Politicians book series in reading order

by Robert J. Randisi

by Stacey Abrams

Michael Dobbs

20 books• 4 series

Michael Dobbs is a British Conservative politician and author best known for the House of Cards trilogy: House of Cards (1989), To Play the King (1992) and The Final Cut (1995). Alongside the writing, Dobbs worked as a senior corporate executive at Saatchi & Saatchi and presented on television and radio, and has been nominated for an Emmy five times. Twenty books are catalogued, taking in the Winston Churchill novels from Winston's War (2002), the Thomas Goodfellowe mysteries and the Harry Jones thrillers, and ending with A Ghost at the Door (2013).

Edwina Currie

12 books• 1 series

Edwina Currie, born Edwina Cohen on 13 October 1946, is a British writer, broadcaster and former Conservative MP for South Derbyshire, a seat held from 1983 to 1997. Currie served two years as a Junior Health Minister and resigned in 1988 over the salmonella-in-eggs controversy. Currie has written six novels and four works of non-fiction, and Elaine Stalker is the listed series. The 12 catalogued books run from Life Lines (1989) to Diaries, 1992-1997 (2012), with A Parliamentary Affair (1994) among them.

Jeffrey Archer

63 books• 11 series

Jeffrey Archer's 63 catalogued books cover novels, short stories, plays, children's books and prison diaries. The list opens with Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (1976) and reaches Adam and Eve in 2026. The Clifton Chronicles, Kane and Abel and the Detective William Warwick novels are the main series; families, social class and English history supply the material.

Nora Roberts

279 books• 37 series

Nora Roberts, born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950, is an American writer of romance under that name. As J. D. Robb, Roberts writes police procedurals with science-fiction elements, and has also published as Jill March and, in the UK, as Sarah Hardesty. This listing carries 280 Roberts books, opening with Irish Thoroughbred (1981); The Missing is scheduled for 2027. Series on the page include the In Death Universe, the MacGregors, Night Tales, the Calhoun Women, the Chesapeake Bay Saga, Irish Hearts and the O'Hurleys.

Sir John Mortimer (1923-2009) practised as a barrister in Britain and wrote plays, screenplays and fiction. Horace Rumpole, the barrister of Rumpole of the Bailey, is the creation Mortimer is known for, and the Rumpole short stories were worked up from episodes of the television series Mortimer wrote himself. Forty-three titles are catalogued, from Charade (1947) to Forever Rumpole (2011), with the Rapstone Chronicles alongside the Rumpole books and London courtrooms and English politics across the subject list.

Andrew Roberts

30 books• 1 series

Andrew Roberts, Baron Roberts of Belgravia, born 13 January 1963, is an English popular historian and journalist whose research concentrates on English-speaking nations, particularly those socially tied to the United Kingdom. Roberts holds the Bonnie and Tom McCloskey Visiting Research Fellowship at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Lehrman Institute Distinguished Lectureship at the New York Historical Society, and was a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery in London from 2013 to 2021. The catalogue lists 30 titles, from 'The Holy Fox': The Life of Lord Halifax (1991) through Salisbury: Victorian Titan (2000), Napoleon and Wellington: The Long Duel (2001) and Waterloo: June 18, 1815 (2005) to Napoleon and His Marshals in 2026. Subjects name biography, military history, Winston Churchill, the Second World War and the Napoleonic wars.

Vince Flynn

26 books• 2 series

Vince Flynn, an American political thriller novelist born April 6, 1966, built a series around Mitch Rapp, a fictional assassin. The catalogue opens with Term Limits (1997), followed by Transfer of Power (1999), The Third Option (2000), Separation of Power (2001) and Executive Power (2003). Terrorism, intelligence officers, presidents and Washington, D.C. are among the recorded subjects. Flynn also worked as a story consultant on the fifth season of the television series 24, and died of prostate cancer on June 19, 2013. The listing carries titles dated well after that year, up to Double Tap (2026).

