A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas
FantasyRomance
5 books
Book Series Guide
Reading order for 217 popular series — chronological and author's recommended, side by side.
A Song of Ice and Fire
George R.R. Martin
Fantasy
5 books
Adam Dalgliesh
P.D. James
Mystery
14 books
Alex Cross
James Patterson
ThrillerCrime
32 books
All Souls Trilogy
Deborah Harkness
ParanormalFantasyRomanceHistorical Fiction
3 books
Alliance-Union Universe
C.J. Cherryh
Sci-Fi
15 books
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
Fantasy
2 books
An Ember in the Ashes
Sabaa Tahir
FantasyYoung Adult
4 books
Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery
ClassicLiterary Fiction
8 books
Aubrey-Maturin
Patrick O'Brian
Historical Fiction
20 books
Bobiverse
Dennis E. Taylor
Sci-Fi
5 books
Book of the Ancestor
Mark Lawrence
Fantasy
3 books
Bridgerton
Julia Quinn
RomanceHistorical Fiction
8 books
Brother Cadfael
Ellis Peters
MysteryHistorical Fiction
20 books
Cassie Dewell
C.J. Box, James Patterson
CrimeThriller
4 books
Charlie Parker
John Connolly
CrimeThrillerHorror
21 books
Chief Inspector Gamache
Louise Penny
Mystery
19 books
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Sci-Fi
3 books
Commissario Brunetti
Donna Leon
Mystery
32 books
Commonwealth Saga
Peter F. Hamilton
Sci-Fi
5 books
Cormoran Strike
Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
CrimeMystery
7 books
Cradle
Will Wight
Fantasy
12 books
Crescent City
Sarah J. Maas
FantasyRomance
3 books
D.I. Kim Stone
Angela Marsons
CrimeThriller
17 books
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Laini Taylor
FantasyYoung Adult
3 books
Department Q
Jussi Adler-Olsen
MysteryThriller
9 books
Detective Erika Foster
Robert Bryndza
CrimeThriller
9 books
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney
Children'sHumor
19 books
Discworld
Terry Pratchett
Fantasy
41 books
Divergent
Veronica Roth
Young AdultSci-Fi
3 books
Dr. Siri Paiboun
Colin Cotterill
CrimeMysteryHistorical Fiction
15 books
Dragonlance
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
Fantasy
8 books
Dragonriders of Pern
Anne McCaffrey
Sci-FiFantasy
24 books
Dublin Murder Squad
Tana French
CrimeMystery
6 books
Dune
Frank Herbert
Sci-Fi
6 books
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
FantasySci-Fi
8 books
Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
Fantasy
6 books
Elvis Cole & Joe Pike
Robert Crais
MysteryThriller
19 books
Ender's Game / Ender Saga
Orson Scott Card
Science Fiction
9 books
Fever
Karen Marie Moning
FantasyRomance
11 books
Flavia de Luce
Alan Bradley
Mystery
9 books
Foreigner
C.J. Cherryh
Sci-Fi
22 books
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Sci-Fi
7 books
Frey & McGray
Oscar de Muriel
MysteryHistorical FictionCrime
6 books
Game Changers
Rachel Reid
Romance
3 books
Goosebumps
R.L. Stine
Children'sHorror
62 books
Graceling Realm
Kristin Cashore
FantasyYoung Adult
5 books
Hannibal Lecter
Thomas Harris
ThrillerCrime
4 books
Hap & Leonard
Joe R. Lansdale
MysteryThriller
12 books
Harry Bosch
Michael Connelly
CrimeThriller
21 books
Harry Hole
Jo Nesbø
CrimeThriller
12 books
Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling
Young AdultFantasy
7 books
Hercule Poirot
Agatha Christie
Mystery
33 books
His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman
Fantasy
3 books
Honor Harrington
David Weber
Sci-Fi
14 books
Hyperion Cantos
Dan Simmons
Science Fiction
4 books
Imperial Radch
Ann Leckie
Sci-Fi
3 books
In Death
J.D. Robb
ThrillerMysteryRomance
57 books
Inspector Banks
Peter Robinson
CrimeMystery
27 books
Inspector Lynley
Elizabeth George
Mystery
21 books
Inspector Montalbano
Andrea Camilleri
CrimeMystery
27 books
Inspector Morse
Colin Dexter
MysteryCrime
13 books
Inspector Rebus
Ian Rankin
CrimeMystery
23 books
It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover
RomanceLiterary Fiction
2 books
Jack McEvoy
Michael Connelly
CrimeThriller
3 books
Jack Reacher
Lee Child
Thriller
27 books
Jake Brigance
John Grisham
CrimeThrillerLiterary Fiction
3 books
James Bond
Ian Fleming
ThrillerCrime
14 books
Jason Bourne
Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader
Thriller
14 books
Joe Pickett
C.J. Box
CrimeThriller
26 books
John Rain
Barry Eisler
ThrillerCrime
9 books
Kate Daniels
Ilona Andrews
FantasyRomance
11 books
