Authors: Series

This page probably tells you more than you'll ever need to know about those series of books that it lists (unless you plan to read them). But in the quizzing context, you should be prepared for questions such as "What was the title of the third book in Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy?"

This page won't test you on questions like this, however; it'll only test you on who wrote each series.

Some of these series are published as self–contained trilogies, quartets etc.; others simply feature the same character(s) or setting.

See also James Bond, Harry Potter, and Tolkien – all of which have been made into major film series, which are covered along with the books (in the Entertainment category).

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)			Douglas Adams
	The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)
	Life, the Universe and Everything (1982)
	So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984)
	Mostly Harmless (1992)
	And Another Thing ... (2009)			Eoin Colfer
The Helliconia trilogy (science fiction)	Helliconia Spring (1982)			Brian Aldiss
	Helliconia Summer (1983)
	Helliconia Winter (1985)
The Dollenganger Series Garden of Shadows was at least partly written by Andrew Neiderman, who wrote novels in Andrews's name after her death in 1986.	Flowers in the Attic (1979)			V. C. (Virginia) Andrews
	Petals on the Wind (1980)
	If There Be Thorns (1981)
	Seeds of Yesterday (1984)
	Garden of Shadows (1987)
The Casteel Series The first two novels in this series were written by Virginia Andrews. The third was started by Andrews and finished by Andrew Neiderman; the last two were "inspired" by Andrews and written by Neiderman. Neiderman continues to write novels in the name of Virginia Andrews, and by 2015 he had over 70 to his credit, in over 20 series.	Heaven (1985)			V. C. (Virginia) Andrews
	Dark Angel (1986)
	Fallen Hearts (1988)
	Gates of Paradise (1989)
	Web of Dreams (1990)
The Robot series	I, Robot (1950 – a collection of previously–published short stories)			Isaac Asimov
	The Caves of Steel (1953)
	The Naked Sun (1955)
	The Robots of Dawn (1983)
	Robots and Empire (1985)
The Galactic Empire series	Blind Alley (1945 – short story)			Isaac Asimov
	Pebble in the Sky (1950 – his first novel)
	The Stars, Like Dust (1951)
	The Currents of Space (1952)
The Foundation Trilogy: originally a series of eight stories, in three volumes – four in the first volume and two each in the second and third. The author was later persuaded to write four more books in the series.	Foundation (1951)			Isaac Asimov
	Foundation and Empire (1952)
	Second Foundation (1953)
	Foundation's Edge (1982)
	Foundation and Earth (1986)
	Prelude to Foundation (1988)
	Forward the Foundation (1993)
La Comedie Humaine 'The Human Comedy' is a vast collection of interlinked stories, novels and essays, depicting French society during the Restoration and the July Monarchy (1815–48). 91 were completed and 46 were unfinished – some only planned at his death in 1850. One of the principal characters is Eugene de Rastignac – a student, dandy, financier and politician, who appears or is mentioned in 28 of the works and whose name has become a byword in France for an ambitious 'arriviste' or social climber.	Starts with At the Sign of the Cat and Racket (1830) and ends with The Seamy Side of History (1848).			Honore de Balzac
	Other notable works in the series include The Black Sheep (1842).
