Wolves book series in reading order

by Lori Handeland

by Anh Do

Jean Craighead George

100 books• 11 series

Julie of the Wolves won Jean Craighead George the Newbery Medal, and My Side of the Mountain (1959) earned a Newbery Honor. George, born July 2, 1919, and died May 15, 2012, was an American writer of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, with the environment and the natural world as recurring themes. George also wrote at least two guides to cooking with wild foods and an autobiography, Journey Inward, and was the U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1964. The catalogue lists 100 books from Vulpes, the Red Fox (1948) to Crowbar: The Smartest Bird in the World (2015). Series include 13 Moons, Ecological Mysteries, American Woodland Tales and One Day in the..., and subjects name wolves, owls, falcons and ecology.

Guardians of Ga'Hoole is one of the series by Kathryn Lasky, an American children's writer born June 24, 1944, who writes for adults as Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann. Lasky's children's work also includes Dear America and The Royal Diaries books, Wolves of the Beyond, Sugaring Time and The Night Journey, and honours include a Newbery Honor, the National Jewish Book Award and the Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature. The catalogue holds 159 books from I Have Four Names for My Grandfather (1976) to Sacred Light (2026), including Tugboats Never Sleep (1977), The Weaver's Gift (1980) and Beyond the Divide (1983). Horses Of The Dawn, Bears Of The Ice and Camp Princess are further series, and subjects name owls, wolves, diaries and Jews.

Maggie Stiefvater

31 books• 7 series

Maggie Stiefvater is an American author of young adult fantasy, born Heidi Hummel on November 18, 1981. The Wolves of Mercy Falls and The Raven Cycle are the series Stiefvater is best known for. The catalogue lists 31 books from Lament (2008), including Ballad, Shiver, Linger, Forever, The Scorpio Races and The Raven Boys. Other series named are Dreamer Trilogy, Pip Bartlett, Gathering Of Faerie and Curiosities. Subjects include magic, dreams, the supernatural and family secrets.

StacyPlays is the name on a four-book children's adventure series: Guardians of the Taiga (2018), Escape to the Mesa (2019), Expedition on the Tundra (2020) and Sentinels in the Deep Ocean (2021). A girl and the wolves she lives among carry the story through forest, desert, tundra and ocean. The books are written for middle-grade readers at around 224 pages, and no fifth title has appeared since 2021.

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.

Mercedes Lackey

230 books• 52 series

Valdemar, a country in the world of Velgarth, is the setting for many of Mercedes Lackey's interlinked fantasy novels and trilogies. Lackey, an American writer born on June 24, 1950, brings human and non-human protagonists from many cultures together in the Valdemar books. A second Lackey setting resembles Earth but hides populations of elves, mages, vampires and other mythical beings. Bedlam's Bard follows a young man who works magic through music, SERRAted Edge features elves who race cars, and the Diana Tregarde thrillers star a Wiccan fighting evil. Arrows of the Queen (1987), Arrow's Flight (1987) and Arrow's Fall (1988) are among the listed titles, and Elemental Masters and Five Hundred Kingdoms are further series.

Max Brand

345 books• 13 series

Max Brand was the main pen name of Frederick Schiller Faust, an American writer who died in 1944 and whose westerns fill most of a 345-title catalogue. Faust also created Dr. James Kildare, a young medical intern, for pulp fiction; the character later carried into Paramount and MGM films, radio, two television series and comics. Other Faust pseudonyms include George Owen Baxter, John Frederick, Evan Evans, David Manning, Peter Dawson, George Challis and Frederick Frost. Series strands include Silvertip, Dan Barry, Thunder Moon, Ronicky Doone and Bull Hunter. Harrigan (1918) is the earliest catalogued title, with reissues dated as late as 2022.

Jane Lindskold writes fantasy and science fiction, in novels and short stories. Her 34 catalogued books run from Chronomaster (1989) to House of Rough Diamonds (2023), at a median of 368 pages, densest in the 2000s. Her series include the Firekeeper Saga, recorded under its first title Through Wolf's Eyes, along with Athanor, Breaking the Wall, Over Where, Artemis Awakening and Captain Ah-Lee. Wolves, feral children, magic and life on other planets run through the subject index. Lindskold is American, born in 1962, and wrote a 1993 book about Roger Zelazny.

