Madeleine L'Engle Books in Order

Katherine Forrester grows from a lonely, gifted child into a young pianist trying to claim her own life. Music, boarding school, loss, and first love shape L'Engle's first published novel.

Henry Porcher becomes fascinated by Ilsa Brandes, a young woman who resists the expectations of their Southern world. His lifelong attachment becomes a study of memory, longing, and constraint.

At a Swiss boarding school, lonely Flip Hunter struggles with rules, classmates, and homesickness. Her friendship with Paul brings comfort, mystery, and a risk that forces her to act.

Fifteen-year-old Camilla watches her parents' marriage fall apart and finds comfort in Frank, who shares her hunger for stars, truth, and serious conversation. First love becomes a doorway into adulthood.

Emily Bowen's marriage is strained during a family sabbatical in Switzerland. When a man from her past offers warmth, she must face what love, loyalty, and freedom really require.

The Austin family's steady life changes when orphaned Maggy Hamilton comes to stay after a plane crash. Vicky wants to be kind, but Maggy's grief and chaos test everyone in the house.

When Dr. Camilla Dickinson's granddaughter asks a troubling question about their family, old secrets surface. The novel moves across generations, testing love, loyalty, and the possibility of mercy.

Meg Murry, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe travel through space and time to find Meg's missing father. Their journey brings them face to face with a mind-controlling darkness.

As her family prepares to leave their country home, fourteen-year-old Vicky Austin heads west on a camping trip. New places, family change, and Zachary Gray unsettle her old sense of safety.

Seven-year-old Vicky Austin counts down to Christmas with family traditions, pageant rehearsals, and worry over a baby due any day. It is a cozy Austin story with real childhood nerves underneath.

Marine biology student Adam Eddington travels to work with Dr. Calvin O'Keefe and is pulled into international intrigue. Research on starfish regeneration becomes the prize in a dangerous struggle.

After grief and marital pain, Charlotte Napier flees to Portugal and finds solace in the letters of a seventeenth-century nun. Two women's struggles illuminate faith, temptation, and real love.

L'Engle retells the story of Jonah as a witty verse drama. The familiar tale becomes a lively meditation on running away, being called, and facing mercy.

Adapted from the early part of The Small Rain, this young reader version follows Katherine Forrester through school, loneliness, and her fierce wish to become a concert pianist.

The Austins move to New York City, where Vicky befriends Emily, a gifted blind musician. Strange incidents, street danger, and a secretive project threaten the whole family.

A young family crosses a dangerous desert while animals and threats gather around them. This spare, symbolic picture book reimagines the flight into Egypt with wonder and quiet danger.

L'Engle's early poetry collection gathers personal lyrics on love, faith, art, nature, and human frailty. The poems show the same searching mind found in her fiction and journals.

At Crosswicks, L'Engle reflects on writing, family, teaching, faith, and the struggle to live honestly. This first Crosswicks Journal is intimate, questioning, and full of creative restlessness.

Young British bride Stella Renier arrives at her husband's Southern family home after the Civil War and finds secrets everywhere. Alone among strangers, she uncovers dangers meant to stay hidden.

Charles Wallace is dangerously ill, and Meg, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins must go inside him to help save his life. The battle is microscopic, cosmic, and deeply personal.

L'Engle gathers prayers for ordinary days, not only formal holy moments. The book invites readers to bring work, worry, gratitude, and small acts of attention into conversation with God.

This small prayer collection offers L'Engle's language for worship, rest, gratitude, and need. It is suited to readers who want brief, thoughtful prayers shaped by Christian faith.

Four generations gather at Crosswicks as L'Engle helps care for her aging mother. Memory, family history, decline, and love shape this frank meditation on caring and letting go.

Simon Renier boards a ship to Venezuela with a valuable family portrait, then murder and theft turn the voyage dangerous. Poly and Charles O'Keefe help him search for the truth.

Following the Christian year from Advent to Advent, L'Engle writes about belief, doubt, marriage, motherhood, and public life. It is a spiritual journal that welcomes hard questions.

Charles Wallace joins the unicorn Gaudior on a journey through time to prevent nuclear disaster. Meg, now older and expecting a child, supports him through the gift of kything.

This poetry collection gathers L'Engle's meditations on love, faith, grief, art, and the inner climate of the spirit. The poems are personal, searching, and rooted in daily life.

L'Engle retells biblical stories in accessible language, paired with children's art from around the world. The book invites young readers to see scripture with freshness and imagination.

Vicky Austin spends a hard summer with her dying grandfather and finds herself pulled toward three very different boys. Dolphin research, grief, and first love make this one of her deepest coming-of-age stories.

L'Engle reflects on faith, art, truth, discipline, and the creative life. For many readers, it is her central nonfiction book about why stories matter.

After Maggy Hamilton causes an uproar at Sunday school, John Austin calls the Anti-Muffin club to order. This short Austin Family story looks at difference, belonging, and refusing to be pressed into shape.

Elderly pianist Katherine Forrester Vigneras returns to New York and is drawn into life around a cathedral. A benefit concert opens old wounds, new threats, and questions of healing.

The first Genesis book reflects on creation, creativity, order, and the mystery of beginnings. L'Engle brings together faith, imagination, and her lifelong wonder at the natural world.

Sixteen-year-old Polly O'Keefe travels to Greece and Cyprus after a painful betrayal by her mentor Max. Away from home, she faces danger, desire, and the hard work of forgiveness.

L'Engle considers children's books as serious moral and spiritual work. She argues that young readers deserve stories with danger, beauty, depth, and room for mystery.

