The reading order for every great book series
Clear, no-fluff reading orders for 66 popular book series — with direct links to Amazon UK and Amazon US for every title.
Browse series (66)
Epic Fantasy
A Song of Ice and Fire
George R.R. Martin
Noble families clash for the Iron Throne while an ancient threat stirs beyond the Wall. The basis for HBO's Game of Thrones.
5 books · Ongoing
Contemporary Romance
Abby Jimenez
Abby Jimenez
Abby Jimenez writes laugh-out-loud contemporary romances with genuine emotional depth, set across two interconnected worlds: the Friend Zone trilogy and the Part of Your World / Yours Truly connected universe.
11 books · Ongoing
Cozy Mystery
Agatha Raisin
M.C. Beaton (continued by R.W. Green)
Retired London PR exec Agatha Raisin moves to the Cotswolds expecting a quiet life — and instead becomes an accidental amateur detective with a talent for stumbling into murder. M.C. Beaton's beloved cozy series blends sharp wit, village charm, and genuine suspense across nearly 40 novels.
36 books · Ongoing
Thriller
Alex Cross
James Patterson
Washington D.C. psychologist and homicide detective Alex Cross hunts the most dangerous serial killers in America while protecting the family he loves. One of the longest-running detective series in crime fiction.
32 books · Ongoing
Crime Mystery
Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves is the award-winning creator of four beloved British detective series — Inspector Ramsay, Vera Stanhope, Shetland's Jimmy Perez, and the Two Rivers Matthew Venn — spanning four decades of atmospheric, character-driven crime fiction.
32 books · Ongoing
Middle Grade Fantasy
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer
Twelve-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl discovers a hidden underground civilisation of fairies and pits his wits against them.
8 books · Complete
Religious Text
Books of the Bible
Various
The 66 books of the Protestant Christian Bible, spanning the Old and New Testaments, written by dozens of authors over more than a millennium. Together they form the foundational scripture of Christianity, encompassing law, history, poetry, prophecy, letters, and apocalyptic vision.
66 books · Complete
Espionage Thriller
Brad Thor (Scot Harvath)
Brad Thor
Former Navy SEAL and Secret Service agent Scot Harvath is America's most lethal covert operator. Brad Thor's ripped-from-the-headlines series is the gold standard of post-9/11 action thrillers, with a new installment almost every year since 2002.
24 books · Ongoing
Action Adventure
Clive Cussler (Dirk Pitt)
Clive Cussler / Dirk Cussler
Dirk Pitt is NUMA's swashbuckling special projects director — part adventurer, part action hero, entirely unstoppable. Clive Cussler's flagship series set the template for the modern adventure thriller, mixing high-seas action with historical mystery and globe-spanning intrigue across more than five decades.
27 books · Ongoing
Espionage Thriller
Daniel Silva (Gabriel Allon)
Daniel Silva
Israeli intelligence operative and master art restorer Gabriel Allon navigates the shadowy intersection of geopolitics, terrorism, and Old Masters paintings across 25 novels of elegant, ripped-from-the-headlines espionage fiction.
25 books · Ongoing
Women's Fiction
Danielle Steel
Danielle Steel
Danielle Steel is one of the bestselling fiction authors of all time with over 800 million copies sold — her 190+ standalone novels span romance, family drama, and historical fiction across five decades of prolific publishing.
50 books · Ongoing
Thriller
David Baldacci
David Baldacci
David Baldacci has built one of the richest thriller universes in American fiction — multiple series starring agents, investigators, and assassins, united by relentless pacing and Washington D.C. intrigue. His first novel was adapted into a Clint Eastwood film.
52 books · Ongoing
Legal Thriller
David Rosenfelt (Andy Carpenter)
David Rosenfelt
New Jersey defense attorney Andy Carpenter would rather watch football and play with his golden retriever Tara than take a case — but when he does, he tends to unravel conspiracies reaching from the courtroom to the highest levels of power. The funniest legal-thriller series in American crime fiction.
25 books · Ongoing
Crime Thriller
Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
Dexter Morgan is a Miami blood-spatter analyst with a secret: he's a serial killer who only targets murderers. Jeff Lindsay's darkly comic series balances forensic procedural with pitch-black character study across eight novels.
