Maggie Hartley Books in Order
Maggie Hartley has written 30 books, published between 2016 and 2026. The first book is Tiny Prisoners (2016) and the newest is Please Don't Hurt Me (2026). One more title is announced: Please Don't Take Her (2027). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 30 + 1 announced
- Published
- 2016–2026
- Confirmed
- 31 of 31 titles
- Pages on record
- 2,896 in 10 of 31 books
Maggie Hartley writes non-fiction accounts of foster care in Britain. The catalogue holds 31 books, opening with Tiny Prisoners in 2016 and reaching Please Don't Hurt Me in 2026, with Please Don't Take Her scheduled for 2027. The Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story series carries most of the run and draws on Hartley's own career in foster care, the children placed with her, and the teenage mothers and ex-foster children whose stories sit alongside theirs.
How many Maggie Hartley books are there?
Maggie Hartley has 30 published books, released between 2016 and 2026. 28 of them belong to the Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story series. One more, Please Don't Take Her (2027), is announced.
Maggie Hartley Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 31 Maggie Hartley 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.
- 12016–3/4
- 22016–3/4
- 32016–3/4
- 420172723/4
- 520173043/4
- 6The Girl No One Wanted / Too Little Too LateMaggie Hartley Foster Carer Story #62017 · confirmed 3/42017–3/4
- 72018–3/4
- 82018–3/4
- 920182563/4
- 1020182723/4
- 1120182723/4
- 122019–3/4
- 1320193043/4
- 1420193043/4
- 152020–3/4
- 1620213043/4
- 1720213043/4
- 182021–3/4
- 192021–3/4
- 2020223043/4
- 212022–3/4
- 222023–3/4
- 232023–3/4
- 242024–3/4
- 252024–3/4
- 262024–3/4
- 272025–3/4
- 282025–3/4
- 292026–3/4
- 302026–3/4
- 312027–3/4
Maggie Hartley 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.
Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story in order
28 books- 1. Tiny Prisoners
- 2. The Little Ghost Girl
- 3. A Family For Christmas
- 4. Too Young to be a Mum
- 5. Who Will Love Me Now?
- 6. The Girl No One Wanted / Too Little Too Late
- 7. Battered, Broken, Healed
- 8. Is It My Fault Mummy?
- 9. Sold To Be A Wife
- 10. Too Scared To Cry
- 11. Denied a Mummy
- 12. A Desperate Cry for Help
- and 16 more in the table above
Maggie Hartley Non-Fiction
3 books3 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Maggie Hartley Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Maggie Hartley books run from Tiny Prisoners (2016) to Please Don't Hurt Me (2026), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Maggie Hartley in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Maggie Hartley books in order?
You only need to read Maggie Hartley books in order within the Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story series, which holds 28 of the 31 Maggie Hartley books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Maggie Hartley
Start with Tiny Prisoners (2016), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Maggie Hartley book?
Please Don't Hurt Me (2026) is the newest Maggie Hartley book released so far.
Is there a new Maggie Hartley book coming?
Yes. Please Don't Take Her (2027) is the next Maggie Hartley book announced in the catalogue. A publication year announced this far ahead moves, so it is worth rechecking: every announced title dated after 2026 sits on the upcoming book releases page.
Maggie Hartley at a glance
- Still publishing
- Maggie Hartley is still publishing. Please Don't Take Her is announced for 2027.
- Release pace
- Maggie Hartley books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 2,896 pages across the 10 of 31 books with a recorded length, a median of 304 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Maggie Hartley books, 16 of 31, were published in the 2020s.
What the Maggie Hartley books are about
9 of the 31 Maggie Hartley books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: foster children is tagged on 4 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.