Prehistoric peoples book series in reading order

by Elisabetta Dami

Subject records for Kathleen O’Neal Gear cite Native Americans, Pueblo Indians, prehistoric peoples and archaeologists, along with historical fiction, science fiction and thrillers. The catalogue lists 60 books from 1990 to 2025. People of the Wolf and People of the Fire (both 1990) come early, and Buffalo Justice (2025) is the newest. Series include First North Americans, Anasazi Mysteries, Black Falcon, Contact: The Battle For America and Rewilding Reports. Gear, born 1954, is an American archaeologist, historian and author whose novels have appeared in 29 languages.

Michelle Paver

22 books• 3 series

Michelle Paver, born in 1960, is a British novelist. Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, her children's historical fantasy series set in prehistoric Europe, began with Wolf Brother (2004) and has sold more than 2.5 million copies in 30 languages; Spirit Walker (2005), Soul Eater (2006), Outcast (2007) and Oath Breaker (2008) follow. Gods and Warriors turns to the Bronze Age Mediterranean, and the Daughters Of Eden Trilogy and standalone adult novels sit alongside, beginning with Without Charity (2000). Born in Nyasaland, now Malawi, Paver moved to England as a young child and worked as a solicitor before writing full time. Twenty-two books are catalogued to 2022.

Elisabetta Dami

309 books• 22 series

Elisabetta Dami, born 1 January 1958, is an Italian children's author known for the Geronimo Stilton book series. The catalogue credits Dami with 309 books from 1998 to 2026. Titles from 2000 include Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye, Attack Of The Bandit Cats and Four Mice Deep in the Jungle. Other listings include Geronimo Stilton: Thea Stilton, Mouseford Academy, Kingdom Of Fantasy, Geronimo Stilton Cavemice, Geronimo Stilton Spacemice and Creepella von Cacklefur. Subjects include mice, journalists, time travel and humorous stories. The Legend of Chocolate Hills (2026) is the newest title.

Peter Dickinson OBE FRSL (16 December 1927 to 16 December 2015) was an English poet and author known mainly for children's books and detective fiction. Tulku (1979) and City of Gold (1980) both won the Carnegie Medal, and as of 2020 Dickinson was one of eight writers with two Carnegies. Eva (1988) was highly commended, and Dickinson was a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2000. The catalogue lists 64 books, opening in 1968 with The Glass Sided Ant's Nest / Skin Deep and The Weathermonger. Kin, Jimmy Pibble, Changes Trilogy, Princess Louise and Ropemaker are the series.

Earth's Children is the whole of Jean M. Auel's catalogue: six novels of prehistoric life opening with The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980) and closing with The Land of Painted Caves (2011). Ayla is the central character. Neanderthals, the glacial epoch, shamanism and sign language recur as subjects. The books are long, at a median of 626 pages.

Stephen Baxter

78 books• 19 series

Time travel, alternative history, space exploration and prehistoric peoples run through the 78 catalogued books of Stephen Baxter, an English hard science fiction author born in 1957 who holds degrees in mathematics and engineering. Raft (1991), Timelike Infinity (1992), Anti-Ice (1993), Flux (1993), Ring (1994), The Time Ships (1995), Voyage (1996) and Titan (1997) are among the early titles, and Hearthspace (2025) is the newest. Series include the Xeelee Sequence, Manifold, Destiny's Children, Time's Tapestry, Northland, NASA Trilogy, Mammoth, Flood and World Engines.

William Sarabande is the pen name of Joan Lesley Hamilton Cline, who started writing at 17 and first appeared in print in 1979. The First Americans series carries the Sarabande name across 12 catalogued books, from Beyond the Sea of Ice (1987) through Corridor of Storms (1988), Walkers of the Wind (1990) and Thunder in the Sky (1992) to Spirit Moon (2000). Subjects cover prehistoric peoples, Native Americans and historical fiction. The catalogue opens with Wolves of the Dawn (1986), filed with Celts and the Bronze Age.

J.H. Brennan wrote about the occult and wrote games for children. The nonfiction covers magic, reincarnation, astral projection, parapsychology and the New Age movement, starting with Astral Doorways and Five Keys to Past Lives in 1971 and taking in The Occult Reich (1974). The fiction includes the Sagas of the Demonspawn gamebooks, Barmy Jeffers and the prehistoric Shiva novels. The 60 catalogued titles date from 1971 to 2013, peaking in the 1980s.

Piers Anthony is the publishing name of Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, born August 6, 1934, an American science fiction and fantasy writer. The long-running Xanth novels, set in the imaginary realm of Xanth, are his best-known work. Anthony has counted among his chief achievements the publication of a book beginning with every letter of the alphabet, from Anthonology to Zombie Lover, and a number of his books have reached The New York Times Best Seller list. This catalogue lists 195 titles from Chthon (1967) to Knicklepede Knight (2026), including the Apprentice Adept, Cluster, Battle Circle, Mode and Incarnations of Immortality sequences.

Harry Turtledove

141 books• 28 series

Harry Turtledove, born June 14, 1949, is an American historian and novelist of alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction and mystery, based in Southern California. The catalogue counts 142 books, starting with Wereblood and Werenight (1979), published as Eric G. Iverson, and listing The Succulent Succubus for 2027. Other pen names are H. N. Turteltaub, Dan Chernenko and Mark Gordian. The Videssos Cycle, Southern Victory / Timeline-191, Worldwar, Colonization, Crosstime Traffic, The War That Came Early and Gerin the Fox are among the series. World War II and the American Civil War are frequent subjects.

