Desiree Cooper Books in Order

Desiree Cooper has written 17 books, published between 2014 and 2022. The first book is The Cleveland Anthology (2014) and the newest is Nothing Special (2022). Publication order is the reading order below. 15 of the 17 books listed here are in the Belt City series, which has its own page: Belt City books in order.

Books
17
Published
2014–2022
Pages on record
123 in 1 of 17 books

Motherhood, women, and mother and child relationships head the subject headings recorded for Desiree Cooper. Know the Mother (2016), Love in the Tubes: A Romantic Comedy (2019) and Nothing Special (2022) are catalogued under the Cooper name. The listing also attaches a run of city anthologies to Cooper, among them A Detroit Anthology (2014), The Cleveland Anthology (2014), The Pittsburgh Anthology (2015) and The Milwaukee Anthology (2019); those volumes are multi-contributor collections. Belt City is the series recorded against the Cooper entry.

How many Desiree Cooper books are there?

Desiree Cooper has 17 books, released between 2014 and 2022. 15 of them belong to the Belt City series.

Desiree Cooper Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 17 Desiree Cooper 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 Cleveland AnthologyBelt City #12014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014
  2. 2
    A Detroit AnthologyBelt City #22014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014
  3. 4
    The Pittsburgh AnthologyBelt City #42015 · confirmed 1/4
    2015
  4. 52016
  5. 6
    The Akron AnthologyBelt City #62016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016
  6. 7
    Know the MotherMade in Michigan Writers #292016 · 123 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016123
  7. 82017
  8. 92019
  9. 10
    The Milwaukee AnthologyBelt City #92019 · confirmed 1/4
    2019
  10. 11
    Under Purple SkiesBelt City #102019 · confirmed 1/4
    2019
  11. 12
    The St. Louis AnthologyBelt City #112019 · confirmed 1/4
    2019
  12. 13
    The Louisville AnthologyBelt City #122020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020
  13. 14
    The Gary AnthologyBelt City #132020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020
  14. 15
    The Dayton AnthologyBelt City #142021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021
  15. 16
    The Indianapolis AnthologyBelt City #152021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021
  16. 17
    Nothing Special2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022

Desiree Cooper series in order

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.

Desiree Cooper 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.

Made in Michigan Writers in order

1 book
  1. 29. Know the Mother

Standalone books

1 book

1 Desiree Cooper title here is not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Desiree Cooper books in order?

You only need to read Desiree Cooper books in order within the Belt City series, which holds 15 of the 17 Desiree Cooper books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Desiree Cooper

Start with The Cleveland Anthology (2014), the first Belt City book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.

What is the newest Desiree Cooper book?

Nothing Special (2022) is the newest Desiree Cooper book released so far.

Is there a new Desiree Cooper book coming?

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

Desiree Cooper at a glance

Paused
No new Desiree Cooper title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Desiree Cooper books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
123 pages across the 1 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 123 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Desiree Cooper books, 12 of 17, were published in the 2010s.

What the Desiree Cooper books are about

1 of the 17 Desiree Cooper books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. No subject is tagged on more than one of them, so each one below describes a single book. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.