Jaclyn Moriarty Standalone Novels
Jaclyn Moriarty's standalone novels include works for both young adult and adult readers, ranging from surreal humor to warm, personal storytelling.
Jaclyn Moriarty's standalone novels include works for both young adult and adult readers, ranging from surreal humor to warm, personal storytelling.
The Spell Book of Listen Taylor by Jaclyn Moriarty is a two-book series following a young girl navigating family chaos with the help of a mysterious spell book.
The Kingdoms and Empires series by Jaclyn Moriarty is a collection of whimsical middle-grade fantasy adventures set in a world of kingdoms, magic, and clever wordplay.
The Colours of Madeleine is a fantasy trilogy by Jaclyn Moriarty following a teenage girl who discovers she can travel between modern Cambridge and a parallel kingdom called the Kingdom of Cello.
The Ashbury/Brookfield series by Jaclyn Moriarty follows students from two rival Sydney schools through friendship, romance, and drama told entirely through letters, emails, and journal entries.
Jaclyn Moriarty is an Australian author known for her witty epistolary YA novels and the fantasy series The Colours of Madeleine, with over two dozen books published since 2000.
The DI Mariner series follows Detective Inspector Tom Mariner of West Midlands Police through nine crime novels published between 2004 and 2022, tackling murders, disappearances, and crimes that cut close to home.
D.I. Tom Mariner is the pen name under which a British crime writer published nine police procedural novels set in Birmingham, following Detective Inspector Tom Mariner across eighteen years of cases.
Naughty Nooners is a series of short erotic romance stories by Sam Cheever, collecting 29 brief works published between 2009 and 2016 across a wide range of romantic and paranormal subgenres.
Grave Theatrics is a paranormal cozy mystery series by Sam Cheever following a protagonist caught up in murder cases with theatrical and supernatural twists across five books.
Funeral Fakers is a cozy mystery series by Sam Cheever following characters who work adjacent to the funeral industry and keep stumbling into actual crimes.
Del Fantasma is a paranormal romance series by Sam Cheever set in a supernatural bar where the staff and clientele are anything but ordinary, with 22 short stories and novellas exploring different characters and relationships.
Sam Cheever's short stories and novellas collect her shorter fiction, including paranormal and romance work published outside of her full-length series.
Sam Cheever's standalone novels collect her single-volume fiction outside of any series, spanning romance and paranormal genres across titles from 2011 to 2025.
Yesterday's Mysteries is a paranormal mystery series by Sam Cheever running seven books across nearly a decade, following a protagonist caught up in cases with ghostly and supernatural dimensions.
The Lease of These is a cozy mystery series by Sam Cheever with the first book published in 2025, following a mystery set around property and real estate.
Smart Investigations, Inc. is a short mystery series by Sam Cheever featuring a private investigation firm and two books published in 2016.
Silver Hills is a paranormal cozy mystery series by Sam Cheever set in a retirement community where nothing stays quiet for long.
Reluctant Familiar is a paranormal cozy series by Sam Cheever about a witch and her familiar navigating magical trouble across four books.
Never Board Serial is a serialized mystery series by Sam Cheever, with the first installment published in 2025.
Mischance and Calamity is a short paranormal comedy series by Sam Cheever featuring a character called Bubba and plenty of bayou-flavored chaos.
Midlife Muddle is a humorous paranormal series by Sam Cheever about a woman stumbling through the chaos of midlife with a generous helping of supernatural mayhem.
Mature Magic is a paranormal cozy mystery series by Sam Cheever following a middle-aged woman navigating witchcraft, magic, and murder in her second act of life.
La Fortuna DeVitis is a short contemporary romance series by Sam Cheever following three strong women in the DeVitis family as they find love under complicated circumstances.
Honeybun Heat is a romantic comedy series by Sam Cheever following the charismatic Honeybun brothers and the women who fall for them, full of humor, heat, and family chaos.
Honeybun Cousins is a short spin-off series by Sam Cheever that expands the world of the Honeybun Heat series to follow the cousins of the beloved Honeybun brothers.
Gods of Love is a short paranormal romance duology by Sam Cheever featuring romantic entanglements with figures drawn from mythology.