Stuart Woods

104 books• 9 series

Crime and detective thrillers make up Stuart Woods's catalogue of 104 titles, running from Blue Water, Green Skipper (1977) to Finders Keepers (2025). The Barrington Universe, built around the recurring character Stone Barrington, is the largest strand; Teddy Fay, Ed Eagle and Rick Barron head further series, with standalone novels and non-fiction beside them. Private investigators, police and New York settings recur through the subject tags.

Susan Mallery is an American romance novelist born in 1970, whose books are set in small, tight-knit communities and give pets a prominent role. The catalogue counts 201 books from Tender Loving Care (1991) onward, including early titles published as Susan Macias. Series include Fool's Gold, Desert Rogues, Hometown Heartbreakers, Happily Inc., Marcelli, Buchanans, Blackberry Island and Mischief Bay. The Bookstore Diaries (2026) is the newest release, and Friend Request is due in 2027.

Cowboys, ranchers and ranch life run through Linda Lael Miller's 134 catalogued books, in historical, contemporary and western romance alike. Miller's families and places include the McKettricks, the Montana Creeds, Stone Creek, Springwater Seasons, Painted Pony Creek and the Brides of Bliss County, with a Tremayne vampire sequence off to one side. Desire and Destiny (1983) is the earliest title and The Silver Hills Boarding House the newest.

Ben Bova

138 books• 17 series

Ben Bova, born Benjamin William Bova on November 8, 1932, was an American writer and editor whose career lasted 60 years; Bova died on November 29, 2020. As editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Bova won the Hugo Award six times, later served as editorial director of Omni, and was president of both the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America. The catalogue holds 138 books of science fiction and science fact, from The Star Conquerors (1959) to Pluto (2025). Non-fiction such as The Milky Way Galaxy (1961) sits beside series including Grand Tour, Orion, Kinsman, Sam Gunn, Jake Ross and the Star Quest Trilogy. Subjects name space opera, lunar bases, space stations and space colonies.

Anthony Trollope

81 books• 6 series

Anthony Trollope was an English novelist of the Victorian era who also served as a civil servant. The catalogue holds 81 Trollope titles, opening with The Macdermots of Ballycloran (1847) and closing at Malachi's Cove and Other Stories and Essays (1985). Trollope grouped much of the fiction into the Chronicles of Barsetshire and the Palliser novels, and wrote travel books, essays and short stories alongside them. English social life and customs, inheritance and succession, and manners recur across the subjects.

Contemporary and erotic romance is K.A. Linde's territory, with subject headings covering man-woman relationships, women journalists, politicians and political campaigns. Linde has 69 catalogued books published between 2012 and 2026, organised into 12 series including Wright Vineyard, Cruel, Avoiding, Record, Royal Houses and Blood Type. Avoiding Commitment (2012) opens the catalogue and The Raven at the Ash Door (2026) closes it for now.

Jane Feather, born Jane Robotham in Cairo, Egypt, in 1945, is a British–American writer of historical romance with more than ten million books in print and New York Times bestseller status. In 1984 Feather wrote five contemporary romances under the pseudonym Claudia Bishop. The catalogue lists 52 books from 1984 to 2021, including Love's Charade (1986), Smuggler's Lady (1986), Reckless Seduction (1987), Chase the Dawn (1988) and Venus (1988), and ends with Ravish Me with Rubies (2021). Series include Charm Bracelet, Matchmaker Duncan Sisters, Cavendish Square, Blackwater Brides and London Jewels Trilogy, and England, aristocracy and inheritance appear in the subjects.

Gore Vidal

67 books• 6 series

Gore Vidal, born Eugene Louis Vidal on October 3, 1925, was an American writer and public intellectual noted for a cynical, epigrammatic wit, and died on July 31, 2012. Vidal's novels and essays attacked the social and sexual norms Vidal saw shaping American life. Born into an upper-class political family as grandson of U.S. Senator Thomas Gore, Vidal ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for the House of Representatives in New York in 1960 and for the Senate in California in 1982. The catalogue lists 67 books from Williwaw (1946) to I Told You So (2012), including In a Yellow Wood (1947), The City and the Pillar (1948) and Death Before Bedtime (1953). Narratives of Empire and Myra and Myron are among the series.

