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Karen Kingsbury
  • Bibliography:
    83 Books (12 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1998
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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About the Author

Time Magazine titled Karen Kingsbury the "Queen of Christian Fiction" and the public agrees. With over 20 million books in print and a mainstay on USA Today and N.Y. Times Bestseller lists, Kingsbury has written over 50 novels with ten hitting #1 on bestseller lists.

Kingsbury has won multiple awards and has had many of her books developed into successful film and television projects. She interacts with her devoted fanbase via Facebook and Twitter. Kingsbury lives in Nashville with her husband and their six children.

Full Series List in Order

Above the Line

1 - Take One (Mar-2009)
2 - Take Two (Jun-2009)
3 - Take Three (Mar-2010)
4 - Take Four (Jul-2010)

Angels Walking

1 - Angels Walking (Sep-2014)
2 - Chasing Sunsets (Apr-2015)
3 - A Brush of Wings (Apr-2016)

Bailey Flanigan

1 - Leaving (Mar-2011)
2 - Learning (Jul-2011)
3 - Longing (Nov-2011)
4 - Loving (Apr-2012)

Baxter Family Children

1 - Best Family Ever (Feb-2019)
2 - Finding Home (Feb-2020)
3 - Never Grow Up (Mar-2021)
4 - Adventure Awaits (Feb-2022)
5 - Being Baxters (Feb-2023)

Cody Gunner

1 - A Thousand Tomorrows (Apr-2005)
2 - Just Beyond the Clouds (Sep-2007)

Even Now

1 - Even Now (Dec-2005)
2 - Ever After (Jan-2007)

First Born (Baxter Family Drama)

0.5 - The Baxters (May-2022)
1 - Fame (Jul-2005)
2 - Forgiven (Nov-2005)
3 - Found (Aug-2006)
4 - Family (Oct-2006)
5 - Forever (Feb-2007)
6 - Coming Home (Jul-2012)
7 - A Baxter Family Christmas (Oct-2016)
8 - The Love Story (Jun-2017)
9 - In This Moment (Nov-2017)
10 - To the Moon and Back (Jun-2018)
11 - When We Were Young (Oct-2018)
12 - Best Family Ever (Feb-2019)
13 - Two Weeks (Apr-2019)
14 - Finding Home (Feb-2020)
15 - Someone Like You (May-2020)
16 - Truly, Madly, Deeply (Oct-2020)
17 - Never Grow Up (Mar-2021)
18 - Adventure Awaits (Feb-2022)
19 - Being Baxters (Feb-2023)

Forever Faithful

1 - Waiting for Morning (Jul-1999)
2 - A Moment of Weakness (Mar-2000)
3 - Halfway to Forever (Apr-2002)

Red Gloves

Gideon's Gift (Oct-2002)
Maggie's Miracle (Oct-2003)
Sarah's Song (Sep-2004)
Hannah's Hope (Oct-2005)

September 11

1 - One Tuesday Morning (May-2003)
2 - Beyond Tuesday Morning (Dec-2004)
3 - Every Now and Then // Remember Tuesday Morning (Nov-2008)

Sunrise (Baxter Family Drama)

1 - Sunrise (Apr-2007)
2 - Summer (Jul-2007)
3 - Someday (Feb-2008)
4 - Sunset (May-2008)

Time

1 - A Time to Dance (Feb-2001)
2 - A Time to Embrace (Oct-2002)

Multi-Author Series List

Women of Faith

1 - A Time to Dance (Feb-2001)
6 - A Time to Embrace (Oct-2002)

Book List in Order: 83 titles



  • Will facing her past tear Ellen apart--or teach her what is truly important in her life? Ellen Barrett, thirty-one, is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist with an uncertain marriage, a forgotten faith, and haunting memories of her picturesque home...



  • "I'm afraid there's been a car accident..." As Hannah Ryan waits for her family to return home from a camping trip, she realizes she has everything going for her -- a husband other women admire, two charming teenage daughters, and a loving Christian...



  • HAD THEY FOUND EACH OTHER AGAIN. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS ONLY TO LOSE EVERYTHING THAT MATTERS MOST? As children, Jade Conner and Tanner Eastman were best friends--until scandal drove them apart. Then. one golden summer, they find each other again. T...



