James Patterson is a highly successful American author, best known for his thriller and mystery novels. With a prolific output of approximately ten books per year, Patterson has become an ubiquitous presence in bookstores around the world. His works have captivated audiences for decades, resulting in the sale of over 230 million books.
Born on March 22, 1947, in Newburgh, New York, Patterson pursued higher education at Manhattan College and Vanderbilt University, where he graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor's and Master's degree in English, respectively. His writing career began in 1976, and he has since produced a vast array of popular fiction, including the Alex Cross and Women's Murder Club series. In addition to his thrillers, Patterson also writes romance stories and non-fiction.
Patterson's success as an author has earned him numerous accolades and awards. He has received ten Emmy Awards, an Edgar Award, the National Book Foundation's Literarian Award, and the National Humanities Medal. Furthermore, Patterson has collaborated with notable figures such as Bill Clinton and Dolly Parton on co-authored novels. He has even ventured into writing about his own life, as seen in his memoir, "James Patterson by James Patterson."
Beyond his own works, Patterson is a strong advocate for literacy and encourages young readers to develop a love for reading. Inspired by his own son's struggles with reading, Patterson has created a range of books for young readers, including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries, and Max Einstein series. He has also donated millions in grants to independent bookstores and has been the most borrowed author of adult fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. Patterson currently resides in Florida with his wife and son.
Alex Cross Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Along Came a Spider
1992
2
Kiss the Girls
1995
3
Jack & Jill
1996
4
Cat & Mouse
1997
5
Pop Goes the Weasel
1999
6
Roses Are Red
2000
7
Violets Are Blue
2001
8
Four Blind Mice
2002
9
The Big Bad Wolf
2003
10
London Bridges
2004
11
Mary, Mary
2005
12
Cross / Alex Cross
2006
13
Double Cross
2007
14
Cross Country
2008
15
I, Alex Cross
2009
16
Cross Fire
2010
17
Kill Alex Cross
2011
18
Alex Cross, Run
2013
19
Cross My Heart
2013
20
Hope to Die
2014
21
Cross Justice
2015
22
Cross the Line
2016
23
The People vs. Alex Cross
2017
24
Target
2018
25
Criss Cross
2019
26
Deadly Cross
2020
27
Fear No Evil
2021
28
Triple Cross
2022
29
Cross Down
2023
30
Alex Cross Must Die
2023
Bookshots: Alex Cross (with Brent Gargan)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Action
2014
2
Cross Kill
2016
3
Detective Cross
2017
Alex Cross Miscellaneous Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Alex Cross's Trial
2009
2
Merry Christmas, Alex Cross
2011
Ali Cross Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Ali Cross
2019
2
Like Father, Like Son
2021
3
The Secret Detective
2022
Women's Murder Club Books (with Andrew Gross, with Maxine Paetro)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
1st to Die
2000
2
2nd Chance
2002
3
3rd Degree
2004
4
4th of July
2005
5
The 5th Horseman
2006
6
The 6th Target
2007
7
7th Heaven
2008
8
The 8th Confession
2009
9
The 9th Judgment
2010
10
10th Anniversary
2011
11
11th Hour
2012
12
12th of Never
2013
13
Unlucky 13
2014
14
14th Deadly Sin
2015
15
15th Affair
2016
16
16th Seduction
2017
17
The 17th Suspect
2018
18
The 18th Abduction
2019
19
The 19th Christmas
2019
20
The 20th Victim
2020
21
21st Birthday
2021
22
22 Seconds
2022
23
The 23rd Midnight
2023
24
The 24th Hour
2024
Bookshots: Women's Murder Club (with Maxine Paetro)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Trial
2016
2
The Medical Examiner
2017
3
23 1/2 Lies
2023
Amy Cornwall Books (with Brendan DuBois)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Cornwalls Are Gone / The Cornwalls Vanish / Out of Sight
2019
2
Countdown
2023
Black Book Books (with David Ellis)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Black Book
2017
2
The Coldest Case
2021
3
The Red Book
2021
4
Escape
2022
Chef Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Chef
2019
Bookshots: Chef (with Jeffrey J. Keyes)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Killer Chef
2016
Confessions Books (with Maxine Paetro)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Confessions of a Murder Suspect
2012
2
The Private School Murders
2013
3
The Paris Mysteries
2014
4
The Murder of an Angel
2015
Crazy House Books (with Gabrielle Charbonnet)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Crazy House
2017
2
The Fall of Crazy House
2018
Daniel X Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