The Culture series (of science fiction novels) Consider Phlebas, the title of the first novel in the series, is a quotation from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land; Look to Windward ("a loose follow–up" – Wikipedia) is from the previous line of the same poem	Consider Phlebas (1987)			Iain M. Banks
	The Player of Games (1988)
	Use of Weapons (1990)
	The State of the Art (1991 – short story collection)
	Excession (1996)
	Inversions (1998)
	Look to Windward (2000)
	Matter (2008)
	Surface Detail (2010)
	The Hydrogen Sonata (2012)
The Regeneration trilogy The Ghost Road won the Booker prize in 1996.	Regeneration (1991)			Pat Barker
	The Eye in the Door (1993)
	The Ghost Road (1995)
The Clayhanger trilogy	Clayhanger (1910)			Arnold Bennett
	Hilda Lessways (1911)
	These Twain (1916)
The Emma Harte Saga (A Woman of Substance was her first and most successful novel)	A Woman of Substance (1979)			Barbara Taylor Bradford
	Hold the Dream (1985)
	To Be the Best (1988)
	Emma's Secret (2003)
	Unexpected Blessings (2005)
	Just Rewards (2005)
	Breaking the Rules (2009)
The Ravenscar Trilogy (2006–8)	The Ravenscar Dynasty (2006)
	Heirs of Ravenscar (2007) (US title The Heir)
	Being Elizabeth (2008)
The Robert Langdon series	Angels and Demons (2000)			Dan Brown
	The Da Vinci Code (2003)
	The Lost Symbol (2009)
	Inferno (2013)
	Origin (2017)
The Enderby Quartet Inside Mr. Enderby was published under the pseudonym of Joseph Kell, which the author had used once before (for One Hand Clapping, 1961). The Yorkshire Post sent a copy to the author for review, which he duly submitted. After the Editor found out that the reviewer and author were one and the same person, he was not asked to review any more books. Burgess's best–known novel, A Clockwork Orange, was published in 1962.	Inside Mr. Enderby (1963)			Anthony Burgess
	Enderby Outside (1968)
	The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End (1974)
	Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End of Enderby (1984)
The Second World War These six books were later re–issued in twelve paperback volumes and in a condensed four–volume edition. Note that there was also an official history of the Second World War, running to almost 100 volumes published by HMSO between 1949 and 1993.	The Gathering Storm (1948)			Winston Churchill
	Their Finest Hour (1949)
	The Grand Alliance (1950)
	The Hinge of Fate (1950)
	Closing the Ring (1951)
	Triumph and Tragedy (1953)
A History of the English–Speaking Peoples	The Birth of Britain (1956)			Winston Churchill
	The New World (1956)
	The Age of Revolution (1957)
	The Great Democracies (1958)
The Hunger Games trilogy	Hunger Games (2008)			Suzanne Collins
	Catching Fire (2009)
	Mockingjay (2010)
The Mary Ann series	A Grand Man (1954)			Catherine Cookson
	The Lord and Mary Ann (1956)
	The Devil and Mary Ann (1958)
	Love and Mary Ann (1961)
	Life and Mary Ann (1962)
	Marriage and Mary Ann (1964)
	Mary Ann's Angels (1965)
	Mary Ann and Bill (1967)
The Mallen trilogy	The Mallen Streak (1973)			Catherine Cookson
	The Mallen Girl (1974)
	The Mallen Litter (1974)
The Tilly Trotter trology	Tilly Trotter (1980) – a.k.a. Tilly			Catherine Cookson
	Tilly Trotter Wed (1981) – a.k.a. Tilly Wed
	Tilly Trotter Widowed (1982) – a.k.a. Tilly Alone
The Hamilton series	Hamilton (1983)			Catherine Cookson
	Goodbye Hamilton (1984)
	Harold (1985)
The Bill Bailey series Wikipedia describes this as a trilogy – the fourth volume (published nine years after the third) does seem to be something of an afterthought.	Bill Bailey (1986)			Catherine Cookson
	Bill Bailey's Lot (1987) – a.k.a. Bill Bailey's Litter
	Bill Bailey's Daughter (1988)
	The Bondage of Love (1997)
The Katy series The last two books focused less on Katy and more on her younger sisters and brothers. Clover was the name of the eldest of these.	What Katy Did (1872)			Susan Coolidge
