Madeleine L’Engle Books in Order

How many Madeleine L’Engle books are there?

Madeleine L’Engle has 70 books, released between 1945 and 2020. 6 of them were published after Madeleine L’Engle's death in 2007. They include 8 series and 9 titles listed outside any series.

Madeleine L’Engle Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 70 Madeleine L’Engle 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.

Madeleine L’Engle characters in order

The character linked below has its own reading-order page.

• Austin Family books in order 8 books

Madeleine L’Engle 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.

Madeleine L’Engle Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Madeleine L’Engle books run from The Small Rain (1945) to The Moment of Tenderness (2020), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Madeleine L’Engle in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Madeleine L’Engle books in order?

You only need to read Madeleine L’Engle books in order within each series: the books listed here span 8 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Madeleine L’Engle

Start with Meet the Austins (1960), the first Austin Family book. The earliest catalogued title overall is The Small Rain (1945).

What is the newest Madeleine L’Engle book?

The Moment of Tenderness (2020) is the newest Madeleine L’Engle book released so far.

Is there a new Madeleine L’Engle book coming?

No next Madeleine L’Engle 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 Madeleine L’Engle has won

Wikidata records 5 awards for Madeleine L’Engle. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

• Margaret Edwards Award1998Won
• Regina Medal1984Won
• Newbery Honor1981Won
• National Book Award1980Wonfor A Swiftly Tilting Planet
• Newbery Medal1963Won

Madeleine L’Engle at a glance

Died

Madeleine L’Engle died in 2007, according to Wikidata.

After death

Books credited to Madeleine L’Engle are still being published after Madeleine L’Engle's death in 2007; the newest appeared in 2020.

Release pace

Madeleine L’Engle books have appeared about one a year on average.

Length

11,602 pages across the 55 of 70 books with a recorded length, a median of 224 pages each.

Busiest decade

Most Madeleine L’Engle books, 16 of 70, were published in the 1990s.

What the Madeleine L’Engle books are about

64 of the 70 Madeleine L’Engle 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 16 of 64. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

• Children's fiction 16 of 64 books
• Biography 7 of 64 books
• Science fiction 7 of 64 books
• Family life 6 of 64 books
• L'engle, madeleine, 1918-2007 6 of 64 books
• Authors 5 of 64 books
• Christian life 5 of 64 books
• Meditations 5 of 64 books
• Adventure stories 4 of 64 books
• American literature 4 of 64 books
• Children 4 of 64 books