Tales of the City Books in Order: How to read Armistead Maupin’s Series?

Tales of the City Books in Order: How to read Armistead Maupin’s Series?

Written by American author Armistead Maupin, the Tales of the City book series chronicles the lives of a small group of friends living in San Francisco from the late ’70s to today. The story begins with a young woman from Cleveland, Ohio, named Mary Ann Singleton, who is visiting San Francisco on vacation. After deciding…

Elizabeth Strout Books in Order (Amy and Isabelle, Olive Kitteridge, My Name is Lucy Barton)

Elizabeth Strout Books in Order (Amy and Isabelle, Olive Kitteridge, My Name is Lucy Barton)

From a young age, Elizabeth Strout was drawn to writing things down and spent hours in the local library. In 1982, she graduated and received a law degree, and had her first story published in New Letters magazine. She rose to prominence in 1998 with her book Amy and Isabelle, adapted into a television movie…

Reading Jane Green Books in Order

Reading Jane Green Books in Order

Jane Green (also known as Jane Green Warburg) is a best-selling English-born American author who’s writing commercial women’s fiction. Green started as a publicist in her early 20s before working as a journalist for a few years–writing for The Daily Express, The Daily Mail, and Cosmopolitan magazine. She started working on her first novel, Straight…

Luanne Rice Books in Order (The Lemon Orchard, Little Night, The Silver Boat, Beach Girls)

Luanne Rice Books in Order (The Lemon Orchard, Little Night, The Silver Boat, Beach Girls)

Luanne Rice is an award-winning best-selling American novelist from New Britain, Connecticut, who’s writing since her teen years – her first short story was published in American Girl when she was fifteen. Angels All Over Town, her debut novel, was published in 1985. Since then, she published more than 30 more books about love and…

Graham Norton Books in Order (Holding, Home Stretch, Forever Home)

Graham Norton Books in Order (Holding, Home Stretch, Forever Home)

  Like Richard Osman, Graham Norton–the stage name of Graham William Walker–is a well-known TV presenter who’s writing fiction. Of course, Norton who is an Irish actor, author, comedian, and commentator, is mostly known for his award-winning comedy chat show The Graham Norton Show. Graham Norton started by publishing an autobiography, So Me, in 2004….

Alexander McCall Smith Books in Order (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Detective Varg, 44 Scotland Street and more)

Alexander McCall Smith Books in Order (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Detective Varg, 44 Scotland Street and more)

Former Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Alexander McCall Smith is a best-selling British writer who started by publishing academic texts and children’s books. In fact, before becoming known as a successful fiction writer, he was a respected expert on medical law and bioethics and served…

Sally Rooney Books in Order (Normal People, Conversations with Friends)

Sally Rooney Books in Order (Normal People, Conversations with Friends)

Sally Rooney is an Irish writer and screenwriter, already regarded as one of the foremost millennial writers. She even has been called the ‘Salinger for the Snapchat generation’. Born in 1991, Sally Rooney grew up in Castlebar, County Mayo, and studied English at Trinity College Dublin, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in 2013….

Karen Kingsbury’s The Baxter Family Books In Order

Karen Kingsbury’s The Baxter Family Books In Order

Karen Kingsbury used to be a journalist for the Los Angeles Times–and later for the Los Angeles Daily News. Her first books were in the True Crime genre, but she later wrote Christian inspirational family sagas like The Baxters. In fact, her series involving the Baxter Family are her most popular ones. The saga is…

Mary Alice Monroe Books in Order (Beach House, The Islanders, Lowcountry Summer)

Mary Alice Monroe Books in Order (Beach House, The Islanders, Lowcountry Summer)

Born in 1951, Marie Alice Monroe is a novelist and environmental conversationalist who studied journalism before married in 1972 Markus Kruesi, a child psychiatrist. Following their honeymoon in Japan, Marie Alice Monroe was inspired to study Asian culture and became bilingual in Japanese, and earned her master’s degree. Before becoming an author, Mary Alice Monroe…

Cormac McCarthy Books in Order (The Passenger, No Country for Old Men, The Road, Blood Meridian)

Cormac McCarthy Books in Order (The Passenger, No Country for Old Men, The Road, Blood Meridian)

Born Charles McCarthy in 1933, Providence, Rhode Island, but raised in Tennessee, Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. Since the publication of his first book, he enjoyed positive reviews but it was with All the Pretty Horses in 1992 that McCarthy gained widespread success. For this book, he received both the National…

Elena Ferrante Books in Order (Neapolitan novels, My Brilliant Friend, The Lying Life of Adults)

Elena Ferrante Books in Order (Neapolitan novels, My Brilliant Friend, The Lying Life of Adults)

All of Elena Ferrante’s Books in Order! Who is Elena Ferrante? Elena Ferrante is the well-known pseudonym of an Italian writer born in Naples. She chose to keep her identity secret, and by extension, we know almost nothing about her. Except that she is a bestseller author. Her Neapolitan Series has sold over 10 million…

Mary Ellen Taylor Books in Order (Union Street Bakery, Alexandria,…)

Mary Ellen Taylor Books in Order (Union Street Bakery, Alexandria,…)

All of Mary Ellen Taylor’s Books in Order! Who is Mary Ellen Taylor? Mary Ellen Taylor is an American best-selling author from Virginia who specializes in writing contemporary women’s fiction, exploring issues of family, home, love, and belonging. She published her first book “The Union Street Bakery” in 2013. Since then, she wrote almost ten…