Ellen Marie Wiseman Books in Order
Ellen Marie Wiseman has written 7 books, published between 2012 and 2025. The first book is The Plum Tree (2012) and the newest is The Lies They Told (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 7
- Published
- 2012–2025
- Confirmed
- 6 of 7 titles
- Pages on record
- 1,723 in 5 of 7 books
- Reading time
- 29–43 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,723 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 7 titles with a page count on record.
Ellen Marie Wiseman writes historical fiction about people at the edges of large events - orphans, household employees, and prisoners held in concentration camps. The Plum Tree (2012) opens the catalogue, with What She Left Behind (2013), Coal River (2015), The Life She Was Given (2017), The Orphan Collector (2020) and The Lost Girls of Willowbrook (2022) after it. Seven titles are catalogued, the most recent of them The Lies They Told in 2025.
How many Ellen Marie Wiseman books are there?
Ellen Marie Wiseman has 7 books, released between 2012 and 2025.
Ellen Marie Wiseman Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 7 Ellen Marie Wiseman 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.
- 1The Plum Tree2012 · 387 pages · confirmed 3/420123873/4
- 2What She Left Behind2013 · 337 pages · confirmed 3/420133373/4
- 3Coal River2015 · 339 pages · confirmed 3/420153393/4
- 4The Life She Was Given2017 · 356 pages · confirmed 3/420173563/4
- 5The Orphan Collector2020 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/420203042/4
- 6The Lost Girls of Willowbrook2022 · confirmed 3/42022–3/4
- 7The Lies They Told2025 · confirmed 3/42025–3/4
Ellen Marie Wiseman 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 books7 Ellen Marie Wiseman titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Ellen Marie Wiseman books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 7 Ellen Marie Wiseman books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Ellen Marie Wiseman
Start with The Plum Tree (2012), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Ellen Marie Wiseman book?
The Lies They Told (2025) is the newest Ellen Marie Wiseman book released so far.
Is there a new Ellen Marie Wiseman book coming?
No next Ellen Marie Wiseman book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Ellen Marie Wiseman at a glance
- Still publishing
- Ellen Marie Wiseman published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Ellen Marie Wiseman books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 1,723 pages across the 5 of 7 books with a recorded length, a median of 339 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Ellen Marie Wiseman books, 4 of 7, were published in the 2010s.
What the Ellen Marie Wiseman books are about
6 of the 7 Ellen Marie Wiseman books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: historical fiction is tagged on 3 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Historical fiction 3 of 6 books
- American literature 2 of 6 books
- Coming of age 2 of 6 books
- Orphans 2 of 6 books