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Sara Donati Books in Order

Sara Donati has written 12 books, published between 1997 and 2024. The first book is Homestead (As: Rosina Lippi) (1997) and the newest is The Sweet Blue Distance (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
12
Published
1997–2024
Confirmed
12 of 12 titles
Pages on record
3,189 in 5 of 12 books
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Sara Donati writes historical fiction about frontier and pioneer life. The Wilderness sequence opens with Into the Wilderness (1998) and continues through Dawn on a Distant Shore (2000), Lake in the Clouds (2002), Fire Along the Sky (2004) and Queen of Swords (2006); a Waverly Place line follows. Twelve catalogued books reach The Sweet Blue Distance (2024), the earliest of them published as Rosina Lippi. The books are long, at a median of 650 pages, and Mohawk characters and women pioneers recur.

How many Sara Donati books are there?

Sara Donati has 12 books, released between 1997 and 2024. 2 of them belong to the Waverly Place series.

Sara Donati Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 Sara Donati 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 Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati, book 1 of the Wilderness series (1998)
  2. Cover of Dawn on a Distant Shore by Sara Donati, book 2 of the Wilderness series (2000)
  3. Cover of Lake in the Clouds by Sara Donati, book 3 of the Wilderness series (2002)
  4. Cover of Fire Along the Sky by Sara Donati, book 4 of the Wilderness series (2004)
  5. Cover of Queen of Swords by Sara Donati, book 5 of the Wilderness series (2006)
  6. Cover of The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square (As: Rosina Lippi) by Sara Donati (2008)
  7. Cover of The Endless Forest by Sara Donati, book 6 of the Wilderness series (2009)
  8. Cover of The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati, book 1 of the Waverly Place series (2015)
  9. Cover of Where the Light Enters by Sara Donati, book 2 of the Waverly Place series (2019)
  10. Cover of The Sweet Blue Distance by Sara Donati, book 4 of the Sara Donati Standalone Novels series (2024)
  1. 1
    Homestead (As: Rosina Lippi)Sara Donati Standalone Novels #11997 · confirmed 3/4
    1997–
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  2. 2
    Into the WildernessWilderness #11998 · 876 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1998876
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  3. 3
    Dawn on a Distant ShoreWilderness #22000 · confirmed 3/4
    2000–
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  4. 4
    Lake in the CloudsWilderness #32002 · confirmed 3/4
    2002–
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  5. 5
    Fire Along the SkyWilderness #42004 · confirmed 3/4
    2004–
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  6. 6
    Tied to the Tracks (As: Rosina Lippi)Sara Donati Standalone Novels #22006 · confirmed 3/4
    2006–
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  7. 7
    Queen of SwordsWilderness #52006 · 564 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2006564
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  8. 8
    The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square (As: Rosina Lippi)Sara Donati Standalone Novels #32008 · 358 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2008358
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  9. 9
    The Endless ForestWilderness #62009 · confirmed 3/4
    2009–
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  10. 10
    The Gilded HourWaverly Place #12015 · 741 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2015741
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  11. 11
    Where the Light EntersWaverly Place #22019 · 650 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2019650
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  12. 12
    The Sweet Blue DistanceSara Donati Standalone Novels #42024 · confirmed 3/4
    2024–
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Sara Donati 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.

Wilderness in order

6 books
  1. 1. Into the Wilderness
  2. 2. Dawn on a Distant Shore
  3. 3. Lake in the Clouds
  4. 4. Fire Along the Sky
  5. 5. Queen of Swords
  6. 6. The Endless Forest

Sara Donati Standalone Novels

4 books

4 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Waverly Place in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Gilded Hour
  2. 2. Where the Light Enters

Do you have to read Sara Donati books in order?

You only need to read Sara Donati books in order within the Waverly Place series, which holds 2 of the 12 Sara Donati books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

What order should you read Sara Donati books in?

Read them in publication order, starting with Homestead (As: Rosina Lippi) (1997), the earliest published title. After it come Into the Wilderness (1998), Dawn on a Distant Shore (2000), Lake in the Clouds (2002), Fire Along the Sky (2004), Tied to the Tracks (As: Rosina Lippi) (2006), Queen of Swords (2006), The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square (As: Rosina Lippi) (2008), The Endless Forest (2009), The Gilded Hour (2015), Where the Light Enters (2019) and The Sweet Blue Distance (2024).

What is the newest Sara Donati book?

The Sweet Blue Distance (2024) is the newest Sara Donati book released so far.

Is there a new Sara Donati book coming?

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

Sara Donati at a glance

Still publishing
Sara Donati published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Sara Donati books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
3,189 pages across the 5 of 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 650 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Sara Donati books, 7 of 12, were published in the 2000s.

What the Sara Donati books are about

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