Gainfully Employed is a cozy mystery series by Sam Cheever where a temp worker keeps landing short-term assignments at companies plagued by murder and mayhem.
Enhanced Magic is a short paranormal fantasy series by Sam Cheever set in a world where magic has been augmented in unusual ways.
Enchanting Inquiries is a cozy paranormal mystery series by Sam Cheever following a witch who uses her magical abilities to solve crimes, with recurring help from a cast of charming and chaotic characters.
Dancin' With the Devil is a paranormal romance series by Sam Cheever featuring a woman caught between the supernatural world and a devilishly attractive otherworldly hero.
Country Cousin is a cozy mystery series by Sam Cheever following a fish-out-of-water protagonist navigating small-town life, quirky locals, and the occasional dead body.
Apocalyptic is a paranormal romance series by Sam Cheever about a woman who finds herself romantically entangled with a being connected to the end times.
Sam Cheever is a prolific American romance and paranormal fiction author with over 150 books spanning cozy mysteries, paranormal romance, and contemporary comedy series.
Tips for Meanies is a short humorous non-fiction book by Jane Thynne, sitting outside her main body of historical thriller fiction.
Jane Thynne's standalone novels span nearly three decades of her career, from literary fiction in the late 1990s to more recent historical and contemporary thrillers.
The Rose Ransom series by Jane Thynne is set in an alternate history where Germany won the Second World War, following a woman navigating the social and political dangers of a Nazi-controlled Britain.
The Clara Vine series follows a half-English, half-German actress living in 1930s Berlin who passes intelligence to British handlers while navigating the social world of the Nazi elite.
Jane Thynne is a British author and former BBC journalist best known for the Clara Vine series, historical thrillers set in Nazi Germany following a half-English actress working as a British spy.
Sharan Newman contributed to a range of mystery and fiction anthologies over the years, from the long-running Malice Domestic series to pandemic-era short fiction.
Sharan Newman's non-fiction books use popular cultural touchstones to examine the real medieval and ancient history behind famous modern narratives, from The Da Vinci Code to apocalyptic prophecy.
Death Before Compline is a short story collection by Sharan Newman gathering her medieval mystery fiction in one volume.
Sharan Newman's standalone novels range from 1970s Celtic fantasy to historical fiction set in the American West and twelfth-century Jerusalem, showing the breadth of her interests outside her main series work.
The Guinevere trilogy by Sharan Newman retells the Arthurian legend from Guinevere's perspective, following her from childhood through her life at Camelot and her complicated bond with Arthur.
Crime Through Time III is a historical mystery anthology edited by Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman, collecting short fiction set across different periods of history.
The Catherine LeVendeur series is a medieval mystery series set in twelfth-century France, following a young woman from a Jewish-convert family who investigates crimes alongside her merchant husband Edgar.
Sharan Newman is an American author known for her medieval mysteries featuring Catherine LeVendeur and for her Arthurian fantasy trilogy about Guinevere.
Skyship Academy is a three-book young adult science fiction series by Nick James, set in a future where survivors live aboard skyships above a ruined Earth and compete for a dwindling energy source called Pearls.
Nick James is a young adult science fiction author whose Skyship Academy trilogy follows a teenage hero through a future world divided between sky-dwelling survivors and those left on a ruined Earth.
The Tiger Sword Trilogy is a three-book paranormal romance series by Jessica Hall, set in a world of ancient Asian weapons and supernatural conflict, with all three books published in 2003.
Jessica Hall is a pen name used for paranormal romance, writing action-driven stories that blend martial arts, ancient weapons, and supernatural elements.
Frank Viola's non-fiction catalog spans sixteen books published between 2005 and 2022, covering early church history, organic church practice, and the life of Jesus.
Frank Viola is a Christian author and speaker whose sixteen non-fiction books explore early church history, organic church communities, and the life and teachings of Jesus.
Alan Jacobson's anthology contribution appears in Nothing Good Happens After Midnight (2020), a crime fiction collection featuring work from multiple authors.
Alan Jacobson's short fiction includes Double Take (2012), a novella-length work that gives fans a shorter entry into his crime fiction.
