Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Moment I Saw You | 1998 | Lisa Samson | Buy |
| 2 | The Church Ladies | 2001 | Lisa Samson | Buy |
| 3 | Songbird | 2003 | Lisa Samson | Buy |
| 4 | The Living End | 2003 | Lisa Samson | Buy |
| 5 | Tiger Lillie | 2004 | Lisa Samson | Buy |
| 6 | Apples of Gold | 2006 | Lisa Samson | Buy |
| 7 | Straight Up | 2006 | Lisa Samson | Buy |
| 8 | Embrace Me | 2007 | Lisa Samson | Buy |
| 9 | Quaker Summer | 2007 | Lisa Samson | Buy |
| 10 | Bella | 2008 | Lisa Samson | Buy |
| 11 | The Passion of Mary-Margaret | 2009 | Lisa Samson | Buy |
| 12 | Women’s Intuition | 2010 | Lisa Samson | Buy |
| 13 | Club Sandwich | 2010 | Lisa Samson | Buy |
| 14 | Resurrection in May | 2010 | Lisa Samson | Buy |
| 15 | Once Inn a Blue Moon | 2011 | Lisa Samson | Buy |
| 16 | The Sky Beneath My Feet | 2013 | Lisa Samson | Buy |
| 17 | Runaway Saint | 2014 | Lisa Samson | Buy |
| 18 | A Thing of Beauty | 2015 | Lisa Samson | Buy |
| 19 | We Had Stars in Our Eyes | 2021 | Lisa Samson | Buy |
Lisa Samson’s standalone novels form the largest and most acclaimed portion of her body of work. Spanning from 1998 to 2021, these nineteen books cover a wide range of stories, all rooted in faith and the complicated realities of human life. Quaker Summer follows a woman who spends a transformative summer with two elderly Quaker sisters and a nun running a homeless shelter. The Passion of Mary-Margaret tells of a woman born on Chesapeake Bay in 1930 who is torn between entering religious life and her love for a childhood friend.
Songbird, the story of gospel singer Myrtle Charmaine Whitehead and her lifelong struggle with depression and abandonment, won the Christy Award and is one of Samson’s most recognized works. Across all these novels, Samson writes characters who grapple with real problems, and her willingness to sit with difficult emotions sets her apart in Christian fiction. Publishers Weekly has called her one of the most powerful voices in the genre, and her standalone novels are the best proof of that reputation.