People with disabilities book series in reading order

by James Patterson

by Marsha Hubler

by R.J. Palacio

by Sharon M. Draper

James Patterson

510 books• 73 series

James Patterson, born on March 22, 1947, is an American writer whose catalogue here holds 514 books published from 1976 to 2027. The run opens with The Thomas Berryman Number (1976), and Along Came a Spider (1992) and Kiss the Girls (1995) follow later. Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Maximum Ride, Daniel X, Witch & Wizard, NYPD Red, Private, Middle School and the Women's Murder Club are among the Patterson series, alongside standalone thrillers, non-fiction and romance. Marshall Karp shares the credit on 5 of the books. Patterson's sales exceed 425 million copies, and Patterson was the first person to sell one million e-books. Forbes ranked Patterson the highest-paid author in 2016, for a third year running, and the National Book Foundation gave Patterson the Literarian Award in November 2015. 27 Stars is scheduled for 2027.

Theodore Taylor (June 23, 1921 - October 26, 2006) was an American writer of more than 50 fiction and non-fiction books for young adult readers. The Cay, Timothy of the Cay, The Bomb and The Weirdo are among Taylor's works, and The Weirdo won the 1992 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery. Taylor died in Laguna Beach, California. The catalogue holds 43 books from The Magnificent Mitscher (1954) to Billy the Kid (2005), with shipwrecks, survival, North Carolina and the Second World War in the subjects and Cay, Tuck and the Cape Hatteras Trilogy as series.

Sigmund Brouwer, born in 1959, is a Canadian author writing for children, young adults and adults, with more than 100 titles and four million books in print. Dead Man's Switch won the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award for best Canadian young adult mystery, and Shock Wave won the same award in 2025. Thief of Glory, a novel for adults, was named Book of the Year at the Christy Awards and also won an Alberta Readers Choice Award. The Last Disciple, co-authored with Hank Hanegraaff, was featured in Time magazine. The catalogue holds 162 books from Lost Beneath Manhattan (1990) to A Dangerous Game (2026), across series such as Accidental Detectives, Mars Diaries, Winds of Light, Lightning on Ice, Cyberquest and Robot Wars.

Morris Gleitzman

52 books• 8 series

Morris Gleitzman is an Australian children's and young adult novelist. Two Weeks with the Queen (1990) drew attention to AIDS in children's fiction. Gleitzman co-wrote several series with Paul Jennings, among them Wicked!, which became an animated series in 2000, and he has collected three volumes of his newspaper columns for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald as books for adults. Earlier still, Gleitzman wrote for the Norman Gunston Show. The subject tags name the Second World War, Jews, stepfamilies and humorous stories, and the catalogue holds 52 titles ending with Always (2021).

Albert Payson Terhune

59 books• 2 series

Albert Payson Terhune (1872-1942) was an American writer, journalist and dog breeder. Terhune bred collies at his Sunnybank Kennels, whose bloodlines persist in today's rough collies, and wrote the collie stories that made him popular, above all the Lad, a Dog books. The 59 catalogued titles stretch from Syria from the Saddle (1896) to a 1998 reissue, peaking in the 1920s, and cover dogs, folklore, legends and short fiction.

Marsha Hubler's 17 catalogued books run from Draw Me Closer, Lord (2003) to Tommi Pockets (2019). Series under the Hubler name are Keystone Stables, Loves of Snyder County and Snyder County Quilting Bee. Recorded subjects include children's fiction, horses, foster home care, Christian life, friendship and people with disabilities. A True Test for Skye (2004), The Trouble with Skye (2004) and Skye's Final Test (2005) are among the titles. You've Decided to Homeschool, Now What? (2007) is also listed, along with The Long Ride Home (2010) and The Secret of Wolf Canyon (2010).

Joe Abercrombie

20 books• 6 series

Joe Abercrombie, born 31 December 1974, is an English writer of epic fantasy who has also worked as a film editor. The First Law and Age of Madness trilogies share one setting with other Abercrombie novels, and Abercrombie has also written a young adult trilogy. Half a King took the 2015 Locus Award for best young adult book. The catalogue opens with The Blade Itself (2006), reaches The Devils (2025) and lists The Heretics for 2027. Series include First Law World, Age of Madness, Shattered Sea and Devils.

