List of novels written by multiple authors

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This is a list of novels written by multiple authors (or collaborative novels).{{Cite news |last=Jordison |first=Sam |date=2019-01-29 |title=Is Good Omens one of the best collaborative novels ever written? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2019/jan/29/good-omens-successful-joint-authorship-neil-gaiman-terry-pratchett |access-date=2025-04-01 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite journal |last1=Leogrande |first1=Emilia |last2=Nicassio |first2=Renato |date=2021-01-13 |title=Collaborative Processes in Science and Literature: an In-Depth Look at the Cases of CERN and SIC |journal=Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics |language=English |volume=5 |doi=10.3389/frma.2020.592819 |doi-access=free |issn=2504-0537}}{{Cite web |date=2024-01-28 |title=Maine author weaves stories from 36 big-name writers into 'Fourteen Days' |url=https://www.pressherald.com/2024/01/28/maine-author-weaves-stories-from-36-big-name-writers-into-fourteen-days/ |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=Press Herald}} These novels are works of collaborative fiction, written using one or more of the types of collaborative writing.{{Cite journal |last1=Lowry |first1=Paul Benjamin |last2=Curtis |first2=Aaron |last3=Lowry |first3=Michelle René |date=2004-01-01 |title=Building a Taxonomy and Nomenclature of Collaborative Writing to Improve Interdisciplinary Research and Practice |journal=The Journal of Business Communication |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=66–99 |doi=10.1177/0021943603259363 |issn=0021-9436 |s2cid=15241066 |doi-access=}}{{Cite book |last1=McGoldrick |first1=Nikoo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wswbAQAAIAAJ&q=collaborative%20fiction |title=Marriage of Minds: Collaborative Fiction Writing |last2=McGoldrick |first2=James A. |date=2000 |publisher=Heinemann |isbn=978-0-325-00232-3 |language=en}} The list is limited to novels deemed notable by Wikipedia and/or novels with at least one notable author or notable pen name.

Novels written under collective pen names

The following books and book series were written by multiple authors under one collective pen name.

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! style=width:200px | Book title or book series

! style=width:100px |Year released

! style="width:100px" | Collective name/ pen name

! style=width:300px | Authors' names

Abiding Lilac

|2011

| rowspan="3" |Cat Adams

| rowspan="3" |C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp

Magic's Design

|2009

The Blood Singer series{{Cite web |title=The Blood Singer Novels {{!}} Series |url=https://us.macmillan.com/series/thebloodsingernovels |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=Macmillan Publishers |language=en-US}}

|2010–2016

Grundbulten

|1974

| rowspan="6" |Kennet Ahl

| rowspan="6" |Lasse Strömstedt and Christer Dahl

Lyftet

|1976

Rävsaxen

|1978

Slutstationen

|1980

Mordvinnaren

|1987

Högriskbegravning

|2006

Kate Daniels series{{Cite web |title=Kate Daniels |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/series/BDP/kate-daniels |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=Penguin Random House Canada |language=English}}{{Cite web |last=Ilona |date=2022-12-12 |title=Holiday Surprise: Kate Daniels |url=https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/holiday-surprise/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=ilona-andrews.com |language=en-US}}

|2007–2018, 2023–

| rowspan="4" |Ilona Andrews

| rowspan="4" |Ilona Gordon and Andrew Gordon{{Cite magazine |last=McCluskey |first=Megan |date=2024-08-01 |title='Wildfire' Is on TIME's List of the 50 Best Romance Novels |url=https://time.com/6996668/burn-for-me/ |access-date=2025-03-28 |magazine=TIME |language=en}}{{Cite web |last= |date=2024-07-17 |title=Tor Books Acquires Epic Fantasy Romance Saga From Ilona Andrews |url=https://reactormag.com/tor-books-acquires-epic-fantasy-romance-saga-from-ilona-andrews/ |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=Reactor |language=en-US}}

