Madeleine L’Engle Reading Order

8 books (1988–2021)

Start with The Unicorn Treasury, the first of 8 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Unicorn Treasury 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Writing Women's Lives 1994Buy 🇺🇸
3	Second Sight 1999Buy 🇺🇸
4	Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas 2001Buy 🇺🇸
5	Home for Christmas: Stories for Young and Old 2002Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Wand in the Word 2006Buy 🇺🇸
7	Way More than Luck 2015Buy 🇺🇸
8	Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together 2021Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (1960–2000)

Start with Meet the Austins, the first of 8 books in the Austin Family Chronicles series.

#	Title
1	Meet the Austins 1960Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Moon by Night 1963Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas 1964Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Young Unicorns 1968Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Ring of Endless Light 1980Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Anti-Muffins 1981Buy 🇺🇸
7	Troubling a Star 1994Buy 🇺🇸
8	A Full House 2000Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1951–1962)

Start with Camilla Dickinson / Camilla and read in order.

#	Title
1	Camilla Dickinson / Camilla 1951Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Live Coal in the Sea 1962Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1971–1988)

Start with A Circle of Quiet, the first of 4 books in the Crosswicks Journals series.

#	Title
1	A Circle of Quiet 1971Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Summer of the Great-Grandmother 1974Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Irrational Season 1976Buy 🇺🇸
4	Two Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage 1988Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1983–1989)

Start with And It Was Good: Reflections on Beginnings and read in order.

#	Title
1	And It Was Good: Reflections on Beginnings 1983Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys with Jacob 1986Buy 🇺🇸
3	Sold into Egypt: Joseph's Journey into Human Being 1989Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1945–1982)

Start with The Small Rain and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Small Rain 1945Buy 🇺🇸
2	Prelude 1968Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Severed Wasp 1982Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1996–1996)

#	Title
1	WinterSong 1996Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (1974–2012)

Start with Everyday Prayers, the first of 19 books in the Madeleine L’Engle Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Everyday Prayers 1974Buy 🇺🇸
2	Prayers for Sunday 1974Buy 🇺🇸
3	Walking on Water: Personal Reflections 1980Buy 🇺🇸
4	Trailing Clouds of Glory: Spiritual Values in Children's Literature(With: Avery Brooke) 1985Buy 🇺🇸
5	From This Day Forward 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Glorious Impossible 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Rock That is Higher: Story as Truth 1993Buy 🇺🇸
8	Anytime Prayers 1994Buy 🇺🇸
9	Glimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts and Reflections 1996Buy 🇺🇸
10	Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols in Antarctica and Other Spiritual Places 1996Buy 🇺🇸
11	Bright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation 1997Buy 🇺🇸
12	Friends for the Journey(With: Luci Shaw) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
13	Mothers & Daughters 1997Buy 🇺🇸
14	A Prayerbook for Spiritual Friends: Partners in Prayer 1999Buy 🇺🇸
15	My Own Small Place: Developing the Writing Life 1999Buy 🇺🇸
16	Mothers and Sons 2000Buy 🇺🇸
17	Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life 2001Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Joys of Love 2008Buy 🇺🇸
19	Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? 2012Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1999–2001)

Start with Moses, Prince of Egypt and read in order.

#	Title
1	Moses, Prince of Egypt 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Other Dog 2001Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1969–2020)

Start with Lines Scribbled on an Envelope and Other Poems, the first of 9 books in the Madeleine L’Engle Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Lines Scribbled on an Envelope and Other Poems 1969Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ladder of Angels 1979Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Cry Like a Bell 1987Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Sphinx at Dawn: Two Stories 1989Buy 🇺🇸
5	WinterSong(With: Luci Shaw) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
6	Miracle on 10th Street and Other Christmas Writings 1998Buy 🇺🇸
7	101st Miracle: Early Short Stories 1999Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle 2005Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Moment of Tenderness 2020Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1967–1967)

#	Title
1	The Journey with Jonah 1967Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1965–1984)

Start with The Arm of the Starfish and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Arm of the Starfish 1965Buy 🇺🇸
2	Dragons in the Waters 1976Buy 🇺🇸
3	A House Like a Lotus 1984Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2020–2020)

8 books (1946–1992)

Start with Ilsa, the first of 8 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Ilsa 1946Buy 🇺🇸
2	And Both Were Young 1949Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Winter's Love 1957Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Love Letters 1966Buy 🇺🇸
5	Dance in the Desert 1969Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Other Side of the Sun 1971Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Weather of the Heart 1978Buy 🇺🇸
8	Certain Women 1992Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1962–2018)

Start with A Wrinkle in Time, the first of 6 books in the Time Quintet series.

#	Title
1	A Wrinkle in Time 1962Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Wind in the Door 1973Buy 🇺🇸
3	A Swiftly Tilting Planet 1978Buy 🇺🇸
4	Many Waters 1986Buy 🇺🇸
5	An Acceptable Time 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	Intergalactic P.S. 3 2018Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2012–2012)

#	Title
1	A Wrinkle in Time 2012Buy 🇺🇸