A Fiona Figg & Kitty Lane Mystery Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Chaos at Carnegie Hall |
- |
N/A |
| Chaos at Carnegie Hall / Mystery in Manhatten |
2022 |
Buy |
| Covert in Cairo |
2023 |
Buy |
| Mayhem in the Mountains |
2023 |
Buy |
| Arsenic at Ascot |
2023 |
Buy |
| Murder in Moscow |
2024 |
Buy |
| Poison in Piccadilly |
2024 |
Buy |
Fiona Figg Mystery Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Betrayal at Ravenswick |
2020 |
Buy |
| High Treason at the Grand Hotel |
2021 |
Buy |
| Villainy in Vienna |
2022 |
Buy |
| Chaos at Carnegie Hall |
- |
N/A |
| Mayhem in the Mountains |
2023 |
N/A |
| Murder in Moscow |
- |
N/A |
Forerunners: Ideas First Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Mediators |
2014 |
Buy |
| Aesop’s Anthropology |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Anthrobscene |
2014 |
Buy |
| No Speed Limit |
2015 |
Buy |
| Deep Mapping the Media City |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Geek’s Chihuahua |
2015 |
Buy |
| Martin Heidegger Saved My Life |
2015 |
Buy |
| Mandela’s Dark Years |
2015 |
Buy |
| Cinema without Reflection |
2016 |
Buy |
| Dark Deleuze |
2016 |
Buy |
| How Noise Matters to Finance |
2016 |
Buy |
| Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Uberfication of the University |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Politics of Bitcoin |
2016 |
Buy |
| Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers |
2016 |
Buy |
| Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics |
2016 |
Buy |
| The Celebrity Persona Pandemic |
2016 |
Buy |
| Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention |
2017 |
Buy |
| A Third University Is Possible |
2017 |
Buy |
| UW Struggle |
2017 |
Buy |
| Shareveillance |
2017 |
Buy |
| Aspirational Fascism |
2017 |
Buy |
| Callous Objects |
2017 |
Buy |
| The End of Man |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Neocolonialism of the Global Village |
2018 |
Buy |
| A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance |
2018 |
Buy |
| Learning versus the Common Core |
2019 |
Buy |
| Edges of the State |
2019 |
Buy |
| Theory for the World to Come |
2019 |
Buy |
| Break Up the Anthropocene |
2019 |
Buy |
| Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism |
2019 |
Buy |
| Burgers in Blackface |
2019 |
Buy |
| How to Do Things with Sensors |
2019 |
Buy |
| Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation |
2019 |
Buy |
| Medical Technics |
2019 |
Buy |
| Spoiler Alert |
2019 |
Buy |
| Wageless Life |
2019 |
Buy |
| LatinX |
2019 |
Buy |
| Furious Feminisms |
2020 |
Buy |
| Kill the Overseer! |
2020 |
Buy |
| Trans Care |
2020 |
Buy |
| Cruelty as Citizenship |
2020 |
Buy |
| Grounded: Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender |
2020 |
Buy |
| Grounded |
2020 |
Buy |
| The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender |
2020 |
Buy |
| Virtue Hoarders |
2021 |
Buy |
| The Global Shelter Imaginary |
2021 |
Buy |
| Calamity Theory |
2021 |
Buy |
| Young-Girls in Echoland |
2021 |
Buy |
| Safety Orange |
2021 |
Buy |
| Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now |
2022 |
Buy |
| The World Is Gone |
2022 |
Buy |
| Out of Breath |
2022 |
Buy |
| Does the Earth Care? |
2022 |
Buy |
| Studious Drift |
2022 |
Buy |
| The Owls Are Not What They Seem |
2022 |
Buy |
| Solarities |
2022 |
Buy |
| The School-Prison Trust |
2022 |
Buy |
| Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene |
2022 |
Buy |
| Rescue Me |
2022 |
Buy |
| All through the Town |
2023 |
Buy |
| Health Colonialism |
2023 |
Buy |
| Crip Negativity |
2023 |
Buy |
| Gramsci at Sea |
2023 |
Buy |
| Opening Ceremony |
2023 |
Buy |
| No More Fossils |
2023 |
Buy |
| Everything is Police |
2024 |
Buy |
| Livestreaming |
2024 |
Buy |
| On the Appearance of the World |
2024 |
Buy |
| Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism |
2024 |
Buy |
Jessica James Mysteries Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Wolf |
2016 |
Buy |
| Coyote |
2016 |
Buy |
| Fox |
2017 |
Buy |
| Jackal |
2018 |