Alan Jacobson's standalone novels include two books published more than two decades apart, showing the range of his crime and thriller writing outside his main series.
The OPSIG Team Black series follows a covert government operations unit through four high-stakes thrillers by Alan Jacobson, beginning with The Hunted in 2001.
The Mickey Keller Thriller series currently consists of one book, The Lost Girl (2021), a standalone thriller by Alan Jacobson.
The Karen Vail series follows an FBI profiler based at Quantico through nine cases involving serial killers, cold cases, and crimes that test the limits of forensic science.
Alan Jacobson is an American thriller writer best known for his FBI profiler series featuring Karen Vail, whose cases draw on real forensic science and research with law enforcement agencies.
Pola Oloixarac's three standalone novels are satirical, philosophically playful works of Argentine literary fiction that treat academia, science, and politics with equal parts seriousness and mockery.
Pola Oloixarac is an Argentine novelist whose fiction mixes political satire, philosophy, and biology into darkly comic, intellectually restless novels.
Canongate's The Myths is a multi-author series in which novelists from around the world each retell an ancient myth in their own voice, producing short, inventive books that range from comic to tragic.
Natsuo Kirino's standalone novels are dark, unflinching crime fiction set in contemporary Japan, with a recurring focus on women pushed to the edge by social pressure and economic hardship.
Natsuo Kirino is one of Japan's most prominent crime fiction writers, known for grim, socially sharp novels that examine the pressures placed on women in contemporary Japanese society.
Roselle Lim's five standalone novels combine magical realism with food and culture, following different women as they navigate family, identity, and the occasional supernatural complication.
Roselle Lim is a Filipino-Chinese Canadian author whose standalone novels blend magical realism with food, family, and cultural identity.
Unicorn Princesses is a ten-book early reader fantasy series about a girl who travels to a magical realm where unicorn princesses each have their own special power.
Pegasus Princesses is a six-book early reader fantasy series about a magical kingdom where pegasus princesses have their own adventures and misadventures.
Emily Bliss writes early chapter books for young readers, with two fantasy series about magical kingdoms filled with unicorn and pegasus princesses.
The BakerMama's cookbook series walks you through building beautiful charcuterie boards, snack spreads, and party platters for any occasion.
Maegan Brown, known as The BakerMama, is a food stylist and author who specializes in charcuterie boards and party food displays that are as beautiful as they are easy to put together.
The Summoner series by Eric Vail is a 22-book LitRPG sequence in which the protagonist gains powers and levels up through a game-like world across books numbered sequentially from Summoner 1 to Summoner 22.
Summoner is the pen name of LitRPG author Eric Vail, who wrote a 22-book GameLit series between 2018 and 2021 in which characters gain power and level up within a game-like world.
The DS Claire Boyle series is an Irish crime fiction sequence by Sinead Crowley featuring Dublin detective Claire Boyle, who works serious cases across four novels while balancing the pressures of new motherhood and a demanding career.
Sinead Crowley is an Irish journalist and crime fiction writer who works as RTÉ's arts and media correspondent. Her four novels feature Dublin detective DS Claire Boyle navigating serious crimes while managing a demanding personal life.
The Lillian Frost and Edith Head series pairs fictional shopgirl Lillian Frost with real Hollywood costume designer Edith Head in five historical mysteries set in 1930s Los Angeles.
Renee Patrick is the pen name of Rosemarie and Vince Keenan, a husband-and-wife writing team who set their historical mysteries in 1930s Hollywood. Their series pairs fictional shopgirl Lillian Frost with the real-life costume designer Edith Head.
Linda Windsor's standalone novels span more than a decade of her early career, mixing romance and Christian fiction across a variety of settings and time periods before her later series work.
The Piper Cove Chronicles is a two-book contemporary Christian romance series by Linda Windsor set in the coastal town of Piper Cove, following different characters through romance and faith across Wedding Bell Blues and For Pete's Sake.
The Moonstruck series by Linda Windsor is a trilogy of contemporary Christian romance novels, published between 2005 and 2006, following characters in small-town and resort settings as they navigate relationships and faith.
