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Blossom Street Books in Order

Explore Debbie Macomber's Blossom Street books in order, with short summaries, series background, and clear guidance on the best place to start reading.

Last updated: July 20, 2026

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The Shop on Blossom Street

by Debbie Macomber

2004

Cancer survivor Lydia Hoffman opens A Good Yarn in Seattle and teaches a baby-blanket knitting class. Jacqueline, Carol, and Alix arrive with very different problems, then discover that shared work can lead to friendship and fresh hope.

A Good Yarn

by Debbie Macomber

2005

Lydia Hoffman's Seattle yarn shop draws three new knitters, each at a turning point. Elise faces her ex-husband's return, Bethanne adjusts to divorce, and troubled teen Courtney finds an unexpected circle of support.

Susannah's Garden / Old Boyfriends

by Debbie Macomber & Laural Merlington

2006

At fifty, Susannah Nelson returns to her hometown to help her mother after her father's death. Surrounded by old memories, a lost first love, and long-buried family questions, she must decide what she truly wants from her life.

Back on Blossom Street / Wednesdays at Four

by Debbie Macomber

2007

A new knitting class brings florist Susannah Nelson and her secretive assistant, Colette, to A Good Yarn. Around them, Lydia's family copes with a traumatic carjacking, while Alix Townsend struggles with doubts as her wedding approaches.

Twenty Wishes

by Debbie Macomber

2008

Recently widowed bookstore owner Anne Marie Roche joins several other widows in making lists of twenty wishes. When she volunteers at a school and meets eight-year-old Ellen, both their lives begin moving in an unexpected new direction.

Summer on Blossom Street

by Debbie Macomber

2009

Lydia Goetz starts a Knit to Quit class for people ready to leave a habit, relationship, or fear behind. As the group works through its struggles, Lydia and her friends face foster parenting, family stress, and questions from the past.

Blossom Street Collection Book 1

by Debbie Macomber

2010

A craft collection with nine knit and crochet projects, including shawls, totes, a pullover, and accessories. The designs use Gerbera yarns and include step-by-step directions, stitch guides, photos, and sizing options for easy-to-intermediate makers.

Blossom Street Collection, Book 2

by Debbie Macomber

2010

This knitting and crochet collection offers eleven easy-to-intermediate projects, from cardigans and scarves to vests and hats. Clear instructions, diagrams, stitch guides, photos, and multiple sizing options make it a practical project book for confident beginners.

Blossom Street Collection, Book 3

by Debbie Macomber

2010

A Blossom Street craft collection centered on children's knitting and crochet projects. It includes cheerful designs made with Petals Socks and Rosebud yarns, offering makers small garments and accessories suited to young recipients.

Hannah's List

by Debbie Macomber

2010

A year after his wife's death, pediatrician Michael Everett receives Hannah's final letter. She asks him to consider three women as possible future partners, sending him into a tender, uneasy search for a life that can hold love again.

A Turn in the Road

by Debbie Macomber

2011

Bethanne, her daughter Annie, and former mother-in-law Ruth take a cross-country drive to Florida. Each woman has unfinished business, from an old love to a former boyfriend and a difficult decision about whether the past deserves another chance.

The Yippy, Yappy Yorkie in the Green Doggy Sweater

by Debbie Macomber

2011

After moving to a new neighborhood, Ellen is miserable until her Yorkie, Baxter, slips away in the green sweater she knitted. Searching for him introduces Ellen to local shopkeepers, a new friend, and the possibility that home can change.

Starting Now

by Debbie Macomber

2013

After losing the partnership she worked years to earn, Seattle lawyer Libby Morgan must rebuild her life. Time at A Good Yarn, a hospital volunteer role, and new friendships help her reconsider what success and love might look like.

Blossom Street Brides

by Debbie Macomber

2014

As spring brings wedding plans and unexpected pregnancies to Blossom Street, Lauren Elliott questions her long relationship and makes a bold choice. Lydia and Bethanne face family pressures of their own, with A Good Yarn still offering a place to regroup.

