Revolutionaries book series in reading order

by Kiera Cass

Neal Shusterman

59 books• 12 series

Neal Shusterman is an American writer of young adult fiction, born November 12, 1962. Challenger Deep won Shusterman the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, Scythe was a 2017 Michael L. Printz Honor book, and the 2024 Margaret Edwards Award recognised a lasting contribution to writing for teens. The catalogue lists 59 books from 1988 to Rising Thunder (2026). Series include the Unwind Dystology, Arc of a Scythe, Skinjacker, Accelerati Trilogy, Star Shards Chronicles and Antsy Bonano.

Tariq Ali

62 books• 2 series

Tariq Ali, born 21 October 1943, is a Pakistani-British political activist, writer, journalist, filmmaker and public intellectual. Ali sits on the editorial committees of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso and writes for The Guardian, CounterPunch and the London Review of Books. Ali studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford. The catalogue lists 62 books from The Thoughts of Chairman Harold (1967) to The Neck and the Sword (2026), including Class Struggle in Bangladesh (1971) and Leon Trotsky (1980), and the Islam Quintet series. Subjects include politics and government, socialism, communism, revolutionaries and drama.

Tom Stoppard

43 books• 2 series

Tom Stoppard (3 July 1937 to 29 November 2025), born Tomáš Sträussler, was a British playwright and screenwriter who wrote for stage, film, radio and television. Human rights, censorship and political freedom run through Stoppard's work. As a playwright of the Royal National Theatre, Stoppard was among the most internationally performed dramatists of that generation, and critics set the plays beside Shakespeare and Shaw. Stoppard was knighted in 1997 and received the Order of Merit in 2000. The catalogue lists 43 books from Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) to Penelope (2022), with Coast of Utopia as a series.

History, biography and crime fiction make up the work of Ruth Dudley Edwards, a Dublin-born historian who has lived in England since 1965. Born on 24 May 1944, Edwards calls herself British-Irish, and her revisionist view of Irish history has drawn controversy. Edwards has written columns for the Sunday Independent, the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph and The News Letter. Her 24 books start with An Atlas of Irish History (1973) and include titles on James Connolly and Patrick Pearse. Edwards also writes the humorous Robert Amiss mysteries, with murder and the civil service among their subjects.

Kiera Cass

19 books• 3 series

Kiera Cass, born May 19, 1981, is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known for The Selection series. The Selection grew into a trilogy told from the main character's point of view, two sequels about that character's daughter, and several novellas. Cass also reworked The Siren, a novel first posted online in 2008. The catalogue counts 19 titles between The Siren (2009) and A Thousand Heartbeats (2022), with Betrothed as a second series. Princesses, contests and dystopian fiction appear among the subject headings.

David Gemmell wrote heroic fantasy. Legend, also published as Against the Horde (1984), opens the Drenai saga, continued in The King Beyond the Gate (1985) and Waylander (1986). The Rigante, Troy, Lion Of Macedon, Hawk Queen and Sipstrassi sequences follow. Thirty-five catalogued books reach Rhyming Rings (2017). Imaginary wars, warriors and kings are the recurring subjects.

Howard Fast

90 books• 6 series

Howard Fast (November 11, 1914 - March 12, 2003) was an American author and television writer who also published as E.V. Cunningham, Behn Boruch and Walter Ericson. Across almost seven decades Fast wrote historical novels and noir, along with short stories, poems, plays and non-fiction. Spartacus (1951), April Morning (1961) and The Immigrants (1977) are among the best-known works, and Stanley Kubrick filmed Spartacus in 1960. The catalogue holds 90 books from Two Valleys (1933) to Collected Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction (2018), with Masao Masuto and Lavette Family as named series.

Roddy Doyle

33 books• 4 series

Roddy Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter, born in 1958. Ireland, and working-class Dublin in particular, is where Doyle sets the work, written with dialogue in slang and Irish English. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha took the Booker Prize in 1993. The catalogue holds 33 books, from The Commitments (1987), filmed in 1991, to The Women Behind the Door (2024), and takes in the Barrytown Trilogy, the Last Roundup and the Rover Adventures written for children. Friendship, families, brothers and humorous stories carry the subject tags.

Irish history and myth are Morgan Llywelyn's material. Born in 1937, the American-Irish novelist has sold more than 40 million copies of her historical and mythological fiction and took the Exceptional Celtic Woman of the Year Award in 1999. Lion of Ireland (1980), The Horse Goddess (1982) and Bard (1984) sit in the Celtic World sequence, alongside the Irish Century and Druids series. Forty-one catalogued books span The Wind from Hastings (1978) to Glendower: The Last Prince of Wales (2023).

Who HQ is the credit on 429 children's nonfiction biographies in the catalogue, published from 2002 to 2026. The run opens with Who Was Albert Einstein?, Who Was Amelia Earhart? and Who Was Ben Franklin? (all 2002) and reaches Who Is Vera Wang (2026). Subjects include biography, history and juvenile nonfiction for readers aged 8 to 12. Other names credited on some of the books include Megan Stine (7), John Hinderliter (7) and Nico Medina (4).

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

37 books• 3 series

Ngugi wa Thiong'o (5 January 1938 - 28 May 2025), born James Ngugi, was a Kenyan writer and academic described as East Africa's leading novelist and an important figure in modern African literature. Ngugi wrote in English first and turned later to Gikuyu, arguing for literature written in native African languages, and founded and edited the Gikuyu-language journal Mutiiri. The catalogue holds 37 books from Weep Not, Child (1964) to Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas (2025), taking in The River Between (1965), A Grain of Wheat (1967), Petals of Blood (1977) and Devil on the Cross (1980), alongside plays, short stories, memoirs, children's literature and essays.

Born in Nashville, Tennessee on 1 August 1957, Madison Smartt Bell is an American novelist whose three novels on Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution appeared between 1995 and 2004; the catalogue files them as the Haitian Revolutionary Trilogy. Earlier fiction established Bell as a writer, beginning with The Washington Square Ensemble (1983) and continuing through Waiting for the End of the World (1985), Straight Cut (1986) and The Year of Silence (1987). The 27 catalogued titles reach Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone (2020), and slave insurrections, Haiti, history, terrorists and American short stories appear among the subjects.