	What Katy Did At School (1873)
	What Katy Did Next (1886)
	Clover (1888)
	In the High Valley (1890)
The "Leatherstocking tales"	The Pioneers (1823)			James Fenimore Cooper
	The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
	The Prairie (1827)
	The Pathfinder (1840)
	The Deerslayer (1841 prequel)
The Sharpe series	See separate page			Bernard Cornwell
The Warlord trilogy	The Winter King (1995)			Bernard Cornwell
	Enemy of God (1996)
	Excalibur (1997)
The Grail Quest trilogy	Harlequin (2000) – a.k.a. The Archer's Tale			Bernard Cornwell
	Vagabond (2002)
	Heretic (2003)
The Salterton Trilogy	Tempest–Tost (1951)			Robertson Davies
	Leaven of Malice (1954)
	A Mixture of Frailties (1958)
The Deptford Trilogy	Fifth Business (1970)			Robertson Davies
	The Manticore (1972)
	World of Wonders (1975)
The Cornish Trilogy	The Rebel Angels (1981)			Robertson Davies
	What's Bred in the Bone (1985)
	The Lyre of Orpheus (1988)
The "Toronto Trilogy" (incomplete)	Murther and Walking Spirits (1991)			Robertson Davies
	The Cunning Man (1994)
The Game, Set and Match trilogy	Berlin Game (1983)			Len Deighton
	Mexico Set (1984)
	London Match (1985)
The Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy	Spy Hook (1988)			Len Deighton
	Spy Line (1989)
	Spy Sinker (1990)
The Faith, Hope and Charity trilogy	Faith (1994)			Len Deighton
	Hope(1995)
	Charity (1996)
The Francis Urquhart trilogy	House of Cards (1989)			Michael Dobbs
	To Play the King (1992)
	The Final Cut (1994)
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant The series began as a trilogy, entitled The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever. This was followed by another trilogy: The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, and finally a tetralogy: The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.	Lord Foul's Bane (1977)			Stephen Donaldson
	The Illearth War (1978)
	The Power that Preserves (1979)
	The Wounded Land (1980)
	The One Tree (1982)
	White Gold Wielder (1983)
	The Runes of the Earth (2004)
	Fatal Revenant (2007)
	Against All Things Ending (2010)
	The Last Dark (2013)
The USA trilogy	The 42nd Parallel (1930)			John Dos Passos
	1919 (1932)
	The Illearth War (1978)
The District of Columbia trilogy	Adventures of a Young Man (1939)			John Dos Passos
	Number One (1943)
	The Grand Design (1949)
The Barrytown trilogy	The Commitments (1987)			Roddy Doyle
	The Snapper (1990)
	The Van (1991)
The Alexandria Quartet	Justine (1957)			Lawrence Durrell
	Balthazar (1958)
	Mountolive (1958)
	Clea (1960)
The Bridget Jones diaries	Bridget Jones's Diary (1996)			Helen Fielding
	Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (1998)
	Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2013)
	Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries (2016)
The Fifth Queen trilogy	The Fifth Queen, and How She Came to Court (1906)			Ford Madox Ford
	Privy Seal (1907)
	The Fifth Queen Crowned (1908)
The Parade's End tetralogy	Some Do Not ... (1924)			Ford Madox Ford
	No More Parades (1925)
	A Man Could Stand Up (1926)
	Last Post (1928)
The Hornblower series Hornblower and the Crisis was unfinished at the time of the author's death in 1966. There were also five short stories. The first three were published in Argosy magazine (three in 1941 and one in 1951); these four all have "Hornblower" in their titles. The fifth was The Last Encounter – published in 1967 along with Hornblower and the Crisis	The Happy Return (1937)			C. S. Forester
	A Ship of the Line (1938)
	Flying Colours (1938)
	The Commodore (1945)
	Lord Hornblower (1946)
	Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
	Lieutenant Hornblower (1952)
	Hornblower and the Atropos (1953)
	Hornblower in the West Indies (1958)
	Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962)
	Hornblower and the Crisis (1967)
