Self-realization in women book series in reading order

Mary Ellen Taylor has 11 catalogued books, from The Union Street Bakery and Sweet Expectations (both 2013) to The Promise of Tomorrow (2024). At the Corner of King Street (2015), The View from Prince Street (2016), Winter Cottage (2018), Spring House (2019), Honeysuckle Season (2020) and The Words We Whisper (2021) are other titles. Union Street Bakery is the listed series. Bakeries, family secrets, single women, self-realization and Virginia appear among the subjects.

Romance, paranormal romance and suspense make up Teresa Mummert's recorded subjects, which also list vampires, rock groups, trailer camps and Georgia. Mummert has 25 catalogued books dated 2011 to 2024, from Kat's Tale (2011) to American Monster (2024). The White Trash Trilogy and Undying Love Vampire are the two series in the listing, and the catalogue also carries writing guides such as Bleed Ink: A Self-Publishing Guide (2013).

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.

Jane Porter's 74 catalogued books span 2001 to 2026, opening with Christos's Promise (2001) and reaching A Soldier's Promise (2026). Subjects place the work in contemporary romance and romantic suspense, with arranged marriage, princesses, kings and rulers, and single mothers among the listed themes. Series include Wyatt Brothers of Montana, Taming of the Sheenans, Galvan Brides, Desert Kings, Brennan Sisters, Bellevue Wives and Disgraced Copelands. Jane Porter is still publishing.

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.

Lisa Wingate

32 books• 10 series

Lisa Wingate has 32 books in this catalogue, from Tending Roses (2001) to The Last Father-Daughter Dance (2026). Texas is among the subjects, and the Wingate series include Texas Hill Country, Moses Lake, Daily, Texas, Carolina Chronicles and Blue Sky Hill, alongside standalone novels and non-fiction. The subjects also cover Christian fiction, Christian romance, historical fiction, farm life, sisters and town life. Good Hope Road and Texas Cooking both appeared in 2003.

Something Borrowed (2004) opens the Emily Giffin catalogue, which runs to 14 books and ends with Love You More (2026). Giffin is an American novelist born on March 20, 1972. Married life, single women and love triangles appear among the subject headings. Other titles include Baby Proof (2006), Heart of the Matter (2010), Where We Belong (2012) and The One & Only (2014), and the Adventures of Darcy series sits beside the standalone novels.

Jennifer Weiner

32 books• 6 series

Jennifer Weiner is an American novelist, television producer and journalist, born on March 28, 1970, and based in Philadelphia. The catalogue has 32 Weiner books from 2002 to 2025, beginning with Good in Bed and In Her Shoes (both 2002). In Her Shoes was filmed with Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine. Female friendship, sisters, motherhood and single women run through the subjects. Weiner also writes the Cannie Shapiro and Littlest Bigfoot series, and The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits (2025) is the newest title.

Mariah Stewart writes women's fiction and romantic suspense. The Chesapeake Diaries, Wyndham Beach, the Hudson Sisters, Mercy Street, Enright and Last are the series in a catalogue of 50 titles, which opens in 1995 with Moments in Time and reaches Wake-Up Calls (2026). Maryland settings, federal investigators, serial murders and family life fill the subject tags.

Elizabeth Gilbert

10 books

Elizabeth Gilbert, born 18 July 1969, is an American journalist and author. Gilbert's 2006 memoir Eat, Pray, Love sold more than 12 million copies, appeared in over 30 languages and became a film of the same name in 2010. The catalogue lists 10 Gilbert books from Pilgrims (1997) to All the Way to the River (2025), including Stern Men, The Last American Man, Committed, The Signature of All Things, Big Magic and City of Girls.

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.

Jack Canfield, born August 19, 1944, is an American author and motivational speaker. Canfield co-authored the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which has more than 250 titles and 500 million copies in print across over 40 languages. The Success Principles, written with Janet Switzer, followed in 2005. The catalogue lists 182 books from Dare to Win (1988) to Everyday Catholicism (2020), with Mark Victor Hansen co-credited on 148 and Amy Newmark on 46. Chicken Soup for the Soul appeared in 1993.

Elizabeth Harbison writes contemporary and historical romance, and the later titles carry the byline Beth Harbison. Female friendship, dating, shoes and self-realization run through the subject list, with the Cinderella Brides and Shoe Addict series named in the catalogue. Two cookbooks sit among the fiction, Bread Machine Baker (1999) and Four Seasons with the Bread Machine Baker (2001). 35 books span 1996 to 2022, closing with Confessions of the Other Sister.

Georgia Clark's eight catalogued books span 2008 to 2026, from She's with the Band to Play It Again. Subject headings range across young women, rock musicians and bands, teenage girls, self-realization in women, children's fiction, and science fiction with droughts and survival. The Regulars (2016), The Bucket List (2018), Island Time (2022) and Most Wonderful (2024) fill out the middle of the run. Clark is still publishing, with a title dated 2026.

Julia Whelan

3 books• 1 series

Julia Whelan is an American actress, audiobook narrator and novelist. Three books are catalogued: My Oxford Year (2018), Thank You for Listening (2022) and Casanova LLC (2025). The University of Oxford, women college students and self-realization appear among the subject headings. Whelan spent the 2006-07 academic year at Lincoln College, Oxford, and graduated from Middlebury College in 2008. As an actress she played Grace Manning in the television series Once and Again.

Viola Davis is an American actress and film producer, born in 1965, with two catalogued books. Corduroy Takes a Bow, published in 2018, is a 32-page children's book about the teddy bear Corduroy and the theatre. Finding Me followed in 2022, a memoir. Davis holds both the Triple Crown of Acting and the EGOT, was named by Time among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and again in 2017, and was placed ninth by The New York Times in 2020 on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century.