2007
2
Watch the Skies
2009
3
Demons and Druids
2010
4
Game Over
2011
5
Armageddon
2012
6
Lights Out
2015
7
Genesis
2022
Daniel X Graphic Novels
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Alien Hunter
2008
2
Daniel X: The Manga, Vol. 1
2010
3
Daniel X: The Manga, Vol. 2
2011
4
Daniel X: The Manga, Vol. 3
2012
Detective Harriet Blue Books (with Candice Fox)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Never Never
2016
2
Fifty Fifty
2017
3
Liar Liar
2018
4
Hush
2019
BookShots: Detective Harriet Blue
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Black & Blue
2016
David Shelley Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Revenge
2018
Doc Savage Books (with Brian Sitts)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Perfect Assassin
2022
Honeymoon Books (with Howard Roughan)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Honeymoon
2005
2
Second Honeymoon
2013
Instinct Books (with Howard Roughan)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Murder Games / Instinct
2017
2
Killer Instinct
2019
3
Steal
2022
Invisible Books (with David Ellis)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Invisible
2014
2
Unsolved
2019
Jane Smith Books (with Mike Lupica)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
12 Months to Live
2023
Katt vs. Dogg Books (with Chris Grabenstein)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Katt Loves Dogg
2021
Maximum Ride Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Angel Experiment
2005
2
School's Out - Forever
2006
3
Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
2007
4
The Final Warning
2008
5
Max
2009
6
Fang
2010
7
Angel
2011
8
Nevermore
2012
9
Maximum Ride Forever
2015
Maximum Ride: Hawk Books (with Gabrielle Charbonnet, with Mindy McGinnis)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Hawk
2020
2
City of the Dead
2021
Maximum Ride Graphic Novels
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 1
2009
2
Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 2
2009
3
Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 3
2010
4
Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 4
2011
5
Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 5
2011
6
Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 6
2012
7
Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 7
2013
8
Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 8
2014
9
Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 9
2015
10
Max Ride: Ultimate Flight
2016
11
Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 10
2021
Michael Bennett Books (with James O. Born, with Michael Ledwidge)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Step on a Crack
2007
2
Run for Your Life
2009
3
Worst Case
2009
4
Tick Tock
2010
5
I, Michael Bennett
2012
6
Gone
2013
7
Burn
2014
8
Alert
2015
9
Bullseye
2016
10
Haunted
2017
11
Ambush
2018
12
Blindside
2020
13
The Russian
2021
14
Shattered
2022
15
Obsessed
2023
16
Crosshairs
2024
Bookshots: Michael Bennett (with James O. Born)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Chase
2016
2
Manhunt
2017
Discovery's Murder is Forever Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Murder, Interrupted
2018
2
Home Sweet Murder
2018
3
Murder Beyond the Grave
2018
4
Murder Thy Neighbor
2020
5
Murder of Innocence
2020
6
Till Murder Do Us Part
2021
NYPD Red Books (with Marshall Karp)
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Title
Year
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Amazon
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NYPD Red
2012
2
NYPD Red 2
2014
3
NYPD Red 3
2015
4
NYPD Red 4
2016
5
Red Alert
2018
6
NYPD Red 6
2020
7
NYPD Red 7
2022
Private Books
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Title
Year
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Private
2010
2
Private London
2011
3
Private Games
2012
4
Private: #1 Suspect
2012
5
Private Berlin
2013
6
Private L.A.
2014
7
Private Down Under / Oz
2014
8
Private India
2014
9
Private Vegas
2015
10
Private Sydney / Missing
2015
11
Private Paris
2016
12
Private Rio / The Games
2016
13
Private Delhi / Count to Ten
2017
14
Princess
2018
15
Private Moscow
2020
16
Private Rogue
2021
17
Private Beijing
2022
18
Private: Missing Persons
2024
Bookshots: Private (with Jassy Mackenzie, with Rees Jones)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Private Royals
2016
2
Private: Gold
2017
Rory Yates Books (with Andrew Bourelle)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Texas Ranger
2018
2
Texas Outlaw
2020
Ruby Bozarth Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Juror #3
2018
2
The Jailhouse Lawyer / Power of Attorney
2021
Shadow Books (with Brian Sitts)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Shadow
