Herman Melville
Complete list of all books by Herman Melville in order. Browse his novels, short stories, and collections, including Moby Dick and Billy Budd.
Complete list of all books by Herman Melville in order. Browse his novels, short stories, and collections, including Moby Dick and Billy Budd.
Linsey Lanier Short Stories/Novellas collects two shorter works by the author, published in 2010 and 2014.
Linsey Lanier Standalone Novels includes Steal My Heart (2013), a romance novel outside her series work.
The Wesson and Sloan FBI Thriller series by Linsey Lanier follows two FBI agents through five high-stakes books published between 2020 and 2024.
The Prasala Romance series by Linsey Lanier is a three-book royalty romance series set in a fictional kingdom, with all three books published in 2016.
Miranda's Rights by Linsey Lanier is an eight-book series that precedes the Miranda and Parker Mystery series, following Miranda Steele's early story from 2011 to 2025.
The Maggie Delaney Police Thriller series by Linsey Lanier follows a Chicago police officer in two books published in 2019 and 2020.
The Heart Valley Romance series by Linsey Lanier is a three-book contemporary romance series with books named after their male leads, published in 2016 and 2017.
The Dandy Frost - Ninja Assassin series by Linsey Lanier is a two-book action-adventure series featuring a ninja assassin protagonist, published in 2013 and 2014.
The Clever Detective series by Linsey Lanier is a five-book mystery series following a smart, resourceful detective, published between 2010 and 2018.
The Miranda and Parker Mystery series by Linsey Lanier follows Miranda Steele and private investigator Wade Parker as they investigate crimes across Atlanta in twenty books published between 2014 and 2025.
Linsey Lanier is an American author of mystery, thriller, and romance novels, best known for the long-running Miranda and Parker Mystery series featuring twenty books published between 2014 and 2025.
Adriana Herrera's anthologies include three collections published in 2022 and 2023, covering romance fiction, essays on Black love and representation, and mermaid-themed fantasy stories.
Peculiar Tastes is a paranormal romance anthology series by Adriana Herrera featuring eight novellas published in 2022, each pairing human characters with supernatural beings from myth and legend.
Adriana Herrera's short stories and novellas include three shorter works published between 2022 and 2024, spanning historical, contemporary, and erotic romance.
Adriana Herrera's standalone novels include contemporary romance and historical fiction published between 2020 and 2024, each telling a self-contained love story outside her main series.
Toy Runners is a paranormal romance series by Adriana Herrera following Caribbean characters in a magical holiday world built around Santa's operation and the delivery of toys.
Sambrano Studios is a two-book contemporary romance series by Adriana Herrera set in the world of a Latino-owned telenovela production company in New York.
Las Léonas is a historical romance series by Adriana Herrera following Caribbean women in 19th-century Europe seeking love, freedom, and adventure on their own terms.
Foodie Holiday is a standalone holiday novella by Adriana Herrera featuring a Scottish-Caribbean romance built around food, Christmas, and cultural connection.
The Dreamers series by Adriana Herrera follows Dominican immigrants in the United States finding love, community, and belonging across five contemporary romance novels published in 2019 and 2020.
Dating in Dallas is a two-book contemporary romance series by Adriana Herrera following Dominican characters building careers and love lives in Texas.
Adriana Herrera is a Dominican-American romance author known for diverse, inclusive stories featuring Caribbean and Afro-Latinx characters finding love across contemporary, historical, and paranormal settings.
Joe McKinney contributed to and edited numerous horror anthologies between 2007 and 2017, appearing in 26 collections covering zombie fiction, dark fantasy, vampire horror, and apocalyptic themes.
The Retreat is a six-book military horror series by Joe McKinney following soldiers and survivors through a catastrophic zombie pandemic, published between 2013 and 2022.
Journalstone's DoubleDown is a series of paired horror novellas published by JournalStone, with each volume binding two novellas back-to-back, including works by Joe McKinney between 2013 and 2015.
Demonic Visions: 50 Horror Tales is a horror anthology series running to six volumes between 2013 and 2016, featuring 50 horror stories per volume from writers including Joe McKinney.
Best New Zombie Tales is an anthology series edited by James Roy Daley that collected zombie horror fiction across multiple volumes, with Joe McKinney among the featured contributors.
Joe McKinney's non-fiction writing includes Zombie Writing!, a 2012 guide to crafting horror fiction drawn from his experience as a prolific zombie and horror novelist.
Joe McKinney's short story collections gather his shorter horror fiction into single volumes, with Dead World Resurrection published in 2014 collecting stories from across his career.