Robert J. Sawyer

36 books• 6 series

Canadian and American science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer was born in Ottawa on April 29, 1960. Sawyer has published 25 novels, and short fiction by Sawyer has appeared in Analog, Amazing Stories, On Spec and Nature. Awards include the Nebula for Best Novel in 1995, the Hugo for Best Novel in 2003, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2006 and the Robert A. Heinlein Award in 2017, plus more Aurora Awards than any other writer. The catalogue has 36 books from Golden Fleece (1990) to Sawyer on Science Fiction (2026), including the Quintaglio Ascension, Neanderthal Parallax and WWW series.

Erich von Däniken

31 books• 1 series

Erich von Daniken was a Swiss author of pseudoscientific books arguing that extraterrestrials shaped early human culture. Chariots of The Gods (1968) opens the catalogue and became a bestseller; Return to the Stars (1970), Gods from Outer Space (1972), Miracles of the Gods (1975) and Signs of the Gods (1980) followed. Thirty-one titles are catalogued to 2022. Scientists and academics reject the claims and class the work as pseudohistory and pseudoarchaeology. Ancient civilisations, UFOs and human-alien encounters are the recorded subjects.

Joan Wolf, born in 1951 in the Bronx, New York, is an American writer of romance novels. Wolf studied for a bachelor's degree at Mercy College on a full scholarship, then earned a Master's in English and Comparative Literature at Hunter College. Before beginning a writing career, Wolf taught at Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx. The catalogue lists 55 books from 1980 to 2023, beginning with A Kind of Honor and The Counterfeit Marriage (1980). Subjects include Regency and historical romance, contemporary romance, prehistoric peoples and France. Series are Dark Ages of Britain, Reindeer Hunters and Medieval Mysteries.

Joe Kubert, born Joseph Kubert on September 18, 1926 and dead on August 12, 2012, was a Polish-born American comic book artist and art teacher, and the founder of The Kubert School. The DC Comics characters Sgt. Rock and Hawkman are the work Kubert is best known for, alongside the creations Tor, Son of Sinbad and the Viking Prince, and the comic strip Tales of the Green Beret, made with writer Robin Moore. Two sons, Andy and Adam Kubert, became comic book artists, as did students including Stephen R. Bissette, Amanda Conner and Rick Veitch. The catalogue holds 36 entries dated 1995 to 2016, among them Fax from Sarajevo (1996), Yossel (2003) and several Tor volumes; collections in the listing also credit Bill Finger, Gardner F. Fox, Sheldon Moldoff and Julius Schwartz.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

81 books• 12 series

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1 September 1875 to 19 March 1950) was an American writer of adventure, science fiction and fantasy, and the creator of Tarzan and John Carter. Burroughs wrote twenty-four Tarzan books and eleven books with John Carter as a recurring character, along with the Pellucidar and Amtor series and the Caspak trilogy. Tarzan also became a syndicated comic strip, films and merchandise. Catalogued titles begin in 1912 with A Princess of Mars and Tarzan of the Apes, followed by The Gods of Mars (1913), The Return of Tarzan (1913) and At the Earth's Core (1914). Subjects include extraterrestrial beings, Africa and Dejah Thoris.

Graham Hancock

27 books• 1 series

Graham Hancock writes about ancient civilisations, lost continents and the record of early exploration. The catalogue starts in travel and reportage, with Africa Guide 1980 (1979), Journey Through Pakistan (1982), Ethiopia (1985), AIDS (1986) and Lords of Poverty (1989). 27 titles are catalogued in all, the last being Visionary: The Mysterious Origins of Human Consciousness in 2022.

Guardians of Ga'Hoole is one of the series by Kathryn Lasky, an American children's writer born June 24, 1944, who writes for adults as Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann. Lasky's children's work also includes Dear America and The Royal Diaries books, Wolves of the Beyond, Sugaring Time and The Night Journey, and honours include a Newbery Honor, the National Jewish Book Award and the Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature. The catalogue holds 159 books from I Have Four Names for My Grandfather (1976) to Sacred Light (2026), including Tugboats Never Sleep (1977), The Weaver's Gift (1980) and Beyond the Divide (1983). Horses Of The Dawn, Bears Of The Ice and Camp Princess are further series, and subjects name owls, wolves, diaries and Jews.

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.

Herbie Brennan's 58 catalogued books date from 1988 to 2019 and carry subjects such as children's fiction, humorous stories, spies, fairies, time travel, extraterrestrial beings and the supernatural. Titles include Emily and the Werewolf (1993), The Mystery Machine (1995), Mario Scumbini and the Big Pig Swipe (1996) and Letters from a Mouse (1997). Series include Faerie Wars Chronicles, Quest, Herbie Brennan's Forbidden Truths, Bluebell Wood and Shadow Project. Nectanebo: Traveller from an Antique Land (2019) is the most recent entry.

The Aubrey Knight, Lion's Blood, Great Sky Woman and Star Wars: Mace Windu series appear under Steven Barnes in the catalogue. Barnes, born on 1 March 1952, is an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and mystery, whose work also spans television screenplays, comic book scripts, animation and journalism. Catalogue subjects include martial arts fiction, prehistoric peoples, immortality, hackers and imperialism. Streetlethal (1983), The Kundalini Equation (1986), Firedance (1993), Lion's Blood (2002) and Zulu Heart (2003) are among the titles, and Ice Vegas (2026) is the newest.

Linda Lay Shuler wrote historical fiction about the prehistoric peoples of North America. Three books make up the Time Circle sequence: She Who Remembers (1988), Voice of the Eagle (1992) and Let the Drum Speak (1996). Indians of North America, the Zuni and prehistoric life are the catalogued subjects, and the sequence has stood complete since 1996.