Iron Covenant series{{Cite web |last=Tor.com |date=2018-12-04 |title=The Goodreads Choice Awards Announce Their Best Books of 2018 |url=https://reactormag.com/the-goodreads-choice-awards-announce-their-best-books-of-2018/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=Reactor |language=en-US}}

|2018–

The Edge series{{Cite web |title=A Novel of the Edge |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/series/BKE/a-novel-of-the-edge |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=Penguin Random House Canada |language=English}}

|2018–

The Hidden Legacy series{{Cite web |last=Rao |first=Ahana |date=2022-09-04 |title=Review: Ruby Fever by Ilona Andrews |url=https://thenerddaily.com/review-ruby-fever-by-ilona-andrews/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=The Nerd Daily |language=en-AU}}

|2014–2022

Naked Came the Stranger

|1969

|Penelope Ashe

|Mike McGrady and 23 other journalists{{Cite web |title=Penelope Ashe |url=https://openroadmedia.com/contributor/penelope-ashe |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=Open Road Media |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Fox |first=Margalit |date=2012-05-17 |title=Mike McGrady, 78; journalist masterminded a literary hoax |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2012/05/16/mike-mcgrady-journalist-masterminded-literary-hoax/YJaTMH3hoRkbQMEtRBmiHN/story.html |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=The Boston Globe |language=en-US}}

Fourteen Days

|2024

|The Author's Guild{{Cite web |last=Patrick |first=Bethanne |date=2024-02-06 |title=In the dark days of the pandemic, 36 famous authors found light in a collaborative novel |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-02-06/fourteen-days-collaborative-novel-authors-guild-margaret-atwood-douglas-preston |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last=Masad |first=Ilana |date=2024-02-12 |title='Fourteen Days' is a time capsule of people's efforts to connect during the pandemic |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/02/12/1230878858/margaret-atwood-douglas-preston-story-collaboration-fourteen-days-pandemic |access-date=2025-04-01 |work=NPR |language=en}}

|Charlie Jane Anders, Margaret Atwood, Joseph Cassara, Jennine Capó Crucet, Angie Cruz, Pat Cummings, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Maria Hinojosa, Mira Jacob, Erica Jong, CJ Lyons, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Mary Pope Osborne, Douglas Preston, Alice Randall, Ishmael Reed, Roxana Robinson, Nelly Rosario, James Shapiro, Hampton Sides, R.L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Monique Truong, Scott Turow, Luis Alberto Urrea, Rachel Vail, Weike Wang, Caroline Randall Williams, De’Shawn Charles Winslow, and Meg Wolitzer

Schuß auf die Bühne

|1935

| rowspan="4" |Stefan Brockhoff

| rowspan="4" |Dieter Cunz, Richard Plant, Oskar Seidlin

Musik im Totengässlein

|1936

Drei Kioske am See

|1937

Begegnung in Zermatt

|1955

The Painted Sky

|2015

| rowspan="2" |Alice Campion

| rowspan="2" |Denise Tart, Jane Richards, Jane St Vincent Welch,Jenny Crocker, and (previously) Madeline Oliver

The Shifting Light

|2017

Magnificent McCoy Men series{{Cite web |title=Tori Carrington's Magnificent McCoy Men books in order |url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/c/tori-carrington/magnificent-mccoy-men/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=www.fantasticfiction.com}}

|1999–2005

| rowspan="7" |Tori Carrington

| rowspan="7" |Tony Karayianni and Lori Schlachter Karayianni

Old Orchard series{{Cite web |title=Tori Carrington's Old Orchard books in order |url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/c/tori-carrington/old-orchard/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=www.fantasticfiction.com}}

|2001–2004

Legal Briefs series{{Cite web |title=Tori Carrington's Legal Briefs books in order |url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/c/tori-carrington/legal-briefs/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=www.fantasticfiction.com}}

