Anita Shreve Books in Order
Anita Shreve has written 23 books, published between 1986 and 2017. The first book is Working Woman: A Guide to Fitness and Health (1986) and the newest is The Stars Are Fire (2017). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 23
- Published
- 1986–2017
- Confirmed
- 23 of 23 titles
- Pages on record
- 5,214 in 18 of 23 books
- Reading time
- 87–130 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,214 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 18 of 23 titles with a page count on record.
Anita Shreve wrote psychological fiction about marriage, widowhood and friendship between women. The catalogue opens with non-fiction, including Working Woman: A Guide to Fitness and Health (1986), and turns to novels with Eden Close (1989). Twenty-three titles reach The Stars Are Fire (2017), with the Fortune's Rocks Quartet the one linked sequence. No new Shreve title has appeared since 2017.
Anita Shreve's prose moves between different time periods within a single story. She won an O. Henry Prize for a short story early in her career and later received the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award. One of her novels was selected for Oprah's Book Club.
How many Anita Shreve books are there?
Anita Shreve has 23 books, released between 1986 and 2017. 4 of them belong to the Fortune's Rocks Quartet series.
Anita Shreve Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 23 Anita Shreve books in the order they were released, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Working Woman: A Guide to Fitness and HealthAnita Shreve Non-Fiction #11986 · 314 pages · confirmed 4/419863144/4
- 21987–4/4
- 3Remaking Motherhood: How Working Mothers and Shaping Our Children's FutureAnita Shreve Non-Fiction #31987 · 259 pages · confirmed 4/419872594/4
- 4Who's in Control: Dr. Balter's Guide to Discipline Without CombatAnita Shreve Non-Fiction #41988 · 187 pages · confirmed 4/419881874/4
- 519892654/4
- 61989–4/4
- 719913424/4
- 819932524/4
- 919952224/4
- 1019972464/4
- 1119982934/4
- 121999–4/4
- 1320013134/4
- 1420024004/4
- 152003–4/4
- 1620043364/4
- 1720053254/4
- 1820073044/4
- 192008–4/4
- 2020093074/4
- 2120103204/4
- 22Stella Bain / The Lives of Stella BainAnita Shreve Standalone Novels #132013 · 288 pages · confirmed 4/420132884/4
- 2320172414/4
Anita Shreve books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Anita Shreve Standalone Novels
14 books14 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Anita Shreve Non-Fiction
5 books5 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Fortune's Rocks Quartet in order
4 booksAnita Shreve Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Anita Shreve books run from Working Woman: A Guide to Fitness and Health (1986) to The Stars Are Fire (2017), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Anita Shreve in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Anita Shreve books in order?
You only need to read Anita Shreve books in order within the Fortune's Rocks Quartet series, which holds 4 of the 23 Anita Shreve books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Anita Shreve
Start with Working Woman: A Guide to Fitness and Health (1986), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Anita Shreve book?
The Stars Are Fire (2017) is the newest Anita Shreve book released so far.
Is there a new Anita Shreve book coming?
No next Anita Shreve book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Anita Shreve at a glance
- Died
- Anita Shreve died in 2018, according to Wikidata.
- Last book
- The newest book credited to Anita Shreve on record dates from 2017.
- Release pace
- Anita Shreve books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 5,214 pages across the 18 of 23 books with a recorded length, a median of 298 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Anita Shreve books, 8 of 23, were published in the 2000s.
- Corroboration
- 23 of the 23 titles appear in all four independent book listings.
What the Anita Shreve books are about
21 of the 23 Anita Shreve books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: psychological fiction is tagged on 5 of 21. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Psychological fiction 5 of 21 books
- Man-woman relationships 3 of 21 books
- Marriage 3 of 21 books
- Friendship 2 of 21 books
- Historical fiction 2 of 21 books
- History 2 of 21 books
- Kenya 2 of 21 books
- Life change events 2 of 21 books
- Maine 2 of 21 books
- New hampshire 2 of 21 books
- Romance 2 of 21 books
- Contemporary romance 2 of 21 books