Rock musicians book series in reading order

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).

Nancy Krulik writes for children, and the catalogue lists Grades 1-3 as the reading level. Series credited to Krulik include Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo, How I Survived Middle School, Magic Bone, Princess Pulverizer and Project Droid, and George Brown, Class Clown appears among the characters. Subjects range across magic, schools, friendship, dogs, robots and humorous stories. The most recent listed book is Fangs for Having Us! (2021), and the catalogue marks the output as dormant.

Kylie Scott's 37 catalogued books span 2012 to 2026, from Flesh to How to Date a Rockstar (Without Getting Murdered). Subject headings place the work in contemporary romance and erotica, with rock musicians, bartenders, Las Vegas and pregnancy among the listed topics. Scott's series are Stage Dive, Flesh, DiveBar, End of Story and West Hollywood. Early titles include Lick (2013), Skin (2013), Play (2014), Deep (2015), Dirty (2016) and Trust (2017).

Robert Muchamore

51 books• 7 series

Robert Muchamore, born 26 December 1971, is an English author of young adult fiction known for the CHERUB, Henderson's Boys and Rock War series. The catalogue holds 51 Muchamore books from 2004 to 2026. The Recruit, Kerry's First Mission and CHERUB at Christmas are among the 2004 entries, and Maximum Security followed in 2005. Subjects include spies, teenagers, undercover operations, orphans and World War II, and CHERUB is tagged as an imaginary organization. Robin Hood and CHERUB 2 are also listed, and War and Peas (2026) is the newest title.

Marc Eliot writes biographies and memoirs of show business figures, and has ghost-written for film stars. The subjects run from musicians to actors: Phil Ochs in Death of a Rebel (1979), Burt Reynolds, Bruce Springsteen in Down Thunder Road, Walt Disney in Hollywood's Dark Prince, and Merle Haggard in The Hag (2022). Rockonomics and American Television take on the industries themselves. 28 titles span 1979 to 2022, at a median of 322 pages.

Lauren Dane writes romance across paranormal, erotic and fantasy strands, with witches, vampires and magic among the recorded subjects. The catalogue holds 87 books published between 2005 and 2024, opening with A Touch of Fae and Triad in 2005 and reaching Blood and Magic in 2024. Series include the Cascadia Wolves, the Witches Knot, the Brown Family, De La Vega Cats, Bound By Magick, Diablo Lake and Whiskey Sharp. All 87 books are credited to Dane alone.

Chris Nickson began in celebrity biography, with books on Brad Pitt (1995), Mariah Carey (1995), Soundgarden (1995), Denzel Washington (1996) and Keanu Reeves (1996), then turned to historical crime fiction. The DI Tom Harper, Richard Nottingham, Simon Westow, John the Carpenter and WPC Lottie Armstrong series carry that later work. Sixty-three books are catalogued between 1995 and 2026, with murder investigation, English history and police procedure recurring as subjects.

Mark Lewisohn

9 books• 1 series

Mark Lewisohn, born 16 June 1958, is an English historian and biographer who has produced Beatles reference books since the 1980s and has worked for EMI, MPL Communications and Apple Corps. The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions (1988) documents the group's session dates, and The Beatles: All These Years, begun in 2013, is planned as a three-volume biography. Nine books are catalogued, from The Beatles Live (1986) to The Beatles A Hard Day's Night: A Private Archive (2016), and the run also holds Funny, Peculiar: The True Story of Benny Hill (2002) and the RadioTimes Guide to TV Comedy (2002).

J.T. Geissinger moves between paranormal romance and romantic suspense: shapeshifting and the occult on one side, rock musicians and dark contemporary romance on the other, with California and Barcelona among the settings. Queens & Monsters, Wicked Games, Night Prowler, Bad Habit, Morally Gray and Beautifully Cruel are among her series. Forty-four catalogued books run from Shadow's Edge and Edge of Oblivion (2012) to Afterlife in 2026.

Kristen Proby writes contemporary romance, with 104 books in the catalogue from 2012 onward. Come Away with Me (2012) is the earliest title, followed by Fight with Me (2012), Play with Me (2013) and Rock with Me (2013). Vicious King (2026) is the newest release, and Love Me Anyway is scheduled for 2027. Proby series include With Me In Seattle, Boudreaux, Fusion, Love Under the Big Sky, Big Sky Royal, Heroes of Big Sky, Kings of Vegas, Huckleberry Bay and Wilds of Montana. Subjects include rock musicians, restaurateurs, ranchers, veterans and family life.

Carly Phillips is the pen name of Karen Drogin, an American romance author and former attorney born July 7, 1965. The catalogue lists 123 books, starting with Brazen and Perfect Partners in 1999 and reaching Falling for Christmas (2026). Phillips's series include Dare to Love, Dare Nation, the Kingston Family, the Sterling Family, Rosewood Bay, Hot Zone, Serendipity's Finest, Dirty Sexy, Book Boyfriend and the Simply books. Subjects include contemporary romance, police, brothers and sisters, orphans, women lawyers and New York City.

Abbi Glines writes contemporary and young adult romance, with dating, family trouble and love triangles across the subjects. Sea Breeze, Rosemary Beach, Field Party, the Vincent Boys, the Existence trilogy and the Smoke series carry the catalogue, which holds 85 books from Breathe (2011) to Up To No Good. Alabama and rock musicians appear among the settings and occupations.

