Vermont book series in reading order

by Maureen Johnson

Archer Mayor

36 books• 3 series

Joe Gunther is the Vermont policeman at the centre of Archer Mayor's procedurals. Open Season (1988) starts a run of 36 catalogued books reaching Fall Guy in 2022, with Brattleboro and the state's drug trade recurring in the subject records. Short stories and non-fiction sit beside the novels, and nothing later than 2022 is catalogued.

Every book Howard Frank Mosher wrote is set in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, usually in the invented Kingdom County. Mosher (1942-2017) published thirteen books, eleven of them fiction, and his subject is a rural Yankee community meeting a modernising world, its residents drawn as taciturn and singular. Disappearances (1977) opens the catalogue and God's Kingdom (2015) was the last novel to appear in his lifetime; 14 titles are catalogued in all, the latest dated 2022.

Marie Force has 132 books catalogued from Line of Scrimmage (2008) to State of Mind (2026), across contemporary romance and romantic suspense. Force's series include Gansett Island, Fatal, First Family, Quantum, Green Mountain, Butler, Vermont, Treading Water, Wild Widows and Miami Heat/Miami Nights. Islands, Vermont, Washington, D.C., policewomen and murder investigations appear among the subjects. Fatal Affair dates from 2010. Force is still publishing.

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.

Jennifer McMahon is an American novelist born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1968, and based in Montpelier, Vermont. McMahon graduated from Goddard College and studied poetry at Vermont College. Harper Paperbacks published the debut novel, Promise Not to Tell, in April 2007, and Publishers Weekly called it part mystery-thriller and part ghost story. The catalogue lists 16 books, including Don't Breathe a Word (2011), The Winter People (2014), The Night Sister (2015) and Stay Buried (2026). Horror, Vermont and cold cases feature in the subjects.

Chris Bohjalian is an American novelist whose books include Midwives (1997), The Sandcastle Girls (2012), The Guest Room (2016) and The Flight Attendant (2018). Steve Yockey turned The Flight Attendant into a television drama starring Kaley Cuoco, and three Bohjalian novels have become films. Translations exist in more than thirty languages. The catalogue counts 31 books from A Killing in the Real World (1988) to The Amateur (2026), including Water Witches (1995), The Law of Similars (1998) and Trans-Sister Radio (2000). Sleepwalker / Ahlberg is a series, and subject headings name Vermont, midwives, air pilots, twins and missing persons.

Gregory Maguire

44 books• 4 series

Gregory Maguire writes fantasy built on adaptations of existing stories. The Wicked Years take on Oz and its witches; the Hamlet Chronicles and Another Day sequences follow, and a graphic novel version of Wicked sits alongside. Maguire started in children's fiction with The Lightning Time (1978), and the 44-title catalogue reaches Galinda in 2026. Witches, magic and humorous stories are the recurring subjects.

Maureen Johnson

23 books• 4 series

Maureen Johnson writes young adult fiction, much of it mystery. Born in 1973, the American novelist has 23 catalogued books running from The Key to the Golden Firebird (2004) to The Velvet Knife (2026). Three series anchor the list: Truly Devious, Shades of London and Little Blue Envelopes, the last opening with 13 Little Blue Envelopes (2005). Boarding schools, murder, ghosts and grief recur across the books. Johnson co-wrote the holiday romance Let It Snow with John Green and Lauren Myracle, and contributed novellas to the anthologies The Bane Chronicles, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy and Ghosts of the Shadow Market.

Eric Rickstad writes crime novels set in rural Vermont, with murder, missing young women and fatherless families as recurring material. Nine books are catalogued between Reap (2000) and The Five (2025), grouped into the Canaan Crime and Remote series and taking in The Silent Girls (2014), The Names Of Dead Girls (2017) and Lilith (2024). Two titles, The Five and The Six, share a 2025 date, at a median length of 404 pages.