Shirlee Busbee

Shirlee Busbee is a reputed writer from The United States, who is famous for writing historical fiction, contemporary, and romance books. She has written several widely successful book series in her career. Some of her most prominent romance series include the Louisiana series, The Reluctant Brides series, the Southern Women series, and the Becomes Her series.

The best place to start is The Southern Women series, the earliest of Shirlee Busbee's multi-book series: it opens with Lady Vixen (1980) and runs to 6 books across 1980–2000, ending with At Long Last (2000). Shirlee Busbee's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Shirlee Busbee has 24 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1977 and 2012. 20 of them belong to 5 named series — the largest being the Becomes Her series with 6 books — and 4 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. Shirlee Busbee's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Southern Women (1980–2000, 6 books), The Reluctant Brides (1980–2001, 3 books) and Louisiana (1984–1998, 3 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Shirlee Busbee's 24 books into 5 named series and 4 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Becomes Her (6 books, 2007–2012); The Southern Women (6 books, 1980–2000); Louisiana (3 books, 1984–1998); The Reluctant Brides (3 books, 1980–2001); Ballinger Family (2 books, 2002–2003).