United States book series in reading order

by David Poyer

by Alex Berenson

by Don Mann

by Kenneth Cameron

by Traci Hunter Abramson

by Ace Atkins

by William F. Buckley, Jr.

by Karen Anders

by David Baldacci

by Kendra Elliot

by Robert W. Walker

by Dee Davis

by James Axler

by Ed McBain

by Mike Lawson

by David Hagberg

by Amy Stewart

by Blake Crouch

by Matthew Betley

by Craig Schaefer

by David Baldacci

by Jeff Abbott

by Kyle Mills

by Olen Steinhauer

by Rachel Lee

by Carl Bowen

by Bill Granger

by Debby Giusti

by Laura Marie Altom

by Cat Devon / Cathie Linz

by Art Spiegelman

Historical romance and FBI suspense make up Catherine Coulter's two main bodies of work. Regency and medieval romances such as the Sherbrooke Brides and Medieval Song sequences date back to the 1979 debut The Rebel Bride, while the FBI Thriller series and A Brit in the FBI follow government investigator Dillon Savich. Coulter's catalogue runs to 95 books, reaching The Heir of Whitestone in 2026.

W.E.B. Griffin was the best-known pen name of William Edmund Butterworth III (November 10, 1929 to February 12, 2019), an American author of military and detective fiction. Under the Griffin name Butterworth published 59 novels across seven series, 21 of them written with Butterworth's son, William E. Butterworth IV. The catalogue files 194 titles here, including 1960s books issued as W.E. Butterworth, Webb Beech and Walker E. Blake. Series include Brotherhood of War, Presidential Agent and M*A*S*H, and World War II and the U.S. Marine Corps recur in the subjects.

William H. Keith writes military fiction and science fiction. Naval warfare supplies much of the subject matter, from Navy SEALs and aircraft carriers to submarines, naval battles and the Vietnam War, with men's adventure and espionage alongside. The catalogue runs to 116 titles dated between 1985 and 2021, and the 1990s are its busiest decade. SEAL Team Seven, Carrier, Warstrider, Silent Service, Freedom's Rangers, Cybernarc and Renegade Legion are among the series. The listing also carries tabletop game material, sourcebooks and CD-ROM game guides under Keith's name, including Twilight: 2000 titles. No book is listed after 2021.

Donald Eugene Pendleton (December 12, 1927 to October 23, 1995) was an American author of fiction and non-fiction who created Mack Bolan, a character with hundreds of millions of copies sold since a 1969 debut. From 1980, other authors wrote the Bolan books under the Pendleton name, at first with Pendleton's editorial guidance. Pendleton also wrote six Joe Copp, Private Eye novels and six Ashton Ford, Psychic Detective novels. Early titles include The Insatiables (1967), War Against the Mafia (1969) and Miami Massacre (1970).

Military aviation drives Dale Brown's technological thrillers. Patrick McLanahan and Brad McLanahan are the recurring characters across a catalogue of 52 books that opens with Flight of the Old Dog (1987) and reaches Devil's Fortress (2024). Dreamland, Puppet Master, Nick Flynn and the Jason Richter books are the named series. The United States Air Force, weapons systems, espionage and terrorism fill the subject tags.

Alex Berenson

24 books• 4 series

John Wells, an intelligence officer working undercover, leads Alex Berenson's espionage thrillers from The Faithful Spy (2006). Berenson's catalogue holds 24 books, opening with The Number (2003) and reaching The Fatherhood Manifesto in 2026, with the Unreported Truth titles and other non-fiction beside the novels. Terrorism, the CIA and undercover operations supply the material.

Tom Clancy

72 books• 9 series

Tom Clancy, born Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. on April 12, 1947 and dead on October 1, 2013, was an American writer of techno-thrillers, a form that carries technical detail about espionage and military science. An insurance agent before publishing, Clancy debuted with The Hunt for Red October in 1984. The Ryanverse books follow Jack Ryan, an analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency. Subjects across the listing include terrorism, suspense and espionage. The catalogue carries 72 titles under the Clancy name dated 1984 to 2023, with Bill McCay, Grant Blackwood and Peter Telep credited on one or two each.

