Les Roberts

Les Roberts is one of the most reputed authors of America who likes to write his novels based on the mystery, literature & fiction, and thriller genres. He is particularly famous for writing down the Milan Jacovich and the Saxon series of novels. Author Roberts was born as Lester Roubert in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on July 18, 1937.

The best place to start is the Saxon series, the earliest of Les Roberts's multi-book series: it opens with An Infinite Number of Monkeys (1987) and runs to 6 books across 1987–1994, ending with The Lemon Chicken Jones (1994). Les Roberts's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Les Roberts has 64 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1987 and 2025. 49 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being the Routledge Studies in Popular Music series with 22 books — and 15 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. Les Roberts's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Saxon (1987–1994, 6 books), Milan Jacovich (1988–2018, 19 books) and Dominick Candiotti (2011–2014, 2 books), plus 1 more.

This guide splits Les Roberts's 64 books into 4 named series and 15 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Routledge Studies in Popular Music (22 books, 2013–2021); Milan Jacovich (19 books, 1988–2018); Saxon (6 books, 1987–1994); Dominick Candiotti (2 books, 2011–2014).