The most prolific series authors in the catalog

The 50 authors with the most catalogued series books (minimum two series each). Every row links to the full bibliography, so each count is verifiable. Data: Wikidata (CC0) + Open Library.

#	Author	Series	Books
1	R. L. Stine	7	353
2	Isaac Asimov	4	314
3	Nora Roberts	29	290
4	Agatha Christie	2	283
5	Arthur Conan Doyle	2	192
6	Philip K. Dick	2	185
7	Harry Turtledove	3	158
8	Arthur C. Clarke	3	152
9	Kenneth Bulmer	2	150
10	Ursula K. Le Guin	4	148
11	Lin Carter	4	147
12	Orson Scott Card	9	145
13	Tanith Lee	4	139
14	Cecil Street	3	137
15	Dean Koontz	2	134
16	L. Sprague de Camp	4	133
17	René Goscinny	4	131
18	James Patterson	7	123
19	James Blish	3	121
20	Alan Dean Foster	3	120
21	Piers Anthony	8	120
22	Michael Moorcock	8	118
23	Mercedes Lackey	4	116
24	Christine Feehan	2	109
25	C. J. Cherryh	6	107
26	Stephen Baxter	4	106
27	George R. R. Martin	3	104
28	Frederik Pohl	2	101
29	Katherine Applegate	5	100
30	Gene Wolfe	2	98
31	Terry Pratchett	5	95
32	Jack Vance	7	90
33	Kevin J. Anderson	8	90
34	David Weber	6	89
35	Anders Jacobsson	2	88
36	Edgar Rice Burroughs	3	88
37	J. R. R. Tolkien	2	88
38	Tom Holt	5	88
39	Seanan McGuire	4	87
40	Dan Abnett	3	83
41	Alexandre Dumas	2	82
42	Roger Zelazny	3	80
43	Glen Cook	3	79
44	Alexander McCall Smith	4	78
45	R. A. Salvatore	12	78
46	Timothy Zahn	5	78
47	Harry Harrison	3	76
48	Simon R. Green	2	76
49	Catherynne M. Valente	2	75
50	Enid Blyton	5	75

Counts reflect series books catalogued on Shelfmark and grow with the catalog. Reuse welcome with a link back — data is derived from Wikidata (CC0) and Open Library.