Jonathan London has 141 catalogued books dating from 1992 to 2022, the Froggy series among them. Froggy Gets Dressed (1992) is the earliest title, alongside The Lion Who Had Asthma and Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back from the same year. Other series include Duck and Hippo, Aaron's Wilderness, Shawn and Keeper and Brown Bear. Subjects include picture books, stories in rhyme, children's poetry, animals, wolves and imagination. Here Comes Truck Driver Hippo (2022) is the most recent title.

Sarah Monette

11 books• 4 series

Sarah Elizabeth Monette, born November 25, 1974, is an American writer of novels and short fiction, working mostly in fantasy and horror. Writing as Katherine Addison, Monette published The Goblin Emperor, which took the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and drew nominations for the Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. Eleven books are catalogued from Mélusine (2005) to The Orb of Cairado (2025), including The Virtu (2006), The Bone Key (2007), The Mirador (2007) and Corambis (2009). Doctrine of Labyrinths, Iskryne World and Katherine Addison are the catalogued series.

Jack London

156 books• 2 series

Jack London (January 12, 1876 to November 22, 1916), born John Griffith Chaney, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. London helped pioneer commercial fiction and the American magazine, and became one of the first American writers to win international celebrity and a large fortune from writing. A member of the radical San Francisco literary group "The Crowd", London campaigned for animal welfare, workers' rights and socialism. Those causes shaped The Iron Heel, a dystopian novel, and The People of the Abyss, a non-fiction exposé, as well as War of the Classes and Before Adam. The catalogue lists 156 titles from The Wisdom Of The Trail (1899), including The Son of the Wolf (1900) and Children of the Frost (1902).

C.J. Cherryh

105 books• 23 series

C.J. Cherryh is the pen name of Carolyn Janice Cherry, an American writer of speculative fiction born September 1, 1942. The silent h came at the prompting of editor Donald A. Wollheim, who judged that Cherry read like the name of a romance writer. Downbelow Station (1981) and Cyteen (1988), both set in the Alliance-Union universe, each won the Hugo Award, and the Foreigner series sits alongside them among Cherryh's notable work. The catalogue holds 105 books from Brothers of Earth (1976) to Alliance Unbound (2024). Worldbuilding grounded in research across history, language, psychology and archeology is what Cherryh is known for.

Avi is the pen name of Edward Irving Wortis, an American author of children's and young adult books born December 23, 1937. Avi won the 2003 Newbery Medal for Crispin: The Cross of Lead and was a Newbery runner-up in 1991 and 1992. The catalogue records 87 books from Things That Sometimes Happen (1970) to The Road From Nowhere (2026), and Rat Race is set for 2027. Series include Crispin, Dimwood Forest and Beyond the Western Sea. Ghosts, animals, adventure and mysteries appear among the subjects.

Whitley Strieber

49 books• 4 series

Whitley Strieber, born Louis Whitley Strieber on June 13, 1945, is an American writer best known for the horror novels The Wolfen (1978) and The Hunger (1980) and for Communion, a non-fiction account of Strieber's reported encounters with non-human entities. Alongside fiction, Strieber promotes metaphysical ideas through bestselling non-fiction, the Unknown Country website and the Dreamland podcast. The catalogue holds 49 books, including Black Magic (1982), The Night Church (1983), Warday (1984), Cat Magic (1986) and Nature's End (1986), and runs to Transformation 2026. Communion, Hunger and Alien Hunter are the series, and UFOs, alien abduction and vampires appear in the subjects.

Carolyn Keene is a Stratemeyer Syndicate pen name, the credit on the Nancy Drew mysteries. Mildred Wirt Benson, one of the writers behind the name, used it from 1929 to 1953 and contributed to 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew books. The catalogue lists 647 Carolyn Keene books, beginning with The Secret of the Old Clock, The Hidden Staircase and The Bungalow Mystery (all 1930) and reaching Vans & Villains (2026). Series include Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, Nancy Drew Files, Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, Nancy Drew Diaries, Nancy Drew: Girl Detective and Dana Girls Mystery Stories.

Lisa T Bergren writes Christian fiction and children's books, with Christian romance, historical fiction and picture books all in the subject tags. The catalogue lists 71 titles from Romantic Notions (1993) to Heaven on Earth (2026). Love 'n' Romance, Once Upon a Caribbean Summer, Refuge and Torchlight all date from 1994, and The Captain's Bride from 1998. Series include God Gave Us, River of Time, River of Time: California, Oceans of Time, Once Upon a Summer, Homeward Trilogy and Sugar Baron's Daughters. Bears, polar bears, God and love appear among the tags.

