Bodie Brock Thoene

The authors Bodie & Brock Thoene are the authors of the Christian historical fiction genre. They are a husband and wife pair of writers and have worked as a team in writing a few successful novel series'. Bodie Thoene began her writing career as a journalist at a very young age.

The best place to start is the Zion Chronicles series, the earliest of Bodie Brock Thoene's multi-book series: it opens with The Gates of Zion (1986) and runs to 5 books across 1986–1991, ending with The Key to Zion (1991). Bodie Brock Thoene's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Bodie Brock Thoene has 128 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1979 and 2026. 118 of them belong to 14 named series — the largest being the A.D. Chronicles series with 12 books — and 10 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. Bodie Brock Thoene's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Zion Chronicles (1986–1991, 5 books), Zion Covenant (1989–2005, 9 books) and Saga of the Sierras (1990–1999, 8 books), plus 10 more.

This guide splits Bodie Brock Thoene's 128 books into 14 named series and 10 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: A.D. Chronicles (12 books, 2003–2011); Zion Covenant (9 books, 1989–2005); Saga of the Sierras (8 books, 1990–1999); Zion Legacy (6 books, 2000–2002); Elijah Chronicles (5 books, 2018–2022), plus 9 further series.