Jan Karon

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1994
  • Latest Book:
    November 2018
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Full Series List in Order

Father Tim

1 - Home to Holly Springs (Nov-2007)
2 - In the Company of Others (Oct-2010)
Patches of Godlight: Father Tim's Favorite Quotes (Oct-2002)

Mitford

1 - At Home in Mitford (Oct-1994)
2 - A Light in the Window (Jun-1995)
3 - These High, Green Hills (Aug-1996)
4 - Out to Canaan (May-1997)
5 - A New Song (Apr-1999)
6 - A Common Life (Apr-2001)
6.5 - The Mitford Snowmen (Oct-2001)
7 - In This Mountain (Jun-2002)
8 - Shepherds Abiding (Nov-2003)
8.5 - Esther's Gift (2002)
9 - Light from Heaven (Nov-2005)
10 - Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good (Sep-2014)
11 - Come Rain or Come Shine (Sep-2015)
12 - To Be Where You Are (Sep-2017)

Mitford for Children

1 - Violet Comes to Stay (Oct-2006)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • At Home in Mitford

    Mitford - 1

    Enter the world of Mitford, and you won't want to leave It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable. Yet, Father Tim, the bachelor rector, want...

  • A Light in the Window

    Mitford - 2

    Welcome back to Mitford, the little town with the big heart His attractive neighbor is tugging at his heartstrings. A wealthy widow is pursuing him with hot casseroles. And his red-haired Cousin Meg has moved into the rectory, uninvited. As you...

  • These High, Green Hills

    Mitford - 3

    America's favorite small town will find a big place in your heart. In These High, Green Hills we're once again in Mitford, a southern village of local characters so heartwarming and hilarious you'll wish you lived right next door. At last, Mitf...

  • Out to Canaan

    Mitford - 4

    Readers across America have discovered a simple truth: A trip to Mitford is good for the soul. Thousands of readers have found a home in Mitford, the little town with the big heart. But now change is coming to the village. Father Tim, the Episcop...

  • Miss Fannie's Hat

    Ninety-nine year old Miss Fannie has lots of hats, and she loves them all. But her favorite is the pink straw hat with the silk roses. That's the one Miss Fannie has worn on Easter Sunday for the past thirty-five years. When Miss Fannie's preacher as...

  • A New Song

    Mitford - 5

    In the fifth novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon's beloved series, fans old and new will discover that when it comes to Mitford, absence only make the heart grow fonder...Mitford’s longtime Episcopal priest, Father Tim, has reti...

  • Jeremy: The Tale of an Honest Bunny

    Jeremy is a handmade English bunny with honesty sewn into his very being. So when he learns that he was made for someone in North Carolina, Jeremy hops right off to deliver himself to his new owner. But North Carolina is a long way from England, as J...

  • A Common Life

    Mitford - 6

    You are cordially invited to the wedding of Father Tim and Cynthia Mitford's Lord's Chapel seats barely two hundred souls, yet millions of Jan Karon's fans can attend the most joyous event in years the wedding of Father Tim Kavanagh and Cynthia Co...

  • The Mitford Snowmen

    Mitford - 6.5

    It's Christmastime in Mitford, and everyone's favorite characters are filled with holiday spirit. In The Mitford Snowmen, a swirling snowfall brings them to Main Street for a snowman-building contest complete with doughnuts, hot chocolate, and contag...



  • Esther's Gift

    Mitford - 8.5

    A wholesome holiday story by the author of The Mitford Snowmen finds Esther Bolick considering not giving her expensive holiday cakes to friends that have disappointed her, before a Christmas carol reminds her of the meaning of gift giving. 5...

  • In This Mountain

    Mitford - 7

    IN THIS MOUNTAIN finds Father Time and Cynthia again living in Mitford, following their stint on Whitecap Island a few years ago. Newly retired, Father Tim realises he dislikes change. Bored sitting at home trying to write a book of essays, while Cyn...

