Patrick Taylor Books in Order
Patrick Taylor has written 23 books, published between 1994 and 2021. The first book is The West Clare Railway (1994) and the newest is An Irish Country Yuletide (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 23
- Published
- 1994–2021
- Confirmed
- 23 of 23 titles
- Pages on record
- 7,944 in 21 of 23 books
- Reading time
- 132–199 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 7,944 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 21 of 23 titles with a page count on record.
Patrick Taylor's Irish Country novels follow two doctors, Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly and Barry Laverty, in rural Northern Ireland. A second line, the Irish Troubles books, turns to political violence. Taylor's catalogue holds 23 titles, from The West Clare Railway (1994) to An Irish Country Yuletide (2021), with short stories and non-fiction alongside. No new Taylor title has appeared since 2021.
How many Patrick Taylor books are there?
Patrick Taylor has 23 books, released between 1994 and 2021. They include 2 separate series.
Patrick Taylor Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 23 Patrick Taylor 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.
- 119942243/4
- 219972823/4
- 319993053/4
- 4An Irish Country Doctor / The Apprenticeship of Dr. LavertyIrish Country #12004 · 351 pages · confirmed 3/420043513/4
- 520053813/4
- 620084323/4
- 720084953/4
- 820093193/4
- 920104643/4
- 1020114923/4
- 1120124283/4
- 1220134323/4
- 132013–3/4
- 14The Wily O'Reilly: Irish Country StoriesIrish Country Short Story #12014 · 335 pages · confirmed 3/420143353/4
- 1520144163/4
- 1620154953/4
- 1720163843/4
- 1820173683/4
- 1920174163/4
- 2020183493/4
- 212019–3/4
- 2220203683/4
- 2320212083/4
Patrick Taylor 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.
Irish Country in order
17 books- 1. An Irish Country Doctor / The Apprenticeship of Dr. Laverty
- 2. An Irish Country Village
- 3. An Irish Country Christmas
- 4. An Irish Country Girl
- 5. An Irish Country Courtship
- 6. A Dublin Student Doctor
- 7. An Irish Country Wedding
- 8. Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor
- 9. Home Is the Sailor
- 10. An Irish Doctor in Peace and at War
- 11. An Irish Doctor in Love and at Sea
- 12. An Irish Country Love Story
- and 5 more in the table above
Irish Troubles in order
3 booksIrish Country Short Story
2 books2 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Patrick Taylor Non-Fiction
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Patrick Taylor Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Patrick Taylor books run from The West Clare Railway (1994) to An Irish Country Yuletide (2021), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Patrick Taylor in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Patrick Taylor books in order?
You only need to read Patrick Taylor books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
What order should you read Patrick Taylor books in?
Read them in publication order, starting with The West Clare Railway (1994), the earliest published title. After it come Only Wounded (1997), Pray for Us Sinners (1999), An Irish Country Doctor / The Apprenticeship of Dr. Laverty (2004) and Now and in the Hour of Our Death (2005); the numbered table above continues from there.
What is the newest Patrick Taylor book?
An Irish Country Yuletide (2021) is the newest Patrick Taylor book released so far.
Is there a new Patrick Taylor book coming?
No next Patrick Taylor book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Patrick Taylor at a glance
- Paused
- No new Patrick Taylor title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
- Release pace
- Patrick Taylor books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 7,944 pages across the 21 of 23 books with a recorded length, a median of 381 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Patrick Taylor books, 13 of 23, were published in the 2010s.
What the Patrick Taylor books are about
22 of the 23 Patrick Taylor books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: country life is tagged on 13 of 22. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Country life 13 of 22 books
- Northern ireland 10 of 22 books
- Physicians 9 of 22 books
- Barry Laverty (Fictitious character) 7 of 22 books
- Medical 6 of 22 books
- Ireland 5 of 22 books
- English literature 3 of 22 books
- Family life 3 of 22 books
- History 3 of 22 books
- Physicians (General practice) 3 of 22 books
- Political violence 3 of 22 books
- Christian fiction 2 of 22 books