Dori Hillestad Butler

Dori Hillestad Butler is one of the well known novelists from The United States, who is famous for writing children's books. She is also renowned for writing short stories based on the young adult genre. Author Butler is the only child of her parents.

The best place to start is the Buddy Files series, the earliest of Dori Hillestad Butler's multi-book series: it opens with The Case of the Lost Boy (2010) and runs to 7 books across 2010–2018, ending with The Case of the Pound Pet (2018). Dori Hillestad Butler's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Dori Hillestad Butler has 56 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1995 and 2025. 37 of them belong to 6 named series — the largest being The Haunted Library series with 10 books — and 19 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. Dori Hillestad Butler's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Do You Know The Monkey Man? (2005–2009, 2 books), Buddy Files (2010–2018, 7 books) and The Haunted Library (2014–2017, 10 books), plus 3 more.

This guide splits Dori Hillestad Butler's 56 books into 6 named series and 19 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Haunted Library (10 books, 2014–2017); King & Kayla (10 books, 2017–2024); Buddy Files (7 books, 2010–2018); Dear Beast (4 books, 2020–2022); The Treasure Troop (4 books, 2021), plus 1 further series.