Shelley Shepard Gray

Shelley Shepard Gray is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, who has written and sold over 40 novels in her career. Shelley is known to write her novels, particularly in the Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality and the Romance genres. She says that she always wanted to write stories about the regular and likable people who are stuck in extraordinary situations, the people who mostly turned out to be Amish.

The best place to start is the Sisters of the Heart series, the earliest of Shelley Shepard Gray's multi-book series: it opens with Hidden (2008) and runs to 4 books across 2008–2010, ending with Grace (2010). Shelley Shepard Gray's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Shelley Shepard Gray has 107 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2008 and 2027. 91 of them belong to 24 named series — the largest being the Walnut Creek series with 7 books — and 16 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. Shelley Shepard Gray's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Sisters of the Heart (2008–2010, 4 books), Seasons of Sugarcreek (2010–2011, 4 books) and Heart of a Hero (2011–2013, 5 books), plus 21 more.

This guide splits Shelley Shepard Gray's 107 books into 24 named series and 16 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Walnut Creek (7 books, 2019–2020); Amish ABCs (6 books, 2024–2027); The Amish of Hart County (6 books, 2017–2018); Amish Brides of Pinecraft (5 books, 2015); Heart of a Hero (5 books, 2011–2013), plus 19 further series.