Nurses book series in reading order

by Charles Todd

by Helen Dore Boylston

by Janette Oke

Betty Neels (15 September 1909 - 7 June 2001) was an English author of more than 134 romance novels, born in Leyton. Mills & Boon published the novels first in the United Kingdom, and Harlequin reprinted them in North America. Neels wrote from 1969 until death, and the books are noted for being especially chaste. The catalogue lists 140 books, including Nurse in Holland (1969), Sister Peters in Amsterdam (1969) and Tempestuous April (1970). Doctors, nurses, surgeons and the Netherlands recur in the subjects, and Dr Fforde is a named series.

Charles Todd writes historical mysteries set around the First World War. Inspector Ian Rutledge, a police detective, and Bess Crawford, a nurse, head the two main series in a catalogue of 50 titles that begins with A Test of Wills (1994). A Day of Judgment is the most recent book, and A Deadly Cost is dated 2027. Short stories and standalone novels round out the list.

Hospitals supply the setting for Candace Calvert's fiction. Her 10 books are Christian romance with medical and suspense plots, following nurses, physicians, police officers and firefighters through emergencies. Three series divide them: Mercy Hospital, Grace Medical and Crisis Team. Critical Care (2009) opens the catalogue and Maybe It's You (2017) closes it, with nothing added since 2017.

Sarah Morgan writes contemporary and medical romance, with 119 books catalogued from Expectant Bride (1999) to The Best Christmas Ever (2026). Physicians, nurses, billionaires and Italians are among the recorded subjects, and early titles include The Doctor's Engagement (2001), The Midwife's Child (2001) and The Greek Tycoon's Bride (2002). Series lines include From Manhattan With Love, Lakeside Mountain Rescue, Glenmore Island Doctors, Cornish Consultants, O'Neil Brothers and Miller Sisters.

Cassie Alexander is an American writer and nurse whose catalogue mixes urban fantasy, paranormal romance and medical fiction. The 40 books run from Nightshifted (2012) to Guarded by the AI (2025), with Moonshifted and Shapeshifted also from 2012 and Deadshifted (2013) and Bloodshifted (2014) after them. Series include Edie Spence, Dark Ink Tattoo, Sleeping With Monsters, Moth and the Monster, Prince of the Other Worlds and Wardens of the Other Worlds. Vampires, werewolves, shapeshifting and gay romance appear among the subjects.

Donna Douglas writes historical sagas about nurses. The Nightingale Girls (2012) opens a catalogue of 19 books that reaches A Nurse's Secret (2025). Three series are catalogued: the Nightingales, the Yorkshire Blitz books and Steeple Street. Nurses, hospitals, London and English social life across the First and Second World Wars carry the work, and Douglas remains actively publishing.

Jill Paton Walsh, 1937 to 2020, was an English novelist and children's writer, born Gillian Bliss and later Baroness Hemingford. Knowledge of Angels, nominated for the Booker Prize, stands among the best known of the work, along with the Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane mysteries that continued Dorothy L. Sayers's series. The Imogen Quy mysteries follow, with the University of Cambridge among the catalogued subjects, beside a long run of children's fiction on history and the Second World War. The catalogue lists 48 titles dated 1965 to 2013, opening with Wordhoard: Anglo-Saxon Stories (1965) and taking in Fireweed (1969), The Dolphin Crossing (1970), Goldengrove (1972) and The Emperor's Winding Sheet (1974). The Late Scholar (2013) is the last catalogued title.

Diana Palmer is the pen name of Susan Kyle, born Susan Spaeth on December 11, 1946, an American novelist publishing romance since 1979. Kyle spent sixteen years as a journalist under the name Susan Spaeth before turning to fiction, and has also written as Diana Blayne, Katy Currie and Susan Kyle, with a science fiction novel as Susan S. Kyle. The catalogue lists 199 books from 1979 to 2026, opening with titles such as Dream's End and Sweet Enemy and reaching Blaze of Glory (2026). Wyoming Men, Soldiers of Fortune, Men of Medicine Ridge and Morcai Battalion are among the series, and Long, Tall Texans is a listed grouping. Diamond Girl became a 1998 television film. Subjects name ranchers, cowboys, Texas, Wyoming and western romance.