Joe McKinney's short stories and novellas collect three shorter works published between 2011 and 2014, showcasing his horror and dark fiction writing in a compressed form.
Joe McKinney's standalone novels range across horror, crime, and thriller genres, collecting eight books published between 2009 and 2014 that fall outside his major series work.
The Dead Lands series by Joe McKinney is a post-apocalyptic zombie sequence set in a ruined America, following survivors through four books published between 2014 and 2017.
The Dead World series by Joe McKinney follows the collapse of civilization after a zombie pandemic sweeps through Texas and beyond, tracking survivors across nine books from 2006 to 2014.
Joe McKinney is an American horror author and former San Antonio police detective who writes zombie fiction, post-apocalyptic thrillers, and dark crime novels, with over 75 books published since 2006.
Makana Yamamoto's standalone novels are contemporary literary fiction set in Hawaii, exploring identity, family, and the cultural mix that defines life on the islands.
Makana Yamamoto is a contemporary fiction author whose debut novel Hammajang Luck is set in Hawaii and follows a young mixed-race woman navigating family and identity.
Charlotte Huang's standalone novels are contemporary young adult stories about high school life, identity, and the difficult choices teenagers face.
Charlotte Huang is a young adult author whose novels follow teenage protagonists navigating identity, ambition, and the pressures of growing up.
Primal Link is a paranormal romance trilogy by L. Bowers about characters bound together by a supernatural primal connection across three fast-paced books.
L. Bowers is the author of the Primal Link series, a paranormal romance trilogy about fated mates and supernatural bonds.
13 Little Love Stories is an upcoming anthology featuring Krystal Marquis among its contributors, collecting short romantic fiction for young adult readers, due for publication in 2026.
The Davenports is a YA historical romance series by Krystal Marquis following a wealthy Black Chicago family in 1910, blending romantic drama with a richly drawn portrait of Black Gilded Age society.
Krystal Marquis is a debut YA author whose novel The Davenports introduced readers to a Black Chicago family navigating love, ambition, and social change in the early twentieth century, earning praise for its fresh take on historical YA romance.
The Truth About the Schley Case is a nonfiction work by Mika Waltari, published posthumously in 2018, examining a historical case with his characteristic attention to evidence, narrative, and the gap between official accounts and what actually happened.
Mika Waltari's short story collections, Moonscape and Other Stories and The Tree of Dreams and Other Stories, gather his shorter fiction into volumes that show his range beyond the historical novels that made his international name.
Mika Waltari's short fiction includes Moonscape and The Tree of Dreams, two works that display his shorter-form storytelling across different settings and moods.
Mika Waltari's standalone novels include The Egyptian, his internationally celebrated bestseller set in ancient Egypt, alongside The Etruscan, The Dark Angel, and two other richly imagined historical works spanning the ancient Mediterranean world.
Mika Waltari's Secret of the Kingdom series consists of two novels, The Secret of the Kingdom and The Roman, set in the ancient world around the time of early Christianity and the Roman Empire.
The Mikael Karvajalka series by Mika Waltari follows a Finnish adventurer across Renaissance Europe and the Ottoman Empire in two novels, The Adventurer and The Wanderer, combining historical sweep with personal odyssey.
Mika Waltari was a Finnish author best known internationally for The Egyptian, a bestselling historical novel set in ancient Egypt, and for a series of richly researched novels set across different periods of history from ancient Rome to the fall of Constantinople.
Poemhood: Our Black Revival is an anthology co-edited by Amber McBride that gathers contemporary Black poetry for young adult readers, celebrating joy, grief, protest, and the full range of Black American experience.
Penguin Poets is a long-running series from Penguin Books publishing significant American and international poetry, with volumes spanning from established classics to contemporary voices across more than five decades.
Thick with Trouble is Amber McBride's debut poetry collection, published in 2024, weaving personal history, ancestry, and Black American cultural memory into a book that blurs the line between lyric poetry and narrative.
Amber McBride's standalone novels, many written in verse, explore grief, identity, mental health, and Black American experience through lyrical YA fiction aimed at teen and adult readers.
Amber McBride is an American author and poet known for her YA novels written in verse, including the acclaimed Me (Moth), and for her own poetry collection Thick with Trouble, which blends personal history with Black American experience.
The Detective Inspector Embla Nystrom series by Deborah Lucy follows a Swedish detective solving murders and cold cases in the remote forests and small communities of rural Sweden, across five books published between 2018 and 2020.
Deborah Lucy is a British crime writer whose Detective Inspector Embla Nystrom series follows a Swedish detective working cold cases in rural Sweden, with a focus on psychological depth and Scandinavian landscape. Her five-book series was published between 2018 and 2020.
