Wishes book series in reading order

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.

Heather Blake is the pen name under which the American novelist Heather Webber publishes paranormal mysteries. The Blake catalogue holds 12 books published between 2012 and 2019, opening with It Takes a Witch (2012) and closing with A Witch to Remember (2019). Two series carry it: the Wishcraft Mysteries and the Magic Potion Mysteries. Witches, wishes, amulets, sisters and murder investigations recur, and no new Blake title has appeared since 2019.

Julia Donaldson

349 books• 14 series

Dame Julia Donaldson, born Julia Catherine Shields on 16 September 1948, is a British writer and playwright who served as Children's Laureate from 2011 to 2013. Rhyming stories for children made Donaldson's name, above all those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, such as The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, Stick Man and Superworm. Donaldson first wrote songs for children's television; the lyrics of A Squash and a Squeeze became a picture book in 1993, and books have been the focus since. The catalogue carries 349 entries, from Tim's Bad Mood and Other Stories (1970) to The Tooth Fairy and the Crocodile (2026), including Tales from Acorn Wood, Princess Mirror-Belle and Zog.

Edward Eager wrote children's fantasy in which magic turns up in the lives of ordinary children. Half Magic (1954) opens a set of 7 books that closes with Seven Day Magic (1962), taking in Knight's Castle (1956), Magic by the Lake (1957) and The Time Garden (1958). Wishes, cousins, friendship and the handling of space and time supply the material, with Connecticut among the settings. Eager also worked as a lyricist and dramatist, and lived from 1911 to 1964.

Lauren Myracle

32 books• 6 series

Lauren Myracle, born in 1969, is an American writer of young adult and middle-grade fiction. The Internet Girls books - ttyl (2004), ttfn (2006) and l8r, g8r (2007) - are written in instant messages and are Myracle's best-selling titles. The Winnie Years counts off ages with Eleven (2004) and Twelve (2007), and Flower Power, Life of Ty, Wishing Day and Crestview Academy follow. Friendship, sisters, families and school are the constants across 32 catalogued books, from Joyride (2003) to Plays Well with Others (2025).

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

58 books• 4 series

Amy Krouse Rosenthal (1965-2017) wrote for children and adults, made short films and hosted radio. Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life (2005) is the memoir; Uni the Unicorn, Cookies, Little Pea, Little Hoot and The OK Book sit among more than 30 children's books published from 2005 onward. Rosenthal is the only author to have placed three children's books on the Best Children's Books for Family Literacy list in a single year. The listing holds 58 titles dated 1998 to 2024, at a median of 40 pages.

Mindy Klasky writes fantasy and paranormal romance. The Glasswright books opened the catalogue in 2000 with The Glasswrights' Apprentice, and the Magical Washington strand followed: Jane Madison, Washington Witches, Washington Vampires, Washington Warders and Washington Medical: Vampire Ward. Diamond Brides carries the contemporary romance. The catalogue holds 49 titles dated 2000 to 2022, closing with The B Word (2022). Witches, magic, wishes and jinn recur as subjects, at a median of 338 pages.

R.L. Stine

589 books• 64 series

Robert Lawrence Stine, born October 8, 1943, is an American novelist who writes horror fiction for children. Goosebumps, the series Stine created, sold more than 400 million copies in 35 languages and grew into a franchise of two television series, video games, comics and two feature films. Fear Street, Stine's horror sequence for teenagers, passed 80 million copies and was adapted for film. Stine has been called the Stephen King of children's literature. The listing runs to 590 titles, from How to Be Funny (1978), published as Jovial Bob Stine, to How to Train Your Dummy, scheduled for 2027.

Neil Gaiman

199 books• 41 series

Neil Gaiman, born Neil Richard Gaiman on 10 November 1960, is an English writer of short fiction, novels, comic books, audio theatre and screenplays. The Sandman comic series ran from 1989 to 1996, and the novels include Stardust (1999), American Gods (2001), Coraline (2002), Anansi Boys (2005) and The Graveyard Book (2008). The Graveyard Book made Gaiman the first author to win both the Newbery and Carnegie medals for one work, and other awards include the Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker. Gaiman co-created the television adaptations of Good Omens and The Sandman. The catalogue runs from Duran Duran (1984) to The Silver Age (2024) and includes Sandman and Death graphic novels and children's books.

Enid Blyton

957 books• 42 series

Enid Blyton (11 August 1897 to 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer and one of the best-selling authors of children's literature, with more than 600 million copies sold and translations into ninety languages. Blyton wrote on education, natural history, fantasy, mystery and biblical stories. Noddy, the Famous Five, the Secret Seven, the Five Find-Outers and Malory Towers are the best-remembered Blyton books, and St Clare's, Mary Mouse and Toyland Stories are also listed. The catalogue opens with The Enid Blyton Book of Fairies (1924), and The Naughtiest Girl in the School (1930) and The Adventures of the Wishing-Chair (1937) follow. Titles dated after Blyton's death also appear, up to Stories of Wonders and Wishes (2023).

Shirley Jackson

32 books• 2 series

Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) was an American writer of horror and mystery whose output ran to six novels, two memoirs and more than 200 short stories. The catalogue lists 32 titles, from Men with Their Big Shoes (1947) to an illustrated edition of Life Among the Savages dated 2026, with the 1950s her densest decade. The Lottery (1948) sits near the start, followed by The Road Through the Wall (1948), Hangsaman (1951) and The Bird's Nest (1954). Stoning, villages, lotteries and rites and ceremonies appear among the listed subjects.

Daisy Meadows is the name on the Rainbow Magic children's books, a fantasy line whose subjects include fairies, goblins, Jack Frost and two girls, Kirsty Tate and Rachel Walker. The catalogue opens in 2003 with colour-fairy titles such as Ruby the Red Fairy, Amber the Orange Fairy and Fern the Green Fairy, and runs to Nur the Vlogger Fairy (2023). Sub-series include the Weather, Jewel, Party, Pet Keeper, Dance, Ocean and Showtime Fairies. Magic Animal Friends appears under the same name.

Cynthia Rylant, born Cynthia Smith on June 6, 1954, is an American author and librarian who has written more than 100 children's books across picture books, short stories, novels, nonfiction and poetry. Missing May took the 1993 Newbery Medal, A Fine White Dust was a 1987 Newbery Honor book, and two further titles are Caldecott Honor Books. The catalogue records 229 books from When I Was Young in the Mountains (1982) onward, with series including Henry and Mudge, Mr. Putter & Tabby, Poppleton and the Lighthouse Family.

Michael Morpurgo

171 books• 5 series

Sir Michael Morpurgo, born 5 October 1943, is an English author, poet, playwright and librettist best known for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). Morpurgo served as the third Children's Laureate from 2003 to 2005 and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity. Recurring themes include outsiders who triumph, survival and bonds with nature, set in places such as the Cornish coast and the First World War trenches. The catalogue holds 171 books from It Never Rained (1974) to Down Burrow Lane (2026), including the Mudpuddle Farm series.

Heather Demetrios has eight catalogued books, published between 2014 and 2021. Subjects record genies, jinn, wishes and magic alongside reality television programs, human trafficking, dating, siblings and family life, filed under children's fiction. Exquisite Captive (2014) is the earliest title and Code Name Badass: The True Story of Virginia Hall (2021) the most recent, with Something Real (2014), I'll Meet You There (2015), Blood Passage (2016), Bad Romance (2017), Freedom's Slave (2017) and Little Universes (2020) in between. Something Real and the Dark Caravan Cycle are the two series under the Demetrios name.