  • Maggie Stovall is trapped inside a person she's spent years carefully crafting. Now the truth about who she is--and what she's done--is bursting to the surface and sending Maggie into a spiral of despair. Will she walk away from everything, or can Ma...



  • They celebrated their love with a dance. Will they end it with divorce? John and Abby Reynolds were the perfect couple, sharing a love born of childhood friendship and deep family ties. They are envied by their friends, cherished by their childre...



  • EVERYTHING IS ON THE LINE . . . for Faith Evans. an up-and-coming newscaster. A woman of honor and integrity, who finds herself making a stand against the one man she never imagined would be her enemy... . . . for Jordan Riley, a powerful attor...



  • You wept with them as they were Waiting for Morning... You shared their Moment of Weakness... Now watch them face the greatest struggles of their lives. Matt and Hannah Bronzan have found a new life in the face of devastating loss. Together ...



  • In this powerful holiday story, a man who lost everything has his whole life changed after a little girl’s letter reminds him of the true meaning of Christmas. Ten years later Big Earl meets Gideon, a seven-year-old leukemia patient who believes wi...



  • A STORY OF SECOND CHANCES AND SURPRISING POSSIBILITIES. Their whole life was a series of miracles. Can they really hope for one more? And as a tragedy pulls their lives apart, can they somehow find that all-important time to embrace? After twenty-o...






  • I'm a firefighter, God, so I know I've been in some tough places before. But this ... this not knowing the people I love ... this is the hardest thing I can imagine The last thing Jake Bryan knew was the roar of the World Trade Center collapsing...



  • Jordan Wright had already talked to God about getting his wish, and so far nothing had happened. But a letter would definitely get His attention. He began to write: "Dear God, my daddy died wen his heart stopped beating. My friend's daddy plays baseb...



  • A forgotten secret. A shocking discovery. A sacrifice of love that will bring Connor Evans to his knees. Airline Captain Connor Evans has nearly forgotten that stormy weekend in Hawaii eight years ago when he broke the greatest promise of all. N...



  • Over 400,000 copies sold!

    New York Times best-selling author Karen Kingsbury reminds us to savor every moment with our kids in this unforgettable book.

    With heartwarming illustrations and a sweet, reflective tone, bestselling author...



  • A New York Times bestselling author weaves a heartwarming tale of redemptive grace and the spirit of Christmas. Every year Sarah Lindeman celebrates Christmas the same way, placing one special ornament on her tiny tree on each of the twelve days of C...



  • It's been three years since the terrorist attacks on New York City, but FDNY widow Jamie Bryan keeps waking up to the aching pain of that one Tuesday morning, the morning of September 11, 2001. Determined to find meaning in her grief, Jamie pours he...



  • Cody Gunner has no use for real love. Abandoned as a child by the person he needed the most, he swears he will never allow himself to love again. Ali Daniels denies love as well. Carrying a terrible secret, she lives life to the fullest, taking risks...



  • A DREAM COME TRUE Dayne Matthews is at the top of the Hollywood list -- a successful, popular actor with a bright future. He has everything a man could want -- fame, fortune, and friends. But his heart is pulling him toward a woman and a family who h...



  • Dear Hannah, You might not understand what I'm about to tell you, but I think it's time. I wanted to wait until you were eighteen, old enough to check into this information and make some decisions for yourself. Having Christmas alone, you'll have ti...



  • A DEADLY ACCIDENT The Christian Kids Theater group is devastated by a tragedy greater than any of them could've imagined. Now their director, Katy Hart, must find a way to walk the kids through their grief and give them a reason to believe again. Bu...






  • Sometimes hope for the future is found in the ashes of yesterday. Shane Galanter--a man ready to put down roots after years of searching. But is he making the right choice? Or is there a woman somewhere who even now remembers--as does he-- those l...



  • Mary Madison was a child of unspeakable horrors, a young woman society wanted to forget. Now a divine power has set Mary free to bring life-changing hope and love to battered and abused women living in the shadow of the nation's capital. Mary is ...



  • A PEACEFUL TOWN . . . AN IDYLLIC FAMILY . . . A PHONE CALL THAT THREATENS THEM ALL. When Joey Campbell's biological father is released from prison, four-year-old Joey faces a life no one could've planned. His father wants custody, and a judge's ...



