Order of Madeleine L’Engle Books
Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007) was an American author of young adult fiction, Christian fiction, science fiction, poetry and non-fiction. She is the author of the Time Quintet and Austin Family series. She started writing when she was eight years old, keeping a journal. Because she was shy, clumsy as a child, she was considered to be stupid by her teachers, causing her to spend more time reading and writing. After a career that was not going well financially, L’Engle was strongly considering retiring from writing on her 40th birthday, but soon came up with the idea for what would become her best-known work, A Wrinkle in Time. The young adult novel won the Newbery Award.
Madeleine L’Engle’s first novel was The Small Rain, published in 1945. She would continue writing until her death in 2007; her final original work being the non-fiction book The Joys of Love. Below is a list of Madeleine L’Engle’s books in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of Katherine Forrester Vigneras Books
| The Small Rain | (1945) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Prelude | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Severed Wasp | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Camilla Dickinson Books
| Camilla Dickinson / Camilla | (1951) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Live Coal in the Sea | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Austin Family Chronicles Books
| Meet the Austins | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Moon by Night | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Young Unicorns | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Ring of Endless Light | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Anti-Muffins | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Troubling a Star | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Full House | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| When reading this series in chronological order, Troubling a Star and The Anti-Muffins are reversed. | ||
Publication Order of Time Quintet Books
| A Wrinkle in Time | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Wind in the Door | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Swiftly Tilting Planet | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Many Waters | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| An Acceptable Time | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Intergalactic P.S. 3 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Time Quintet Graphic Novels
| A Wrinkle in Time | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of O'Keefe Family Books
| The Arm of the Starfish | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dragons in the Waters | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A House Like a Lotus | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Crosswicks Journals Books
| A Circle of Quiet | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Summer of the Great-Grandmother | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Irrational Season | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Two Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Genesis Books
| And It Was Good: Reflections on Beginnings | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys with Jacob | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sold into Egypt: Joseph's Journey into Human Being | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Ilsa | (1946) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| And Both Were Young | (1949) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Winter's Love | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Love Letters | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dance in the Desert | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Other Side of the Sun | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Weather of the Heart | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Certain Women | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Fact of the Matter | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Madeleine L’Engle Short Story Collections
| Lines Scribbled on an Envelope and Other Poems | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ladder of Angels | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Cry Like a Bell | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sphinx at Dawn: Two Stories | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| WinterSong | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Miracle on 10th Street and Other Christmas Writings | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 101st Miracle: Early Short Stories | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Moment of Tenderness | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Madeleine L’Engle Standalone Plays
| The Journey with Jonah | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Madeleine L’Engle Picture Books
| Moses, Prince of Egypt | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Other Dog | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Madeleine L’Engle Non-Fiction Books
| Prayers for Sunday | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Everyday Prayers | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Walking on Water: Personal Reflections | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Trailing Clouds of Glory: Spiritual Values in Children's Literature | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| From This Day Forward | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Glorious Impossible | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Rock That is Higher: Story as Truth | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Anytime Prayers | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols in Antarctica and Other Spiritual Places | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Glimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts and Reflections | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Friends for the Journey | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mothers & Daughters | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| My Own Small Place: Developing the Writing Life | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Prayerbook for Spiritual Friends: Partners in Prayer | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mothers and Sons | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Joys of Love | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Luci Shaw Short Story Collections
| WinterSong | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| The Unicorn Treasury: Stories, Poems, and Unicorn Lore | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Writing Women's Lives | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Second Sight | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Home for Christmas: Stories for Young and Old | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wand in the Word | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Way More than Luck | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Notes: The novel Camilla Dickinson was also published as Camilla. WinterSong and Friends for the Journey were co-authored with Luci Shaw. Trailing Clouds of Glory was co-authored by Avery Brooke. Mothers & Sons and Mothers & Daughters were co-authored by Maria Rooney. Glimpses of Grace and Madeleine L’Engle Herself were co-authored by Carole F. Chase.
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Madeleine L’Engle Synopsis: In Camilla by Madeleine L’Engle, Camilla Dickinson is a 15 year-old who has had an easy life, but now her parents are starting to act strange towards eachother and fighting over her. Camilla is caught between the two. She soon meets her best friend’s brother, Frank, who lets her know she’s not alone.
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