The Flashman Papers – title character based on a minor character in Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown's Schooldays	12 books, starting with Flashman (1960) and ending with Flashman on the March (2005)			George MacDonald Fraser
The Forsyte Saga The saga also includes two short "interludes": Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1918) and Awakening (1920)	Man of Property (1906)			John Galsworthy
	In Chancery (1920)
	To Let (1921)
A Scots Quair	Sunset Song (1932)			Lewis Grassic Gibbon
	Cloud Howe (1933)
	Grey Granite (1934)
To the Ends of the Earth (trilogy) Rites of Passage won the Booker prize.	Rites of Passage (1980)			William Golding
	Close Quarters (1987)
	Fire Down Below (1989)
The 'Doctor' series	16 novels, starting with Doctor in the House (1952), Doctor at Sea (1953) and Doctor at Large (1954) ... and ending with Doctor in the Soup (1986). Also three focusing on Sir Lancelot Spratt – two published in 1965 and one in 1999			Richard Gordon
The Poldark novels Originally four novels. The original BBC television series (1975 and 1977) followed the publication of the fifth, and its success led to seven more, ending with Bella Poldark (2002).	Ross Poldark (1945)			Winston Graham
	Demelza (1946)
	Jeremy Poldark (1950)
	Warleggan (1953)
	The Black Moon (1975)
The Quiller novels The Quiller novels were published under one of many pen names used by the British author Trevor Dudley–Smith (1920–95), who eventually changed his name to Elleston Trevor – the name under which he published almost 40 books between 1945 and 1965, including The Flight of the Phoenix (1964).	The first Quiller novel was The Berlin Memorandum (1965), which was filmed in 1966 as The Quiller Memorandum, starring George Segal as Quiller. The second Quiller novel was The 9th Directive (1966); the 19th and last was Quiller Balalaika (1996).			Adam Hall
The Cicero trilogy (about the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero)	Imperium (2006)			Robert Harris
	Lustrum (2009)
	Dictator (October 2015)
The Eustace and Hilda trilogy	The Shrimp and the Anemone (1944)			L. P. Hartley
	The Sixth Heaven (1946)
	Eustace and Hilda (1947)
The Dune saga	Dune (1965)			Frank Herbert
	Dune Messiah (1969)
	Children of Dune (1976)
	God Emperor of Dune (1981)
	Heretics of Dune (1984)
	Chapterhouse: Dune (1985)
James Herriot books (described in Wikipedia as "autobiographical novels")	If Only They Could Talk (1970)			James Herriot
	It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1972)
	Let Sleeping Vets Lie (1973)
	Vet in Harness (1974)
	Vets Might Fly (1976)
	Vet in a spin (1974)
	"Omnibus" editions (two of the above in each, in the same order):
	All Creatures Great and Small (1972)
	All Things Bright and Beautiful (1974)
	All Things Wise and Wonderful (1977)
	Later:
	The Lord God Made them All (1981)
	Every Living Thing (1992)
The Duncton Chronicles	Duncton Wood (1980)			William Horwood
	Duncton Quest (1988)
	Duncton Found (1989)
The Book of Silence	Duncton Tales (1991)			William Horwood
	Duncton Rising (1992)
	Duncton Stone (1993)
Tales of the Willows These are sequels to Kenneth Grahame's classic The Wind in the Willows.	The Willows in Winter (1993)			William Horwood
	Toad Triumphant (1995)
	The Willows and Beyond (1996)
	The Willows at Christmas (1999)
The Cazelet Chronicles (married to Peter Scott 1942–51, and Kingsley Amis 1965–83)	The Light Years (1990)			Elizabeth Jane Howard
	Marking Time (1991)
	Confusion (1993)
	Casting Off (1995)
	All Change (2013)
The Mike Tucker / Black Cat mysteries	Blood Risk (1973)			Dean Koontz
	Surrounded (1974)
	The Wall of Masks (1975)
The Odd Thomas series	Odd Thomas (2003)			Dean Koontz
	Forever Odd (2005)
	Brother Odd (2006)
	Odd Hours (2008)
	Odd Interlude (2012 novella)
	Odd Apocalypse (2012)
	Deeply Odd (2013)
	Odd Thomas: You are Destined to be Odd Forever (novella, 2014)
