Madeleine L'Engle

Works:

Novels for young adults

Chronos & Kairos series:

• Chronos (The Austin Family Chronicles):
  • 1. Meet the Austins (1960) ISBN 0-374-34929-0
    2. The Moon by Night (1963) ISBN 0-374-35049-3

       2.5. The Twenty-four Days Before Christmas (1984) ISBN 0-87788-843-4)^[b]

    3. The Young Unicorns (1968) ISBN 0-374-38778-8
    4. A Ring of Endless Light (1980) ISBN 0-374-36299-8 (Newbery Honor Book)

       4.5. The Anti-Muffins (1980) ISBN 0-8298-0415-3

    5. Troubling a Star (1994) ISBN 0-374-37783-9

       5.5. Miracle on 10th Street: And Other Christmas Writings (1998), a short story collection including The Twenty-four Days Before Christmas (1984) and A Full House: An Austin Family Christmas (1999)

       5.6. A Full House: An Austin Family Christmas (1999) ISBN 0-87788-020-4)^[b]

       5.7. "Rob Austin and the Millennium Bug", a short story included in the anthology Second Sight: Stories for a New Millennium (1999)

• Kairos (The Murry-O'Keefe Family Chronicles):
  Note: Within the Kairos series, books 1-4 of the first generation plus An Acceptable Time are jointly titled the Time Quintet.
  1. First-generation (Murry series):
     1. A Wrinkle in Time (1962; Newbery Award Winner) ISBN 0-374-38613-7
     2. A Wind in the Door (1973) ISBN 0-374-38443-6

        2.5. Intergalactic P.S. 3 (1970) ISBN 0-525-63405-3

     3. A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978) ISBN 0-374-37362-0 —National Book Award in category Children's Books (paperback).^[43][c]
     4. Many Waters (1986) ISBN 0-374-34796-4
  2. Second-generation (O'Keefe Family series):
     1. The Arm of the Starfish (1965) ISBN 0-374-30396-7
     2. Dragons in the Waters (1976) ISBN 0-374-31868-9
     3. A House Like a Lotus (1984) ISBN 0-374-33385-8
     4. An Acceptable Time (1989) ISBN 0-374-30027-5

Stand-alone releases:

• And Both Were Young (1949), revised and reissued with new material (1983) ISBN 0-440-90229-0
• The Journey with Jonah (1967) ISBN 0-374-33927-9
• The Joys of Love (2008) ISBN 0-374-33870-1^[44]

Novels

Katherine Forrester Vigneras series:

1. The Small Rain (1945) ISBN 0-374-26637-9
   • Prelude (1968), no ISBN, an adaptation of the first half of The Small Rain
2. A Severed Wasp (1982) ISBN 0-374-26131-8

Camilla Dickinson series:

1. Camilla Dickinson (1951), later republished in slightly different form as Camilla (1965), novel of young adult ISBN 0-440-01020-9
2. A Live Coal in the Sea (1996) ISBN 0-374-18989-7

Stand-alones:

• Ilsa (1946) ISBN 9-781504-049443
• A Winter's Love (1957), ISBN 0-345-30644-9
• The Love Letters (1966), revised and reissued as Love Letters (2000) ISBN 0-87788-528-1
• The Other Side of the Sun (1971) ISBN 0-87788-615-6^[45]
• Certain Women (1992) ISBN 0-374-12025-0

Note: some ISBNs given are for later paperback editions, since no such numbering existed when L'Engle's earlier titles were published in hardcover.

Children's books

Picture books:

• Dance in the Desert (1969) ISBN 0-374-41684-2
• The Glorious Impossible (1990) ISBN 0-671-68690-9
• The Other Dog (2001) ISBN 1-58717-040-X
• A Book, Too, Can Be a Star (2022), a picture book biography of Madeleine L'Engle

Short stories

Collections:

• The Sphinx at Dawn: Two Stories (1982), collection of 2 short stories:

  "Pakko's Camel", "The Sphinx at Dawn"

• 101st Miracle: Early Short Stories by Madeleine L'Engle (1999), collection of 12 short stories: ISBN 1-88091-343-7

  "Poor Little Saturday", "Six Good People", and more. (Although there is an ISBN listed, there is no record of this title ever being published.)

• The Moment of Tenderness (2020), collection of 18 short stories

Poems

Collections:

• The Weather of the Heart: Selected Poems (1978)
• Wintersong: Christmas Readings (1996, with Luci Shaw) ISBN 1-57383-332-0
• Mothers And Daughters (1997) ISBN 1-89683-605-4
• The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle (2005), collection of nearly 200 poems, including 18 that have never before been published: ISBN 0-87788-086-7

  "Lines Scribbled on an Envelope", "The Weather of the Heart", "A Cry Like a Bell", and more

Plays

• 18 Washington Square South: A Comedy In One Act (1944)

Non-fiction[edit]

Autobiographies and memoirs

Crosswicks Journals series:

1. A Circle of Quiet (1972) ISBN 0-374-12374-8
2. The Summer of the Great-grandmother (1974) ISBN 0-374-27174-7
3. The Irrational Season (1977) ISBN 0-374-17733-3
4. Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage (1988) ISBN 0-374-28020-7 (U.K. and Australia title: From This Day Forward)

Stand-alones:

• Glimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts and Reflections (1996, with Carole F. Chase) ISBN 0-06065-281-0
• Friends for the Journey (1997, with Luci Shaw) ISBN 0-89283-986-4
• My Own Small Place: Developing the Writing Life (1998) ISBN 0-87788-571-0 (Although there is a ISBN for this title, there is no record of it having ever been released.)
• L'Engle, Madeleine (2001). Carole F. Chase (ed.). Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life. ISBN 0-87788-157-X.

Religion

Genesis Trilogy:

1. And It Was Good: Reflections on Beginnings (1983) ISBN 0-87788-046-8
2. A Stone for a Pillow (1986) ISBN 0-87788-789-6
3. Sold into Egypt (1989) ISBN 0-87788-766-7

Stand-alones:

• Everyday Prayers (1974) ISBN 0-81921-154-0
• Prayers for Sunday (1975) ISBN 0-81921-153-2
• Spirit And Light: Essays In Historical Theology (1976) ISBN 0-81640-310-4
• Ladder of Angels: Stories from the Bible Illustrated by Children of the World (1979) ISBN 0-06255-619-3
• Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art (1980) ISBN 0-87788-918-X
• Trailing Clouds of Glory: Spiritual Values in Children's Literature (1985) ISBN 0-66432-721-4
• The Rock that is Higher: Story as Truth (1993)
• Anytime Prayers (1994) ISBN 0-87788-055-7
• Penguins and Golden Calves: Icons and Idols in Antarctica and Other Spiritual Places (1996) ISBN 0-87788-631-8
• Bright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation (1997) ISBN 0-87788-079-4
• Miracle on 10th Street: And Other Christmas Writings (1998) ISBN 0-87788-531-1

  Includes two short stories about the Austin Family Chronicles series.

• A Prayerbook for Spiritual Friends (1999, with Luci Shaw) ISBN 0-80663-892-3
• Mothers and Sons (2000) ISBN 0-87788-567-2

Writing

• Dare To Be Creative!: A Lecture Presented At The Library Of Congress, November 16, 1983 (1984) ISBN 0-84440-456-X
• Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?: The Celebrated Speech (2012)