Lynne Reid Banks

Lynne Reid Banks is a bestselling English novelist of children's books, adult fiction, and nonfiction novels. She has written over 45 books in her career that includes children's book called The Indian in the Cupboard. This book has sold more than 10 million printed copies throughout the world and has also been adapted into a movie.

The best place to start is the Jane Graham series, the earliest of Lynne Reid Banks's multi-book series: it opens with The L-Shaped Room (1960) and runs to 3 books across 1960–1975, ending with Two is Lonely (1975). Lynne Reid Banks's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Lynne Reid Banks has 144 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1952 and 2022. 109 of them belong to 6 named series — the largest being The Indian in the Cupboard series with 5 books — and 35 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. Lynne Reid Banks's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Jane Graham (1960–1975, 3 books), One More River (1973–1995, 2 books) and Bronte Biographies (1976–1977, 2 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Lynne Reid Banks's 144 books into 6 named series and 35 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Indian in the Cupboard (5 books, 1980–1998); Harry the Poisonous Centipede (3 books, 1996–2005); Jane Graham (3 books, 1960–1975); One More River (2 books, 1973–1995); Bronte Biographies (2 books, 1976–1977), plus 1 further series.