The Fires of Gleannmara is a Celtic Christian historical romance series set in ancient Ireland, following three women named Maire, Riona, and Deirdre through faith, conflict, and love.
The Brides of Alba is a Celtic Christian historical fiction series set in Dark Ages Scotland, following three women, a Healer, a Thief, and a Rebel, as they navigate faith and survival in a dangerous world.
The Border Trilogy is a series of three historical romance novels by Linda Windsor set along the Anglo-Scottish border, following different women through conflict, love, and faith in medieval times.
Linda Windsor writes Christian historical romance and contemporary Christian fiction, with a particular focus on Celtic and Irish settings in her historical work. Her books span more than two decades and six series across Ireland, Scotland, and the American present day.
Rob Reid's non-fiction books from the 1990s cover Harvard Business School and the early years of the commercial internet, written while both subjects were still actively developing.
Year Zero is Rob Reid's comic science fiction novel about aliens who discover human music, fall completely in love with it, and then realize they've violated copyright law on a scale that threatens the entire universe.
After On is a standalone novel by Rob Reid set in the world of Silicon Valley startups and artificial general intelligence. It follows a social network founder who may have accidentally created something far more powerful than he intended.
Rob Reid is an American author and entrepreneur who founded Listen.com (later Rhapsody) and writes fiction and non-fiction about tech, business, and science. His novels blend comedy with sharp observations about Silicon Valley culture and the music industry.
Peace Is a Practice is Morgan Harper Nichols's standalone non-fiction book, published in 2022. It makes the case that peace is not a passive state but a daily habit that can be built through small, intentional choices.
Morgan Harper Nichols's poetry and prose collections bring together illustrated verse across four books published from 2017 to 2023, including All Along You Were Blooming and How Far You Have Come.
Enneagram Daily Reflections is a three-book devotional series by Morgan Harper Nichols, published from 2020 to 2021. Each book offers 40 days of illustrated reflections tailored to a specific Enneagram personality type.
Morgan Harper Nichols is an American poet and artist whose books combine handwritten verse with her own watercolor and digital illustration. Her work focuses on encouragement, self-reflection, and finding meaning in ordinary moments.
Wynn Harbor Inn is a five-book cozy mystery series by Hope Callaghan set at a small-town inn, published from 2025 to 2026. It follows the classic cozy formula of a charming setting and an amateur sleuth with a talent for finding trouble.
Cruise Director Millie Mysteries is the sequel series to Millie's Cruise Ship Mysteries, with 8 books published from 2023 to 2026. Millie Sanders returns, now serving as cruise director, with new mysteries on the high seas.
Hope Callaghan Cookbooks collects three recipe books published between 2017 and 2022, themed around her cozy mystery series. The books blend recipes with the cozy mystery atmosphere her fiction is known for.
Sweet Southern Sleuths is a 13-book cozy mystery series by Hope Callaghan set in the American South, published from 2015 to 2016. The series features Southern settings and amateur detective protagonists.
Samantha Rite is an early two-book cozy mystery series by Hope Callaghan, published in 2014. It predates her later, longer-running series and features a standalone amateur sleuth protagonist.
Made in Savannah is Hope Callaghan's longest-running single series, with 28 books set in Savannah, Georgia from 2016 to 2026. It follows an amateur sleuth navigating crimes and colorful characters in one of the South's most distinctive cities.
Lack of Luxury Cozy Mysteries is a short three-book series by Hope Callaghan, published from 2022 to 2024. The series offers cozy mystery plots with a budget travel or modest-lifestyle angle.
Garden Girls: The Golden Years is a five-book continuation of Hope Callaghan's original Garden Girls series, published from 2020 to 2021. It picks up with the same characters at a later point in their lives.
Garden Girls is Hope Callaghan's breakout cozy mystery series, following a group of gardening enthusiasts in a small town who repeatedly find themselves investigating local crimes. The series ran for 23 books from 2014 to 2020.
Easton Island Family Saga is a 16-book series by Hope Callaghan set on a fictional island, blending family drama with mystery elements. The series ran from 2022 into 2027.
Divine Christian Cozy Mysteries is Hope Callaghan's faith-based mystery series, running 12 books from 2019 to 2024. The stories blend cozy mystery plotting with Christian themes and values.
