Suzanne Williams

Suzanne Williams is the author of over 50 children’s books, including the Goddess Girls series, the Heroes in Training series, and the award-winning picture book Library Lil. She grew up in Oregon, and went to college at the University of Oregon, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sociology and masters in Library science. After she finished college, she moved to Washington with her husband.

The best place to start is the Hyperion Chapters series, the earliest of Suzanne Williams's multi-book series: it opens with No Room for Francie (1995) and runs to 11 books across 1995–1999, ending with Daughter of Liberty (1999). Suzanne Williams's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Suzanne Williams has 108 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1900 and 2023. 100 of them belong to 11 named series — the largest being the Goddess Girls series with 28 books — and 8 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. Suzanne Williams's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Hyperion Chapters (1995–1999, 11 books), Third-Grade Friends (2002–2003, 4 books) and Marvelous Mind Of Matthew McGhee, Age 8 (2004, 3 books), plus 8 more.

This guide splits Suzanne Williams's 108 books into 11 named series and 8 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Goddess Girls (28 books, 2010–2022); Heroes In Training (18 books, 2012–2021); Little Goddess Girls (11 books, 2019–2023); Hyperion Chapters (11 books, 1995–1999); Grimmtastic Girls (8 books, 2014–2016), plus 6 further series.