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Michael Malone Books in Order

Michael Malone has written 12 books, published between 1974 and 2009. The first book is Painting the Roses Red (1974) and the newest is The Four Corners of the Sky (2009). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
12
Published
1974–2009
Pages on record
4,692 in 11 of 12 books
Reading time
78–117 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,692 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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Michael Malone (1942-2022) was an American novelist and television writer whose work included the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live. Twelve catalogued books run from Painting the Roses Red in 1974 to The Four Corners of the Sky in 2009, among them Dingley Falls in 1980, Handling Sin in 1986 and Foolscap in 1991. Savile and Mangum is the one named series and First Lady a murder mystery; North Carolina, police work, race relations and serial murder are the recurring subjects, often handled in a humorous register.

How many Michael Malone books are there?

Michael Malone has 12 books, released between 1974 and 2009. 3 of them belong to the Savile and Mangum series.

Michael Malone Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 Michael Malone 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 Painting the Roses Red by Michael Malone (1974)
  2. Cover of The Delectable Mountains, Or, Entertaining Strangers by Michael Malone (1976)
  3. Cover of Uncivil Seasons by Michael Malone, book 1 of the Savile and Mangum series (1983)
  4. Cover of Handling Sin by Michael Malone (1986)
  5. Cover of Time's Witness by Michael Malone, book 2 of the Savile and Mangum series (1989)
  6. Cover of First Lady by Michael Malone, book 3 of the Savile and Mangum series (2001)
  7. Cover of Red Clay by Michael Malone (2002)
  8. Cover of The Killing Club by Michael Malone (2005)
  9. Cover of The Four Corners of the Sky by Michael Malone (2009)
  1. 1
    Painting the Roses Red1974 · 149 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1974149
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  2. 2
    The Delectable Mountains, Or, Entertaining Strangers1976 · 321 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1976321
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  3. 3
    Dingley Falls1980 · 704 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1980704
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  4. 4
    Uncivil SeasonsSavile and Mangum #11983 · 355 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1983355
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  5. 5
    Handling Sin1986 · 720 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1986720
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  6. 6
    Time's WitnessSavile and Mangum #21989 · 557 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1989557
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  7. 7
    Foolscap1991 · confirmed 2/4
    1991–
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  8. 8
    First LadySavile and Mangum #32001 · 448 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001448
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  9. 9
    Red Clay2002 · 294 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002294
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  10. 10
    The Last Noel2002 · 292 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002292
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  11. 11
    The Killing Club2005 · 292 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005292
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  12. 12
    The Four Corners of the Sky2009 · 560 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009560
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Michael Malone 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.

Savile and Mangum in order

3 books
  1. 1. Uncivil Seasons
  2. 2. Time's Witness
  3. 3. First Lady

Standalone books

9 books

9 Michael Malone titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Michael Malone books in order?

You only need to read Michael Malone books in order within the Savile and Mangum series, which holds 3 of the 12 Michael Malone books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Michael Malone

Start with Painting the Roses Red (1974), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Michael Malone book?

The Four Corners of the Sky (2009) is the newest Michael Malone book released so far.

Is there a new Michael Malone book coming?

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

Michael Malone at a glance

Died
Michael Malone died in 2022, according to Wikidata.
Last book
The newest book credited to Michael Malone on record dates from 2009.
Release pace
Michael Malone books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
4,692 pages across the 11 of 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 355 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Michael Malone books, 5 of 12, were published in the 2000s.

What the Michael Malone books are about

All 12 Michael Malone books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: north carolina is tagged on 3 of 12. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.