Michael Grant

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  • Bibliography:
    58 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1977
  • Latest Book:
    August 2022
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Full Series List in Order

BZRK

0.5 - BZRK ORIGINS (Jan-2012)
1 - BZRK (Mar-2012)
2 - BZRK Reloaded (Oct-2013)
3 - Bzrk Apocalypse (Oct-2014)

A David Mitre Thriller

1 - A Sudden Death in Cyprus (Feb-2019)
2 - An Artful Assassin in Amsterdam (Dec-2019)

Front Lines

1 - Front Lines (Feb-2016)
2 - Silver Stars (Feb-2017)
3 - Purple Hearts (Feb-2018)

A Gone Novel

1 - Gone (Jul-2008)
2 - Hunger (Jun-2009)
3 - Lies (May-2010)
4 - Plague (Apr-2011)
5 - Fear (Apr-2012)
6 - Light (Apr-2013)
7 - Monster (Oct-2017)
8 - Villain (Oct-2018)
9 - Hero (Nov-2019)

The Magnificent 12

1 - The Call (Sep-2010)
2 - Trap (Sep-2011)
3 - The Key (Aug-2012)
4 - The Power (Sep-2013)

Messenger of Fear

1 - Messenger of Fear (Sep-2014)
1.5 - The Snake (Oct-2014)
2 - The Tattooed Heart (Sep-2015)

The Monster Trilogy

1 - Monster (Oct-2017)
2 - Villain (Oct-2018)
3 - Hero (Nov-2019)

Book List in Order: 58 titles

  • Greek Literature

  • Gods and Mortals in Classic Mythology

    Who's Who in Classical Mythology is an indispensable guide to all the Greek and Roman mythological characters, from major deities such as Athena and Bacchus, to the lesser-known wood nymphs and centaurs. Also included, of course, are the heroic morta...

  • Line of Duty

    Assigned to investigate the case of a recently murdered drug lord in Harlem, Lieutenant Brian Shannon, paired with a young hotshot from Internal Affairs, learns that the killer may be within the police department. Reprint. NYT. ...

  • Officer Down

    In retaliation for a U.S. crackdown on Colombian's drug cartels, the Pun+a1o Blanco, a narco-terrorist gang, targets New York City cops, and only four very different law enforcement people can stop the bloodbath. Reprint....

  • The Antonines

    The Antonines - Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus and Commodus - played a crucial part in the development of the Roman empire, controlling its huge machine for half a century of its most testing period. Edward Gibbon observed that the epo...

  • The Founders of the Western World

    Grant, author of two dozen books on Greece and Rome, attempts to show how the two cultures were ``inextricably intermingled.'' Instead of documenting this in systematic fashion, he presents a synthesis and update of his previous writings, recast on t...

  • Retribution

    Former SWAT team member Mike Devlin takes a job as security chief for a large Manhattan company and finds himself matching wits with a crazed killer seeking revenge on the company CEO. By the author of Officer Down. Reprint....

  • Myths of the Greeks and Romans

    Myths of the Greeks and Romans is an essential guide to ancient literatureThe myths told by the Greeks and Romans are as important as their history for our understanding of what they believed, thought and felt, and of what they expressed in writing a...

  • The Reunion

    Ocean's Harbor, Maine, is the paragon of a beautiful coastal New England enclave; a community with families rooted as deep as the sins, where dark secrets simmer beneath its vestal faade. It's here that Stone Grey, a novelist, returns for his twenti...



  • Black Flash

    A small group of strangers living in different towns across America, each with different backgrounds, is chosen. Some have come willingly, while others have been taken in the dark of night. Stark, shadowy terror suddenly invades their dreams and turn...

  • Gone

    A Gone Novel - 1

    In the blink of an eye. Everyone disappears. GONE. Except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not one single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television....

  • Hunger

    A Gone Novel - 2

    It's been three months since everyone under the age of fifteen became trapped in the bubble known as the FAYZ. Three months since all the adults disappeared. Gone. Food ran out weeks ago. Everyone is starving, but no one wants to figure o...

  • Lies

    A Gone Novel - 3

    It's been seven months since all the adults disappeared. Gone. It happens in one night. A girl who died now walks among the living; Zil and the Human Crew set fire to Perdido Beach; and amid the flames and smoke, Sam sees the figure of the boy he ...

  • The Call

    The Magnificent 12 - 1

    Twelve-year-old Mack MacAvoy suffers from a severe case of mediumness. . . . And then, one day, a three-thousand-year-old man named Grimluk appears in the boys' bathroom to deliver some startling news: Mack is one of the Magnificent Twelve, whatever ...

  • When I Come Home

    Life is good for Nancy Cavanaugh. She’s happily married with three young children and one on the way. The only serious rift between her and her husband, Connor, is a debt-ridden farm in Ireland that Connor inherited from his father. He has dreams o...

  • Plague

    A Gone Novel - 4

    It's been eight months since all the adults disappeared. Gone. They've survived hunger. They've survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, po...

  • The Cove

    Haddley Falls, a sleepy, bucolic New England town, relies on tourism for its economic survival. But then the unthinkable happens: A man and a woman are brutally murdered on a sailboat anchored in the town’s cove. Understandably, these murders thr...

