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Lily Dale Books in Order

Wendy Corsi Staub has written 14 books featuring Lily Dale, published between 2007 and 2026. The first book is Awakening (2007) and the newest is Toil and Trouble (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
14
Published
2007–2026
Confirmed
14 of 14 titles
Pages on record
1,994 in 7 of 14 books
Reading time
33–50 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,994 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 14 titles with a page count on record.

See all 14 books in order Printable Lily Dale checklist

Wendy Corsi Staub's Lily Dale entry holds 14 books from Awakening (2007) to Toil and Trouble (2026), and the related series is Lily Dale Mystery. Recorded subjects include psychic ability, psychics, murder investigation, widows, mothers and sons, grandmothers and blizzards. Believing (2008), Connecting (2008), Discovering (2009), Nine Lives (2015), Dead of Winter (2017) and The Stranger Vanishes (2022) are among the titles. The run is ongoing.

How many Lily Dale books are there?

Lily Dale appears in 14 books, released between 2007 and 2026.

Lily Dale Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 14 Lily Dale 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 Awakening by Wendy Corsi Staub, book 1 of the Lily Dale series (2007)
  2. Cover of Believing by Wendy Corsi Staub, book 2 of the Lily Dale series (2008)
  3. Cover of Connecting by Wendy Corsi Staub, book 3 of the Lily Dale series (2008)
  4. Cover of Discovering by Wendy Corsi Staub, book 4 of the Lily Dale series (2009)
  5. Cover of In the Blink of an Eye by Wendy Corsi Staub, book 5 of the Lily Dale series (2013)
  6. Cover of Nine Lives by Wendy Corsi Staub, book 1 of the Lily Dale Mystery series (2015)
  7. Cover of Something Buried, Something Blue by Wendy Corsi Staub, book 2 of the Lily Dale Mystery series (2016)
  8. Cover of Dead of Winter by Wendy Corsi Staub, book 3 of the Lily Dale Mystery series (2017)
  9. Cover of Prose and Cons by Wendy Corsi Staub, book 4 of the Lily Dale Mystery series (2021)
  10. Cover of The Stranger Vanishes by Wendy Corsi Staub, book 5 of the Lily Dale Mystery series (2022)
  11. Cover of The Stranger Vanishes by Wendy Corsi Staub, book 8 of the Lily Dale Mystery series (2026)
  1. 1
    AwakeningLily Dale #12007 · confirmed 3/4
    2007–
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  2. 2
    BelievingLily Dale #22008 · 256 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2008256
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  3. 3
    ConnectingLily Dale #32008 · confirmed 3/4
    2008–
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  4. 4
    DiscoveringLily Dale #42009 · confirmed 3/4
    2009–
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  5. 6
    Nine LivesLily Dale Mystery #12015 · 278 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2015278
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  6. 7
    Something Buried, Something BlueLily Dale Mystery #22016 · 287 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2016287
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  7. 8
    Dead of WinterLily Dale Mystery #32017 · 279 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2017279
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  8. 9
    Prose and ConsLily Dale Mystery #42021 · 224 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2021224
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  9. 10
    The Stranger VanishesLily Dale Mystery #52022 · 224 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2022224
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  10. 11
    Dog DaysLily Dale Mystery #62024 · confirmed 3/4
    2024–
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  11. 12
    Toil and TroubleLily Dale Mystery #72025 · confirmed 3/4
    2025–
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  12. 13
    The Stranger VanishesLily Dale Mystery #82026 · confirmed 3/4
    2026–
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  13. 14
    Toil and TroubleLily Dale Mystery #92026 · confirmed 3/4
    2026–
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Do you have to read Lily Dale books in order?

You should read the Lily Dale books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Lily Dale book also stands alone.

Where to start with Lily Dale

Start with Awakening (2007), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Lily Dale book?

Toil and Trouble (2026) is the newest Lily Dale book released so far.

Is there a new Lily Dale book coming?

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

Lily Dale at a glance

Still running
Lily Dale is still running, with a title published as recently as 2026.
Release pace
Lily Dale books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
1,994 pages across the 7 of 14 books with a recorded length, a median of 278 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Lily Dale books, 6 of 14, were published in the 2020s.

What the Lily Dale books are about

7 of the 14 Lily Dale books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: psychics is tagged on 5 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Wendy Corsi Staub

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.