Suzanne Brockmann, born 1960, is an American writer of romantic fiction, some of it under the name Anne Brock. Brockmann lives near Boston, Massachusetts. The catalogue counts 69 books, opening with Future Perfect in 1993 and running to Jules Cassidy, P.I. in 2026. Troubleshooters and Tall, Dark & Dangerous are recurring series, and Navy SEALs, terrorism, kidnapping and government investigators appear in the subjects, together with romantic suspense.

David Baldacci

71 books• 16 series

David Baldacci is an American novelist, born on 5 August 1960, who trained as an attorney and writes mostly suspense fiction and legal thrillers. The catalogue lists 72 Baldacci books, starting with Absolute Power (1996); All In appeared in 2026 and Boom Town is scheduled for 2027. Recurring leads include Amos Decker, Will Robie, John Puller, Atlee Pine and Aloysius Archer, alongside the Camel Club and the Sean King & Michelle Maxwell books. Baldacci novels have been published in more than 80 countries and 45 languages, with worldwide sales above 130 million copies.

Allison Brennan, an American writer born in 1969, writes romantic thrillers; her first book was published in 2005. The catalogue lists 74 of her books through Make It Out Alive, with One Last Warning announced and the list reaching 2027. Lucy Kincaid and Max Revere are recurring figures. Series listings include the Predator Trilogy, Quinn & Costa Thriller, Angelhart Investigations, River City Mysteries, Regan Merritt and Moreno & Hart Mysteries. Subjects include the FBI, serial murders, women journalists and romantic suspense.

David Poyer, born 1949, is an American author and a retired naval officer. Dan Lenson is a series, and subjects include the United States Navy, officers, sea stories, war and military thrillers and terrorists. Tiller Galloway, Hemlock County and Civil War at Sea are other series. The 51 catalogued books run from White Continent (1980) to Writing Your Memoir In The Age Of AI (2026). The Med (1988), Hatteras Blue (1989) and The Gulf (1990) are among the earlier titles.

Don Mann's catalogue mixes handbooks with thrillers and runs to 21 books published between 2001 and 2023. The United States Navy SEALs are the recurring subject: Inside SEAL Team Six (2011) and The U.S. Navy SEAL Survival Handbook (2012) sit alongside titles such as Hunt the Wolf (2012), Hunt the Scorpion (2013) and Hunt the Fox (2015). SEAL Team Six is the series the catalogue records for Mann. Special operations, counter-terrorism and cyberterrorism appear among the subjects. History's Assassins: Motives for Murder (2023) is the newest entry.

Dick Couch is an American author and professor who served as a U.S. Navy SEAL. The catalogue holds 20 books published between 1991 and 2016, opening with Seal Team One (1991) and ending at John Moody, Navy SEAL (2016). Naval special warfare supplies both the fiction and the reporting: recorded subjects include the SEALs, commando troops, special operations, SEAL training, terrorists and espionage thrillers. The Warrior Elite: The Forging of Seal Class 228 (2001) sits among the non-fiction, and the Garrett Walker and John Moody novels among the fiction.

Military history and men's adventure fiction fill Charles W. Sasser's catalogue of 47 books, published between 1984 and 2017. World War II, the Vietnam War, terrorism and the careers of military officers supply most of the subject matter, in titles such as One Shot - One Kill (1990) and Smoke Jumpers (1996). Sasser's fiction series are Detachment Delta, Six and OSS Commando. The list opens with No Gentle Streets (1984) and ends with Crushing the Collective (2017).

Robert N. Macomber is the author of 18 catalogued books published from 2002 to 2023, with naval history, sea stories and war & military among the subjects. Peter Wake is the fictitious character named in those subjects, and the settings listed include Cuba and Civil War Florida. At the Edge of Honor (2002) is the earliest title, followed by Point of Honor (2003), Honorable Mention (2004) and A Dishonorable Few (2005). Honor Bound (2011) and Honorable Lies (2012) come later. Full Naval Honors (2023) is the newest book.

Traci Hunter Abramson writes romantic and Christian suspense, drawing on Navy SEALs, special operations, witness protection and competitive swimming, with Mormon life among its subjects. The Saint Squad heads her series, and Falcon Point Suspense, Dream's Edge, Luke Steele and Pen & Dagger sit beside it. Fifty-six catalogued books run from Undercurrents (2004) to Treasures of Falcon Point in 2026.

