Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Queen Anne’s Lace | 1930 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 2 | Lady Blanche Farm | 1931 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 3 | Capital Kaleidoscope | 1937 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 4 | Parts Unknown | 1938 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 5 | The Great Tradition | 1939 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 6 | All That Glitters | 1940 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 7 | Crescent Carnival | 1942 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 8 | Fielding’s Folly | 1943 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 9 | The Old Gray Homestead | 1943 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 10 | Also the Hills | 1943 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 11 | Came a Cavalier | 1947 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 12 | Once on Esplanade | 1947 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 13 | Along a Little Way | 1948 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 14 | Dinner at Antoine’s | 1948 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 15 | The Safe Bridge | 1950 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 16 | St. Teresa of Lisieux | 1950 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 17 | The Grace of Guadalupe | 1951 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 18 | Joy Street | 1951 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 19 | Steamboat Gothic | 1952 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 20 | Larry Vincent | 1953 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 21 | The Royal Box | 1954 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 22 | The Land of Stones and Saints | 1958 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 23 | Mother Cabrini | 1959 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 24 | Station Wagon in Spain / The Letter from Spain | 1959 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 25 | Roses in December | 1960 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 26 | The Ambassadress | 1961 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 27 | The Chess Players | 1961 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 28 | The Career Of David Noble | 1962 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 29 | If Ever I Cease to Love | 1962 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 30 | Sylvia Cary | 1962 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 31 | Madame Castel’s Lodger | 1963 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 32 | The Explorer | 1965 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 33 | I, The King | 1966 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 34 | Tongues of Fire | 1966 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 35 | The Heritage | 1968 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 36 | Senator Marlowe’s Daughter | 1969 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 37 | The River Road | 1970 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 38 | Vail D’Alvery | 1970 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
| 39 | The Summer My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon | 2023 | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Buy |
Frances Parkinson Keyes’s 39 standalone novels cover an enormous range of settings and time periods. Her Louisiana novels, including Dinner at Antoine’s, Crescent Carnival, and Steamboat Gothic, are probably her best-known works and draw on her deep familiarity with the state’s culture and history. But she wrote with equal confidence about Washington D.C. politics, European travel, and American life beyond the South.
Her career spanned from Queen Anne’s Lace (1930) to The River Road (1970), with a posthumous release appearing in 2023. The novels from her peak years in the 1940s and 1950s were consistent bestsellers, and titles like Joy Street, The Royal Box, and The Explorer show her ability to set a compelling story in almost any location she chose to write about.