  • A DESPERATE SEARCH Driven by his wife's dying wish--to find their firstborn son--John Baxter sets about the search. His prayer? That Elizabeth's wish would be fulfilled before the upcoming Baxter family reunion. One strange turn follows another, but...



  • A SENSATIONAL TRIAL Katy Hart travels to Los Angeles to testify against the knife-wielding fan who tried to kill her. She is hunted by paparazzi who figure out that she is the mystery woman photographed with Hollywood movie star Dayne Matthews. Tens...



  • Two couples torn apart -- one by war between countries, one by war within.In this moving sequel to Even Now, Emily Anderson, now twenty, is attending college on a soccer scholarship when she meets the man who changes everything for her: Army reservis...



  • A DREAM COME TRUE Katy Hart is thrilled about her future with Hollywood's Dayne Matthews. But as she plans a wedding and looks for a house on the shores of Lake Monroe, she receives tragic news. Now everything about the future they planned together ...



  • A LONG-AWAITED CELEBRATION In preparation for their wedding day, Dayne Matthews and Katy Hart are determined to keep the ceremony a secret from the paparazzi. Their relationship grows closer and stronger as they plan together, but before the wedding...



  • A NEW BEGINNING Hollywood actor Dayne Matthews and Katy Hart are married and living in Bloomington, Indiana, where Dayne has found a solution to his on-camera love scenes--he wants Katy to star in his next film. Katy wins the part and is cast opp...



  • An unforgettable story of two brothers and the only woman whose love can set them both free. Still aching over his wife's death, Cody Gunner can't bear the thought of also letting go of his Down Syndrome brother, Carl Joseph. Cody wants his brother ...






  • Aaron Hill has it all -- athletic good looks and the many privileges of a star quarterback. His Sundays are spent playing NFL football in front of a televised audience of millions. But Aaron's about to receive an unexpected handoff, one that will giv...



  • A DESPERATE SITUATION Pressures of the celebrity lifestyle weigh heavily on Dayne and Katy Matthews as they take on separate movie projects. Tabloid rumors talk of trouble and unfaithfulness between the two. And then a dramatic cover photo threat...



  • See, time will take you far from here; you’re growing way too fast. All I want is Mommy time to make the moments last. Something we’ll remember so that come some far-off day, you’ll know how much I loved you ‘cause we took the time to play. F...



  • A NEW CHAPTER With the demands of Hollywood life behind them for now, Dayne and Katy Matthews continue to adjust to life in Bloomington as they look forward to a new chapter together -- expanding their family. Meanwhile, the entire CKT staff is busy ...



  • “If we want the perfect star to shine upon our tree, Look and see that Brightest Star, and there will Christmas be.”On Christmas we give and get presents, we sing songs, and we decorate our homes. But what is Christmas really about? Is our happy ...



  • A wall went up around Alex Brady's heart when his father, a New York firefighter, died in the Twin Towers. Turning his back on the only woman he ever loved, Alex shut out all the people who cared about him to concentrate on fighting crime. He and his...



  • A STORY Of FAMILY SECRETS, ROKEN RELATIONSHIPS, and a LOVE STRONG ENOUGH to SPAN a NATION. Annie Warren always wanted the best for her son, Josh. But years of failure and bad choices created a heartbreaking distance that has grown far worse since th...



  • Could they change the world -- before the world changes them? Filmmakers Chase Ryan and Keith Ellison left the mission field of Indonesia for the mission field of Hollywood with a dream bigger than both of them. Now they have done the impossible: ra...



  • Will the price of fame be worth the cost? Chase Ryan and Keith Ellison have completed their first independent film. They have done the impossible -- made a movie with a message that could touch hearts around the world. And Hollywood is buzzing wit...



  • “There was once a princess … the most beautiful in all the land.” The search is on! The king determines to find a young man worthy of the hand of the princess. The knights of the kingdom endure tests and challenges to show their courage and str...






  • In between a checkered past and a fairy-tale future, a decision awaits. Brad Cutler, twenty-eight, is a rising star at his New York ad agency, about to marry the girl of his dreams. Anyone would agree he has it all -- a great career, a beautiful and...



  • Chase Ryan and Keith Ellison set out to change the world with their films -- and they are finally seeing their dreams come true. The dedicated producers are deep in negotiations with America's top young movie star to play the lead in their next inspi...