Jimmy Buffett

8 books

Eight books are catalogued under Jimmy Buffett's name, most of them set around the Caribbean and Florida, with children's fiction and short stories both represented. The Jolly Mon (1988), Tales from Margaritaville (1989), Trouble Dolls (1991), Where Is Joe Merchant? (1992), A Pirate Looks at Fifty (1998) and A Salty Piece of Land (2004) make up most of the run, which ends at Swine Not? Pig Tale in 2008.

Bella Andre is a New York-born American author of contemporary romance and the writer of The Sullivans series, a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Andre's books had sold over 8 million copies as of 2019. Andre also writes as Lucy Kevin for Four Weddings and a Fiasco and Married in Malibu, and the Billionaire for Me series appeared as Bella Riley. The catalogue lists 87 books from Crown Jewels (2004) to Tempted in Love (2026), with Maverick Billionaires, Bad Boys of Football and Hot Shots: Men of Fire among the other series.

Patti Smith

19 books• 1 series

Patti Smith (Patricia Lee Smith, born December 30, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, poet and author who combines rock and poetry. The 1975 album Horses placed Smith in the New York City punk rock movement. Because the Night, co-written with Bruce Springsteen, reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978. The catalogue lists 19 books from Seventh Heaven (1972) to Bread of Angels: A Memoir (2025), including Babel (1978), Woolgathering (1992) and Auguries of Innocence (2005). Smith entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.

Katie Ashley writes both independently and traditionally published fiction and has appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. Ashley's books cover mafia, rock musician and biker stories, along with New Adult and Young Adult fiction, and the subjects add romantic suspense, erotica and motorcycle clubs. The catalogue lists 46 books from The Proposition (2012) to Tell Me Lies (2026). Series include Proposition, Runaway Train, Irish Rogues, Vicious Cycle, Running Mate, Chronicles Of A Dom and Korolov Bratva. Katie Ashley lives outside Atlanta, Georgia.

Rock musicians and journalists populate Samantha Towle's contemporary romance. Twenty-five catalogued books run from The Bringer (2011) to Risk (2025), including The Mighty Storm (2013), Wethering the Storm (2013) and Taming the Storm (2014). Gods, Alexandra Jones, Revved and Wardrobe are the named series, with Los Angeles among the settings and romantic suspense alongside the straight love stories.

S.C. Stephens writes contemporary romance around musicians and love triangles. Thoughtless (2009) opens both the catalogue and its own series, followed by Effortless (2011), Reckless (2013), Thoughtful (2015) and Untamed (2015). Conversion and Furious Rush are the other two series across 20 catalogued books, which close with Wonderful (2023). The novels are long, at a median of 462 pages.

Wensley Clarkson is an English true crime writer, biographer and television producer, born in 1956. The catalogue holds 74 books dated 1991 to 2021, from Dog eat dog (1991) to Serial Killers of Russia (2021). Murderers, organised crime, serial murder and female offenders are the standing subjects, with case studies of British crime running through the list. Clarkson also published a biography of Quentin Tarantino in 1995. Books average 288 pages, and the 2000s were the peak decade.

Melinda Metz is an American author, born in 1962, who writes for young adults and, in one series, for adults. Roswell High is the best known of the work: teenage aliens, and the source for The WB television series Roswell and The CW television series Roswell, New Mexico. The catalogue holds 61 books published between 1998 and 2025, from The Outsider (1998) to Love Is a Four-Legged Word (2025). Fingerprints, S.M.A.R.T.S., Tech Team, Wright & Wong, MacGuyer and Fox Crossing, Maine are the other series. Schools, friendship, twins, robots and detective stories recur as subjects.

Sports biography accounts for most of Joe Layden's writing. The catalogue opens in 1994 with Thin Ice: The Complete, Uncensored Story of Tonya Harding and 40 Minutes of Hell, and takes in Deion Sanders (1995), Steve Young (1995) and USA Basketball (1996). Basketball, the NBA, football, women athletes and the Olympic Games run through the subjects, much of it written for young readers. 60 titles span 1994 to 2026, reaching In My Darkest Hour (2026), at a median 214 pages.

Raymond Benson

52 books• 15 series

James Bond novels published from 1997 to 2003 are what Raymond Benson, an American writer born in 1955, is known for. The catalogue lists Zero Minus Ten (1997), The Facts of Death (1998), Doubleshot (2000), Never Dream of Dying (2001) and The Man With the Red Tattoo (2002), after an earlier title, The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984). The catalogue holds 52 books up to The Hook and the Eye (2026). Black Stiletto, Spike Berenger, Metal Gear Solid, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Tom Clancy's EndWar are among the series, and espionage thrillers and intelligence officers lead the subjects.

Neil Strauss

11 books

Neil Darrow Strauss, born on March 9, 1969, is an American journalist and author who has also used the pen names Style and Chris Powles. Strauss is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and wrote regularly for The New York Times. The Game (2005) recounts Strauss's time in the seduction community while trying to become a pickup artist; Rules of the Game (2007), Emergency (2009) and The Truth (2015) followed. The catalogue also carries rock musicians' memoirs such as The Long Hard Road Out of Hell (1998) and The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band (2001).