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Janice Holt Giles Books in Order

23 books are credited to Janice Holt Giles, published between 1950 and 2001; 1 of them appeared after Janice Holt Giles's death in 1979. The first book is The Enduring Hills (1950) and the newest is Act of Contrition (2001). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
23
Published
1950–2001
Pages on record
3,700 in 13 of 23 books
Reading time
62–93 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,700 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 13 of 23 titles with a page count on record.

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Janice Holt Giles, born in 1905 and died in 1979, was an American novelist who lived near Knifley in Adair County, Kentucky and wrote about that state. Frontier and pioneer life, mountain communities and country life fill the Kentuckians and Piney Ridge books. Twenty-three titles are catalogued, from The Enduring Hills (1950) through The Kentuckians (1953) and Hannah Fowler (1956) to Act of Contrition (2001).

How many Janice Holt Giles books are there?

Janice Holt Giles has 23 books, released between 1950 and 2001. 1 of them were published after Janice Holt Giles's death in 1979. They include 2 series and 10 titles listed outside any series.

Janice Holt Giles Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 23 Janice Holt Giles 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 The Enduring Hills by Janice Holt Giles, book 1 of the Piney Ridge series (1950)
  2. Cover of Miss Willie by Janice Holt Giles, book 2 of the Piney Ridge series (1951)
  3. Cover of Tara's Healing by Janice Holt Giles, book 3 of the Piney Ridge series (1951)
  4. Cover of The Kentuckians by Janice Holt Giles, book 1 of the Kentuckians series (1953)
  5. Cover of Hill Man by Janice Holt Giles (1954)
  6. Cover of Hannah Fowler by Janice Holt Giles, book 2 of the Kentuckians series (1956)
  7. Cover of The Believers by Janice Holt Giles, book 3 of the Kentuckians series (1957)
  8. Cover of The Land Beyond the Mountains by Janice Holt Giles, book 4 of the Kentuckians series (1959)
  9. Cover of A Little Better Than Plumb by Janice Holt Giles (1963)
  10. Cover of Run Me a River by Janice Holt Giles, book 8 of the Kentuckians series (1964)
  11. Cover of The Damned Engineers by Janice Holt Giles (1970)
  12. Cover of The Kinta Years by Janice Holt Giles (1973)
  13. Cover of Shady Grove by Janice Holt Giles (1978)
  14. Cover of Act of Contrition by Janice Holt Giles (2001)
  1. 1
    The Enduring HillsPiney Ridge #11950 · confirmed 1/4
    1950–
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  2. 2
    Harbin's Ridge1951 · confirmed 1/4
    1951–
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  3. 3
    Miss WilliePiney Ridge #21951 · 268 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1951268
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  4. 4
    Tara's HealingPiney Ridge #31951 · 395 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1951395
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  5. 5
    Forty Acres and No Mule1952 · confirmed 1/4
    1952–
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  6. 6
    The KentuckiansKentuckians #11953 · 248 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1953248
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  7. 7
    Hill Man1954 · 172 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1954172
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  8. 8
    Plum Thicket1954 · confirmed 1/4
    1954–
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  9. 9
    Hannah FowlerKentuckians #21956 · 312 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1956312
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  10. 10
    The BelieversKentuckians #31957 · 214 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1957214
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  11. 11
    The Land Beyond the MountainsKentuckians #41959 · 308 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1959308
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  12. 12
    Johnny OsageKentuckians #51960 · confirmed 1/4
    1960–
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  13. 13
    SavannaKentuckians #61961 · confirmed 1/4
    1961–
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  14. 14
    Voyage to Santa FeKentuckians #71962 · confirmed 1/4
    1962–
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  15. 15
    A Little Better Than Plumb1963 · 265 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1963265
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  16. 16
    Run Me a RiverKentuckians #81964 · 337 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1964337
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  17. 17
    The Great AdventureKentuckians #91966 · 332 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1966332
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  18. 18
    Six Horse HitchKentuckians #101969 · confirmed 1/4
    1969–
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  19. 19
    The Damned Engineers1970 · confirmed 1/4
    1970–
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  20. 20
    Around Our House1971 · confirmed 1/4
    1971–
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  21. 21
    The Kinta Years1973 · 337 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1973337
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  22. 22
    Shady Grove1978 · 260 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1978260
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  23. 23
    Act of Contrition2001 · 252 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001252
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Janice Holt Giles 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.

Kentuckians in order

10 books
  1. 1. The Kentuckians
  2. 2. Hannah Fowler
  3. 3. The Believers
  4. 4. The Land Beyond the Mountains
  5. 5. Johnny Osage
  6. 6. Savanna
  7. 7. Voyage to Santa Fe
  8. 8. Run Me a River
  9. 9. The Great Adventure
  10. 10. Six Horse Hitch

Piney Ridge in order

3 books
  1. 1. The Enduring Hills
  2. 2. Miss Willie
  3. 3. Tara's Healing

Standalone books

10 books

10 Janice Holt Giles titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Janice Holt Giles books in order?

You only need to read Janice Holt Giles books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Janice Holt Giles

Start with The Enduring Hills (1950), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Janice Holt Giles book?

Act of Contrition (2001) is the newest Janice Holt Giles book released so far.

Is there a new Janice Holt Giles book coming?

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

Janice Holt Giles at a glance

Died
Janice Holt Giles died in 1979, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Janice Holt Giles are still being published after Janice Holt Giles's death in 1979; the newest appeared in 2001.
Release pace
Janice Holt Giles books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
3,700 pages across the 13 of 23 books with a recorded length, a median of 268 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Janice Holt Giles books, 11 of 23, were published in the 1950s.

What the Janice Holt Giles books are about

18 of the 23 Janice Holt Giles books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: kentucky is tagged on 10 of 18. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.