Telepathy book series in reading order

by James H. Schmitz

by Charlaine Harris

by Patrick Ness

by Shannon Hale

Anne McCaffrey

96 books• 20 series

Anne McCaffrey (1 April 1926 to 21 November 2011) was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. McCaffrey was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction, for the novella Weyr Search (1968), and the first to win a Nebula, for Dragonrider (1969). The White Dragon (1978) was among the earliest science fiction books on the New York Times Best Seller list. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd Grand Master in 2005. The catalogue lists 96 books, from Restoree (1967) to Sky Dragons (2011), plus the Acorna, Crystal Singer and Tower and Hive series.

Paranormal romance is Christine Feehan's field, with vampires, shapeshifters and the Carpathians recurring across the work. Feehan's 119 catalogued books open with Dark Prince and Dark Desire (1999) and reach Dark Joy (2026). The Dark books head the list, joined by GhostWalkers, Leopard People, Torpedo Ink, Shadow Riders and the two Sea Haven sequences, Drake Sisters and Sisters of the Heart. The 2010s hold the largest share of the catalogue.

Charlaine Harris

78 books• 14 series

Charlaine Harris, born Jean Charlaine Harris Schulz on November 25, 1951, in Tunica, Mississippi, is an American author specialising in mysteries. The Southern Vampire Mysteries, Harris's best-known series, became HBO's True Blood, which ran for seven seasons from 2008 to 2014. The catalogue starts with Sweet and Deadly (1981) and A Secret Rage (1984) and reaches The Last Wizards' Ball (2025). Sookie Stackhouse, Aurora Teagarden, Lily Bard, Gunnie Rose and Midnight, Texas are among the series. Vampires, werewolves and women librarians appear in the subjects, and Harris lives in Texas.

Shannon Hale

62 books• 11 series

Shannon Hale, born Shannon Bryner on January 26, 1974, is an American author mainly of young adult fantasy. Princess Academy (2005) earned a Newbery Honor, and The Goose Girl (2003) opens the catalogue. Austenland (2007), the first novel for adults, became a film in 2013. Hale graduated from the University of Utah and the University of Montana, and has co-written with husband Dean Hale. The catalogue lists 63 titles through The Princess in Black and the Trick-or-Treating Trouble (2026), across series including Princess In Black, Books of Bayern, Real Friends and Kitty-Corn.

James Henry Schmitz (1911-1981) was a German-American science fiction writer. Telepathy, space travellers, witches, scientists and life on other planets run through the subjects attached to the 27 catalogued titles, the earliest dated 1960. Agent of Vega (1960) heads the list, followed by A Tale of Two Clocks / Legacy (1962), Watch the Sky (1962), The Universe Against Her (1964), The Witches of Karres (1966) and The Demon Breed (1968). Hub is the one series recorded. Several dated entries, among them Lion Loose (2022), carry dates later than Schmitz's death.

Peter F. Hamilton

48 books• 18 series

Peter F. Hamilton is a British author of science fiction space opera, born in 1960. Catalogue entries run from Mindstar Rising (1993) to The Helium Sea (2026). Series include Greg Mandel, Night's Dawn, Commonwealth Saga, Commonwealth: Chronicle of the Fallers, Salvation Sequence, Arkship Trilogy, Archimedes Engine and Queen of Dreams. The Suspect Genome (1993), A Quantum Murder (1994) and The Reality Dysfunction (1996) are among the earlier titles. Space colonies, telepathy and space warfare appear in the subjects.

James Dashner

26 books• 7 series

The Maze Runner series and the young adult fantasy series The 13th Reality are what American writer James Dashner, born November 26, 1972, is best known for. Much of Dashner's speculative fiction is aimed at children or young adults. The Journal of Curious Letters (2008), first in The 13th Reality, was a Borders Original Voices pick. The Maze Runner reached cinemas in 2014, with further films in 2015 and 2018 grossing an estimated $949 million together. The catalogue lists 26 books from A Door in the Woods (2003) to The Infinite Glade (2025), with the Jimmy Fincher Saga, Mortality Doctrine and Maze Cutter among the series.

