Spirits book series in reading order

by Tite Kubo

Tite Kubo is the professional name of Noriaki Kubo, a Japanese manga artist and character designer born 26 June 1977. Bleach, serialised from 2001 to 2016, is his central work and had more than 130 million copies in circulation as of 2022; Ichigo Kurosaki leads it. Zombie Powder and Burn the Witch sit alongside, and light novels, official character books and non-fiction volumes extend the Bleach line. The listing holds 92 books dated 2000 to 2020.

Jacquelyn Frank writes paranormal romance. Rapture, catalogued at 2009, reached number 8 on The New York Times paperback fiction chart. Vampires, spirits, the supernatural and blessing and cursing appear among the recorded subjects. The listing holds 43 books between 2006 and 2020, opening with Jacob (2006) and closing on Seduce Me in Shadows (2020), and the run is marked likely complete. Nightwalkers and Immortal Brothers are the recorded character groupings, with World of Nightwalkers, Shadowdwellers, Energy Vampires and Gatherers among the series.

Simon R. Green is an English science fiction and fantasy author, born 25 August 1955 in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. Green studied modern English and American literature at the University of Leicester, began writing in 1973, sold the first story, "Manslayer", in 1976, and published a first full-length work, Awake, Awake, Ye Northern Winds, in 1979. Green sold seven novels in 1988, and the 1989 commission to novelise the Kevin Costner film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves produced a book with more than 370,000 copies sold. The catalogue lists 83 titles from Blue Moon Rising (1989) to For Better or Murder (2026). Series include Nightside, Deathstalker, Hawk & Fisher, Ghost Finders, Ishmael Jones, Gideon Sable and Forest Kingdom.

Anne Rice

50 books• 14 series

Born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien in New Orleans on October 4, 1941, Anne Rice was an American author of Gothic fiction, erotic literature and Bible fiction who died on December 11, 2021. The Vampire Chronicles are Rice's best-known work, and the first volume became the 1994 film Interview with the Vampire, adapted by Rice. Interview with the Vampire (1976) opens a catalogue of 50 books that closes with The Reign of Osiris in 2022. Other series include Lives of the Mayfair Witches, Sleeping Beauty, Ramses the Damned, Wolf Gift Chronicles and Life of Christ. Exit to Eden (1985) and Belinda (1986) carry the name Anne Rampling.

Amanda Stevens has 76 books in the catalogue, from The Tempted (1985) to The Disappearance (2026). The Graveyard Queen is a Stevens series, alongside Gallagher Justice, Matchmakers Underground, Eden's Children, Twilight's Children, Quantum Men, On The Edge and Echo Lake. Subjects include romantic suspense, contemporary romance, murder, kidnapping and police. Titles from the 1990s include Angels Don't Cry (1993), The Seventh Night (1993), Fade To Black (1994) and Dark Obsession (1995).

Mel Odom's 86 catalogued books range from Lethal Interface (1992) to The Legend of Bass Reeves (2025). Subjects list television tie-ins, children's fiction, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, vampires, witches and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Series include Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal, Rover, Left Behind: Apocalypse, Hunter's League, Blackpool Mysteries, Hellgate: London, Makaum War and F.R.E.E.Lancers, and Forgotten Realms and Net Force appear among the characters.

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.

Kelley Armstrong, born 14 December 1968, is a Canadian writer working mainly in fantasy since 2001. Thirty-one fantasy novels carry the Armstrong name, thirteen of them in Women of the Otherworld, five in Cainsville, six in the Rockton books, and three each in Darkest Powers, Darkness Rising and Age of Legends. Armstrong also wrote the Nadia Stafford crime trilogy, three standalone teen thrillers, and the middle-grade Blackwell Pages trilogy with Melissa Marr. The catalogue runs to 177 titles, from Bitten (2001) to Last Resort at Haven's Rock, scheduled for 2027, with subjects including werewolves, witches, vampires and the supernatural.

Katherine Arden

9 books• 3 series

The Winternight Trilogy made Katherine Arden's name: fantasy novels set in medieval Russia, opening with The Bear and the Nightingale (2017) and nominated for Hugo and Locus awards. Arden, an American novelist writing under a pen name, also produced the Small Spaces series of middle-grade horror, whose first book took the Vermont Golden Dome Book Award in 2020. Nine books are catalogued between 2017 and 2026, and the newest is The Unicorn Hunters (2026).

Rose Pressey writes mysteries with women sleuths and ghosts, and subjects include vintage clothing, private investigators, spirits, cats, Georgia and Miami. The catalogue holds 105 books from My Haunted Family (2007) to Where the Haunted Walk (2026), the latter credited as Rose Betancourt. Series include Ghostly Haunted Tour Guide Mystery, Haunted Vintage Mystery, Halloween LaVeau, Maggie, P.I. Mystery, Larue Donavan, Rylie Cruz and Mystic Cafe. How to Date a Vampire (2011) is among the titles.

Shannon Messenger

16 books• 3 series

Shannon Messenger is an American author of middle-grade and young adult fantasy, published by Simon & Schuster. Keeper of the Lost Cities, begun in 2012, is her best-known series and a New York Times bestseller; its book 8.5, Unlocked, reached number 8 on the USA Today list in 2020. The young adult Sky Fall trilogy runs alongside, and a graphic novel adaptation of Keeper continues into 2025. Elves, psychic ability, memory and foster families are the standing subjects across 16 catalogued books.

Carolyn G. Hart writes mystery and detective fiction with women sleuths, and the subject records name Annie Laurance Darling, Max Darling and Henrie O as fictitious characters, alongside booksellers and bookselling, women journalists and murder. The catalogue holds 69 books, from The Secret of the Cellars (1964) to Ghost Blows a Kiss (2021), with the 2000s the heaviest decade. Death On Demand, Bailey Ruth, Henrie O and Nela Farley are the lines on record, beside standalone novels, short stories and non-fiction. No new title has been listed since 2021, so the entry is dormant.

Louise Cooper (1952–2009) was a British fantasy writer, born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, who lived in Cornwall with husband Cas Sandall. Cooper's first full-length novel appeared at age twenty, and after working in London publishing from 1975, Cooper wrote full time from 1977. The Time Master trilogy was a bestseller, and the total output exceeded eighty fantasy and supernatural novels for adults and children. The catalogue records 67 books from The Book of Paradox (1973) to The Bad Seed (2008), with series such as Indigo, Chaos Gate and Daughter of Storms.

Michael Dante DiMartino

33 books• 8 series

Michael Dante DiMartino, born in 1974, is an American animator, producer, writer and director, best known as co-creator with Bryan Konietzko of the Nickelodeon animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. The catalogue lists 33 books dated 2006 to 2026, largely tied to those two shows: Avatar: The Last Airbender comics, Legend of Korra comics and art volumes for the animated series. Comics and graphic novels, fantasy, magic, adventure and heroes head the recorded subjects, and Chronicles of the Avatar is the character grouping on file.

Lucy Banks writes paranormal and occult mystery. Recorded subjects include ghost stories, spirits, private investigators, occultism and criminal investigation, murder, and fathers and sons. Dr. Ribero's Agency Of The Supernatural is the series catalogued under the Banks credit. Nine books run from Sol the Slug's Night Before Christmas (2016) to The Depths (2024), among them The Case of the Green-Dressed Ghost (2017), The Case of the Deadly Doppelganger (2018), The Case of the Hidden Daemon (2018), The Hanged Man and the Fortune Teller (2019), The Case of the Twisted Truths (2020), Caged Little Birds (2022) and The Case of the Secret Spirit-Half (2022).