Millie's Cruise Ship Mysteries follows Millie Sanders, a cruise ship employee who finds herself solving crimes aboard luxury liners. The series ran for 26 books between 2015 and 2024.
Hope Callaghan is an American author who writes cozy mysteries across a wide range of series, including Garden Girls, Made in Savannah, and Millie's Cruise Ship Mysteries. She has published over 140 books since 2014 and also writes faith-based cozy mysteries.
A single anthology entry featuring Julia Chapman's contribution to the Cozy Case Files series, a short fiction collection in the cozy mystery genre.
The Dales Detective series follows ex-detective Samson O'Brien and dating agency owner Delilah Metcalfe as they investigate crimes in the fictional Yorkshire Dales town of Bruncliffe. The series mixes cozy mystery plotting with a gradually developing romance.
Julia Chapman is the pen name of a British author who writes cozy mysteries set in the Yorkshire Dales, best known for the long-running Dales Detective series. Her books blend small-town charm with genuine mystery plotting.
Wayne D. Dundee has appeared in crime and western anthologies across his career, with nine anthology contributions published between 1986 and 2014.
The Collected Adventures of the Drifter Detective gathers Wayne D. Dundee's Drifter Detective stories into omnibus editions for readers who want the full run in one volume.
Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles is a collaborative western series following a US Marshal and a Buffalo Soldier through the post-Civil War frontier, with entries written by multiple authors.
Blaze! Western is a shared-world series about a husband-and-wife gunfighting team in the Old West, with entries written by multiple authors including Wayne D. Dundee.
Dangerous Trails is a short fiction collection from Wayne D. Dundee, gathering western and crime stories into a single volume.
Wayne D. Dundee's short stories and novellas span nearly thirty years of his career, from early pulp magazine work in the 1980s through later digital publications.
Wayne D. Dundee's standalone novels include crime, horror, and western-adjacent fiction that fall outside his series work, each a self-contained story.
Veridical Dreams is a two-book speculative fiction series by Wayne D. Dundee that moves away from his crime and western work into genre-bending territory.
The Lawyer is a four-book western series by Wayne D. Dundee about a legal professional navigating justice and violence in the frontier West.
Lone McGantry is a twelve-book western series about a wandering gunfighter making his way across the frontier, written by Wayne D. Dundee.
The Joe Hannibal Mystery series follows a blue-collar private investigator working the rough edges of a fictional Midwest city, taking cases that bigger agencies pass on.
Drifter Detective is a noir crime series by Wayne D. Dundee about a detective who moves from town to town, taking cases as they come.
Braska is a two-book western series by Wayne D. Dundee, published in 2025.
Bodie Kendrick is a two-book western series about a bounty hunter tracking fugitives across the frontier, written by Wayne D. Dundee.
Wayne D. Dundee is an American crime and western fiction writer who has been publishing since the 1980s, best known for his Joe Hannibal private eye series and the prolific Lone McGantry western novels.
Chosen by Lucifer is a paranormal romance trilogy involving demonic and angelic forces, dark power, and a woman caught between worlds she barely understands.
Callie Rose's standalone novels include paranormal romance and dark romance titles that fall outside her series, each telling a self-contained story.
Ruthless Hearts is a dark romance series about vows made under pressure, secrets that won't stay buried, and revenge that complicates everything it touches.
Ruthless Games is a dark romance series about obsession, revenge, and the complicated line between punishment and desire.
Kings of Linwood Academy is a dark academy romance series about a girl who crosses the wrong boys at an elite school and finds herself caught in a game she didn't agree to play.
Kingdom of Blood is a dark paranormal romance series set in a vampire world of power, debt, and war, where one woman becomes entangled with forces far older than she imagined.
Feral Shifters is a paranormal romance series about feral wolf shifters and the fated mate bonds that draw humans into their dangerous world.
Fallen University is a paranormal academy romance series set at a supernatural school where dangerous secrets and forbidden connections collide.
Claimed by Wolves is a paranormal reverse harem romance series about a woman drawn into a world of wolf shifters, fated bonds, and pack politics.