April Henry

26 books• 4 series

April Henry writes mysteries for young readers and adults, much of it set in Oregon. Claire Montrose leads the early novels from Circles of Confusion (1999). Girl, Stolen (2010) starts a run built on kidnapping, and the Point Last Seen books follow. Twenty-four titles are catalogued, reaching In the Blood in 2026.

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.

Andrew Clements

83 books• 10 series

Andrew Clements (May 29, 1949 to November 28, 2019) was an American children's author. Frindle, the first Clements novel, won an award decided by the votes of schoolchildren in about 20 U.S. states, and received the 2016 Phoenix Award, given to a book that missed a major prize on first publication. The catalogue lists 83 books from Bird Adalbert (1985) to The Frindle Files (2024). Schools, teachers, friendship and dogs recur in the subjects. The Clements series include Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School, Jake Drake, Pets to the Rescue and Real Monsters.

Lea Wait (1946-2019) wrote mysteries for adults and historical fiction for readers aged 7 and up, much of it set in Maine. The Antique Print Mysteries open with Shadows at the Fair (2002) and name Maggie Summer among their characters; the Mainely Needlepoint Mysteries are her other adult series, and Seaward Born and the Maine Murder Mysteries complete the catalogue. Thirty books close with Thread and Buried (2019).

Jane Yolen

237 books• 22 series

Jane Yolen (Jane Hyatt Yolen, February 11, 1939 to June 11, 2026) was an American author of fantasy, science fiction and children's books. The Devil's Arithmetic, a Holocaust novella, is the best-known Yolen work, and Owl Moon and The Emperor and the Kite are among the others. The short works Sister Emily's Lightship and Lost Girls both won Nebula Awards. The catalogue counts 237 books from The Witch Who Wasn't (1964) to Daddy Plays a Mean Guitar (2026). Series include Commander Toad, How Do Dinosaurs...?, Pit Dragons, the Young Merlin Trilogy, Books of the Great Alta and Tartan Magic. Yolen worked as an editor, collaborated most often with Adam Stemple, and in 2012 became the first woman to give the Andrew Lang lecture.

Nancy Springer, born July 5, 1948, is an American author of fantasy, young adult literature, mystery and science fiction. Larque on the Wing won the 1994 Tiptree Award, and the Mystery Writers of America gave Springer Edgar Awards for Toughing It in 1995 and Looking for Jamie Bridger in 1996. I am Mordred earned the Pennsylvania Library Association's Carolyn W. Field Award in 1999. The first Enola Holmes book appeared in 2006. The catalogue lists 90 Springer books from The White Hart (1979) to Enola Holmes and the Clanging Coffin (2026), with the Book of Isle, Rowan Hood and Tale of Camelot series alongside.

Louis Sachar

30 books• 4 series

Louis Sachar writes for children, chiefly school stories with a humorous streak. Wayside School and the novel Holes are the best known of Sachar's work, alongside the Marvin Redpost and Someday Angeline books; Holes took the 1998 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 1999 Newbery Medal. Thirty books are catalogued between Sideways Stories from Wayside School (1978) and The Magician of Tiger Castle (2025). Schools, boys, popularity and friendship recur as subjects.

Sharon M. Draper

31 books• 5 series

Sharon M. Draper is an American children's writer and professional educator, named National Teacher of the Year in 1997 and a two-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for books on young and adolescent African American experience. The Hazelwood High and Jericho series, Out of My Mind, Romiette and Julio, Copper Sun and Double Dutch are her best-known titles, alongside the Clubhouse Mysteries and Sassy series. Draper's catalogue holds 31 books dated 1970 to 2024, at a median 183 pages, taking in school stories, friendship, family life, race relations and death.

Simone Elkeles

13 books• 4 series

Teen romance is Simone Elkeles's form. Perfect Chemistry (2008) took the 2010 RITA Award for Best Young Adult Romance, and its sequel Rules of Attraction (2010) reached both the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. Three series hold most of the 13 catalogued books: Perfect Chemistry, How to Ruin and Leaving Paradise. Mexican American and Jewish identity, family problems and school life recur. The catalogue has stood still since The Party King in 2023.

