Social classes book series in reading order

by Kiera Cass

by Jeffrey Archer

by Marissa Meyer

Jeffrey Archer

63 books• 11 series

Jeffrey Archer's 63 catalogued books cover novels, short stories, plays, children's books and prison diaries. The list opens with Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (1976) and reaches Adam and Eve in 2026. The Clifton Chronicles, Kane and Abel and the Detective William Warwick novels are the main series; families, social class and English history supply the material.

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.

Veronica Roth

27 books• 12 series

Divergent (2011) opens the catalogue of Veronica Roth, an American novelist and short story writer born August 19, 1988. Sales of the Divergent trilogy exceed 35 million copies worldwide. Insurgent (2012), Allegiant (2013) and Four (2014) follow early in the list, which counts 28 titles through Seek the Traitor's Son (2026). Carve the Mark, Curse Bearer and Sixth Faction are the other named series. Dystopias, courage, identity and social classes appear among the subject headings.

Marissa Meyer

26 books• 8 series

Marissa Meyer writes young adult science fiction and fantasy, with cyborgs, extraterrestrial rulers and teenage protagonists at the centre. The Lunar Chronicles run from Cinder (2012) through Scarlet (2013), Cress (2014) and Fairest (2015), and the Wires and Nerve graphic novels extend them. Thirty-two catalogued titles reach The Escape Game, and The Traitor Game is scheduled for 2027.

Khaled Hosseini

5 books

Khaled Hosseini writes about Afghanistan, friendship between boys, betrayal and life under the Taliban. Five titles are catalogued: The Kite Runner (2003), A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007), a graphic novel version of The Kite Runner (2007), And the Mountains Echoed (2012) and the illustrated Sea Prayer (2018). Class division, desertion and domestic abuse run through the work.

Dame Catherine Cookson (born Catherine Ann McMullen, 20 June 1906 to 11 June 1998) was a British novelist. A hard childhood in South Shields, North East England, shaped the novels and supplied their setting. By 2003 Cookson's books had sold an estimated 100 million copies, and 104 titles appeared under the Cookson name and two pen names. The catalogue records 112 books, from Kate Hannigan (1950) to The Rag Maid (2017). Series include Mary Ann Shaughnessy, the Bailey Chronicles, the Mallen Trilogy and the Hamilton Trilogy. Working-class life, family sagas and historical romance appear among the subject tags.

Richelle Mead

42 books• 10 series

Richelle Mead is an American fantasy author, born November 12, 1976, known for the Georgina Kincaid, Vampire Academy, Bloodlines and Dark Swan series. The catalogue lists 42 Mead books from 2007 to 2018. Succubus Blues and Vampire Academy both appeared in 2007, followed by Frostbite, Shadow Kiss and Storm Born in 2008. Subjects include vampires, demonology, alchemists, magic and high schools. The Emerald Sea (2018) is the newest title, and the listing is likely complete. Glittering Court and Age Of X are among the other series.

Kate Elliott is the pen name of Alis A. Rasmussen, an American fantasy and science fiction writer born in 1958. The catalogue lists 39 books, beginning with The Labyrinth Gate (1988), published as Alis Rasmussen, and reaching Barnacle (2025). A Passage of Stars, Revolution's Shore and The Price of Ransom appeared in 1990, followed by Jaran (1992) and King's Dragon (1997). Series include Crown of Stars, Jaran, Spiritwalker, Court of Fives, Black Wolves, Sun Chronicles and Witch Roads. Epic fantasy, revolutions and social classes feature in the subjects.

D.H. Lawrence

146 books• 3 series

David Herbert Lawrence, 11 September 1885 to 2 March 1930, was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, travel writer, literary critic and painter. Lawrence's modernist writing examines modernity, social alienation and industrialisation while arguing for sexuality, vitality and instinct. Four novels went through censorship trials over their treatment of sex and their explicit language: The Rainbow (1915), Sons and Lovers (1913), Women in Love (1920) and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928). The catalogue lists 146 entries, among them The White Peacock (1911), The Trespasser (1912) and the story collection The Prussian Officer (1914), and groups some of them under Sons and Lovers and the Brangwen Family.

