Mary Russell Mystery Series

by Laurie King

1. The Beekeeper's Aprrentice
2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women
3. A Letter of Mary
4. The Moor
5. O Jerusalem
6. Justice Hall
7. The Game
8. Locked Rooms
9. Language of Bees

Laurie King's website.

Rosato & Associates

by Lisa Scottoline

1. Everywhere That Mary Went* (not officially part of the series but it features a main figure in the series, Mary DiNunzio)
2. Legal Tender*
3. Rough Justice*
4. Mistaken Identity
5. Moment of Truth
6. The Vendetta Defense*
7. Courting Trouble
8. Dead Ringer
9. Killer Smile
10. Lady Killer
11. Think Twice

*books I own

World War I Series

by Anne Perry

1. No Graves As Yet
2. Shoulder the Sky
3. Angels in the Gloom
4. At Some Disputed Barricade
5. We Shall Not Sleep

Anne Perry's website.

Oregon/California - Maria Cahill

by Lisa Jackson

1. If She Only Knew
2. Deep Freeze
3. Fatal Burn
4. Almost Dead

New Orleans - Eve Renner

by Lisa Jackson

1. Hot Blooded
2. Cold Blooded
3. The Night Before
4. Shiver
5. Absolute Fear
6. Lost Souls
7. Malice

Blossom Street Series (or the Knitting Books Series)

by Debbie Macomber

1. The Shop on Blossom Street
2. A Good Yarn*
3. Back On Blossom Street

Website for this series.

Benjamin Weaver Series

by David Liss

1. A Conspiracy of Paper (Edgar Award 2001)
2. A Spectacle of Corruption*
3. The Devil's Company


David Liss' webpage.

Koontz's Frankenstein Series

by Dean Koontz

1. Frankenstein One: Prodigal Son
2. Frankenstein Two: City of Night
3. Frankenstein Three:

Dean Koontz's website.

William Monk/Hester Latterly Mystery Series

by Anne Perry

1. The Face of a Stranger
2. A Dangerous Mourning
3. Defend and Betray
4. A Sudden Fearful Death
5. The Sins of the Wolf
6. Cain His Brother
7. Weighed in the Balance
8. The Silent Crime
9. White Sepulchres (A Breach of Promise)
10. The Twisted Root
11. Slaves and Obsession
12. A Funeral in Blue
13. Death of a Stranger
14. The Shifting Tide
15. Dark Assassin

The list and a brief synopsis of each book can be found HERE.

Thursday Next Series

by Jasper Fforde

1. The Eyre Affair
2. Lost in a Good Book
3. The Well of Lost Plots
4. Something Rotten
5. First Among Sequels*

Jasper Fforde's really wacky website.

Discworld Series

by Terry Pratchett

There are different 'groups' within the Discworld series. The 'groups' are written inside the parenthesis. Some books are part of more than one group. The titles highligted in red are indicate the starter book for group.

1. The Color of Magic (Rincewind)
2. The Light Fantastic (Rincewind)
3. Equal Rites (The Witches)
4. Mort (Death)
5. Sourcery (Rincewind)
6. Wyrd Sisters (The Witches)
7. Pyramids (Gods)
8. Guards! Guards! (The City Watch)
9. Eric (Rincewind)
10. Moving Pictures (The Wizards)
11. Reaper Man (Death, The Wizards)
12. Witches Abroad (The Witches)
13. Lords and Ladies (The Witches, The Wizards)
14. Small Gods (The History Monks, Gods)
15. Men at Arms (The City Watch)
16. Soul Music (Death, Susan, The Wizards)
17. Interesting Times (Rincewind, The Silver Horde)
18. Maskerade (The Witches)
21. Feet of Clay (The City Watch)
22. The Hogfather (Death, Susan, The Wizards, Gods)
23. Jingo (The City Watch)
25. The Last Continent (Rincewind, The Wizards)
26. Carpe Jugulum (The Witches, Uberwald)
27. The Fifth Elephant (The City Watch)
28. The Truth (William de Worde, The City Watch)
29. The Thief of Time (Death, Susan, The History Monks)
30. The Last Hero (Rincewind, The Silver Horde)
31. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
32. Night Watch (The City Watch)
33. Monstrous Regiment (William de Worde, The City Watch)
34. Going Postal (Moist von Lipwig)
35. Thud! (The City Watch)
36. Making Money (Moist von Lipwig)
37. Where's My Cow (The City Watch)

Click HERE to see Wikipedia's list of books, published date and motifs.

For Discworld Reading Order Guides (really cool concept maps) go to L-Space. Be sure to check out the Graphic and the Excel. Very nice!

Terry Pratchett's website.