L'Engle walks with the biblical Jacob through trickery, fear, wrestling, and blessing. Her reflections treat an ancient story as a companion for modern questions about identity and grace.

Sandy and Dennys Murry accidentally interrupt their father's experiment and land in a desert before the great Flood. Survival means dealing with seraphim, nephilim, Noah's family, and each other.

This poetry collection brings L'Engle's spiritual and artistic concerns into concentrated form. Love, suffering, creation, and prayer echo through poems that feel intimate and questioning.

L'Engle tells the story of her marriage to actor Hugh Franklin, moving between courtship, family life, and his final illness. The result is tender, honest, and deeply personal.

Polly O'Keefe visits her grandparents and stumbles into a time gate leading 3,000 years into the past. Curiosity becomes peril when she encounters a culture shaped by fear and sacrifice.

Published as another title for her marriage memoir, this book follows L'Engle and Hugh Franklin through art, family, illness, and devotion. It is a clear-eyed account of lasting partnership.

Using Joseph's story, L'Engle explores betrayal, exile, grief, forgiveness, and becoming fully human. The book carries personal weight from her own experience of loss.

Two short, spiritually inflected stories show L'Engle working in a fable-like mode. The collection is brief, symbolic, and interested in mystery more than easy explanation.

L'Engle retells the story of the Nativity with reverence and wonder, paired with classic religious art. The book invites readers to linger over the impossible claim at Christmas's center.

Actor Emma Wheaton attends her dying father, David, while his obsession with the biblical King David stirs old family pain. Theater, scripture, marriage, and memory intertwine.

After injury and recovery, L'Engle reflects on why stories can carry truth deeper than bare facts. This nonfiction work returns to myth, scripture, memory, and imagination.

A compact book of prayers for daily life, Anytime Prayers offers words for fear, thanks, hope, and attention. It is simple, direct, and easy to return to.

Vicky Austin receives the trip of a lifetime to Antarctica, but threatening letters and suspicious fellow travelers turn wonder into danger. Far from home, she must decide whom to trust.

This daily reader gathers short selections from L'Engle's fiction and nonfiction. It offers a year of brief reflections on faith, creativity, love, grief, and attention.

L'Engle reflects on travel, especially Antarctica, while thinking about icons, idols, wonder, and faith. The book pairs physical journeys with questions about what we worship and why.

Created with Luci Shaw, WinterSong gathers Christmas and winter readings shaped by poetry, memory, and faith. It is a seasonal companion for Advent, reflection, and quiet evenings.

L'Engle turns toward Advent and Christmas, reflecting on the mystery of God entering human life. The book is thoughtful, devotional, and rooted in awe rather than sentimentality.

Written with Luci Shaw, this book reflects on friendship, faith, writing, and companionship over time. It is a conversational work about the people who help us keep going.

This gift-style collection gathers reflections on the complicated bond between mothers and daughters. L'Engle's selections attend to nurture, distance, memory, gratitude, and the work of love.

This collection brings together L'Engle's Christmas stories, essays, poems, and reflections, including Austin Family pieces. It balances family warmth with the strange wonder of incarnation.

A collection of early stories shows L'Engle trying out realism, fantasy, faith, and family drama before her best-known work. It is especially interesting for readers tracing her development.

Created with Luci Shaw, this prayerbook offers language for companions who pray with and for one another. It focuses on friendship, trust, intercession, and shared spiritual practice.

L'Engle retells the life of Moses for young readers, drawing on the Exodus story of birth, exile, calling, and liberation. It is a concise, illustrated entry into a foundational biblical narrative.

A brief writing-life volume linked to L'Engle's reflections on discipline, imagination, and place. It is for readers interested in how a creative life grows from daily attention.

On Christmas Eve, the Austin home fills with unexpected guests, including a new mother and a pregnant young woman. Mrs. Austin's crowded night becomes a gentle story about hospitality, fear, and making room.

This companion collection reflects on mothers, sons, attachment, separation, and blessing. It offers brief pieces suited to gifting, reading aloud, or quiet reflection.

Drawn from L'Engle's writings and talks, this collection gathers her thoughts on creativity, discipline, failure, faith, and story. It is a compact guide to her writing mind.

Touché, the family poodle, is offended when her mistress brings home a strange new creature called a baby. This funny picture book turns sibling jealousy into a dog's-eye comedy.

This collected volume gathers nearly a lifetime of L'Engle's poetry, including new and previously uncollected work. The poems return to creation, grief, prayer, marriage, and wonder.

Elizabeth spends the summer of 1946 apprenticing in theater and falling for a charismatic director. Written early in L'Engle's career, it follows ambition, romance, and disillusionment.

Hope Larson adapts L'Engle's classic into a graphic novel, following Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin across the universe. The visual format gives new shape to Camazotz, tessering, and IT.

This short volume presents L'Engle's speech on children's literature, truth, censorship, and difficult questions. It also connects her defense of bold storytelling to A Wrinkle in Time.

Charles Wallace may not fit in at school on Earth, so Meg and Calvin help take him somewhere stranger. Intergalactic P.S. 3 offers a playful, thoughtful side trip in the Time universe.

This short story offers a concentrated glimpse of L'Engle's early fiction, with domestic tension, sharp observation, and questions about what people choose to notice or deny.

Eighteen rediscovered stories reveal L'Engle working through childhood, loneliness, theater, small-town life, faith, and fantasy. Many pieces come from the years before A Wrinkle in Time.