Reincarnation book series in reading order

by W. Bruce Cameron

Maggie Shayne, born 1965, is an American novelist with more than 70 novels to that name, and the subject tags centre on paranormal romance, vampires and romantic suspense. Awards include the RITA Award, Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice and Career Achievement Awards, and the P.E.A.R.L. Award. The catalogue holds 121 books from Reckless (1993) to Lone Wolf (2026). Wings in the Night, Texas Brands, Immortal Witches, Shattered Sisters, Brown & de Luca and Secrets of Shadow Falls are among the series.

Jane Roberts (1929-1984) was an American author and poet who described herself as a psychic and spirit medium channelling a personality named Seth. The resulting Seth Material made Roberts a leading figure in writing on paranormal phenomena, through The Seth Material (1970), Seth Speaks (1972) and The Nature of Personal Reality (1974). Roberts also wrote fiction, including the Oversoul Seven novels. Reincarnation, parapsychology and the nature of reality run through 47 catalogued titles.

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.

Sylvia Browne wrote about psychic phenomena and the afterlife. The American author, who described herself as a medium, published 55 catalogued books between 1990 and 2012, from Adventures of a Psychic (1990) to Past Lives of the Rich and Famous (2012). Spiritualism, parapsychology, the New Age movement and life after death are the recurring subjects, and the Journey of the Soul sequence collects part of the work. Browne appeared regularly on television and radio, including The Montel Williams Show and Larry King Live. Statements she made about missing persons were later shown to be false, and in 1992 she pleaded no contest to securities fraud. Browne was born in 1936 and died in 2013.

H. Rider Haggard

78 books• 6 series

Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was an English writer of adventure romances set in exotic locations, Africa above all, and a pioneer of the lost world genre. The eighteen Allan Quatermain stories begin with King Solomon's Mines (1885), and Ayesha is the other named series. Haggard also worked on land reform across the British Empire. The catalogue holds 78 titles dated 1882 to 2013, from Cetywayo and His White Neighbours to a complete anthology, and covers novels, non-fiction and short fiction.

Lauren Kate

16 books• 4 series

Fallen (2009) opens the Lauren Kate catalogue and reached number one on the New York Times list for children's chapter books. Kate, an American author born in 1981, writes for adult and young adult readers alike; her 16 catalogued books run through to White Lights (2026), and Torment (2010), Passion (2011) and Rapture (2012) each topped that same list. Angels, reincarnation, love and school stories make up the listed subjects, and her work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

Heather Graham is the name under which Heather Graham Pozzessere, an American writer born on 15 March 1953, publishes mainly romance fiction; Shannon Drake is a further pen name. Graham's work has been published in about 25 languages, with more than 75 million copies printed. The catalogue records 311 books from Tender Taming (1983) to Destiny Rising (2026). Krewe of Hunters, Harrison Investigation, Cafferty & Quinn, Alliance Vampires, Keepers: L.A., New York Confidential and Finnegan Connection are among the Graham series. Subjects span historical, paranormal, contemporary and suspense romance.

W. Bruce Cameron

42 books• 8 series

Dogs and the people attached to them are the subject of W. Bruce Cameron's fiction. A Dog's Purpose (2010) opens that strand, followed by A Dog's Journey, A Dog's Way Home and the Puppy Tales retellings including Bailey's Story, with the Lily to the Rescue! books written for younger readers. Cameron also wrote the humour title 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter (2001). Forty-five books reach Piper's Story in 2025.

MaryJanice Davidson is an American author who writes mainly paranormal romance, along with young adult fiction and non-fiction, and who created the Undead series. Davidson is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller and won a Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award in 2004, with a further nomination in 2005. Davidson grew up moving between military bases as the child of a United States Air Force airman and lives in Minnesota. The catalogue lists 87 books from 1998 to 2025, including Undead and Unwed (2002), Thief of Hearts (2001) and The Royal Treatment (2002), with The Reluctant Reaper (2025) the newest. Series include Queen Betsy, Wyndham Werewolf, Jennifer Scales, Fred The Mermaid, Cadence Jones and Alaskan Royal Family.

Kirsten Miller, born 1973, is an American novelist who created the Kiki Strike series. Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City (2006) opened the series, and The Empress's Tomb followed in October 2007. The books follow Kiki Strike, Ananka Fishbein and their friends through the tunnels and hidden rooms beneath New York City. The idea came in 2001, when the lawn of a Manhattan nursing home collapsed to reveal an underground room. The catalogue lists 18 books up to The Women of Wild Hill (2025), with The Eternal Ones and Last Reality as further series.

Barbara Erskine is an English novelist, born in Nottingham in 1944, whose bestselling novels and short-story collections combine history with the supernatural. Erskine's first novel, Lady of Hay (1986), has sold more than three million copies. The catalogue lists 22 books from 1986 to 2026, including Kingdom of Shadows (1988), Midnight Is a Lonely Place (1994) and Whispers in the Sand (2000), ending with The Valley of Ravens (2026). Erskine holds a degree in medieval Scottish history from the University of Edinburgh.

M.J. Rose has 32 books in the catalogue, published from 1999 to 2024, with suspense, thrillers, gothic and occult fiction, historical fiction and erotica in the subject records. Reincarnation and women journalists also appear as subjects. Lip Service (1999) is the earliest title and Forgetting to Remember (2024) the latest. Series include Daughters Of La Lune and Butterfield Institute, and How to Publish and Promote Online (2001) is among the listed titles. One catalogued book also credits Lexi Blake.

Jonathan Carroll

28 books• 3 series

Jonathan Carroll, born 1949, is an American novelist whose work gets filed as magic realism, slipstream or contemporary fantasy, and has lived in Austria since 1974. The Land of Laughs (1980) opens the catalogue, followed by Voice of Our Shadow (1983), Bones of the Moon (1987), Sleeping in Flame (1988) and After Silence (1992). Rondua / Answered Prayers and Crane's View are the named sequences. Reincarnation, death and dogs recur among the subjects. The list holds 28 books reaching Ceffo (2023), at a median of 244 pages.

Near-death experience is the subject that defines Raymond A. Moody Jr.'s catalogue. Life After Life (1975) opens it and heads a series of the same name, followed by Reflections On Life After Life (1977), The Light Beyond (1988), Coming Back (1990), Reunions (1993) and Out of Body (1994). Subject tags name near-death experiences, future life, reincarnation and parapsychology, with case studies and research among the approaches. The listing holds 21 books and reaches Proof of Life After Life (2023). The median listed length is 196 pages and the catalogue is dormant.

Frank Paul De Felitta (1921-2016) was an author, film producer, director and pilot. Audrey Rose (1975) and The Entity (1978) are his best-known novels, and the Audrey Rose series is the one series recorded under his name, continuing with For Love of Audrey Rose (1982). Reincarnation, spiritualism, the supernatural and families run through the subjects. Eight books are catalogued, from Oktoberfest (1973) to A Swift Death to Critics (2000).