Richard Paul Evans

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  • Bibliography:
    55 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1994
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Broken Road

1 - The Broken Road (May-2017)
2 - The Forgotten Road (May-2018)
3 - The Road Home (May-2019)

Christmas Box

1 - Christmas Box (Nov-1994)
2 - Timepiece (Nov-1995)
3 - The Letter (Oct-1997)

Locket Trilogy

1 - The Locket (Oct-1998)
2 - The Looking Glass (Sep-1999)
3 - The Carousel (Oct-2000)

Michael Vey

1 - The Prisoner of Cell 25 (Aug-2011)
2 - Rise of the Elgen (Aug-2012)
3 - Battle of the Ampere (Sep-2013)
4 - Hunt For Jade Dragon (Sep-2014)
5 - Storm of Lightning (Sep-2015)
6 - Fall of Hades (Sep-2016)
7 - The Final Spark (Sep-2017)
8 - The Parasite (Oct-2022)
9 - The Traitor (Sep-2023)
10 - Michael Vey 10 (Dec-2024)
Elgen Guard General Handbook (Dec-2013)

Mistletoe

1 - The Mistletoe Promise (Nov-2014)
2 - The Mistletoe Inn (Nov-2015)
3 - The Mistletoe Secret (Nov-2016)

Noel Collection

1 - The Noel Diary (Nov-2017)
2 - The Noel Stranger (Nov-2018)
3 - Noel Street (Nov-2019)
4 - The Noel Letters (Oct-2020)

Walk

1 - The Walk (Apr-2010)
2 - Miles to Go (Apr-2011)
3 - The Road to Grace (May-2012)
4 - A Step of Faith (May-2013)
5 - Walking on Water (May-2014)

Book List in Order: 55 titles

  • Christmas Box

    Christmas Box - 1

    Since it was first published, more than seven million people have been touched by the magic of The Christmas Box, a holiday classic that is as beloved in our time as A Christmas Carol was in Dickens's.When Richard Paul Evans wrote The Christmas Box, ...

  • Timepiece

    Christmas Box - 2

    The second book of The Christmas Box trilogy, Timepiece is the unforgettable story of hope and the source of the wisdom MaryAnne Parkin shared with Richard in The Christmas Box. Timepiece traces the loves of David and MaryAnne Parkin as they discover...

  • The Letter

    Christmas Box - 3

    In the final episode in The Christmas Box collection, David and MaryAnne Parkin find a mysterious letter at the base of their child Andrea's grave that eventually returns joy to their marriage, which had been strained in the nineteen years si...

  • The Christmas Candle

    On a dark, snowy Christmas Eve, a young man hurrying home for a family celebration enters a chandler's shop to buy a candle for his lantern. He scoffs at the beautifully sculpted creations of the old chandler and instead purchases a simple, inexpensi...

  • The Locket

    Locket Trilogy - 1

    After the death of his mother, Michael Keddington finds employment at the Arcadia nursing home where he befriends Esther, a reclusive but beautiful elderly woman who lives in mourning for her youth and lost love. Michael faces his own challenges whe...

  • The Looking Glass

    Locket Trilogy - 2

    An ex-minister, sometime gambler, and fugitive from justice, Hunter Bell comes to the aid of Quaye MacGandley, a beautiful young Irish woman, abused and abandoned by a brutal husband, and together these two lost and wounded people find a way to bring...

  • The Dance

    Dancing marks the rites of passage in a daughter's life and that of the father who loves her. From her first carefree twirling in the flower-dotted yard, to her first solo performance in The Nutcracker, to the waltz of her wedding night, her father i...

  • The Quotable Evans

  • The Spyglass

    There once was a king who ruled over a darkened kingdom. Crops were planted and then failed, houses were built and then neglected, people were impoverished and dispirited. But when a traveler arrives at the crumbling palace, he shows the monarch his ...



  • The Carousel

    Locket Trilogy - 3

    This is the love story of Michael Keddington and Faye Murrow, a love story that takes place not in seclusion but in the real world, with the challenges that all lovers must face. No relationship is an island: There are threads that bind us all and pu...

  • The Tower

    Living in ancient China, a young man believes that the height at which he lives determines his greatness and so builds a tower above all others upon which he resides, but after a visit from a special bird and a meeting with a wise old woman, the youn...

  • The Light of Christmas

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Mistletoe Promise comes a picture book about a boy who learns a lesson about the true meaning of Christmas. This holiday classic is perfect for gift-giving. High in the mounta...

  • The Last Promise

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Noel Street comes a rich and all-too-human novel about the tragedy and triumph of love...Years ago, a sweet girl from Utah was swept off her feet by a handsome Italian. Today, the sweet girl from Utah is ...

  • A Perfect Day

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Broken Road series presents an inspiring story about a man who has to rediscover his priorities after finding money and fame.   Robert Harlan has three loves in life: his wife, his daught...

  • The Sunflower

    “It has been said, ‘Seek not your destiny for it is seeking you.’” So begins this new and powerful novel from Richard Paul Evans, #1 bestselling author of The Christmas Box, The Walk series, and more.In the wake of personal tragedy, two peopl...