The Twenty-First Wish

by Debbie Macomber

2019

Anne Marie Roche and her adopted daughter, Ellen, have completed many wishes from their lists, including learning to knit. But Ellen has one private wish left, that Anne Marie will fall in love with Ellen's birth father, Tim.

Where to start with Blossom Street

For the full Blossom Street experience: The Shop on Blossom StreetA Good YarnBack on Blossom Street.
For friendship and fresh starts: Twenty WishesSummer on Blossom StreetStarting Now.
For a romance shaped by grief: Hannah's ListA Turn in the Road.
For a later return to the neighborhood: Blossom Street BridesThe Twenty-First Wish.

Blossom Street sub-series and character series

Blossom Street Kids books in order

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  1. Book cover for "The Yippy, Yappy Yorkie in the Green Doggy Sweater"

    The Yippy, Yappy Yorkie in the Green Doggy Sweater

    by Debbie Macomber

    2011Blossom Street Kids, Book 1

Blossom Street Kids books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "The Yippy, Yappy Yorkie in the Green Doggy Sweater"

    The Yippy, Yappy Yorkie in the Green Doggy Sweater

    by Debbie Macomber

    2011Blossom Street Kids, Book 1

Blossom Street collections, short stories, and related book types

Non-Fiction

  1. Book cover for "Blossom Street Collection Book 1"

    Blossom Street Collection Book 1

    by Debbie Macomber

    2010
  2. Book cover for "Blossom Street Collection, Book 2"

    Blossom Street Collection, Book 2

    by Debbie Macomber

    2010
  3. Book cover for "Blossom Street Collection, Book 3"

    Blossom Street Collection, Book 3

    by Debbie Macomber

    2010

Author bio

Debbie Macomber was born and raised in Yakima, Washington, where she loved books and stories from an early age. Reading did not come easily, though. Dyslexia made school a hard place for her, and she did not become a confident reader until she was about ten. Still, she kept imagining stories, often making them up for the children she babysat.

She held onto the idea of becoming a writer even when it seemed unlikely. Macomber married Wayne when she was nineteen, and later raised four children. In her thirties, she decided to take her old dream seriously and began writing around the busy edges of family life.

Her first manuscripts were written at a kitchen table on a rented typewriter. For five years, she received rejections, did freelance magazine work, and kept going. Her first published novel, Starlight, arrived in 1983 through Silhouette Books.

She didn't take the easy route into publishing.

Macomber began with category romance, then built a wider body of work around everyday people facing changes in love, work, family, and community. Readers who pick up The Shop on Blossom Street find women brought together by a Seattle yarn shop. In the Cedar Cove books, a coastal Washington town becomes the meeting point for neighbors with tangled personal lives. Her Christmas novels, including Mrs. Miracle and Trading Christmas, add holiday pressure, family history, and fresh chances to connect.

Her stories tend to make room for more than one point of view. A newly divorced mother, a widow, an overworked professional, a lonely teenager, or someone returning home might all get a turn at the center of the story. Romance matters, but so do friendships, sibling tensions, second marriages, grief, forgiveness, and the practical work of starting over.

That focus is especially clear in the Blossom Street novels. Lydia Hoffman opens A Good Yarn after cancer treatment, and the shop becomes a place where knitting classes bring strangers into one another's lives. Books such as A Good Yarn, Twenty Wishes, and Starting Now return to Seattle and follow people as they face setbacks that do not disappear overnight.

Macomber's work has reached far beyond the page. Several of her holiday novels became television films, and the Cedar Cove books were adapted as the television series Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove. She has also written cookbooks, inspirational nonfiction, and children's books, including picture books connected to Blossom Street.

Knitting is more than a decorative detail in her fiction.

Macomber has long been involved with knitting-related charitable work, and the real-life A Good Yarn shop in Port Orchard, Washington, took its name from the Blossom Street store. She and Wayne have four children and grandchildren, and Port Orchard has also helped inspire the kind of close-knit Pacific Northwest communities that appear in her fiction.

Her books are built for readers who want familiar places, complicated but hopeful people, and endings that leave room for relief. The problems can be serious, but the characters usually find help by letting other people in.

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