The Baxter Family Books in Order
The Baxter Family by Karen Kingsbury contains 16 books, published between 2016 and 2024. The first book is A Baxter Family Christmas (2016) and the newest is The Baxters Devotional (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 16
- Published
- 2016–2024
- Confirmed
- 16 of 16 titles
- Pages on record
- 3,593 in 11 of 16 books
- Reading time
- 60–90 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,593 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 16 titles with a page count on record.
The Baxter Family is the Indiana household at the centre of Karen Kingsbury's Christian fiction. Marriage, faith, bereavement and the ties between brothers and sisters drive the stories, which run across adult novels and a Baxter Family Children strand for younger readers. Sixteen catalogued books start at A Baxter Family Christmas (2016) and take in Love Story (2017), To the Moon and Back (2018) and Truly, Madly, Deeply (2020). The Baxters Devotional (2024) is the most recent.
How many The Baxter Family books are there?
The Baxter Family has 16 books, released between 2016 and 2024.
The Baxter Family Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 16 The Baxter 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.
- 120162494/4
- 220173354/4
- 320174104/4
- 42018–4/4
- 520183914/4
- 620192884/4
- 720203204/4
- 820203844/4
- 920203044/4
- 102020–4/4
- 1120213044/4
- 1220213204/4
- 1320222884/4
- 142022–4/4
- 152023–4/4
- 162024–3/4
Do you have to read The Baxter Family books in order?
You should read the The Baxter Family books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each The Baxter Family book also stands alone.
Where to start with The Baxter Family
Start with A Baxter Family Christmas (2016), the earliest published title.
What is the newest The Baxter Family book?
The Baxters Devotional (2024) is the newest The Baxter Family book released so far.
Is there a new The Baxter Family book coming?
No next The Baxter 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.
The Baxter Family at a glance
- Still running
- The Baxter Family is still running, with a title published as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- The Baxter Family books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 3,593 pages across the 11 of 16 books with a recorded length, a median of 320 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most The Baxter Family books, 10 of 16, were published in the 2020s.
- Corroboration
- 15 of the 16 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
What the The Baxter Family books are about
13 of the 16 The Baxter Family books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: family life is tagged on 8 of 13. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Family life 8 of 13 books
- Christian, romance 7 of 13 books
- Children's fiction 3 of 13 books
- Brothers and sisters 2 of 13 books
- Christian fiction 2 of 13 books
- Christian life 2 of 13 books
- Friendship 2 of 13 books
- Indiana 2 of 13 books
- Man-woman relationships 2 of 13 books
- Moving, household 2 of 13 books
More books by Karen Kingsbury
The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.
- Karen Kingsbury books in order 115 books