  • Back To Venice

    Imagine what it would be like to go back in time to the 15th century Venice. And imagine what it would be like to meet your lifelong hero, Michelangelo. And imagine what it would be like if, on first meeting, you spill a tray of pasta and wine on t...

  • Dear Son, Hey Ma

    When it comes to interpersonal communications, Cool Hand Luke said it best: "What we've got here is a failure to communicate." And that statement was never truer than it is for the two characters in Dear Son, Hey Ma. Even in the best of times, meanin...



  • In The Time Of Famine

    In 1845 a blight of unknown origin destroyed the potato crop in Ireland triggering a series of events that would change forever the course of Ireland’s history. The British government called the famine an act of God. The Irish called it genocide. ...

  • Krystal

    Back in 1973 Johnny Carson made a joke about a toilet paper shortage. The next morning many of his 20 million viewers rushed out to their local supermarkets and cleared the shelves of toilet paper. And of course we all know about Oprah's legendary po...

  • Trap

    The Magnificent 12 - 2

    Beware of . . . the trap! In the second book in The Magnificent 12 series, Mack MacAvoy is challenged to find the ancient ones, the great forgotten forces. Some will help, some not so much. But above all he must: Learn the ways of Vargran! Ass...

  • Who Moved My Friggin' Provolone?

    Who Moved My Friggin’ Provolone? is as spoof on Spencer Johnson’s very fine book, Who Moved My Cheese.Follow the adventures and travails of Joey Boddaboom and Vinny Boddabing, two Mafia guys who are confronted with all the unpleasant aspects of ...

  • BZRK ORIGINS

    BZRK - 0.5

    Grey McLure had a brilliant mind. When his wife was diagnosed with lung cancer, he was determined to conquer the disease with his biggest weapon: science. Throwing himself into the world of an emerging technology--nanotechnology--Grey develops the bi...

  • Appropriate Sanctions

    Life is good for Paul Ducane. He’s happily married with a promising career as a political science professor and consultant. But all that changes when his bright young graduate student, Jeff Levin, hacks into a government computer and downloads a ...

  • In 666 Words

    666, the number that invokes fear in all. Somewhere lurking within these 33 tales of flash-fiction true terror exists for those brave enough to read on. Travel along with:-a generations spanning cannibal clan eating their way through America-serial k...

  • BZRK

    BZRK - 1

    Noah and Sadie: newly initiated into an underground cell so covert they don't even know each other's real names. Trained for combat on the nano level, they are thrust into a war they can barely grasp. Vincent: feels nothing and cares for no one. He's...

  • Fear

    A Gone Novel - 5

    It's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone. Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is perhaps the wor...

  • Stalker

    Sheila Kendall, the daughter of a Navy SEAL killed in action, is a talented Juilliard student who dreams of a solo career as a cellist. To earn money for an important upcoming cello competition, she takes a part-time job in a law firm. One of the att...



  • The Ghost and the Author

    Dan Grier is a serious writer. At least that's what he thought until his debut book tanked. It seems the critics loved it, but, alas, no one thought enough of it to actually buy it. Desperate for money, he turns to the serious writer's version of...

  • The Key

    The Magnificent 12 - 3

    Time is short for Mack MacAvoy and the Magnifica! Mack hates doing homework (that's what golems are for), but it seems that the only way to defeat the Pale Queen and her evil daughter, Risky, is to learn the magical language of Vargran. If only ancie...

  • Precinct

    Captain Richard Leland is a rising star in the NYPD. Young, bright, and super ambitious, his goal is to be the police commissioner by the time he’s forty. He’s right on track, but then department politics rears its ugly head. All his carefully la...

  • Light

    A Gone Novel - 6

    It's been over a year since all the adults disappeared. Gone. In the time since everyperson over the age of fourteen disap-peared from the town of Perdido Beach, California, countless battles have been fought: battles against hunger and lies and p...

  • The Power

    The Magnificent 12 - 4

    Michael Grant, author of the New York Times bestselling Gone books, shows his funny side in this fantasy-adventure series, which concludes with this fourth book. Monty Python-like humor makes the Magnificent 12 perfect for fans of funny, action-fi...

  • BZRK Reloaded

    BZRK - 2

    The entire BZRK cell--including Noah and Sadie--has been left in pieces after the last round of battle with the Armstrong Twins, conjoined brother who plot to rob mankind of its free will. Vincent's mind is shattered, and his memories hold dangerous ...

  • There Goes Tokyo!

    Attention everyone! This is an emergency broadcast! The entertaining book you are about to read is filled with gigantic monsters and massive amounts of sarcasm and humor! Be prepared to laugh and have a fun time!The 1960s and 1970s, a time when a ...

  • A Letter to Ballyturan

    It’s 1945. The war is over and Matt McCartan is mustered out of the army just in time to attend his father’s funeral. Matt and his father always had an estranged relationship and because of that Matt knows almost nothing about his father’s life...