Mothers and Other Creatures is an anthology featuring Shirley Russak Wachtel's short fiction and her explorations of motherhood, family bonds, and the creatures, literal and figurative, that shape our lives.
Shirley Russak Wachtel's short story collections, including In the Mellow Light and Three For a Dollar, gather her shorter fiction into volumes that reflect her characteristic themes of family, memory, and everyday life.
The Story of Blima is Shirley Russak Wachtel's nonfiction account of her mother Blima Wachtel's survival through the Holocaust, written for young adult and adult readers.
Shirley Russak Wachtel's picture books for children include the detective-themed Charlie Wonder and Brad Sureshot stories, as well as gentle, character-driven books like Zoey and the Purple Elephant and Where is Emmy?
Shirley Russak Wachtel's standalone novels explore Jewish American family life, memory, and identity across generations, from post-war New Jersey to contemporary Brooklyn.
Shirley Russak Wachtel is an American author whose work spans literary fiction, memoir, and picture books, often drawing on Jewish family history, memory, and the immigrant experience in New Jersey.
Eating for England, published in 2005, is Nigel Slater's affectionate survey of British food culture, from supermarket habits to the enduring appeal of certain national dishes, written with the humor and warmth his regular readers expect.
Nigel Slater's twenty cookbooks, published between 1992 and 2023, cover everything from 30-minute weeknight meals to deep dives into vegetables and fruit, written in his distinctive personal voice that treats the kitchen as a place for pleasure rather than performance.
Nigel Slater's memoirs span from his 1960s childhood in Toast to kitchen diaries and feast notebooks that document decades of cooking and eating through the British seasons. Six books published between 2003 and 2024 trace the role food has played in his life and memory.
Nigel Slater is one of Britain's best-loved food writers, known for cookbooks that treat cooking as a personal and sensory experience rather than a technical exercise, and for the memoir Toast, which traces his childhood through the foods he remembers. His writing has appeared in The Observer for over three decades.
Tom Schreck's anthology contribution Missing, published in 2009, collects short crime fiction alongside other authors and showcases his economical storytelling in a shorter format.
Tom Schreck's two plays, The King and The Greatest and Elvis & Ali: The Summit, imagine meetings between Elvis Presley and Muhammad Ali, drawing on his deep knowledge of boxing history and American popular culture.
Tom Schreck's standalone novel Getting Dunn is a crime thriller that moves beyond the Duffy Dombrowski world while keeping the author's characteristic blend of sharp dialogue and working-class atmosphere.
The Duffy Dombrowski Mysteries follow a boxing social worker in upstate New York who keeps stumbling into murder cases that his supervisors would rather he ignore. Tom Schreck's twelve-book series mixes hard-boiled mystery, dark comedy, and genuine affection for the sport of boxing.
Tom Schreck is an American crime writer best known for the Duffy Dombrowski Mysteries, a series featuring a social worker and amateur boxer navigating dark cases in upstate New York. His fiction blends hard-boiled mystery with black humor and a genuine love of boxing culture.
Standing Next to History: An Agent's Life Inside the Secret Service (2005) is Joseph Petro's memoir of his career as a U.S. Secret Service agent, covering more than two decades of presidential protection and the inner workings of one of America's most secretive government agencies.
Joseph Petro is a former U.S. Secret Service agent who spent over two decades protecting American presidents and vice presidents, including Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. He is the author of Standing Next to History, a memoir of his years in the Secret Service.
Carol Shields edited and co-edited six anthologies of Canadian short fiction and writing between 1987 and 2007, including The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories and The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories. These collections helped map the landscape of Canadian short fiction for general readers.
Penguin Lives was a publisher's series of short biographies, each around 200 pages, written by distinguished authors on historical figures they admired. Carol Shields contributed the Jane Austen volume (2001), and the series ran from the late 1990s through to 2011.
Dropped Threads is a landmark Canadian anthology series co-edited by Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, collecting essays and memoirs by women writers on subjects that remain unspoken in everyday life. The first volume (2001) and its sequel (2003) became bestsellers in Canada.
Susanna Moodie: Voice and Vision (1977) is Carol Shields's scholarly study of the 19th-century Canadian writer Susanna Moodie, examining her life, letters, and literary legacy. It began as Shields's doctoral thesis and remains a key work of Canadian literary criticism.
Carol Shields published nine collections across her career, including poetry collections, short story anthologies, and plays. The Collected Stories of Carol Shields (2004) gathers her best short fiction, and The Collected Poetry (2021) brought her verse to a new generation of readers.
