Children's
Every children's author we cover, with each series in the right reading order.
Books for the youngest readers — made to be read aloud, and read again. These series are ordered so you always know what comes next.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Before Taylor Jenkins Reid became a novelist known for contemporary fiction that explores love, ambition, and the versions of ourselves...
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Delia Owens
Delia Owens is an American author and wildlife scientist who won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing before turning...
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E.L. James
E.L. James is an English author of erotic romance who spent twenty-five years working in television before pursuing a childhood...
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Teresa Driscoll
Teresa Driscoll writes psychological thrillers and women's fiction, drawing on decades of experience as a journalist and BBC TV news...
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Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng is an American novelist whose domestic dramas explore family secrets, identity, and the fault lines of community. Born...
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Mary Kubica
Mary Kubica is an American suspense author who explores how ordinary lives fracture under the weight of secrets. She built...
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Shari Lapena
Shari Lapena is a Canadian author who writes psychological thrillers. She came to prominence in 2016 with the release of...
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Tara Westover
Tara Westover is a historian and memoirist who writes about the tension between self-invention and family loyalty. She grew up...
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Tana French
Tana French is an American-Irish novelist and theater actress who brings her training in character and tension to psychological mystery....
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Gabrielle Zevin
What happens when a writer understands both the architecture of story and the ache of human connection? Gabrielle Zevin happens....
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Dot Hutchison
Dot Hutchison is an American author who writes adult thrillers and young adult novels. She is known for A Wounded...
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Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt is an American novelist who became a literary sensation in 1992 with The Secret History, a debut that...
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Deborah Harkness
Deborah Harkness is an American author and historian of science and medicine. She is known for her All Souls series...
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Maggie O’Farrell
Maggie O’Farrell, an Irish author, writes fiction and historical fiction novels. Her novel Hamnet won the 2020 Women’s Prize for...
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Holly Jackson
Holly Jackson is an English author who writes YA thrillers. Born in 1992 and raised in Buckinghamshire, she finished her...
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Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-American author and physician who turned personal displacement into universal stories. He practiced medicine for ten...
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Emily Bleeker
Emily Bleeker is an American author of psychological thrillers and women's fiction. Bleeker discovered her passion for writing after introducing...
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Terry Hayes
Terry Hayes is an English-Australian author of thriller novels and a screenwriter. Before turning to fiction, Hayes worked as a...
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James McBride
James McBride is an American author and musician who writes historical fiction and nonfiction. He grew up in Brooklyn, New...
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Gillian McAllister
Gillian McAllister is a British novelist who writes thrillers that place ordinary people in impossible moral traps. Raised in Tamworth,...
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Cara Hunter
Cara Hunter is an English author who writes the DI Adam Fawley series of crime novels. She lives in Oxford,...
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Jackie Kabler
Jackie Kabler is a British author who writes psychological thrillers and the Cora Baxter Mysteries series, bringing the sharp instincts...
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Kelly Harms
Kelly Harms is an American novelist who writes contemporary women's fiction that has reached readers in a dozen languages around...
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Natalie Barelli
Natalie Barelli is an Australian author who writes psychological thrillers, a genre she has made her own with books like...
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Sally Thorne
Sally Thorne is an Australian author of romantic comedies. By day, she navigates the world of funding submissions and contract...
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Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak is an Australian author who writes young adult novels and children's books. Growing up in Sydney, Zusak became...
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Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls is an American author and journalist. She grew up in the American Southwest and Welch, West Virginia, experiencing...
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Casey McQuiston
Casey McQuiston is an American author who writes romantic comedies and has also published journalism in The New York Times,...
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Lily King
Lily King is an American novelist who writes literary fiction that probes the friction between ambition, desire, and the human...
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Petra Durst-Benning
Petra Durst-Benning is a German author of historical fiction. Her novels, including the Glassblower Trilogy and Century Trilogy series, have...
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Amy Tintera
Amy Tintera is an American author of young adult fantasy novels and adult thrillers. She grew up in Austin, Texas,...
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Katie Sise
Katie Sise is an American novelist who writes domestic suspense centered on women navigating secrets and lies. Her sixth novel,...
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Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi is an American author and historian who writes books for adults and children. His work spans numerous...
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Ania Ahlborn
Ania Ahlborn is a Polish-American author of horror and thriller novels, who made her debut in 2011 with Seed. Born...
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Lauren K. Denton
Lauren K. Denton is an American novelist who writes contemporary fiction rooted in Southern settings and family life. Born and...
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Ashley Audrain
Ashley Audrain is a Canadian author whose debut novel, The Push, introduced readers to a psychological drama about a woman...
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Annabel Monaghan
Annabel Monaghan writes contemporary romance novels and non-fiction. Before focusing on writing, she worked as an investment banker and taught...
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Jean M. Auel
Jean M. Auel is an American novelist known for her Earth's Children series, a set of prehistoric fiction novels that...
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Gilly Macmillan
Gilly Macmillan is an English author who writes crime fiction, mystery, and suspense novels. She grew up in Swindon, Wiltshire,...
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Tracy Rees
Tracy Rees is a Welsh author who writes historical fiction, women's fiction, and romance and became the first winner of...
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William P. Young
William P. Young is a Canadian novelist who writes suspense fiction that wrestles with faith, loss, and forgiveness. Raised among...
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Harper Lee
Harper Lee was an American novelist from Monroeville, Alabama, the daughter of a former newspaper editor and lawyer. She was...
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Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky is an American novelist and screenwriter who gave a generation its defining coming-of-age story with The Perks of...
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Heather Gudenkauf
Heather Gudenkauf is an American author of suspense novels, nominated for an Edgar Award. Her debut novel, The Weight of...
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Edward Rutherfurd
Edward Rutherfurd, the pen name of Francis Edward Wintle, writes historical fiction that spans centuries. He began his career after...
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Laurie Frankel
Laurie Frankel is an American author who writes novels, teaches writing, and has a background in gender studies. She made...
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Glendy Vanderah
Glendy Vanderah is an American author from Chicago. She is best known for her debut novel, Where the Forest Meets...
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Sofía Segovia
Sofía Segovia is a Mexican novelist who reached international readers with The Murmur of Bees, a book that won recognition...
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Garth Stein
Garth Stein is an American author who writes novels and stage plays. He is the author of four novels: A...
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Alex Lake
Alex Lake is a British novelist who writes psychological thrillers. After Anna, her debut novel published in 2015, became a...
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