Resistance to government book series in reading order

by Victoria Aveyard

by Marie Lu

by Tahereh Mafi

by Pierce Brown

by Ally Condie

by Lauren Oliver

Victoria Aveyard

15 books• 3 series

Victoria Aveyard writes young adult fantasy about power, blood and resistance to government. Red Queen (2015) opens a catalogue of 15 titles, joined the same year by the novella Queen Song, then Glass Sword (2016), Steel Scars (2016), the collection Cruel Crown (2016) and King's Cage (2017). Realm Breaker and Lyrian Sea form later series. Tempest is the newest title, and Aveyard remains actively publishing.

Marie Lu

29 books• 11 series

Marie Lu, born Xiwei Lu on 11 July 1984, is an American author of young adult science fiction and fantasy. The Legend series, set in a dystopian and militarised future, is Lu's best known work, alongside Young Elites, Warcross and Batman: Nightwalker in the DC Icons line. The catalogue lists 30 books from Legend (2011) to Rebel (2026), with Silver Dawn listed for 2027. Skyhunter, Stars and Smoke and New Alchemists are further series. Subjects include resistance to government, plague, fugitives, soldiers and the supernatural.

Tahereh Mafi

27 books• 6 series

Tahereh Mafi, born November 10, 1988, is an Iranian-American writer of young adult fiction based in Santa Monica, California. Mafi's series are Shatter Me, Shatter Me: The New Republic, This Woven Kingdom and Furthermore. Shatter Me (2011) is the first catalogued title, and Whichwood (2017) and A Very Large Expanse of Sea (2018) come later. Fantasy, science fiction, magic, dictatorship and resistance feature in the subjects. Escape Me (2026) is the newest Mafi title.

Pierce Brown

10 books• 2 series

Pierce Brown writes science fiction, and the Red Rising saga accounts for the whole catalogue. Red Rising (2014), Golden Son (2015) and Morning Star (2016) come first, followed by the Iron Gold tetralogy, which runs from Iron Gold and Dark Age (2018) to Lightbringer (2023). Ten catalogued books carry Brown's name, graphic novels made with Rik Hoskin among them. Dystopia and resistance to government are the recurring subjects.

Tomi Adeyemi

6 books• 2 series

Tomi Adeyemi, born August 1, 1993, is an American writer and creative writing coach. Children of Blood and Bone (2018) opened the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy, debuted at number 1 on The New York Times Best Sellers List, and won the 2018 Andre Norton Award, the 2019 Waterstones Book Prize and the 2019 Lodestar Award. Children of Virtue and Vengeance (2019) and Children of Anguish and Anarchy (2024) are also catalogued, among 6 books through The Siren (2026). Adeyemi was on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2019 and the TIME 100 in 2020.

Kristen Simmons

14 books• 4 series

Kristen Simmons, born June 5, 1984, writes young adult fiction. The debut novel Article 5 (2012) is a dystopian story set in an America under the control of the "Moral Militia", and Breaking Point and Three continued it as sequels. Simmons has four catalogued series: Article 5, Vale Hall, Set Fire to the Gods and Death Games. The 14 listed books reach She Waits for You Beyond the Dark (2025).

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.

Chuck Wendig

70 books• 23 series

Chuck Wendig (Charles David Wendig, born April 22, 1976) is an American novelist, comic book writer, screenwriter and blogger best known for the Star Wars: Aftermath trilogy. The catalogue runs from VII (2005) to The Calamities (2026) and includes writing guides such as 250 Things You Should Know About Writing and 500 Ways to Be a Better Writer, both from 2011. Wendig's series include Miriam Black, Atlanta Burns, Mookie Pearl, the Heartland Trilogy, Double Dead and the Dinocalypse Trilogy, along with Turok, Shield single issues and the Star Wars: The Force Awakens adaptation. Subjects include horror, psychic ability, prophecy, the end of the world and resistance to government.

Kekla Magoon

24 books• 7 series

Kekla Magoon, born 1980, is an American author of young adult and middle grade fiction, short stories, and non-fiction on historical, socio-political and economic subjects. The Rock and the River, nominated for an NAACP Image Award, opens the catalogue in 2009. How It Went Down (2014), X (2015) and The Season of Styx Malone stand among Magoon's known titles, and the American Library Association gave Magoon its Margaret Edwards Award in 2021 for a body of work. The 24 catalogued books reach Ayana Ndoum Takes the Stage (2025). Recorded subjects include African Americans, civil rights movements, the Black Panther Party, racism, race relations, and robbers and outlaws.

