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Eugenia Price Books in Order

Browse all Eugenia Price books in order with series lists, short summaries, and background on her Southern historical novels and Christian nonfiction so you can quickly see what to read next.

Last updated: June 7, 2026

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Discoveries

by Eugenia Price

1953

Written soon after her conversion, Discoveries is Price's candid account of meeting Christ in her thirties. She shares the doubts she carried, the changes that followed, and the joy of finding a faith sturdy enough to shape every part of her life.

The Burden is Light

by Eugenia Price

1955

Subtitled an autobiography of a transformed pagan, this memoir traces Price's journey from youthful unbelief to a living faith in Jesus Christ. She describes the questions, turning points, and daily choices that made Christ's promise that "the burden is light" real in her life.

Share My Pleasant Stones

by Eugenia Price

1957

A year long devotional, Share My Pleasant Stones offers one reading for each day. Every entry begins with a Bible verse and is followed by notes Price once scribbled in her own margins, inviting readers into her most personal reflections with Christ.

Woman to Woman

by Eugenia Price

1959

Speaking as a trusted older friend, Price addresses women directly about marriage, work, loneliness, and spiritual hunger. Her straightforward stories and counsel are meant to help women build a Christ centered life in the middle of ordinary responsibilities.

Find Out For Yourself Young People can Discover Their Own Answers

by Eugenia Price

1964

Aimed at teenagers and young adults, this collection of essays urges readers to think for themselves about faith, choices, and the future. Price offers honest questions, practical insight, and encouragement to seek real answers instead of drifting with the crowd.

The Beloved Invader

by Eugenia Price

1965

In the final St. Simons novel, young northern minister Anson Dodge comes to the war scarred island carrying deep grief. His love for Ellen and later Anna, and his determination to rebuild Christ Church, create a moving story of devotion, loss, and the healing of a community.

The Wider Place ... Where God offers freedom from anything that limits our growth

by Eugenia Price

1966

This book grew out of a deliberate change in pace after Price committed her life to Christ. She describes learning to slow down, make space for silence, and listen for God's voice, and shows how that inner freedom can break old fears and self made limits.

Make Love Your Aim

by Eugenia Price

1967

Using Scripture and personal reflection, Price contrasts sentimental ideas of love with the costly, freeing love described in the Bible. She invites readers to let God's definition of love reshape relationships, priorities, and the way they understand Christian freedom.

New Moon Rising

by Eugenia Price

1969

Set in the tense years before the Civil War, this second St. Simons novel follows Horace Gould as he returns to his island home. Disturbed by local prejudice yet drawn to younger neighbor Deborah Abbott, Horace wrestles with faith, reputation, and the kind of man he is becoming.

The Unique World of Women in Bible Times and Now

by Eugenia Price

1969

Price portrays women such as Keturah and Mary of Jerusalem in vivid, intimate sketches, then connects their struggles to those of modern women. She argues that God needed women's gifts then and still needs them now for healing a broken world.

Learning to Live from the Acts

by Eugenia Price

1970

Looking at the New Testament book of Acts, Price highlights the living presence of the Holy Spirit in the first Christian communities. She shows how their courage, conflicts, and joy can help modern believers learn to live out their faith with the same energy.

Lighthouse

by Eugenia Price

1971

The first St. Simons novel tells the story of James Gould, a New Englander who dreams of building bridges and lighthouses in the South. His journey from cold Massachusetts to Bangor, Spanish East Florida, and finally St. Simons is shaped by hardship, ambition, and the steadfast love of Janie Harris.

Don Juan McQueen

by Eugenia Price

1974

In this Florida Trilogy novel, American patriot John McQueen, ruined by debt, flees to Spanish East Florida and becomes Don Juan McQueen, adviser to the governor. While he builds a new life, his wife Anne and their children remain in Savannah, caught between love, duty, and divided allegiances.

Learning to Live

by Eugenia Price

1976

This devotional, drawn from the four Gospels, pairs beloved passages with Price's reflections on how to live them. Rather than argue about doctrine, she focuses on letting Christ's words shape daily choices, relationships, and responses to a complicated modern world.

Maria

by Eugenia Price

1977

First in the Florida Trilogy, *Maria* follows Mary Evans, a capable midwife from Charles Town, who becomes Maria in turbulent St. Augustine after Florida changes hands. Through war, new marriages, and shifting loyalties, she carves out an influential and surprisingly independent life in a frontier town.

St. Simons Memoir

by Eugenia Price

1978

Part travelogue and part personal history, this memoir tells how Price discovered St. Simons Island, uncovered its past, and researched the people behind her St. Simons Trilogy. She describes old families, forgotten stories, and the way a landscape became central to her imagination.

Leave Yourself Alone

by Eugenia Price

1979

Price challenges chronic self focus and the habit of overanalyzing every feeling. She argues that emotional health grows as people turn their attention outward toward God and others, finding freedom from paralysis by analysis and room to receive God's grace.