Benedict Jacka, born 25 September 1980, is a British author best known for the Alex Verus series. Urban and contemporary fantasy describe the catalogue, whose subjects also cover magic, psychics, apprentices, good and evil, ninja and runaway children. Nineteen books run from The Beginning (2005) to A Judgement of Powers (2025), with Fated, Cursed and Taken all published in 2012. Alex Verus and Inheritance of Magic are the two series credited to Jacka.

Susan Kaye Quinn designed aircraft engines and researched global warming before turning a PhD toward fiction. The work ranges from hopeful climate fiction to cyberpunk, with short stories in Grist, Solarpunk Magazine and Reckoning, and Quinn hosts the Bright Green Futures podcast. Open Minds (2011) begins Mindjack, a telepathy series for teen readers that extends into Mindjack Origins, Mindjack: Kira and Mindjack: Zeph. Stories of Singularity, Royals of Dharia, Nothing is Promised and Halfway to Better fill out 39 catalogued titles running to 2024.

Stuart Gibbs

46 books• 10 series

Stuart Gibbs writes mystery and adventure fiction for readers in grades six to eight. Belly Up (2010) opens the FunJungle series, set around a zoo, and Spy School, Moon Base Alpha, Charlie Thorne, The Last Musketeer and Once Upon a Tim follow. Forty-two catalogued books reach 2027, when There's No Place like Rome arrives.

Octavia E. Butler

23 books• 4 series

Octavia E. Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American author of science fiction and speculative fiction and a winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. In 1995 Butler became the first science fiction writer awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Born in Pasadena, California and raised by a widowed mother, Butler found refuge in library books as a shy child, started writing science fiction as a teenager, and attended community college during the 1960s Black Power movement. The catalogue opens with Patternmaster (1976) and includes Mind of My Mind (1977), Kindred (1979), Wild Seed (1980) and Dawn (1987). Series include Patternmaster, Xenogenesis and Earthseed, with graphic novel adaptations also listed.

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.

Robert Silverberg

240 books• 17 series

Robert Silverberg, born January 15, 1935, is an American science fiction author and editor with multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, a place in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and Grand Master status since 2004. Nightwings (1969), a novella, and the novels Downward to the Earth (1970), The World Inside (1971), Dying Inside (1972) and Lord Valentine's Castle (1980) are among the most noted Silverberg works, and Lord Valentine's Castle was the first Majipoor book. By 2015 Silverberg had attended every Hugo Award ceremony since the first in 1953. The catalogue lists 240 books from Revolt on Alpha C (1955) to Beast Hunt: Volume 1 (2024), with The Shrouded Planet (1957) and Collision Course (1958) among the early ones. Series include Majipoor: Lord Valentine, Majipoor: Lord Prestimion, New Springtime, Time Gate and New Dimensions.

Megan Shepherd has 17 books in the catalogue, from The Madman's Daughter (2013) to Shadow Over the Pumpkin Queen (2026). Her Dark Curiosity (2014), A Cold Legacy (2015), The Cage (2015), The Hunt (2016), The Secret Horses of Briar Hill (2016), The Gauntlet (2017), Grim Lovelies (2018) and Midnight Beauties (2019) fall in between. Shepherd series include Madman's Daughter, Cage, Grim Lovelies, Pumpkin Queen and Malice Compendium. Subjects include witches, magic, fathers and daughters, telepathy, alien abduction and serial murders.

Eric Brown was a British science fiction author and a critic for The Guardian, born on 24 May 1960 and died on 21 March 2023. Catalogue subjects include space opera, human-alien encounters, space colonies and mystery. The earliest listed book is The Time Lapsed Man And Other Stories (1990), followed by Meridian Days (1992) and Engineman (1994). Series credited to Brown include Langham and Dupré Mystery, Starship Seasons, Telemass Quartet, Virex Trilogy and Bengal Station.