The Southern Sisters Mystery Series

by Anne George

1. Murder on a Girl's Night Out
2. Murder on a Bad Hair Day
3. Murder Runs In the Family*
4. Murder Makes Waves*
5. Murder Gets a Life
6. Murder Shoots the Bull
7. Murder Carries a Torch
8. Murder Dirty Boogies With Elvis

Anne George's website.

Ursula Blanchard

by Fiona Buckley

1. To Shield the Queen
2. Doublet Affair
3. Queen's Ransom
4. To Ruin a Queen

The rest of the books in this series can be found HERE.

Anne of Green Gables Series

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

List in order of Anne Shirley's age - not according to publication date.

1. Anne of Green Gables
2. Anne of Avonlea*
3. Anne of the Island*
4. Anne of Windy Poplars (or Anne of Windy Willows)
5. Anne's House of Dreams
6. Anne of Ingleside
7. Rainbow Valley
8. Rilla of Ingleside

Medieval Mystery

by Lisa Jackson (written as susan Lynn Crose)

1. Impostress
2. Temptress
3. Sorceress

A list of all Jackson's books and series can be found HERE.

Alex Cross

by James Patterson

1. Along Came A Spider
2. Kiss the Girls
3. Jack & Jill
4. Cat and Mouse
5. Pop Goes the Weasel
6. Roses Are Red
7. Violets Are Bllue
8. Four Blind Mice
9. The Big Bad Wolf
10. London Bridges
11. Mary, Mary
12. Cross
13. Double Cross
14. Cross Country (set in Africa)

John Cardinal

by Giles Blunt

1. Forty Words for Sorrow (Macallan Silver Dagger Award)
2. The Delicate Storm
3. Black Fly Season
4. By the Time You Read This

Tea Shop Mysteries

by Laura Childs

1. Death by Darjeeling
2. Gunpowder Green
3. Shades of Earl Grey
4. English Breakfast Mystery
5. The Jasmine Moon Murder

The rest of the list can be found HERE.

Rachel O'Connor and Rain Country Landscaping

by Mary Freeman (Mary Rosenblum)

1. Devil's Trumpet
2. Deadly Nightshade
3. Bleeding Heart
4. Garden View

Beatrix Potter

by Susan Wittig Albert

1. The Tale of Hill Top Farm  (Framed)
2. The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood  (Framed)
3. The Tale of Holly How   (Framed)
4. The Tale of Hawthorn House*
5. The Tale of Briar Bank

Sir Charles and Kate Sheridan

by Robin Paige (Bill and Susan Albert)

1. Death at Bishop's Keep
2. Death at Gallows Green
3. Death at Daisy's Folly
4. Death at Devil's Bridge
5. Death at Rottingdean
6. Death at Whitechapel
7. Death at Epsom Downs
8. Death at Dartmoor
9. Death at Glamis Castle
10. Death in Hyde Park
11. Death at Blenheim Palace
12. Death on the Lizard

George Felse

by Ellis Peters

1. Fallen into the Pit
2. Death and the Joyful Woman
3. Flight of a Witch
4. A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs
5. The Piper on the Mountain
6. Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart
7. The Grass Widow's Tale
8. The House of Green Turf

The complete list can be found HERE.

Joanna Blalock Medical Thrillers

by Leonard Goldberg

1. Deadly Medicine
2. A Deadly Practice
3. Deadly Care
4. Deadly Harvest
5. Deadly Exposure
6. Lethal Measures
7. Fatal Care
8. Brainwaves
9. Fever Cell

J.P. Beaumont

by J.A. Jance

1. Justice Denied
2. Long Time Gone
3. Partner in Crime
4. Birds of a Prey

Brandon Walker

by J.A. Jance

1. Hour of the Hunter
2. Kiss of the Bees
3. Day of the Dead

Bernie Rhodenbarr Mysteries

by Lawrence Block

1. Burglars Can't Be Choosers* (mooched 9/22/09)
2. The Burglar in the Closet  (mordered 9/22/09)
3. The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (Nero Wolfe Winner)*
4. The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza
5. The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian
6. The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams (German Philip Marlowe Award)
7. The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart
8. The Burglar In the Library
9. The Burglar in the Rye
10. The Burglar On the Prowl

Aurora Teagarden

by Charlaine Harris

1. Real Murders
2. Bone to Pick
3. Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
4. The Julius house
5. Dead Over Heels
6. Fool and His Honey
7. Last Scene Alive
8. Poppy Done to Death

Rev. Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne

by Julia Spencer-Fleming

1. In the Bleak Midwinter

The Bromeliad Trilogy

by Terry Pratchett (children)

1. Truckers
2. Diggers
3. Wings

Sweeney St. George

by Sarah Stewart Taylor (mystery)

1. O'Artful Death*
2. Mansions of the Dead*
3. Judgment of the Grave

Septimus Heap

by Angie Sage (fantasy)

1. Magyk<
2. Flyte*
3. Physik*
4. Queste

Benni Harper

by Earlene Fowler (mystery)

