Kathleen Karr

Kathleen Karr is an award-winning historical romance and inspirational author that was born in Allentown Pennsylvania. While she was born in Pennsylvania, she was raised on a chicken farm in Dorothy New Jersey, which is where she spent much of her childhood and early teen years. During her mid-teen years, she went to Catholic University from where she graduated with a bachelor's before she got her English literature master's from Providence College.

The best place to start is the Serenade Saga series, the earliest of Kathleen Karr's multi-book series: it opens with Summer Snow (1984) and runs to 9 books across 1984–1987, ending with Jungle Gold (1987). Kathleen Karr's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Kathleen Karr has 54 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1984 and 2008. 34 of them belong to 6 named series — the largest being the Hyperion Chapters series with 11 books — and 20 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. Kathleen Karr's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Serenade Saga (1984–1987, 9 books), Destiny's Dreamers (1993–1994, 2 books) and Hyperion Chapters (1995–1999, 11 books), plus 3 more.

This guide splits Kathleen Karr's 54 books into 6 named series and 20 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Hyperion Chapters (11 books, 1995–1999); Serenade Saga (9 books, 1984–1987); Dear Mr. President (6 books, 2000–2002); The Petticoat Party (4 books, 1996–1998); Destiny's Dreamers (2 books, 1993–1994), plus 1 further series.