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Victoria Hislop Books in Order

Victoria Hislop has written 11 books, published between 2001 and 2023. The first book is Sink or Swim (2001) and the newest is The Figurine (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
2001–2023
Pages on record
2,480 in 7 of 11 books
Reading time
41–62 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,480 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 11 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Victoria Hislop, author of the Island series

Victoria Hislop, born Hamson in 1959, is an English author. Greece supplies the setting for most of the fiction, which begins with The Island (2005) and continues through The Return (2008), The Thread (2011), The Sunrise (2014), Cartes Postales from Greece (2017), Those Who Are Loved (2019) and One August Night (2020). Family life, history and interpersonal relations are the recurring subjects. Two earlier titles, Sink or Swim (2001) and Fix Your Life - Now! (2002), are nonfiction and self-improvement. Eleven books are catalogued to 2023, at a median 390 pages.

How many Victoria Hislop books are there?

Victoria Hislop has 11 books, released between 2001 and 2023. 2 of them belong to the Island series.

Victoria Hislop Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Victoria Hislop books in the order they were released, 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 Fix Your Life - Now! by Victoria Hislop (2002)
  2. Cover of The Island by Victoria Hislop, book 1 of the Island series (2005)
  3. Cover of The Return by Victoria Hislop (2008)
  4. Cover of The Thread by Victoria Hislop (2011)
  5. Cover of The Last Dance and Other Stories by Victoria Hislop (2012)
  6. Cover of The Sunrise by Victoria Hislop (2014)
  7. Cover of Cartes Postales from Greece by Victoria Hislop (2017)
  1. 1
    Sink or Swim2001 · confirmed 2/4
    2001–
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  2. 2
    Fix Your Life - Now!2002 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002192
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  3. 3
    The IslandIsland #12005 · 480 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005480
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  4. 4
    The Return2008 · 437 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008437
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  5. 5
    The Thread2011 · 390 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011390
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  6. 7
    The Sunrise2014 · 339 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014339
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  7. 8
    Cartes Postales from Greece2017 · confirmed 2/4
    2017–
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  8. 9
    Those Who Are Loved2019 · 496 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019496
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  9. 10
    One August NightIsland #22020 · confirmed 2/4
    2020–
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  10. 11
    The Figurine2023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023–
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Victoria Hislop 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.

Island in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Island
  2. 2. One August Night

Standalone books

9 books

9 Victoria Hislop titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Victoria Hislop Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Victoria Hislop books run from Sink or Swim (2001) to The Figurine (2023), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Victoria Hislop in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Victoria Hislop books in order?

You only need to read Victoria Hislop books in order within the Island series, which holds 2 of the 11 Victoria Hislop books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Victoria Hislop

Start with Sink or Swim (2001), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Victoria Hislop book?

The Figurine (2023) is the newest Victoria Hislop book released so far.

Is there a new Victoria Hislop book coming?

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

Victoria Hislop at a glance

Paused
No new Victoria Hislop title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Victoria Hislop books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
2,480 pages across the 7 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 390 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Victoria Hislop books, 5 of 11, were published in the 2010s.

What the Victoria Hislop books are about

9 of the 11 Victoria Hislop books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: greece is tagged on 3 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.