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Lesley Crewe Books in Order

Lesley Crewe has written 17 books, published between 2005 and 2025. The first book is Relative Happiness (2005) and the newest is The Spirit of Scatarie (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
17
Published
2005–2025
Pages on record
3,039 in 10 of 17 books
Reading time
51–76 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,039 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 10 of 17 titles with a page count on record.

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Lesley Crewe is a Canadian writer based in Nova Scotia. Families, sisters, family secrets, forgiveness and life on Cape Breton Island run through the fiction. Crewe's first book, Relative Happiness (2005), became a feature film that premiered in Toronto in 2015, and The Spoon Stealer (2020) won the Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award at the 2021 Atlantic Book Awards before a Canada Reads longlisting in 2022. The catalogue holds 17 titles, taking in Shoot Me (2006), Ava Comes Home (2008), Kin (2012), Chloe Sparrow (2014) and Beholden (2018), and reaching The Spirit of Scatarie (2025).

Lesley Crewe worked as a newspaper columnist and wrote for the screen before turning her attention fully to writing novels of her own.

How many Lesley Crewe books are there?

Lesley Crewe has 17 books, released between 2005 and 2025.

Lesley Crewe Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 17 Lesley Crewe books in the order they were released, 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 Relative Happiness by Lesley Crewe (2005)
  2. Cover of Shoot Me by Lesley Crewe (2006)
  3. Cover of Ava Comes Home by Lesley Crewe (2008)
  4. Cover of Hit & Mrs. by Lesley Crewe (2009)
  5. Cover of Her Mother's Daughter by Lesley Crewe (2013)
  6. Cover of Amazing Grace by Lesley Crewe (2015)
  7. Cover of Beholden by Lesley Crewe (2018)
  8. Cover of Are You Kidding Me?! by Lesley Crewe (2019)
  1. 1
    Relative Happiness2005 · 306 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005306
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  2. 2
    Shoot Me2006 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006320
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  3. 3
    Ava Comes Home2008 · 315 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008315
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  4. 4
    Hit & Mrs.2009 · 236 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009236
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  5. 5
    Kin2012 · 409 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012409
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  6. 6
    Her Mother's Daughter2013 · 282 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013282
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  7. 7
    Chloe Sparrow2014 · 278 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014278
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  8. 8
    Amazing Grace2015 · 277 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015277
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  9. 9
    Mary, Mary2016 · confirmed 2/4
    2016–
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  10. 10
    Beholden2018 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018352
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  11. 11
    Are You Kidding Me?!2019 · 264 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019264
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  12. 12
    The Spoon Stealer2020 · confirmed 2/4
    2020–
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  13. 13
    I Kid You Not!2021 · confirmed 2/4
    2021–
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  14. 14
    Nosy Parker2022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022–
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  15. 15
    Recipe for a Good Life2023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023–
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  16. 16
    Death & Other Inconveniences2024 · confirmed 2/4
    2024–
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  17. 17
    The Spirit of Scatarie2025 · confirmed 2/4
    2025–
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Lesley Crewe 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

17 books

17 Lesley Crewe titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Lesley Crewe books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 17 Lesley Crewe books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Lesley Crewe

Start with Relative Happiness (2005), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Lesley Crewe book?

The Spirit of Scatarie (2025) is the newest Lesley Crewe book released so far.

Is there a new Lesley Crewe book coming?

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

Awards Lesley Crewe has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Lesley Crewe. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Dartmouth Book Award2021Won

Lesley Crewe at a glance

Still publishing
Lesley Crewe published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Lesley Crewe books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,039 pages across the 10 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 294 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Lesley Crewe books, 7 of 17, were published in the 2010s.

What the Lesley Crewe books are about

9 of the 17 Lesley Crewe books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: american literature is tagged on 4 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • American literature 4 of 9 books
  • Family life 3 of 9 books
  • Cape breton island (n.s.) 2 of 9 books
  • English literature 2 of 9 books
  • Manners and customs 2 of 9 books
  • Social life and customs 2 of 9 books