Blue Camellia Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Camellia | 1957 | Buy |
| Gold Slippers / Victorine | 1974 | Buy |
Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Letters From a Senator’s Wife | 1924 | Buy |
| Silver Seas & Golden Cities | 1931 | Buy |
| Pioneering people in northern New England | 1937 | Buy |
| Written in heaven | 1937 | Buy |
| Bernadette of Lourdes | 1940 | Buy |
| The sublime shepherdess | 1940 | Buy |
| All this is Louisiana | 1950 | Buy |
| The cost of a best seller | 1950 | Buy |
| The Frances Parkinson Keyes Cookbook | 1955 | Buy |
| St. Anne | 1955 | Buy |
| Christmas gift | 1960 | Buy |
| The Rose and the Lily | 1961 | Buy |
| Therese Saint Of A Little Way | 1962 | Buy |
| Three ways of love | 1963 | Buy |
| Christmas is everywhere | 1964 | Buy |
| Christmas at home | 1965 | Buy |
| All Flags Flying | 1972 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Queen Anne’s Lace | 1930 | Buy |
| Lady Blanche Farm | 1931 | Buy |
| Capital Kaleidoscope | 1937 | Buy |
| Parts Unknown | 1938 | Buy |
| The Great Tradition | 1939 | Buy |
| All That Glitters | 1940 | Buy |
| Crescent Carnival | 1942 | Buy |
| Fielding’s Folly | 1943 | Buy |
| The Old Gray Homestead | 1943 | Buy |
| Also the Hills | 1943 | Buy |
| Came a Cavalier | 1947 | Buy |
| Once on Esplanade | 1947 | Buy |
| Along a Little Way | 1948 | Buy |
| Dinner at Antoine’s | 1948 | Buy |
| The Safe Bridge | 1950 | Buy |
| St. Teresa of Lisieux | 1950 | Buy |
| The Grace of Guadalupe | 1951 | Buy |
| Joy Street | 1951 | Buy |
| Steamboat Gothic | 1952 | Buy |
| Larry Vincent | 1953 | Buy |
| The Royal Box | 1954 | Buy |
| The Land of Stones and Saints | 1958 | Buy |
| Mother Cabrini | 1959 | Buy |
| Station Wagon in Spain / The Letter from Spain | 1959 | Buy |
| Roses in December | 1960 | Buy |
| The Ambassadress | 1961 | Buy |
| The Chess Players | 1961 | Buy |
| The Career Of David Noble | 1962 | Buy |
| If Ever I Cease to Love | 1962 | Buy |
| Sylvia Cary | 1962 | Buy |
| Madame Castel’s Lodger | 1963 | Buy |
| The Explorer | 1965 | Buy |
| I, The King | 1966 | Buy |
| Tongues of Fire | 1966 | Buy |
| The Heritage | 1968 | Buy |
| Senator Marlowe’s Daughter | 1969 | Buy |
| The River Road | 1970 | Buy |
| Vail D’Alvery | 1970 | Buy |
| The Summer My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon | 2023 | Buy |
Frances Parkinson Keyes was one of the bestselling American novelists of the mid-20th century, producing nearly 60 books of fiction and non-fiction between 1924 and the early 1970s. Her novels are known for their detailed settings, often drawing on the specific cultures and landscapes of Louisiana, Washington D.C., and various European locations. Dinner at Antoine’s, set in the famous New Orleans restaurant, became one of her signature works and captured the social world of the city with precision.
Her fiction career spanned four decades and covered a wide range of settings and historical periods. She wrote about American political life in Senator Marlowe’s Daughter and The Ambassadress, the antebellum South in Steamboat Gothic and The River Road, and European settings in Station Wagon in Spain and I, The King. Her non-fiction includes religious biographies, travel writing, and Letters From a Senator’s Wife, drawn from her years as the spouse of a New Hampshire senator.
Keyes brought a journalist’s attention to detail and a genuine curiosity about other cultures to her fiction. Her books were popular with readers who enjoyed immersive, place-driven storytelling, and several of her Louisiana novels remain in print today.