Coauthored Literature

Following

• Ilona Andrews is a wife-husband team. Works by them with pages are:
  • Kate Daniels
  • The Edge
  • Hidden Legacy
  • The Innkeeper Chronicles
• Piers Anthony has collaborated a number of times over his career with some notable cases below:
  • The Jason Striker series and Dead Morn with Roberto Fuentes
  • The The Adventures of Kelvin of Rud series, The E.S.P. Worm, and The Ring with Robert E. Margroff
  • Infamously, But What of Earth? was initially released as co-written with Robert Coulson after the editor told Anthony what Coulson was just re-typing the manuscript, but instead made extensive changes.
  • Through the Ice was a posthumous collaboration with Robert Kornwise after Kornwise's friends sent the unfinished manuscript to Anthony after his death with a plea for him to help get it published.
  • The Caterpillar's Question with Philip José Farmer
• K. A. Applegate and Michael Grant co-authored some book series together, but the covers only use Applegate's name:
  • Animorphs (also had ghostwriters for some of the books)
  • Everworld
  • Remnants
• William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac co-authored their first novel And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks.
  • Burroughs also co-wrote short experimental novels with his friend and longtime collaborator Brion Gysin, including The Exterminator, and The Third Mind, while Minutes to Go was a collaborative effort between Burroughs, Gysin, Gregory Corso, and Sinclair Beiles.
• Joseph Conrad co-authored three novels with Ford Madox Ford: Romance, The Inheritors, and The Nature of a Crime.
• The Soviet writers Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov co-authored the satirical novels The Twelve Chairs, The Golden Calf and One storied America.
• David Eddings' wife Leigh co-authored all his books but went uncredited until the mid-90s as his publisher was against multi-author credits.
• Erin Hunter is the House Pseudonym of the multiple authors of the following series:
  • Warrior Cats
  • Seekers
  • Survivor Dogs
  • Bravelands
  • Bamboo Kingdom
• Jahnna N. Malcolm: The Bad News Ballet series was credited under the aforementioned Pen Name of married couple writers Jahnna Beecham and Malcolm Hillgartner.
• Mercedes Lackey, as well as being extremely prolific on her own, has written many, many co-authored books.
  • Several Heralds of Valdemar books are co-authored with her husband Larry Dixon.
  • The first three Bedlam's Bard books are written with Ellen Guon, while the next five are with Rosemary Edghill.
  • The SERRA-ted Edge books were written with any of a host of co-authors, including Larry Dixon, Mark Shepherd, Holly Lisle, Josepha Sherman, Cody Martin, and Rosemary Edghill, while the Elizabethan-era prequel series is entirely co-written with Roberta Gellis.
  • The Heirs of Alexandria is written with Dave Freer and Eric Flint.
  • The Secret World Chronicles are written with Steve Libbey, Dennis Lee and Cody Martin.
  • The Halfblood Chronicles are written with Andre Norton.
  • The Obsidian Trilogy, The Enduring Flame Trilogy, and The Dragon Prophecy Trilogy, as well as the standalone and unrelated The House of the Four Winds, are written with James Mallory.
  • She and Josepha Sherman, Ru Emerson, and Mark Shepherd wrote Castle of Deception, Fortress Of Frost And Fire, and Prison of Souls, the first three novels based on The Bard's Tale Trilogy. (The novel series continued with different authors afterwards)
  • Shadow Grail with Rosemary Edghill.
  • Reboots with Cody Martin.
  • Reap the Whirlwind with C. J. Cherryh
  • The Ship Who... Searched with Anne McCaffrey
  • Wing Commander: Freedom Flight with Ellen Guon.
  • Rediscovery, a Darkover novel with Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • If I Pay Thee Not In Gold with Piers Anthony
  • Tiger Burning Bright with Marion Zimmer Bradley and Andre Norton
  • The Wizard of Karres, with Eric Flint and Dave Freer
  • Winter Moon with Tanith Lee and C.E. Murphy
  • Harvest Moon with Cameron Haley and Michelle Sagara
  • Dead Reckoning with Rosemary Edghill
• Anne McCaffrey tended towards this more in the later years of her career. The ones that came out around 2009 she admitted to being a Nominal Coauthor for since she just didn't have the energy to write full stories on her own anymore.
  • The Ship Who...'s first novel was a Patchwork Story, but in the nineties entries came out co-authored with Margaret Ball, S. M. Stirling, Mercedes Lackey, and Jody Lynn Nye.
  • Planet Pirates were with Elizabeth Moon and Jody Lynn Nye.
  • The latter two Doona books were with Jody Lynn Nye.
  • The Petaybee and Barque Cat series were all with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough.
  • The Acorna Series is with Margaret Ball and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough.
  • The series she's best known for, Dragonriders of Pern, has some with her son Todd, who continued after her death.
• Ann M. Martin and her then-partner Laura Godwin co-wrote The Doll People series.
• Jack Mc Kinney was Brian Daley and James Luceno. Together they wrote 12 novelizations of Robotech as well as 5 sequels. Additionally, they had several original works.
• The Strugatsky Brothers Arkady and Boris co-authored several well-known works of science fiction, most notably Roadside Picnic.
• Harry Turtledove, aside from being a prolific solo author, has written several books with others:
  • Household Gods with Judith Tarr.
  • The Two Georges with Richard Dreyfuss.
• David Weber has several series of these:
  • Ascent to Empire with Richard Fox.
  • Hell's Gate with Linda Evans.
  • The Empire of Man with John Ringo.
  • Novels based on Starfire with Steve White.
  • Manticore Ascendant with Timothy Zahn and Tom Pope.