Susanna Moodie: Roughing It in the Bush is a graphic novel adaptation of Carol Shields's scholarly and creative engagement with the 19th-century Canadian writer Susanna Moodie, illustrated by artist Katherine Gibson and published in 2016.
Carol Shields wrote four plays across the 1990s, bringing the same close observation of domestic life and human relationships that distinguishes her fiction to the stage. Her theatrical work includes comedies, a card game drama, and collaborations with fellow Canadian writers.
Carol Shields wrote ten standalone novels over three decades, including The Stone Diaries, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and Larry's Party, winner of the Orange Prize. Her fiction finds depth in ordinary lives and the hidden currents of family, love, and identity.
Carol Shields was a Canadian-American author best known for The Stone Diaries, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Governor General's Award in 1995. Her novels, stories, and plays examine the quiet details of everyday life with warmth and precision.
Bobby Adair's anthologies collect stories set aboard fictional starships, with Tales from the Starship Discovery leading a growing series of science fiction collections published from 2024 onward.
Bobby Adair's short fiction includes Novice Gods, a 2020 novella that moves away from his post-apocalyptic and zombie fiction into different speculative territory.
Bobby Adair's standalone novels include Flying Soup, published in 2013, a work that sits outside his series fiction and shows a different side of the author best known for zombie and post-apocalyptic fiction.
Liar's Apocalypse is a standalone post-apocalyptic thriller by Bobby Adair, published as The Liar in 2018, following a con man trying to survive and scheme his way through the end of the world.
The Last Survivors is a six-book post-apocalyptic series co-written by Bobby Adair and T.W. Piperbrook, following the remnants of humanity centuries after civilization collapsed, living in walled communities and knowing very little about the world outside. The series ran from 2014 to 2016.
Freedom's Fire is a military science fiction series by Bobby Adair set during an interstellar war, following human soldiers fighting for survival and, eventually, for the fate of their species across seven books published in 2017 and 2018. The series opens with Freedom's Siege.
The Ebola K Trilogy by Bobby Adair follows the outbreak and spread of a deadly mutated strain of Ebola across three books, tracking both the scientists racing to contain it and the ordinary people caught in its path. The trilogy was published between 2014 and 2015.
Dusty's Diary is a comedic post-apocalyptic series by Bobby Adair told through the journal entries of Dusty, one frustrated man navigating the end of the world with varying degrees of success. The series ran from 2015 to 2019 across four volumes.
Burn Box is a post-apocalyptic series by Bobby Adair published between 2023 and 2024, following survivors through a world reduced to ash and the struggle to build something worth protecting from the ruins. The three-book series opens with Embers.
Black Rust is a two-book post-apocalyptic series by Bobby Adair set in a world ravaged by a viral epidemic, following survivors trying to hold on when civilization has already lost the fight. Both books were published in 2016.
The Slow Burn series by Bobby Adair follows Zach and Murphy through a zombie apocalypse that begins on a single infected day and spirals outward across ten books of escalating survival horror. Starting with Zero Day in 2013, the series is known for its dark atmosphere, fast pace, and characters who feel genuinely worn down by the world collapsing around them.
Bobby Adair is an American author best known for his zombie and post-apocalyptic fiction, particularly the long-running Slow Burn series that helped establish him as a leading voice in indie horror. His catalog spans survival thrillers, sci-fi military action, and darkly comic apocalypse stories across more than forty books.
Ed James Anthologies includes the CWA Anthology of Short Stories: Mystery Tour (2017), a Crime Writers' Association collection featuring short fiction from British crime authors. Ed James contributed to this anthology during the same period as his DI Fenchurch and Scott Cullen series work.
Ed James Standalone Novels collects three crime and thriller novels published between 2013 and 2022 that fall outside his ongoing series. Shot Through the Heart, Senseless, and Lost Cause each offer self-contained stories in the crime fiction genre.
The Rakesh Siyal series follows DI Rakesh Siyal through two crime novels published in 2022 and 2024, written by Ed James. The series adds a new detective to Ed James's growing roster of characters, with False Start and False Dawn establishing Siyal as a distinct voice in the lineup.
The Police Scotland Edinburgh Crime Thrillers is the overarching collection of Ed James's Edinburgh-set crime series, spanning 18 books published between 2012 and 2026. It brings together the Scott Cullen Mysteries, the Craig Hunter Police Thrillers, and the Cullen & Bain books in a single shared reading order.
The Detective Max Carter series follows a London-based detective through three crime novels published between 2020 and 2021. Ed James's three-book run takes Max Carter through cases involving missing persons, abduction, and violent crime in the city.
