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Barbara Cartland Books in Order

702 books are credited to Barbara Cartland, published between 1910 and 2024; 139 of them appeared after Barbara Cartland's death in 2000. The first book is His Hour (1910) and the newest is A Heart in the Highlands (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Barbara Cartland also publishes as Barbara McCorquodale, Marcus Belfry.

Books
702
Published
1910–2024
Pages on record
55,880 in 294 of 702 books
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Barbara Cartland, born Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland on 9 July 1901 and died on 21 May 2000, was an English romance novelist and socialite. This directory catalogues 702 titles under Cartland's name, from His Hour (1910) through to A Heart in the Highlands (2024), with the 1980s the heaviest decade. The Eternal Collection, the Pink Collection and the Camfield Novels Of Love group the bulk of that output. Cartland wrote contemporary as well as historical romance, the historical novels set mainly in the Victorian and Edwardian periods, and ranks fifth among the most translated authors worldwide.

How many Barbara Cartland books are there?

Barbara Cartland has 702 books, released between 1910 and 2024. 139 of them were published after Barbara Cartland's death in 2000. 1 of them belong to the Camfield Novels Of Love series.

Barbara Cartland Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 702 Barbara Cartland books in the order they were published, 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.

There are 702 recorded titles, more than one list usefully holds. The 300 earliest are below; the series linked further down carry the rest, each in its own order.

  1. Cover of Bars of Iron by Barbara Cartland (1916)
  2. Cover of Jig-Saw by Barbara Cartland (1925)
  3. Cover of Sweet Punishment by Barbara Cartland (1931)
  4. Cover of A Virgin In Mayfair by Barbara Cartland (1932)
  5. Cover of The Forgotten City by Barbara Cartland (1936)
  6. Cover of The Adventurer by Barbara Cartland (1937)
  7. Cover of The Bitter Winds of Love by Barbara Cartland (1938)
  8. Cover of Broken Barriers by Barbara Cartland (1938)
  9. Cover of The Black Panther by Barbara Cartland (1939)
  10. Cover of Love in Pity by Barbara Cartland (1939)
  11. Cover of A Heart is Broken by Barbara Cartland (1942)
  12. Cover of The Leaping Flame by Barbara Cartland (1942)
  13. Cover of Open Wings by Barbara Cartland (1942)
  14. Cover of Out of Reach by Barbara Cartland (1945)
  15. Cover of Against the stream by Barbara Cartland (1946)
  16. Cover of Again This Rapture by Barbara Cartland (1947)
  17. Cover of Where is Love? by Barbara Cartland (1947)
  18. Cover of The Enchanted Moment by Barbara Cartland (1949)
  19. Cover of Book of Etiquette by Barbara Cartland (1950)
  20. Cover of Etiquette for Love and Romance by Barbara Cartland (1950)
  21. Cover of The Knave of Hearts by Barbara Cartland (1950)
  22. Cover of Love Is an Eagle by Barbara Cartland (1951)
  23. Cover of Love is Mine by Barbara Cartland (1952)
  24. Cover of The Secret Heart by Barbara Cartland (1952)
  1. 1
    His Hour1910 · 182 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1910182
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  2. 2
    Bars of Iron1916 · 496 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1916496
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  3. 3
    Jig-Saw1925 · 286 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1925286
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  4. 4
    The Sons of the Sheik1925 · 213 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1925213
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  5. 5
    Sawdust1926 · confirmed 1/4
    1926–
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  6. 6
    If the Tree Is Saved1929 · confirmed 1/4
    1929–
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  7. 7
    For What?1930 · confirmed 1/4
    1930–
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  8. 8
    Sweet Punishment1931 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1931256
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  9. 9
    A Virgin In Mayfair1932 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1932192
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  10. 10
    Dance On My Heart1933 · 191 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1933191
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  11. 11
    Just Off Piccadilly1933 · confirmed 1/4
    1933–
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  12. 12
    Not Love Alone1933 · confirmed 1/4
    1933–
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  13. 13
    A Rainbow to Heaven1934 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1934160
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  14. 14
    A Beggar Wished1934 · confirmed 1/4
    1934–
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  15. 15
    Love and Linda1935 · 220 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1935220
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  16. 16
    First Class, Lady?1935 · confirmed 1/4
    1935–
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  17. 17
    Passionate Attainment1935 · confirmed 1/4
    1935–
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  18. 18
    The Forgotten City1936 · confirmed 1/4
    1936–
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  19. 19
    Dangerous Experiment1936 · confirmed 1/4
    1936–
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  20. 20
    The Adventurer1937 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1937208
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  21. 21
    Love at Forty1937 · 204 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1937204
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  22. 22
    But Never Free1937 · confirmed 1/4
    1937–
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  23. 23
    Saga At Forty1937 · confirmed 1/4
    1937–
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  24. 24
    The Bitter Winds of Love1938 · 159 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1938159
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  25. 25
    Broken Barriers1938 · 189 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1938189
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  26. 26
    Lost Love1939 · confirmed 1/4
    1939–
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  27. 27
    The Black Panther1939 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1939288
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  28. 28
    Love in Pity1939 · 221 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1939221
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  29. 29
    The Gods Forget1939 · confirmed 1/4
    1939–
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  30. 30
    Now Rough, Now Smooth1941 · confirmed 1/4
    1941–
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Barbara Cartland 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.

Eternal Collection

123 books

123 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Pink Collection

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Camfield Novels Of Love in order

1 book
  1. 1. Lucky Logan Finds Love

Standalone books

175 books

175 Barbara Cartland titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Barbara Cartland books in order?

You only need to read Barbara Cartland books in order within the Camfield Novels Of Love series, which holds 1 of the 300 Barbara Cartland books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Barbara Cartland

Start with His Hour (1910), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Barbara Cartland book?

A Heart in the Highlands (2024) is the newest Barbara Cartland book released so far.

Is there a new Barbara Cartland book coming?

No next Barbara Cartland book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Barbara Cartland at a glance

Died
Barbara Cartland died in 2000, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Barbara Cartland are still being published after Barbara Cartland's death in 2000; the newest appeared in 2024.
Release pace
Barbara Cartland books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
55,880 pages across the 294 of 702 books with a recorded length, a median of 180 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Barbara Cartland books, 182 of 702, were published in the 1980s.

What the Barbara Cartland books are about

378 of the 702 Barbara Cartland books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: historical romance is tagged on 174 of 378. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Historical romance 174 of 378 books
  • Romance 146 of 378 books
  • Historical fiction 113 of 378 books
  • Fiction in English 60 of 378 books
  • 1980s 54 of 378 books
  • Marriage of Convenience 39 of 378 books
  • 1990s 36 of 378 books
  • Foreign Affairs 36 of 378 books
  • Love Triangle 35 of 378 books
  • 1970s 29 of 378 books
  • History 25 of 378 books
  • Impostor 25 of 378 books