Barbara Bretton

An American writer hailing from New York, the author of romance and contemporary fiction Barbara Bretton is a world renowned writer with many of her readers coming from a diverse and expansive background. Knowing her market well, she has managed to amass herself a following over the years throughout her career that would be the envy of any up-and-coming novelist hoping to make a break into the industry. Focusing largely on romance, she has been able to transform the genre into something new and original, creating her own niche in the process, building something different, as she subverts the cliches and…

The best place to start is the Born in the USA series, the earliest of Barbara Bretton's multi-book series: it opens with First Things Last (1984) and runs to 23 books across 1984–1999, ending with Bittersweet Sacrifice (1999). Barbara Bretton's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Barbara Bretton has 344 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1982 and 2022. 324 of them belong to 21 named series — the largest being the Born in the USA series with 23 books — and 20 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Barbara Bretton's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Born in the USA (1984–1999, 23 books), Pax (1987–1993, 5 books) and Close to Home (1988–2006, 15 books), plus 13 more.

This guide splits Barbara Bretton's 344 books into 21 named series and 20 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Born in the USA (23 books, 1984–1999); Close to Home (15 books, 1988–2006); More Than Men (13 books, 1993–1997); Sugar Maple (9 books, 2008–2022); Century Of American Dreams (8 books, 1990–2004), plus 16 further series.