Wealth book series in reading order

by Ally Carter

by E. Lockhart

Cecily Von Ziegesar

34 books• 5 series

Gossip Girl (2002) opens Cecily von Ziegesar's catalogue and is the series she is best known for. Thirty-four titles are listed between 2002 and 2020, including You Know You Love Me (2002), All I Want is Everything (2003), Because I'm Worth It (2003), I Like It Like That (2004), Nobody Does it Better (2005) and Nothing Can Keep Us Together (2005). The It Girl, Gossip Girl: The Carlyles, the Gossip Girl manga graphic novels and a set of standalone novels divide the rest, ending with Cobble Hill (2020). Teenage girls, wealth, private and boarding schools and dating run through the subjects. Von Ziegesar is American and was born in 1970.

Melissa De La Cruz

94 books• 26 series

Melissa de la Cruz, born September 7, 1971, is a Filipina-American writer of young adult fiction. De la Cruz's young adult series include Au Pairs, Blue Bloods and The Beauchamp Family. The catalogue lists 95 books, starting with The Girl Can't Help It! (2001) and reaching This Song Is About Me (2026), with Diviner listed for 2027. Other series include Descendants, Alex & Eliza, Heart of Dread and Chronicles of Never After. Vampires, witches, wealth, preparatory schools and New York appear among the subjects.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

43 books• 1 series

Robert T. Kiyosaki writes personal finance and business books. Rich Dad, Poor Dad (1997) anchors a long run of Rich Dad titles, among them Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant (1998), Rich Dad's Guide to Investing (2000), Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens (2001) and Rich Dad's The Business School (2001). Kiyosaki founded the Rich Dad Company, which sells personal finance and business education. The catalogue holds 43 books from If You Want To Be Rich & Happy Don't Go To School (1992) to Rich Family Smart Family (2026), with investments, wealth and entrepreneurship the recurring subjects.

Ally Carter

29 books• 8 series

Spies, thieves and boarding schools furnish Ally Carter's fiction for young readers. The Gallagher Girls series, set at a school that trains teenage spies, runs from 2006 through Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover and Only the Good Spy Young. Heist Society turns to con artists, Embassy Row to diplomatic intrigue, and Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor to a mystery for younger readers. Thirty titles make up the catalogue, which began with the adult novel Cheating at Solitaire (2005).

Robert Kiyosaki

13 books• 1 series

Robert Kiyosaki, born April 8, 1947, is an American businessman and entrepreneur who writes on personal finance. Rich Dad, Poor Dad (1997) opens a catalogue of 13 titles that runs to Rich Dad Poor Dad for College Students (2014) and takes in Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant, Retire Young Retire Rich and Rich Dad's Prophecy. Kiyosaki founded the Rich Dad Company, which sells personal finance and business education through books and videos, and Rich Global LLC, which filed for bankruptcy in 2012. A class action brought by seminar attendees, and investigative documentaries from the CBC, WTAE-TV and CBS News, have also taken Kiyosaki as their subject. The catalogue marks the run likely complete.

Randy Alcorn

59 books• 2 series

Randy Alcorn is an American Christian author of more than sixty fiction and non-fiction books, which have sold over 12 million copies in 70 languages. C.S. Lewis, A.W. Tozer and Francis Schaeffer are named as influences. Alcorn founded and directs Eternal Perspective Ministries, a nonprofit Bible teaching organization. The catalogue lists 59 Alcorn books, from Money, Possessions and Eternity (1989) to All God's Creatures (2026), including Deadline (1994), Dominion (1996), Safely Home (2001) and The Treasure Principle (2001). Ollie Chandler is the series on record, and subjects include heaven and wealth.

Kieran Scott, born 11 March 1974, is an American author who also publishes as Kate Brian. Under the Kate Brian name come chick lit books such as The Princess and the Pauper, The Virginity Club, Sweet 16, Fake Boyfriend and the Private series. Books under Scott's own name include She's So Dead to Us, Brunettes Strike Back, Geek Magnet and I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader, a YALSA Teens Top Ten nominee. The catalogue subjects include boarding schools, high schools, cliques and teenage girls, and the listing runs from 1998 to 2026.

Susan McBride writes mysteries with women sleuths, and Dallas, debutantes and wealth appear among her subjects. McBride's series include Debutante Dropout, Debs, River Road, Maggie Ryan and Detective Jo Larsen. The 22 catalogued books run from And Then She Was Gone (1999) to Walk a Crooked Line (2018). Titles include The Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2005), Night of the Living Deb (2007) and Too Pretty to Die (2008).

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.

Ann M. Martin

446 books• 24 series

Ann Matthews Martin, born August 12, 1955, is an American writer of children's and young adult fiction and a Smith College graduate. The Baby-Sitters Club, first published in 1986, is the series Martin is known best for, and Martin remains involved with the series and its spin-offs. The catalogue lists 446 books, beginning with Inside Out and Bummer Summer in 1983. Related lines include Baby-Sitters Club Mysteries, California Diaries, Kids in Ms. Colman's Class, Main Street and Doll People. Jessi Ramsey, Pet-sitter: A Graphic Novel (2025) is the newest listed title.

Penny Vincenzi wrote long sagas of wealth, publishing and London society. The British novelist, born in 1939 and died in 2018, has 22 catalogued titles published between 1977 and 2017, from The Compleat Liar (1977) to At the Heart of It (2017). Spoils Of Time is her one catalogued series, and the Lytton family, rich people, married life and adultery run through the subject headings. Her novels are long, at a median of about 640 pages, and sales had passed seven million copies by 2014.

Ann Martin is the author of The Baby-Sitters Club, a children's series about a group of friends who run a babysitting business. Kristy, Claudia, Stacey, Mary Anne and Dawn take turns as narrators across the books. The catalogue holds 75 titles published between 1986 and 1999, opening with Kristy's Great Idea and reaching The Fire at Mary Anne's House. Friendship, family life and school worries drive the plots, with a mystery strand running alongside, in books averaging 160 pages.