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Sharan Newman Books in Order

Sharan Newman has written 21 books, published between 1976 and 2014. The first book is The Dagda's Harp (1976) and the newest is Defending the City of God (2014). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
21
Published
1976–2014
Pages on record
3,935 in 12 of 21 books
Reading time
66–98 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,935 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 12 of 21 titles with a page count on record.

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Sharan Newman, born April 15, 1949, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is an American historian and historical novelist. Newman won the 1994 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery. Catherine LeVendeur is her woman detective, and France and nuns appear among the subjects; Death Comes As Epiphany (1993) and The Devil's Door (1994) fall in that period. The Guinevere series and Arthurian romance come earlier, and her 21 books reach Defending the City of God (2014).

How many Sharan Newman books are there?

Sharan Newman has 21 books, released between 1976 and 2014. They include 3 series and 7 titles listed outside any series.

Sharan Newman Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 21 Sharan Newman 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 The Chessboard Queen by Sharan Newman, book 2 of the Guinevere series (1983)
  2. Cover of Guinevere Evermore by Sharan Newman, book 3 of the Guinevere series (1985)
  3. Cover of The Devil's Door by Sharan Newman, book 2 of the Catherine LeVendeur series (1994)
  4. Cover of The Wandering Arm by Sharan Newman, book 3 of the Catherine LeVendeur series (1995)
  5. Cover of Crime Through Time III by Sharan Newman, book 1 of the Crime Through Time series (2000)
  6. Cover of Heresy by Sharan Newman, book 8 of the Catherine LeVendeur series (2002)
  7. Cover of The Outcast Dove by Sharan Newman, book 9 of the Catherine LeVendeur series (2003)
  8. Cover of The Witch in the Well by Sharan Newman, book 10 of the Catherine LeVendeur series (2004)
  9. Cover of The Real History Behind the Da Vinci Code by Sharan Newman (2005)
  10. Cover of The Shanghai Tunnel by Sharan Newman (2008)
  11. Cover of Death Before Compline by Sharan Newman (2011)
  1. 1
    The Dagda's Harp1976 · confirmed 2/4
    1976–
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  2. 2
    GuinevereGuinevere #11980 · confirmed 2/4
    1980–
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  3. 3
    The Chessboard QueenGuinevere #21983 · 252 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1983252
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  4. 4
    Guinevere EvermoreGuinevere #31985 · 277 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1985277
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  5. 5
    Death Comes As EpiphanyCatherine LeVendeur #11993 · 322 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993322
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  6. 6
    The Devil's DoorCatherine LeVendeur #21994 · 432 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994432
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  7. 7
    The Wandering ArmCatherine LeVendeur #31995 · 351 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995351
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  8. 8
    Strong as DeathCatherine LeVendeur #41996 · confirmed 2/4
    1996–
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  9. 9
    Cursed in the BloodCatherine LeVendeur #51998 · confirmed 2/4
    1998–
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  10. 10
    The Difficult SaintCatherine LeVendeur #61999 · confirmed 2/4
    1999–
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  11. 11
    Crime Through Time IIICrime Through Time #12000 · 332 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000332
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  12. 12
    To Wear the White CloakCatherine LeVendeur #72000 · confirmed 2/4
    2000–
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  13. 13
    HeresyCatherine LeVendeur #82002 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002352
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  14. 14
    The Outcast DoveCatherine LeVendeur #92003 · 432 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003432
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  15. 15
    The Witch in the WellCatherine LeVendeur #102004 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004352
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  16. 16
    The Real History Behind the Da Vinci Code2005 · 337 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005337
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  17. 17
    The Real History Behind the Templars2007 · confirmed 2/4
    2007–
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  18. 18
    The Shanghai Tunnel2008 · 370 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008370
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  19. 19
    The Real History of the End of the World2010 · confirmed 2/4
    2010–
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  20. 20
    Death Before Compline2011 · 126 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011126
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  21. 21
    Defending the City of God2014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014–
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Sharan Newman series in order

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.

Sharan Newman 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.

Guinevere in order

3 books
  1. 1. Guinevere
  2. 2. The Chessboard Queen
  3. 3. Guinevere Evermore

Crime Through Time in order

1 book
  1. 1. Crime Through Time III

Standalone books

7 books

7 Sharan Newman titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Sharan Newman books in order?

You only need to read Sharan Newman books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Sharan Newman

Start with Death Comes As Epiphany (1993), the first Catherine LeVendeur book. The earliest catalogued title overall is The Dagda's Harp (1976).

What is the newest Sharan Newman book?

Defending the City of God (2014) is the newest Sharan Newman book released so far.

Is there a new Sharan Newman book coming?

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

Sharan Newman at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Sharan Newman title on record dates from 2014, 12 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Sharan Newman books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
3,935 pages across the 12 of 21 books with a recorded length, a median of 344 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Sharan Newman books, 8 of 21, were published in the 2000s.

What the Sharan Newman books are about

11 of the 21 Sharan Newman books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 6 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.