Austin Family Books in Order
Austin Family by Madeleine L’Engle contains 8 books, published between 1960 and 2000. The first book is Meet the Austins (1960) and the newest is A Full House (2000). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 1960–2000
- Pages on record
- 140 in 3 of 8 books
Austin Family names the Madeleine L’Engle sequence catalogued as the Austin Family Chronicles, eight books published between 1960 and 2000. Meet the Austins (1960) opens the run and A Full House (2000) closes it, with The Moon by Night (1963), The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas (1964), The Young Unicorns (1968), A Ring of Endless Light (1980), The Anti-Muffins (1981) and Troubling a Star (1994) between them. Subjects record family life, camping, Christmas, orphans and friendship, filed under children's fiction for grades 4 to 6.
How many Austin Family books are there?
Austin Family has 8 books, released between 1960 and 2000.
Austin Family Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Austin Family 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.
- 11960–2/4
- 21963–2/4
- 31964482/4
- 41968–2/4
- 51980–2/4
- 61981482/4
- 71994–2/4
- 82000442/4
Do you have to read Austin Family books in order?
You should read the Austin Family books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Austin Family book also stands alone.
Where to start with Austin Family
Start with Meet the Austins (1960), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Austin Family book?
A Full House (2000) is the newest Austin Family book released so far.
Is there a new Austin Family book coming?
No next Austin Family book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Austin Family at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Austin Family title on record dates from 2000, 26 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Austin Family books have appeared about one every 6 years on average.
- Length
- 140 pages across the 3 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 48 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Austin Family books, 4 of 8, were published in the 1960s.
What the Austin Family books are about
All 8 Austin Family 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 6 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Children's fiction 6 of 8 books
- Family life 3 of 8 books
- Christmas 2 of 8 books
More books by Madeleine L’Engle
The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.
- Madeleine L’Engle books in order 70 books