Kaye Gibbons Books in Order
Kaye Gibbons has written 11 books, published between 1987 and 2011. The first book is Ellen Foster (1987) and the newest is The Lunatics Ball (2011). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 11
- Published
- 1987–2011
- Pages on record
- 2,025 in 9 of 11 books
- Reading time
- 34–51 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,025 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 11 titles with a page count on record.
Ellen Foster (1987) is the novel Kaye Gibbons is known for, and the one she returned to in The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster (2005). Gibbons, born in 1960 in Nash County, North Carolina, is an American novelist and a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Ellen Foster took the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, a Special Citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Prize; it and A Virtuous Woman (1989) were chosen for Oprah's Book Club in 1998. 11 catalogued books reach The Lunatics Ball (2011). Mothers and daughters, young women and North Carolina family life fill the subjects.
How many Kaye Gibbons books are there?
Kaye Gibbons has 11 books, released between 1987 and 2011.
Kaye Gibbons Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 11 Kaye Gibbons 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.
- 1Ellen Foster1987 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/419871441/4
- 2How I became a writer1988 · confirmed 1/41988–1/4
- 3A Virtuous Woman1989 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/419891761/4
- 4A Cure for Dreams1991 · 170 pages · confirmed 1/419911701/4
- 5Charms for the Easy Life1993 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/419932721/4
- 6Frost and Flower1995 · confirmed 1/41995–1/4
- 7Sights Unseen1995 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/419952401/4
- 8On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon1998 · 273 pages · confirmed 1/419982731/4
- 9Divining Women2004 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/420042401/4
- 10The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster2005 · 222 pages · confirmed 1/420052221/4
- 11The Lunatics Ball2011 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/420112881/4
Kaye Gibbons 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
11 books11 Kaye Gibbons titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Kaye Gibbons books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 11 Kaye Gibbons books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Kaye Gibbons
Start with Ellen Foster (1987), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Kaye Gibbons book?
The Lunatics Ball (2011) is the newest Kaye Gibbons book released so far.
Is there a new Kaye Gibbons book coming?
No next Kaye Gibbons book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Kaye Gibbons at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Kaye Gibbons title on record dates from 2011, 15 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Kaye Gibbons books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 2,025 pages across the 9 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 240 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Kaye Gibbons books, 5 of 11, were published in the 1990s.
What the Kaye Gibbons books are about
8 of the 11 Kaye Gibbons books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: women is tagged on 4 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Women 4 of 8 books
- Historical fiction 3 of 8 books
- North Carolina 3 of 8 books
- Domestic fiction 2 of 8 books
- History 2 of 8 books
- Mothers and daughters 2 of 8 books
- Young women 2 of 8 books