Mothers and daughters book series in reading order

by Mary Alice Monroe

by Wendelin Van Draanen

by Eve Bunting

by Kes Gray

Barbara Allan writes the Trash 'n' Treasures Mysteries, a cozy series whose amateur sleuths are a mother and daughter dealing in antiques. The 24 catalogued books open with Antiques Roadkill (2006) and reach Antiques Web (2026), every title beginning with the word Antiques. Vivian Borne is the recurring character named in the catalogue. Murder, small-town dealing and a dog recur throughout, and the series is ongoing.

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.

Luanne Rice, born 25 September 1955, is an American novelist whose books frequently turn to nature, the sea, love and family. The catalogue lists 42 Rice titles, from Angels All Over Town (1985) to Until Midnight (2026), including Crazy in Love, Firefly Beach, The Lemon Orchard and Beach Girls. Subjects on file include sisters, mothers and daughters, Connecticut, suspense and missing persons. Series include Hubbard's Point/Black Hall, Newport, Rhode Island and Detective Conor Reid, and Rice's work has been translated into 26 languages.

Both of Holly Chamberlin's series carry a Maine place name: Yorktide, Maine and Eliot's Corner, Maine. The catalogue lists 23 books from Living Single (2002) to Summer Roommates (2023), including The Summer of Us, The Friends We Keep, The Family Beach House and Summer Friends. Subjects include Maine, mothers and daughters, female friendship, single women, family life and Boston. No title after 2023 is on file.

Across 194 catalogued books, Danielle Steel writes contemporary romance and family drama: love stories, marriages, widowhood and the turns that reshape a life. The run starts with Going Home (1973) and continues through Celebration, with 24 Hours scheduled for 2027. Steel's catalogue also holds children's picture books, short stories and non-fiction beside the standalone novels that make up most of it.

Legal thrillers about women lawyers form the core of Lisa Scottoline's work. Rosato & Associates, later listed as Rosato & DiNunzio, names the recurring law firm series, and the catalogue runs to 51 titles from Everywhere That Mary Went (1993) to This Changes Everything (2026). Scottoline also writes standalone suspense, non-fiction, and the Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman books, which the subject tags mark as humour. Publication is ongoing.

South Carolina is the setting of Dorothea Benton Frank's novels, among them Porch Lights and By Invitation Only. Frank, an American novelist, lived from September 12, 1951 to September 2, 2019. Frank's 26 catalogued books begin with Sullivan's Island (1999) and end with Reunion Beach (2021). The Lowcountry Tales form the main series, beside standalone novels and a children's title. Subjects on the books include family life, mothers and daughters, plantation life, widows and friendship.

Heather Vogel Frederick is a children's author whose 24 books run from 2002 to 2023. The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed (2002) is her earliest title, and The Education of Patience Goodspeed followed in 2004. The Mother-Daughter Book Club appeared in 2007, with Much Ado About Anne and Dear Pen Pal after it. Frederick's series are Mother-Daughter Book Club, Spy Mice, Pumpkin Falls Mystery and Patience Goodspeed, and Truly, Madly, Sheeply (2023) is the newest title.

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.

Mary Alice Monroe is an American novelist, born in Evanston, Illinois, on 25 May 1960, and resident in South Carolina. Monroe's fiction draws parallels between nature and human nature: The Beach House and Swimming Lessons both involve injured sea turtles, and Time Is a River follows breast cancer survivors in a North Carolina fly-fishing group. The catalogue holds 33 books from The Long Road Home (1995) to Where the Rivers Merge (2025), with The Rivers' End due in 2027, plus the Beach House, Lowcountry Summer, Islanders and Rivers series. One title appeared under the name Mary Alice Kruesi.

Domestic fiction is Diane Chamberlain's form: mothers and daughters, sisters, marriages and friendships, with North Carolina and New Jersey as the usual settings. Chamberlain's 32 catalogued books open with Lovers and Strangers (1990) and include the Keeper of the Light Trilogy, Before The Storm, Necessary Lies and Pretending To Dance. The Last House on the Street is the most recent title, and the catalogue has been dormant since 2022.

Joy Fielding

48 books• 1 series

Joy Fielding is a Canadian novelist and actress who writes psychological suspense. Her 48 catalogued books begin with The Transformation (1967) and reach Jenny Cooper Has a Secret (2025), with See Jane Run (1991) and Tell Me No Secrets (1993) among the earlier titles. Recurring subjects include mothers and daughters, deception, adultery and women sleuths. Fielding lives in Toronto and is actively publishing.

Romance, domestic fiction and young adult series all sit in Eileen Goudge's catalogue of 57 books. Goudge, born in 1950 in San Mateo, California, has also published as Marian Woodruff and Elizabeth Merrit. Garden of Lies (1989), her first novel for adults, became a New York Times bestseller. Mothers and daughters, sisters and California family life recur across the work, which runs from 1984 to The House on Mountain Laurel Lane in 2025.