	Saint Odd (2015)
The Frankenstein series	Prodigal Son (2005)			Dean Koontz
	City of Night (2005)
	Dead and Alive (2009)
	Lost Sould (2010)
	The Dead Town (2011)
The Millennium series	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005)			Stieg Larsson
	The Girl who Played with Fire (2006)
	The Girl who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (2007)
	The Girl in the Spider's Web (2015)			David Lagercrantz
	The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (2017)
	The Girl Who Lived Twice (2019)
Canopus in Argos: Archives (science fiction)	Shikasta (1979)			Doris Lessing
	The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980)
	The Sirian Experiments (1980)
	The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (1982)
	The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (1983)
The Children of Violence series	Martha Quest (1952)			Doris Lessing
	A Proper Marriage (1954)
	A Ripple from the Storm (1958)
	Landlocked (1965)
	The Four–Gated City (1969)
The first three Jason Bourne novels (see also Eric Van Lustbader)	The Bourne Identity (1980)			Robert Ludlum
	The Bourne Supremacy (1986)
	The Bourne Ultimatum (1990)
The Campus Trilogy	Changing Places (1975)			David Lodge
	Small World (1984)
	Nice Work (1988)
The Balkan Trilogy	The Great Fortune (1960)			Olivia Manning
	The Spoilt City (1962)
	Friends and Heroes (1965)
The Levant Trilogy	The Danger Tree (1977)			Olivia Manning
	The Battle Lost and Won (1978)
	The Sum of Things (1980)
The Thomas Cromwell Trilogy	Wolf Hall (2009)			Hilary Mantel
	Bring Up the Bodies (2012)
	The Mirror and the Light (2020)
A Song of Ice and Fire The television series started in 2011 and Series 5 was broadcast in 2015. Series 1 and 2 covered the first two novels, respectively; the third novel was covered in Series 3 and 4, and the fourth and fifth in Series 5. (Some elements of the last two were included in Series 3.)	A Game of Thrones (1996)			George R. R. Martin
	A Clash of Kings (1998)
	A Storm of Swords (2000)
	A Feast for Crows (2005)
	A Dance with Dragons (2011)
	The Winds of Winter (tba)
	A Dream of Spring (tba)
Tales of the City The first four titles were serialised in the San Francisco Chronicle before publication as novels, and the fifth in the San Francisco Examiner. The last four were originally published as novels. The series centres around the experiences of Mary Ann Singleton, a naive young woman from Cleveland, Ohio, who visits San Francisco on holiday and impulsively decides to stay.	Tales of the City (1978)			Armitstead Maupin
	More Tales of the City (1980)
	Further Tales of the City (1982)
	Babycakes (1984)
	Significant Others (1987)
	Sure of You (1989)
	Michael Tolliver Lives (2007)
	Mary Ann in Autumn (2010)
	The Days of Anna Madrigal (2014)
'87th Precinct' crime novels Ed McBain was one of the pen names used by the American author Salvatore Albert Lombino (1926–2005). In 1952 he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter, and he used this for his first book (also in 1952) and for over 30 others throughout  his subsequent life. He used the Ed McBain pseudonym for his crime novels, particularly the 87th Precinct series, which he freely admitted were inspired by the popular radio and television series Dragnet (first broadcast on the radio in 1949 and on television in 1951).	Over 50 novels, starting with Cop Hater (1956) and ending with Fiddlers (2005)			Ed McBain
The Four Winds of Love	The East Wind of Love (1937)			Compton Mackenzie
	The South Wind of Love (1938)
	The West Wind of Love (1940)
	West to North (1942)
	The North Wind of Love, Book 1 (1944)
	The North Wind of Love, Book 2 (1944)
The Twilight Saga	Twilight (2005)			Stephenie Meyer
	New Moon (2006)
	Eclipse (2007)
	Breaking Dawn (2008)
