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Margot Livesey Books in Order

Margot Livesey has written 12 books, published between 1986 and 2024. The first book is Learning by Heart: Short Stories (1986) and the newest is The Road from Belhaven (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
12
Published
1986–2024
Pages on record
3,448 in 11 of 12 books
Reading time
57–86 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,448 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 12 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Margot Livesey, author

Born in Scotland in 1953, Margot Livesey writes novels, short stories and essays on writing. Livesey's honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the PEN New England Award and the Massachusetts Book Award. Livesey was fiction editor of Ploughshares and judged the PEN/Bellwether Prize in 2012. For Margot Livesey books in order, the 12 catalogued titles begin with Learning by Heart: Short Stories (1986) and include Eva Moves the Furniture (2001), The Flight of Gemma Hardy (2012) and The Road from Belhaven (2024).

How many Margot Livesey books are there?

Margot Livesey has 12 books, released between 1986 and 2024.

Margot Livesey Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 Margot Livesey 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. Cover of Learning by Heart: Short Stories by Margot Livesey (1986)
  2. Cover of Criminals by Margot Livesey (1995)
  3. Cover of The Missing World by Margot Livesey (1999)
  4. Cover of Eva Moves the Furniture by Margot Livesey (2001)
  5. Cover of Banishing Verona by Margot Livesey (2004)
  6. Cover of The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey (2012)
  7. Cover of Mercury by Margot Livesey (2016)
  8. Cover of The Hidden Machinery: Essays on Writing by Margot Livesey (2017)
  9. Cover of The Boy in the Field by Margot Livesey (2020)
  1. 1
    Learning by Heart: Short Stories1986 · 248 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986248
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  2. 2
    Homework1990 · 339 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990339
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  3. 3
    Criminals1995 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995288
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  4. 4
    The Missing World1999 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999336
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  5. 5
    Eva Moves the Furniture2001 · 232 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001232
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  6. 6
    Banishing Verona2004 · 355 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004355
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  7. 7
    The House on Fortune Street2008 · 311 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008311
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  8. 8
    The Flight of Gemma Hardy2012 · 447 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012447
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  9. 9
    Mercury2016 · 319 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016319
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  10. 10
    The Hidden Machinery: Essays on Writing2017 · 301 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017301
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  11. 11
    The Boy in the Field2020 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020272
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  12. 12
    The Road from Belhaven2024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
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Margot Livesey 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.

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12 books

12 Margot Livesey titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Margot Livesey books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 12 Margot Livesey books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Margot Livesey

Start with Learning by Heart: Short Stories (1986), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Margot Livesey book?

The Road from Belhaven (2024) is the newest Margot Livesey book released so far.

Is there a new Margot Livesey book coming?

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

Margot Livesey at a glance

Still publishing
Margot Livesey published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Margot Livesey books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
Length
3,448 pages across the 11 of 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 311 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Margot Livesey books, 3 of 12, were published in the 2010s.

What the Margot Livesey books are about

11 of the 12 Margot Livesey books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: psychological fiction is tagged on 4 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.