Boys of Oak Park Prep is a dark bully romance series set at an elite prep school, following a girl who finds herself targeted by the school's most dangerous boys.
Callie Rose writes dark paranormal romance and reverse harem fiction, with series featuring wolf shifters, vampires, demons, and academy settings with morally complex love interests.
The Collins-Burke Mystery series follows Halifax defense lawyer Monty Collins and Catholic priest Father Brennan Burke as they investigate murders and crimes across Nova Scotia and beyond.
Anne Emery is a Canadian mystery writer and former lawyer from Halifax, Nova Scotia, best known for her Collins-Burke Mystery series featuring a criminal defense lawyer and a Catholic priest who find themselves drawn into murder investigations.
Nine anthology contributions by Philip Roth published between 1970 and 2011, including literary and American fiction collections.
Seven non-fiction books by Philip Roth published between 1975 and 2017, including literary essays, memoir, and interviews collected in Reading Myself and Others, The Facts, and Shop Talk.
Philip Roth's two short story collections, Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories (1959) and Reading Myself and Others (1980), gather his shorter fiction across two decades.
The Conversion of the Jews, Philip Roth's short story published in 1958, was one of his earliest published works and appeared before his debut collection.
Sixteen standalone novels by Philip Roth spanning five decades, including Portnoy's Complaint, The Plot Against America, Sabbath's Theater, and Nemesis.
Roth's most famous creation, Nathan Zuckerman is a novelist who appears across thirteen books published between 1974 and 2007. The sequence begins with The Ghost Writer and ends with Exit Ghost, covering Zuckerman's career from young writer to aging recluse.
A series of four novels following David Kepesh, a literature professor whose intellectual life and erotic obsessions are closely intertwined. The books span from 1972 to 2001 and include The Breast, The Professor of Desire, and The Dying Animal.
Three novels connected by theme rather than plot, each set against a different moment of American political crisis and examining how public history intersects with private lives. American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, and The Human Stain were published between 1997 and 2000.
Philip Roth (1933-2018) spent six decades writing novels about American Jewish identity, masculinity, desire, and the country's political contradictions. He won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral and is widely considered one of the defining American novelists of the twentieth century.
Two anthology contributions by Emmy Laybourne published between 2018 and 2019.
Two short stories by Emmy Laybourne set in the Monument 14 world, published as companion pieces to the trilogy.
A two-book YA fantasy series drawing on Norse mythology and Viking history, following a girl who discovers she has berserker abilities and must learn to control them.
Sweet is a YA thriller series set on a luxury cruise ship where a weight-loss drug distributed to passengers begins producing frightening and violent side effects.
A YA dystopian series about a group of kids from different grades who end up locked in a superstore after a series of disasters, including a chemical spill that turns the outside world lethal. Monument 14 spans three books and covers their survival, rescue attempts, and the aftermath.
Emmy Laybourne is an American YA author and former sketch comedian whose debut novel Monument 14 launched a dystopian trilogy about teenagers surviving a chemical apocalypse. She has also written YA thrillers and Viking fantasy.
Anthology contributions by Theodora Goss across more than two decades, covering fantasy, science fiction, and fairy tale publications.
Conversation Pieces is a small press chapbook and poetry series from Aqueduct Press, publishing short works of speculative fiction and poetry, including contributions from Theodora Goss over many years.
Theodora Goss's short story collections gather her fairy tale and fantasy fiction across two decades, from In the Forest of Forgetting through Snow White Learns Witchcraft.
A collection of short fiction and novellas by Theodora Goss spanning two decades, drawing on fairy tale traditions, folklore, and literary fantasy.
A Victorian fantasy series in which the daughters of Dr. Jekyll, Dr. Moreau, and other literary monsters form a society of their own and take on cases that the men around them refuse to take seriously. Sharp, funny, and genuinely strange.
Theodora Goss is a Hungarian-American author of fantasy and fairy tale fiction, best known for her Athena Club trilogy, which reimagines the daughters of Victorian literary monsters as a team of adventurers. She also writes poetry and short fiction that draws heavily from folklore and myth.
