Susan Mallery

The special thing about the writings of Susan Mallery is that the characters she describes in her books feel very much real. She is also famous for putting her characters in some kind of emotional yet funny situations that the readers can relate with their own lives. Her books have made it to the list of Booklist's Top 10 Romances for four consecutive years.

The best place to start is the Hometown Heartbreakers series, the earliest of Susan Mallery's multi-book series: it opens with The Best Bride (1994) and runs to 11 books across 1994–2003, ending with Quinn's Woman (2003). Susan Mallery's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Susan Mallery has 549 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1974 and 2027. 500 of them belong to 37 named series — the largest being the That's My Baby! series with 31 books — and 49 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. Susan Mallery's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Hometown Heartbreakers (1994–2003, 11 books), Tempting Faith (1994–1995, 2 books) and Montana Mavericks: Return To Whitehorn (1995–2004, 9 books), plus 29 more.

This guide splits Susan Mallery's 549 books into 37 named series and 49 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: That's My Baby! (31 books, 1996–2003); Fool's Gold (26 books, 2010–2020); Logan's Legacy (22 books, 2004–2024); Desert Rogues (14 books, 2000–2009); Royally Wed (14 books, 1999–2014), plus 32 further series.