The Rosy Crucifixion A fictionalized account of the six–year period of his life in Brooklyn as he falls for his second wife June and struggles to become a writer, leading up to his initial departure for Paris in 1928	Sexus (1949)			Henry Miller
	Plexus (1953)
	Nexus (1960)
The Cornelius quartet (central character Jerry Cornelius)	The Final Programme (1969)			Michael Moorcock
	A Cure for Cancer (1971)
	The English Assassin (1972)
	The Condition of Muzak (1977)
The Corum series (two trilogies, the first of which is known as the Swords trilogy)	The Knight of Swords (1971)			Michael Moorcock
	The Queen of Swords (1971)
	The King of Swords (1971)
	The Bull and the Spear (1973)
	The Oak and the Ram (1973)
	The Sword and the Stallion (1974)
The Languedoc trilogy	Labyrinth (2005)			Kate Mosse
	Sepulchre (2007)
	Citadel (2012)
The Borrowers stories Mary Norton's first two books – The Magic Bed Knob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons (1943) and its sequel Bonfires and Broomsticks (1945) – were republished in 1957 as an omnibus edition under the title Bedknob and Broomstick, and filmed by Disney in 1971 as (you've guessed it) Bedknobs and Broomsticks.	The Borrowers (1952)			Mary Norton
	The Borrowers Afield (1955)
	The Borrowers Afloat (1959)
	The Borrowers Aloft (1961)
	Poor Stainless (1966)
	The Borrowers Avenged (1982)
Aubrey–Maturin series	20 novels, starting with Master and Commander (1970) and ending with Blue at the Mizzen (1999), plus one unfinished – published 2004 as The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey			Patrick O'Brian
The Country Girls trilogy	The Country Girls (1960)			Edna O'Brien
	The Lonely Girl (1962)
	Girls in their Married Bliss (1964)
The Gormenghast trilogy	Titus Groan (1946)			Mervyn Peake
	Gormenghast (1950)
	Titus Alone (1959)
A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell's 12–volume novel cycle was named after the painting that inspired it, which was by the French artist Nicolas Poussin (c. 1636).	A Question of Upbringing (1951)			Anthony Powell
	A Buyer's Market (1952)
	The Acceptance World (1955)
	At Lady Molly's (1957)
	Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960)
	The Kindly Ones (1962)
	The Valley of Bones (1964)
	The Soldier's Art (1966)
	The Military Philosophers (1968)
	Books Do Furnish a Room (1971)
	Temporary Kings (1973)
	Hearing Secret Harmonies (1975)
The Discworld novels Terry Pratchett was the UK's best selling author in the 1990s, but he has since been overtaken by J. K. Rowling. Born in 1948, Pratchett was diagnosed with early–onset Alzheimer's disease in 2007. He died in 2015, aged 66. Raising Steam was the last Discworld novel to be published in his lifetime.	Over 40 volumes, including (the first 8 and the last 2):			Terry Pratchett
	The Colour of Magic (1983)
	The Light Fantastic (1986)
	Equal Rites (1987)
	Mort (1987)
	Sourcery (1988)
	Wyrd Sisters (1988)
	Pyramids (1989)
	Guards! Guards! (1989)
	...
	Raising Steam (2013)
	The Shepherd's Crown (2015)
Wyoming Stories (3 volumes of short stories)	Close Range (1999)			E. Annie Proulx
	Bad Dirt (2004)
	Fine Just the Way It Is (2008)
In Search of Lost Time (a.k.a. In Remembrance of Things Past) – French title À la Recherche du Temps Perdu	Swann's Way (1913)			Marcel Proust
	In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (1919)
	The Guermantes Way (1920–1)
	Sodom and Gomorrah (1921–2)
	The Prisoner (1923)
	The Fugitive (1925)
	Time Regained (1927)
His Dark Materials	Northern Lights (1995 – known in the USA as The Golden Compass)			Philip Pullman
	The Subtle Knife (1997)
	The Amber Spyglass (2000)
The Book of Dust ... is a prequel to His Dark Materials. The novella Once Upon a Time in the North (2008) was a previous prequel.	La Belle Sauvage (2017)			Philip Pullman
	The Secret Commonwealth (2019)
	TBA
The Vampire Chronicles	11 novels, up to 2014:			Anne Rice
	Interview with the Vampire (1976)
	The Vampire Lestat (1985)
	The Queen of the Damned (1988)
	...