The Craig Hunter Police Thriller series follows DS Craig Hunter of Police Scotland through three novels published between 2016 and 2019. Written by Ed James as a companion to his Scott Cullen Mysteries, the series brings a new perspective to the same Edinburgh policing world.
The DS Vicky Dodds series follows Detective Sergeant Vicky Dodds of Police Scotland through five crime novels set in Dundee and the surrounding area, published between 2015 and 2022. Also known as the Dundee Law series, it brings Ed James's procedural style to Scotland's fourth-largest city.
The DI Rob Marshall series is Ed James's most recent Scottish crime sequence, following Detective Inspector Rob Marshall through nine novels published between 2023 and 2025. Set in the Scottish Borders, the series has established itself as one of James's most productive and fast-moving runs.
The DI Fenchurch series follows Detective Inspector Simon Fenchurch of the London Metropolitan Police through ten crime novels published between 2016 and 2023. Written by Ed James, the series is known for its personal stakes, with Fenchurch's long search for his missing daughter running alongside each investigation.
The Cullen & Bain series pairs Detective Inspector Scott Cullen with DS Brian Bain for seven Edinburgh crime novels published between 2020 and 2026. Ed James brings back familiar faces from the Scott Cullen Mysteries in this more focused detective partnership series.
The Scott Cullen Mysteries follow Detective Constable (later DS) Scott Cullen of Police Scotland through Edinburgh and the Lothians, starting with Ghost in the Machine in 2012. Ed James's debut series runs to thirteen books, blending workplace drama with Scottish crime investigation.
Ed James is a Scottish crime fiction author best known for his DI Simon Fenchurch series set in London and his long-running Scottish police procedurals featuring detectives Scott Cullen, Craig Hunter, and DS Vicky Dodds. He has published over 70 novels across multiple series since 2012.
Harriet Walker's standalone novels include The New Girl (2020) and The Wedding Night (2021), two sharp, witty works of fiction exploring female competition, friendship, and identity in contemporary Britain.
Harriet Walker is a British fiction writer and journalist known for her two novels The New Girl (2020) and The Wedding Night (2021), both exploring female friendship, identity, and social anxiety in contemporary settings.
Natalie Barelli's standalone novels are fast-paced psychological thrillers centered on domestic deception, including Missing Molly, The Loyal Wife, The Housekeeper, and Finders Keepers.
The Emma Fern series by Natalie Barelli follows an ambitious author entangled in a web of ambition and murder across two tightly plotted psychological thrillers published in 2017.
Natalie Barelli is an Australian psychological thriller writer known for her sharp, fast-paced novels featuring unreliable narrators and domestic suspense, including the Emma Fern series and numerous standalone thrillers.
Sally Bedell Smith's non-fiction books span royal biography and American political history, including landmark works on Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana, and the Kennedy and Clinton White Houses.
Sally Bedell Smith is an American biographer specializing in British royalty and American political power, best known for her detailed portraits of figures including Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana, and the Kennedys.
Tied is a 2017 novella by Kim Karr and represents her short fiction output, offering a compact romance story for readers who want a quick taste of her writing style. It stands alone from her series work.
Kim Karr's standalone novels include The 27 Club and Toxic from 2015 and The Set Up from 2016, each telling a self-contained romance story outside of her series work. These books show a different side of her writing, with tighter plots and no ongoing cast to track.
The Royals is a four-book contemporary romance series by Kim Karr featuring royals-adjacent romance with a comedic edge, following characters navigating the complications of titles, expectations, and unexpected love between 2019 and 2020. The series includes Washed Up Royal, Would Be King, The Pretend Prince, and Wannabe Heir.
Party Ever After is a three-volume contemporary romance series by Kim Karr, published as the ReWined volumes in 2018. The series follows a world of parties, wine, and the romantic entanglements that come with them.
Imperfect Love is a two-book contemporary romance series by Kim Karr, consisting of The Thing about Love and Come A Little Closer, both published in 2018. The series explores the complications and unexpected turns that come with falling for someone at the wrong time or in the wrong circumstances.
Men of Laguna is a three-book contemporary romance series by Kim Karr set in the Southern California beach town of Laguna Beach, following No Pants Required, Bedwrecker, and Hollywood Prince across 2016 and 2017. Each book pairs a local man with a woman who shakes up his comfortable life.
Sexy Jerk World is a four-book contemporary rom-com series by Kim Karr featuring witty, fun romances set in a shared world of over-confident men learning to fall for women who see right through them. All four books were published in 2017.
The Detroit Love Duet by Kim Karr is a two-book contemporary romance series set against the backdrop of Detroit, following Set the Pace and Turn it Up, both published in 2016. The duet pairs a fast-moving story of attraction with the energy and grit of its urban setting.
