Susan Isaacs Books in Order
Susan Isaacs has written 20 books, published between 1972 and 2023. The first book is Intellectual Growth in Young Children (1972) and the newest is Bad, Bad Seymour Brown (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 20
- Published
- 1972–2023
- Confirmed
- 20 of 20 titles
- Pages on record
- 5,249 in 13 of 20 books
- Reading time
- 87–131 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,249 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 13 of 20 titles with a page count on record.
Susan Isaacs writes crime and mystery fiction about women: lawyers, journalists, detectives and housewives, often in Jewish families in New York State. Twenty books are catalogued under her name, and the fiction runs from Compromising Positions (1978) to Bad, Bad Seymour Brown (2023). Isaacs adapted that 1978 debut for the screen herself. Judith Singer and Corie Geller are the two recurring series, and the catalogue also holds nonfiction, standalone novels and short fiction. Isaacs was born in 1943 and works as a novelist, essayist and screenwriter.
How many Susan Isaacs books are there?
Susan Isaacs has 20 books, released between 1972 and 2023. They include 2 separate series.
Susan Isaacs Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 20 Susan Isaacs 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.
- 11972–3/4
- 219783393/4
- 31980–3/4
- 419846883/4
- 51988–3/4
- 619914503/4
- 719933203/4
- 819966103/4
- 919985803/4
- 1019991593/4
- 1120013583/4
- 1220043823/4
- 1320073403/4
- 1420103423/4
- 1520123223/4
- 162013–3/4
- 172015–3/4
- 182018–3/4
- 1920193593/4
- 202023–3/4
Susan Isaacs 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.
Susan Isaacs Standalone Novels
11 books11 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Susan Isaacs Non-Fiction
3 books3 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Judith Singer in order
3 booksCorie Geller in order
2 booksSusan Isaacs Short Stories/Novellas
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Susan Isaacs Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the Susan Isaacs books run from Intellectual Growth in Young Children (1972) to Bad, Bad Seymour Brown (2023), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Susan Isaacs in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read Susan Isaacs books in order?
You only need to read Susan Isaacs books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Susan Isaacs
Start with Intellectual Growth in Young Children (1972), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Susan Isaacs book?
Bad, Bad Seymour Brown (2023) is the newest Susan Isaacs book released so far.
Is there a new Susan Isaacs book coming?
No next Susan Isaacs book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Susan Isaacs at a glance
- Paused
- No new Susan Isaacs title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
- Release pace
- Susan Isaacs books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 5,249 pages across the 13 of 20 books with a recorded length, a median of 358 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Susan Isaacs books, 6 of 20, were published in the 2010s.
What the Susan Isaacs books are about
15 of the 20 Susan Isaacs books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: crimes against is tagged on 2 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Crimes against 2 of 15 books
- Mystery & detective 2 of 15 books
- Jewish families 2 of 15 books
- Jews 2 of 15 books
- Mystery & detective, women sleuths 2 of 15 books
- Women journalists 2 of 15 books