Fern Michaels

Thanks to her success, Fern has been on the New York Time’s best-seller list for over sixty of her different novels. She has sold over 14 million copies of her books, and continues to sell more books. She is still working on novels at her home in Summerville, and her novel, Betrayal, was the last one to be featured on the prominent New York Time’s best-seller list.

The best place to start is the Captives series, the earliest of Fern Michaels's multi-book series: it opens with Captive Passions (1977) and runs to 4 books across 1977–1991, ending with Captive Secrets (1991). Fern Michaels's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Fern Michaels has 203 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1975 and 2027. 90 of them belong to 13 named series — the largest being the Sisterhood series with 39 books — and 113 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. Fern Michaels's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Captives (1977–1991, 4 books), Texas (1985–1993, 4 books) and Sins (1989–1990, 2 books), plus 10 more.

This guide splits Fern Michaels's 203 books into 13 named series and 113 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Sisterhood (39 books, 2001–2026); The Godmothers (11 books, 2009–2019); Men of the Sisterhood (8 books, 2014–2019); Captives (4 books, 1977–1991); Lost and Found (4 books, 2021–2024), plus 8 further series.