Charles Martin

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1975
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Awakening

1 - The Dead Don't Dance (May-2004)
2 - Maggie (Sep-2006)

A Murphy Shepherd Novel

1 - The Water Keeper (May-2020)
2 - The Letter Keeper (Jun-2021)
3 - The Record Keeper (Jul-2022)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Full Fathom Five

  • Raw Passion

  • Godchildren

  • The Dead Don't Dance

    Awakening - 1

    The Dead Don't Dance is a bittersweet yet triumphant love story -- a tale of one man's journey through the darkness of despair and into the light of hope.In a sleepy rural town in South Carolina, Dylan and Maggie Styles are a young couple in lov...

  • Wrapped in Rain

    "Martin spins an engaging story about healing and the triumph of love . . . Filled with delightful local color." --Publishers Weekly"Charles Martin writes with the passion and delicacy of a Louisiana sunrise--shades of shepherd's warning and a promis...

  • Maggie

    Awakening - 2

    The moving sequel to bestselling author Charles Martin's The Dead Don't Dance. After slipping into a four-months-long coma following the tragic loss of their son in childbirth, Dylan's wife, Maggie, finally awakens--but can the young couple pick up t...

  • Chasing Fireflies

    They have one summer to find what was lost long ago. "Never settle for less than the truth," she told him. But when you don't even know your real name, the truth gets a little complicated. It can nestle so close to home it's hard to see. It c...

  • Where the River Ends

    He was a fishing guide and struggling artist from a south George trailer park. She was the beautiful only child of South Carolina's most powerful senator. Yet once Doss Michaels and Abigail Grace Coleman met by accident, they each felt they'd found t...

  • The Dominant Hand

    An end-of-the-world cult forms around a charismatic and troubled rock musician who leads his followers deep into the woods east of Oklahoma. A mysterious series of events leaves 250 people dead and 4,238 people missing with no official explanation em...



  • The Mountain Between Us

    BESTSELLING AUTHOR CHARLES MARTIN RETURNS WITH A CAPTIVATING STORY ABOUT TWO STRANGERS WHO CRASH INTO AN UNFORGIVING WILDERNESS AND MUST RELY ON EACH OTHER TO SURVIVE. Flying together on a storm-ravaged night are gifted surgeon Dr. Ben Payne, who is...

  • Edward and the Island

    The End of the World isn’t the End of the Story.Sixty-three souls plucked from Heaven are thrust into an experimental new universe. Haunted by the dark memories of their past lives on Earth and forced to live in an isolated community, a small group...

  • The Wonderboy Serials: Season One

    “Who will save us from Wonderboy?”A lone man with extraordinary powers is responsible for the longest sustained global peace in modern history..Worshipped for toppling brutal regimes, wiping out crime, and cleaning up financial institutions, dark...

  • Thunder and Rain

    Third generation Texas Ranger Tyler Steele is the last of a dying breed-- a modern day cowboy hero living in a world that doesn't quite understand his powerful sense of right and wrong and instinct to defend those who can't defend themselves. Despite...

  • Deviants

  • The Wonderboy Serials: Season Two

    A lone man with extraordinary powers is responsible for the longest sustained global peace in modern history. Though worshiped for toppling brutal regimes, wiping out crime, and cleaning up financial institutions, dark realizations about Wonderboy th...

  • Unwritten

    An actress running from her past finds escape with a man hiding from his future. When someone wants to be lost, a home tucked among the Ten Thousand Islands off the Florida coast is a good place to live. A couple decent boats, and a deep knowledge...

  • A Life Intercepted

    Twelve years ago Matthew "the Rocket" Rising had it all. Married to his high school sweetheart and one of the winningest quarterbacks in the history of college football, he was the number one NFL draft pick. But on the night of the draft, he plummete...

  • Into the Abyss

    Two years after waking up in the tiny village of Great Oak with no memory of where he came from or how he got there, Ishmael sets out into the world to find his answers. But with no clues to guide him, the road is ahead seems to be as murky as the on...

