Kristin Hannah is the award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale, which was named Goodreads Best Historical fiction novel for 2015 and won the coveted People’s Choice award for best fiction in the same year. It was named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, iTunes, Buzzfeed, the Wall Street Journal, Paste, and The Week. In 2018,
The Great Alone became an instant New York Times #1 bestseller and was named the Best Historical Novel of the Year by Goodreads.
The Four Winds was published in February of 2021 and immediately hit #1 on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Indie bookstore’s bestseller lists. Additionally, it was selected as a book club pick by the both Today Show and The Book Of the Month club, which named it the best book of 2021.
Firefly Lane, her beloved novel about two best friends, was the #1 Netflix series around the world, in the week it came out. The popular tv show stars Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke and Season Two is currently set to conclude the series on April 27, 2023.
Her new novel, The Women, about a young woman coming of age during the turbulent 1960’s in America, who joins the Army Nurse Corps and serves in Vietnam will be published February 6th, 2024.
A former attorney, Kristin lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Books in order of publication:
Standalone novels
A Handful of Heaven (July 1991)
The Enchantment (June 1992)
Once in Every Life (December 1992)
If You Believe (December 1993)
When Lightning Strikes (October 1994)
Waiting for the Moon (September 1995)
Home Again (October 1996)
On Mystic Lake (February 1999)
Angel Falls (April 2000)
Summer Island (March 2001)
Distant Shores (July 2002)
Between Sisters (April 2003)
The Things We Do for Love (June 2004)
Comfort and Joy (October 2005)
Magic Hour (February 2006)
Firefly Lane (2008)
True Colors (2009)
Winter Garden (2010)
Night Road (March 2011)
Home Front (2012)
Fly Away (2013)
The Nightingale (2015)
The Great Alone (2018)
The Four Winds (2021)
The Women (2024)
Omnibus
On Mystic Lake / Summer Island (2005)
Firefly Lane / Fly Away (2008, 2013)
Anthologies in collaboration
“Liar’s Moon” in Harvest Hearts 1993 (with Joanne Cassity, Sharon Harlow and Rebecca Paisley)
Of Love and Life 2000 (with Janice Graham and Philippa Gregory)
“Liar’s Moon” in With Love 2002 (with Jennifer Blake and Linda Lael Miller)
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