Robyn Carr

This series has to be mentioned because it earned Robyn Carr an NYT best seller listing. The series has 20 books and has been the hallmark of her identity. The first book Virgin River is about Mel Munroe, who sees an advertisement for a midwife and a nurse.

The best place to start is the Grace Valley Trilogy series, the earliest of Robyn Carr's multi-book series: it opens with Deep in the Valley (2000) and runs to 3 books across 2000–2003, ending with Down by the River (2003). Robyn Carr's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Robyn Carr has 122 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1980 and 2024. 93 of them belong to 5 named series — the largest being the Virgin River series with 25 books — and 29 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. Robyn Carr's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Grace Valley Trilogy (2000–2003, 3 books), Virgin River (2007–2022, 25 books) and Thunder Point (2013–2015, 9 books), plus 1 more.

This guide splits Robyn Carr's 122 books into 5 named series and 29 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Virgin River (25 books, 2007–2022); Thunder Point (9 books, 2013–2015); Sullivan's Crossing (5 books, 2016–2020); Grace Valley Trilogy (3 books, 2000–2003); Men In Uniform (51 books, 1988–2005).