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Susan Richards Shreve Books in Order

Susan Richards Shreve has written 51 books, published between 1974 and 2021. The first book is A Fortunate Madness (1974) and the newest is Jonah (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
51
Published
1974–2021
Pages on record
8,015 in 44 of 51 books
Reading time
134–200 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 8,015 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 44 of 51 titles with a page count on record.

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Susan Richards Shreve is an American novelist, memoirist and children's author, with fifteen novels, thirty children's books and the memoir Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood (2007) to the name. Shreve co-founded the MFA in Creative Writing programme at George Mason University in 1980 and teaches fiction writing there, and co-founded the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Joshua T. Bates and Lucy Forever are the children's series; schools, family life and divorce recur as subjects. The listing holds 51 titles dated 1974 to 2021.

How many Susan Richards Shreve books are there?

Susan Richards Shreve has 51 books, released between 1974 and 2021. They include 2 series and 45 titles listed outside any series.

Susan Richards Shreve Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 51 Susan Richards Shreve 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 A Fortunate Madness by Susan Richards Shreve (1974)
  2. Cover of The Nightmares of Geranium Street by Susan Richards Shreve (1977)
  3. Cover of A Woman Like That by Susan Richards Shreve (1977)
  4. Cover of Family Secrets by Susan Richards Shreve (1979)
  5. Cover of Children of Power by Susan Richards Shreve (1979)
  6. Cover of The Masquerade by Susan Richards Shreve (1980)
  7. Cover of Loveletters by Susan Richards Shreve (1981)
  8. Cover of Miracle Play by Susan Richards Shreve (1982)
  9. Cover of The Revolution of Mary Leary by Susan Richards Shreve (1982)
  10. Cover of The Bad Dreams of a Good Girl by Susan Richards Shreve (1982)
  11. Cover of How I Saved the World on Purpose by Susan Richards Shreve (1985)
  12. Cover of Dreaming Of Heroes by Susan Richards Shreve (1986)
  13. Cover of Lily and the Runaway Baby by Susan Richards Shreve (1987)
  14. Cover of Lucy Forever & Miss Rosetree, Shrinks by Susan Richards Shreve, book 1 of the Lucy Forever series (1988)
  15. Cover of The Gift of the Girl Who Couldn't Hear by Susan Richards Shreve (1991)
  16. Cover of Daughters of the New World by Susan Richards Shreve (1992)
  17. Cover of Wait for Me by Susan Richards Shreve (1992)
  18. Cover of Joshua T. Bates Takes Charge by Susan Richards Shreve, book 2 of the Joshua T. Bates series (1993)
  19. Cover of The Train Home by Susan Richards Shreve (1993)
  20. Cover of Amy Dunn Quits School by Susan Richards Shreve (1993)
  21. Cover of Lucy Forever, Miss Rosetree, and the Stolen Baby by Susan Richards Shreve, book 2 of the Lucy Forever series (1994)
  22. Cover of The Formerly Great Alexander Family by Susan Richards Shreve (1995)
  23. Cover of The Visiting Physician by Susan Richards Shreve (1996)
  24. Cover of Warts by Susan Richards Shreve (1996)
  1. 1
    A Fortunate Madness1974 · 212 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1974212
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  2. 2
    The Nightmares of Geranium Street1977 · 127 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1977127
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  3. 3
    A Woman Like That1977 · 244 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1977244
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  4. 4
    Family Secrets1979 · 60 pages · confirmed 2/4
    197960
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  5. 5
    Children of Power1979 · 294 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1979294
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  6. 6
    The Masquerade1980 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1980192
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  7. 7
    Loveletters1981 · confirmed 2/4
    1981–
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  8. 8
    Miracle Play1982 · 395 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1982395
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  9. 9
    The Revolution of Mary Leary1982 · 185 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1982185
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  10. 10
    The Bad Dreams of a Good Girl1982 · 92 pages · confirmed 2/4
    198292
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  11. 11
    The Flunking of Joshua T. BatesJoshua T. Bates #11984 · 82 pages · confirmed 2/4
    198482
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  12. 12
    How I Saved the World on Purpose1985 · 65 pages · confirmed 2/4
    198565
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  13. 13
    Queen of Hearts1986 · confirmed 2/4
    1986–
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  14. 14
    Dreaming Of Heroes1986 · confirmed 2/4
    1986–
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  15. 15
    Lily and the Runaway Baby1987 · 62 pages · confirmed 2/4
    198762
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  16. 16
    Lucy Forever & Miss Rosetree, ShrinksLucy Forever #11988 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1988128
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  17. 17
    A Country of Strangers1989 · 239 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1989239
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  18. 18
    The Gift of the Girl Who Couldn't Hear1991 · 79 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199179
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  19. 19
    Daughters of the New World1992 · 471 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992471
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  20. 20
    Wait for Me1992 · 95 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199295
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  21. 21
    Joshua T. Bates Takes ChargeJoshua T. Bates #21993 · 102 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993102
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  22. 22
    The Train Home1993 · 273 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993273
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  23. 23
    Amy Dunn Quits School1993 · 96 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199396
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  24. 24
    Lucy Forever, Miss Rosetree, and the Stolen BabyLucy Forever #21994 · 143 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994143
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  25. 25
    Skin Deep1995 · 309 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995309
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  26. 26
    Zoe and Columbo1995 · confirmed 2/4
    1995–
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  27. 27
    The Formerly Great Alexander Family1995 · 91 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199591
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  28. 28
    The Visiting Physician1996 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1996288
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  29. 29
    Warts1996 · 88 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199688
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  30. 30
    The Goalie1996 · 95 pages · confirmed 2/4
    199695
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Susan Richards Shreve 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.

Joshua T. Bates in order

4 books
  1. 1. The Flunking of Joshua T. Bates
  2. 2. Joshua T. Bates Takes Charge
  3. 3. Joshua T. Bates in Trouble Again
  4. 4. Goodbye, Amanda the Good

Lucy Forever in order

2 books
  1. 1. Lucy Forever & Miss Rosetree, Shrinks
  2. 2. Lucy Forever, Miss Rosetree, and the Stolen Baby

Standalone books

45 books

45 Susan Richards Shreve titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Susan Richards Shreve books in order?

You only need to read Susan Richards Shreve 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 Richards Shreve

Start with A Fortunate Madness (1974), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Susan Richards Shreve book?

Jonah (2021) is the newest Susan Richards Shreve book released so far.

Is there a new Susan Richards Shreve book coming?

No next Susan Richards Shreve 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 Richards Shreve at a glance

Paused
No new Susan Richards Shreve title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
Release pace
Susan Richards Shreve books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
8,015 pages across the 44 of 51 books with a recorded length, a median of 176 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Susan Richards Shreve books, 17 of 51, were published in the 1990s.

What the Susan Richards Shreve books are about

46 of the 51 Susan Richards Shreve books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 19 of 46. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.