Susan Wiggs

Susan Wiggs, an American author, was born in the United States and is known for her historical and contemporary romance novels. Her passion for writing began during her childhood, and by the age of eight, she had completed her first novel, "A Book About Some Bad Kids." Wiggs is a graduate of Harvard University. Following her graduation, Wiggs temporarily set aside her dream of becoming a novelist to pursue a career as a math teacher.

The best place to start is the DiscoveryBooks series, the earliest of Susan Wiggs's multi-book series: it opens with October Wind (1994) and runs to 3 books across 1994, ending with Kingdom of Gold (1994). Susan Wiggs's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Susan Wiggs has 97 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1987 and 2025. 50 of them belong to 10 named series — the largest being the Heart of the West series with 16 books — and 47 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 Wiggs's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Women of War (1991–1993, 2 books), DiscoveryBooks (1994, 3 books) and Tudor Rose (1994–1996, 3 books), plus 7 more.

This guide splits Susan Wiggs's 97 books into 10 named series and 47 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Heart of the West (16 books, 1999–2001); Lakeshore Chronicles (11 books, 2006–2015); Calhoun Chronicles (5 books, 1999–2003); Bella Vista Chronicles (3 books, 2012–2022); DiscoveryBooks (3 books, 1994), plus 5 further series.