Kay Scarpetta
Patricia Cornwell
MysteryThriller
25 books
Kings of the Wyld
Nicholas Eames
Fantasy
2 books
Kingsbridge
Ken Follett
Historical Fiction
4 books
Kinsey Millhone
Sue Grafton
Mystery
25 books
Knockemout
Lucy Score
Romance
3 books
Legacy of Orisha
Tomi Adeyemi
FantasyYoung Adult
3 books
Lincoln Rhyme
Jeffery Deaver
MysteryThriller
15 books
Little House
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Children'sHistorical Fiction
9 books
Logan McRae
Stuart MacBride
CrimeThriller
13 books
Lucas Davenport (Prey)
John Sandford
MysteryThriller
34 books
Luna
Ian McDonald
Sci-Fi
3 books
MaddAddam Trilogy
Margaret Atwood
Sci-FiLiterary Fiction
3 books
Maeve Kerrigan
Jane Casey
CrimeThriller
9 books
Magic Tree House
Mary Pope Osborne
Children's
55 books
Mars Trilogy
Kim Stanley Robinson
Sci-Fi
3 books
Martin Beck
Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö
Mystery
10 books
Masters of Rome
Colleen McCullough
Historical Fiction
6 books
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
Tad Williams
Fantasy
3 books
Michael Bennett
James Patterson
CrimeThriller
16 books
Miss Marple
Agatha Christie
Mystery
12 books
Mistborn
Brandon Sanderson
Fantasy
7 books
Mitch Rapp
Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills
Thriller
21 books
Mortal Engines
Philip Reeve
Sci-FiYoung Adult
7 books
Murderbot Diaries
Martha Wells
Science Fiction
7 books
Myron Bolitar
Harlan Coben
MysteryThriller
11 books
Neapolitan Novels
Elena Ferrante
Literary Fiction
4 books
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith
MysteryLiterary Fiction
24 books
Old Man's War
John Scalzi
Sci-Fi
6 books
Orphan X (Evan Smoak)
Gregg Hurwitz
Thriller
9 books
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
Historical FictionRomance
9 books
Parable
Octavia E. Butler
Sci-FiLiterary Fiction
2 books
Part of Your World
Abby Jimenez
Romance
3 books
Patrick Melrose
Edward St. Aubyn
Literary Fiction
5 books
Pendergast
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
MysteryThriller
21 books
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan
Young AdultFantasy
5 books
Phryne Fisher
Kerry Greenwood
MysteryHistorical Fiction
21 books
Poldark
Winston Graham
Historical FictionRomance
12 books
Private
James Patterson
CrimeThriller
18 books
Realm of the Elderlings
Robin Hobb
Fantasy
16 books
Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard
FantasyYoung Adult
4 books
Red Rising
Pierce Brown
Sci-Fi
6 books
Remembrance of Earth's Past
Liu Cixin
Science Fiction
3 books
Renée Ballard
Michael Connelly
CrimeThriller
5 books
Revelation Space
Alastair Reynolds
Sci-Fi
3 books
Riftwar Cycle
Raymond E. Feist
Fantasy
30 books
Rizzoli & Isles
Tess Gerritsen
MysteryThriller
12 books
Roy Grace
Peter James
CrimeThriller
19 books
Saga of Seven Suns
Kevin J. Anderson
Sci-Fi
7 books
Sam Wyndham
Abir Mukherjee
Historical FictionCrimeMystery
6 books
Sebastian Bergman
Michael Hjorth, Hans Rosenfeldt
CrimeThriller
6 books
Shades of Magic
V.E. Schwab
Fantasy
3 books
Shannara
Terry Brooks
Fantasy
27 books
Sharpe
Bernard Cornwell
Historical Fiction
24 books
Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
MysteryCrime
4 books
Silo
Hugh Howey
Science FictionDystopian
3 books
Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo
FantasyYoung Adult
2 books
Skulduggery Pleasant
Derek Landy
FantasyYoung Adult
15 books
Sookie Stackhouse (The Southern Vampire Mysteries)
Charlaine Harris
ParanormalFantasyRomance
13 books
Southern Reach
Jeff VanderMeer
Sci-FiLiterary Fiction
3 books
Sprawl Trilogy
William Gibson
Sci-Fi
3 books
Sword of Truth
Terry Goodkind
Fantasy
17 books
Teixcalaan
Arkady Martine
Sci-Fi
2 books
Temeraire
Naomi Novik
FantasyHistorical Fiction
9 books
Temperance Brennan
Kathy Reichs
CrimeThriller
21 books
Terry McCaleb
Michael Connelly
CrimeThriller
2 books
The Belgariad
David Eddings
Fantasy
5 books
The Black Company
Glen Cook
Fantasy
10 books
The Blacktongue Thief
Christopher Buehlman
Fantasy
2 books
The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe
Sci-FiLiterary Fiction
4 books
The Bound and the Broken
Ryan Cahill
Fantasy
5 books
The Broken Earth
N.K. Jemisin
FantasySci-Fi
3 books
The Broken Empire
Mark Lawrence
Fantasy
3 books
The Cazalet Chronicle
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Historical FictionLiterary Fiction
