Taylor Caldwell Books in Order

As German troops prepare to overrun Czechoslovakia, eight very different men choose to make a doomed stand. Their brief defense cannot change the invasion, but each discovers a private measure of courage, guilt, or atonement in the face of inevitable defeat.

Jason Aloysius Garrity escapes a brutal coal-town childhood to become a successful businessman in early 1900s Pennsylvania. Wealth and a brilliant marriage seem to vindicate him, until old deceptions surface and force him to decide what kind of man he truly is.

After a suicide attempt, Pennsylvania power broker Guy Jerald wakes in a psychiatric hospital unable to face his family. A wartime comrade turned psychiatrist helps him revisit battlefields, business deals, and buried choices to learn whether redemption is still possible.

Speaking in his own voice, Judas Iscariot recounts his privileged youth, turbulent discipleship, and fatal bargain. The novel reimagines the infamous betrayal as the tragic culmination of pride, idealism, and misunderstanding rather than simple villainy.

A simple building bearing a sign that reads The Man Who Listens becomes a refuge for people crushed by grief, failure, or guilt. Through quiet encounters they unburden themselves and meet a mysterious love that changes how they see their lives.

Ellen Watson rises from poor housemaid in rural Pennsylvania to the wife of a powerful political heir. As America stumbles through war and social change, Ellen’s private compromises and tragedies mirror a nation losing, and then searching for, its innocence.

Born the poor son of a blacksmith, Dan Hendricks grows up stigmatized in a judgmental town. As an adult he longs for kindness yet marries badly, and the secrets and cruelties of South Kenton push him toward a shattering breaking point.

A young queen in legendary Atlantis must choose between a forbidden love and her duty to a technologically advanced but morally crumbling empire. As war and natural catastrophe loom, her private decisions become bound up with the island’s final, tragic days.

In seventeenth-century France, nobleman Arsène de Richepin and his priest brother Louis are pulled into the deadly politics of Cardinal Richelieu’s court. Torn between faith, love, and loyalty, they navigate plots, religious conflict, and swordpoint dangers that could destroy their family.

From her unconventional upbringing in Miletus to her scandalous life with Athenian leader Pericles, Aspasia narrates a Greece of salons, battlefields, and plague. The book explores politics, philosophy, and a love affair that survives gossip but not the violence of history.

Twelve-year-old Irish immigrant Joseph Armagh lands in America with two younger siblings and nothing else. Determined to avenge old hurts, he claws his way into business and politics, grooming his son for the presidency and uncovering the hidden forces behind power.

In this candid memoir, Caldwell looks back on a Manchester childhood of strict rules, immigration to hard-up Buffalo, long workdays, and nights spent writing. Her stories show how discipline, stubbornness, and humor forged the voice behind her big, sprawling novels.

Beginning with Saul of Tarsus as a passionate young Pharisee, this novel traces his fierce persecution of early Christians, shattering conversion on the road to Damascus, and lifelong struggle to live out faith while shaping the future of the church.

In small-town Hambledon, brilliant surgeon Jonathan Ferrier returns after being acquitted of his wife’s death. Young doctor Robert Morgan must decide if Ferrier is a murderer or a scapegoat, as scandal, medical change, and moral questions divide the community.

Told through letters exchanged on the eve of apocalypse, this theological fantasy lets Lucifer and the Archangel Michael argue over human history, suffering, love, and freedom, turning doctrine into an intimate quarrel between estranged brothers watching the fate of mankind.

Returning to the Sanctuary introduced in The Listener, this companion volume follows twelve new visitors who bring their despair to the Man Who Listens and find hard answers about guilt, forgiveness, and faith in the face of their private disasters.

From infancy, Angelo appears brilliant and angelic, and his adoring mother excuses every cruel prank. As pets disappear and accidents multiply, his father and aunt slowly confront the chilling possibility that the monster threatening their family is the child they love.

Spanning from Cicero’s provincial boyhood to the collapse of the Roman Republic, this novel follows the lawyer, orator, and reluctant politician as he struggles to defend law and liberty against corruption, civil war, and his own tangled loves and beliefs.

In this collection of interwoven stories, a flamboyant older woman listens as local priests recount moments of failure, kindness, and quiet courage, revealing the flawed, very human people behind the rituals and the hard-won glimpses of glory in ordinary lives.

During a blizzard, four relatives and an unwelcome guest are snowed in at the home of the late Clara Beame. As tempers fray and old secrets surface, greed, rivalry, and perhaps something supernatural stalk the house through a long winter night.

A sharp-tongued, worldly grandmother hosts a stream of Catholic priests at her dining table, coaxing out their funniest, saddest, and most human stories. The linked tales reveal how grace, doubt, and ordinary weakness shape the lives behind the collar.

A mysterious building marked only with the words The Man Who Listens draws people carrying secret griefs and failures. One by one they pour out their stories in the silent room and discover an unseen presence that offers understanding and unexpected peace.

