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Sue Monk Kidd Books in Order

Sue Monk Kidd has written 17 books, published between 1987 and 2025. The first book is God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved (1987) and the newest is Writing Creativity and Soul (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
17
Published
1987–2025
Confirmed
16 of 17 titles
Pages on record
2,497 in 10 of 17 books
Reading time
42–62 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,497 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 10 of 17 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Sue Monk Kidd, author

Sue Monk Kidd, born August 12, 1948, is an American writer from Sylvester, Georgia. Kidd's historical novels include The Secret Life of Bees (2001) and The Book of Longings, and race, feminism and religion recur as themes. Subjects on the list also cover spiritual life and Christian life, and the earliest catalogued title is God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved (1987). The Dance of the Dissident Daughter (1996) is subtitled A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine. The Mermaid Chair appeared in 2004, and the newest listed title is Writing Creativity and Soul (2025).

How many Sue Monk Kidd books are there?

Sue Monk Kidd has 17 books, released between 1987 and 2025.

Sue Monk Kidd Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 17 Sue Monk Kidd 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 God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved by Sue Monk Kidd (1987)
  2. Cover of All Things Are Possible by Sue Monk Kidd (1988)
  3. Cover of When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions by Sue Monk Kidd (1990)
  4. Cover of Love's Hidden Blessings: God Can Touch Your Life When You Least Expect It by Sue Monk Kidd (1990)
  5. Cover of The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine by Sue Monk…
  6. Cover of The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (2001)
  7. Cover of The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (2004)
  8. Cover of Firstlight: The Early Inspirational Writings of Sue Monk Kidd by Sue Monk Kidd (2006)
  9. Cover of Traveling with Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd (2009)
  10. Cover of The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (2014)
  11. Cover of The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd (2020)
  1. 1
    God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved1987 · 272 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1987272
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  2. 2
    This Is the Day1987 · confirmed 3/4
    1987–
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  3. 3
    All Things Are Possible1988 · confirmed 3/4
    1988–
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  4. 4
    When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions1990 · 226 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1990226
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    Love's Hidden Blessings: God Can Touch Your Life When You Least Expect It1990 · 202 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1990202
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine1996 · 253 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996253
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  7. 7
    The Secret Life of Bees2001 · 336 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2001336
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  8. 8
    The Mermaid Chair2004 · 335 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2004335
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  9. 9
    A Luminous Presence: One Woman's Awakening to the Inner Life2005 · confirmed 3/4
    2005–
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  10. 10
    Firstlight: The Early Inspirational Writings of Sue Monk Kidd2006 · 240 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2006240
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  11. 11
    Traveling with Pomegranates2009 · confirmed 3/4
    2009–
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  12. 12
    The Invention of Wings2014 · 373 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014373
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  13. 13
    Business Opportunities at Home: How to Start and Maintain Home Based Business2014 · 52 pages · confirmed 3/4
    201452
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  14. 14
    Summary of The Invention of WingsInstaread Summary #42016 · confirmed 3/4
    2016–
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  15. 15
    The Spiritual Sampler2016 · confirmed 3/4
    2016–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  16. 16
    The Book of Longings2020 · confirmed 3/4
    2020–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  17. 17
    Writing Creativity and Soul2025 · 208 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2025208
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Sue Monk Kidd 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.

Instaread Summary in order

1 book
  1. 4. Summary of The Invention of Wings

Standalone books

16 books

16 Sue Monk Kidd titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Sue Monk Kidd Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Sue Monk Kidd books run from God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved (1987) to Writing Creativity and Soul (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Sue Monk Kidd in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Sue Monk Kidd books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 17 Sue Monk Kidd books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Sue Monk Kidd

Start with God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved (1987), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Sue Monk Kidd book?

Writing Creativity and Soul (2025) is the newest Sue Monk Kidd book released so far.

Is there a new Sue Monk Kidd book coming?

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

Sue Monk Kidd at a glance

Still publishing
Sue Monk Kidd published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Sue Monk Kidd books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
2,497 pages across the 10 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 246 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Sue Monk Kidd books, 5 of 17, were published in the 2000s.

What the Sue Monk Kidd books are about

10 of the 17 Sue Monk Kidd books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: spiritual life is tagged on 4 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.