This entry covers Stephen Baxter's appearances in multi-author science fiction anthologies, where he has contributed short fiction across more than three decades of publishing.
The Lovecraft Squad is a series of horror novels drawing on H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, with Stephen Baxter contributing to the series. The books follow agents confronting cosmic horrors drawn from Lovecraft's fiction.
Zenith: The Best in New British Science Fiction is a series of anthology volumes collecting outstanding British science fiction, with Stephen Baxter among the authors featured. The series spans several decades of the field.
The Web 2028 is a young adult science fiction series and sequel to The Web 2027, continuing the shared-world setting of a near-future internet with new stories and characters. Stephen Baxter contributed to this multi-author series.
Stephen Baxter's non-fiction books cover the science behind his fiction and broader topics in physics and futurism, including The Science of Avatar, which examined the scientific concepts in James Cameron's film, and Deep Future, a look at the long-term future of the universe.
This entry covers individual short stories and novellas by Stephen Baxter published as standalone works, not collected in his major anthologies or collections.
Stephen Baxter's short fiction collections gather stories published across decades in science fiction magazines and anthologies, covering the full range of his themes from the Xeelee universe to standalone speculative pieces.
Stephen Baxter's standalone novels include some of his most celebrated individual works, from The Time Ships, an authorized sequel to H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, to The Massacre of Mankind, his sequel to War of the Worlds, and Galaxias, about first contact with an intelligence beyond human comprehension.
The Xeelee Sequence is Stephen Baxter's signature series, a future history spanning billions of years from humanity's first expansion into space to the end of the universe. The books follow human civilizations rising and falling in the shadow of the Xeelee, a vastly superior alien species engaged in a conflict humans can barely perceive.
World Engines is a two-book hard science fiction series by Stephen Baxter following an astronaut who wakes up 500 years in his future to find Earth changed and the solar system full of mysterious megastructures. The books explore parallel realities and the deep future of both Earth and the universe.
Time's Tapestry is a four-book alternate history series by Stephen Baxter following a mysterious set of prophecies that have been passed down through generations, altering history from Roman Britain through to the Second World War. Each book covers a different era and set of characters, connected by a thread of deliberate historical manipulation.
The Web 2027 is a young adult science fiction series set in a near-future internet world, written by Stephen Baxter among other authors. The series imagines a connected global network with significant consequences for society and individual lives.
The Medusa Chronicles is a single novel by Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds, a sequel to Arthur C. Clarke's 1971 short story A Meeting with Medusa. It follows Howard Falcon, the part-human, part-machine explorer from Clarke's story, across centuries of future history.
Proxima is a two-book series by Stephen Baxter about humanity's first attempts to colonize a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our sun. The books follow both the colonists on the hostile alien world and a parallel story involving the politics and conflicts of a divided solar system.
Northland is an alternate history trilogy by Stephen Baxter set in a world where Stone Age Britons built a great wall to hold back the rising North Sea after the last ice age, preserving a landmass called Northland that in our history became the North Sea floor. The books follow Northland across thousands of years, from its founding through the Bronze Age and into a medieval winter.
The NASA Trilogy is a series of alternate history science fiction novels by Stephen Baxter imagining different paths for the American space program. Voyage depicts a successful manned mission to Mars in the 1980s, Titan sends a crew to Saturn's moon on a one-way journey, and Moonseed follows a geological catastrophe triggered by a sample brought back from Venus.
Manifold is a four-book hard science fiction series by Stephen Baxter exploring the Fermi Paradox, the question of why we have found no evidence of intelligent life in a universe that should be full of it. Each of the three main novels presents a different possible answer, following astronaut Reid Malenfern across parallel versions of the universe.
Mammoth is a science fiction series by Stephen Baxter following a lineage of mammoths from the Pleistocene through to the far future, told from the animals' perspective. The books combine paleontology with evolutionary science fiction, tracing the mammoth's story across millions of years.
The Long Earth is a five-book series co-written by Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett, set in a world where humanity discovers how to step between an infinite chain of parallel Earths. The series mixes Pratchett's warmth and wit with Baxter's hard science, following the exploration and consequences of this vast new frontier.