The Tainted Love Duet by Kim Karr is a two-part contemporary romance told across Blow and Crush, following a high-stakes, intense relationship with plenty of tension and emotional weight. Both books were published in 2015.
The Connections series by Kim Karr follows a cast of interconnected characters in Los Angeles through love, loss, heartbreak, and second chances, starting with the music-world romance of Connected in 2013. The nine-book series is known for its emotional intensity and recurring characters.
Kim Karr is a contemporary romance author known for emotionally charged stories that blend music, passion, and messy real-life relationships, starting with her breakout Connections series in 2013. She has written over 30 books across ten series, including standalones, duets, and lighthearted rom-coms.
The Edwin Thomas Short Stories/Novellas collection features The Twelfth Tablet (2013), a short work of historical fiction by Tom Harper set in the world of his historical thriller writing.
Tom Harper's Short Stories/Novellas collection includes The Twelfth Tablet (2013), a shorter work of historical fiction by the author of the Demetrios Askiates series.
Tom Harper's standalone novels are historical thrillers and adventure stories blending ancient mysteries with modern danger, including titles like The Lazarus Vault and The Orpheus Descent.
The Courtney series is a sweeping multigenerational adventure saga following the Courtney family across centuries of African and world history, beginning with Wilbur Smith's When the Lion Feeds in 1964.
The Zodiac Station series by Tom Harper is a two-book Arctic thriller following a scientist uncovering deadly secrets at a remote research base, starting with Polar Vortex in 2014.
The Demetrios Askiates series by Tom Harper follows a Byzantine investigator solving murders and conspiracies during the upheaval of the First Crusade, beginning with The Mosaic of Shadows in 2003.
Tom Harper is a British author best known for historical thrillers, including the Demetrios Askiates medieval mystery series and his contributions to Wilbur Smith's Courtney adventure saga spanning Africa and beyond.
This page collects the seven anthologies featuring work by Marina J. Lostetter, spanning science fiction and fantasy publications from 2011 to 2020, including Writers of the Future and Galaxy's Edge contributions.
Marina J. Lostetter's short story collections, Lifeboats (2017) and Illustrious (2019), gather her shorter fiction in science fiction and fantasy for readers who want to explore her range beyond her novels.
Activation Degradation is Marina J. Lostetter's 2021 standalone science fiction novel, following a robot who wakes with no memory and must figure out who it is and why it was built.
The Five Penalties is a dark fantasy trilogy by Marina J. Lostetter, set in a world where magic use carries a cost, following characters bound to a system of penalties across three books published between 2021 and 2025.
Noumenon is a three-book space opera series by Marina J. Lostetter, following a multi-generational crew sent on a deep-space mission to investigate a mysterious star.
Marina J. Lostetter is a sci-fi and fantasy author known for the Noumenon series and The Five Penalties trilogy, with sixteen books published across novels, short story collections, and anthologies since 2011.
Actress of a Certain Age is Jeff Hiller's 2025 memoir about his life as an actor, comedian, and the experience of finding fame later in a creative career.
Jeff Hiller is an actor and comedian best known for the Emmy Award-winning series Somebody Somewhere, and author of the 2025 memoir Actress of a Certain Age.
Astrid Scholte's three standalone YA novels span fantasy and science fiction, each built around a high-concept premise and a mystery that drives the plot.
Astrid Scholte is an Australian YA author known for high-concept fantasy and sci-fi thrillers, with three standalone novels published between 2019 and 2022.
Exemplar Hall is an eight-book magic academy fantasy series by Ruby Night, following magi knights through battles, secrets, and supernatural challenges at a school for magical warriors.
The Gemini Twins Legacy is a paranormal fantasy series by Ruby Night, following twin protagonists Storme through three action-packed books published in 2025.
Club Sanguine is a paranormal why-choose romance series by Ruby Night, following supernatural intrigue and romantic entanglements across three books.
Ruby Night writes paranormal romance and urban fantasy with a focus on magic academies, magi knights, and supernatural romance, spanning fourteen books across three series since 2019.
Lori Duffy Foster's standalone novel Never Let Go is a suspense thriller that delivers a self-contained story of danger and determination outside the author's Lisa Jamison series.
The Lisa Jamison series by Lori Duffy Foster follows a crime reporter whose investigations pull her deeper into danger than her editors ever intended, across three novels set in the world of regional journalism and serious crime.
Lori Duffy Foster is an American crime and thriller author whose Lisa Jamison series follows a determined reporter entangled in cases that blur the line between journalism and personal danger.