  • Finding Noel

    When I wrote my first novel, The Christmas Box, I never imagined it would become an international bestseller. It was a story for my two (then) little girls. But as I wrote, I realized that it was also for my mother -- to ease her pain over losing a c...

  • The Gift

    There is no hurt so great that love cannot heal it Nathan Hurst hated Christmas. For the rest of the world it was a day of joy and celebration; for Nathan it was simply a reminder of the event that destroyed his childhood until a snowstorm, a canc...

  • Grace

    She was my first kiss. My first love. She was a little match girl who could see the future in the flame of a candle. She was a runaway who taught me more about life than anyone has before or since. And when she was gone my innocence left with her. ...

  • The Christmas List

    A heartwarming and inspirational Christmas novel in the tradition of The Christmas Box, Grace, The Gift, and Finding Noel. The New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Walk series returns with a holiday novel of hope, love, and ...



  • Coloring Our Way to Calamity

    Dealing with low wage competition from overseas is not just "an" issue for our children's lives, it will turn out to be "the" issue, completely dwarfing all others. In this century, globalization, and its inevitable economic impact on jobs here at ho...

  • The Walk

    Walk - 1

    My name is Alan Christoffersen. You don't know me. 'Just another book in the library, ' my father would say. 'Unopened and unread.' You have no idea how far I've come or what I've lost. More important, you have no idea what I've found. --Prologue ...

  • Promise Me

    "As you read my story, there is something I want you to understand. That in spite of all the pain -- past, present and that still to come -- I wouldn’t have done anything differently. Nor would I trade the time I had with him for anything -- except...

  • Miles to Go

    Walk - 2

    When Alan Christofferson, a Seattle ad executive, loses everything he once believed defined his life, he chooses to walk away from it all on a cross-country pilgrimage that is both physical and spiritual. Join Alan's quest in The Walk by New York Tim...

  • The Prisoner of Cell 25

    Michael Vey - 1

    "THE STORY I'M ABOUT TO TELL YOU IS STRANGE. VERY STRANGE. IT'S MY STORY." To everyone at Meridian High School, Michael Vey is an ordinary fourteen-year. But Michael is anything but ordinary -- in fact, he's electric. When Michael's best friend...

  • Lost December

    “It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place. This is the story of my second chance.” -- Prologue of Lost December When Luke Crisp graduates f...

  • The Road to Grace

    Walk - 3

    Join one of America's beloved storytellers on a walk like no other: one man's unrelenting search for hope. Reeling from the sudden loss of his wife, his home, and his business, Alan Christoffersen, a once-successful advertising executive, has left...

  • Rise of the Elgen

    Michael Vey - 2

    I rolled over to my back, struggling for breath. The pain continued to pulse through my body -- a heavy throb followed by a sharp, crisp sting. The man said, "Trust me, there are worse things in this world than Cell 25." MICHAEL, TAYLOR, OSTIN, AN...

  • A Winter Dream

    The author of the bestselling phenomenon The Christmas Box presents a new holiday novel about family, fate and forgiveness. Joseph Jacobson is the twelfth of thirteen siblings, all of whom are employed by their father’s successful Colorado adve...

  • A Step of Faith

    Walk - 4

    “Life is not lived in the long, downhill stretches of expressways, but in the obscure, perilous trails and back roads where we stumble and feel our way through the fog of our unknowing. Life is not a run. It is just one step of faith after another....



  • The Christmas Box Miracle

    Since it was first published, more than seven million people have been touched by the magic of The Christmas Box, a holiday classic that is as beloved in our time as A Christmas Carol was in Dickens's. When Richard Paul Evans wrote The Christmas Bo...

  • Battle of the Ampere

    Michael Vey - 3

    Michael, Taylor, Ostin and the rest of the Electroclan have destroyed the largest of the Elgen Starxource plants, but now they’re scattered across the Amazon jungle. The Elgen have joined forces with the Peruvian army to capture the Electroclan, an...

  • The Four Doors

    The #1 bestselling author of "The Walk" and "The Christmas Box" recounts the lessons he wishes someone had taught him about realizing dreams and living a life that matters. More than a decade ago, Richard Paul Evans gave a talk to an auditorium fu...

  • Elgen Guard General Handbook

    Michael Vey

    Discover the inside workings of the Elgen Guard in this exclusive ebook companion to the electrifying #1 New York Times bestselling Michael Vey series from Richard Paul Evans! If the Electroclan is going to defeat the Elgen, they’ll need to gath...

  • Walking on Water

    Walk - 5

    In this fifth New York Times bestseller in the Walk series, Richard Paul Evans’s hero Alan Christoffersen must say some painful goodbyes and learn some important lessons as he comes to the end of his cross-country walk to Key West. After the dea...

  • Hunt For Jade Dragon

    Michael Vey - 4

    Michael and his friends must rescue a child prodigy as the thrilling action continues in this electrifying fourth installment of the New York Times bestselling series! Michael, Taylor, Ostin and the rest of the Electroclan head to China in search ...

