Janet Dailey Books In Order
Book links take you to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.Publication Order of Aspen Books
Publication Order of Bannon Brothers Books
Trust | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Honor | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Triumph | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Bennetts Books
Publication Order of Calder Saga Books
This Calder Sky | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
This Calder Range | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stands a Calder Man | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Calder Born, Calder Bred | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Calder Pride | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Green Calder Grass | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shifting Calder Wind | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Calder Promise | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lone Calder Star | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Calder Storm | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Santa in Montana | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chronological Order of Calder Saga Books
This Calder Range | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stands a Calder Man | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
This Calder Sky | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Calder Born, Calder Bred | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Calder Pride | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Green Calder Grass | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shifting Calder Wind | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Calder Promise | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lone Calder Star | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Calder Storm | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Santa in Montana | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Calder Brand Books
Calder Brand | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Calder Grit | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Calder at Heart | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Champions Books
Whirlwind | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Whiplash | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Quicksand | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Christmas Tree Ranch Books
My Kind of Christmas | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
It's a Christmas Thing | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Holding Out for Christmas | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Santa's Sweetheart | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Somebody Like Santa | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Cord & Stacy Books
No Quarter Asked | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fiesta San Antonio | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
For Bitter or Worse | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of A Cowboy Christmas Books
Long, Tall Christmas | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Christmas on My Mind | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Just a Little Christmas | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Tylers of Texas Books
Texas True | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Texas Tough | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Texas Tall | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Texas Fierce | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Texas Free | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Texas Forever | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Americana Books
Savage Land: Texas | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fire and Ice: California | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Darling Jenny: Wyoming | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Land of Enchantment: New Mexico | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
After the Storm: Colorado | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Boss Man From Ogallala: Nebraska | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Show Me: Missouri | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Homeplace: Iowa | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dangerous Masquerade: Alabama | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night of the Cotillion: Georgia | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Valley of the Vapours: Arkansas | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Lyon's Share: Illinois | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Big Sky Country: Montana | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Matchmakers: Delaware | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reilly's Woman: Nevada | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Indy Man: Indiana | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Six White Horses: Oklahoma | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Widow and the Wastrel: Ohio | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bluegrass King: Kentucky | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
To Tell the Truth: Oregon | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sonora Sundown: Arizona | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summer Mahogany: Maine | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bride of the Delta Queen: Louisiana | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Green Mountain Man: Vermont | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beware of the Stranger: New York | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Giant of Mesabi: Minnesota | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tidewater Lover: Virginia | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bed of Grass: Maryland | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Low Country Liar: South Carolina | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kona Winds: Hawaii | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
That Boston Man: Massachusetts | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Strange Bedfellow: Rhode Island | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sentimental Journey: Tennessee | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Land Called Deseret: Utah | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
For Mike's Sake: Washington | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lord of the High Lonesome: North Dakota | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Heart of Stone: New Hampshire | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wild and Wonderful: West Virginia | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Enemy in Camp: Michigan | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Southern Nights: Florida | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Thawing of a Mara: Pennsylvania | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mating Season: Kansas | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Difficult Decision: Connecticut | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One of the Boys: New Jersey | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Tradition of Pride: Mississippi | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dakota Dreamin': South Dakota | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
With a Little Luck: Wisconsin | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
That Carolina Summer: North Carolina | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Travelling Kind: Idaho | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Northern Magic: Alaska | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chronological Order of Americana Books
Dangerous Masquerade: Alabama | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Northern Magic: Alaska | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sonora Sundown: Arizona | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Valley of the Vapours: Arkansas | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fire and Ice: California | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
After the Storm: Colorado | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Difficult Decision: Connecticut | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Matchmakers: Delaware | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Southern Nights: Florida | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night of the Cotillion: Georgia | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kona Winds: Hawaii | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Travelling Kind: Idaho | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Lyon's Share: Illinois | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Indy Man: Indiana | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Homeplace: Iowa | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mating Season: Kansas | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bluegrass King: Kentucky | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bride of the Delta Queen: Louisiana | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summer Mahogany: Maine | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bed of Grass: Maryland | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