  • Messenger of Fear

    Messenger of Fear - 1

    Mara wakes in a field of dead grass, a heavy mist pressing down an her. She is terrified, afraid that she is dead. There is a boy in that mist, a beautiful young man dressed in black and able to move effortlessly through space and time. He is the Mes...

  • Bzrk Apocalypse

    BZRK - 3

    The staggering conclusion to the BZRK trilogy, from the author of the GONE series. The members of BZRK are preparing for their final stand, in the world's capitals and in the nano. Noah and Sadie will give everything they have to stop the Armstrong T...



  • The Snake

    Messenger of Fear - 1.5

    The Snake delves deeper into New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant's world of harsh justice. Fans of Stephen King will be mesmerized by this chilling yet deeply thought-provoking horror story.The Messenger and Mara witness a crime. Someone ...

  • Horror 101

    An escalating game of Rock-Paper-Scissors is played to an unexpected conclusion.A blind date between two werewolves does not have a happy ending.The middle school science fair has a frightening entry vying for first place.A parking garage holds a spe...

  • Latin Literature

    A classic introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the best passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and many others.This classic anthology traces the development of Latin literature from the early Republican works of Cicero and Catullu...

  • The Tattooed Heart

    Messenger of Fear - 2

    THE GAMES CONTINUE Mara has learned to punish the wicked as the Messenger's apprentice. Those who act out of selfishness and greed, and others who become violent because of prejudice and hate, pay the ultimate price. But Mara is constantly reminde...

  • Front Lines

    Front Lines - 1

    Michael Grant unleashes an epic, genre-bending, and transformative new series that reimagines World War II with girl soldiers fighting on the front lines. World War II, 1942. A court decision makes women subject to the draft and eligible for servi...

  • Soldier Girls in Action

    In this first digital original novella set in the world of the Front Lines series, Michael Grant showcases the real-life female journalists of World War II who became the first women war correspondents in history.   When fierce reporter Ann...

  • Silver Stars

    Front Lines - 2

    The summer of 1943, World War II The Germans have been bloodied, but Nazi Germany is very far from beaten. The North African campaign was only the beginning of the long journey for Frangie, Rainy, Rio, and the millions of other Allies. Now the A...

  • Manhattan

    Manhattan is the continuing saga of Michael and Emily Ranahan’s life as recounted in In The Time Of Famine. In fleeing the famine in Ireland to find a new life in the New World, they come ashore at New York City on an island called Manhattan, a cha...

  • Monster

    A Gone Novel - 7
    The Monster Trilogy - 1

    Acclaimed author Michael Grant delivers a stunning follow-up to the globally bestselling Gone series -- perfect for fans of Stephen King’s suspenseful writing. It’s been four years since a meteor hit Perdido Beach and everyone disappeared. Ev...

  • Purple Hearts

    Front Lines - 3

    New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant unleashes the gritty and powerful conclusion to the Front Line series and evokes the brutal truth of World War II: War is hell. An epic tale of historical reimagining, perfect for fans of Code Name Veri...



  • Villain

    A Gone Novel - 8
    The Monster Trilogy - 2

    Acclaimed author Michael Grant’s globally bestselling Gone series continues with VILLAIN, where old foes return and new ones rise, with action-packed scenes, gory battles, and plot twists that will leave readers scrambling for more. It’s been...

  • A Sudden Death in Cyprus

    A David Mitre Thriller - 1

    Fugitive crime writer David Mitre is caught up in a deadly conspiracy when he’s witness to a brutal murder on the stunning island of Cyprus. Having melted easily into Cyprus’s relaxed expat community, fugitive crime writer David Mitre is feeli...

  • Destiny's Emergence Arthur

    In this continuation of the saga, the Engineering Task Groups prove their worth by renovating ships, and House Thorsson tries to help with the partial cost of a new ship to show their support and their value....

  • Hero

    A Gone Novel - 9
    The Monster Trilogy - 3

    The mind-blowing conclusion to the Monster trilogy and the final installment in the Gone series from science fiction and fantasy master Michael Grant is perfect for superhero and Stephen King fans alike. After the fall of Perdido Beach dome, a new...

  • An Artful Assassin in Amsterdam

    A David Mitre Thriller - 2

    David Mitre finds himself the focus of attention for an assassin while helping FBI Special Agent Delia Delacorte in her latest case in Amsterdam. “It takes a thief to catch a thief . . .” The last thing fugitive crime writer David Mitre exp...

  • Bare Bear Bones

  • Dead of Night

  • Katlanta

    ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE WAS A PLANET FAR, FAR AWAY... The planet was called Kateraan. All of its inhabitants were cats- incredibly smart, genius cats! Kateraan was a world of vast scientific achievement. Everyone on this planet was a genius at somet...

  • Serena Williams The Last Season

    On her own and in her own words, Serena Williams bids adieu to tennis.Serena declared that she would play in the US Open in Flushing Meadows at the end of the month after winning her first match in more than a year on Monday at the National Open in T...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael Grant has published 58 books.

Michael Grant does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Serena Williams The Last Season, was published in August 2022.

The first book by Michael Grant, Greek Literature, was published in May 1977.

Yes. Michael Grant has 7 series.
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