Jennifer Chiaverini

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1999
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

1 - The Quilter's Apprentice (Apr-1999)
2 - Round Robin (Apr-2000)
3 - The Cross-Country Quilters (Apr-2001)
4 - The Runaway Quilt (Apr-2002)
5 - The Quilter's Legacy (Apr-2003)
6 - The Master Quilter (Apr-2004)
7 - The Sugar Camp Quilt (Apr-2005)
8 - The Christmas Quilt (Nov-2005)
9 - Circle of Quilters (Apr-2006)
10 - The Quilter's Homecoming (Apr-2007)
11 - The New Year's Quilt (Nov-2007)
12 - The Winding Ways Quilt (Apr-2008)
13 - The Quilter's Kitchen (Oct-2008)
14 - The Lost Quilter (Apr-2009)
15 - A Quilter's Holiday (Nov-2009)
16 - The Aloha Quilt (Apr-2010)
17 - The Union Quilters (Mar-2011)
18 - The Wedding Quilt (Oct-2011)
19 - Sonoma Rose (Mar-2012)
20 - The Giving Quilt (Nov-2012)
20.5 - The Quilter's Ghost (Oct-2015)
21 - The Christmas Boutique (Oct-2019)
22 - The Museum of Lost Quilts (May-2024)
23 - The World's Fair Quilt (Apr-2025)
An ELM Creek Quilts Companion: New Fiction, Traditions, Quilts, and Favorite Moments from the Beloved Series (Nov-2013)

Mrs. Lincoln

1 - Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker (Jan-2013)
2 - Mrs. Lincoln's Rival (Jan-2014)
3 - Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters (Jun-2020)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • The Quilter's Apprentice

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 1

    When Sarah McClure and her husband, Matt, move to Waterford, Pennsylvania, she hopes to make a fresh start in the small college town. Unable to find a job both practical and fulfilling, she takes a temporary position at Elm Creek Manor helping its re...

  • Round Robin

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 2

    She chose green and blue for the colors of Elm Creek Manor. She chose blue for truth and green for new beginnings... The Elm Creek Quilters have begun a round robin ... a quilt created by sewing concentric patchwork to a central block as it is passe...

  • The Cross-Country Quilters

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 3

    The third in the Elm Creek Quilts series, The Cross-Country Quilters introduces a group of far-flung friends who pledge to complete, in one year's time, a "challenge quilt" symbolic of each woman's personal goals. These five women arrive at Elm Cree...

  • The Runaway Quilt

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 4

    In this fourth novel in the beloved Elm Creek Quilts series, Sylvia Compson searches for evidence of her ancestors' courageous involvement in the Underground Railroad. Alerted that her family may have had ties to the slaveholding South, Sylvia se...

  • The Quilter's Legacy

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 5

    Resolving to locate her mother's heirloom quilts after so many years, Sylvia Compson embarks on a cross-country investigation of antique shops, quilt museums, and other, more unexpected places, where offers of assistance are not always what they seem...

  • The Master Quilter

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 6

    The Master Quilter opens with the sound of wedding bells ringing in the ears of the Elm Creek Quilters. The close-knit group can hardly believe that their own Sylvia Compson planned her holiday wedding to sweetheart Andrew in complete secrecy, withou...

  • The Sugar Camp Quilt

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 7

    A week after Uncle Jacob's death, Abel Wright came to pay his respects. Dorothea Granger took him to the grave and stood some distance away while he bowed his head in silent prayer. Then he looked up and said, "I have something to tell you and your f...

  • The Christmas Quilt

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 8

    When Christmas Eve comes to Elm Creek Manor, the tenor of the holiday is far from certain. Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, the Master Quilter, has her own reasons for preferring a quiet, even subdued, Christmas. Her young friend Sarah McClure, however, tak...

  • Circle of Quilters

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 9

    Elm Creek Quilts, the thriving artists' retreat at Elm Creek Manor, is a place that stakes its sterling reputation on the palpable creative energy and collective goodwill of its teachers and students. But when two of its founding members decide to le...



  • The Quilter's Homecoming

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 10

    Newly wed in a festive yet poignant ceremony at Elm Creek Manor, bride Elizabeth Nelson takes leave of her ancestral Pennsylvania home. Setting off with her husband, Henry, on the adventure of a lifetime, Elizabeth packs the couple's trunk with more ...

  • The New Year's Quilt

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 11

    At the close of THE QUILTER'S LEGACY, the Elm Creek Quilters were all in attendance on Christmas Eve, where they were surprised yet overjoyed to witness the wedding of Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, the Master Quilter, to her beloved Andrew Cooper. TH...

  • The Winding Ways Quilt

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 12

    Jennifer Chiaverini's bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series continues with The Winding Ways Quilt, in which the arrival of newcomers into the circle of quilters heralds unexpected journeys down pathways near and far. Quilters have flocked to Elm Cr...

  • The Quilter's Kitchen

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 13

    Anna Del Maso had known that she wanted to be a chef since she was in the seventh grade. "Somehow everything in my life ends up being about food," she realizes, as she begins the latest of her food-themed quilts. Her twin passions have converged in a...

  • The Lost Quilter

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 14

    Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson treasures an antique quilt called by three names -- Birds in the Air, after its pattern; the Runaway Quilt, after the woman who sewed it; and the Elm Creek Quilt, after the place to which its maker longed to re...