Buy |
| Viper |
2019 |
Buy |
| Cottonmouth |
2021 |
Buy |
KellyOliver Non-Fiction Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Ethics, Politics, and Difference in Julia Kristeva’s Writing |
1993 |
Buy |
| Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-bind |
1993 |
Buy |
| Womanizing Nietzsche: Philosophy’s Relation to the “Feminine” |
1994 |
Buy |
| The Portable Kristeva |
1997 |
Buy |
| Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture |
1997 |
Buy |
| Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers |
1998 |
Buy |
| French Feminism Reader |
2000 |
Buy |
| Between the Psyche and the Social: Psychoanalytic Social Theory |
2001 |
Buy |
| Witnessing: Beyond Recognition |
2001 |
Buy |
| Noir Anxiety |
2002 |
Buy |
| Colonization Of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Social Theory Of Oppression |
2004 |
Buy |
| Contemporary French Feminism |
2004 |
Buy |
| Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media |
2007 |
Buy |
| Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva |
2009 |
Buy |
| Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human |
2009 |
Buy |
| Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Films |
2012 |
Buy |
| Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishment |
2013 |
Buy |
| Earth and World: Philosophy After the Apollo Missions |
2015 |
Buy |
| Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape |
2016 |
Buy |
| Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention |
2017 |
Buy |
Pet Detective Mysteries Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Kassy O’Roarke, Cub Reporter |
2019 |
Buy |
| Kassy O’Roake, Treasure Hunter |
2020 |
Buy |
| Kassy O’Roarke, Geocacher |
2020 |
Buy |
Pet Detective Mysteries For Kids 7-12 Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Kassy O’Roarke, Cub Reporter |
2019 |
N/A |
| Treasure Hunter |
2020 |
Buy |
SUNY, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| A Voice from Elsewhere |
2002 |
Buy |
The Detection Club Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Case of the Christie Conspiracy |
2025 |
Buy |
| The Case of the Body on the Orient Express |
2025 |
Buy |
Kelly Oliver leads a double career. As a philosophy professor, she has published extensively on topics including feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and ethics. As a fiction writer, she produces mystery novels across multiple series, each with a different setting and tone. The combination is unusual and gives her bibliography a split personality that reflects her wide-ranging interests.
Her Jessica James Mysteries follow a philosophy graduate student who solves crimes on a university campus, drawing directly on Oliver’s academic life for setting and atmosphere. The Fiona Figg Mystery and Fiona Figg & Kitty Lane Mystery series move to World War I and its aftermath, following a female spy through European intrigue. The Detection Club books add yet another historical mystery angle. On the lighter side, her Pet Detective Mysteries are written for young readers.
Oliver’s academic work is equally prolific. She has authored and edited more than twenty books on philosophy, feminism, and cultural criticism, and she is the series editor for the Forerunners: Ideas First series from the University of Minnesota Press, which has published over seventy short academic volumes on contemporary political and cultural topics.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Kelly Oliver written?
Kelly Oliver has written 119 books across nine series.
What was Kelly Oliver's first book?
Kelly Oliver’s first book is Ethics, Politics, and Difference in Julia Kristeva’s Writing, published in 1993.
Does Kelly Oliver write both fiction and non-fiction?
Yes, Kelly Oliver is a philosophy professor who writes academic non-fiction alongside her mystery novels. Her non-fiction includes works on feminism, psychoanalysis, and ethics, while her fiction ranges from contemporary mysteries (Jessica James) to World War I-era historical mysteries (Fiona Figg) to children’s books (Pet Detective Mysteries).