5 books
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Literary FictionMystery
4 books
The Chanur Novels
C.J. Cherryh
Sci-Fi
5 books
The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis
FantasyYoung Adult
7 books
The Culture
Iain M. Banks
Science Fiction
9 books
The Daevabad Trilogy
S.A. Chakraborty
Fantasy
3 books
The Dandelion Dynasty
Ken Liu
FantasyHistorical Fiction
4 books
The Dark Tower
Stephen King
FantasyHorror
8 books
The Darkwater Legacy
Chris Wooding
Fantasy
3 books
The Deverry Cycle
Katharine Kerr
Fantasy
15 books
The Divide
Drew Williams
Sci-Fi
3 books
The Dresden Files
Jim Butcher
Fantasy
17 books
The Empyrean
Rebecca Yarros
FantasyRomance
5 books
The Expanse
James S.A. Corey
Sci-Fi
9 books
The Faithful and the Fallen
John Gwynne
Fantasy
4 books
The Final Architecture
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Sci-Fi
3 books
The First Law
Joe Abercrombie
Fantasy
9 books
The Folk of the Air
Holly Black
FantasyYoung Adult
3 books
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
Sci-Fi
3 books
The Gap Cycle
Stephen R. Donaldson
Sci-Fi
5 books
The Gentlemen Bastards
Scott Lynch
Fantasy
3 books
The Green Bone Saga
Fonda Lee
Fantasy
3 books
The Grisha Trilogy
Leigh Bardugo
FantasyYoung Adult
3 books
The Hainish Cycle
Ursula K. Le Guin
Sci-FiLiterary Fiction
11 books
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Science FictionComedy
5 books
The Housemaid
Freida McFadden
ThrillerCrime
3 books
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
Young AdultSci-Fi
4 books
The Inheritance Cycle
Christopher Paolini
FantasyYoung Adult
4 books
The Interdependency
John Scalzi
Sci-Fi
3 books
The Kingkiller Chronicle
Patrick Rothfuss
Fantasy
3 books
The Licanius Trilogy
James Islington
Fantasy
3 books
The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller)
Michael Connelly
CrimeThriller
7 books
The Locked Tomb
Tamsyn Muir
Science FictionFantasy
4 books
The Long Earth
Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Sci-Fi
5 books
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Fantasy
3 books
The Lost Fleet
Jack Campbell
Sci-Fi
6 books
The Lunar Chronicles
Marissa Meyer
FantasySci-FiYoung Adult
4 books
The Malazan Book of the Fallen
Steven Erikson
Fantasy
10 books
The Maze Runner
James Dashner
FantasyYoung AdultSci-Fi
5 books
The Mortal Instruments
Cassandra Clare
Young AdultFantasy
6 books
The Old Kingdom
Garth Nix
FantasyYoung Adult
6 books
The Polity Universe
Neal Asher
Sci-Fi
18 books
The Poppy War
R.F. Kuang
FantasyHistorical Fiction
3 books
The Powder Mage Trilogy
Brian McClellan
Fantasy
3 books
The Quantum Magician
Derek Künsken
Sci-Fi
3 books
The Raven Cycle
Maggie Stiefvater
FantasyYoung Adult
4 books
The Riyria Chronicles
Michael J. Sullivan
Fantasy
6 books
The Robot Series
Isaac Asimov
Sci-FiMystery
4 books
The Salvation Sequence
Peter F. Hamilton
Sci-Fi
3 books
The Saxon Stories (The Last Kingdom)
Bernard Cornwell
Historical Fiction
13 books
The Scholomance
Naomi Novik
FantasyYoung Adult
3 books
The Shadowhunter Chronicles
Cassandra Clare
FantasyYoung Adult
17 books
The Spiral Wars
Joel Shepherd
Sci-Fi
8 books
The Stormlight Archive
Brandon Sanderson
Fantasy
5 books
The Sun Eater
Christopher Ruocchio
Sci-Fi
6 books
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
Mystery
4 books
The Uplift Saga
David Brin
Sci-Fi
6 books
The Vampire Chronicles
Anne Rice
HorrorFantasy
13 books
The Wheel of Time
Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson
Fantasy
14 books
The Winternight Trilogy
Katherine Arden
Fantasy
3 books
The Witcher
Andrzej Sapkowski
Fantasy
8 books
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas
FantasyYoung Adult
7 books
Tom Thorne
Mark Billingham
CrimeThriller
16 books
Twilight Saga
Stephenie Meyer
FantasyRomanceYoung Adult
4 books
Vampire Academy
Richelle Mead
FantasyYoung AdultRomance
6 books
Vorkosigan Saga
Lois McMaster Bujold
Science Fiction
17 books
Wallander
Henning Mankell
CrimeMystery
12 books
Warriors
Erin Hunter
Children'sFantasy
6 books
Wars of Light and Shadow
Janny Wurts
Fantasy
11 books
Wayfarers
Becky Chambers
Science Fiction
5 books
Wings of Fire
Tui T. Sutherland
Children'sFantasy
15 books
Women's Murder Club
James Patterson
MysteryThriller
21 books
Xenogenesis (Lilith's Brood)
Octavia E. Butler
Sci-FiLiterary Fiction
3 books