Erin Bowman has 12 catalogued books from Taken (2013) to In the Dead of the Night (2024), and the catalogue lists the Vengeance Road and Achlys series. Frozen, Stolen and Forged followed Taken between 2014 and 2015. Vengeance Road (2015), Retribution Rails (2017), Contagion (2018), Immunity (2019) and The Girl and the Witch's Garden (2020) are further titles. Subject tags include science fiction, fantasy, frontier and pioneer life, robbers and outlaws, revenge and monsters. Bowman is still publishing.

Trent Reedy is the author of the Divided We Fall Trilogy and the McCall Mountain series, with 11 books catalogued from 2011 to 2023. Subject headings cover children's fiction, war stories, guerrilla warfare, resistance to government, family life, mothers and sons, high schools, airplanes and inventions. Words in the Dust (2011) is the first title; Stealing Air (2012), Divided We Fall (2014), Burning Nation (2015) and Gamer Army (2018) come later. Fishing In Fire (2023) is the newest book.

Leo Tolstoy

74 books• 3 series

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was a Russian writer, born Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy into an aristocratic family. Tolstoy's early reputation rested on the autobiographical trilogy of Childhood (1852), Boyhood (1854) and Youth (1856), and on The Sebastopol Sketches (1855), drawn from service in the Crimean War. War and Peace followed in 1867. The catalogue lists 74 Tolstoy titles in English, fables and short stories among them, with editions dated as late as 2020.

Lauren Oliver

25 books• 5 series

Lauren Oliver, born Laura Suzanne Schechter on November 8, 1982, is an American novelist whose work includes numerous young adult novels. Before I Fall (2010) opens the catalogue and was filmed in 2017. The Delirium trilogy comprises Delirium, Pandemonium and Requiem. Amazon Studios made Panic into a series, with Oliver as creator, writer and showrunner. Liesl & Po, a middle-grade novel, was a 2012 E. B. White Read Aloud Award nominee. The catalogue lists 26 books through A Fatal Delivery (2026), with The Sleepwalker due in 2027.

Arundhati Roy

24 books

Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer whose 24 catalogued books divide between fiction and political essays. The God of Small Things (1997) took the Booker Prize for Fiction that year and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. The essays that follow, The Cost of Living (1999), Power Politics (2000), The Algebra of Infinite Justice (2002), War Talk (2003) and An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire (2004) among them, take up globalisation, militarism, nuclear weapons, dams and state power. Roy was born in 1961 and works as a political activist on human rights and environmental causes. Roy took the PEN Pinter Prize in 2024 and named the imprisoned British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd El-Fattah as the Writer of Courage she shared it with. Mother Mary Comes to Me (2025) is the newest title.

Ally Condie

19 books• 6 series

Ally Condie writes young adult and middle grade fiction. The Matched trilogy is the best known work: Matched (2010) reached No.1 on the New York Times list and stayed on it for over a year, with Crossed (2011) and Reached (2012) following as bestsellers, and all three appear in more than 30 languages. Matched was named to YALSA's 2011 Teens' Top Ten and to Publishers Weekly's best children's books of 2010. Condie also wrote the standalone Atlantia (2014) and the middle grade novel Summerlost (2016). Nineteen books are catalogued, starting with Yearbook (2006) and reaching The Girls Trip in 2026.

Alexandra Bracken

17 books• 5 series

Alexandra Bracken is an American author, born in 1987, known for The Darkest Minds and Passenger series. The catalogue lists 17 books from Brightly Woven (2010) to Immortal Rose (2026). The Darkest Minds (2012), Never Fade (2013) and In The After Light (2014) are among the early titles, and Passenger (2016) and Wayfarer (2017) follow. Other series are Prosper Redding and Silver in the Bone. Subjects include psychic ability, time travel, fantasy and science fiction.

Janette Rallison

40 books• 8 series

Janette Rallison, born 1 April 1966, is an American writer known mainly for light romance novels aimed at young adults. Rallison also uses two pen names: C. J. Hill for young adult science fiction and fantasy, and Sierra St. James for romantic novels for adults. The catalogue holds 40 books from Blue Eyes and Other Teenage Hazards (1996) to We Are Never Getting Together (2026), with Trial of the Heart (1999) among the Sierra St. James titles. My Fair Godmother, Slayers, Erasing Time and Pullman High are listed series.

Aimee Carter

25 books• 5 series

Aimee Carter, born January 24, 1986, is an American author of children's and young adult fiction. The Goddess Test series began with The Goddess Test in 2011, and Greek mythology, goddesses and immortality are among Carter's subjects. Her other series are Blackcoat Rebellion, Simon Thorn, Royal Blood and Zac, with dystopias and animal adventure also in the mix. The catalogue holds 25 books and reaches Royal Vengeance (2026).