Murray Pura's 71 catalogued books span 1988 to 2024, from Mizzly Fitch to The Honor Trail. Subjects include historical fiction, the Amish, World War I, aristocracy and social class, Baptists, family life, war and biblical studies. Titles include Vital Christianity (2002), The Five Gardens of God (2007), The White Birds of Morning (2011) and A Bride's Flight from Virginia City, Montana (2012). Series include Name of the Hawk, Painted Sky, Seven Oaks, Snapshots in History, Danforths of Lancashire and Cry of Freedom.

Michael Parenti

25 books

Michael Parenti (1933-2026) was an American political scientist, historian and cultural critic of the American Left, known for Marxist writing and lectures. Parenti taught at universities and stood for political office. The Anti-Communist Impulse (1969) begins a 25-book list that includes Democracy for the Few (1974), Inventing Reality (1986) and Against Empire (1995). Imperialism, capitalism, social class and power are the recurring subjects.

Dave Robicheaux, a Louisiana detective, is the figure most associated with James Lee Burke, who also writes the Holland family novels around Billy Bob, Hackberry and Weldon Holland. Burke's 49 catalogued books stretch from Half of Paradise (1965) to The Hadacol Boogie in 2026, a span of six decades. Hard-boiled crime in Louisiana and Texas is the core subject. Median length is 387 pages, with the 2000s as the peak decade.

Lisa Kleypas, born November 5, 1964, is an American author of historical and contemporary romance novels. Before writing professionally, Kleypas was Miss Massachusetts 1985 and competed in the Miss America 1986 pageant in Atlantic City. The catalogue lists 50 Kleypas books from Where Passion Leads (1987) to Queen of Lombard Street (2026). Series include the Wallflowers, Hathaways, Ravenels, Travis, Friday Harbor and Bow Street Runners, and subjects on file include nobility, aristocracy and London.

Historical romance set in the Regency and the wider Georgian period is Mary Balogh's territory. Born Mary Jenkins in Swansea on 24 March 1944, Balogh moved to Canada in 1967, taught in Kipling, Saskatchewan, and became a school principal there before the first novel appeared in 1985. The catalogue runs to 106 books, from A Chance Encounter (1985) to A Waltz to Remember (2026). Series headings include Westcott, Bedwyn Family, Survivor's Club, Huxtable Quintet, Simply Quartet, Dark Angel and Ravenswood. Mary Balogh is still publishing.

Jennifer Ashley, whose full name is Jennifer Ashley Gardner, sold a first novel in 2002 and made a second sale to Berkley with a series of historical mysteries. The catalogue counts 157 books from Perils of the Heart (2002) to Murder on the Rhône (2026). Series include Shifters Unbound, Captain Lacey Mysteries, Highland Pleasures, Kat Holloway Mysteries, Stormwalker, Riding Hard, Leonidas the Gladiator Mystery, Nvengaria and the McLaughlin Brothers. Subjects span paranormal romance, shapeshifting, historical romance and historical fiction. Ashley holds a master's degree in English literature and placed a first short story in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

79 books• 5 series

F. Scott Fitzgerald, born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald on September 24, 1896, was an American novelist, essayist and short story writer who died on December 21, 1940. The Jazz Age is the era most tied to Fitzgerald, who spread the term through the story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald's output came to four novels, four story collections and 164 short stories; fortune arrived in the 1920s, and critical recognition followed only after death. The catalogue holds 79 books dated 1914 to 2020, including Flappers and Philosophers (1920), Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories (2020). Subjects name short stories, social customs and the nineteen twenties.

