Frances Mayes Books in Order
Frances Mayes has written 27 books, published between 1977 and 2024. The first book is Peach and Glass (1977) and the newest is A Great Marriage (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 27
- Published
- 1977–2024
- Pages on record
- 4,681 in 16 of 27 books
- Reading time
- 78–117 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,681 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 16 of 27 titles with a page count on record.
Frances Mayes is an American writer, born in 1940, known above all for Under the Tuscan Sun, the 1996 memoir that held a place on the New York Times bestseller list for more than two years and became a film. The catalogue runs to 27 books, beginning with poetry in Peach and Glass (1977) and moving through travel writing about Italy to A Great Marriage (2024). Description and travel, Italian social life, women travellers and biography fill out the subjects.
How many Frances Mayes books are there?
Frances Mayes has 27 books, released between 1977 and 2024.
Frances Mayes Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 27 Frances Mayes 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.
- 1Peach and Glass1977 · confirmed 1/41977–1/4
- 2Sunday in Another Country1977 · confirmed 1/41977–1/4
- 3January 6, Quarter of Four1978 · confirmed 1/41978–1/4
- 4After Such Pleasures1979 · 91 pages · confirmed 1/41979911/4
- 5The Arts of Fire1982 · 49 pages · confirmed 1/41982491/4
- 6Gold Over Blue1984 · confirmed 1/41984–1/4
- 7Hours1984 · confirmed 1/41984–1/4
- 8The Discovery of Poetry1994 · 494 pages · confirmed 1/419944941/4
- 9The Book of Summer1995 · confirmed 1/41995–1/4
- 10Ex Voto1995 · 65 pages · confirmed 1/41995651/4
- 11Under the Tuscan Sun1997 · 280 pages · confirmed 1/419972801/4
- 12Bella Tuscany1999 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/419993041/4
- 13In Tuscany2000 · 269 pages · confirmed 1/420002691/4
- 14Swan2002 · 319 pages · confirmed 1/420023191/4
- 15Bringing Tuscany Home2004 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/420042401/4
- 16A Year in the World2006 · 420 pages · confirmed 1/420064201/4
- 17Greek Expectations2008 · confirmed 1/42008–1/4
- 18Every Day in Tuscany2010 · 306 pages · confirmed 1/420103061/4
- 19The Passionate Traveler Journal2011 · confirmed 1/42011–1/4
- 20The Tuscan Sun Cookbook2012 · 223 pages · confirmed 1/420122231/4
- 21Under Magnolia2014 · 293 pages · confirmed 1/420142931/4
- 22Women in Sunlight2018 · 464 pages · confirmed 1/420184641/4
- 23See You in the Piazza2019 · 448 pages · confirmed 1/420194481/4
- 24Always Italy2020 · 416 pages · confirmed 1/420204161/4
- 25A Place in the World2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
- 26Pasta Veloce2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
- 27A Great Marriage2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
Frances Mayes 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
27 books27 Frances Mayes titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Frances Mayes books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 27 Frances Mayes books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Frances Mayes
Start with Peach and Glass (1977), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Frances Mayes book?
A Great Marriage (2024) is the newest Frances Mayes book released so far.
Is there a new Frances Mayes book coming?
No next Frances Mayes book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Frances Mayes at a glance
- Still publishing
- Frances Mayes published a book as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- Frances Mayes books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 4,681 pages across the 16 of 27 books with a recorded length, a median of 298 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Frances Mayes books, 6 of 27, were published in the 2010s.
What the Frances Mayes books are about
15 of the 27 Frances Mayes books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: travel is tagged on 6 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.