8 books · Complete
Children's Fiction
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney
Jeff Kinney's illustrated novel series follows middle-schooler Greg Heffley's hilariously disastrous attempts to survive school, family, and adolescence — all recorded in his own handwritten diary. One of the bestselling children's series in history with over 250 million copies sold.
21 books · Ongoing
Dystopian YA
Divergent
Veronica Roth
In a future Chicago split into five virtue-based factions, Beatrice 'Tris' Prior learns she belongs to none of them — and that this makes her a target.
4 books · Complete
Children's Graphic Novel
Dog Man
Dav Pilkey
Dav Pilkey's laugh-out-loud graphic novel series follows Dog Man, a crime-fighting hero with a dog's head and a police officer's body, as he battles villains and wins hearts. The series is beloved worldwide for turning reluctant readers into book lovers.
13 books · Ongoing
Science Fiction
Dune
Frank Herbert
On the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the universe's most valuable substance, noble houses scheme and a messianic figure rises.
6 books · Complete
Women's Fiction
Elin Hilderbrand
Elin Hilderbrand
Elin Hilderbrand, the Queen of the Beach Read, has written 30+ sun-drenched novels set on Nantucket Island — including the Winter Street quartet, the Paradise trilogy, and dozens of beloved standalones.
30 books · Ongoing
Contemporary Romance
Elsie Silver
Elsie Silver
Elsie Silver is a Canadian bestselling author known for her spicy small-town romances — the Chestnut Springs series and the Gold Rush Ranch series are her signature interconnected worlds.
10 books · Ongoing
Contemporary Romance
Emily Henry
Emily Henry
Emily Henry writes witty, emotionally rich contemporary romances that read like literary fiction — every book is a standalone, starting with Beach Read (2020).
6 books · Ongoing
Science Fiction
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Mathematician Hari Seldon foresees the fall of a galactic empire and founds a colony to shorten the coming dark age.
7 books · Complete
Psychological Thriller
Freida McFadden
Freida McFadden
Freida McFadden is one of today's most popular psychological thriller writers, known for devastating twists, unreliable narrators, and domestic menace that escalates to the final page. Her standalone thrillers — led by global phenomenon The Housemaid — have collectively sold tens of millions of copies worldwide.
14 books · Ongoing
Fantasy
Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling
A young wizard discovers his magical heritage and battles a dark sorcerer across seven school years at Hogwarts.
7 books · Complete
Military Thriller
Jack Carr (Terminal List)
Jack Carr
Navy SEAL James Reece returns from a mission where his entire team was killed — and discovers the conspiracy goes all the way to the top. Written by a real former SEAL sniper, this is military thriller fiction at its most authentic.
7 books · Ongoing
Thriller
Jack Reacher
Lee Child
A former US Army Major drifts across America with nothing but a toothbrush, stumbling into trouble and dispensing rough justice. Recent entries co-written with Andrew Child.
28 books · Ongoing
Christian Fiction
Jan Karon (Mitford)
Jan Karon
Jan Karon's Mitford series follows Episcopal priest Father Tim Kavanagh in a cozy North Carolina mountain village — fourteen novels of faith, community, humor, and the quiet drama of an ordinary life lived with grace.
14 books · Complete
Futuristic Crime Thriller
JD Robb (In Death)
J.D. Robb
Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb puts hardboiled NYPSD lieutenant Eve Dallas and her impossibly wealthy husband Roarke in a near-future New York — over 60 books and counting, the gold standard of romantic crime fiction.
64 books · Ongoing
Crime Thriller
Jesse Stone
Robert B. Parker
Alcoholic ex-LAPD detective Jesse Stone rebuilds his life as chief of police in Paradise, Massachusetts, where trouble follows him anyway. Robert B. Parker's most introspective hero, continued by Michael Brandman and then Reed Farrel Coleman.
24 books · Ongoing
Legal Thriller
John Grisham
John Grisham
America's best-selling legal thriller writer turns courtrooms, law firms, and small-town justice into edge-of-your-seat page-turners. Most novels are standalone; several recurring characters and settings anchor his most beloved series.
45 books · Ongoing
Children's Fantasy
Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger
Shannon Messenger's middle-grade fantasy series follows twelve-year-old Sophie Foster, a Telepath who discovers she belongs to a secret elven civilization called the Lost Cities and must unravel dangerous secrets about her own origins. An epic, emotionally intense saga praised for its complex characters and propulsive plotting.
