Officers book series in reading order

by David Poyer

by Naomi Novik

Dudley Pope wrote nautical fiction and naval history. Pope lived from 1925 to 1997 and published 37 catalogued books between Flag 4 (1954) and Ramage & the Dido (1989). The Nicholas Ramage novels are the best known work, set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and Ramage (1964) and Ramage and the Drum Beat (1968) sit early in that sequence. Buccaneer Ned Yorke is the second series. Histories of naval actions stand beside the novels, among them The Battle of the River Plate (1956) and 73 North: The Battle of the Barents Sea 1942 (1958). C.S. Forester was the acknowledged influence, and Pope's work is often set beside Patrick O'Brian's.

David Poyer, born 1949, is an American author and a retired naval officer. Dan Lenson is a series, and subjects include the United States Navy, officers, sea stories, war and military thrillers and terrorists. Tiller Galloway, Hemlock County and Civil War at Sea are other series. The 51 catalogued books run from White Continent (1980) to Writing Your Memoir In The Age Of AI (2026). The Med (1988), Hatteras Blue (1989) and The Gulf (1990) are among the earlier titles.

Naomi Novik

20 books• 3 series

Naomi Novik is an American author of speculative fiction. The Temeraire series (2006–2016) is an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars with dragons, and the Scholomance trilogy ran from 2020 to 2022. The standalone novels Uprooted (2015) and Spinning Silver (2018) draw on Polish folklore and the Rumpelstiltskin tale. Novik helped create the Organization for Transformative Works and co-founded the organisation's Archive of Our Own project. Awards include the Nebula, Locus and Mythopoeic. The catalogue lists 20 titles from His Majesty's Dragon (2006) to The Summer War (2025), with Liberty Vocational as a third series.

Simon Scarrow

65 books• 11 series

Simon Scarrow writes historical fiction, most of it Roman. Quintus Licinius Cato and Lucius Cornelius Macro lead the Eagle series, which opens with Under the Eagle (2000). The Roman Arena, Gladiator and Pirata lines share that setting, while the Revolution Quartet and the Berlin wartime thrillers featuring CI Schenke move elsewhere. Sixty-six catalogued books reach The Sword of Rome, and Sons of the Reich is scheduled for 2027.

Seth Hunter is the pen name of Paul Bryers, a British film director, screenwriter and novelist born in Liverpool in 1955. Under the Hunter name he writes naval historical fiction: Nathan Peake, a Royal Navy officer, carries all 9 catalogued books, from The Time of Terror (2008) to The Force of Fate (2024). Sea stories, naval history and espionage fill the subject tags.

P.T. Deutermann writes naval fiction and thrillers drawn from United States Navy service. Scorpion in the Sea (1992), The Edge of Honor and Official Privilege sit early in a catalogue of 29 books, the World War II Navy novels form its largest strand, and the Cam Richter mysteries run alongside. The Screaming Sands is scheduled for 2027.

Paranormal and medieval romance for adult and teen readers is Terry Spear's specialism. Born in Sacramento, California, Spear built a werewolf romance line that began with Heart of the Wolf, named by Publishers Weekly among its Best Books of the Year for 2008. Heart of the Jaguar opened in 2012 with Savage Hunger, and Heart of the Cougar followed as a self-published series. Shapeshifters, werewolves and vampires run through 151 catalogued books dated 2005 to 2026, from Killing the Bloodlust to Cougar Christmas Catastrophe, with Highland Wolf, World of Fae and Magic of Inherian among the other series.

Carla Kelly (Carla Sue Kelly, born 1947) is an American Regency romance writer and a two-time winner of the Romance Writers of America RITA Award. Kelly calls the books "dukeless" regencies, stories of ordinary people solving their own problems. An interest in the American West shapes the earliest work and the nonfiction. Since 2011 Kelly, who has a Mormon background, has written five novels about young Mormon women, among them Borrowed Light and Safe Passage. The site lists 58 books from Daughter of Fortune (1985) to Navy Captain's Convenient Wife (2026).

Matthew Hervey, an officer of the fictional British 6th Light Dragoons, carries Allan Mallinson's fiction from the late Napoleonic Wars into colonial campaigns in India, North America and South Africa. A Close Run Thing (1999) opens the sequence, followed by The Nizam's Daughters (2000), A Regimental Affair (2001), A Call to Arms (2002), The Sabre's Edge (2003) and Company of Spears (2006). Mallinson, born in 1949, is an English author and a retired British Army brigadier, and also writes military history, reaching the First World War. The catalogue holds 19 books through 2020, at a median 448 pages.

Luke McCallin writes historical crime set in the wreckage of the Second World War. The Gregor Reinhardt novels follow a German intelligence officer through murder and war-crimes investigation: The Man from Berlin (2013) and The Pale House (2014) in occupied Yugoslavia, then The Ashes of Berlin (2016), also published as The Divided City, and From a Dark Horizon (2021). Four books are catalogued, and nothing has followed since 2021.