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Dani Shapiro Books in Order

Dani Shapiro has written 11 books, published between 1990 and 2022. The first book is Playing with Fire (1990) and the newest is Signal Fires (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
1990–2022
Pages on record
2,258 in 9 of 11 books
Reading time
38–56 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,258 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 11 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Dani Shapiro, author

Dani Shapiro, born in 1962, writes novels and memoir in roughly equal measure. Six novels carry the name, among them Family History from 2003, Black & White from 2007 and Signal Fires from 2022; the memoirs are Slow Motion, published in 1998, Devotion in 2010, Hourglass in 2017 and Inheritance in 2019. The catalogue counts 11 books in total, starting at Playing with Fire in 1990. Shapiro has written for The New Yorker, Vogue, Elle and The Oprah Magazine, and launched the iHeartRadio podcast Family Secrets in February 2019.

How many Dani Shapiro books are there?

Dani Shapiro has 11 books, released between 1990 and 2022.

Dani Shapiro Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Dani Shapiro 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. Cover of Playing with Fire by Dani Shapiro (1990)
  2. Cover of Fugitive Blue by Dani Shapiro (1992)
  3. Cover of Picturing the Wreck by Dani Shapiro (1997)
  4. Cover of Slow Motion by Dani Shapiro (1998)
  5. Cover of Family History by Dani Shapiro (2003)
  6. Cover of Black & White by Dani Shapiro (2007)
  7. Cover of Devotion by Dani Shapiro (2010)
  8. Cover of Still Writing by Dani Shapiro (2013)
  9. Cover of Hourglass by Dani Shapiro (2017)
  10. Cover of Inheritance by Dani Shapiro (2019)
  11. Cover of Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro (2022)
  1. 1
    Playing with Fire1990 · 303 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1990303
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  2. 2
    Fugitive Blue1992 · 246 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992246
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  3. 3
    Picturing the Wreck1997 · confirmed 2/4
    1997–
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  4. 4
    Slow Motion1998 · 248 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998248
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  5. 5
    Family History2003 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003288
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  6. 6
    Black & White2007 · 255 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007255
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  7. 7
    Devotion2010 · 245 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2010245
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    Still Writing2013 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013256
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Hourglass2017 · 145 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017145
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    Inheritance2019 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019272
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  11. 11
    Signal Fires2022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022–
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Dani Shapiro 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

11 books

11 Dani Shapiro titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Dani Shapiro books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 11 Dani Shapiro books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Dani Shapiro

Start with Playing with Fire (1990), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Dani Shapiro book?

Signal Fires (2022) is the newest Dani Shapiro book released so far.

Is there a new Dani Shapiro book coming?

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

Dani Shapiro at a glance

Paused
No new Dani Shapiro title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Dani Shapiro books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
2,258 pages across the 9 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 255 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Dani Shapiro books, 4 of 11, were published in the 2010s.

What the Dani Shapiro books are about

All 11 Dani Shapiro books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: jewish women is tagged on 4 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.