R.J. Palacio

11 books• 1 series

Wonder (2012) opens R.J. Palacio's catalogue and gave its name to the one series in it. The American author and graphic designer, born Raquel Jaramillo Palacio in 1963, has 11 catalogued books dated 2012 to 2021, among them 365 Days of Wonder (2014), The Julian Chapter (2014), Auggie & Me (2015), We're All Wonders (2017), White Bird (2019) and Pony (2021). Self-acceptance, craniofacial abnormalities, school life and disability carry the books. Wonder was adapted into a 2017 film starring Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson, and nothing new has been catalogued since 2021.

Angela Elwell Hunt, born 20 December 1957, writes Christian fiction and also publishes as Angela Hunt. The Tale of Three Trees (1989) sits in this listing alongside the Nicki Holland Mysteries for younger readers and the historical runs Keepers of the Ring, Heirs of Cahira O'Connor, Silent Years and Jerusalem Road. Biblical history, Christian life, mystery and romance recur across the subjects. The catalogue holds 117 books published between 1988 and 2026, reaching A Most Peculiar Providence (2026).

Isabelle Holland was an American author who wrote for both children and adults, living from 1920 to 2002. Holland produced gothic novels, adult mysteries and romantic thrillers alongside many children's and young adult books, among them The Man Without a Face (1972). The Claire Aldington mysteries, built around a woman priest, are her main detective series, with Maggie and Annie Lavin beside them. The catalogue records 54 titles between 1967 and 2010, with a median length of 208 pages.

Bill Wallace was an American teacher who turned children's author, living from 1947 to 2012. Wallace began telling stories to quiet a fourth-grade class, and the students' response pushed him toward publishing real books. A Dog Called Kitty opened the catalogue in 1980, and 39 titles follow, with dogs, cats, pets, courage and farm life recurring. Upchuck and the Rotten Willy, Gray Cat and Bub Moose are the series, at a median of 160 pages.

Elizabeth E. Wein, born October 2, 1964, is an American-born writer who holds American and British citizenship. Wein is known chiefly for young adult historical fiction, and Code Name Verity (2012) and Rose Under Fire (2013) sit among the catalogued titles, with subject tags for air pilots and the Second World War. The Winter Prince (1993) is the first of the books listed, and the series list includes Lion Hunter: Arthurian and Lion Hunters: Mark of Solomon. Mordred, knights and princesses also appear in the subject tags. Stateless (2023) is the newest title.

Nancy Werlin is an American writer of young-adult novels, born October 29, 1961, in Salem, Massachusetts. The Werlin catalogue lists 16 books from 1994 to 2022, opening with Are You Alone on Purpose? (1994). The Killer's Cousin (1998), Locked Inside (2000), Double Helix (2004) and The Rules of Survival (2006) followed. Impossible (2008) and Extraordinary (2010) come later. Subjects include murder, magic, fairies, family problems and self-perception. Healer and Witch (2022) is the newest book.

Henry Kisor is the author of the Steve Martinez series, and the catalogue holds 12 books from What's That Pig Outdoors? (1990) to Traveling with Service Animals (2019). Subject headings include mystery and detective fiction, sheriffs, Lakota Indians, deafness, wilderness areas, bear attacks and murder for hire, and biography is also tagged. Zephyr (1994), Season's Revenge (2003), A Venture into Murder (2005), Cache of Corpses (2007) and Hang Fire (2013) are among the titles.

Cammie McGovern writes novels for children and young adults, and the catalogue holds 11 books from 2002 to 2026. The Art of Seeing (2002) is the first, followed by Eye Contact (2006) and Neighborhood Watch (2010). Say What You Will / Amy & Matthew (2014), A Step Toward Falling (2015), Just My Luck (2016), Chester and Gus (2017), Just Breathe (2020) and Frankie and Amelia (2021) come next. Hard Landings: Looking Into the Future for a Child with Autism appeared in 2021, and The Last Letters of Sally and Walter (2026) is the newest. Amy and Matthew and Chester and Gus are the two catalogued series, and subject headings include people with disabilities and autistic children.