Sarah Bird Books in Order
Sarah Bird has written 13 books, published between 1986 and 2022. The first book is Alamo House (1986) and the newest is Last Dance on the Starlight Pier (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 13
- Published
- 1986–2022
- Pages on record
- 3,757 in 11 of 13 books
- Reading time
- 63–94 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,757 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 13 titles with a page count on record.
Sarah Bird, born in 1949, is an American novelist, screenwriter and journalist with 13 catalogued books. Alamo House (1986) is the first and Last Dance on the Starlight Pier (2022) the most recent. The Boyfriend School (1989), Virgin of the Rodeo (1993), The Flamenco Academy (2006) and Above the East China Sea (2014) are among the titles, and the catalogue lists Sarah Bird's Texas Quartet. Subject headings include humor, female friendship, women college students and mothers and daughters.
How many Sarah Bird books are there?
Sarah Bird has 13 books, released between 1986 and 2022. 4 of them belong to the Sarah Bird's Texas Quartet series.
Sarah Bird Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 13 Sarah Bird 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.
- 119863021/4
- 219893551/4
- 319913191/4
- 419933421/4
- 5The Yokota Officers Club2001 · 367 pages · confirmed 1/420013671/4
- 6The Flamenco Academy2006 · 392 pages · confirmed 1/420063921/4
- 7How Perfect Is That2008 · confirmed 1/42008–1/4
- 8The Gap Year2011 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/420113201/4
- 9Above the East China Sea2014 · confirmed 1/42014–1/4
- 10A Love Letter to Texas Women2016 · 80 pages · confirmed 1/42016801/4
- 11Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen2018 · 544 pages · confirmed 1/420185441/4
- 12Recent Studies Indicate2019 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/420193041/4
- 13Last Dance on the Starlight Pier2022 · 432 pages · confirmed 1/420224321/4
Sarah Bird 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.
Sarah Bird's Texas Quartet in order
4 booksStandalone books
9 books9 Sarah Bird titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Sarah Bird books in order?
You only need to read Sarah Bird books in order within the Sarah Bird's Texas Quartet series, which holds 4 of the 13 Sarah Bird books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Sarah Bird
Start with Alamo House (1986), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Sarah Bird book?
Last Dance on the Starlight Pier (2022) is the newest Sarah Bird book released so far.
Is there a new Sarah Bird book coming?
No next Sarah Bird book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Sarah Bird at a glance
- Paused
- No new Sarah Bird title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Sarah Bird books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 3,757 pages across the 11 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 342 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Sarah Bird books, 5 of 13, were published in the 2010s.
What the Sarah Bird books are about
All 13 Sarah Bird books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: humor is tagged on 4 of 13. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Humor 4 of 13 books
- Female friendship 3 of 13 books
- Young women 3 of 13 books
- American literature 2 of 13 books
- History 2 of 13 books
- Social life and customs 2 of 13 books
- Women college students 2 of 13 books