Melody Carlson

Melody Carlson's book Finding Alice is in production as a Lifetime Television movie. Also, her Christmas at Harrington's had been considered for a TV movie.

The best place to start is the SpringSong series, the earliest of Melody Carlson's multi-book series: it opens with Kara (1981) and runs to 7 books across 1981–1996, ending with Jessica (1996). Melody Carlson's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Melody Carlson has 482 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1903 and 2026. 367 of them belong to 43 named series — the largest being the Tales From Grace Chapel Inn series with 48 books — and 115 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. Melody Carlson's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are SpringSong (1981–1996, 7 books), Little Blessings (1996–2015, 34 books) and Fruit Troops (1997–1998, 11 books), plus 36 more.

This guide splits Melody Carlson's 482 books into 43 named series and 115 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Tales From Grace Chapel Inn (48 books, 2003–2012); Little Blessings (34 books, 1996–2015); Miracles Of Marble Cove (24 books, 2011–2022); Diary Of A Teenage Girl (16 books, 2000–2009); Eli Diaries (13 books, 2017–2019), plus 38 further series.