1. Fool's Puzzle
2. Irish Chain

Vicky Bliss

by Elizabeth Peters (mystery)

1. Borrower of the Night
2. Street of the Five Moons
3. Silhouette in Scarlet
4. Trojan Gold
5. Night Train to Memphis

Medieval Mystery

by Sharon Kay Penman (Mystery)

1. The Queen's Man*
2. A Cruel as the Grave

Richard Jury

by Martha Grimes

1. The Man With a Load of Mischief*

Jane Austen Mystery

by Stephanie Barron (Mystery)

1. Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor*
2. Jane and His Lordship's Legacy

Kate Martinelli

by Laurie King (mystery)

1. A Grave Talent (Best First Novel from Mystery Writers of America)
2. To Play the Fool

Sunny Randall

by Robert Parker (mystery)

1. Family Honor*
2. Perish Twice

Nicholas Bracewell

by Edward Marston

1. The Queen's Head
2. The Merry Devils
3. The Trip to Jerusalem
4. The Nine Giants
5. The Mad Cortesan
6. The Silent Woman

The rest of the series can be found HERE.

Cedar Cove

by Debbie Macomber

1. 16 Lighthouse Road
2. 204 Rosewood Lane
3. 311 Pelican Court
4. 44 Cranberry Point
5. 50 Harbor Street
6. 5-B Poppy Lane
7. 6 Rainer Drive
8. 74 Seaside Avenue

Cedar Cove website

Lily Bard "Shakespeare" Series

by Charlaine Harris

1. Shakespeare's Landlord
2. Shakespeare's Champion
3. Shakespeare's Christmas
4. Shakespeare's Trollop
5. Shakespeare's Counselor

Recommended by Raidergirl3.

Lincoln Ryme

by Jeffery Deaver

1. The Bone Collector*
2. The Coffin Dancer*
3. The Empty Chair
4. The Stone Monkey
5. The Vanished Man
6. The Twelfth Card
7. The Cold Moon
8. The Broken Window

Sarah Woolson

by Shirley Tallman

1. Murder on Nob Hill
2. The Russian Hill Murders
3. The Cliff House Stragler

recommended by Jenclair

Pierce Quincy

by Lisa Gardner

1. The Perfect Husband
2. The Other Daughter
3. The Third Victim
4. The Next Accident
5. The Killing Hour

Lisa's website has a list of all her mysteries.

Ian Rutledge

by Charles Todd (Mystery)

1. A Test of Wills
2. Wings of Fire
3. Search the Dark
4. Legacy of the Dead
5. Watchers of Time
6. A Fearsome Doubt
7. A Cold Treachery
8. A Long Shadow*

Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy

by Kate Constable (YA fantasy)

1. The Singer of All Songs* (ALA "Amelia Bloomer Project" Award winner)
2. The Waterless Sea
3. The Tenth Power

Gray Whale Inn

by Karen MacInerney (mystery)

1. Murder on the Rocks*
2. Dead and Berried

Faith Fairchild Mystery Series

by Katherine Hall Page

1. The Body in the Belfry (Agatha Award for Best First Novel 1990)
2. The Body in the Kelp* Nov 9, 2007
3. The Body in the Bouillon*
4. The Body in the Vestibule
5. The Body in the Cast
6. The Body in the Basement
7. The Body in the Bog
8. The Body in the Fjord
9. The Body in the Bookcase
10. The Body in the Big Apple
11. The Body in the Moonlight
12. The Body in the Bonfire*
13. The Body in the Lighthouse
14. The Body in the Attic
15. The Body in the Snowdrift (Agatha Award for Best Novel 2005)
16. The Body in the Ivy
17. The Body in the Gallery

Katherine Hall Page's website.

Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James

by Deborah Crombie

1. A Share in Death
2. All Shall Be Well
3. Leave the Grave Green
4. Mourn Not Your Dead
5. Dreaming of the Bones
6. Kissed a Sad Goodbye
7. A Finer End
8. And Justice There is None
9. Now May You Weep
10. In a Dark House
11. Water Like a Stone
12. Where Memories Lie

Newford Series

by Charles de Lint

1. Dreams Underfoot
2. The Dreaming Place* YA
3. A Whisper to a Scream (horror)
4. I'll Be Watching You (thriller)
5. Memory and Dream*
6. The Ivory and the Horn
7. Trader
8. Someplace To Be Flying
9. Moonlight and Vines
10. Forests of the Heart
11. The Onion Girl
12. Seven Wild Sisters (also available in Tapping the Dream Tree)
13. Tapping the Dream Tree
14. Spirits in the Wires
15. Medicine Road
16. The Blue Girl YA
17. Widdershins
18. Make a Joyful Noise
19. The Hour Before Dawn
20. Old Man Crow
21. Little (Grrl) Lost
22. Promises to Keep
23. Dingo