Don Brown writes military and legal thrillers drawn from the United States Navy. Navy JAG officer Zack Brewer anchors the Navy Justice series, with courts-martial, submarines, terrorism and international crises supplying the plots. Fourteen books span 2005 to 2023, from Treason and Hostage (2005) through Black Sea Affair, The Malacca Conspiracy and Extortion 17 to 83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary (2023). No new title has appeared since.

William Wallace Johnstone, October 28, 1938 to February 8, 2004, was an American author of westerns, horror and survivalist fiction. The Devil's Kiss opened the run in 1981, followed by The Last of the Dog Team (1981), Out of the Ashes (1983) and Anarchy in the Ashes (1984). Series filed under the name include Ashes, First Mountain Man, Smoke Jensen, Last Gunfighter, Blood Bond and Duff MacCallister, and subjects include outlaws, frontier and pioneer life, revenge and Texas. The catalogue carries 544 titles under the Johnstone name dated 1981 to 2026, well past the 2004 death date, and 400 of them carry a William W. Johnstone credit.

Laura Marie Altom, a romance author from Tulsa, Oklahoma, has appeared on the Barnes and Noble and Waldenbooks bestseller lists and teaches reading at a Tulsa middle school. Altom began writing at age 12. The catalogue lists 76 books from Sentenced to Sabrina (1998) to An Ozark Romance (2022), with subjects including Navy SEALs, western romance, cowboys, single parents and twins. Series include Cowboy SEALs, SEAL Team: Holiday Heroes, Operation Family, SEAL Team: Disavowed, Buckhorn Ranch and U.S. Marshals, Born and Bred.

Stephen E. Ambrose

36 books• 4 series

Stephen Edward Ambrose, January 10, 1936 to October 13, 2002, was an American historian whose books concentrate on the Second World War, the American West, and the presidencies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. Ambrose taught history from 1960 to 1995, joined the University of New Orleans in 1971 and became Boyd Professor of History there in 1989. Ambrose founded the Eisenhower Center at that university and was a co-founder of the National D-Day Museum, since renamed the National World War II Museum. The catalogue holds 36 books from Halleck (1962) to This Vast Land (2003), with Nixon and Eisenhower recorded as multi-volume series.

John C. McManus writes military history. Recorded subjects centre on the United States Army and the Second World War, taking in military campaigns, Normandy, military life and the history of the American armed forces. Sixteen books span 1998 to 2023, from The Deadly Brotherhood (1998) to To the End of the Earth (2023). The books are long, at a median of 464 pages across the 13 measured. Titles include The Americans at D-Day (2004), Alamo in the Ardennes (2007), Grunts (2010) and September Hope (2012).

Debbie Macomber

245 books• 35 series

Debbie Macomber, born October 22, 1948, is an American author of romance novels and contemporary women's fiction. Six Macomber novels became made-for-TV movies, and the Cedar Cove novels became a television series of the same name, with Macomber serving as executive producer on the adaptations. Macomber won the first fan-voted Quill Award for romance in 2005 and holds a RITA Award and a lifetime achievement award from the Romance Writers of America. The catalogue counts 245 books between Starlight (1983) and A Date with Santa (2026). Series include Heart of Texas, Midnight Sons, Navy, Those Manning Men, Orchard Valley and Angels Everywhere.

Kendra Elliot writes romantic suspense and thrillers, and subjects tie the books to Oregon, the FBI, serial murders and missing persons. The catalogue holds 45 books from 2012 to 2027, starting with Hidden (2012). Elliot's series include Bone Secrets, Callahan & McLane, Mercy Kilpatrick, Widow's Island, Columbia River and Noelle Marshall. Until She Dies (2026) is the newest title, and Never To Return is set for 2027.

Romantic suspense is the register Elle James works in: undercover operations, Navy SEALs, ranchers, Austin, Texas and love stories all appear in the subjects recorded against the books. The catalogue runs to 216 titles between 2005 and 2026, beginning with To Kiss a Frog (2005) and Voodoo on the Bayou (2005) and reaching Papa Noel (2026). Brotherhood Protectors, Take No Prisoners, Iron Horse Legacy, Delta Force Strong, Hellfire, Texas and Covert Cowboys, Inc. are among the series listed under the James name.