Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Earth is the Lord’s | 1940 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 2 | Time No Longer | 1941 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 3 | The Strong City | 1942 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 4 | The Turnbulls | 1943 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 5 | The Wide House | 1945 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 6 | This Side of Innocence | 1946 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 7 | There Was a Time | 1947 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 8 | Melissa | 1948 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 9 | Let Love Come Last | 1949 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 10 | The Balance Wheel | 1951 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 11 | The Beautiful Is Vanished | 1951 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 12 | The Devil’s Advocate | 1952 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 13 | Maggie: Her Marriage | 1953 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 14 | Never Victorious, Never Defeated | 1954 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 15 | Your Sins and Mine | 1955 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 16 | Tender Victory | 1956 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 17 | The Sound of Thunder | 1957 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 18 | Dear and Glorious Physician | 1958 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 19 | A Prologue to Love | 1961 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 20 | The Man Who Listens | 1961 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 21 | Grandmother and the Priests | 1963 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 22 | The Late Clara Beame | 1963 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 23 | To See the Glory | 1963 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 24 | A Pillar of Iron | 1965 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 25 | Wicked Angel | 1965 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 26 | No One Hears but Him | 1966 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 27 | Dialogues with the Devil | 1967 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 28 | Testimony of Two Men | 1968 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 29 | Great Lion of God | 1970 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 30 | Captains and the Kings | 1972 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 31 | Glory and the Lightning | 1974 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 32 | To Look and Pass | 1975 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 33 | The Romance of Atlantis | 1975 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 34 | The Arm and the Darkness | 1975 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 35 | Ceremony of the Innocent | 1976 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 36 | The Listener | 1976 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 37 | I, Judas | 1977 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 38 | Bright Flows the River | 1978 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
| 39 | Answer as a Man | 1980 | Taylor Caldwell | Buy |
Taylor Caldwell’s standalone novels span a remarkable range of subjects and time periods. Her biblical novels, including Dear and Glorious Physician, Great Lion of God, and I, Judas, reimagine the lives of New Testament figures with detailed historical settings and psychological depth. These books found large audiences among readers who appreciated fiction grounded in religious history.
Her American novels explore themes of ambition, class, and moral compromise. Captains and the Kings follows an Irish immigrant’s rise to political power, while Testimony of Two Men tells the story of a doctor fighting to rebuild his reputation in a small Pennsylvania town. Caldwell often set her fiction in specific periods of American history, using her characters to examine the country’s changing values.
The breadth of her bibliography is striking. From the medieval setting of The Arm and the Darkness to the speculative elements of The Romance of Atlantis, Caldwell was willing to move across eras and genres. Her standalones also include more personal works like There Was a Time, which drew on her own experiences as an immigrant adjusting to life in America.