Karen Kingsbury

Karen is quite an active character. She is a motivational speaker addressing audiences of 100,000 women regularly on life issues. Though her messages are based on her faith, she reaches a wide audience that includes non-Christians.

The best place to start is the Non-Fiction Novels series, the earliest of Karen Kingsbury's multi-book series: it opens with Missy's Murder (1991) and runs to 13 books across 1991–2019, ending with Elizabeth Baxter's 10 Secrets to a Happy Marriage (2019). Karen Kingsbury's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Karen Kingsbury has 108 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1991 and 2025. 77 of them belong to 19 named series — the largest being the Non-Fiction Novels series with 13 books — and 31 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. Karen Kingsbury's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Non-Fiction Novels (1991–2019, 13 books), Forever Faithful (1999–2002, 3 books) and Red Gloves (2002–2005, 4 books), plus 13 more.

This guide splits Karen Kingsbury's 108 books into 19 named series and 31 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Non-Fiction Novels (13 books, 1991–2019); The Baxter Family (11 books, 2016–2024); Baxter Family Children (5 books, 2019–2023); Firstborn (5 books, 2005–2007); Above the Line (4 books, 2009–2010), plus 14 further series.