Clifford D. Simak

76 books• 2 series

Clifford D. Simak (1904–1988) was an American science fiction writer who also worked as a journalist. Simak won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award, became the third SFWA Grand Master, and was among the first three recipients of the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. The catalogue records 76 books, from Empire (1932) through City (1952) to the collection The Thing in the Stone: And Other Stories (2024). Subjects include robots, telepathy, time travel and space travel, and the pastoral science fiction subgenre is linked to Simak's name.

Patrick Ness

20 books• 4 series

Patrick Ness FRSL is an American-British author, journalist, lecturer and screenwriter, born on 17 October 1971 in the United States and later settled in London. Ness received the Carnegie Medal in 2011 for Monsters of Men and in 2012 for A Monster Calls, becoming one of seven two-time winners. The Chaos Walking trilogy ran from 2008 to 2010. Ness wrote the screenplay for the 2016 film of A Monster Calls and created the Doctor Who spin-off Class. The catalogue lists 20 books from The Crash of Hennington (2003) to Piper at the Gates of Dusk (2026).

Maureen Child, born in Southern California in 1951, writes romance and has published under the pen names Ann Carberry, Kathleen Kane, Sara Hart and Regan Hastings. This listing gathers 149 books dated 1992 to 2021, including titles issued under those other names. Contemporary, historical, western and erotic romance all appear in the recorded subjects, alongside billionaires, angels and California settings. Bachelor Battalion, Kings of California, Candellano Family, Marconi Sisters and Queen of the Otherworld are among the series.

P.R. Frost / Irene Radford is a single catalogue entry covering two author names and 57 books published between 1994 and 2023. Fantasy is the core of the run: dragons, magic, wizards and the imaginary land of Coronnan, with science fiction and historical fantasy beside it. The Glass Dragon (1994) opens the catalogue and Confessions of a Changeling Dancer (2023) closes it. The Dragon Nimbus with its history and Children sequences, Merlin's Descendants, Tess Noncoire, the Stargods, Confederated Star Systems, the Pixie Chronicles, Artistic Demons, the Shadow Conspiracy, Gears and Levers, and the Whistling River Lodge Mysteries are the listed series.

Julie E. Czerneda

41 books• 10 series

Julie E. Czerneda is a Canadian science fiction and fantasy author and a biologist by education. The catalogue opens in 1992 with the Great Careers guides, non-fiction books on career guidance, before A Thousand Words for Stranger (1997) starts the Trade Pact Universe. Web Shifters, Species Imperative, Stratification, Reunification and the Web Shifter's Library follow, reaching A Shift of Time in 2025. Czerneda has taken four Aurora Awards for Best Novel, for In the Company of Others, A Turn of Light, A Play of Shadow and The Gossamer Mage, and joined the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association Hall of Fame in 2022. 41 titles are listed.

Joan D. Vinge

24 books• 3 series

The Snow Queen (1980), winner of the Hugo Award, is the best-known novel of American science fiction author Joan D. Vinge, born Joan Carol Dennison on April 2, 1948. Vinge continued The Snow Queen in sequels, wrote a series about a telepath called Cat, and wrote the Heaven Chronicles. The catalogue lists 24 books from Eyes of Amber and Other Stories (1977) to Ladysmith (2012), including Psion (1982) and film storybooks for Return of the Jedi and Dune.

Tara K. Harper writes science fiction in which humans and animals communicate. Wolves, telepathy and human-animal communication head the subject records, and Dion, listed as Ember Dion Mamarin, is the named character. Wolfwalker (1990) opens a catalogue of 10 books that ends at Wolf in Night (2005), across the Wolfwalker and Cat Scratch series. The 1990s are the heaviest decade, and the median book runs 346 pages.