Hannah Beckerman Books in Order

Hannah Beckerman has written 5 books, published between 2014 and 2025. The first book is The Dead Wife's Handbook (2014) and the newest is Three Mothers (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
5
Published
2014–2025
Pages on record
1,117 in 3 of 5 books
Reading time
19–28 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,117 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 3 of 5 titles with a page count on record.

Bereavement and family life run through Hannah Beckerman's five novels, which begin with The Dead Wife's Handbook (2014) and reach Three Mothers (2025), by way of If Only I Could Tell You (2019), The Impossible Truths of Love (2021) and The Forgetting (2023). Beckerman is English, lives in London, and works as a journalist alongside the fiction; her degrees come from King's College London and Westfield College, and twelve years of her career went into television, the BBC's The Big Read included.

How many Hannah Beckerman books are there?

Hannah Beckerman has 5 books, released between 2014 and 2025.

Hannah Beckerman Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 5 Hannah Beckerman 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 Dead Wife's Handbook2014 · 424 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014424
  2. 2
    If Only I Could Tell You2019 · 362 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019362
  3. 3
    The Impossible Truths of Love2021 · confirmed 2/4
    2021
  4. 4
    The Forgetting2023 · 331 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2023331
  5. 5
    Three Mothers2025 · confirmed 2/4
    2025

Hannah Beckerman 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

5 books

5 Hannah Beckerman titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Hannah Beckerman books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 5 Hannah Beckerman books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Hannah Beckerman

Start with The Dead Wife's Handbook (2014), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Hannah Beckerman book?

Three Mothers (2025) is the newest Hannah Beckerman book released so far.

Is there a new Hannah Beckerman book coming?

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

Hannah Beckerman at a glance

Still publishing
Hannah Beckerman published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Hannah Beckerman books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
1,117 pages across the 3 of 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 362 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Hannah Beckerman books, 3 of 5, were published in the 2020s.

What the Hannah Beckerman books are about

2 of the 5 Hannah Beckerman 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.