  • This Year in Word of the Day

    365 Stories Inspired By Our Peculiar Language.The Word of the Day project began as a writing exercise but soon became a valuable outlet for the author of The Wonderboy Serials to beat back depression after the dissolution of his marriage. Martin comp...



  • Water from My Heart

    Charlie Finn had to grow up fast, living alone by age sixteen. Highly intelligent, he earned a life-changing scholarship to Harvard, where he learned how to survive and thrive on the outskirts of privileged society. That skill served him well in the ...

  • When Crickets Cry

    A man with a painful past. A child with a doubtful future. And a shared journey toward healing for both their hearts. It begins on the shaded town square in a sleepy Southern town. A spirited seven-year-old has a brisk business at her lemonade sta...

  • Long Way Gone

    “No matter where you go, no matter whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no gone is too far gone. You can always come home.” At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O’Connor took everything his father held dear and drove...

  • One Eye Open

    How about a space adventure? Build your own spacecraft and battle aliens with their own knowledge you inadvertently acquired while being abducted. You get to meet them on their terms and cause all kinds of mayhem. Of course, they want all that brain ...

  • Send Down the Rain

    A new, spellbinding story of buried secrets, lost love, and the promise of second chances. Allie is still recovering from the loss of her family’s beloved waterfront restaurant on Florida’s Gulf Coast when she loses her second husband to a ter...

  • The Water Keeper

    A Murphy Shepherd Novel - 1

    A riveting new story of heroism, heartache, and the power of love to heal all wounds. Murphy Shepherd is a man with many secrets. He lives alone on an island, tending the grounds for a church with no parishioners, and he’s dedicated his life to ...

  • The Letter Keeper

    A Murphy Shepherd Novel - 2

    Combining heart-wrenching emotion with edge-of-your-seat tension, New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin explores the true power of sacrificial love. Murphy Shepherd has made a career of finding those no one else could -- sur...

  • Glamorella's Daughter, Vol. 1

    Comet, the neurodiverse daughter of Earth's greatest defender, yearns for a quiet existence with towers of books and the occasional game night at her friend's house.Her mom, Glamorella, savors the thrill of adventure, the heat of battle, and the glit...

  • The Record Keeper

    A Murphy Shepherd Novel - 3

    “Because you’re worth rescue.” The unrelenting third installment in the Murphy Shepherd series from New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin. Murphy Shepherd’s last rescue mission very nearly cost him his life. He...

  • We Promised Utopia Volume One

    We Promised Utopia is a sci-fi epic that takes place in three separate eras, starting with the modern struggle to respond to climate change and inequality; then a utopian future where rising corruption threatens to undo society's hard-won harmony; an...



  • Son of Man

    Experience the Bible come to life before your eyes as New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin uses his storyteller's imagination to present the life of Jesus in a way that will engage your faith in new ways. This collection of more...

  • The Last Exchange

    “Here’s the catch -- even if I make it out of here alive, I need a reason to breathe again.” When MacThomas Pockets finished his last tour as part of the Scottish Special Forces, he was hired to consult for a film director to finesse some scene...

  • The Keeper

    In the dark South Georgia night, three girls are abducted.Bones--Murphy Shepherd's teacher, mentor, priest, and friend--is gone. Devastated by the loss and unsure how to continue the rescue work they started, Murph has no choice but to jump back in w...

Award-Winning Books by Charles Martin

Chasing Fireflies
2007 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Inspirational Novel
2008 Christy Award -- Contemporary
Long Way Gone
2017 Christy Award -- Book of the Year
2017 Christy Award -- General Fiction
When Crickets Cry
2007 Christian Book Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Charles Martin has published 32 books.

The next book by Charles Martin, The Keeper, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Charles Martin, Full Fathom Five, was published in November 1975.

Yes. Charles Martin has 2 series.
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