  • A Quilter's Holiday

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 15

    For the Elm Creek Quilters, the day after Thanksgiving marks the start of the quilting season, a time to gather at Elm Creek Manor and spend the day stitching holiday gifts for loved ones. This year, in keeping with the season's spirit of gratitude, ...

  • The Aloha Quilt

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 16

    Another season of Elm Creek Quilt Camp has come to a close, and Bonnie Markham faces a bleak and lonely winter ahead, with her quilt shop out of business and her divorce looming. A welcome escape comes when Claire, a beloved college friend, unexpecte...

  • The Union Quilters

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 17

    The New York Times bestselling author of the Elm Creek Quilts series joins the Dutton list with a Civil War-era tale of love and sacrifice behind Union lines. With The Union Quilters, Chiaverini delivers a powerful story of a remarkable group of w...

  • The Wedding Quilt

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 18

    The New York Times bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series continues, with a novel that celebrates one of America's most romantic and enduring traditions. Sarah McClure arrived at Elm Creek Manor as a newlywed, never suspecting that her quilting lesso...

  • Sonoma Rose

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 19

    From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a powerful and dramatic Prohibition-era story that follows the fortunes of Rosa Diaz Barclay, a woman who plunges into the unknown for the safety of her children and the love of a good but f...



  • The Giving Quilt

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 20

    At Elm Creek Manor, the week after Thanksgiving is “Quiltsgiving,” a time to commence a season of generosity. From near and far, quilters and aspiring quilters -- a librarian, a teacher, a college student, and a quilt-shop clerk among them -- gat...

  • Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker

    Mrs. Lincoln - 1

    New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini illuminates the extraordinary friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a former slave who won her freedom by the skill of her needle, and the friendship of the First Lady ...

  • The Spymistress

    New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini is back with another enthralling historical novel set during the Civil War era, this time inspired by the life of "a true Union woman as true as steel” who risked everything by caring for Union ...

  • An ELM Creek Quilts Companion: New Fiction, Traditions, Quilts, and Favorite Moments from the Beloved Series

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

    Over the course of the bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series, readers have expressed a longing to visit Elm Creek Manor, meet the quilters themselves, and admire their beautiful creations. Jennifer Chiaverini’s An Elm Creek Quilts Companion is the ne...

  • Mrs. Lincoln's Rival

    Mrs. Lincoln - 2

    The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, Jennifer Chiaverini, reveals the famous First Lady’s very public social and political contest with Kate Chase Sprague. Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio,...

  • Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule

    The New York Times bestselling author of "Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker" and "Mrs. Lincoln's Rival" imagines the inner life of Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general’s wife and the First Lady, yet who grappled with a profound and complex relations...

  • The Quilter's Ghost

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 20.5

    On a brisk and blustery Halloween night, Sylvia and the Elm Creek Quilters gather at Elm Creek Manor, where Sylvia's sister-in-law, Agnes, shares an unsettling story from Bergstrom family history, a mystery that defies logical explanation. Could it b...

  • Christmas Bells

    New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini celebrates Christmas, past and present, with a wondrous novel inspired by the classic poem “Christmas Bells,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I heard the bells on Christmas Day/ Their old fa...

  • Fates and Traitors: A Novel of John Wilkes Booth

    The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker returns with a riveting work of historical fiction following the notorious John Wilkes Booth and the four women who kept his perilous confidence. John Wilkes Booth, the mercuria...

  • The Fabric Diary and The Runner's Quilt

    Two short stories by the New York Times best-selling author of the Elm Creek Quilts series, Jennifer Chiaverini. In “The Fabric Diary,” the new owner of a Manhattan bed-and-breakfast discovers a mysterious scrapbook of fabric swatches, compelling...



  • Enchantress of Numbers

    New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini illuminates the life of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace -- Lord Byron's daughter and the world's first computer progammer. The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, rev...

  • Resistance Women

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, an enthralling historical saga that recreates the danger, romance, and sacrifice of an era and brings to life one courageous, passionate American -- Mildred Fish Harnack -- an...

  • The Christmas Boutique

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 21

    New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with a delightful Christmas-themed installment in her beloved Elm Creek Quilts series -- a captivating, heartwarming tale sure to become a holiday favorite. Just weeks before Christmas,...

  • Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters

    Mrs. Lincoln - 3

    The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker returns to her most famous heroine, Mary Todd Lincoln, in this compelling story of love, loss, and sisterhood rich with history and suspense. In May 1875, Elizabeth Todd Edwards ...

  • The Women's March

    New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with The Women’s March, an enthralling historical novel of the women’s suffrage movement inspired by three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to w...

  • Switchboard Soldiers

    From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I -- the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military, smashed the workplac...

  • Canary Girls

    Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini’s lively and illuminating novel about the “munitionettes” who built bombs in Britain’s arsenals during World War I, risking their...

  • The Museum of Lost Quilts

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 22

    Jennifer Chiaverini’s beloved and bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series returns with the first Elm Creek Quilts novel since 2019’s The Christmas Boutique.Summer Sullivan, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, has spent the last two year...

  • The World's Fair Quilt

    An Elm Creek Quilts Novel - 23

    A timely celebration of quilting, family, community, and history in this latest novel in the perennially popular Elm Creek Quilts series from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini.As fall paints the Pennsylvania countryside in flaming...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jennifer Chiaverini has published 38 books.

The next book by Jennifer Chiaverini, The World's Fair Quilt, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Jennifer Chiaverini, The Quilter's Apprentice, was published in April 1999.

Yes. Jennifer Chiaverini has 2 series.
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