|2002–2003

Kiss and Tell series{{Cite web |title=Tori Carrington's Kiss And Tell books in order |url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/c/tori-carrington/kiss-and-tell/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=www.fantasticfiction.com}}

|2003

Sleeping with Secrets{{Cite web |title=Tori Carrington's Sleeping with Secrets books in order |url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/c/tori-carrington/sleeping-with-secrets/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=www.fantasticfiction.com}}

|2004

Dangerous Liaisons series{{Cite web |title=Tori Carrington's Dangerous Liaisons books in order |url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/c/tori-carrington/dangerous-liaisons/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=www.fantasticfiction.com}}

|2005–2006

Sofie Metropolis series{{Cite web |title=Tori Carrington's Sofie Metropolis books in order |url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/c/tori-carrington/sofie-metropolis/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=www.fantasticfiction.com}}

|2005–2012

The Genesis Code

|1997

| rowspan="6" |John Case

| rowspan="6" |Jim Hougan and Carolyn Hougan

The First Horseman

|1998

The Syndrome (published as Trance State in the UK)

|2001

The Eighth Day

|2002

The Murder Artist

|2004

Ghost Dancer/The Dance of Death

|2006

Postmark

|1988

| rowspan="2" |Samantha Chase

| rowspan="2" | Eileen Buckholtz and Ruth Glick

Needlepoint

|1989

Desperate Games series{{Cite web |title=Jan Coffey's Desperate Games books in order |url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/c/jan-coffey/desperate-games/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=www.fantasticfiction.com}}

|2001–2013

| rowspan="5" |Jan Coffey

| rowspan="5" |James A. McGoldrick and Nikoo Kafi McGoldrick

Tropical Kiss

|2005

Crash

|2006

Aquarian

|2012

When the Mirror Cracks

|2020

The Expanse series{{Cite tweet |number=1445796489821835268 |user=orbitbooks |title=Expanse fans, we know you've been anticipating Leviathan Falls |author=Orbit Books |date=October 6, 2021}}

|2011–2021

|James S. A. Corey

|Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck{{Cite web |title=James S.A. Corey, 'Expanse' Creative Team Launch Production Company |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5086 |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=PublishersWeekly.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=About The Author |url=https://www.jamessacorey.com/about/ |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=James S.A. Corey}}

Reena Spaulings

|2004

|Bernadette Corporation

|(anonymous){{Cite news |date=2005-03-03 |title=Bernadette Corporation |url=https://www.frieze.com/article/bernadette-corporation |access-date=2025-03-24 |work=Frieze |language=en |issue=89 |issn=0962-0672}}{{Cite news |last=Farago |first=Jason |date=2013-03-24 |title=Bernadette Corporation: 'Don't have sex with each other' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/mar/24/bernadette-corporation-ica |access-date=2025-03-24 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

A House is Built

|1929

| rowspan="5" |M. Barnard Eldershaw

| rowspan="5" |Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw

The Glasshouse

|1945

Green Memory

|1931

Plaque with Laurel

|1937

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

|1947

Star Trek novels #60, #62, #68, #70

|1992–1994

| rowspan="7" |L.A. Graf

|Julia Ecklar, Karen Rose Cercone, and Melissa Crandall

Caretaker (Star Trek: Voyager novels #1)

|1995

| rowspan="6" |Julia Ecklar and Karen Rose Cercone

Alien Nation series #7

|1995

Star Trek DS9 novel #16

|1996

Star Trek: Day of Honor #2

|1997

Star Trek: The Captain's Table #1

|1998

Rough Trails (Star Trek: New Earth #3)

|2000

Warriors series

|2003–

| rowspan="4" |Erin Hunter

| rowspan="4" |Victoria Holmes, Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, Clarissa Hutton, Inbali Iserles, Tui T. Sutherland, and Rosie Best{{Cite web |title=Who is Erin Hunter? |url=https://warriorcats.com/content/article/who-is-erin-hunter |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=warriorcats.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2022-10-12 |title=Nostalgia Nook: "Warrior Cats," Playground Role-Play, and Roblox |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2022/10/12/nostalgia-nook-warrior-cats-playground-role-play-and-roblox/ |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=Stanford Review |language=en-US}}

