Patty Jansen

About Patty Jansen Patty Jansen is an established science-fiction author from Australia, making waves in the literary world with her impressive stories and characters. Jansen is praised for the way she brings her characters to life in her works, crafting protagonists and antagonists that readers can connect with and care about. Additionally, Patty Jansen is known for her knack for creating captivating plots and engaging narratives, making her books easy to read and hard to put down.

The best place to start is the Ghostspeaker Chronicles series, the earliest of Patty Jansen's multi-book series: it opens with Whispering Willows (2011) and runs to 7 books across 2011–2016, ending with The Necromancer's Daughter (2016). Patty Jansen's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Patty Jansen has 101 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1985 and 2025. 92 of them belong to 12 named series — the largest being the Ambassador series with 13 books — and 9 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. Patty Jansen's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Ghostspeaker Chronicles (2011–2016, 7 books), ISF-Allion Universe (2011–2018, 4 books) and Ambassador's Children's (2011, 1 book), plus 8 more.

This guide splits Patty Jansen's 101 books into 12 named series and 9 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Ambassador (13 books, 2013–2022); Ghostspeaker Chronicles (7 books, 2011–2016); Space Agent Jonathan Bartell (5 books, 2017–2020); ISF-Allion Universe (4 books, 2011–2018); Project Charon (4 books, 2021), plus 7 further series.