Lauraine Snelling

Lauraine Snelling is an award-winning author of a number of bestselling novel series', from America, who loves to write novels on Historical fiction, Christian fiction and Romance genres. She is particularly famous for writing the Golden Filly series, Dakota Plains series, High Hurdles series, Red River of North series as well as a few other novel series'. Lauraine also has the habit of writing for magazines apart from the novels.

The best place to start is the Washington series, the earliest of Lauraine Snelling's multi-book series: it opens with Song of Laughter (1986) and runs to 4 books across 1986–2002, ending with The Neighborly Thing (2002). Lauraine Snelling's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Lauraine Snelling has 109 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1982 and 2026. 77 of them belong to 16 named series — the largest being the Golden Filly series with 10 books — and 32 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. Lauraine Snelling's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Washington (1986–2002, 4 books), Golden Filly (1991–1995, 10 books) and Dakota Plains (1993–2012, 6 books), plus 13 more.

This guide splits Lauraine Snelling's 109 books into 16 named series and 32 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Golden Filly (10 books, 1991–1995); High Hurdles (10 books, 1995–2000); Red River Of The North (8 books, 1995–2020); Dakota Plains (6 books, 1993–2012); Dakotah Treasures (4 books, 2003–2005), plus 11 further series.