fadedroses- Fiction Book Series Authors (A-Z)

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381. The best site for finding authors and series

Is Fantastic Fiction. The database is enormous, some 50,000 writers with their entire catalogues listed, including any series, in order.

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/

Stop You're Killing Me is not as up to date nor as complete as it could be. I've seen plenty of books in an author's mystery oeuvre that aren't in their listings.

The bookstore sites are wonky, at best. They may or may not have a listing for foreign author books, or books that are out of print.

A surprise aid to finding books is Wikipedia, if you know the name of the author. This is especially useful for foreign authors who have limited publication here. While I'll read writers of any nationality/ethnicity, I'm a particular fan of East Asian writers, who can be tough to track down sometimes with the ordinary sources.

Part of the problem with Asian writers is that the the spellings of names can vary a great deal when transcribing from ideograms into the Latin alphabet, or depending on publisher. If you know the languages or historic English spellings, you can often figure out the variations...but not always.

Enter: Wikipedia, which can help with finding those authors based on the most standard spellings of names. They also can be a great source for complete lists of an author's works. It's the book list that is the big treasure trove, though. Searching by title can often track down those books that you wouldn't find with the name alone.

Hope this helps!