  • 'When you're all grown up and you look back on this day, you'll know how much I loved you 'cause we took the time to play.' A Daddy day? Why not! What better way for a child to enjoy being with Daddy---and Dad to enjoy being with his little one? Thes...



  • Are fairytale endings only in the movies? filmmakers Keith Ellison and Dayne Matthews finally ink a deal to have the nation's top young actor star in their new film Unlocked. The film is just right for Brandon Paul, but is he right for the film? His...



  • SHE TOOK A STAND ... HE TOOK A CHANCE Holden Harris is an eighteen-year-old locked in a prison of autism. Despite his quiet ways and quirky behaviors, Holden is very happy and socially normal -- on the inside, in a private world all his own. In real...



  • The Bailey Flanigan Series begins with Bailey leaving Bloomington for the adventure of a lifetime. She has won an audition for the ensemble of a Broadway musical in New York City. She's determined to take advantage of this once in a lifetime opportun...



  • In this picture book, Karen Kingsbury tells the story of a boy in competition with other young knights to become prince of all the land. In a series of contests and competitions, the king recognizes the brave young knight as the winner, not because h...



  • Bailey Flanigan and Cody Coleman are not only separated by physical distance, they are also faced with great emotional distance. Bailey grows closer to her dream to be an actress and dancer in New York, while Cody coaches a small high school football...



  • After a long and lonely silence from Cody Coleman, Bailey Flanigan becomes closer to her one-time Hollywood co-star, Brandon Paul. Nights on the town in New York City and long talks on the balcony of Brandon's Malibu Beach home make Bailey dizzy with...



  • 'I wonder,' he said, as he inched up a tree, 'If there's more to this life than just branches and leaves.' Once in the land of Better-Than-Brown lived Cody the Caterpillar, down on the ground. His life he found boring; he wanted much more; then a...






  • The answers Bailey Flanigan once longed and prayed for are finally becoming clear. In Loving, the fourth and final book in the Bailey Flanigan Series by New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury, Bailey is planning a wedding and making de...



  • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Baxter Family novels shares a short, inspiring story about her family and the importance of faith.I Can Only Imagine is the first e-short in Karen Kingsbury's The Rest of the Story series. In it, Karen ...



  • Coming Home is a novel about tremendous victory and unprecedented loss, a story of faith and a forever kind of love, love that will stay with you long after the last page. This stand-alone novel will serve as either a grand introduction or a beautifu...



  • From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes this e-short prequel to her upcoming novel, The Bridge, shedding light on the love story behind the bookstore and how it came to be a place of hope and encouragement....



  • MOLLY ALLEN LIVES ALONE in Portland, but she left her heart back in Tennessee with a man she walked away from five years ago. Ryan Kelly lives in Nashville after several years on the road touring with a country music duo. He can still hear the voice...



  • From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heartwarming story about childhood friends, broken lives, and a long-ago promise that just might offer the hope of love for today. The day before a teenage Ellie moved from Georgia ...



  • Blow the trumpet, sound the horn, Daddy's princess has been born! The timeless journey of a daughter and father is poignantly captured in the story of a girl's growth from childhood to motherhood. Playful, emotive prose, enriched by the whisper of Go...



  • New York Times bestselling inspirational author Karen Kingsbury teams up with NFL quarterback Alex Smith to deliver a heartwarming story about never giving up on your dreams -- even when setbacks seem too big to overcome. Alex and his best friend,...



  • #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Karen Kingsbury shows why she is America s favorite inspirational novelist with this dramatic story about character, compromise, and the cost of having it all. Zack Dylan has a dream. He wants to sing on the ...



  • “Ten little toes right from the start Make footprints on your mommy’s heart!” The timeless journey of a mother and son is poignantly captured in the story of a boy’s growth from childhood to fatherhood. From birth to football games to college...





  • From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the first in a brand-new series about second chances -- a dramatic story about a washed up baseball player, the love he left behind, and the miracles that might save them both. When f...



  • Divine intervention and second chances -- the dramatic story of a woman desperate to find deeper meaning in her life. Growing up in a comfortable home, Mary Catherine wanted for nothing. Though she loves her wealthy parents, their lifestyle never ...



