Don Keith

Don Keith is a bestselling and award-winning American writer of thriller and historical fiction stories. He is particularly famous for his widely popular novel series called Rolling Thunder Stock Car Racing. Other noteworthy works of author Keith include the Hunter Killer series and the Ride series.

The best place to start is the Rolling Thunder Stock Car Racing series, the earliest of Don Keith's multi-book series: it opens with White Lightning (1999) and runs to 8 books across 1999–2001, ending with On The Throttle (2001). Don Keith's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Don Keith has 65 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1995 and 2027. 45 of them belong to 6 named series — the largest being the American War Heroes series with 18 books — and 20 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Don Keith's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Rolling Thunder Stock Car Racing (1999–2001, 8 books), American War Heroes (2003–2024, 18 books) and Hunter Killer (2003–2025, 10 books), plus 3 more.

This guide splits Don Keith's 65 books into 6 named series and 20 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: American War Heroes (18 books, 2003–2024); Hunter Killer (10 books, 2003–2025); Rolling Thunder Stock Car Racing (8 books, 1999–2001); A Call to War (4 books, 2025–2027); The Tides of War (3 books, 2025–2027), plus 1 further series.