Beverly Jenkins Books in Order
Beverly Jenkins has written 60 books, published between 1994 and 2025. The first book is Night Song (1994) and the newest is Calling All Blessings (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 60
- Published
- 1994–2025
- Confirmed
- 60 of 60 titles
- Pages on record
- 14,957 in 44 of 60 books
- Reading time
- 249–374 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 14,957 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 44 of 60 titles with a page count on record.
Beverly Jenkins writes historical and contemporary romance with a focus on 19th-century African American life. Born in Detroit in 1951, Jenkins was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in 2013, and in 1999 the African American Literature Book Club named her among the top 50 favourite African American writers of the 20th century. The catalogue holds 60 books from Night Song (1994) to Calling All Blessings (2025), including the Blessings, Old West, Le Veq Family and Grayson Family series. Recorded subjects include mail order brides, Kansas, and city and town life.
How many Beverly Jenkins books are there?
Beverly Jenkins has 60 books, released between 1994 and 2025. They include 6 separate series.
Beverly Jenkins Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 60 Beverly Jenkins 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.
- 119943743/4
- 219954203/4
- 319963983/4
- 419973703/4
- 519983843/4
- 619993783/4
- 72000–3/4
- 820013843/4
- 920022263/4
- 1020023573/4
- 1120023753/4
- 1220032463/4
- 1320043723/4
- 1420053743/4
- 1520053843/4
- 1620063703/4
- 1720063433/4
- 182007–3/4
- 1920072423/4
- 2020073753/4
- 2120073703/4
- 2220073843/4
- 2320083733/4
- 2420093663/4
- 2520093863/4
- 2620093843/4
- 2720102193/4
- 282010–3/4
- 2920103733/4
- 3020113363/4
- 312011–3/4
- 3220113713/4
- 3320123043/4
- 3420122183/4
- 3520133733/4
- 3620133703/4
- 372013863/4
- 3820143703/4
- 3920142953/4
- 402015–3/4
- 4120152953/4
- 4220163703/4
- 4320162923/4
- 4420173763/4
- 452017–3/4
- 4620183733/4
- 472018–3/4
- 482018–3/4
- 4920193733/4
- 502019–3/4
- 512019–3/4
- 522019–3/4
- 532019–3/4
- 542019–3/4
- 5520203363/4
- 5620212563/4
- 572021–3/4
- 582021–3/4
- 592022–3/4
- 6020253363/4
Beverly Jenkins 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.
Beverly Jenkins Standalone Novels
17 books17 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Blessings in order
13 books- 1. Bring on the Blessings
- 2. A Second Helping
- 3. Something Old, Something New
- 4. A Wish and a Prayer
- 5. Crystal Clear
- 6. Heart of Gold
- 7. For Your Love
- 8. Stepping to a New Day
- 9. Chasing Down a Dream
- 10. Second Time Sweeter
- 11. On the Corner of Hope and Main
- 12. A Christmas to Remember
- and 1 more in the table above
Beverly Jenkins Short Story
7 books7 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Beverly Jenkins Short Stories/Novellas
5 books5 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Le Veq Family in order
3 booksDestiny in order
3 booksOld West in order
3 books- 1. Forbidden
- 2. Breathless
- 3. Tempest
Women Who Dare in order
3 books- 1. Rebel
- 2. Wild Rain
- 3. To Catch a Raven
Grayson Family in order
2 booksBelle / Josephine in order
2 booksEdge in order
2 booksBeverly Jenkins Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Beverly Jenkins books run from Night Song (1994) to Calling All Blessings (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Beverly Jenkins in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Beverly Jenkins books in order?
You only need to read Beverly Jenkins books in order within each series: the books listed here span 6 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Beverly Jenkins
Start with Night Song (1994), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Beverly Jenkins book?
Calling All Blessings (2025) is the newest Beverly Jenkins book released so far.
Is there a new Beverly Jenkins book coming?
No next Beverly Jenkins book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Beverly Jenkins has won
Wikidata records 1 award for Beverly Jenkins. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Michigan Author Award2018Won
Beverly Jenkins at a glance
- Still publishing
- Beverly Jenkins published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Beverly Jenkins books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 14,957 pages across the 44 of 60 books with a recorded length, a median of 370 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Beverly Jenkins books, 28 of 60, were published in the 2010s.
What the Beverly Jenkins books are about
44 of the 60 Beverly Jenkins books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: african americans is tagged on 37 of 44. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- African Americans 37 of 44 books
- Romance 21 of 44 books
- Historical fiction 15 of 44 books
- Man-woman relationships 14 of 44 books
- Historical romance 13 of 44 books
- History 10 of 44 books
- City and town life 6 of 44 books
- African Americans in fiction 5 of 44 books
- Kansas 5 of 44 books
- African American women 3 of 44 books
- Mail order brides 3 of 44 books