11 books · Ongoing
Women's Fiction
Kristin Hannah
Kristin Hannah
Kristin Hannah has written 26 emotionally powerful novels spanning three decades — from early romances to sweeping historical epics like The Nightingale and The Four Winds.
26 books · Ongoing
Contemporary Romance
Laurie Gilmore (Dream Harbor)
Laurie Gilmore
Laurie Gilmore's Dream Harbor series is a cozy BookTok sensation — low-angst, autumnal small-town romances set in a fictional New England village full of charm, community, and swoony love interests.
6 books · Ongoing
Crime Thriller
Linda Castillo (Kate Burkholder)
Linda Castillo
Former Amish woman Kate Burkholder polices the small Ohio town of Painters Mill, where her dual cultural identity gives her unique insight into crimes touching the Amish community. Dark plots, beautifully rendered landscape.
17 books · Ongoing
Crime Thriller
Lisa Gardner
Lisa Gardner
Lisa Gardner is one of America's premier thriller writers, spinning four interlocking series — from FBI profiler Pierce Quincy to Boston detective D.D. Warren to wandering searcher Frankie Elkin — relentlessly paced and psychologically sharp.
27 books · Ongoing
Crime Thriller
Longmire (Walt Longmire)
Craig Johnson
Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire solves crimes against breathtaking high-plains landscape, Cheyenne culture, and bone-dry humor in Craig Johnson's beloved series — basis for the hit Netflix show.
27 books · Ongoing
Crime Thriller
Lucas Davenport (Prey)
John Sandford
Minneapolis detective-turned-U.S. Marshal Lucas Davenport hunts serial killers and organized criminals across one of crime fiction's most durable franchises. One book a year since 1989, no signs of slowing.
36 books · Ongoing
Contemporary Romance
Lucy Score
Lucy Score
Lucy Score's Knockemout series is a viral BookTok sensation following the complicated Morgan brothers and the women who love them in a small Virginia town — start with Things We Never Got Over.
3 books · Ongoing
Historical Mystery
Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear
Maisie Dobbs — working-class nurse turned private enquiry agent in interwar Britain — investigates cases that illuminate the lasting wounds of WWI and the shadow of a second war. Jacqueline Winspear's richly atmospheric series is as much literary fiction as mystery.
18 books · Complete
Crime Fiction
Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly's Los Angeles crime universe — anchored by detective Harry Bosch, defense attorney Mickey Haller, and detective Renée Ballard — is the most critically acclaimed crime series of the past thirty years. Gritty, psychologically deep, meticulous in its procedural detail.
38 books · Ongoing
Epic Fantasy
Mistborn (Era One)
Brandon Sanderson
In a world of ash and mist, a street thief learns she is a Mistborn, capable of burning metals for magic, and joins a heist to topple a god-emperor.
3 books · Complete
Espionage Thriller
Mitch Rapp
Vince Flynn
CIA counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp hunts terrorists without mercy and without apology — one of the most viscerally satisfying action thriller series ever written. Created by Vince Flynn and continued by Kyle Mills and Don Bentley.
24 books · Ongoing
Action Thriller
Orphan X (Evan Smoak)
Gregg Hurwitz
Evan Smoak was raised off the grid by a covert government program and trained as a lethal operative. Now rogue, he uses his impossible skills to help the desperate — while staying one step ahead of those who want him dead.
11 books · Ongoing
Historical Romance
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
A WWII nurse touches a standing stone in 1945 Scotland and is transported to 1743, where she meets Highlander Jamie Fraser.
9 books · Ongoing
Mystery
Paul Doiron (Mike Bowditch)
Paul Doiron
Maine game warden Mike Bowditch patrols some of the most remote wilderness in the eastern US — and keeps finding himself at the center of murder investigations. Paul Doiron's award-winning series is among the finest in American regional crime fiction.
18 books · Ongoing
Middle Grade Fantasy
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan
A twelve-year-old discovers he is the son of Poseidon and is pulled into a modern world where Greek gods still meddle in mortal lives.
5 books · Complete
Horror
Stephen King
Stephen King
The master of modern horror's complete novels in publication order — from supernatural dread to dystopian thriller, with the Dark Tower epic threading through it all. Includes works published as Richard Bachman.
65 books · Ongoing
Crime Thriller
Stuart Woods (Stone Barrington)
Stuart Woods
Stone Barrington is a former NYPD detective turned Manhattan attorney whose jet-set lifestyle keeps colliding with crime and powerful enemies. Stuart Woods wrote prolifically until his 2022 death; Brett Battles continues the series.
