Leslie Connor Books in Order

Leslie Connor has written 9 books, published between 2004 and 2022. The first book is Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel (2004) and the newest is Anybody Here Seen Frenchie? (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
9
Published
2004–2022
Pages on record
1,539 in 5 of 9 books
Reading time
26–38 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,539 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 9 titles with a page count on record.

Leslie Connor writes children's fiction, and the recorded subjects run to friendship, self-reliance, mothers, murder, Irish Americans, and emigration and immigration. Nine books carry the Connor credit, from Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel (2004) to Anybody Here Seen Frenchie? (2022), taking in Dead on Town Line (2005), Waiting for Normal (2008), Crunch (2010), The Things You Kiss Goodbye (2014), All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook (2016), The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle (2018) and A Home for Goddesses and Dogs (2020). The median recorded length is 336 pages across five measured titles.

How many Leslie Connor books are there?

Leslie Connor has 9 books, released between 2004 and 2022.

Leslie Connor Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 9 Leslie Connor 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. 1
    Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel2004 · confirmed 1/4
    2004
  2. 2
    Dead on Town Line2005 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005144
  3. 3
    Waiting for Normal2008 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008320
  4. 4
    Crunch2010 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010336
  5. 5
    The Things You Kiss Goodbye2014 · 358 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014358
  6. 6
    All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook2016 · 381 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016381
  7. 72018
  8. 8
    A Home for Goddesses and Dogs2020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020
  9. 9
    Anybody Here Seen Frenchie?2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022

Leslie Connor 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

9 books

9 Leslie Connor titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Leslie Connor books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 9 Leslie Connor books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Leslie Connor

Start with Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel (2004), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Leslie Connor book?

Anybody Here Seen Frenchie? (2022) is the newest Leslie Connor book released so far.

Is there a new Leslie Connor book coming?

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

Leslie Connor at a glance

Paused
No new Leslie Connor title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Leslie Connor books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
1,539 pages across the 5 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 336 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Leslie Connor books, 4 of 9, were published in the 2010s.

What the Leslie Connor books are about

All 9 Leslie Connor books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 6 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.