Claws and Paws is a paranormal romance anthology featuring Keira Blackwood's work alongside other authors, bringing together shifter stories in a shared collection published in 2022.
Stolen Moments is a short story or novella by Keira Blackwood, offering a compact paranormal romance in her signature style of warm characters and quick-hitting emotional payoff.
Hope Reclaimed is a standalone paranormal romance novel by Keira Blackwood, offering a complete story of second chances and supernatural connection outside her ongoing series.
Vampires & Chocolate is a paranormal romance series by Keira Blackwood blending vampire royalty, forbidden attraction, and a sweet tooth into four books set in a world where the undead have a weakness for confections.
Spellbound Shifters: Fates & Visions is a paranormal romance series by Keira Blackwood expanding the Spellbound Shifters world through oracles, orphans, and spellcasters across seven books from 2018 to 2021.
Spellbound Shifters: Dragons Entwined is a paranormal romance series by Keira Blackwood following dragon shifters through memory loss, broken bonds, and hard-won healing across five books published in 2018 and 2019.
Sawtooth Peaks is a paranormal romance series by Keira Blackwood set in a remote mountain community of wolf shifters, following the pack through love, loyalty, and the occasional holiday crisis across six books.
The Protectors Unlimited is a paranormal romance series by Keira Blackwood featuring shifters whose animal instincts and human hearts collide in stories full of wordplay, warmth, and slow-burn attraction.
The Protectors Quick Bites is a collection of short paranormal romance stories by Keira Blackwood, featuring wolves, bears, foxes, and sea creatures from the Protectors world in quick, fun reads packed with humor and heat.
Protectors of the Pack is a wolf shifter romance series by Keira Blackwood spanning six books and years of pack politics, where being a bodyguard, an enemy, or an heir comes with its own particular brand of complicated feelings.
Protectors of Riverwood is a shifter romance series by Keira Blackwood featuring a bear shifter pack guarding a small mountain community where love arrives with claws, complications, and more than a little chaos.
Midlife Magic in Memoriam is a paranormal romance series by Keira Blackwood following a woman who discovers that death, magic, and second chances are more intertwined than she ever expected in a world where the supernatural has some very specific opinions about closure.
Midlife Magic in Marshmallow is a cozy paranormal romance series by Keira Blackwood set in a small town called Marshmallow where a woman in midlife discovers the community's magical secrets and a love life she had not planned on.
Magical Midlife Malfunction is a paranormal romantic comedy series by Keira Blackwood following a woman navigating the absurd side of supernatural life after forty, with a werebunny, a cursed fairy, and a tiger all making things considerably more complicated.
Forbidden Fangs is a paranormal romantic comedy series by Keira Blackwood pairing vampire love interests with absurdly titled adventures involving familiars, bodybags, exorcisms, and cowboys.
Alphas and Alchemy: Fierce Mates is a paranormal romance series by Keira Blackwood set in a forbidden shifter community where seven couples navigate fated bonds, pack politics, and the rules no one is allowed to break.
Alphas and Alchemy: Elemental Shifters is a paranormal romance series by Keira Blackwood featuring dragon and wolf shifters bound to the elements of land and water in a world where magic and mating bonds run deep.
Accidentally Smitten is a paranormal romantic comedy series by Keira Blackwood following hilariously ill-timed encounters between ordinary women and very wealthy, very supernatural men.
Keira Blackwood is a paranormal romance author known for humorous, fast-paced stories featuring shifters, vampires, and small-town magic, with heroines who handle the supernatural with as much wit as heart.
The Three Evangelists series by Fred Vargas follows three unemployed historians sharing a house in Paris as they stumble into murder investigations, blending academic wit with unconventional crime solving.
The Commissaire Adamsberg series by Fred Vargas follows a Paris detective whose unorthodox methods and dreamlike intuition make him one of crime fiction's most unusual investigators, spanning twenty books from 1991 to 2023.
Fred Vargas is a French crime novelist and archaeologist whose books, most famously the Commissaire Adamsberg series, combine atmospheric mystery with deeply eccentric characters and an unconventional approach to detective fiction.
Matt Shaw Anthologies collects five horror anthologies published between 2016 and 2019 to which Matt Shaw contributed, including The Black Room Manuscripts Volume Two, None More Black, and Masters of Horror, connecting Shaw's work to the wider extreme and dark horror publishing community.
The White Room is a two-book extreme horror series by Matt Shaw published in 2025 and 2026, centered on a sterile, enclosed setting that becomes the scene of graphic and psychologically disturbing events. Start with The White Room Runs Red before continuing with The White Room Runs Cold.
