We’re looking at the best-selling and most popular female writers from our catalog to date. The work produced by these women not only spans many genres but also covers a broad scope of topics. From the inspirational to the romantic, thrilling, and captivating to the humorous, their words invoke emotion and provoke introspection and thought.

"I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud." That's how Nnedi Okorafor feels. If you're like her, you'd agree with her. We've put together a list of 20 bestselling authors to consider and their notable works. Let's get to it!

Joyce Meyer

Joyce Meyer writes for the Christian audience. She's won awards such as the ECFA Accreditation, Nobel Prize, Inside Soap Awards, Clio Awards, and Princes of Asturias Awards. Her books include How to Hear from God, Authentically, Uniquely You, and Battlefield of the Mind.

Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts is an American author of over 200 novels. She was the first writer to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of fame. Her best works include Legacy, The Obsession, The Dragon Heart Legacy Series, and Sea Swept.

Sandra Brown

Sandra Brown is an American author of romantic novels and thriller suspense novels. Her best-known works are Thick as Thieves, Best Kept Secrets, Tailspin, and Slow Heat in Heaven. She's won awards like the A.C. Geene Award and International Thriller Writers Award.

Beverly Lewis

Beverly Lewis is known for penning Christian fiction novels, but she has also authored over 100 children's books in addition to her adult novels. Some of her best-selling books are The Covenant from the Abram’s Daughters Series, The Secret, The Fiddler and The Brethren. She's won the Christian Retailing's BEST Award and been nominated for a Christy Award.

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult is an American writer with over 26 published fiction novels with a range of topics centering around families and familial relationships. She's written short stories and also penned several issues of the popular superhero series “Wonder Woman”. In 2003, she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction. Her best works include A Spark of Light, Leaving Time, and The Story Teller.

Karen Kingsbury

Karen Kingsbury is an American writer of over 100 Christian novels and short stories. Interesting enough, she was also a sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Daily News. Her best works include the Heart of the Story Series, Brush of Wings, Angels Walking, and Love Story.

Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and author. Her writing genres are fantasy, science fiction, children's literature, young adult fiction, and dystopian fiction. Her best works include The Hunger Games Trilogy, The Underland Chronicles, and the children’s book When Charlie McButton Lost Power.

Catherine Coulter

Catherine Coulter is an American writer specializing in Romantic novels, historical romance, and contemporary suspense thrillers. Some of her best works include the Grayson Sherbrooke’s Otherworldly Adventures Series, Vortex, and The End Game. She is a New York Times Best Selling Author and won a Career Achievement Award in 1999.

Debbie Macomber

Debbie Macomber writes contemporary women's fiction and romance novels with over 100 million copies of her books in print. Six of her novels have been turned into TV movies. Her best works include Dear Santa, A Walk Along the Beach, and the New Beginnings Book Series.

Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer is an American novelist specializing in Vampire romance, young adult fiction, science fiction. Her best works are the Twilight Saga series, The Host, and The Chemist. In 2009, she was the bestselling author in the U.S. after selling over 29 million books. She also received the Children's Book of the Year Award from the British Book Awards in the same year.

Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon specializes in speculative fiction, historical fiction, historical romance, historical mystery, historical fantasy, and scientific literature. Diana's notable works are the Outlander series and Go Tell the Bees That I am Gone, as well as contributing to the Science Software Quarterly. She's also received awards like the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award and the Quill Award.

Karin Slaughter

Karin Slaughter is American crime fiction, mystery, and thriller writer. She's authored over 18 books and has won several awards, including the Crime Writers' Association's Dagger Award and the 2015 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger winner for the novel Cop Town. Her best known works are Pretty Girls, The Silent Wife, and The Good Daughter.

Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry has written several children's and young adult's books. She specializes in writing Children's literature and fantasy and has received notable awards like Newbery Medal 1990, 1994, and the Margaret Edwards Award 2007. Her best works are The Giver, Messenger, and The Willoughbys in addition to her children’s series The Gooney Bird Greene.

Lisa Gardner

Lisa Gardner is an American novelist with over 20 suspense novels. Her best works include The Perfect Husband, When You See Me (part of the Detective D.D. Warren Series), and Right Behind You.  She's won awards like the Hardcover Thriller of the Year and the Daphne du Maurier Award.

Julia Quinn

Julia Quinn's genres of writing are romance and historical. Her remarkable achievements are appearing on the New York Times Bestseller List 19 times and one of her best works, the Bridgerton series, getting adapted for Netflix. Other book series from Quinn are Two Dukes, Rokesbys and Bevelstoke.

Sylvia Day

Sylvia Day is a Japanese American writer specializing in genres such as romance, fantasy, speculative fiction. She is a number one bestselling author in over 28 countries.  Some of her best works are Butterfly in Frost and the Marked book series.  Day was the 22^nd President of the RWA and serves on the Authors Guild Board of Directors.

Lisa Kleypas

Lisa Kleypas' genres of writing are historical and contemporary romance. Her best works include the Wallflowers series, Devil in Disguise, and The Ravenels book series. She's been a finalist for the Romance Writers of America RITA Award.

Philippa Gregory

Philippa Gregory's genres of writing are historical fiction, romance, and fantasy. Her best works include Tidelands, The Other Boleyn Girl and Dark Tides. In 2002, she won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award.

Christine Feehan

Christine Feehan primarily writes romance, fantasy, thriller and suspense novels. She's won awards like the Romantic Times Award and the Paranormal Excellence Awards in Romantic Literature (PEARL) Awards. Her best works include Dark Series and the Shadow Riders Series.

Robyn Carr

Robyn Carr is the author of more than forty novels, including the highly acclaimed Virgin River Series, and is a RITA Award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author.  Carr is also known for works such as Temptation Ridge and Deep in the Valley, part of the Grace Valley Trilogy Series.