Gail Carson Levine

29 books• 3 series

Gail Carson Levine, born in 1947, writes fantasy for children and young adults out of fairy tale material. Ella Enchanted (1997) is the first novel and took a Newbery Honor in 1998. The Princess Tales retell familiar stories in short books - The Fairy's Mistake, The Princess Test, Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep and Cinderellis and the Glass Hill - and A Tale of Two Castles is a later series. Princesses, fairies, dragons and folklore recur across 29 titles, the newest being The Unusuals (2026).

Andrea Cremer is a US author of young adult novels, born in 1978. Nightshade is Cremer's main sequence, with a Nightshade Prequel line and The Forbidden Side Of Nightshade alongside it, plus the Inventor's Secret series. Fourteen catalogued books run from Nightshade (2010) to The Turncoat's Gambit (2016), taking in Wolfsbane, Bloodrose, Rift, Captive, Rise and Snakeroot. Werewolves, wolves, magic, knights and the supernatural recur as subjects. No new title has followed since 2016.

James Oliver Curwood

45 books• 2 series

James Oliver Curwood (June 12, 1878 - August 13, 1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. Curwood set many books in the Hudson Bay region, the Yukon or Alaska, and Publishers Weekly placed them among the top-ten US best sellers in the early and mid 1920s. At least 180 films draw on Curwood's novels and short stories. At death, Curwood was the world's highest-paid author per word. The catalogue holds 45 titles, beginning with The Wolf Hunters and The Courage of Captain Plum in 1908, and includes the Kazan and Baree series. Subjects include wolves, dogs, bears, mounted police and gold mining in Canada.

Ben M. Baglio, born in New York City in 1960, is an American author who created the brief for two children's book series, Animal Ark and Dolphin Diaries. Animal Ark features Mandy Hope, the child of vets, who helps injured animals and solves animal mysteries. Dolphin Diaries follows a Florida family of marine biologists who study dolphins around the world. Commissioned writers produced the books under Baglio's instruction, and UK editions used the pseudonym Lucy Daniels. The catalogue also lists Animal Ark Pets, Animal Ark Hauntings and Pet Finders Club.

Anh Do writes for readers at about a grades 1-3 level, in humorous series that run to many volumes: WeirDo, Hot Dog!, Ninja Kid, Wolf Girl, Pow Pow Pig, Skydragon, E-Boy, Champ and Smarty Pup, eleven lines in all. The catalogue also holds autobiographical work - Growing Up Asian in Australia (2008), The Happiest Refugee (2010) and The Little Refugee (2011). Do has 97 catalogued books dated 2008 to 2026, averaging 160 pages.

Lori Handeland, born 1961, is an American romance novelist and a two-time winner of the Romance Writers of America RITA Award. The catalogue lists 61 books from Second Chance (1994) to Charmed by the Moon (2024). Series include Nightcreature, Luchetti Brothers, Once Upon a Time in the West, Sisters of the Craft and Shakespeare Undead. Subjects include paranormal romance, romantic suspense, werewolves, vampires, witches, outlaws and Wisconsin.

Liz Pichon

57 books• 1 series

Tom Gates is Liz Pichon's illustrated comedy series for readers in grades 3 to 5, which has sold 16.5 million copies and been translated into 44 languages across 47 markets. Pichon is a British author and illustrator, born in 1963. 57 catalogued books run from Hot Dogs and Cool Cats (1996) to Pesky Pets and Parties (2025), the early ones picture books such as Santa's Reindeer and My Big Brother Boris. The median title runs 240 pages.

Rick Bass

32 books

Rick Bass is an American writer and environmental activist who trained as a geologist and worked in oil and gas before turning to writing and teaching. Wilderness, Montana and wildlife conservation run through the catalogue, from The Deer Pasture (1985) and Wild To The Heart (1988) to The Lost Grizzlies (1995) and The New Wolves (1998), both on wildlife reintroduction. Bass also writes fiction and short stories, among them Platte River (1994) and Where the Sea Used to Be (1998), and dog books such as Colter (2000). His 32 catalogued titles reach Wrecking Ball (2025), and he teaches in the Stonecoast MFA programme in Maine.