22 Best Kristin Hannah Books To Dive Into

Kristin Hannah is the New York Times Bestselling Author of The Four Winds. Her other most well known books are The Nightingale, Firefly Lane and The Great Alone. Kristin Hannah writes historical romance fiction and romance fiction, sometimes with a touch of magic thrown in.

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List Of Books By Kristin Hannah

Kristin Hannah’s most best-selling novel is The Nightingale, which sold over 5 million copies worldwide, it was named Goodreads Best Historical fiction novel and it also won the People’s Choice award for best fiction in 2015, as well as Amazon’s book of the year. The Nightingale will soon become a movie. The movie will be directed by Mélanie Laurent and it will be starring Elle Fanning and Dakota Fanning. There is no official release date as yet but it is expected to be sometime in 2022.

The Firefly Lane book has been adapted into a Netflix TV Series starring Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke. Firefly Lane was released on Netflix on the 3rd of February 2021. It has since been renewed for a second season set to be released in 2022.

Books from Kristin Hannah are magical masterpieces. We love every single one of them, which is why we are so disappointed that A Handful of Heaven and The Enchantment are out of print. They are still available, but for a very high price (even though we expect that they are worth every cent). It’s worth keeping an eye out for them in your local second hand bookstore. In the meantime, we’ve got every other book from Kristin Hannah right here!

Once In Every Life

Tess Gregory’s brilliant career as a research scientist hides her longings for husband and child. She is a free spirit, a woman full of life and love, even though she is deaf. But she is struck down all too soon. For Tess, a new life begins at her death. She is now Amarylis Rafferty, wife and mother of three and she can hear. Even if she is in a post-Civil War America, she is drawn into the savage heartache of the family.

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If You Believe

Mariah Throckmorton was hiding from a past filled with scandal. Mad Dog Stone was a drifter looking for a few days’ work. He walked into her life, threatening Mariah’s peace of mind and stirring emotions she tried to hide. Their love was born against all odds, difficult to count on, impossible to hold. Together they would learn the bittersweet truth—that love only exists if you believe.

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When Lighting Strikes

Romance writer Alaina Costanza has given up on dreams and fairy tales. Then one stormy night she finds herself in the wild, Western world of her newest novel. She is kidnapped by her own character, a ruthless outlaw known as Killian. Alaina is desperate to return to the child she left behind one hundred years in the future. Yet Alaina and Killian will discover a love too magnificent to last a single lifetime.

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Waiting For The Moon

She doesn’t remember who she is or how she arrived at the mansion on the isolated Maine coast. Lost in a strange world, Selena takes solace in a man whose eyes reflect her own loneliness. He is Ian Carrick, a brilliant physician turned recluse. He’s hiding from life in the anonymity of a small sanctuary, haunted by a telepathic gift. Selena comes to him, immune to his powers and turns his life upside down.

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Home Again

Madelaine Hillyard is a cardiologist at the top of her game. Although, she is constantly at odds with her teenage daughter, Lina, who is desperate to find the father she has never known. He is Angel DeMarco, a world-famous movie star. But when tragedy brings them all together, Madelaine must face the betrayals of the past and find the courage to love again to heal Angel’s damaged heart.

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On Mystic Lake

Annie Colwater’s only child has just left home for school abroad and her husband of twenty years confesses that he’s in love with someone else. Alone in the house that is no longer a home, Annie retreats to Mystic, the small Washington town where she grew up. There, she is reunited with her first love, Nick Delacroix, a recent widower unable to cope with his grieving six-year-old daughter. But just as Annie has found a second chance at happiness, her life is turned upside down again.

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Angel Falls

When Mikaela Campbell, beloved wife and mother, falls into a coma, it’s up to her husband Liam to hold the family together and care for their children. Doctors tell Liam not to expect a recovery, but he believes that love can accomplish the impossible. Daily, he sits beside her bed and tells her stories of the precious life they have built together. But Liam discovers evidence of his wife’s secret past, a hidden first marriage to movie star Julian True. And Liam knows that he must turn to Julian to help him bring his wife back.

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Summer Island

Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has since become a famous radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist beloved for her moral advice. But when the tabloids unearth a scandalous secret from Nora’s past, she’s injured in an accident and a glossy magazine offers her daughter Ruby a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother.

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Distant Shores

Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters and weathered the storms of youth as they built a family. Their lives look picture perfect. But after their girls leave home, Jack and Elizabeth start to drift apart. When he accepts a wonderful new job, Elizabeth puts her own needs aside to follow him across the country. Then tragedy strikes. And Elizabeth lets go of the woman she has become and reaches out for the woman she wants to be.

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Between Sisters

We all make mistakes, but for Meghann Dontess the terrible choice she made some years ago cost her everything, including the love of her sister, Claire. Meghann is now a successful attorney, who has put all thoughts of love behind her until she meets the one man who thinks he can change her mind. Claire has fallen in love for the first time and as her wedding day approaches, she prepares to face her sister. These two women who believe they have nothing in common will try to become what they never were: a family.

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The Things We Do For Love

Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSaria’s heart.  Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her family’s restaurant. Angie befriends Lauren Ribido. And when Lauren is abandoned by her mother, Angie offers the young seventeen-year-old a place to stay.

