Joan Johnston

Joan Johnston is one of The New York Times bestselling and prominent authors of America, who has written many successful novels in her writing career. Most of her novels are basically written based on the Historical and Contemporary Romance genres. Joan was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, The United States.

The best place to start is the Sisters Of The Lone Star series, the earliest of Joan Johnston's multi-book series: it opens with Frontier Woman (1988) and runs to 3 books across 1988–1989, ending with Texas Woman (1989). Joan Johnston's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Joan Johnston has 121 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1983 and 2020. 99 of them belong to 11 named series — the largest being the Bitter Creek series with 14 books — and 22 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. Joan Johnston's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Sisters Of The Lone Star (1988–1989, 3 books), Wolf (1991–2004, 3 books) and Mail-Order Brides (1991–1993, 2 books), plus 7 more.

This guide splits Joan Johnston's 121 books into 11 named series and 22 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Bitter Creek (14 books, 2000–2020); Hawk's Way (13 books, 1992–2002); Captive Hearts (4 books, 1996–1999); Bitter Creek: Mail-Order Bride (4 books, 2012–2017); Benedict Brothers (4 books, 2009–2014), plus 6 further series.