	Prince Lestat (2014)
	Blood Paradise (tba)
The Raj Quartet	The Jewel in the Crown (1966)			Paul Scott
	The Day of the Scorpion (1968)
	The Towers of Silence (1971)
	A Division of the Spoils (1974)
The Waverley novels Scott wrote well over 20 novels in his lifetime. By the time he wrote the first of them, Waverley, he was already well known as a poet and a researcher into the Scottish oral tradition. Considering the novel to be an inferior form of literature, he published Waverley anonymously, and his subsequent novels were published as "by the author of Waverley". "The Waverley novels" can therefore be taken to refer to all of his novels, but certain volumes are sometimes excluded for various reasons. The exclusions commonly include those in the Tales of My Landlord series (see below) and two that were published posthumously in 2008: The Siege of Malta and Bizarro.	Approximately 20 novels (see left), including:			Sir Walter Scott
	Waverley (1814)
	Guy Mannering (1815)
	The Antiquary (1816)
	Rob Roy (1817)
	Ivanhoe (1819)
	Kenilworth (1821)
	...
	The Fair Maid of Perth (1828)
	Anne of Geierstein (1829)
Tales of My Landlord This is often described as a subset of the Waverley series. The tales were supposed to have been collected from the landlord of the Wallace Inn at Gandercleugh, compiled by one "Peter Pattieson", and sent to the publisher by their editor, Jedediah Cleishbotham. (Pattieson, Cleishbotham, the Wallace Inn, and Gandercleugh itself, are all fictional.)	First series (1816):			Sir Walter Scott
	The Black Dwarf
	The Tale of Old Mortality
	Second series (1818):
	The Heart of Midlothian
	Third series (1819):
	The Bride of Lammermoor
	A Legend of Montrose
	Fourth series (1832):
	Count Robert of Paris
	Castle Dangerous
The Courtney novels Telling the story of the Courtney family from the 17th century through to 1987. The story begins at the time of the Anglo–Zulu wars, in the late 19th century; the next six novels take us up to 1987, in more or less chronological sequence (with a regression to the 1970s in book 8). Book 9 takes us right back to the 17th century; books 10 and 11 follow on from there, ending in the 1730s. Book 12 picks up the story in the 1880s, and book 13 takes us up to the First World War. Book 14, Golden Lion, is a sequel to Monsoon and Blue Horizon (books 10 and 11). It was written in collaboration with Giles Kristian, possibly marking the passage of Wilbur Smith from an 82–year–old writer into a brand.	When the Lion Feeds (1964, 1860s–1890s)			Wilbur Smith
	The Sound of Thunder (1966, 1899–1906)
	A Sparrow Falls (1977, 1918–25)
	The Burning Shore (1985, 1917–20)
	Power of the Sword (1986, 1931–48)
	Rage (1987, 1950s and 60s)
	A Time to Die (1989, 1987)
	Golden Fox (1990, 1969–79)
	Birds of Prey (1997, 1660s)
	Monsoon (1999, 1690s)
	Blue Horizon (2003, 1730s)
	The Triumph of the Sun (2005, 1880s)
	Assegai (2009, 1906–18)
	Golden Lion (2015 – mid–to–late 18th century)
The Ballantyne novels 5 novels, telling the story of the Ballantyne family from the 1860s through to the 1980s. The first four Ballantyne novels were written after the first sequence of Courtney novels, and cover more or less the same historical period. Assegai, which also appears in the Courtney series, returns to the Edwardian period and combines the narrative of the two sagas.	A Falcon Flies (1980, 1860s)			Wilbur Smith
	Men of Men (1981, 1870s – 1890s)
	The Angels Weep (1982, 1890s and 1977)
	The Leopard Hunts in Darkness (1984, 1980s)
	Assegai (2009, 1906–18)
