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Family Man Books in Order

Family Man contains 31 books, published between 1994 and 2000. The first book is Bringing Up Father (1994) and the newest is Close Neighbors (2000). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
31
Published
1994–2000
Pages on record
2,922 in 11 of 31 books
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Family Man is a romance line of 31 books published between 1994 and 2000, spread across many writers rather than one. Tara Taylor Quinn is credited on 3, and Maggie Simpson, Margot Early, Roz Fox, Linda Markowiak and Karen Young on 2 each, with single credits for Helen Conrad and Sharon Brondos. Subject tags name divorced people, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, birthmothers and teenagers, with ranchers, stockbrokers, singers, hotelkeepers and women veterinarians among the occupations. Bringing Up Father, Jake's Promise and The Third Christmas opened the line in 1994, and Close Neighbors (2000) closes it. The series is listed as likely complete.

How many Family Man books are there?

Family Man has 31 books, released between 1994 and 2000.

Family Man Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 31 Family Man 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 Bringing Up Father by Maggie Simpson, book 1 of the Family Man series (1994)
  2. Cover of Finding Father by Anne Marie Duquette, book 8 of the Family Man series (1995)
  3. Cover of Father Takes a Wife by Ginger Chambers, book 9 of the Family Man series (1995)
  4. Cover of Man of My Dreams by Margot Dalton, book 12 of the Family Man series (1995)
  5. Cover of This Montana Home, book 14 of the Family Man series (1996)
  6. Cover of The Birth Mother by Tara Taylor Quinn, book 15 of the Family Man series (1996)
  7. Cover of Firm Commitment by Linda Markowiak, book 18 of the Family Man series (1996)
  8. Cover of The Last Good Man by Inglath Cooper, book 21 of the Family Man series (1997)
  9. Cover of A Father's Place by Joan Kilby, book 24 of the Family Man series (1998)
  10. Cover of Her Brother's Keeper by K.N. Casper, book 29 of the Family Man series (1999)
  11. Cover of Jessie's Father by C.J. Carmichael, book 30 of the Family Man series (1999)
  1. 1
    Bringing Up Father1994 · 186 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994186
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  2. 2
    Jake's Promise1994 · 175 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994175
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  3. 3
    The Third Christmas1994 · confirmed 2/4
    1994–
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  4. 4
    The Good Father1995 · confirmed 2/4
    1995–
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  5. 5
    The West Virginian1995 · confirmed 2/4
    1995–
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  6. 6
    Cry Uncle1995 · confirmed 2/4
    1995–
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  7. 7
    First Love, Second Chance1995 · confirmed 2/4
    1995–
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  8. 8
    Finding Father1995 · confirmed 2/4
    1995–
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  9. 9
    Father Takes a Wife1995 · confirmed 2/4
    1995–
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  10. 10
    Jacob's Girls1995 · 296 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995296
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  11. 11
    Four Times the Trouble1995 · confirmed 2/4
    1995–
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  12. 12
    Man of My Dreams1995 · 187 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995187
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  13. 13
    The Water Baby1996 · confirmed 2/4
    1996–
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  14. 14
    This Montana Home1996 · 296 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1996296
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  15. 15
    The Birth Mother1996 · 296 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1996296
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  16. 16
    The Trouble with Texans1996 · confirmed 2/4
    1996–
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  17. 17
    His Runaway Son1996 · confirmed 2/4
    1996–
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  18. 18
    Firm Commitment1996 · 299 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1996299
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  19. 19
    Mr. Family1996 · confirmed 2/4
    1996–
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  20. 21
    The Last Good Man1997 · 297 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997297
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  21. 22
    If Wishes Were Horses1997 · confirmed 2/4
    1997–
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  22. 23
    A Father's Heart1998 · confirmed 2/4
    1998–
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  23. 24
    A Father's Place1998 · 296 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998296
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  24. 25
    Reluctant Witness1998 · confirmed 2/4
    1998–
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  25. 26
    Having It All / The Boss Next Door1998 · confirmed 2/4
    1998–
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  26. 27
    Before Thanksgiving Comes1998 · confirmed 2/4
    1998–
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  27. 28
    What Child Is This?1999 · confirmed 2/4
    1999–
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  28. 29
    Her Brother's Keeper1999 · 296 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999296
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  29. 30
    Jessie's Father1999 · 298 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999298
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  30. 31
    Daddy's Home1999 · confirmed 2/4
    1999–
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  31. 32
    Close Neighbors2000 · confirmed 2/4
    2000–
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Where to start with Family Man

Start with Bringing Up Father (1994), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Family Man book?

Close Neighbors (2000) is the newest Family Man book released so far.

Is there a new Family Man book coming?

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

Family Man at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Family Man title on record dates from 2000, 26 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Family Man books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
2,922 pages across the 11 of 31 books with a recorded length, a median of 296 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Family Man books, 30 of 31, were published in the 1990s.
Attribution
Of the 31 titles, 3 are credited to Tara Taylor Quinn, 2 to Maggie Simpson, 2 to Margot Early and 2 to Linda Markowiak. A further 18 writers are credited. 2 titles carry no credit.

What the Family Man books are about

14 of the 31 Family Man books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: romance is tagged on 4 of 14. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.