2021
2
Circle of Death
2023
Tom Moon Books (with James O. Born)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Lost
2020
Travis McKinley Books (with Peter de Jonge)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Miracle on the 17th Green
1996
2
Miracle at Augusta
2015
3
Miracle at St. Andrews
2019
When the Wind Blows Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
When the Wind Blows
1998
2
The Lake House
2003
Witch & Wizard Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Witch & Wizard
2009
2
The Gift
2010
3
The Fire
2011
4
The Kiss
2013
5
The Lost
2014
Witch & Wizard Graphic Novels
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Battle for Shadowland
2010
2
Witch & Wizard: The Manga, Vol. 1
2011
3
Witch & Wizard: The Manga, Vol. 2
2012
4
Witch & Wizard: The Manga, Vol. 3
2013
Zoo Books (with Michael Ledwidge)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Zoo
2012
2
Zoo: The Graphic Novel
2012
Bookshots: Zoo (with Michael Ledwidge)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Zoo 2
2016
Standalone Novels
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Thomas Berryman Number
1976
2
Season of the Machete
1977
3
See How They Run / The Jericho Commandment
1979
4
Black Market / Black Friday
1986
5
The Midnight Club
1989
6
Hide & Seek
1995
7
Cradle and All / Virgin (Remastered)
1999
8
Sam's Letters to Jennifer
2001
9
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
2001
10
The Beach House
2002
11
The Jester
2003
12
Lifeguard
2005
13
Beach Road
2006
14
Judge & Jury
2006
15
The Quickie
2007
16
You've Been Warned
2007
17
Sundays at Tiffany's
2008
18
Sail
2008
19
Swimsuit
2009
20
The Postcard Killers
2010
21
Don't Blink
2010
22
Toys
2011
23
Now You See Her
2011
24
Kill Me If You Can
2011
25
The Christmas Wedding
2011
26
Guilty Wives
2012
27
Mistress
2013
28
First Love
2013
29
Homeroom Diaries
2014
30
Public School Superhero
2015
31
Truth or Die
2015
32
The Murder House
2015
33
Woman of God
2016
34
Word of Mouse
2016
35
Humans, Bow Down
2017
36
Pottymouth and Stoopid
2017
37
The Store
2017
38
Expelled / The Injustice
2017
39
The President Is Missing
2018
40
Juror #3
2018
41
The First Lady
2018
42
The House Next Door
2019
43
The Inn
2019
44
The Warning
2019
45
The Summer House
2020
46
Cajun Justice
2020
47
1st Case
2020
48
The Midwife Murders
2020
49
The Coast-to-Coast Murders
2020
50
Three Women Disappear
2020
51
The President's Daughter
2021
52
The Noise
2021
53
The Jailhouse Lawyer / Power of Attorney
2021
54
2 Sisters Detective Agency
2021
55
The Guilty
2021
56
The Horsewoman
2022
57
Run, Rose, Run
2022
58
Death of the Black Widow
2022
59
The Elephant Girl
2022
60
The Ninth Month
2022
61
Blowback
2022
62
The Girl in the Castle
2022
63
The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas
2022
64
The House of Wolves
2023
65
Things I Wish I Told My Mother
2023
66
Lion & Lamb
2023
67
Holmes, Miss Marple & Poe
2024
68
The #1 Lawyer
2024
69
The Murder Inn
2024
70
Eruption
2024
71
Cemetery Lake
2024
Short Stories/Novellas
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Bloody Valentine
2011
2
Boys Will Be Boys
2011
3
Zero Tolerance
2023
Bookshots: Detective Luc Moncrief (with Richard DiLallo)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
French Kiss
2016
2
The Christmas Mystery
2016
3
French Twist
2017
Bookshots: Diamond Trilogy (with Elizabeth Hayley)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Dazzling
2016
2
Radiant
2016
3
Exquisite
2017
Bookshots: Jon Roscoe Thriller (with Robert Gold)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Hostage
2016
2
The Verdict
2016
3
Kidnapped
2016
Bookshots: Owen Taylor Books (with Brendan DuBois)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The End
2017
2
After the End
2017
BookShots: Flames
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Learning to Ride
2016
2
Sacking the Quarterback
2016
3
The Mating Season
2016
4
The Return
2016
5
Bodyguard
2016
6
Hot Winter Nights
2016
7
Seducing Shakespeare
2017
8
Bedding the Highlander
2017
9
Sabotage
2017
10
50 Hidden Desires
2017
11
Sexy Summer Flings
2017
12
Love Me Tender
2017
13
The Experiment
2017
14
The Weekend Wife
2017
15
Dawn's Early Light
2017
16
Christmas Sanctuary
2017
17
Shopping for Love
2018
18
Once Upon a Kiss
2018
Bookshots: Mitchum Books (with James O. Born)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Hidden
2017
2
Malicious
2017
3
Malevolent
2020
Bookshots: Standalone
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Let's Play Make-Believe / The Palm Beach Murders
2016
2
Break Point
2016
3
Heist
2016
4
Airport Code Red
2016
5
The Witnesses
2016
6
Little Black Dress
2016
7
Dead Heat
2016
8
The Pretender