  • The Mistletoe Promise

    Mistletoe - 1

    Elise Dutton dreads the arrival of another holiday season. Three years earlier, her husband cheated on her with her best friend, resulting in a bitter divorce that left her alone, broken, and distrustful. Then, one November day, a stranger approac...

  • Storm of Lightning

    Michael Vey - 5

    Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan go on their most dangerous mission yet as the thrilling action continues in this electrifying fifth installment of the New York Times bestselling series! The resistance movement has been comp...

  • If Only

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Mistletoe Promise comes a novel filled with hope and redemption about two teens who turn to each other to find trust and love. If only I could stay with you forever. I woul...

  • The Mistletoe Inn

    Mistletoe - 2

    At thirty-two Kimberly Rossi, a finance officer at a Lexus car dealership, has had her heart broken more times than she wants to remember. With two failed engagements, a divorce and again alone with no prospects, she hardly seems the type to dream of...



  • Fall of Hades

    Michael Vey - 6

    Michael and his friends try to recruit Hatch's Electric Youth to their side as the thrilling action continues in this electrifying sixth installment of the New York Times bestselling series. ...

  • The Mistletoe Secret

    Mistletoe - 3

    The master of the holiday novel presents the moving story of two people who brave loneliness and loss to find love. Dear Universe, Is anyone out there? Thinking no one is reading, a blogger who calls herself LBH writes about her most personal ...

  • The Broken Road

    Broken Road - 1

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mistletoe Promise and The Walk comes a compelling new series about a cross-country road trip across Route 66. ...

  • The Final Spark

    Michael Vey - 7

    Michael Vey is missing and it’s up to the Electroclan to find him in this electrifying seventh installment of the New York Times bestselling series! The final book in the Michael Vey series opens with the Electroclan facing a devastating loss: M...

  • The Noel Diary

    Noel Collection - 1

    In this new holiday-themed novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mistletoe Promise and The Walk, a man receives the best Christmas present he could ask for: the chance to re-write the past. Bestselling romance author Jacob Chu...

  • The Forgotten Road

    Broken Road - 2

    The second novel in the bestselling trilogy from Richard Paul Evans about a man on an inspirational pilgrimage across Route 66 to find his way back to himself. Chicago celebrity and successful pitchman Charles James is supposed to be dead. Everyon...

  • The Noel Stranger

    Noel Collection - 2

    From “The King of Christmas,” Richard Paul Evans, the next exciting holiday-themed novel in his New York Times bestselling The Noel Collection. Maggie Walther feels like her world is imploding. Publicly humiliated after her husband, a local co...

  • The Road Home

    Broken Road - 3

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans, the dramatic conclusion in the riveting Broken Road trilogy -- a powerful redemption story about finding happiness on a pilgrimage across iconic Route 66. Chicago celebrity and pitchman...

  • Noel Street

    Noel Collection - 3

    In this new offering from “the king of Christmas fiction” (The New York Times), #1 bestselling author Richard Paul Evans shares a story of heart, loyalty, and hope as he explores the deeper meaning of the holiday season and asks what it truly mea...

  • The Noel Letters

    Noel Collection - 4

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans returns this holiday season with a tale of love, belonging, and family, following a trail of letters that leads to a Christmas revelation about the healing miracle of hope and forgiveness. A...



  • The Christmas Promise

    This holiday season, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Noel Collection returns with another heartwarming story of secrets, heartbreak, forgiveness, and the true meaning of Christmas. On the night of her high school graduation, Richel...

  • The Parasite

    Michael Vey - 8

    The eighth installment of the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling series. Join Michael and the Electroclan as a new threat arises even more terrible and calculating than the Elgen.Michael Vey and his fellow members of the Electroclan were fi...

  • A Christmas Memory

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and the Noel Collection comes A Christmas Memory, a poignant, deeply felt novel about loss, grief, the healing power of forgiveness, and the true meaning of t...

  • The Traitor

    Michael Vey - 9

    In this electrifying ninth installment of the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling Michael Vey series, the Electroclan must fight a former friend to save their captured ally!With Tara still in the clutches of the Elite Elgen Guard Unit the Ch...

  • Christmas in Bethel

    From Richard Paul Evans, the New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Promise and The Christmas Box -- “the most popular holiday tale since Tiny Tim” (Newsweek) -- a new novel celebrating the life-changing power of the holiday spirit. ...

  • Michael Vey 10

    Michael Vey - 10

    In this electrifying tenth and final installment of the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling Michael Vey series, the Electroclan go on a high-stakes rescue mission.After saving Tara and Jack -- and losing a few of their own -- in a dramatic b...

Award-Winning Books by Richard Paul Evans

The Prisoner of Cell 25
2013 Nevada Young Readers' Award -- Intermediate
2014 Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award -- Grades 6-8
2014 Young Hoosier Book Award -- Middle Grades
2015 Georgia Children's Book Award -- Children's Book
The Sunflower
2005 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Women's Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Paul Evans has published 55 books.

Richard Paul Evans does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Michael Vey 10, was published in December 2024.

The first book by Richard Paul Evans, Christmas Box, was published in November 1994.

Yes. Richard Paul Evans has 7 series.
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