Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle was one of the highly reputed authors from America, who used to write her novels based on the science fiction, memoirs, literature & fiction, fantasy, and biography genres. She was particularly famous for her work based on the young adult fiction, including the Newberry Medal winner, A Wrinkle in Time as well as its sequel novels. Most of the works of author Engle reflect her deep interest in the area of modern science.

The best place to start is the Katherine Forrester Vigneras series, the earliest of Madeleine L'Engle's multi-book series: it opens with The Small Rain (1945) and runs to 3 books across 1945–1982, ending with A Severed Wasp (1982). Madeleine L'Engle's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Madeleine L'Engle has 80 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1945 and 2026. 62 of them belong to 13 named series — the largest being the Madeleine L’Engle Non-Fiction series with 19 books — and 18 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. Madeleine L'Engle's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Katherine Forrester Vigneras (1945–1982, 3 books), Camilla Dickinson (1951–1962, 2 books) and Austin Family Chronicles (1960–2000, 8 books), plus 10 more.

This guide splits Madeleine L'Engle's 80 books into 13 named series and 18 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Madeleine L’Engle Non-Fiction (19 books, 1974–2012); Madeleine L’Engle Short Story Collections (9 books, 1969–2020); Austin Family Chronicles (8 books, 1960–2000); Time Quintet (6 books, 1962–2018); Crosswicks Journals (4 books, 1971–1988), plus 8 further series.