Jeanine Cummins Books in Order
Jeanine Cummins has written 5 books, published between 2004 and 2025. The first book is A Rip in Heaven (2004) and the newest is Speak to Me of Home (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 5
- Published
- 2004–2025
- Pages on record
- 682 in 2 of 5 books
Jeanine Cummins is an American author of Irish and Puerto Rican heritage, born in 1974. Five books carry the name: A Rip in Heaven, a 2004 memoir drawing on a Missouri murder case, then four novels, The Outside Boy in 2010, The Crooked Branch in 2013, American Dirt in 2020 and Speak to Me of Home in 2025. American Dirt sold more than three million copies and appeared in 37 languages; it also drew sustained criticism within the American literary community, which read it as cultural exploitation. Ireland, family secrets and coming of age recur across the fiction.
How many Jeanine Cummins books are there?
Jeanine Cummins has 5 books, released between 2004 and 2025.
Jeanine Cummins Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 5 Jeanine Cummins 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.
- 1A Rip in Heaven2004 · 302 pages · confirmed 2/420043022/4
- 2The Outside Boy2010 · confirmed 2/42010–2/4
- 3The Crooked Branch2013 · confirmed 2/42013–2/4
- 4American Dirt2020 · 380 pages · confirmed 2/420203802/4
- 5Speak to Me of Home2025 · confirmed 2/42025–2/4
Jeanine Cummins 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 books5 Jeanine Cummins titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Jeanine Cummins books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 5 Jeanine Cummins books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Jeanine Cummins
Start with A Rip in Heaven (2004), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Jeanine Cummins book?
Speak to Me of Home (2025) is the newest Jeanine Cummins book released so far.
Is there a new Jeanine Cummins book coming?
No next Jeanine Cummins book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Jeanine Cummins at a glance
- Still publishing
- Jeanine Cummins published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Jeanine Cummins books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
- Length
- 682 pages across the 2 of 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 341 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Jeanine Cummins books, 2 of 5, were published in the 2020s.
What the Jeanine Cummins books are about
4 of the 5 Jeanine Cummins books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 2 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- History 2 of 4 books
- Murder 2 of 4 books
- American literature 1 of 4 books
- Bildungsromans 1 of 4 books
- Biography 1 of 4 books
- Case studies 1 of 4 books
- Crime 1 of 4 books
- Cultural heritage 1 of 4 books
- Family life 1 of 4 books
- Family secrets 1 of 4 books