Year of the Zombie is a thirteen-book extreme horror anthology series edited and contributed to by Matt Shaw, featuring separate zombie horror novellas from multiple authors across a single year of publication (2015-2016) before concluding with a 2018 omnibus edition.
U-TURNS is a collaborative extreme horror series from Matt Shaw featuring multiple connected dark fiction works, beginning with The Girl in the Cellar (2022) and including the novella Innocence (2023), presenting a series of uncompromising horror stories linked by theme and tone.
Monster is a series listing in Matt Shaw's bibliography that centers on his 2015 novel Monster and the 2018 follow-up Richard and Mary, dark extreme horror fiction exploring what it means to be a monster in both the literal and psychological sense.
Matt Shaw Non-Fiction collects six non-fiction titles published between 2017 and 2022, including humorous books about his pug, a memoir of questionable decisions, a guide to writing, and his most direct statement on the craft and business of being an independent horror author.
Matt Shaw Collections brings together 28 anthologies and omnibus volumes published between 2008 and 2024, offering the best way to read large amounts of Shaw's short fiction in a single purchase. The collections range from early career retrospectives to themed holiday horror and annual round-ups.
Matt Shaw Short Stories/Novellas brings together 66 short works published between 2007 and 2025, ranging from his earliest fiction to recent horror novellas, and represents the most experimental and varied part of his output. This is where Shaw takes risks with form, voice, and subject matter that longer novels do not always allow.
Matt Shaw Standalone Novels collects 47 full-length novels published between 2013 and 2026, spanning extreme horror, dark fiction, psychological horror, and occasional forays into supernatural and comedic territory, representing the core of Shaw's prolific output outside his named series.
The Unnamed is a two-book extreme horror series by Matt Shaw that plays with meta-fictional horror conceits, presenting books that dare readers not to read them while punishing those who do. Both entries were published in 2024.
Sick Bastards is Matt Shaw's four-book extreme horror series following a family living in total isolation whose dark secrets become increasingly unbearable as each entry escalates the transgressive content. Beginning with Sick B*stards (2014), the series ran through 2024 with a fourth installment.
Sexual Healing is a standalone extreme horror novella by Matt Shaw that takes an ordinary concept and twists it into something deeply uncomfortable, combining dark comedy with graphic content in Shaw's recognizable style. It was published in 2016.
The Rotting F*cks is a two-book extreme horror series by Matt Shaw featuring the undead as you have never seen them before, blending graphic violence with Shaw's signature shock-driven storytelling. Start with Rotting Dead F*cks (2014) and continue with Rotting Living F*cks (2016).
Octopus is a three-book extreme horror series by Matt Shaw featuring aquatic creature horror across books published in 2019 and 2021.
The Killer Confession is a seven-part extreme horror serial by Matt Shaw published in 2023, unfolding a killer's account across seven short installments.
In These Darkened... is a four-book extreme horror series by Matt Shaw published in 2023, moving through darkened waters, woods, shadows, and minds.
In Hell is a two-book extreme horror series by Matt Shaw featuring a journey into the afterlife's worst reaches, with both Voyage to Hell and Hell's Reveal published in 2017.
Infestation is a two-book extreme horror series by Matt Shaw featuring a creature infestation scenario, beginning in 2013 and collected in a combined edition in 2017.
Happy Ever After/The Peter Chronicles is a three-book series by Matt Shaw following a character named Peter across books published between 2008 and 2012.
GPK: The Go-Pro Killers by Matt Shaw is a 2023 extreme horror book about killers who livestream their crimes, combining found footage horror with graphic violence.
The Game is an eight-book extreme horror series by Matt Shaw built around a deadly competition concept, starting in 2017 and running through 2024.
Full Moon is a three-book werewolf horror series by Matt Shaw, starting with Full Moon in 2019 and continuing through The Den and The Pack.
F*cking Animals is a two-book extreme horror series by Matt Shaw featuring animal-based horror scenarios, with BIRD and COW both published in 2015.
The Farm is a two-book extreme horror series by Matt Shaw where isolated rural horror unfolds across the original 2015 novel and its 2016 sequel.
Club is a two-part extreme horror series by Matt Shaw about a secret society with very dark purposes, beginning with Join Me in the Club in 2023.
The Cabin is a two-book extreme horror series by Matt Shaw set around a remote cabin, starting in 2012 with the original and continuing in The Cabin II: Asylum.
The 9 Months Trilogy by Matt Shaw is an extreme horror story exploring pregnancy and the dark fears surrounding it, published in 2012.
Matt Shaw is a prolific British extreme horror author with over 200 books, known for graphic, boundary-pushing fiction that covers psychological horror, body horror, and dark themes not intended for sensitive readers.