds 82 books from 1997 to 2026, opening with Big Red Tequila (1997) and reaching The Lightning Thief in 2005; the Tres Navarre and Kane Chronicles lines also feature. Riordan's books have been translated into 42 languages and have sold more than 30 million copies in the United States. 20th Century Fox filmed the first two Percy Jackson books, a project Riordan had no part in.

Anthony Horowitz

106 books• 23 series

Anthony Horowitz is an English novelist and screenwriter, born 5 April 1955, who specialises in mystery and suspense. For children and young adults Horowitz created Alex Rider, a 14-year-old British boy who spies for MI6, along with The Power of Five (titled The Gatekeepers in the US) and The Diamond Brothers. The catalogue holds 106 Horowitz books from Enter Frederick K. Bower (1978) to A Deadly Episode (2026). Other listed series include Detective Daniel Hawthorne, Susan Ryeland, Groosham Grange and the Pentagram Chronicles. Horowitz is still publishing.

Greek mythology reworked as romantasy is Scarlett St. Clair's main line, above all in the Hades and Persephone books: A Touch of Darkness, A Touch of Ruin and A Touch of Malice, retold from the other side in A Game of Fate and A Game of Retribution. Adrian X Isolde, Blood of Lilith, When Stars Come Out and a fairy tale retelling series fill out 14 titles between 2018 and 2025. Books median 428 pages.

Neil Gaiman

199 books• 41 series

Neil Gaiman, born Neil Richard Gaiman on 10 November 1960, is an English writer of short fiction, novels, comic books, audio theatre and screenplays. The Sandman comic series ran from 1989 to 1996, and the novels include Stardust (1999), American Gods (2001), Coraline (2002), Anansi Boys (2005) and The Graveyard Book (2008). The Graveyard Book made Gaiman the first author to win both the Newbery and Carnegie medals for one work, and other awards include the Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker. Gaiman co-created the television adaptations of Good Omens and The Sandman. The catalogue runs from Duran Duran (1984) to The Silver Age (2024) and includes Sandman and Death graphic novels and children's books.

Chani Lynn Feener studied Creative Writing at Johnson State College in Vermont and lives in Connecticut. Feener wrote the Xenith trilogy and the teen paranormal series The Underworld Saga, which first appeared under the pen name Tempest C. Avery. Fantasy, paranormal romance, mythology and science fiction are among the subjects of the 55 catalogued books, which begin with Unhinged (2013). Series include Devils of Vitality, Beguiled Omegas, Gods of Mist and Mayhem and Demons of Foxglove Grove. His Darker Paradox (2026) is the newest title, and Sinister Seduction is due in 2027.

Laura Anne Gilman

50 books• 15 series

Laura Anne Gilman is an American fantasy author, born in New Jersey in 1967. Magic, paranormal investigation, vampires and murder recur across a catalogue of 50 books published between 1995 and 2023, from Double or Nothing (1995) to Uncanny Vows (2023). Gilman's series include the Retrievers, the Vineart War, Paranormal Scene Investigations, Sylvan Investigations, the Gin & Tonic Mysteries, the Devil's West, Portals and Huntsmen, with non-fiction strands on unsolved mysteries and on economics. No title is listed after 2023.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

33 books• 9 series

Young adult novels are the core of Jennifer Lynn Barnes's work; the American writer, born October 19, 1984, is best known for the Inheritance Games saga and The Naturals. The catalogue holds 33 Barnes books, from Golden (2006) to Dangerous Impulses (2026). Other series include Fixer, The Grandest Game, Raised By Wolves, Debutantes and Squad. Subjects attached to the books include high schools, friendship, extrasensory perception, the supernatural, werewolves and mythology.

Spicy romance is Katee Robert's field, and Entertainment Weekly has called the writing "unspeakably hot". Robert is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller with more than two million copies sold, lives in the Pacific Northwest, and also publishes as Kat Taylor. The catalogue holds 105 books from Hunter of the Dead (2012) to The Beast (2026). Series include Dark Olympus, Wicked Villains, O'Malleys, Arrogant Heirs, Thalanian Dynasty and Bloodline Vampires, with subjects spanning contemporary, erotic and fantasy romance.

Alex Aster

11 books• 3 series

Alex Aster is the pen name of Alexandra Pierson, a Colombian and American young adult author born on 4 August 1995. Aster's main series are Lightlark, a young adult fantasy romance, and Emblem Island, a middle grade fantasy. The catalogue shows 12 titles from 2020 onward, among them Curse of the Night Witch (2020), Lightlark (2022), Nightbane (2023), Skyshade (2024) and Crowntide (2025), with Stormside scheduled for 2027.