Heiress Caroline Ames grows up desperate for the approval of her cold, self-made father, learning to trust money rather than affection. After inheriting his fortune, she must confront how his bitterness has shaped her, and whether she can risk love at all.

This richly imagined life of Saint Luke follows Lucanus, a Greek physician in the Roman world, as he heals the sick, loves and mourns, and gradually seeks the unknown God whose story he will one day set down in his gospel.

Edward Enger transforms his father’s modest delicatessen into a New York food empire, convinced that relentless work and risk will buy happiness. As old love resurfaces and Wall Street speculation mounts, his family and conscience strain under the thunder of his ambition.

Army chaplain Johnny Fletcher brings five orphaned Holocaust survivors home to a Pennsylvania coal town, hoping to give them a family. Instead he meets prejudice, religious division, and small-town politics, and must fight for compassion with the help of disillusioned Lorry Summerfield.

A strange drought, vanishing moon, and creeping poisonous weeds signal that something has gone terribly wrong with creation. On an isolated Midwestern farm, young Pete watches his world dissolve into terror as nature, government, and faith itself seem to turn against humanity.

From the age of steam through the early twentieth century, the deWitt family builds the Interstate Railroad into a force that can shape a nation. Brothers, spouses, and heirs scheme for control, proving that in this clan power is never peacefully surrendered.

In nineteenth-century Virginia, blacksmith’s daughter Maggie Hamilton yearns to escape poverty. A wealthy landowner offers security and affection, but Maggie’s past and her own conflicted heart force her to choose between comfort, independence, and a love she scarcely dares admit.

In a bleak near-future America rebranded the Democracy, civil liberties are dead and surveillance is law. Rebel Andrew Durant helps organize the Minute Men underground, risking betrayal and death to challenge a regime that has turned freedom into a crime.

Published in some countries as an alternate title to The Balance Wheel, this novel follows a German American family’s steel-tool business into the World War I era, charting how suspicion, war profits, and divided loyalties erode both fortune and kinship.

In 1913 Pennsylvania, the Wittmann brothers’ precision-tool company thrives, but anti-German feeling and looming war threaten everything. Practical Charles struggles to keep the business honest and his son safe, even as greed, romance, and profiteering fracture the family from within.

Lumber baron William Prescott claws his way out of poverty, determined his children will never want for anything. As he bulldozes forests, rivals, and even his wife’s wisdom, his spoiled heirs turn on him, exposing the emptiness beneath his success.

Devoted daughter Melissa Upjohn worships her charming but feckless novelist father. After his death, she agrees to a loveless marriage with his publisher to protect the family, only to learn hard truths about loyalty, manipulation, and the cost of self-sacrifice.

Frank Clair, a lonely boy near the Canadian border, clings to his friendship with spirited Jessica. Years later, after a brutal attempt to strike oil and unexpected literary fame, he must decide whether success can ever soothe a wounded heart.

Post–Civil War upstate New York becomes the stage for banker’s son Jerome Lindsey and his dutiful foster brother Alfred. When both fall into the orbit of headstrong Amalie Maxwell, jealousy and desire collide with money and respectability, reshaping their small town forever.

Two Irish cousins in pre-Civil War New York, shopkeeper Stuart Coleman and widowed Janie Cauder, dream of security and respectability. Their choices in love and ambition ripple through children and grandchildren, leaving a wide house filled with resentment and regret.

In the 1930s, the Bouchard conglomerate must choose sides as Europe marches toward war. Ruthless tycoon Henri Bouchard throws his power behind the Allied cause, even as an old love and bitter family rivalries challenge his grip on the dynasty.

Disgraced at school and exiled from genteel England, John Turnbull remakes himself in America by trafficking in stolen patents, wartime smuggling, and opium. Wealth follows, but betrayal within his own family threatens the corrupt empire he has built.

In a grim Pennsylvania steel town, ambitious foreman Franz Stoessel believes money can wash away any sin. As he crushes unions, exploits workers, and sacrifices love to power, he discovers how fragile a life built on fear and greed can be.

In prewar Germany, writer Karl Erlich recoils from the brutality of the Nazi regime even as his twin brother eagerly serves it. After a Jewish friend is murdered, Karl’s family is torn apart and revenge tempts him as strongly as faith.

An epic portrait of Temujin’s rise from outcast Mongol boy to the feared warlord history knows as Genghis Khan, tracing his harsh childhood, battlefield genius, and relentless drive to unite the steppes under a single, merciless banner.

Set between the world wars, this sequel follows the decadent heirs of the Barbour and Bouchard dynasties. Scheming Christopher plots against his brother Armand for control of the arms empire, while an idealistic relative threatens to upend the family’s ruthless traditions.

Joseph Barbour rises from English servant to Pennsylvania arms maker, partnering with Armand Bouchard to build a munitions empire. As brothers Ernest and Martin clash over power and principle, the family fortune becomes tied to the coming of war.