Jacqueline Wilson

178 books• 15 series

Jacqueline Wilson, born Jacqueline Aitken on 17 December 1945, is an English novelist who writes for children. Adoption, abuse and divorce are among the realistic topics the novels take on. Wilson made a debut in 1969 and has passed 100 books; this catalogue lists 178, the earliest dated entry being Hide And Seek (1972) and the latest The Seaside Sleepover (2025). Tracy Beaker, Hetty Feather, Girls, Sleepovers and Stevie Day are among the series. Friendship, sisters, family life and schools appear in the subject records.

American novelist Kristin Hannah was born in 1960. The catalogue lists 28 of her books, from A Handful of Heaven (1991) through The Women, with The Fire announced and the list reaching 2027. The Women, published in 2024, is set in the United States during the Vietnam War of the 1960s. Winter Garden, The Nightingale, Firefly Lane, The Great Alone and The Four Winds rank among her most notable works. Subjects across the list include historical and contemporary romance, mothers and daughters, sisters and female friendship. Her listings also contain the Girls of Firefly Lane series, standalone novels and short stories.

Nora Roberts

279 books• 37 series

Nora Roberts, born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950, is an American writer of romance under that name. As J. D. Robb, Roberts writes police procedurals with science-fiction elements, and has also published as Jill March and, in the UK, as Sarah Hardesty. This listing carries 280 Roberts books, opening with Irish Thoroughbred (1981); The Missing is scheduled for 2027. Series on the page include the In Death Universe, the MacGregors, Night Tales, the Calhoun Women, the Chesapeake Bay Saga, Irish Hearts and the O'Hurleys.

Karin Slaughter

39 books• 10 series

American crime writer Karin Slaughter was born in 1971. Her debut, Blindsighted (2001), made the Crime Writers' Association shortlist for best thriller debut, and Cop Town won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger in 2015. The catalogue carries 39 of her books through The Secrets We Hide (2026). Will Trent, Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver are recurring figures, and her series listings include Andrea Oliver, North Falls Thriller, Pretty Girls and Good Daughter alongside standalone novels. Subjects cover police work, medical examiners, murder and the state of Georgia. Slaughter's books are published in 120 countries.

Jodi Picoult

42 books• 7 series

Jodi Picoult is an American writer, born in 1966, whose fiction is described as family saga, often built around moral dilemmas or procedural dramas that set family members against one another. As of 2026 Picoult had published 30 novels and several short stories, and had written several issues of Wonder Woman. Around 40 million copies of Picoult's books are in print in 34 languages, and the New England Bookseller Award for fiction came in 2003. The catalogue holds 42 books, opening with Songs of the Humpback Whale (1992) and including Harvesting the Heart, The Pact, Plain Truth and Salem Falls, alongside plays and graphic novels.

Karen White writes about family secrets, old houses and the women who inherit them. 36 catalogued books run from In the Shadow of the Moon (2000) to That Last Carolina Summer, with Whispers of Goodbye (2001), Falling Home (2002), After the Rain (2003), The Color of Light (2005) and Pieces of the Heart (2006) among the early titles. The Tradd Street series turns on a real estate agent and a haunted historic property; Royal Street and Falling Home form separate groupings. The Birds on Newcomb Boulevard is scheduled for 2027.

Susan Mallery is an American romance novelist born in 1970, whose books are set in small, tight-knit communities and give pets a prominent role. The catalogue counts 201 books from Tender Loving Care (1991) onward, including early titles published as Susan Macias. Series include Fool's Gold, Desert Rogues, Hometown Heartbreakers, Happily Inc., Marcelli, Buchanans, Blackberry Island and Mischief Bay. The Bookstore Diaries (2026) is the newest release, and Friend Request is due in 2027.

Susan Wiggs has 75 books in the catalogue, published from 1987 to 2025, beginning with Texas Wildflower (1987) and reaching Wayward Girls (2025). Wiggs is an American author of historical and contemporary romance, born on 17 May 1958. Series include Lakeshore Chronicles, Bella Vista Chronicles, Calhoun Chronicles, Heart of the West and the Great Chicago Fire Trilogy. Early titles include Briar Rose (1987), Moonshadow (1989) and The Mistress of Normandy (1991). Catalogue subjects include family life, mothers and daughters and love stories.

Sophie Kinsella

37 books• 4 series

Sophie Kinsella was the pen name of Madeleine Sophie Wickham (12 December 1969 to 10 December 2025), an English author best known for the Shopaholic series. The Kinsella catalogue holds 37 books from 1995 to 2024; early titles such as 40 Love / The Tennis Party (1995) and Cocktails for Three (2000) appeared under the name Madeleine Wickham. The first two Shopaholic books became the 2009 film Confessions of a Shopaholic, and Can You Keep a Secret? (2003) was filmed in 2019. Kinsella's books sold more than 50 million copies in over 60 countries. Shopping, weddings and Becky Bloomwood appear among the subjects.

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.

Barbara Taylor Bradford began in non-fiction, with Fashions That Please Him (1970) and a run of interior decorating guides, then wrote A Woman of Substance (1979) and the family sagas that followed. Businesswomen, inheritance and mothers and daughters are the standing subjects. 47 catalogued books include the Emma Harte and Harte Family sagas, Cavendon Hall, the House of Falconer and the Ravenscar novels. The Wonder of It All, published in 2023, closes the catalogue.