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Elinor Lipman Books in Order

Elinor Lipman has written 18 books, published between 1987 and 2025. The first book is Into Love and Out Again (1987) and the newest is Every Tom, Dick & Harry (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
18
Published
1987–2025
Pages on record
3,911 in 14 of 18 books
Reading time
65–98 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,911 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 14 of 18 titles with a page count on record.

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Elinor Lipman, born in 1950, is an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. Humour and family life mark the Lipman subjects: mothers and daughters, sisters, men and women, and social life and customs. The catalogue runs to 18 books, from Into Love and Out Again (1987) through Then She Found Me (1990) and The Inn at Lake Devine (1998) to Every Tom, Dick & Harry (2025).

How many Elinor Lipman books are there?

Elinor Lipman has 18 books, released between 1987 and 2025.

Elinor Lipman Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 18 Elinor Lipman 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 Into Love and Out Again by Elinor Lipman (1987)
  2. Cover of Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman (1990)
  3. Cover of The Way Men Act by Elinor Lipman (1992)
  4. Cover of Isabel's Bed by Elinor Lipman (1995)
  5. Cover of The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman (1998)
  6. Cover of The Ladies' Man by Elinor Lipman (1998)
  7. Cover of The Dearly Departed by Elinor Lipman (2001)
  8. Cover of The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by Elinor Lipman (2003)
  9. Cover of Tweet Land of Liberty by Elinor Lipman (2012)
  10. Cover of The View from Penthouse B by Elinor Lipman (2013)
  11. Cover of On Turpentine Lane by Elinor Lipman (2017)
  12. Cover of Ms. Demeanor by Elinor Lipman (2022)
  1. 1
    Into Love and Out Again1987 · 194 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1987194
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  2. 2
    Then She Found Me1990 · 307 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1990307
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  3. 3
    The Way Men Act1992 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992320
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  4. 4
    Isabel's Bed1995 · 387 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995387
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  5. 5
    The Inn at Lake Devine1998 · 253 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998253
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  6. 6
    The Ladies' Man1998 · 260 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998260
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  7. 7
    The Dearly Departed2001 · 269 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001269
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  8. 8
    The Pursuit of Alice Thrift2003 · 269 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003269
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  9. 9
    My Latest Grievance2006 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006256
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  10. 10
    The Family Man2009 · 324 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009324
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  11. 11
    Tweet Land of Liberty2012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  12. 12
    I Can't Complain2013 · 176 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013176
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  13. 13
    The View from Penthouse B2013 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013272
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  14. 14
    On Turpentine Lane2017 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017320
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  15. 15
    Good Riddance2019 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019304
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  16. 16
    Rachel to the Rescue2020 · confirmed 2/4
    2020–
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  17. 17
    Ms. Demeanor2022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022–
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  18. 18
    Every Tom, Dick & Harry2025 · confirmed 2/4
    2025–
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Elinor Lipman 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

18 books

18 Elinor Lipman titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Elinor Lipman books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 18 Elinor Lipman books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Elinor Lipman

Start with Into Love and Out Again (1987), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Elinor Lipman book?

Every Tom, Dick & Harry (2025) is the newest Elinor Lipman book released so far.

Is there a new Elinor Lipman book coming?

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

Elinor Lipman at a glance

Still publishing
Elinor Lipman published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Elinor Lipman books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
3,911 pages across the 14 of 18 books with a recorded length, a median of 270 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Elinor Lipman books, 5 of 18, were published in the 2010s.

What the Elinor Lipman books are about

15 of the 18 Elinor Lipman books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: family life is tagged on 4 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.