  • Patches of Godlight: Father Tim's Favorite Quotes

    Father Tim

    WORDS OF WISDOM FROM MITFORD -- A TREASURY OF QUOTES THAT INSPIRE AND COMFORT FATHER TIM In Jan Karon's bestselling Mitford Years series, Father Tim Kavanagh is more than the local rector. He's a friend an counselor to nearly everyone in the village...

  • Shepherds Abiding

    Mitford - 8

    Father Tim has always lived what he calls "the life of the mind" and has never learned to savor the work of his hands. But that changes when he finds a derelict nativity scene that has suffered the indignities of time and neglect. Does he have what i...

  • The Trellis and the Seed

    The little seed spent the winter in a jelly glass on the top shelf of a chinacupboard. It was only a seed and very, very small. How could it ever be a vine with sweet-smelling blossoms? When spring came, the Nice Lady made a hole for the seed and pla...

  • Light from Heaven

    Mitford - 9

    Father Tim takes on a new challenge in this inspirational installment in the beloved Mitford series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bathed in Prayer.  Father Tim Kavanagh has been asked to “come up higher” more than ...

  • Violet Comes to Stay

    Mitford for Children - 1

    Violet Comes to Stay is the first in a series of storybooks inspired by Cynthia Coppersmith, Father Tim's wife from Jan Karon's bestselling Mitford Years series. Jan Karon's legions of fans will love this timeless story about the endearing white kitt...

  • Violet Goes to the Country

    When Violet the cat accompanies her owner, Alice, to the country, she keeps getting in the way of Alice's uncle, who is "not much of a cat person," in this heartwarming second installment in a series of bestselling Mitford Storybooks....

  • Home to Holly Springs

    Father Tim - 1

    Sometimes a trip back home becomes a journey of the soul. Thirty-eight years have passed since Father Tim Kavanagh left his Mississippi hometown, determined not to return. Then he receives a handwritten note postmarked Holly Springs. Cryptic and uns...

  • In the Company of Others

    Father Tim - 2

    Jan Karon's new series, launched with her New York Times bestselling Home to Holly Springs, thrilled legions of Mitford devotees, and also attracted a whole new set of readers. "Lovely," said USA Today. "Rejoice!" said The Washington Post. In this s...



  • Jeremy: The Tale of the Honest Bunny

    Jeremy is a handmade English bunny with honesty sewn into his very being. So when he learns that he was made for someone in North Carolina, Jeremy hops right off to deliver himself to his new owner. But North Carolina is a long way from England, as J...

  • Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

    Mitford - 10

    After five hectic years of retirement from Lord’s Chapel, Father Tim Kavanagh returns with his wife, Cynthia, from a so-called pleasure trip to the land of his Irish ancestors. While glad to be at home in Mitford, something is defini...

  • Come Rain or Come Shine

    Mitford - 11

    Over the course of ten Mitford novels, fans have kept a special place in their hearts for Dooley Kavanagh, first seen in At Home in Mitford as a barefoot, freckle-faced boy in filthy overalls. Now, Father Tim Kavanagh’s adopted son has graduate...

  • To Be Where You Are

    Mitford - 12

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon returns with the fourteenth novel in the beloved Mitford series, featuring three generations of Kavanaghs. After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realiz...

  • Bathed in Prayer

    A new must-have collection for fans of the New York Times bestselling Mitford series, featuring the prayers, sermons, and inspiration from beloved Father Tim, as well as new essays and reflections on faith from author Jan Karon. Over the course of...

Award-Winning Books by Jan Karon

A Common Life
2002 Christianity Today Book Award -- Fiction
Home to Holly Springs
2008 Christy Award -- Series
In This Mountain
2003 Christianity Today Book Award -- Fiction
A New Song
2000 Christianity Today Book Award -- Fiction
2000 Christy Award -- Contemporary
2000 Gold Medallion Book Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jan Karon has published 24 books.

Jan Karon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Bathed in Prayer, was published in November 2018.

The first book by Jan Karon, At Home in Mitford, was published in October 1994.

Yes. Jan Karon has 3 series.
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