Harris Faulkner Books in Order

Harris Faulkner was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1965, and grew up in a military family. Her father was a U.S. Army officer and aviator, so childhood meant moving where the job sent the family, including time in Stuttgart, Germany. That kind of life teaches a person to unpack fast, make friends quickly, and get comfortable starting over.

She never really stopped writing from that background.

Faulkner studied mass communications at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In her early years she wrote for campus publications, interned in Los Angeles, and then headed to Greenville, North Carolina, for her first television job at WNCT-TV. From there she moved through local newsrooms in Kansas City and Minneapolis, learning the practical side of the job, how to report cleanly, work a deadline, and stay calm when the news turns messy.

Then national cable news came calling.

She joined Fox News in 2005 and later became the anchor of The Faulkner Focus and a co-host of Outnumbered. Before that, she had already built a strong local career, and along the way she earned six Emmy Awards, including honors for Best Newscaster and Best News Special. Her public work is rooted in live television, but her books show another side of her voice, more personal, more reflective, and often more openly shaped by faith.

Her first book, Breaking News, is also her most intimate. In it, Faulkner looks back on the stalking case that disrupted her life while she was working in Kansas City, and she writes about fear, faith, and the effort it took to push back and keep going. The book reads as both memoir and testimony. It is less about celebrity than about surviving something frightening and refusing to let it define the rest of your life.

In 9 Rules of Engagement, she turns to the lessons she absorbed as a military brat. The book pulls ideas like discipline, readiness, integrity, mission, and loyalty out of military life and places them in everyday settings, at work, at home, and in the way people carry themselves under pressure. Readers who come to Faulkner for straight talk usually find that here. She is interested in practical rules, not vague inspiration, and that directness is a big part of the book's appeal.

Faith Still Moves Mountains widens the lens again. Instead of focusing only on her own story, Faulkner gathers true accounts of prayer, healing, rescue, and endurance, including people who kept going through illness, grief, danger, and loss. The book later topped the New York Times bestseller list, but the larger point is the kind of stories it collects. They are meant to show faith as a lived practice, something people hold onto when life gets very hard.

Across her books, a few themes show up again and again: family, service, courage, belief, and the quiet habits that help people endure. Even when the setting changes, from a newsroom to a military upbringing to other people's answered prayers, Faulkner keeps coming back to the same question, how do you hold steady when life stops being simple? She still lives in New Jersey with her husband, Tony Berlin, and their two daughters, and her writing suggests that even after years on camera, she still cares most about the human part of the story.