Anita Shreve

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1989
  • Latest Book:
    April 2017
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Full Series List in Order

The Fortune's Rocks Quartet

1 - Fortune's Rocks (Dec-1999)
2 - Sea Glass (Apr-2002)
3 - The Pilot's Wife (May-1998)
4 - Body Surfing (May-2007)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Eden Close

    Andrew, after many years, returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral. Planning to remain only a few days, he is drawn into the tragic legacy of his childhood friend and beautiful girl next door, Eden Close. An adopted child, Eden had ...

  • Strange Fits of Passion

    A turbulent, tragic story of domestic abuse from the bestselling author of THE PILOT'S WIFE EVERYONE BELIEVES that Maureen and Harrold English, two successful New York City journalists, have a happy, stable marriage. It's the early '70s and no one d...

  • Where or When

    From the award-winning, bestselling author Anita Shreve, comes a haunting, passionate novel of lost and found love What would you do if, out of the blue, you received a letter from your first love? Sian Richards sees no reason why she can't write ba...

  • Resistance

    A tale of impossible love in Nazi-occupied Belgium, where forbidden passions have catastrophic consequences. Claire Daussois, the wife of a Belgian resistance worker, shelters a wounded American bomber pilot in a secret attic hideaway. As she nurses...

  • The Weight of Water

    "I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?" The question is posed by Jean, a photographer, who in 1995 arrives on Smuttynose Island, off the coast of Maine, to research a century-old crime. As she immerses hers...

  • The Pilot's Wife

    The Fortune's Rocks Quartet - 3

    A pilot's wife is taught to be prepared for the late-night knock at the door. But when Kathryn Lyons receives word that a plane flown by her husband, Jack, has exploded near the coast of Ireland, she confronts the unfathomable -- one startling revela...

  • Fortune's Rocks

    The Fortune's Rocks Quartet - 1

    Everywhere hailed for its emotional intensity and unflagging narrative momentum, this magnificent novel transports us to the turn of the twentieth century, to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the New Hampshire coast, and to the soc...

  • The Last Time They Met

    From the last time Linda and Thomas meet, at a charmless hotel in a distant city, to the moment, thirty-five years earlier, when a chance encounter on a rocky beach binds them fatefully together, this hypnotically compelling novel unfolds a tale of i...

  • Sea Glass

    The Fortune's Rocks Quartet - 2

    New Hampshire, 1929 - when Sexton Beecher proposes to Honora Willard, she lays aside his flaws as one might overlook a small stain in a beautifully embroidered tablecloth. But as the couple begin their new life in the house at Fortune's Rocks, their...



  • All He Ever Wanted

    "A marriage is always two intersecting stories." This realization comes perhaps too late to the husband of Etna Bliss -- a man whose obsession with his young wife begins at the moment of their first meeting, as he helps Etna and her companions escape...

  • Light on Snow

    What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons and the unexpec...

  • A Wedding in December

    At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, seven former schoolmates gather to celebrate a wedding--a reunion that becomes the occasion of astonishing revelations as the friends collectively recall a long-ago night that indelibly marked each of their lives...

  • Body Surfing

    The Fortune's Rocks Quartet - 4

    At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing once again, she has answered an ad to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hamps...

  • Testimony

    AT A NEW ENGLAND BOARDING SCHOOL, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of th...

  • A Change in Altitude

    Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn't know about the complex mores of her new home, a...

  • Rescue

    A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Sheila Arsenault is a gorgeous enigma--streetwise and tough-talking, with haunted eyes, fierce desires, and a never-...

  • Stella Bain

    An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve. When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife self...

  • The Lives of Stella Bain

    A woman wakes up in a field hospital in Marne in 1916. Gradually she remembers her name - Stella Bain - and that she knows how to drive an ambulance. The rest she must reconstruct: why she is in France, where she came from, and what she left behind....

  • The Stars Are Fire

    From the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection): an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event and its devastating after...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Anita Shreve has published 19 books.

Anita Shreve does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Stars Are Fire, was published in April 2017.

The first book by Anita Shreve, Eden Close, was published in August 1989.

Yes. Anita Shreve has 1 series.
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