Amy Andrews is an Australian romance author with 99 books in the catalogue, from The Midwife's Miracle Baby (2005) to One Night with the Doctor (2026), and Rough and Ready announced for 2027. Andrews has written contemporary romance for Harlequin Mills & Boon, Entangled, Harper Collins, Momentum, Tule and Escape, with translations into thirteen languages. Andrews spent six years on the national executive of Romance Writers of Australia and served two years as its president. Subjects include medical romance, nurses and physicians. Series include Prognosis, Sydney Smoke Rugby, Outback Heat and Brisbane General Hospital.

Anne Perry

111 books• 14 series

Anne Perry (28 October 1938 – 10 April 2023), born Juliet Marion Hulme, was a British writer of historical detective fiction. Perry wrote the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt novels and the William Monk series. In 1994 it became public that Perry, at fifteen, had been convicted in 1954 in Christchurch, New Zealand, of murdering Honorah Parker, mother of Perry's friend Pauline Parker; after a five-year sentence, Perry took a new name and returned to the United Kingdom. The catalogue holds 111 Perry books, opening with The Cater Street Hangman (1979) and reaching Death Times Seven (2026). Other series include Daniel Pitt, Elena Standish, Timepiece and Tathea.

Janette Oke, born Janette Steeves on 18 February 1935, is a Canadian author of inspirational fiction, often set in pioneer times with women as the lead characters. Bethany House published Love Comes Softly, the first Oke novel, in 1979. When Calls the Heart (1983) opened the Canadian West series and became the basis for a television series with the same title. The catalogue holds 79 Oke books, with The Pharisee's Wife (2025) the newest. Series include Love Comes Softly, Prairie Legacy, Women of the West, Song of Acadia and Janette Oke's Animal Friends. Subjects include women pioneers, Canada and Christian fiction.

Debra Webb, born 1958, is an American author of suspense novels and a USA Today bestseller. The catalogue credits Webb with 180 books from 1999 to 2026, starting with Tempting Trace (1999). Series include Colby Agency, Faces of Evil, Undertaker's Daughter, Shades of Death, Lookout Mountain Mysteries and Winchester, Tennessee. Subjects cover romantic suspense, private investigators, serial murderers and missing persons. The Woman I've Become (2026) is the newest title.

Karen Rose Smith is an American author born in Pennsylvania whose first romance appeared in 1992. Smith has written for Meteor/Kismet, Kensington, Silhouette and Harlequin, and has indie-published novels and short story collections as e-books. Awards include New Jersey's Golden Leaf Award for short contemporary romance (twice), CRA's Award of Excellence and the Golden Quill for Traditional Romance. The catalogue lists 124 books from A Man Worth Loving (1992) to If Books Could Kill (2026). Mystery lines include Caprice De Luca Mystery and Daisy's Tea Garden Mysteries.

Lindsay McKenna is the pseudonym of Eileen Nauman, who served in the U.S. Navy from 1964 to 1967 and has also been a volunteer firefighter, an EMT in Arizona and a pilot. Nauman is known as the Top Gun of Women's Military Fiction. The catalogue records 148 books from Captive of Fate (1983) to No Turning Back (2024). Morgan's Mercenaries and its sub-series, Delos, Wind River Valley, Shadow Team and Black Jaguar Squadron are among the series, and military veterans, cowboys and Wyoming appear in the subjects alongside romantic suspense.

Rochelle Alers, born August 7, 1943, is an American romance novelist who has also written as Susan James and Rena McLeary. The catalogue lists 95 books from Careless Whispers (1988) to A Maverick of Honor (2026). Subjects cover African American romance, contemporary and historical romance, widows and New Orleans. Series include Hideaway Legacy, Eatons, Wickham Falls Weddings, Cavanaugh Island, Blackstones of Virginia and Whitfield Brides. Hideaway (1995) is among the titles.

The Amish and Christian inspirational romance appear in the subject headings for Patricia Davids, with widows, Christmas stories and Love Inspired also named. Davids was born in rural Kansas and worked as a nurse. The catalogue holds 48 books from 2006 to 2022, starting with Love Thine Enemy, Prodigal Daughter and His Bundle of Love (all 2006) and reaching Christmas on His Doorstep (2022); the listing is now dormant. Series include Brides of Amish Country, North Country Amish, Amish Bachelors, Amish of Cedar Grove, Matchmakers of Harts Haven and Mounted Color Guard.