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Comfort And Joy

Joy Candellaro once loved Christmas more than any other time of the year. But now, as the holiday approaches, she is at a crossroads in her life. She’s recently divorced and alone, so she can’t summon the old enthusiasm for celebrating. Without telling anyone, she buys a ticket and boards a plane bound for the beautiful Pacific Northwest. When an unexpected detour takes her deep into the woods of the Olympic rainforest, Joy makes a bold decision to leave her old life behind.

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Magic Hour

In the rugged Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest, nearly a million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this old growth forest, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past. Child psychiatrist Dr. Julia Cates is determined to free the extraordinary little girl she calls Alice from a prison of unimaginable fear and isolation. Julia must discover the truth about Alice’s past in order to help her.

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True Colors

The Grey sisters have always been close. After their mother’s death, the girls banded together, becoming best friends. Their father cares more about his reputation than his children. Winona needs her father’s approval most of all, but as the best lawyer in town, she’s determined to prove her worth to him. Aurora is the family peacemaker, who puts their happiness above her own. Vivi Ann is the undisputed star of the family. But in a matter of moments, everything will change for the sisters.

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Winter Garden

Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard, the other followed a dream and travelled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But as their beloved father falls ill, these women find themselves together again, standing beside their cold and disapproving mother, Anya, who offers no comfort to her daughters.

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Night Road

Lexi and Mia are inseparable from the moment they start high school. Different in so many ways – Lexi is an orphan who lives with her aunt in a trailer park, while Mia is a golden girl blessed with a loving family and beautiful home. Yet they recognize something in each other which sets them apart from the crowd and Mia relies heavily on Lexi’s steadfast friendship.

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Home Front

Michael and Jolen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid dependable marriage, exciting careers and children they adore. But after twelve blissful years together, the couple has lost their way. They are unhappy and edging towards divorce. Then an unexpected deployment tears their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm’s way and leaving the other at home, caring for the children and waiting for news. 

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Firefly Lane

It’s 1974 and the summer of love is drawing to a close. Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the secondary school social food chain. Then Tully Hart, the girl all the boys want to know, moves in across the street and wants to be her best friend. They become inseparable and they vow that their friendship will last forever. For thirty years, they have stayed true to that vow. But when tragedy strikes, their relationship is tested.

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Fly Away

Celebrity news reporter and presenter, Tully Hart, has hit rock bottom. Kate Ryan had been her best friend for more than thirty years. They’d lived, laughed, danced and cried together. Kate had been her anchor and now Tully was cast adrift, not knowing how she was going to survive.

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The Nightingale

This story is about what it was like to be a woman during World War II when women’s stories were all too often forgotten or overlooked . Vianne and Isabelle Mauriac are two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals and passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path towards survival, love and freedom in war-torn France.

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The Great Alone

Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier. Cora will do anything for the man she loves and their thirteen-year-old daughter Leni has no choice but to go along. The Allbrights find a fiercely independent community of strong men and even stronger women.

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The Four Winds

Texas, 1934, The Great Depression. Elsa Martinelli had finally found the life she’d yearned for. A family, a home and a livelihood on a farm on the Great Plains. But when drought threatens all (in the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s) she and her community hold dear, Elsa’s world is shattered to the winds. Fearful of the future, she wakes to find that her husband has fled and she is forced to make an agonizing decision in search of a better life.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What order should I read the Kristin Hannah books?

All of Kristin Hannah’s books are standalone titles so they can be read in any order. However if you would like to read them in publication order then the following is the correct order to read books by Kristin Hannah:

  1. A Handful of Heaven (1991)
  2. The Enchantment (1992)
  3. Once in Every Life (1992)
  4. If You Believe (1993)
  5. When Lightning Strikes (1994)
  6. Waiting for the Moon (1995)
  7. Home Again (1996)
  8. On Mystic Lake (1999)
  9. Angel Falls (2000)
  10. Summer Island (2001)
  11. Distant Shores (2002)
  12. Between Sisters (2003)
  13. The Things We Do for Love (2004)
  14. Comfort and Joy (2005)
  15. Magic Hour (2006)
  16. Firefly Lane (2008)
  17. True Colors (2009)
  18. Winter Garden (2010)
  19. Night Road (March 2011)
  20. Home Front (2012)
  21. Fly Away (2013)
  22. The Nightingale (2015)
  23. The Great Alone (2018)
  24. The Four Winds (2021)

What should I read if I like Kristin Hannah?

If you like reading Kristin Hannah then you may also like the following authors:

  1. Elin Hilderbrand
  2. Delia Owens
  3. Kate Quinn
  4. Luanne Rice
  5. Barbara Delinsky
  6. Susan Wiggs
  7. Danielle Steel
  8. Jodi Picoult
  9. Nicholas Sparks
  10. Diane Chamblerain

Is Kristin Hannah writing a new book for 2022?

There is not currently a new book from Kristin Hannah on her 2022 release scheduled. Her last published title is The Four Winds which was released on February 2 2021.

Is The Nightingale book a series?

The Nightingale book by Kristin Hannah is not a series. The Nightingale is a standalone title and it will soon be released as a movie. The movie will be directed by Mélanie Laurent and it will be starring Elle Fanning and Dakota Fanning. There is no official release date as yet but it is expected to be sometime in 2022.

We hope you enjoyed discovering these books! Did you find some new reads?

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