  • Real-life marriage advice from the fictional Baxter family matriarch -- inspired by the #1 New York Times"bestselling author’s novel Forever.   Karen Kingsbury’s beloved character Elizabeth Baxter once penned a letter to her children, in w...



  • From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the third novel in an unforgettable series about divine intervention and the trials and triumphs of life for a group of friends. Despite needing a heart transplant and against the adv...



  • Karen Kingsbury’s most beloved characters are back! From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes A Baxter Family Christmas, a life-changing story of love and hope featuring the Baxter family. Whether you’re meeting the Ba...



  • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Baxter Family novels shares an inspiring short story about campus life at Liberty University.   Ever wonder what it would be like to be a student at an evangelical Christian university? Inspired by...



  • From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a new book featuring everyone’s favorite family -- the Baxters, which tells the story of how John and Elizabeth first fell in love. From the day they met, John and Elizabeth were de...



  • From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a brand-new Baxter Family novel about a beloved high school principal who starts a Bible Study to improve the lives of his struggling students, only to become the national focus of a con...



  • A brand-new love story in the Baxter Family collection about two people who lost their parents in the same national tragedy -- two people desperate to find each other and the connection they shared for a single day…a day that changed everything. ...



  • A classic story about second chances, featuring the beloved Baxter family and a young father who finds his whole world turned upside down on the eve of his divorce. What if you could see into the future and know what will happen tomorrow, if you r...



  • Much-loved storyteller Karen Kingsbury’s Baxter Family books have captured the hearts of millions who have come to think of the Baxter family as their own. Now Karen Kingsbury and her son Tyler Russell tell the childhood stories of the beloved Baxt...



  • From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heart-wrenching and redemptive new story in the Baxter Family series about a couple desperately waiting to bring their adopted child home and a young mother about to make the biggest d...



  • Much-loved storyteller Karen Kingsbury’s Baxter Family books have captured the hearts of tens of millions of readers who have come to think of the Baxter family as their own. Now Karen Kingsbury and her son Tyler Russell inspire and entertain young...



  • Science raises questions only love can answer in this moving and thought-provoking novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. One frozen embryo. Two families with life-long secrets. And a guy who never planned to fall in love again. M...



  • In love for the first time, a son’s decisions about the future divides his family in this fearless and thought-provoking novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Baxter Family books. In the shadow of very great loss, the only way t...



  • In the third book in Karen Kingsbury and Tyler Russell’s beloved series about the Baxter children, Ashley and Kari Baxter struggle with what it means to grow up. When Kari Baxter is assigned an essay about what she wants to be when she grows up,...



  • #1 New York Times bestselling author of life-changing fiction returns with this high-stakes love story of danger, passion, and faith. She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with ...



  • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of life-changing fiction brings her signature prose to this wise and worldly novel of forgiveness and hope in the City of Lights. In Indiana, Ashley Baxter Blake and her husband are about to take an anniver...



  • In the fourth book in Karen Kingsbury’s and Tyler Russell’s beloved series about the Baxter children, Kari and Ashley go through the ups and downs of summer camp. School science camp is a few weeks away, but Ashley and Kari Baxter have very di...



  • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of life-changing fiction takes fans back to the beginning of the Baxter family saga in this wise and redemptive novel about a wedding day that tests the bonds of love and hope for each family member. A terr...



  • Now an original series on Prime VideoIn the fifth book in Karen Kingsbury and Tyler Russell’s beloved series about the Baxter children, when things don’t turn out according to plan, the siblings must stick together and remember who they are.Thing...





  • The #1 New York Times bestselling author “known for her deeply heartfelt novels” (Woman’s World) and the Baxter Family novels writes a sweeping World War II love story about a young woman torn between two brothers.In 1941, beautiful Irvel Holla...


Award-Winning Books by Karen Kingsbury

Beyond Tuesday Morning
2005 Christian Retailing's Best -- Fiction
Found
2007 Christian Retailing's Best -- Women's Fiction
Oceans Apart
2005 Gold Medallion Book Award -- Fiction
Sunrise
2008 Christian Retailing's Best -- Women's Fiction
Sunset
2009 Christian Retailing's Best -- Women's Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Karen Kingsbury has published 83 books.

Karen Kingsbury does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Just Once, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Karen Kingsbury, Where Yesterday Lives, was published in July 1998.

Yes. Karen Kingsbury has 12 series.