• Coeur Al'Aran:
  • A Hunter or Something: Coeur Al'Aran and College Fool created this fanfic together after the latter helped the former as a beta reader of some of his previous works, so they devised a way to thank him in which C.F. would plan out all the story of a fanfic, the plot, the characters, the twists, everything, and then Coeur would put it in writing.
  • The Writer Games: Coeur and C.F. act as hosts and lead writers for this anthology. They alternate between being the one who gives the prompts and reviews the draft and the one who writes the prompt.
• Paradoxus: While the primary writer is Bloom_Farella, she acknowledges the contributions of Daybreak, Popsicle, and Crowgirl as co-authors. The four came up with the general idea of the fic and all worked refining its worldbuilding, characters, and plot.
• PokéBattles: The community was tight-knit enough that some of the versions were collaborations between authors. Arguably, the network's policy of one version per unique combination of authors encouraged this—Got an idea that doesn't fit into your current version but you want to do more than one battle for? You need to find a coauthor or two for it that you're not working with elsewhere.
• Ranger General was written in collaboration by Bloom_Farella and Eri-crowford.

Literature

• Argylle by Terry Hayes and Tammy Cohen (under the pen-name "Elly Conway"
• Black Trillium by Andre Norton, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Julian May
• The Edge Chronicles is by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
• The Expanse is written by James S. A. Corey, who is, or rather, are, actually collaborators Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.
• The Golden Demon was written serially by Ozaki Kōyō from January 1, 1897 until May 11, 1902, then was left unfinished from his death in 1903. The ending written by his student Oguri Fūyō is generally regarded as canon.
• Good Omens is by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
• The Long Earth is by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
• The Magisterium is by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare.
• Peter and the Starcatchers is by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson.
• Player Two Start trilogy written by Ry Senkari and Nivek.
• Red Dwarf: The first two novels were written by "Grant Naylor" (Rob Grant and Doug Naylor), the third by Doug Naylor alone, and the fourth by Rob Grant alone.
• The Servants and the Beast is a doozy of an example, with the authors of the book being Karen Blakely, R.A. Gates, Kelly Haworth, Jennifer Lee, and Cheryl Mahoney. For bonus absurdity, the book is only about 140 pages long.
• The Ship Who...: The first book (actually a Patchwork Story) was by Anne McCaffrey alone. Decades later several more were released, each with a different coauthor. PartnerShip with Margaret Ball, The Ship Who Searched with Mercedes Lackey, The City Who Fought with S. M. Stirling, and The Ship Who Won with Jody Lee Nye. Stirling and Nye each wrote a solo sequel to the book they cowrote, The Ship Avenged and The Ship Errant respectively.
• The Spiderwick Chronicles is by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi.
• Sten by Alan Cole and Chris Bunch
• The Wheel of Time series was written by Robert Jordan until his death. Brandon Sanderson wrote the final three books based on the notes and incomplete writings Jordan left behind; those books credit Jordan and Sanderson as co-authors.
• Wrong Time for Dragons by Nick Perumov and Sergey Lukyanenko