Seekers series

|2008–2011, 2012

Survivors series

|2012–2015, 2015–2019

Bamboo Kingdom series{{Cite web |title=Books in series Bamboo Kingdom |url=https://www.harpercollins.com/collections/books-series-bamboo-kingdom?sortBy=HCUSproducts_meta.hc-defined.publishdtimestamp_asc |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=HarperCollins |language=en}}

|2021–

Gunner Cade

|1952

| rowspan="2" |Cyril Judd

| rowspan="2" |Cyril M. Kornbluth and Judith Merril

Outpost Mars

|1952

The Deal

|2004

| rowspan="2" |Cochrane Lambert

| rowspan="2" |Timothy J. Lambert and Becky Cochrane

Three Fortunes in One Cookie

|2005

{{Interlanguage link multi|Lo Zar Non è Morto|it}}

|1929

|{{Interlanguage link multi|I Dieci|it}}

|{{Interlanguage link multi|Antonio Beltramelli|it}}, Massimo Bontempelli, Lucio D'Ambra,Alessandro De Stefani, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Fausto Maria Martini, {{Interlanguage link multi|Alessandro Varaldo|it}}, Cesare Giulio Viola, {{Interlanguage link multi|Luciano Zuccoli|it}}

Mutiny in the Time Machine

|1963

| rowspan="2" |Donald Keith

| rowspan="2" | Donald Monroe and Keith Monroe

Time Machine to the Rescue

|1967

Formation Saga series

|2025

|Darkly Lem

|Josh Eure, Craig Lincoln, Ben Murphy, Cadwell Turnbull, and M. Darusha Wehm{{Cite web |date=2025 |title=Transmentation Transience: Or, an Accession to the People's Council for Nine Thousand Worlds by Darkly Lem |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9798212185998 |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=Publishers Weekly}}

MacPherson Family Saga series

|1995–2002

| rowspan="7" |May McGoldrick

| rowspan="7" |James A. McGoldrick and Nikoo Kafi McGoldrick

Highland Treasury Series

|2000

Rebel Promise series

|2001–2002

Scottish dreams series

|2003–2004

The Scottish Relic trilogy

|2017

The Pennington Family series

|2017–2018

Royal Highlander series

|2019–2020

Robotech series

|1986–1988

|Jack McKinney

|James Luceno and Brian Daley

54

|2002

| rowspan="3" |Wu Ming

| rowspan="3" |Roberto Bui, Giovanni Cattabriga, Luca Di Meo, Federico Guglielmi, and Riccardo Pedrini[https://web.archive.org/web/20080201162401/http://www.wumingfoundation.com/english/biography.html "Wu Ming: Who we are and what we do"], biographical page on Wu Ming's website. Archived February 1, 2008.{{cite thesis |last=Masterson |first=Melina A |title=The Wu Ming Foundation: A Collective Approach to Literature, Art, and Politics in 21st Century Italy |access-date=16 October 2019 |type=PhD |publisher=University of Connecticut |url=https://opencommons.uconn.edu/dissertations/1284/ |year=2016 |id=Doctoral dissertations 1284}}

