Barbara Delinsky

Barbara Delinsky aces every book with her supremely skilled portrayal of even the most mundane and daily life topics. With her fierce passion that only keeps getting stronger, she takes readers all over the world on a roller coaster ride. Juggling her eroticas and her tales of romance, she has now explored the era of non-fiction and is showing no signs of stopping now.

The best place to start is the Victoria Lesser series, the earliest of Barbara Delinsky's multi-book series: it opens with The Real Thing (1986) and runs to 3 books across 1986–1987, ending with A Single Rose / The Invitation (1987). Barbara Delinsky's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Barbara Delinsky has 169 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1981 and 2024. 82 of them belong to 6 named series — the largest being the Rebels and Rogues series with 10 books — and 87 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 Delinsky's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Something Forever (1984, 2 books), Victoria Lesser (1986–1987, 3 books) and Crosslyn Rise (1990, 3 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Barbara Delinsky's 169 books into 6 named series and 87 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Rebels and Rogues (10 books, 1991–1997); Victoria Lesser (3 books, 1986–1987); Crosslyn Rise (3 books, 1990); Something Forever (2 books, 1984); Blake Sisters (2 books, 1999–2002), plus 1 further series.