Diary of a Novel

by Eugenia Price

1980

Subtitled "The Story of Writing Margaret's Story," this journal lets readers watch a novel take shape day by day. Price records research trips, health struggles, creative highs and lows, and the way her fictional characters grew as real to her as neighbors.

Margaret's Story

by Eugenia Price

1980

The concluding novel of the Florida Trilogy follows spirited Margaret Seton as she sets her heart on widower Lewis Fleming. Their life at Hibernia plantation spans Seminole uprisings, Florida statehood, the Civil War, and Reconstruction while Margaret's stubborn love and faith hold a fractured family together.

At Home on St. Simons

by Eugenia Price

1981

In this autobiographical volume, Price gathers short pieces first written for a local island newspaper. She recalls her early years on St. Simons with Joyce Blackburn, learning to be a neighbor, falling in love with the landscape, and discovering what it meant to finally feel at home.

Getting Through the Night

by Eugenia Price

1982

Written for those facing the loss of someone they love, this book offers gentle, practical guidance for the long nights of grief. Price shares stories and Scriptures that helped her own healing and points readers toward honest mourning and real comfort in Christ.

Savannah

by Eugenia Price

1983

Orphaned Mark Browning renounces his inheritance and travels to Savannah, where he is drawn to gracious Eliza Mackay and his young cousin Caroline Cameron. As family secrets, city disasters, and a dangerous schemer close in, Mark must face the truth about his past before he can claim a future in Savannah.

What Really Matters

by Eugenia Price

1983

Here Price looks at the core of Christian life and asks what truly lasts. Using Scripture and personal experience, she focuses on God's unwavering love as the foundation for faith, prayer, service, and everyday decisions rather than on religious activity alone.

Another Day

by Eugenia Price

1984

This devotional gathers favorite Scripture passages and shows how they have shaped Price's own life. Each short reading pairs a verse with a personal story, inviting readers to begin each new day by listening to God and applying His word in practical ways.

God Speaks to Women Today

by Eugenia Price

1984

Focusing on women of the Bible such as Sarah, Leah, and Rachel, Price explores how their very human struggles mirror those of modern women. She shows how God's message to them still speaks today about identity, relationships, jealousy, and trust.

Early Will I Seek Thee

by Eugenia Price

1985

Drawing on her own struggles and victories, Price describes how a restless search for peace led her into a deeper walk with Christ. The book reads like a spiritual journal, offering step by step encouragement to readers who want a new, more centered life with God.

Just As I Am

by Eugenia Price

1985

Using the beloved hymn "Just As I Am" as a framework, Price reflects on war, grief, guilt, and the everyday pressures that drive people to God. She weaves the lyrics through modern stories to show how Christ receives people exactly where they are.

To See Your Face Again

by Eugenia Price

1985

Sixteen year old Natalie Browning meets master carpenter Burke Latimer aboard the steamship Pulaski, then survives a disastrous shipwreck that changes them both. When Burke pulls away to rebuild his fortunes, Natalie follows him into Georgia's rugged backcountry, determined to grow up enough to win the man she loves.

Before the Darkness Falls

by Eugenia Price

1987

Set in 1840s Georgia, this third Savannah novel follows the Brownings, Mackays, and Stileses as private heartbreaks parallel a nation edging toward war. Natalie Browning Latimer faces shattering loss, Jonathan Browning defies society for love, and political ambitions draw the families into the gathering storm over Union and secession.

Stranger in Savannah

by Eugenia Price

1989

The last Savannah Quartet novel opens in 1854 as talk of secession grips Georgia. The Browning, Mackay, and Stiles families are torn by conflicting loyalties as Mark Browning's Unionist convictions clash with his wife's and son's Southern passion, and the Civil War tests every bond they thought unbreakable.

What is God Like?

by Eugenia Price

1989

Written for readers who feel far from God, this book explores His character through Jesus and the Bible. Price shows how a loving, personal God meets people in weakness and suffering and invites them into a closer, peace filled relationship with Him.

Beloved World

by Eugenia Price

1991

Beloved World retells the biblical story of God and humanity as one continuous narrative. With a storyteller's eye, Price portrays familiar figures as real people and emphasizes a God who keeps reaching toward them in love through every age of history.

Bright Captivity

by Eugenia Price

1991

As the War of 1812 ends, spirited Anne Couper attends a party at Dungeness on Cumberland Island and is taken captive when British marines seize the estate. Her meeting with Lieutenant John Fraser leads to a marriage that must bridge cultures, loyalties, and the pull between England and Anne's Georgia homeland.

No Pat Answers

by Eugenia Price

1991

Here Price tackles the hardest questions people ask in seasons of loss, disappointment, and fear. She rejects easy explanations, shares real stories from her life and her readers, and points to a deeper trust in Christ when life does not make sense.

Inside One Author's Heart

by Eugenia Price

1992

Part memoir and part conversation with her readers, this book looks behind Eugenia Price's public image. She talks candidly about success, doubt, and her writing process, from early radio days in Chicago to the years of creating her Southern historical novels on St. Simons Island.

