Dwellings book series in reading order

by Lucy M. Boston

by Kate Carlisle

Jacobia Tiptree restores a house in Maine and investigates murders, in the Home Repair Is Homicide mysteries that open Sarah Graves's catalogue. The Dead Cat Bounce (1997) starts a run of 27 books, which continues through the Lizzie Snow novels and the Death by Chocolate mysteries to Death by Chocolate Ladyfingers in 2026. Female friendship, small-town Maine and murder investigations supply the material.

Jenna Bennett writes mysteries across several series: Savannah Martin, the Do-It-Yourself Mysteries, Pippa Darling, Fidelity Investigations, the Art Crime Team and Made In Heaven / Bagging a Greek God. Fifty-five books are catalogued from Fatal Fixer-Upper (2008) to Havoc at Hanover Square (2026). Home renovation supplies part of the subject headings - dwellings, remodeling, maintenance and repair - with Avery Baker named as a character and Maine and New York as settings. A Cutthroat Business (2010) opens a second mystery line. The median book runs 304 pages.

Lucy M. Boston (born Lucy Maria Wood, 10 December 1892 to 25 May 1990) was an English novelist for children and adults. Every book Boston published appeared after the author turned 60. The Green Knowe series consists of six low fantasy novels for children, published by Faber from 1954 to 1976. The catalogue opens with The Children of Green Knowe (1954). Green Knowe is an old country manor house modelled on Boston's home at Hemingford Grey in Cambridgeshire. A Stranger at Green Knowe (1961), the fourth book, won the Carnegie Medal. The catalogue lists 18 books in total, including Yew Hall (1954) and The Sea Egg (1967), through Curfew & Other Eerie Tales (2011).

Robert Liparulo has three series in the catalogue: Dreamhouse Kings, John Hutchinson and Immortal Files. Subject headings include time travel, the supernatural, horror stories, terrorists and Christian suspense. The 13 books begin with Comes a Horseman (2005) and end with Kill Zone (2017). Germ (2006), Deadfall (2007), House of Dark Shadows (2008), Timescape (2009) and Frenzy (2010) are among them.

Barbara Delinsky, born Barbara Ruth Greenberg on August 9, 1945, is an American romance novelist with 19 New York Times bestsellers. Delinsky has also used the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass, and 1982 titles such as A Time to Love are listed under Douglass. The catalogue counts 96 books from 1981 to Tender Loving Care (2024), starting with Surrender by Moonlight and Passionate Touch. Series include Crosslyn Rise, Blake Sisters and Victoria Lesser, and mothers and daughters recur in the subjects.

Juliet Blackwell writes cozy mysteries. The Witchcraft Mystery series and the Haunted Home Renovation Mystery series are the two named series, and standalone novels and novellas sit beside them. The catalogue counts 30 books from Secondhand Spirits (2009) to The Séance Garden (2026). Witches, magic, San Francisco, vintage clothing, remodeling and women business owners appear in the subject tags.

Gary Paulsen

181 books• 17 series

Survival and outdoor adventure run through Gary Paulsen's writing for young readers. The catalogue holds 181 books, from Some Birds Don't Fly (1968) to Northwind (2022), at a median length of 105 pages. Brian Robeson, Francis Tucket, Duncan Culpepper, Murphy and the World of Adventure books head the series lines, with non-fiction and picture books alongside. No new Paulsen title has appeared since 2022.

Female friendship holds Wendy Wax's women's fiction together, often with a house restoration or a reality television programme in the plot. Key to My Heart (1999) opens the catalogue and 7 Days and 7 Nights (2003) follows. Ten Beach Road is the named series. Twenty-seven titles are catalogued, reaching Just Beachy in 2025.

Jacqueline West, born December 29, 1979, writes children's fiction and poetry. West's poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and the Books of Elsewhere fantasy series reached the New York Times best seller list. The catalogue holds 17 titles, opening with The Shadows (2010) and running to Black Point (2026), and the listing places the books with readers in grades 3 to 5. Magic, cats, houses, painting, theatre, books and reading, and space and time appear in the recorded subjects. The median West book runs 320 pages.

Kate Carlisle writes mystery and detective fiction with women sleuths. Catalogue subjects add rare books, women bookbinders, conservation and restoration, murder, crime and man-woman relationships, and name Brooklyn Wainwright as a recurring fictional character. The 35 catalogued books span 2009 to 2024, from Homicide in Hardcover (2009) to The Knife Before Christmas (2024), with If Books Could Kill (2009), Murder under Cover (2011) and One Book in the Grave (2012) along the way. Bibliophile Mystery, Fixer-Upper Mystery, Island Paradise Duet and MacLaren's Pride are the series credited to Carlisle.

Melody Carlson, born March 2, 1956 in San Francisco, is an American author of more than 250 books for women, teens and children, including the Diary of a Teenage Girl series. The catalogue lists 298 books from 1995, when Contemplative Bible Reading and How to Start a Quality Childcare Business in Your Home appeared, to All Booked Up (2026). Series include Carter House Girls, On The Runway, TrueColors, 86 Bloomberg Place, Secret Life of Samantha McGregor, Beary Patch Bears and Fruit Troops. Subjects include Christian life, high schools, friendship, Bible stories and stories in rhyme. Carlson grew up in Springfield, Oregon, attended Lane Community College and lives in Sisters, Oregon.

Thirty-nine catalogued books, from Living Dangerously (1995) to A Cottage in the Country (2026), make up Katie Fforde's output, with the 2010s the heaviest decade. Fforde was born Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming on 27 September 1952 and writes romance set in present-day England. Away from the novels, Fforde founded a bursary for writers without a publishing contract, chaired the Romantic Novelists' Association from 2009 to 2011 and later became its president, and started the Stroud Contemporary Fiction Writing Competition in 2016. Single women, single mothers and female friendship recur as subjects.

Cynthia Rylant, born Cynthia Smith on June 6, 1954, is an American author and librarian who has written more than 100 children's books across picture books, short stories, novels, nonfiction and poetry. Missing May took the 1993 Newbery Medal, A Fine White Dust was a 1987 Newbery Honor book, and two further titles are Caldecott Honor Books. The catalogue records 229 books from When I Was Young in the Mountains (1982) onward, with series including Henry and Mudge, Mr. Putter & Tabby, Poppleton and the Lighthouse Family.

Judy Moody, a series that has sold more than 30 million copies, is what Megan McDonald is best known for. McDonald, born Megan Jo McDonald on February 28, 1959, is an American children's author and a former librarian, and also wrote the Julie Albright books for American Girl as well as picture books. The catalogue lists 113 McDonald books, from Is This a House for Hermit Crab? (1990) to The Big Bad Badgers (2025). Other series include Stink, Judy Moody & Friends, Beezy and Sisters Club, and the subjects include school, family life and brothers and sisters.