Madeleine L'engle

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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1960
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Austin Family Chronicles

1 - Meet the Austins (1960)
2 - The Moon by Night ()
3 - The Young Unicorns (Jan-1968)
4 - A Ring of Endless Light (1980)
5 - Troubling a Star (Jan-1994)
The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas (1984)

The Crosswicks Journal

3 - The Irrational Season (Apr-1987)
4 - Two-Part Invention (Oct-1989)

Related Books

1 - The Love Letters (Jun-1966)
2 - The Other Side of the Sun (Mar-1971)

The Time Quintet

1 - A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
2 - A Wind in the Door (Jan-1973)
3 - A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Jul-1978)
4 - Many Waters (1986)
5 - An Acceptable Time (Oct-1989)

Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • Meet the Austins

    • / General Fiction
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    The Austin Family Chronicles - 1

    The moment Maggy Hamilton steps into the happy lives of the Austin family, she disrupts their harmonious world, bringing with her all the sullenness and insolence of her own misery. Vicky Austin knows she should sympathize with Maggy for being an or...

  • A Wrinkle in Time

    • / Paranormal Romance
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    The Time Quintet - 1

    It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearth...

  • The Arm of the Starfish

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    When Adam Eddington, a gifted marine biology student, makes the acquaintance of blond and beautiful Kali Cutter at Kennedy International Airport on his way to Portugal to spend the summer working for the renowned scientist Dr. O'Keefe, he has no ide...

  • The Love Letters

    Related Books - 1

    Past and present collide in this heartfelt novel of love and loss from the National Book Awardâ€"winning author of A Wrinkle in Time. After the tragic death of her son and the seeming collapse of her marriage, Charlotte Napier flees to Portugal in t...

  • The Young Unicorns

    The Austin Family Chronicles - 3

    In this award-winning young adult series from Madeleine L’Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, Vicky Austin experiences the difficulties and joys of growing up.The Austins are trying to settle into their new life in New York City, but their once clo...

  • A Circle of Quiet

    The beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time takes an introspective look at her life and muses on creativity in this memoir, the first of her Crosswicks Journals. Every so often I need OUT. . . . My special place is a small brook in a green glad...

  • The Other Side of the Sun

    Related Books - 2

    ILLYRIA… The great ancient house of the Reniers of South Carolina, looming dark and silent above the dunes. And beautiful Stella, the innocent, young Renier wife, who comes to Illyria to await the return of a husband she scarcely knows. THE O...

  • A Wind in the Door

    The Time Quintet - 2

    A Wind in the Door is a fantastic adventure story involving Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe, the chief characters of A Wrinkle in Time. The seed from which the story grows is the rather ordinary situation of Charles W...

  • Dragons in the Waters

    A stolen heirloom painting . . . a shipboard murder . . . Can Simon and the O'Keefe clan unravel the mystery? Poly and Charles O'Keefe have no idea when they board the M.S. Orion headed for Venezuela that their journey and their newfound friendship ...



  • A Swiftly Tilting Planet

    The Time Quintet - 3

    Meg Murry O'Keefe and her family are just sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner when her father gets a phone call from the White House about a madman's threat of nuclear war. Only an old Irish rune seems to hold a clue to averting worldwide disaster. W...

  • A Ring of Endless Light

    The Austin Family Chronicles - 4

    Watching her grandfather's condition deteriorate as the summer passes on beautiful Seven Bay Island is almost more than Vicky Austin can bear. To complicate things, she finds herself the center of attention for three very different boys: Leo is an ol...

  • Camilla

    Fifteen-year-old Camilla Dickinson has led a sheltered life on the Upper East Side with her architect father and stunningly beautiful mother. But this winter the security she has always known has vanished, because her parents' marriage is coming apar...

  • And Both Were Young

    In this novel by A Wrinkle in Time author Madeleine L'Engle, Philippa is miserable at an all girls' boarding school in Switzerland . . . until she meets the mysterious Paul.Flip feels miserable when she first arrives at boarding school in Switzerland...

  • A Severed Wasp

    A retired musician returns to performing in this “soul-satisfying” novel from the award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time (Norman Lear). Now in her seventies, Katherine Vigneras, née Forrester, has returned to New York City after a successful ...

  • Summer of the Great-Grandmother

  • A Winter's Love

    A lonely woman is torn between the bonds of family and the potential of new love in this moving novel from the author of A Wrinkle in Time. Caught somewhere between love, hate, and indifference, Emily Bowen’s marriage is hanging on by a thread. Aft...

  • A House Like a Lotus

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    Sixteen-year-old Polly is on her way to the island of Cyprus, where she will work as a gofer. The trip was arranged by Maximiliana Horne, a rich, brilliant artist who, with her longtime companion, Dr. Ursula Heschel, recently became the O'Keefe famil...

  • The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas

    • / General Fiction
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    The Austin Family Chronicles

    To seven-year-old Vicky Austin, the twenty-four days before Christmas are the most wonderful days of the year. She's going to be an angel in the Christmas Pageant. Best of all, Vicky and her brother John and her little sister Suzy do something specia...

  • The Small Rain

    “An unusual and beautiful book,” the first novel by the bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time explores the life of a young artist (Los Angeles Times). At only ten years old, Katherine Forrester has already experienced her fair share of upheaval...