Emma Lathen was the shared pen name of two American businesswomen: Mary Jane Latsis, an economist, and Martha Henissart, an attorney who took a physics degree at Mount Holyoke College in 1950. Together they wrote Wall Street mysteries around John Putnam Thatcher, a banker who investigates murder in the securities trade, beginning with Banking on Death in 1961. The pair also published as R. B. Dominic and wrote the Ben Safford series. The catalogue holds 34 titles through Dot Com Murder in 2016, and the 1970s were its busiest decade.

Allan Massie (16 October 1938 to 3 February 2026) was a Scottish journalist, columnist and sports writer for newspapers in England and Scotland. Massie wrote 40 books, over 25 of them novels. The catalogue lists 47 titles from 1978 to 2015, among them Muriel Spark (1979), The Caesars (1983), A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (1984) and Augustus (1986). Massie's series include Bordeaux, Question Of Loyalties and Dark Ages, and End Games in Bordeaux (2015) is the last listed title.

George V. Higgins

32 books• 5 series

George V. Higgins (1939–1999) was an American author, lawyer, newspaper columnist and college professor. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1970) opens the catalogue and established the Boston noir line of gangster tales that later writers and films took up. More than thirty books came after it, among them The Digger's Game (1973), Cogan's Trade (1974), also published as Killing Them Softly, and the Jerry Kennedy legal novels, Kennedy for the Defense (1981) among them. Thirty-two titles are catalogued through 2004, with Boston, lawyers, politicians and the Mafia as standing subjects.

Robert J. Randisi (August 24, 1951 – October 6, 2024) was an American author, editor and screenwriter working in detective fiction and westerns. Series credited to Randisi include Gunsmith, Shelter, Lady Gunsmith, Tracker, Angel Eyes, Rat Pack Mysteries, Miles Jacoby Mystery and Joe Keough Mystery. Catalogue subjects include Clint Adams, private investigators, police, serial murder and New York. Randisi is credited on 665 listed books, with titles such as Chain Gang Kill (1980), Circus of Death (1981) and Deadly Debt (2024).

Legal thrillers are the core of D.W. Buffa's 22 books, which begin with The Defense (1997). Joseph Antonelli is the character behind Buffa's main series, and murder trials, attorney and client, San Francisco and Portland are recurring subjects. The Prosecution, The Judgment and The Legacy followed from 1999 to 2002. Buffa also writes the Western Quartet and the Senator Bobby Hart series, published Rubicon (2008) as Lawrence Alexander, and closes the list with Lunatic Carnival (2023).

Laurence Leamer

22 books

Biography of American public figures is the field of Laurence Leamer, an author and journalist born October 30, 1941, and a noted authority on the Kennedy family. Leamer has written biographies of Johnny Carson, the Reagan family and Arnold Schwarzenegger, plus a book on Mar-a-Lago. The catalogue lists 22 books from The Paper Revolutionaries (1972) to Warhol's Muses (2025), including The Kennedy Women (1994) and Three Chords and the Truth (1997).

Scott Simon, born on March 16, 1952, is an American journalist who hosts Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR. Books in the catalogue under Simon's name include Home and Away: Memoir of a Fan (2000), Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball (2002), Pretty Birds (2005) and Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption (2010). Later titles are Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime (2015), My Cubs: A Love Story (2017) and Sunnyside Plaza (2020). Subject headings name the Chicago Cubs, journalists, biography and death.

Boris Johnson is a British politician and writer, born 19 June 1964. Johnson led the Conservative Party and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022, after terms as Foreign Secretary (2016 to 2018) and Mayor of London (2008 to 2016). Johnson represented Henley in Parliament (2001 to 2008) and later Uxbridge and South Ruislip (2015 to 2023). Johnson studied at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, joined The Daily Telegraph in 1989 and edited The Spectator from 1999 to 2005. Books include Friends, Voters, Countrymen (2001), The Dream of Rome (2006), The Churchill Factor (2014) and Unleashed (2024).