The Ancient Egypt series Set in ancient Egypt, around 1550 BC. The Seventh Scroll is set in modern times, but reflects the other books in the series via archaeological discoveries.	River God (1994)			Wilbur Smith
	The Seventh Scroll (1995)
	Warlock (2001)
	The Quest (2007)
	Desert God (2014)
Strangers and Brothers	George Passant (1940 – original title Strangers and Brothers)			C. P. Snow
	The Light and the Dark (1947)
	Time of Hope (1949)
	The Masters (1951)
	The New Men (1954)
	Homecomings (1956)
	The Conscience of the Rich (1958)
	The Affair (1960)
	Corridors of Power (1964)
	The Sleep of Reason (1968)
	Last Things (1970)
Lark Rise to Candleford (originally a trilogy, published together with this title in 1945; a BBC TV series of the same title was broadcast 2008–11)	Lark Rise (1939)			Flora Thompson
	Over to Candleford (1941)
	Candleford Green (1943)
The Adrian Mole diaries	The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13¾ (1982)			Sue Townsend
	The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1985)
	The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole (1989)
	Adrian Mole: the Wilderness Years (1993)
	Adrian Mole: the Cappuccino Years (1999)
	Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004)
	Adrian Mole: the Prostrate Years (2009)
The Chronicles of Barsetshire	The Warden (1855)			Anthony Trollope
	Barchester Towers (1857)
	Doctor Thorne (1858)
	Framley Parsonage (1861)
	The Small House at Allington (1864)
	The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)
The Palliser novels	Can You Forgive Her? (1865)			Anthony Trollope
	Phineas Phinn (1869)
	The Eustace Diamonds (1873)
	Phineas Redux (1874)
	The Prime Minister (1876)
	The Duke's Children (1880)
The 'Rabbit' series Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, the protagonist of the Rabbit series, is a former High School basketball star. The series chronicles his life, which is mundane and unrewarding despite his inheriting a Toyota dealership from his father–in–law (in the third novel). Set against the times in which the novels were written, Harry's life is a microcosm of the development of American society in that period.	Rabbit, Run (1960)			John Updike
	Rabbit Redux (1971)
	Rabbit is Rich (1981)
	Rabbit at Rest (1990)
	Rabbit Remembered (2000 – novella)
The later Jason Bourne novels (see also Robert Ludlum)	The Bourne Legacy (2004)			Eric Van Lustbader
	The Bourne Betrayal (2007)
	The Bourne Sanction (2008)
	The Bourne Deception (2009)
	The Bourne Objective (2010)
	The Bourne Dominion (2011)
	The Bourne Imperative (2012)
	The Bourne Retribution (2013)
	The Bourne Ascendancy (2014)
	The Bourne Enigma (2015)
The Narratives of Empire series	Washington, DC (1967)			Gore Vidal
	Burr (1973)
	1876 (1976)
	Lincoln (1984)
	Empire (1987)
	Hollywood (1990)
	The Golden Age (2000)
The Herries Chronicles A family saga set in the Lake District, the four Herries novels were published in 1939 as an omnibus edition entitlted The Herries Chronicles.	Rogue Herries (1930)			Hugh Walpole
	Judith Paris (1931)
	The Fortress (1932)
	Vanessa (1933)
The 'Sword of Honour' trilogy (loosely based on his experiences during World War II)	Men at Arms (1952)			Evelyn Waugh
	Officers and Gentlemen (1955)
	Unconditional Surrender (1961)
The Rougon–Macquart novels – 20 volumes, following the lives of the members of the Rougon and Macquart branches of a fictional family living during the Second French Empire (1852–1870)	Including:			Emile Zola
	The Rougon Fortune (1871 – first)
	The Belly of Paris (1873)
	Nana (1880)
	Germinal (1885)
	Doctor Pascal (1893 – last)

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