That Boston Man: Massachusetts | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Enemy in Camp: Michigan | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Giant of Mesabi: Minnesota | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Tradition of Pride: Mississippi | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Show Me: Missouri | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Big Sky Country: Montana | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Boss Man From Ogallala: Nebraska | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reilly's Woman: Nevada | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Heart of Stone: New Hampshire | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One of the Boys: New Jersey | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Land of Enchantment: New Mexico | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beware of the Stranger: New York | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
That Carolina Summer: North Carolina | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lord of the High Lonesome: North Dakota | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Widow and the Wastrel: Ohio | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Six White Horses: Oklahoma | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
To Tell the Truth: Oregon | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Thawing of a Mara: Pennsylvania | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Strange Bedfellow: Rhode Island | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Low Country Liar: South Carolina | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dakota Dreamin': South Dakota | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sentimental Journey: Tennessee | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Savage Land: Texas | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Land Called Deseret: Utah | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Green Mountain Man: Vermont | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tidewater Lover: Virginia | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
For Mike's Sake: Washington | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wild and Wonderful: West Virginia | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
With a Little Luck: Wisconsin | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Darling Jenny: Wyoming | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of New Americana Books
Sunrise Canyon | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Refuge Cove | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters from Peaceful Lane | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hart's Hollow Farm | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Paradise Peak | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hope Creek | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blue Moon Haven | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Sweet Promise | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Something Extra | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
To Santa with Love | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Master Fiddler | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ivory Cane | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Touch the Wind | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rogue | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ride the Thunder | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nightway | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hostage Bride | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
For the Love of God | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lancaster Men | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eve's Christmas | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mistletoe and Holly | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wildcatter's Woman | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Second Time | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terms of Surrender | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Way to Lose | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Foxfire Light | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Western Man | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Separate Cabins | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silver Wings, Santiago Blue | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pride of Hannah Wade | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Searching For Santa | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Leftover Love | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Glory Game | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Great Alone | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Heiress | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Travelling Kind | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rivals | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Honourable Friends | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Masquerade | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tangled Vines | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Dreams | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Riding High | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Proud and the Free | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Legacies | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Healing Touch | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Notorious | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Spring Bouquet | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Scrooge Wore Spurs | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Capital Holiday | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Can't Say Goodbye | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Maybe This Christmas | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Not Forgotten War | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Something More | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mistletoe and Molly | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stealing Kisses | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Santa in a Stetson | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Destiny | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
That Loving Feeling | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Close to You | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Cowboy Under My Christmas Tree | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Merry Christmas, Cowboy | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Publication Order of Anthologies
Christmas Magic | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Marry Me, Cowboy! | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unmasked | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
You're Still the One | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Happy is the Bride | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Janet Dailey was a prolific writer of romance novels of which 21 have featured on the New York Times bestseller list. Her books have been translated into nineteen languages and have sold over 300 million copies. Her novels are characterized by strong, decisive characters, and a strong sense of time and place. She used her stories to confront important, and controversial social issues of the day.
Born Janet Anne Haradon, May 21, 1944, in Storm Lake, Iowa, to an elementary school teacher father, and hairdresser mother, Janet loved books from an early age, and aspired to be a writer. Encouraged by her three elder sisters, who read stories to her, she obtained her own library card at the age of four. She grew up in small town rural America, and most of the setting in her books reflect this rural environment.
After graduating high school in 1962, she went to work as a secretary with a construction firm. She married the owner of the firm, Bill Dailey in 1964. In 1974, the couple sold the business and ‘retired’, purchasing a Silver Streamer trailer and traveling around the USA.
It was at this time that Janet told her husband that she could write a better romance novel than any of those she had read. He challenged her to prove it. The resulting manuscript ‘No Quarter Asked’ was the first accepted by Canadian publisher Harlequin from an American author. Dailey went on to produce 57 more romance novels for Harlequin, and more than 100 novels over the course of her lifetime.
While traveling around in their trailer-home, Dailey wrote the fifty novels that make up the ‘Janet Dailey American Series’ in which each story was created to represent each American state in the union. This achievement is recognized in The Guinness Book of World Records.
Dailey’s American Series placed heroines, heroes and courtships, in the American west, introducing females, usually marginalized in traditional American western novels, as the central character, confronting the elements, and challenging traditional societal expectations. Although the books were cast in a contemporary setting, there are many parallels with traditional American western fiction in terms of place, and theme.
Her novels Foxfire Light and When a Spider Bites were made into a motion pictures, both produced by her husband.
Foxfire Light (1982), starring Tippi Hedren, Leslie Nielson, and Faye Grant, and directed by Allen Barron, also known for directing the television series The Love Boat (1977), was marketed with the teaser, “A spoiled rich girl used to getting her way comes up against a rancher who won’t be intimidated by her.”
When a Spider Bites, was marketed with the teaser, “When Jordanna Smith accepts an invitation to accompany her father & three others on a hunting trip into the Idaho mountains, she doesn’t know the trip will lead to both romance & murder – & that the motive for each will be revenge.”