68 books · Ongoing
Literary Crime
Tana French
Tana French
Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad rotates detectives case-by-case across six novels of unmatched psychological depth, set against an atmospheric Ireland. Her standalones and Cal Hooper series are equally compelling.
10 books · Ongoing
Children's Fantasy
The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis
Children stumble into the magical land of Narnia, where they meet the lion Aslan and confront forces of evil across centuries of its history.
7 books · Complete
Urban Fantasy
The Dresden Files
Jim Butcher
Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing wizard for hire, takes on cases involving ghosts, faeries, vampires and worse.
17 books · Ongoing
Action Thriller
The Gray Man (Court Gentry)
Mark Greaney
Court Gentry — the Gray Man — is the CIA's most lethal former operative, now hunted by every intelligence agency on earth while working as a freelance assassin with a conscience. Mark Greaney's globe-spanning series is a masterclass in relentless action-thriller plotting.
15 books · Ongoing
Dystopian YA
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
In post-apocalyptic Panem, teenagers fight to the death in televised games. Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her sister's place and ignites a revolution.
5 books · Ongoing
YA Fantasy
The Inheritance Cycle
Christopher Paolini
A farm boy named Eragon finds a dragon's egg and becomes the first new Dragon Rider in a generation, opposing the tyrant Galbatorix.
5 books · Ongoing
YA Mystery
The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Jennifer Lynn Barnes's Inheritance Games universe is a compulsively readable YA locked-room mystery series following Avery Grambs as she inherits a billion-dollar fortune — and a mansion full of dangerous, irresistible Hawthorne brothers.
6 books · Ongoing
Fantasy
The Kingkiller Chronicle
Patrick Rothfuss
The legendary magician Kvothe recounts his life — from orphan to university student to fugitive — over three days to a scribe.
3 books · Ongoing
High Fantasy
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien's seminal trilogy follows a fellowship's quest to destroy the One Ring and end the dark lord Sauron's reign over Middle-earth.
4 books · Complete
Dystopian YA
The Maze Runner
James Dashner
Thomas wakes with no memory in a glade surrounded by a deadly maze, where teenage boys try to find a way out.
5 books · Complete
Urban Fantasy YA
The Mortal Instruments
Cassandra Clare
Clary Fray discovers a hidden world of Shadowhunters — half-angel warriors who hunt demons in modern-day New York.
6 books · Complete
Epic Fantasy
The Stormlight Archive
Brandon Sanderson
On the storm-battered world of Roshar, ancient orders of knights begin to return as humanity faces a renewed war with the Voidbringers.
5 books · Ongoing
Epic Fantasy
The Wheel of Time
Robert Jordan
An epic fantasy of three village youths swept into a war between Light and Shadow, completed by Brandon Sanderson from Robert Jordan's notes.
15 books · Complete
Dark Fantasy
The Witcher
Andrzej Sapkowski
Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter mutated for the job, traverses a Slavic-inspired fantasy world entangled with destiny and politics.
8 books · Complete
Crime Thriller
Tony Hillerman (Leaphorn & Chee)
Tony Hillerman
Navajo Tribal Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee solve crimes on the American Southwest's high desert in Tony Hillerman's landmark 18-novel series, continued by his daughter Anne Hillerman from 2013.
28 books · Ongoing
Paranormal Romance
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer
Bella Swan moves to Forks, Washington, and falls for Edward Cullen, a brooding vampire whose family clashes with rival covens and shape-shifting wolves.
5 books · Ongoing
Crime Thriller
Will Trent
Karin Slaughter
Karin Slaughter's Atlanta-set crime series follows Will Trent, a dyslexic GBI agent with a haunted past, and his partner Faith Mitchell as they investigate brutal cases across Georgia. Several entries crossover with Slaughter's Grant County series through the character of medical examiner Sara Linton.
14 books · Ongoing
Crime Thriller
William Kent Krueger
William Kent Krueger
Half-Irish, half-Ojibwe former sheriff Cork O'Connor navigates crime and community in the Minnesota lake country, where Krueger weaves Anishinaabe spirituality into richly human mysteries. His standalone novels, including the Edgar-winning Ordinary Grace, are equally acclaimed.
25 books · Ongoing