Adoption book series in reading order

by Kate Milford

Karen Kingsbury is an American Christian novelist, born in Fairfax, Virginia, on June 8, 1963. Kingsbury worked as a sports writer for the Los Angeles Times and later wrote for the Los Angeles Daily News. Missy's Murder (1991), Kingsbury's first book, grew out of a murder story covered as a reporter in Los Angeles. Kingsbury is a #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist. The catalogue holds 115 titles, running to The Christmas Ring (2025), and the series include Firstborn, Sunrise, Above the Line, Bailey Flanigan, Red Gloves and Forever Faithful. Christian fiction and family life recur among the subjects.

Greenglass House (2014) is the Kate Milford novel that won the Edgar Award for juvenile literature and was long-listed for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Ghosts of Greenglass House (2017) is the sequel, and five further Milford books share the same world. The catalogue holds 12 titles, from The Boneshaker (2010) to Rialto (2026), with Seacritters! The Hunt for the Jigamaree due in 2027. Milford is a New York Times bestselling author who has also written for stage and screen.

Gilbert Morris produced Christian historical fiction at length: 248 catalogued books between 1977 and 2014. The House of Winslow follows one family across American history; the Appomattox Saga and Bonnets & Bugles take up the Civil War; Cheney Duvall, M.D. follows a woman physician; the Seven Sleepers, Dixie Morris and Too Smart Jones series sit alongside, with children's fiction among the subjects. The catalogue opens with Race Against Time (1977), reaches Raina's Choice, and is listed as likely complete.

V.C. Andrews was the name used by Cleo Virginia Andrews (June 6, 1923 to December 19, 1986), an American novelist best known for Flowers in the Attic (1979). That novel led to four sequels and two film adaptations. The publisher never classed the books as Young Adult, yet their young protagonists have drawn teenage readers for decades. After Andrews died in 1986, a ghostwriter first hired to finish two incomplete manuscripts went on publishing new books under the V.C. Andrews name. The catalogue carries 108 books under that name from 1979 to 2025, across series such as Dollanganger, Casteel, Cutler, Landry, Logan and De Beers.

Beverly Lewis

112 books• 17 series

Beverly Marie Lewis is an American novelist of Christian fiction and a children's author, and much of the writing concerns the Old Order Amish. Lewis taught school and worked as a musician beforehand. Born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where her father was a pastor, Lewis traces that interest to a maternal grandmother born into an Old Order Mennonite church. The catalogue lists 112 books, from Holly's First Love / Best Friend, Worst Enemy (1993) to The Christmas House (2025). Series include Abram's Daughters, Heritage of Lancaster County, Home To Hickory Hollow, Annie's People, Cul-de-sac Kids and Holly's Heart.

Jean Stone writes contemporary fiction about female friendship, remarriage and starting over, much of it set on Martha's Vineyard. Sins of Innocence (1994) opens a catalogue of 26 books that reaches The Little Bookshop by the Harbor (2026). Three series, Martha's Vineyard, Vineyard and Up-Island, carry the island setting, and adoption, weddings and the lives of middle-aged women recur. Stone continues to publish.

Ann M. Martin

446 books• 24 series

Ann Matthews Martin, born August 12, 1955, is an American writer of children's and young adult fiction and a Smith College graduate. The Baby-Sitters Club, first published in 1986, is the series Martin is known best for, and Martin remains involved with the series and its spin-offs. The catalogue lists 446 books, beginning with Inside Out and Bummer Summer in 1983. Related lines include Baby-Sitters Club Mysteries, California Diaries, Kids in Ms. Colman's Class, Main Street and Doll People. Jessi Ramsey, Pet-sitter: A Graphic Novel (2025) is the newest listed title.

Mary Logue's 36 catalogued books span 1987 to 2026 and cross several forms: mystery fiction, juvenile literature and biography all appear among the recorded subjects, which also list women detectives, murder, investigation and Wisconsin. The Claire Watkins novels take their name from a recurring character, and the Bloodwater Mysteries, Brigid Reardon Mystery, Laura Malloy and Deadwood Mystery series are also listed. Red Lake of the Heart (1987) is the first title and A Wasp in the Beehive (2026) the most recent. One book carries a joint credit with Doug Ohman.

Lisa T Bergren writes Christian fiction and children's books, with Christian romance, historical fiction and picture books all in the subject tags. The catalogue lists 71 titles from Romantic Notions (1993) to Heaven on Earth (2026). Love 'n' Romance, Once Upon a Caribbean Summer, Refuge and Torchlight all date from 1994, and The Captain's Bride from 1998. Series include God Gave Us, River of Time, River of Time: California, Oceans of Time, Once Upon a Summer, Homeward Trilogy and Sugar Baron's Daughters. Bears, polar bears, God and love appear among the tags.

Susan Beth Pfeffer (1948-2025) was an American author of young adult and science fiction. After 35 years of writing she reached a wider readership with The Last Survivors, a post-apocalyptic sequence, several volumes of which made the New York Times bestseller list. The Sebastian Sisters, Kid Power, Portraits of Little Women and April and Darcy are among her earlier series. Seventy-six titles run from Just Morgan (1970) to The Shade of the Moon (2013).

Celeste Ng

3 books

Three novels make up Celeste Ng's catalogue: Everything I Never Told You (2014), Little Fires Everywhere (2017) and Our Missing Hearts (2022). Family secrets, grief, motherhood and adoption are the recurring subjects, worked through daughters and the households around them. Each book stands alone, and no further title has appeared since 2022.