Anthony Trollope

81 books• 6 series

Anthony Trollope was an English novelist of the Victorian era who also served as a civil servant. The catalogue holds 81 Trollope titles, opening with The Macdermots of Ballycloran (1847) and closing at Malachi's Cove and Other Stories and Essays (1985). Trollope grouped much of the fiction into the Chronicles of Barsetshire and the Palliser novels, and wrote travel books, essays and short stories alongside them. English social life and customs, inheritance and succession, and manners recur across the subjects.

Jen Calonita is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of books for teens and middle grade readers, with sales above one million copies and translations into 15 languages. A Boston College graduate, Calonita worked as an entertainment journalist at Teen People, which inspired Secrets of My Hollywood Life (2007); that first book won the Louisiana Young Readers Award and grew into a six-book series. The catalogue counts 46 books through Practically Magic (2026), with The Vanishing Isle listed for 2027. Other series include Fairy Tale Reform School, Disney's Lost Legends, Isle of Ever, Royal Academy Rebels and Enchanters.

David Estes writes fantasy and science fiction for teenage and younger readers. The catalogue holds 50 books published between 2009 and 2026, from A Bag of Gold (2009) to Bloodsworn (2026). Series include the Fatemarked Epic and its Origins companion, the Kingfall Histories, the Dwellers saga, the Evolution Trilogy, Salem's Revenge, Slip, the Country Saga, Nikki Powergloves and the Godstar Chronicles. Witches, wizards, warlocks, angels and imaginary wars run through the subject headings.

Jilly Cooper

50 books• 5 series

Dame Jilly Cooper (1937-2025) was an English journalist who became a novelist. Cooper started in journalism and published non-fiction on class, animals and marriage before turning to fiction with the 1975 romance Emily. The Rutshire Chronicles are her longest and best known sequence. Humour, English social class, horsemanship and manners run through the work. Fifty catalogued books open with the collection Jolly Super (1970) and close with Tackle! (2023).

Victoria Alexander, born 1953, is an American author of historical romance. Romantic Times nominated Alexander four times for its Reviewers' Choice Award, with a win for A Visit From Sir Nicholas, and gave Alexander a Career Achievement Award. Avon released Lady Amelia's Secret Lover as an e-book original on September 4, 2007. The catalogue holds 45 books, from Yesterday and Forever (1995) through The Perfect Wife (1996), The Wedding Bargain (1999) and The Husband List (2000). Series include Effingtons, Lady Travelers Society, Millworth Manor and Sinful Family Secrets.

Richard Peck wrote for young adults and children across five decades. Are You in the House Alone? (1967) opens a catalogue of 48 titles closing with Master Class on Writing the Novel for Young Readers (2021). The Newbery Medal went to A Year Down Yonder in 2001, a sequel to A Long Way From Chicago, and the American Library Association gave Peck its Margaret A. Edwards Award in 1990. Blossom Culp and Lost in Cyberspace are among the series; time travel, grandmothers, schools, friendship and humour run through the books. Peck lived from 1934 to 2018.

Sharon Shinn

39 books• 6 series

Sharon Shinn writes fantasy that borrows from science fiction and romance. The Shape-Changer's Wife (1995) opens 39 catalogued books running to Tropes (2026). Samaria, an imaginary place, names one sequence; Twelve Houses, Elemental Blessings, Safe-Keepers, Shifting Circle and Uncommon Echoes divide the rest, and angels, shapeshifting, magic and social class recur. Jenna Starborn (2002) retells Jane Eyre. Shinn graduated from Northwestern University and works as a journalist in St. Louis.

Thrity Umrigar

15 books• 4 series

Thrity Umrigar writes literary fiction about India, Parsi life and social class. Female friendship, bereavement and the distance between classes run through the novels, which sit alongside picture books and non-fiction. Fifteen catalogued books reach from Bombay Time to Missing Sam (2026), taking in The Space Between Us (2006), The World We Found (2012), The Story Hour (2014) and Everybody's Son (2017).