Geraldine Brooks Books in Order

Geraldine Brooks has written 10 books, published between 1994 and 2025. The first book is Nine Parts of Desire (1994) and the newest is Memorial Days (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
1994–2025
Pages on record
1,060 in 4 of 10 books
Photo of Geraldine Brooks, author

Geraldine Brooks has 10 books in the catalogue, published between 1994 and 2025. The list runs from Nine Parts of Desire (1994) and Foreign Correspondence (1997) through Year of Wonders (2001), March (2005), People of the Book (2008), Caleb's Crossing (2011), The Secret Chord (2015), Horse (2022) and On Tim Winton (2022) to Memorial Days (2025). Brooks, born on 14 September 1955, is an Australian-American journalist and novelist, and March won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Catalogue subjects include historical fiction, Muslim women, women's studies and plague in fiction.

How many Geraldine Brooks books are there?

Geraldine Brooks has 10 books, released between 1994 and 2025.

Geraldine Brooks Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Geraldine Brooks books in the order they were released, 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
    Nine Parts of Desire1994 · 255 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994255
  2. 2
    Foreign Correspondence1997 · 217 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997217
  3. 3
    Year of Wonders2001 · 308 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001308
  4. 4
    March2005 · 280 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005280
  5. 5
    People of the Book2008 · confirmed 2/4
    2008
  6. 6
    Caleb's Crossing2011 · confirmed 2/4
    2011
  7. 7
    The Secret Chord2015 · confirmed 2/4
    2015
  8. 8
    Horse2022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022
  9. 9
    On Tim WintonWriters on Writers #112022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022
  10. 10
    Memorial Days2025 · confirmed 2/4
    2025

Geraldine Brooks 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.

Writers on Writers in order

1 book
  1. 11. On Tim Winton

Standalone books

9 books

9 Geraldine Brooks titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Geraldine Brooks books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 10 Geraldine Brooks books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Geraldine Brooks

Start with Nine Parts of Desire (1994), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Geraldine Brooks book?

Memorial Days (2025) is the newest Geraldine Brooks book released so far.

Is there a new Geraldine Brooks book coming?

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

Awards Geraldine Brooks has won

Wikidata records 2 awards and 1 nomination for Geraldine Brooks. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Helmerich Award2009Won
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction2006Wonfor March
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction2006Shortlistedfor March

Geraldine Brooks at a glance

Still publishing
Geraldine Brooks published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Geraldine Brooks books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
1,060 pages across the 4 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 268 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Geraldine Brooks books, 3 of 10, were published in the 2020s.

What the Geraldine Brooks books are about

7 of the 10 Geraldine Brooks 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 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.