  • Many Waters

    The Time Quintet - 4

    A touch of computer keys, a blast of heat, and suddenly the Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are gasping in a shimmering desert land. If only the brothers had normal parents, not a scientist mother and a father who experiments with space and time trave...

  • The Irrational Season

    The Crosswicks Journal - 3

    The bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time contemplates the true meaning of faith in the third installment of her series of memoirs. Upon her death, the New York Times hailed Madeleine L’Engle as “an author whose childhood fables, religious medi...

  • Dance in the Desert

  • An Acceptable Time

    The Time Quintet - 5

    A flash of lightning, quivering ground, and, instead of her grandparents' farm, Polly sees mist and jagged mountains -- and coming toward her, a group of young men carrying spears. Why has a time gate opened and dropped Polly into a world that exist...

  • Two-Part Invention

    The Crosswicks Journal - 4

    In the final memoir of her Crosswicks Journals, the author of A Wrinkle in Time paints an intimate portrait of her forty-year marriage.A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship.   As Newb...

  • The Glorious Impossible

    The birth of Jesus was a Glorious Impossible. Like love, it cannot be explained, it can only be rejoiced in. And that is what master storyteller Madeleine L'Engle does in this compellingly written narrative, inspired by Giotto's glorious frescoes fro...

  • The Journey with Jonah

  • Certain Women

    An award-winning author explores the meaning of family in a novel that draws parallels between the lives of a modern man and an ancient biblical king. As he struggles with cancer, legendary screen actor David Wheaton contemplates the one role that al...

  • Troubling a Star

    The Austin Family Chronicles - 5

    After a year in New York city, Vicky Austin feels restless and totally out of place home in rural Connecticut. Her time away, especially her friendship with Adam Eddington, has changed her. When Adam's great-aunt Serena gives Vicky a trip to Antarc...

  • A Live Coal in the Sea

    A family’s deepest secrets are exposed in this “haunting domestic drama” from the award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time (Publishers Weekly).   When her teenage granddaughter comes to her with a troubling question, Camilla Dickinson mus...



  • Friends for the Journey

    Born of a friendship spanning a quarter of a century, Madeleine L'Engle and Luci Shaw's Friends for the Journey considers the golden quality of deep and lasting friendships, showing that the common ground of love for God transcends even separation....

  • Moses, Prince of Egypt

  • The Joys of Love

    During the summer of 1946, twenty-year-old Elizabeth is doing what she has dreamed of since she was a little girl: working in the theatre. Elizabeth is passionate about her work and determined to learn all she can at the summer theatre company on the...

  • Ilsa

    A novel about the darker side of love by the bestselling author of A WRINKLE IN TIME and the Crosswicks Journals. From the moment Henry Porcher first sees Ilsa Brandes, he worships her. Despite controversy surrounding the young girl, Henry is draw...

  • The Sphinx at Dawn

    The bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time takes a fantastical look at the childhood of Jesus in two allegories set in an Egyptian village. In “Pakko’s Camel,” Yehoshuah, the poor son of a carpenter, befriends Pakko, the arrogant son of a ...

  • Intergalactic P.S. 3

    Visit the world of A WRINKLE IN TIME in this new standalone story! This standalone chapter book gives young readers the perfect entry into the world of Madeleine L’Engle’s A WRINKLE IN TIME, and lifelong fans of the Time Quintet will recognize...

  • The Fact of the Matter

    Enjoy this free short story from award-winning author Madeleine L'Engle's newest book, The Moment of Tenderness, a collection of 18 short stories, some never before published. It was a frigid winter day when Old Mrs. Campbell stormed into the Frankl...

  • The Moment of Tenderness

    From the beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time comes a deeply personal, genre-bending short story collection that transcends generational divides and reminds readers that hope, above all, can transform suffering into the promise of joy. This powerfu...

  • Stay Angry, Little Girl

    An empowering message inspired by a beloved quote from Madeleine L’Engle’s enduring classic A Wrinkle in Time. “Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs. Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”This picture book ...

  • The Moon by Night

    • / General Fiction
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    The Austin Family Chronicles - 2

    As if simply being fourteen-years-old weren't bad enough--what with the usual teenage angst and uncertainty, Vicky Austin's always comforting and reliable home life is changing completely. Her brother John is going off to college in the fall. Maggy, ...



  • The Other Dog

    • / General Fiction
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    Touche L'Engle-Franklin is confused: Her mistress goes away for several days and then returns with another dog. But this dog doesn't have a tail. She doesn't have much hair. And she never has to go outside when it's raining. What on earth could the f...

  • Wintersong

    • / General Fiction
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    Have a cup of coffee and put a log on the fire, settle info a comforable chair and enjoy a winter's day with the writings of novelist Madeleine L'Engle and poet Luci Shaw. Participate in the winter season: the wonder, the solemnity, the power, and th...

Award-Winning Books by Madeleine L'engle

A Swiftly Tilting Planet
1980 National Book Award -- Children's Book (paperback)
A Wrinkle in Time
1963 Newbery Medal -- Children's
2013 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award -- Teen


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Madeleine L'engle has published 41 books.

The next book by Madeleine L'engle, Stay Angry, Little Girl, will be published in August 2024.

The first book by Madeleine L'engle, Meet the Austins, was published in January 1960.

Yes. Madeleine L'engle has 4 series.
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