Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Woman To Woman | 1997 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 2 | Never Too Late | 1999 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 3 | She’s the One | 1999 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 4 | Someone Like You | 2000 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 5 | What She Wants | 2001 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 6 | Just Between Us | 2002 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 7 | Best of Friends | 2003 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 8 | Always and Forever | 2004 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 9 | Past Secrets | 2006 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 10 | Lessons in Heartbreak | 2008 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 11 | Once In a Lifetime | 2009 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 12 | Homecoming | 2010 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 13 | The House on Willow Street | 2012 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 14 | The Honey Queen | 2013 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 15 | It Started with Paris | 2014 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 16 | Between Sisters | 2015 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 17 | The Year that Changed Everything | 2018 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 18 | Secrets of a Happy Marriage | 2018 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 19 | A Woman’s Heart | 2020 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 20 | The Family Gift | 2021 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 21 | Other Women | 2021 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 22 | The Wedding Party | 2022 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
| 23 | Sisterhood | 2024 | Cathy Kelly | Buy |
Cathy Kelly’s standalone novels have a consistent emotional register: women, often in their 30s and 40s, dealing with real life rather than romance-novel fantasy. Past Secrets, Lessons in Heartbreak, and Once In a Lifetime all draw on loss, reinvention, and the kinds of complicated feelings that don’t resolve neatly.
Her later novels — Secrets of a Happy Marriage, The Family Gift, Other Women, The Wedding Party, and Sisterhood — reflect a writer who has grown more interested in the texture of long-term relationships and the dynamics of groups of women rather than individual protagonists. The Year That Changed Everything was a departure in structure, interweaving multiple women’s stories more explicitly than her earlier work.