Jones and Bennet is a single-novel series by Stephen Baxter, featuring The Paradox Conspiracy, a science fiction thriller built around time travel and conspiracy.
Imaginings is a series of short fiction collections by Stephen Baxter, gathering shorter works from across his career. The collections cover a wide range of his themes, from far-future space opera to alternate history and hard science fiction.
Flood is a series by Stephen Baxter following a small group of survivors as sea levels rise across decades until the entire surface of the Earth is submerged. The books take the premise seriously, following the science of what a flooded world would actually look like.
Evolution is a single epic novel by Stephen Baxter spanning 65 million years of primate and human evolution, from the age of the dinosaurs to the far future. It follows a series of characters across deep time, connected by their place in the long chain of life that eventually becomes humanity.
Destiny's Children is a four-book hard science fiction series by Stephen Baxter following humanity across millions of years as it evolves, splinters, and fights for survival against an ancient alien enemy. The books move from the near future to the far future and back again, tracing the long arc of human destiny.
Anti-Ice is an alternate history science fiction series set in a Victorian era transformed by the discovery of anti-ice, a substance with explosive energy properties that changes the course of warfare and industry. Baxter uses the premise to explore how a single technological discovery can reshape civilization.
Adventures of the Second Doctor is a series of Doctor Who novels by Stephen Baxter featuring the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton's incarnation of the Time Lord. The books fit within the wider Doctor Who expanded universe.
A Time Odyssey is a three-book series by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke, set in a universe where mysterious entities called the Firstborn manipulate time and space to shape the course of human history. It works as a spiritual sequel to Clarke's Space Odyssey series, though readers can approach it independently.
Stephen Baxter is a British hard science fiction author whose work spans billions of years of future history, from the deep past of human evolution to the far reaches of the universe. With over 200 books across 27 series, he is best known for the Xeelee Sequence, the Manifold series, and the Long Earth books co-written with Terry Pratchett.
Erica James's standalone novels span more than thirty years of British women's fiction, each a self-contained story of relationships, family, and personal change, mostly set in the English countryside.
The California in Public Anthropology series collects academic texts on global health, social justice, and humanitarian medicine, edited and authored by scholars in public health and anthropology.
Erica James is a bestselling British author of warm, character-driven women's fiction, with more than two dozen novels set largely in English villages and market towns, published consistently since 1993.
Viet Thanh Nguyen's non-fiction spans academic scholarship and personal memoir, examining Vietnamese-American identity, the politics of war memory, and the refugee experience across four books published between 2002 and 2025.
Chicken of the Sea is a children's picture book co-written by Viet Thanh Nguyen and his son Ellison, a lighthearted departure from Nguyen's adult literary fiction.
Black-Eyed Women is an entry in Viet Thanh Nguyen's short fiction, a story from The Refugees collection that has also circulated as a standalone piece exploring grief and the ghost of a brother lost at sea.
This listing covers Viet Thanh Nguyen's standalone fiction, including The Sympathizer and The Refugees, two very different books that together show the range of his literary voice.
The Sympathizer series follows Viet Thanh Nguyen's unnamed narrator, a communist spy with a divided conscience, from the fall of Saigon through his life in Paris, across two formally inventive and politically sharp novels.
Viet Thanh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American author and USC professor whose debut novel The Sympathizer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, bringing his work on memory, war, and Vietnamese identity to a wide international audience.
The Witch of Hagstone Hill is Johanna van Veen's foray into children's picture books, a departure from her adult gothic horror that nonetheless retains some of her interest in witches and folklore.
Johanna van Veen's gothic standalone novels deliver slow-burn dread and atmospheric horror, each book a self-contained story built around folk horror, obsession, and the darkest corners of intimate life.
Johanna van Veen is a Dutch author of gothic horror fiction whose debut novel My Darling Dreadful Thing introduced her to English-language readers as a distinctive voice in dark literary horror.
Jennifer Hillier's anthology contribution collects dark mystery and thriller fiction in a single volume alongside other writers in the genre.
Jennifer Hillier's standalone thrillers span five novels exploring buried secrets, hidden identities, and the long reach of past crimes, from an amusement park murder mystery to a story of survival built on lies.