Love Comes Softly Books in Order
Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke contains 8 books, published between 1979 and 1989. The first book is Love Comes Softly (1979) and the newest is Love Finds a Home (1989). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 1979–1989
- Confirmed
- 8 of 8 titles
- Total pages
- 1,906 across 8 books
- Reading time
- 32–48 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,906 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.
Love Comes Softly runs to 8 books, published between 1979 and 1989. The series opens with the title novel in 1979 and closes with Love Finds a Home (1989). Love Comes Softly is Christian romance set in frontier and pioneer country, built around the Davis family across generations. Recurring subjects include women pioneers, homesteading, marriage, grandparents and nurses. Janette Oke, a Canadian novelist, wrote the whole run, at a median 239 pages a book.
How many Love Comes Softly books are there?
Love Comes Softly has 8 books, released between 1979 and 1989.
Love Comes Softly Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Love Comes Softly 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.
- 1Love Comes Softly1979 · 237 pages · confirmed 4/419792374/4
- 2Love's Enduring Promise1979 · 239 pages · confirmed 4/419792394/4
- 3Love's Long Journey1982 · 234 pages · confirmed 4/419822344/4
- 4Love's Abiding Joy1983 · 240 pages · confirmed 4/419832404/4
- 5Love's Unending Legacy1984 · 239 pages · confirmed 4/419842394/4
- 6Love's Unfolding Dream1987 · 240 pages · confirmed 4/419872404/4
- 7Love Takes Wing1988 · 240 pages · confirmed 4/419882404/4
- 8Love Finds a Home1989 · 237 pages · confirmed 3/419892373/4
Is there a chronological order for Love Comes Softly?
No separate chronological order is on record for Love Comes Softly, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.
Do you have to read Love Comes Softly books in order?
You should read the Love Comes Softly books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Love Comes Softly book also stands alone.
Where to start with Love Comes Softly
Start with Love Comes Softly (1979), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Love Comes Softly book?
Love Finds a Home (1989) is the newest Love Comes Softly book released so far.
Is there a new Love Comes Softly book coming?
No next Love Comes Softly book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Love Comes Softly at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Love Comes Softly title on record dates from 1989, 37 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Love Comes Softly books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 1,906 pages across all 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 239 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Love Comes Softly books, 6 of 8, were published in the 1980s.
- Corroboration
- 7 of the 8 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
What the Love Comes Softly books are about
All 8 Love Comes Softly books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: davis family (fictitious characters : oke) is tagged on 8 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Davis family (Fictitious characters : Oke) 8 of 8 books
- Romance 6 of 8 books
- Christian, romance 4 of 8 books
- Women pioneers 4 of 8 books
- Christian, western 3 of 8 books
- Livres en gros caractères 3 of 8 books
- Christian fiction 2 of 8 books
- Family life 2 of 8 books
- Frontier and pioneer life 2 of 8 books
- Nurses 2 of 8 books
- Historical romance 2 of 8 books
More books by Janette Oke
The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.
- Janette Oke books in order 79 books