Kathryn Hughes Books in Order
Kathryn Hughes has written 6 books, published between 2013 and 2021. The first book is The Letter (2013) and the newest is The Memory Box (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 6
- Published
- 2013–2021
- Pages on record
- 2,142 in 5 of 6 books
- Reading time
- 36–54 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,142 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 6 titles with a page count on record.
Kathryn Hughes writes novels about letters, secrets and the past. Six books carry the name in this catalogue, from The Letter (2013) to The Memory Box (2021), with The Secret (2016), Victorians Undone (2017), The Key (2018) and Her Last Promise (2019) in between. Love letters, unmarried mothers, abused women, family violence and Victorian Britain recur as subjects, across books of a median 432 pages. No new title has appeared since 2021, and the catalogue is dormant.
How many Kathryn Hughes books are there?
Kathryn Hughes has 6 books, released between 2013 and 2021.
Kathryn Hughes Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 6 Kathryn Hughes 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.
- 1The Letter2013 · 396 pages · confirmed 2/420133962/4
- 2The Secret2016 · 416 pages · confirmed 2/420164162/4
- 3Victorians Undone2017 · 432 pages · confirmed 1/420174321/4
- 4The Key2018 · 448 pages · confirmed 2/420184482/4
- 5Her Last Promise2019 · 450 pages · confirmed 1/420194501/4
- 6The Memory Box2021 · confirmed 2/42021–2/4
Kathryn Hughes 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
6 books6 Kathryn Hughes titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Kathryn Hughes books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 6 Kathryn Hughes books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Kathryn Hughes
Start with The Letter (2013), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Kathryn Hughes book?
The Memory Box (2021) is the newest Kathryn Hughes book released so far.
Is there a new Kathryn Hughes book coming?
No next Kathryn Hughes book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Kathryn Hughes at a glance
- Paused
- No new Kathryn Hughes title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
- Release pace
- Kathryn Hughes books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 2,142 pages across the 5 of 6 books with a recorded length, a median of 432 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Kathryn Hughes books, 5 of 6, were published in the 2010s.
What the Kathryn Hughes books are about
5 of the 6 Kathryn Hughes 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.
- Abused women 1 of 5 books
- Body image 1 of 5 books
- British 1 of 5 books
- English literature 1 of 5 books
- Family violence 1 of 5 books
- Great britain, history, victoria, 1837-1901 1 of 5 books
- Great britain, social conditions 1 of 5 books
- Human body, social aspects 1 of 5 books
- Interpersonal relations 1 of 5 books
- Letters 1 of 5 books
- Life change events 1 of 5 books
- Love-letters 1 of 5 books