Literary Fiction
There are 40 literary fiction series tracked here, each with a checked reading order. Character- and prose-driven series that don't sit neatly in a genre box.
Every literary fiction series, A–Z
- 7 books
women's fiction - 4 books
A Prairie Legacy
inspirational fiction - 6 books
Canadian West
inspirational fiction - 11 books
Christmas Hope
inspirational fiction - 2 books
Cupcake Cafe
contemporary fiction - 6 books
Jackson Brodie
literary crime - 1 book
Jana Kippo
literary crime - 12 books
Katama Bay
women's fiction - 4 books
Little Beach Street Bakery
contemporary fiction - 8 books
Love Comes Softly
inspirational fiction - 2 books
Love Lies Beneath
fiction - 3 books
Me Before You
contemporary fiction - 7 books
Mount Desert Island
women's fiction - 4 books
Nantucket
women's fiction - 15 books
Nantucket Sunset
women's fiction - 3 books
No Child of Mine
family drama - 7 books
O'Malley Family Saga
family saga - 3 books
Paradise
women's fiction - 3 books
Passover Trilogy
contemporary fiction - 3 books
Return to the Canadian West
inspirational fiction - 3 books
Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop
contemporary fiction - 3 books
Scottish Bookshop
contemporary fiction - 9 books
Scottish Island of Mure
contemporary fiction - 4 books
Seasons of the Heart
inspirational fiction - 6 books
Secrets of Mackinac Island
women's fiction - 7 books
Sisters of Edgartown
women's fiction - 3 books
The Bluebell Cove Series
women's fiction - 3 books
The Bourbon Kings
family saga - 2 books
The Christmas Bookshop
contemporary fiction - 16 books
The Coleman Series
women's fiction - 8 books
The Salt Sisters
women's fiction - 7 books
The Sutton Book Club
women's fiction - 19 books
The Vineyard Sunset
women's fiction - 5 books
The Whitmore
women's fiction - 7 books
Time Between the Stars
contemporary fiction - 7 books
Walsh Family
contemporary fiction - 3 books
When Hope Calls
inspirational fiction - 4 books
Winter Street
women's fiction - 12 books
Women of the West
inspirational fiction - 3 books
World of Maggie Ward
contemporary fiction
About the Literary Fiction shelf
There are 40 series on the Literary Fiction shelf. Together they hold 242 books. The longest is The Vineyard Sunset by Katie Winters, with 19 books. Because long runs are easy to lose track of, a clear order helps most there.
18 of them still run, while 17 have finished. None has a dated next book yet, although that can change at any time. Finished series need no catching up, but a running one gains a new book from time to time.
The three biggest are The Vineyard Sunset (19), The Coleman Series (16) and Nantucket Sunset (15). The shortest runs have only 1 book, such as Jana Kippo. Both kinds get the same checks, because a short series can still hide a tricky order.
Katie Winters writes the most of them, with 12 series. In all, 13 authors are behind these series. Since each name links to an author page, you can follow a writer to their other work.
The oldest series with a known start began in 1979, and the newest began in 2026. Since the data comes from public records, a series with no known start year stays undated.
Because a series can sit on more than one shelf, some titles here also appear on neighbouring shelves. Not sure where to begin? Open any series for its reading order, or return to all shelves for a wider view.