Lucy Clarke Books in Order
Lucy Clarke has written 10 books, published between 2012 and 2025. The first book is The Sea Sisters / Swimming at Night (2012) and the newest is The Surf House (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 2012–2025
- Pages on record
- 2,722 in 7 of 10 books
- Reading time
- 45–68 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,722 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 10 titles with a page count on record.
Lucy Clarke is an English novelist who writes destination thrillers. Murder, deception, family secrets and bereavement drive the plots, often around sisters and sudden changes of life. Clarke's 10 catalogued books run from The Sea Sisters, also published as Swimming at Night, in 2012 to The Surf House in 2025, taking in A Single Breath (2014), The Blue (2015), Last Seen (2017), You Let Me In (2018), The Castaways (2021), One of the Girls (2022) and The Hike (2023). Clarke is still publishing.
How many Lucy Clarke books are there?
Lucy Clarke has 10 books, released between 2012 and 2025.
Lucy Clarke Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 10 Lucy Clarke 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 Sea Sisters / Swimming at Night2012 · 372 pages · confirmed 1/420123721/4
- 2Swimming at Night2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 3A Single Breath2014 · 375 pages · confirmed 1/420143751/4
- 4The Blue2015 · 326 pages · confirmed 1/420153261/4
- 5Last Seen2017 · 433 pages · confirmed 1/420174331/4
- 6You Let Me In2018 · 416 pages · confirmed 1/420184161/4
- 7The Castaways2021 · 416 pages · confirmed 1/420214161/4
- 8One of the Girls2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
- 9The Hike2023 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/420233841/4
- 10The Surf House2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
Lucy Clarke 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
10 books10 Lucy Clarke titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Lucy Clarke books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 10 Lucy Clarke books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Lucy Clarke
Start with The Sea Sisters / Swimming at Night (2012), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Lucy Clarke book?
The Surf House (2025) is the newest Lucy Clarke book released so far.
Is there a new Lucy Clarke book coming?
No next Lucy Clarke book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Lucy Clarke at a glance
- Still publishing
- Lucy Clarke published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Lucy Clarke books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 2,722 pages across the 7 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 384 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Lucy Clarke books, 6 of 10, were published in the 2010s.
What the Lucy Clarke books are about
6 of the 10 Lucy Clarke books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: thrillers is tagged on 3 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.