Mary Pope Osborne

166 books• 9 series

Mary Pope Osborne, born May 20, 1949, is an American children's author and audiobook narrator best known for the Magic Tree House series, which had sold more than 134 million copies worldwide by 2017. Awards have gone to both the series and Osborne, including recognition for work promoting children's literacy. Osborne attended the University of North Carolina and published a first book in 1982. The catalogue counts 166 Osborne books, from Run, Run, As Fast As You Can (1982) to Sea Otter Sunrise (2025). Time travel, tree houses, history, folklore and Greek mythology appear among the subjects.

Hannah Alexander is the shared pseudonym of Cheryl and Mel Hodde, a married Christian writing team who blended their two names into one. Mel Hodde is a physician, and the pair specialise in medical romantic suspense. The catalogue lists 33 books from Hideaway (1990) to Ashes Over Yellowstone (2025). Hideaway, Missouri, Hallowed Halls, Healing Touch and Sacred Trust are the series. Subjects include emergency physicians, women physicians, hospitals and inspirational romance.

Mary Renault

17 books• 2 series

Mary Renault was the pen name of Eileen Mary Challans, a British novelist best known for historical fiction set in ancient Greece. Renault studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, worked as a nurse and began with contemporary romances such as Purposes of Love (1939). The ancient-Greek novels followed, among them The Last of the Wine (1956) and The King Must Die (1958), which opens the Theseus series. A move to South Africa in 1948 with her partner, Julie Mullard, let Renault write openly gay characters away from English censorship. The Alexander the Great novels close the 17-title catalogue at Funeral Games (1981).

Daniel Mason

7 books

Daniel Mason is an American novelist and physician who writes historical fiction. His 7 catalogued books run from The Piano Tuner (2002) to Country People (2026), by way of A Far Country (2007), Death of the Pugilist (2008), The Winter Soldier (2018), A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth (2020) and North Woods (2023). Burma, the First World War, piano technicians and siblings are the recorded subjects. Mason is actively publishing.

David Walliams

56 books• 6 series

Born David Edward Williams on 20 August 1971, David Walliams is an English actor, comedian, writer and television personality. Walliams rose to fame with Matt Lucas on the BBC sketch shows Little Britain (2003–2006) and Come Fly with Me (2010–2011), judged Britain's Got Talent from 2012 to 2022, and wrote and starred in the sitcom Big School. Walliams's children's books have sold more than 50 million copies. The catalogue lists 56 titles from Inside Little Britain (2006) to The World’s Worst Superheroes (2025), including The Boy in the Dress (2008), Mr Stink (2009), Billionaire Boy (2010), Gangsta Granny (2011) and Awful Auntie (2014).

Gayle Roper writes Christian fiction and mysteries, with 52 books catalogued between Mother's World (1975) and His Plain Truth (2025). East Edge Mysteries, Amhearst Mysteries, Seaside Seasons, Amish Trilogy, Amish Farm Trilogy, Task Force Valor and Between Two Worlds are series, and Adventures Of Scooter and Jake is another. The Secret of the Burning House (1992) and Mystery at Harmony Hill (1993) are earlier titles. Subjects include the Amish, Pennsylvania, women journalists and Christian romance.

C.J. Lyons writes medical thrillers and police procedurals. Lifelines (2008) opens 47 catalogued books that stop at Save Her Child (2021). Nine series divide the run, among them the Lucy Guardino FBI Thrillers, Angels of Mercy, Hart and Drake, Caitlyn Tierney FBI Thriller and Fatal Insomnia. Emergency medicine, nurses, women physicians and murder in Pittsburgh supply the material. No title has followed since 2021.

Christianna Brand

32 books• 5 series

Christianna Brand was the professional name of Mary Christianna Lewis, born Mary Christianna Milne on 17 December 1907 in British Malaya, now Malaysia, a British writer of crime fiction and children's books who died on 11 March 1988. Inspector Cockrill is a series, with subject headings naming police procedurals and traditional English detective stories. The catalogue lists 32 books, beginning with Death in High Heels and Heads You Lose (both 1941), Green for Danger (1944), Death of Jezebel (1949) and Tour de Force (1955). Nurse Matilda, Inspector Charlesworth and Inspector Chucky are further series, and humorous children's stories appear among the subjects.