Catherine Cookson Reading Order

2 books (1950–2000)

Start with Kate Hannigan and read in order.

#	Title
1	Kate Hannigan 1950Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Kate Hannigan's Girl 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

9 books (1954–2011)

Start with A Grand Man, the first of 9 books in the Mary Ann Shaughnessy series.

#	Title
1	A Grand Man 1954Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Lord and Mary Ann 1956Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Devil and Mary Ann 1958Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Love and Mary Ann 1961Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Life and Mary Ann 1962Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Marriage and Mary Ann 1964Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Mary Ann's Angels 1965Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Mary Ann and Bill 1967Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Bill and the Mary Ann Shaughnessy 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

8 books (1969–2017)

Start with Our Kate, the first of 7 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Our Kate 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Catherine Cookson Country 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Let Me Make Myself Plain 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Plainer Still 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	My Land of the North 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Kate's Daughter(With: Piers Dudgeon) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Kate's Daughter: The Real Catherine Cookson(With: Piers Dudgeon) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Before I Go 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (1990–1990)

#	Title
1	Nancy Nutall and The Mongrel 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2001–2002)

Start with The Simple Soul and Other Stories and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Simple Soul and Other Stories 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Just a Saying 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

93 books (1952–2017)

Start with The Fifteen Streets, the first of 79 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Fifteen Streets 1952Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Colour Blind 1953Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Maggie Rowan 1954Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Rooney 1957Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Menagerie 1958Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Fanny McBride 1959Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Fenwick Houses 1960Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Heritage of Folly(As: Catherine Marchant) 1962Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Garment 1962Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	House of Men(As: Catherine Marchant) 1963Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Blind Miller 1963Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Blind Miller / A Wife’s Devotion 1963Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The House on the Fens / Fen Tiger(As: Catherine Marchant) 1963Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Hannah Massey 1964Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Wingless Bird 1964Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Wingless Bird / A Marriage of Scandal 1964Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Evil at Roger's Cross / The Iron Facade 1965Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Matty Doolin 1965Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	The Long Corridor 1965Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Unbaited Trap 1966Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Katie Mulholland's Journey 1967Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Katie Mulholland's Journey / Katie Mulholland 1967Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Slinky Jane 1967Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Joe & the Gladiator 1968Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	The Round Tower 1968Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	The Glass Virgin / The Glassmaker's Daughter 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	The Nice Bloke 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	The Nice Bloke / A Scandal at Christmas 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Invitation 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	The Nipper 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Feathers in the Fire 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	The Dwelling Place 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Pure as the Lily 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Blue Baccy 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	Our John Willie 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Miss Martha Mary Crawford(As:Catherine Marchant) 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	The Gambling Man 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	The Invisible Cord 1975Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Mrs Flannagan's Trumpet 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	The Slow Awakening(As:Catherine Marchant) 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	The Tide of Life 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Go Tell It to Mrs Golightly 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	The Girl 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	The Cinder Path 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	The Man Who Cried 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Lanky Jones 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	The Whip 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	The Black Velvet Gown 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	The Bannaman Legacy / Dinner of Herbs 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	The Moth / The Thorman Inheritance 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	Parson's Daughter 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	Rory's Fortune 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	The Cultured Handmaiden 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	The Harrogate Secret 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	The Harrogate Secret / The Smuggler's Secret 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	The Black Candle 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	The Spaniard's Gift 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
58	The Gillyvors / Daughter of Scandal 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
59	The Gillyvors / Daughter of Scandal / The Love Child 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
60	Love Child 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
61	My Beloved Son 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
62	The Rag Nymph 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
63	The Rag Nymph / The Rag Maid 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
64	The House of Women 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
65	The Maltese Angel 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
66	The Maltese Angel / The Voice of an Angel 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
67	The Golden Straw 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
68	The Golden Straw / The Hatmaker’s Gift 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
69	The Year of the Virgins 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
70	Justice Is A Woman 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
71	Justice Is A Woman / A Sister’s Betrayal 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
72	The Tinker's Girl 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
73	A Ruthless Need 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
74	The Obsession 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
75	The Obsession / A Sister's Obsession 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
76	The Bonny Dawn 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
77	The Branded Man 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
78	The Branded Man / The Wayward Daughter 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
79	The Upstart 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
80	The Upstart / The Cobbler's Daughter 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
81	An Unsuitable Match 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
82	The Desert Crop 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
83	The Desert Crop / An Unsuitable Match 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
84	The Lady on My Left / The Mists of Memory 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
85	Riley 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
86	The Blind Years 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
87	The Solace of Sin 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
88	A House Divided 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
89	The Thursday Friend 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
90	Rosie Of The River 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
91	The Silent Lady 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
92	Saint Christopher and the Gravedigger 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
93	The Rag Maid 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1986–1998)

Start with Bill Bailey, the first of 4 books in the The Bailey Chronicles series.

#	Title
1	Bill Bailey 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Bill Bailey's Lot 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Bill Baileys Daughter 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Bondage of Love 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1983–1985)

Start with Hamilton and read in order.

#	Title
1	Hamilton 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Goodbye Hamilton 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Harold 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1973–1974)

Start with The Mallen Girl and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Mallen Girl 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Mallen Streak 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Mallen Litter / The Mallen Lot 1974Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1980–1982)

Start with Tilly Trotter / Tilly and read in order.

#	Title
1	Tilly Trotter / Tilly 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Tilly Trotter Wed / Tilly Wed 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Tilly Trotter Widowed / Tilly Alone 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible