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Mary McNear Books in Order

Mary McNear has written 7 books, published between 2014 and 2018. The first book is Up at Butternut Lake (2014) and the newest is The Secrets We Carried (2018). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
7
Published
2014–2018
Total pages
2,274 across 7 books
Reading time
38–57 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,274 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.

See all 7 books in order Printable Mary McNear checklist

Mary McNear's Butternut Lake novels set family and romance stories by a Minnesota lake. Up at Butternut Lake and Butternut Summer opened the run in 2014, Moonlight on Butternut Lake followed in 2015, and The Space Between Sisters (2016), The Light in Summer (2017) and The Secrets We Carried (2018) completed a catalogue of 7 titles. Mothers and daughters, single mothers, widows and divorce carry the books.

How many Mary McNear books are there?

Mary McNear has 7 books, released between 2014 and 2018.

Mary McNear Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 7 Mary McNear 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 Up at Butternut Lake by Mary McNear, book 1 of the Butternut Lake series (2014)
  2. Cover of Butternut Summer by Mary McNear, book 2 of the Butternut Lake series (2014)
  3. Cover of The Night Before Christmas by Mary McNear, book 3 of the Butternut Lake series (2014)
  4. Cover of The Space Between Sisters by Mary McNear, book 5 of the Butternut Lake series (2016)
  5. Cover of The Secrets We Carried by Mary McNear, book 7 of the Butternut Lake series (2018)
  1. 1
    Up at Butternut LakeButternut Lake #12014 · 357 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014357
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  2. 2
    Butternut SummerButternut Lake #22014 · 377 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014377
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  3. 3
    The Night Before ChristmasButternut Lake #32014 · 112 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014112
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  4. 4
    Moonlight on Butternut LakeButternut Lake #42015 · 366 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015366
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  5. 5
    The Space Between SistersButternut Lake #52016 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016336
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  6. 6
    The Light in SummerButternut Lake #62017 · 358 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017358
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  7. 7
    The Secrets We CarriedButternut Lake #72018 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018368
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Mary McNear 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.

Butternut Lake in order

7 books
  1. 1. Up at Butternut Lake
  2. 2. Butternut Summer
  3. 3. The Night Before Christmas
  4. 4. Moonlight on Butternut Lake
  5. 5. The Space Between Sisters
  6. 6. The Light in Summer
  7. 7. The Secrets We Carried

Do you have to read Mary McNear books in order?

You only need to read Mary McNear books in order within the Butternut Lake series, which holds 7 of the 7 Mary McNear books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Mary McNear

Start with Up at Butternut Lake (2014), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Mary McNear book?

The Secrets We Carried (2018) is the newest Mary McNear book released so far.

Is there a new Mary McNear book coming?

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

Mary McNear at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Mary McNear title on record dates from 2018, 8 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Mary McNear books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
2,274 pages across all 7 books with a recorded length, a median of 358 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Mary McNear books, 7 of 7, were published in the 2010s.

What the Mary McNear books are about

All 7 Mary McNear books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: family life is tagged on 3 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.