A Woman's Choice

by Eugenia Price

1993

Built around letters from readers, this book offers down to earth counsel for women facing confusion, hurt, and hard decisions. Price urges women to trust God in the middle of real problems and shows how daily choices can open the way to emotional and spiritual freedom.

Where Shadows Go

by Eugenia Price

1993

John and Anne Fraser return from London to Cannon's Point, the Couper family plantation on St. Simons. John must become a planter and slaveholder against his conscience, while Anne slowly awakens to the injustice around her, especially through her friendship with her enslaved companion Eve and the outspoken abolitionist Fanny Kemble.

Beauty from Ashes

by Eugenia Price

1995

In the final Georgia Trilogy novel, Anne Couper Fraser is widowed and forced from her beloved St. Simons Island to begin again in Marietta. As her family splits over the coming Civil War, Anne clings to faith and discovers that hope can grow out of great loss.

The Waiting Time

by Eugenia Price

1997

Boston born Abigail Banes marries Georgia rice planter Eli Allyn, only to be widowed and left in charge of Abbeyfield plantation and its enslaved people. As she forges a new identity and falls in love with overseer Thaddeus Greene, Abby must face slavery, secession, and the long season before she can choose both freedom and love.

Strictly Personal

by Eugenia Price

2012

Drawing on her own questions and struggles, Eugenia Price invites readers to explore whether God can truly be known. She addresses doubts frankly and points toward a deeply personal, honest relationship with God instead of secondhand religion.

Where should I start?

If you want her signature island saga: LighthouseNew Moon RisingThe Beloved Invader
If you prefer a sweeping city family epic: SavannahTo See Your Face AgainBefore the Darkness FallsStranger in Savannah
If you are drawn to plantation life in coastal Georgia: Bright CaptivityWhere Shadows GoBeauty from Ashes
If early Florida history sounds intriguing: MariaDon Juan McQueenMargaret's Story
If you are here for her Christian nonfiction: DiscoveriesThe Burden is LightEarly Will I Seek TheeShare My Pleasant Stones

Author bio

Eugenia Price grew up in Charleston, West Virginia, in a home where stories, music, and conversation filled the evenings. Her father, Walter, was a dentist. Her mother, Anna, encouraged her to read widely and to try writing for herself.

By ten she had already decided she wanted to be a writer, and she sent a poem to her school literary magazine. Yet in her teens she took a very different path. After graduating from high school at fifteen, she left home for Ohio University, then switched to dentistry and became the lone woman admitted to Northwestern's dental school.

Price never finished a degree. Instead, she discovered that what she really loved was shaping stories. In 1939 she was hired by a national radio network to write for the daytime serial In Care of Aggie Horn, then moved on to craft scripts for the long running Joyce Jordan, M.D. A few years later she founded Eugenia Price Productions and spent her days writing and producing popular serial dramas.

Privately, she had walked away from the faith of her childhood and called herself an atheist. In 1949, in her early thirties, that changed. After a long season of questioning, she embraced Christianity and began to write about what that decision meant in everyday life. Books like Discoveries, The Burden is Light, Early Will I Seek Thee, and No Pat Answers grew out of her own search and quickly found readers who wanted direct, honest talk about faith.

During the 1950s she crisscrossed the United States and Canada as a conference speaker, combining storytelling, Bible teaching, and a quick sense of humor. By the early 1960s she had written more than a dozen inspirational books, many aimed at women trying to follow Christ in the middle of real jobs, families, and griefs.

Her second great turning point came in 1961, when a book tour detour took her to St. Simons Island on the Georgia coast. A visit to Christ Church and the grave of young minister Anson Dodge sent her deep into local history. Working with her close friend and fellow writer Joyce Blackburn, she spent years interviewing island families and digging through letters and photographs. The result was the St. Simons trilogy, beginning with Lighthouse, followed by New Moon Rising and The Beloved Invader.

Those novels launched the historical side of her career and drew thousands of readers to the marshes and live oaks she loved. Price followed them with the Florida trilogy, the Savannah Quartet, and the Georgia Trilogy, including titles such as Savannah, Bright Captivity, Maria, Margaret's Story, Beauty from Ashes, and her final novel, The Waiting Time. Across them all she returned to the same questions: how ordinary people wrestle with conscience, how love survives war and loss, and how faith takes root in a particular place.

In 1965 she moved permanently to St. Simons with Blackburn and poured time and money into preserving the island's natural beauty and historic sites. She helped support museums, festivals, and scholarships, and later lent her name to a foundation that still backs writers and community groups.

Price died in Brunswick, Georgia, on May 28, 1996, after more than five decades of writing. By then she had published dozens of books, sold millions of copies, and seen readers from many countries fall in love with the Georgia coast through her pages. For many people, walking under the live oaks at Christ Church or along the beaches of St. Simons still feels a little like stepping into one of her stories.

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