Reading order

The O'Hurley's reading order

Nora Roberts

  1. The Last Honest Woman1988
  2. Dance to the Piper1988
  3. Skin Deep1988
  4. Without a Trace1990
4 volumes
Volumes
1988–1990
Published
about 23 h
Reading time
Completed
Status

Quick answer

The Last Honest Woman
Start withThe Last Honest Woman1988 · Volume 1 of 4

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Publication order

4 volumes1988–1990Completed

A plan for the whole series

4 volumes, 1,267 pages, about 23 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 4 weeks.

Stages

2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 3, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.

  1. Stage 117 habout 3 weeksby November 21, 2026
    • 1. The Last Honest Woman1988 · 336 pages · 6 h
    • 2. Dance to the Piper1988 · 282 pages · 5 h
    • 3. Skin Deep1988 · 335 pages · 6 h
  2. Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.82 h, by November 25, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  3. Stage 26 h8 daysby December 3, 2026
    • 4. Without a Trace1990 · 314 pages · 6 h
  4. The end of the series
    December 3, 2026
In one goNovember 29, 2026about 4 weeks
In stages, with breaksDecember 3, 2026about 5 weeks · +2 h of other books

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How this plan is calculated

The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →

Every volume in order

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No volume in this series has enough ratings to enter a ranking yet, so the list carries no scores — the order and the volumes are still complete.

  1. The Last Honest Woman
    The Last Honest Woman1988 · 5 ratingsStart hereBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  2. Dance to the Piper
    Dance to the Piper1988 · 6 ratingsBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  3. Skin Deep
    Skin Deep1988 · 1 ratingBuy
    –Not ranked yet
  4. Without a Trace
    Without a Trace1990 · 5 ratingsBuy
    –Not ranked yet

Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026

Frequently asked questions

Which The O'Hurley's book is the longest?

“The Last Honest Woman” is the longest at 336 pages; the shortest is “Dance to the Piper” with 282 pages.

What should I read after The O'Hurley's?

Other series by Nora Roberts: Chronicles of The One, The Circle Trilogy, In Death.

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