As well as the American series, featuring 50 books, Janet Dailey also created the following book series: Cord and Stacy (3 books), Calder Series (11 books), the Aspen Series (2 books) and Bannon Brothers (3 books). She also produced 47 single titles from which most of her New York Times Bestseller List contenders were drawn from.
Americana:
In the first novel of the Americana series – Dangerous Masquerade, cousins LeRaine and Laurie Evans live in Los Angeles. LeRaine is engaged to a millionaire who arranges for her to visit his aunt while he is away on business. In the meantime, LeRaine scores a movie contract and convinces her cousin Laurie to go in her place. Her plans go awry when LeRaine’s fiance Rian, unexpectedly shows up.
The second novel Northern Magic is set in Alaska. Shannon Hayes is engaged to push pilot, Rick. Receiving a one way ticket, purportedly from Rick, she sets off for the northern frontier only to find no-one has seen him for two weeks. When she realizes he has crashed somewhere in the wilderness, she engages a search party, and meets Cody Steele, who pursues her relentlessly.
The Calder Saga:
The Calder Saga by Janet Daily is a series of 11 books. The first book This Calder Range, introduces Benteen Calder, heir to his father Seth Calder’s dreams and ranch on the vast Montana open range. Benteen’s wife Lorna takes the tough ways of the land as her destiny.
The second book in the Calder series is Stands a Calder Man. Web Calder, son of Brenteen Calder, stands up against the tide of newcomers who rush to claim the grasslands on which the Calder cattle graze, but he falls under the spell of Lilli, a beautiful young immigrant.
Bannon Brothers:
RJ Bannon is an off-duty police officer who comes across the cold case of a missing 3 year-old girl from more than 25 years ago. The father, a reclusive millionaire has posted a considerable reward that will expire in just a few months. In the course of the investigation, he meets the beautiful artist Erin Randall. The story builds up to an explosive climax.
Cord and Stacey:
The first novel of this series was also Janet Dailey’s first book. Stacey ensconces herself in a secluded cabin in Texas while mourning the death of her father, when she meets the arrogant rancher, Cord Harris. When he tells her she should go back to the city where she belongs, she becomes even more determined to stay.
In 1997, the Aspen Series, consisting of two books became mired in conspiracy when a reader noticed similarities to Nora Roberts’ work Sweet Revenge, and posted passages on the Internet. Roberts subsequently sued Dailey, and Dailey admitted to charges of plagiarism, blaming it on a psychological disorder.
Janet Dailey began publishing again in 2001 under a deal with Kensington books. After completing two more books on the Calder series and a couple of holiday specials, her contract was renewed for additional 3 Calder books, and one single-title novel.
Janet Dailey passed away December 14, 2013, at her home in Branson, Missouri. She is probably the most prolific and successful writer in the genre of category romance. It is very important you get hold of some of these good books to enable you get to know more about this author.
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Who is writing for Janet Dailey after her death in 2013? Thanks for responding.
I don’t believe that information has ever came out. I remember they said that she had mentored a young woman to write her novels after her passing, but it could just be the estate hiring ghost writers as well.
I found out about her passing by accident, now its on the sleeve of the book. But I also wonder who whose writing them. I like you she prepared someone to write her books or the publisher found someone. She probably had manuscripts ready or half done and had some books started and they are finishing up the books she had. It would be nice to know who is writing them and how long they will continue to do so
I have most of the Calder series and have ordered the ones I’m missing Janet Daily was my favorite writer May she rest in peace.
I have all of the Calder series and the other series as well. Wonderful books, even the ones coming out after her passing are very good
My first books of Janet Dailey were the Calder series and from then I was in love with her books. I did have every book she ever wrote but I just moved to Texas and the movers lost all my beloved books and much more. I regretted the loss of my Calders so much because they were my favorites . I will never be able to get them back as they were hard bound and just cannot find them but will continue to look. I am so sorry hearing of her passing . I cannot believe I just now found out and was still buying her books as I found them and now they are all gone also.We lost a wonderful author when she left us. My heartfelt condolences to her family and the world for her loss!
I too have read her books and enjoy them very much, when we moved to Arizona in 1982 they were not put into the trailer that had the household and clothing. I found Thriftbooks online about 7 years ago. They ship fast and since I only read larger print now they have supplied many a Janet Daily read. They, also when you spend money on your books they are extremely cost-effective on my budget. You can earn a free book often. Check them out, I usually make an order when my Social Security check pays me. Have a great time shopping with them.