Manituana

|2007

Altai

|2009

The Abyss of Hungry Eyes series

|1991–2001

| rowspan="6" |H. L. Oldie

| rowspan="6" |Dmitry Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhensky

Kabir's Cycle series

|1994–1998

Achaean Cycle series

|1995–2011

World of Oikoumene series

|2006–2015

Fantasy World series

|2004–2008

Hening Cycle series

|2001–2003

Brain Twister

|1962

| rowspan="3" |Mark Phillips

| rowspan="3" |Laurence Mark Janifer and Randall Philip Garrett

The Impossibles

|1963

Supermind

|1963

Ellery Queen series{{Cite web |title=Ellery Queen {{!}} EBSCO Research Starters |url=https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/biography/ellery-queen |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=www.ebsco.com |language=en}}

|1929–1971

|Ellery Queen

|Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee

Drury Lane series

|1932–1933

|Barnaby Ross

|Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee

The Ways of Starborned series

|1997—1998

| rowspan="8" |Alexander Zorich

| rowspan="8" |Yana Botsman and Dmitry Gordevsky

The Vault of Equilibrium series

|1998

Tomorrow War series

|2003–2006

Denis Kotik series

|2003–2004

Charles the Duke series

|2001

Season of the Weapon

|2001

Consul of Commonwealth

|2002

Roman Star

|2007

Novels written under multiple authors' names

The following books and book series were written by multiple authors under each of their individual names, rather than under a collective pen name.

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! Book title or books series

!Year released

! Authors

Here's to Us

|2021

|Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

Lunatics

|2012

|Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel

Tiny Pretty Things

|2015

|Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton

The Red Scrolls of Magic

|2020

|Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu

On a Barbarous Coast

|2020

| Craig Cormick and Harold Ludwick

Pioneers on Parade

|1939

|Dymphna Cusack and Miles Franklin

Come In Spinner

|1951

|Dymphna Cusack and Florence James.

Master of One

|2020

|Jaida Jones and Dani Bennett

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

|2010

|John Green and David Levithan

Miss Meteor

|2020

|Tehlor Kay Mejia and Anna-Marie McLemore

This Is How You Lose the Time War

|2019

|Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

Good Omens

|1990

|Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

The Lady Janies series{{Cite web |title=Books in series The Lady Janies |url=https://www.harpercollins.com/collections/books-series-the-lady-janies?sortBy=HCUSproducts_meta.hc-defined.publishdtimestamp_asc |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=HarperCollins |language=en}}

|2016–

|Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

The Talisman

|1984

| rowspan="2" |Stephen King and Peter Straub

Black House

|2001

The Long Earth series{{Cite news |last=Colgan |first=Jenny |date=2016-06-24 |title=The Long Cosmos by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter – a final farewell to the Long Earth |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/24/the-long-cosmos-by-terry-pratchett-and-stephen-baxter |access-date=2025-04-03 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

|2012–2016

|Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter

Pendergast series{{Cite web |last=Child |first=Douglas Preston and Lincoln |title=Series |url=https://www.prestonchild.com/books/series/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=prestonchild.com}}

|1995–

| rowspan="2" |Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Gideon series

|2011–2018

Set Fire To The Gods

|2020

|Sara Raasch and Kristen Simmons

The Color of Dragons

|2021

|R.A. Salvatore and Erika Lewis

The Illuminatus! seriesIlluminatus! was written between 1969 and 1971, but not published until 1975 according to Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977), p. 145. {{ISBN|1-56184-003-3}}

|1975

|Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

Dry

|2019

|Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Dragonlance series{{Cite web |last=Comments |first=Gavin Sheehan {{!}} Last updated {{!}} |date=2022-04-21 |title=Dungeons & Dragons Announces New Dragonlance Campaign |url=https://bleedingcool.com/games/dungeons-dragons-announces-new-dragonlance-campaign/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=bleedingcool.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Wizards of the Coast Teases 'D&D Dragonlance's' Return |url=https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/50988/wizards-coast-teases-d-d-dragonlances-return |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=icv2.com |language=en}}

|1984–2011, 2022–

|Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Sunrise Nights

|2024

|Jeff Zentner and Brittany Cavallaro

Punching the Air

|2020

|Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

The Mote in God's Eye

|1974

| rowspan="3" |Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven

Lucifer's Hammer

|1977

Footfall

|1985

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