Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Same Last Name | 1983 | Kathleen Gilles Seidel | Buy |
| 2 | A Risk Worth Taking | 1983 | Kathleen Gilles Seidel | Buy |
| 3 | Mirrors and Mistakes | 1984 | Kathleen Gilles Seidel | Buy |
| 4 | When Love Isn’t Enough | 1984 | Kathleen Gilles Seidel | Buy |
| 5 | Maybe This Time | 1990 | Kathleen Gilles Seidel | Buy |
| 6 | More Than You Dreamed | 1991 | Kathleen Gilles Seidel | Buy |
| 7 | Summer’s End | 1999 | Kathleen Gilles Seidel | Buy |
| 8 | Please Remember This | 2002 | Kathleen Gilles Seidel | Buy |
| 9 | A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity | 2006 | Kathleen Gilles Seidel | Buy |
| 10 | Keep Your Mouth Shut and Wear Beige | 2008 | Kathleen Gilles Seidel | Buy |
Kathleen Gilles Seidel’s ten standalone novels span from 1983 to 2008, tracking her growth from category romance to broader women’s fiction. Her early books – The Same Last Name, A Risk Worth Taking – are compact romances, while later work like Please Remember This (2002) and A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity (2006) take on wider subjects.
The evolution reflects both Seidel’s development as a writer and changes in the romance genre itself. Keep Your Mouth Shut and Wear Beige (2008), with its humor-tinged title, suggests the kind of confident, self-aware fiction that comes from decades of practice.