2016
9
Hunted
2016
10
113 Minutes
2016
11
Trump vs. Clinton
2016
12
The Women's War
2016
13
$10,000,000 Marriage Proposal
2016
14
Taking the Titanic
2016
15
Come and Get Us
2016
16
The House Husband
2017
17
The Shut-In
2017
18
Night Sniper
2017
19
Diary of a Succubus
2017
20
Stealing Gulfstreams
2017
21
The Lawyer Lifeguard
2017
22
Stingrays
2017
23
Nooners
2017
24
Steeplechase
2017
25
Deadly Cargo
2017
26
The Dolls
2017
27
The Family Lawyer
2017
28
Dead Man Running
2017
29
Scott Free
2017
30
Absolute Zero
2017
31
You've Been Warned - Again
2017
32
The Exile
2017
33
The Moores Are Missing & The Housewife
2017
34
Avalanche
2017
35
Kill and Tell
2017
36
The Doctor's Plot
2018
37
The 13-Minute Murder
2019
Short Story Collections
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The House Next Door
2019
2
3 Days to Live
2023
Non-Fiction Books
#
Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Day America Told the Truth
1991
2
Torn Apart / Against Medical Advice
2008
3
The Murder of King Tut
2009
4
Med Head: My Knock-down, Drag-out, Drugged-up Battle with My Brain
2010
5
Filthy Rich
2016
6
All-American Murder
2018
7
The House of Kennedy / The Kennedy Curse
2020
8
The Last Days of John Lennon
2020
9
Walk in My Combat Boots
2021
10
The Defense Lawyer
2021
11
E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America's Greatest Unsung Heroes
2021
12
James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life
2022
13
Diana, William, and Harry
2022
14
Walk The Blue Line
2023
15
What Really Happens in Vegas
2023
16
Tiger, Tiger
2024
Children's Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
SantaKid
2004
2
Give Please a Chance
2016
3
Penguins of America
2017
4
Laugh Out Loud
2017
5
Give Thank You a Try
2017
6
Not So Normal Norbert
2018
7
Unbelievably Boring Bartholomew
2018
8
Katt vs. Dogg
2019
9
Sophia, Princess Among Beasts
2019
10
Becoming Muhammad Ali
2020
11
Scaredy Cat
2021
12
Best Nerds Forever
2021
13
Elephant Goes Potty
2023
Candies Books (with Andy Elkerton)
#
Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Candies Save Christmas
2017
2
The Candies' Easter Party
2018
Dog Diaries Books (with Steven Butler)
#
Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Dog Diaries
2018
2
Happy Howlidays
2018
3
Mission Impawsible
2019
4
Curse of the Mystery Mitt
2019
5
Dog Diaries: Double-Dog Dare
2020
6
Ruffing It
2021
7
Big Top Bonanza!
2021
8
Dinosaur Disaster
2022
House of Robots Books (with Chris Grabenstein)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
House of Robots
2014
2
Robots Go Wild!
2015
3
Robot Revolution
2017
I Funny Books (with Chris Grabenstein)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
I Funny
2012
2
I Even Funnier
2013
3
I Totally Funniest
2015
4
I Funny TV
2015
5
School of Laughs
2017
6
Laugh Out Loud
2017
7
The Nerdiest, Wimpiest, Dorkiest I Funny Ever
2018
Jacky Ha-Ha Books (with Chris Grabenstein)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Jacky Ha-Ha
2016
2
My Life is a Joke
2017
3
Jacky Ha-Ha Gets the Last Laugh
2023
Little Geniuses Books (with Susan Patterson)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Big Words for Little Geniuses
2017
2
Cuddly Critters for Little Geniuses
2018
3
Bigger Words for Little Geniuses
2019
Max Einstein Books (with Chris Grabenstein)
#
Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Genius Experiment
2018
2
Rebels with a Cause
2019
3
Saves the Future
2020
4
World Champions!
2021
Middle School Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
2011
2
Get Me Out of Here!
2012
3
How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill
2013
4
My Brother is a Big, Fat Liar
2013
5
Ultimate Showdown
2014
6
How I Got Lost in London
2014
7
Save Rafe!
2014
8
Just My Rotten Luck
2015
9
Going Bush
2016
10
Dog's Best Friend
2016
11
Hollywood 101
2016
12
Escape to Australia / Million-Dollar Mess Down Under
2017
13
From Hero to Zero
2017
14
Born to Rock
2019
15
Master of Disaster
2020
16
Field Trip Fiasco
2021
17
It's a Zoo in Here!
2022
18
Winter Blunderland
2022
Treasure Hunters Books (with Chris Grabenstein)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Treasure Hunters
2013
2
Danger Down the Nile
2014
3
Secret of the Forbidden City
2015
4
Peril at the Top of the World
2016
5
Quest for the City of Gold
2017
6
All-American Adventure
2019
7
The Plunder Down Under
2020
8
The Ultimate Quest
2022
Graphic Novels (with Emily Raymond)
#
Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Runaway's Diary
2022
Emily Raymond Graphic Novels (with Emily Raymond)
#
Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Runaway's Diary
2022
Jacky Ha-Ha Graphic Novels (with Chris Grabenstein, with Adam Rau, with Betty C. Tang)