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Joan Medlicott Books in Order

Joan Medlicott has written 17 books, published between 1992 and 2011. The first book is Celibate Wives: Breaking the Silence (1992) and the newest is Reflections in a River (2011). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
17
Published
1992–2011
Pages on record
3,400 in 13 of 17 books
Reading time
57–85 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,400 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 13 of 17 titles with a page count on record.

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Joan Medlicott is known for the Ladies Of Covington books, a series about retired women sharing a boarding house in North Carolina. The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love (2000) opens it, followed by The Gardens of Covington (2001), From the Heart of Covington (2002), The Spirit of Covington (2003), At Home in Covington (2004) and A Covington Christmas (2005). Seventeen catalogued titles in all run from Celibate Wives: Breaking the Silence (1992) to Reflections in a River (2011), with two Virgin Islands collections and a Caribbean novel in the early years. Female friendship and older women are the recurring subjects.

How many Joan Medlicott books are there?

Joan Medlicott has 17 books, released between 1992 and 2011. 10 of them belong to the Ladies Of Covington series.

Joan Medlicott Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 17 Joan Medlicott 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 Celibate Wives: Breaking the Silence by Joan Medlicott (1992)
  2. Cover of The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love by Joan Medlicott, book 1 of the Ladies Of Covington series (2000)
  3. Cover of The Gardens of Covington by Joan Medlicott, book 2 of the Ladies Of Covington series (2001)
  4. Cover of From the Heart of Covington by Joan Medlicott, book 3 of the Ladies Of Covington series (2002)
  5. Cover of The Spirit of Covington by Joan Medlicott, book 4 of the Ladies Of Covington series (2003)
  6. Cover of At Home in Covington by Joan Medlicott, book 5 of the Ladies Of Covington series (2004)
  7. Cover of The Three Mrs. Parkers by Joan Medlicott (2005)
  8. Cover of A Covington Christmas by Joan Medlicott, book 6 of the Ladies Of Covington series (2005)
  9. Cover of Two Days After the Wedding by Joan Medlicott, book 7 of the Ladies Of Covington series (2006)
  10. Cover of Come Walk with Me by Joan Medlicott (2007)
  11. Cover of An Unexpected Family by Joan Medlicott, book 8 of the Ladies Of Covington series (2007)
  12. Cover of Promises of Change by Joan Medlicott, book 9 of the Ladies Of Covington series (2009)
  13. Cover of A Blue and Gray Christmas by Joan Medlicott, book 10 of the Ladies Of Covington series (2009)
  1. 1
    Celibate Wives: Breaking the Silence1992 · 248 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992248
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  2. 2
    Virgin Islands: Tales of Ghosts, Hauntings and Jumbees1995 · 79 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199579
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  3. 3
    Belonging: A Caribbean Love Story1996 · confirmed 2/4
    1996–
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  4. 4
    Virgin Islands: Tales of Olden Days1997 · 96 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199796
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  5. 5
    The Ladies of Covington Send Their LoveLadies Of Covington #12000 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000368
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  6. 6
    The Gardens of CovingtonLadies Of Covington #22001 · 326 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001326
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  7. 7
    From the Heart of CovingtonLadies Of Covington #32002 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002352
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  8. 8
    The Spirit of CovingtonLadies Of Covington #42003 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003384
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  9. 9
    At Home in CovingtonLadies Of Covington #52004 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004384
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  10. 10
    The Three Mrs. Parkers2005 · 290 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005290
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  11. 11
    A Covington ChristmasLadies Of Covington #62005 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005320
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  12. 12
    Two Days After the WeddingLadies Of Covington #72006 · confirmed 2/4
    2006–
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  13. 13
    Come Walk with Me2007 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007272
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  14. 14
    An Unexpected FamilyLadies Of Covington #82007 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007224
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  15. 15
    Promises of ChangeLadies Of Covington #92009 · confirmed 2/4
    2009–
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  16. 16
    A Blue and Gray ChristmasLadies Of Covington #102009 · confirmed 2/4
    2009–
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  17. 17
    Reflections in a River2011 · 57 pages · confirmed 2/4
    201157
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Joan Medlicott 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.

Ladies Of Covington in order

10 books
  1. 1. The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love
  2. 2. The Gardens of Covington
  3. 3. From the Heart of Covington
  4. 4. The Spirit of Covington
  5. 5. At Home in Covington
  6. 6. A Covington Christmas
  7. 7. Two Days After the Wedding
  8. 8. An Unexpected Family
  9. 9. Promises of Change
  10. 10. A Blue and Gray Christmas

Standalone books

7 books

7 Joan Medlicott titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Joan Medlicott books in order?

You only need to read Joan Medlicott books in order within the Ladies Of Covington series, which holds 10 of the 17 Joan Medlicott books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Joan Medlicott

Start with Celibate Wives: Breaking the Silence (1992), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Joan Medlicott book?

Reflections in a River (2011) is the newest Joan Medlicott book released so far.

Is there a new Joan Medlicott book coming?

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

Joan Medlicott at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Joan Medlicott title on record dates from 2011, 15 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Joan Medlicott books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,400 pages across the 13 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 290 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Joan Medlicott books, 12 of 17, were published in the 2000s.

What the Joan Medlicott books are about

14 of the 17 Joan Medlicott books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: older women is tagged on 6 of 14. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Older women 6 of 14 books
  • Retired women 6 of 14 books
  • Female friendship 5 of 14 books
  • Boardinghouses 4 of 14 books
  • Friendship 3 of 14 books
  • Boardinghouses in fiction 2 of 14 books
  • Family life 2 of 14 books
  • North Carolina in fiction 2 of 14 books
  • Older women in fiction 2 of 14 books
  • Pennsylvania 2 of 14 books
  • Retirees in fiction 2 of 14 books
  • Romance 2 of 14 books