Cassandra King Books in Order

Cassandra King has written 7 books, published between 2002 and 2019. The first book is The Sunday Wife (2002) and the newest is Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy (As: Cassandra King Conroy) (2019). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
7
Published
2002–2019
Pages on record
2,254 in 6 of 7 books
Reading time
38–56 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,254 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 7 titles with a page count on record.

Cassandra King, born in Alabama in 1944, writes novels about women, friendship, marriage and clergy households. The Sunday Wife (2002) draws on her own years married to a pastor, and The Same Sweet Girls (2005), Queen of Broken Hearts (2007) and Moonrise (2013) followed. King taught at Jefferson State and Gadsden State community colleges and at the University of Montevallo, where she took an MFA in 1988. She married the writer Pat Conroy in 1998, and her 2019 memoir Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy, published as Cassandra King Conroy, covers that marriage. Seven books are catalogued, at a median of 401 pages.

How many Cassandra King books are there?

Cassandra King has 7 books, released between 2002 and 2019.

Cassandra King Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 7 Cassandra King 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.

  1. 1
    The Sunday Wife2002 · 537 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002537
  2. 2
    Making Waves2004 · 285 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004285
  3. 3
    The Same Sweet Girls2005 · 540 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005540
  4. 4
    Queen of Broken Hearts2007 · 412 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007412
  5. 5
    Moonrise2013 · 390 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013390
  6. 6
    The Same Sweet Girls' Guide to Life2014 · 90 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201490
  7. 72019

Cassandra King 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.

Standalone books

7 books

7 Cassandra King titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Cassandra King books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 7 Cassandra King books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Cassandra King

Start with The Sunday Wife (2002), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Cassandra King book?

Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy (As: Cassandra King Conroy) (2019) is the newest Cassandra King book released so far.

Is there a new Cassandra King book coming?

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

Cassandra King at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Cassandra King title on record dates from 2019, 7 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Cassandra King books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
2,254 pages across the 6 of 7 books with a recorded length, a median of 401 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Cassandra King books, 4 of 7, were published in the 2000s.

What the Cassandra King books are about

6 of the 7 Cassandra King books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: female friendship is tagged on 2 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.