Lily King Books in Order
Lily King has written 7 books, published between 1999 and 2025. The first book is The Pleasing Hour (1999) and the newest is Heart the Lover (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 7
- Published
- 1999–2025
- Total pages
- 1,952 across 7 books
- Reading time
- 33–49 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,952 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.
Seven books make up Lily King's catalogue, from The Pleasing Hour (1999) to Heart the Lover (2025), taking in Euphoria (2014) and Writers and Lovers (2020). Au pairs, English teachers, fathers and daughters and remarried families fill the subject tags, with France and Americans abroad among the settings. No series links the books.
How many Lily King books are there?
Lily King has 7 books, released between 1999 and 2025.
Lily King Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 7 Lily King 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 Pleasing Hour1999 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/419992562/4
- 2The English Teacher2005 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/420052562/4
- 3Father of the Rain2010 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/420103682/4
- 4Euphoria2014 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/420142882/4
- 5Writers and Lovers2020 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/420202882/4
- 6Five Tuesdays in Winter2021 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/420212402/4
- 7Heart the Lover2025 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/420252562/4
Lily King 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
7 books7 Lily King titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Lily King books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 7 Lily King books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Lily King
Start with The Pleasing Hour (1999), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Lily King book?
Heart the Lover (2025) is the newest Lily King book released so far.
Is there a new Lily King book coming?
No next Lily King book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Award nominations for Lily King
Wikidata records 1 nomination for Lily King. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- Prix Femina étranger2026Shortlisted
Lily King at a glance
- Still publishing
- Lily King published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Lily King books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
- Length
- 1,952 pages across all 7 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Lily King books, 3 of 7, were published in the 2020s.
What the Lily King books are about
All 7 Lily King books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: marriage is tagged on 2 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Marriage 2 of 7 books