Madeline Miller

5 books

Madeline Miller, born July 24, 1978, is an American novelist whose subjects include Greek mythology and the Trojan War. Miller spent ten years writing The Song of Achilles (2011) while teaching Latin and Greek; the novel, about the love between Achilles and Patroclus, won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and Miller became the fourth debut novelist to take that prize. Circe followed in 2018, and Miller received an Alex Award in 2019. The catalogue lists 5 titles: The Song of Achilles, Heracles' Bow (2012), Galatea (2013), Circe and Mestra (2026).

Tui T. Sutherland

58 books• 13 series

Tui T. Sutherland is an American children's author, born July 31, 1978, with more than 60 books written under Sutherland's own name and several pen names. Sutherland is best known for Wings of Fire, a series of dragon fantasy novels, and won $46,200 over three games on Jeopardy! in 2009. The catalogue lists 58 Sutherland books from Jewel Sticker Stories (2000) to The Hybrid Prince (2026), with Kari Sutherland credited on 2. Other listings include Pet Trouble, Avatars and Menagerie. Subjects include dragons, pets, dogs, prophecies and fantasy.

Kristin Cast, born in Japan on 4 November 1986, is an American writer of young adult books and graphic novels, best known for the House of Night and Sisters of Salem series written with P. C. Cast, Kristin's mother. The catalogue lists 13 Cast books, from Amber Smoke (2015) and Scarlet Rain (2016) through The Key to Fear (2020) and The Key to Fury (2022) to Fireworks & Frosting (2026). Series include Towerfall, Escaped, Key and Swords Tarot Towerfall. Subjects include mythology, good and evil, and paranormal and contemporary romance.

Carrie Vaughn

84 books• 16 series

Carrie Vaughn, born on 28 January 1973, is an American writer and the creator of the urban fantasy Kitty Norville series. Vaughn has published more than 60 short stories in science fiction and fantasy magazines, anthologies and online magazines, writes for the Wild Cards books, won the 2018 Philip K. Dick Award for Bannerless and has been a Hugo Award nominee. The catalogue opens with Kitty and the Midnight Hour (2005), then Kitty Goes to Washington (2006) and Kitty Takes a Holiday (2007), and Blade Through the Heart (2026) is the newest title. Other series include Bannerless Saga, Cormac and Amelia, Graff and Naturalist Society. Subjects include werewolves, radio talk show hosts and Las Vegas.

Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992) was an English novelist known above all for children's books, and within them for historical fiction and retellings of myth and legend. Some of the novels were written for adults; in a 1986 interview Sutcliff said the books were for children of all ages, from nine to ninety. The catalogue holds 56 titles between 1950 and 1997, opening with The Chronicles of Robin Hood (1950) and taking in The Eagle of the Ninth (1954), Outcast (1955), Beowulf: Dragonslayer (1956) and The Shield Ring (1956) before Sword Song (1997). Three series are catalogued: Marcus / Eagle of the Ninth, the Roman Britain Trilogy and the Arthurian books. Sutcliff was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1974.

Terry Deary

340 books• 41 series

Terry Deary is a British children's author, born in 1946, best known as the writer of the Horrible Histories series. Deary has written 351 books, which have sold more than 38 million copies in over 45 languages, and has ranked among Britain's best-selling authors since 1994. In 2012 Deary was the tenth most-borrowed author in British libraries, and Books for Keeps magazine named Deary the Outstanding Children's Non-Fiction Author of the 20th Century. The catalogue lists 340 titles from Teaching Through Theatre (1977) onward, including the True Stories and Tudor Terror series.

Greek and Norse gods are the subjects of George O'Connor's graphic novel series, Olympians and Asgardian. O'Connor, born November 5, 1973, is an American cartoonist, illustrator and author based in Brooklyn. The catalogue lists 22 books from Kapow! (2004) to Odin (2024), including Ker-splash! (2005), Uncle Bigfoot (2008) and the god-titled books Athena and Zeus (2010), Hera (2011) and Hades (2012).

Kris Waldherr has 15 catalogued books from Persephone and the Pomegranate (1993) to How They Met Themselves (2025). Greek mythology, goddesses, goddess religion, women and religion and juvenile literature are among the subject tags, and historical romance also appears. The Book of Goddesses (1996), Sacred Animals (2001), The Lover's Path (2005), Doomed Queens (2008) and The Lost History of Dreams (2019) are listed titles. Waldherr is still publishing.