Where to Start with Diana Gabaldon
- Best entry point → Outlander
- Best standalone → "I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes
- Start the Outlander #0.5, 2.5, 7.5 & 8.5 series → Seven Stones to Stand or Fall (Outlander 0.5, 2.5, 7.5 & 8.5)
- What readers keep coming back to → Dragonfly in Amber
- Highest rated by readers → Written in My Own Heart's Blood (Outlander #8)
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Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Outlander • Book 8
★ 4.91 BLT Score (141.6K ratings)★ 4.55 Goodreads (141.6K) - 2
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A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Outlander • Book 6
★ 4.83 BLT Score (192.8K ratings)★ 4.44 Goodreads (192.8K) - 5
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Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
Outlander • Book 9
★ 4.78 BLT Score (94.5K ratings)★ 4.45 Goodreads (94.5K) - 7
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Seven Stones to Stand or Fall (Outlander 0.5, 2.5, 7.5 & 8.5)
Outlander #0.5, 2.5, 7.5 & 8.5
★ 4.40 BLT Score (18.2K ratings)★ 4.28 Goodreads (18.2K) - 11
The Scottish Prisoner
Lord John Grey • Book 3
★ 4.39 BLT Score (35.9K ratings)★ 4.24 Goodreads (35.9K) - 12
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The Outlandish Companion: Volume Two
The Outlandish Companions • Book 2
★ 4.17 BLT Score (3.2K ratings)★ 4.4 Goodreads (3.2K) - 14
The Outlandish Companion
The Outlandish Companions • Book 1
★ 4.11 BLT Score (15.2K ratings)★ 4.11 Goodreads (15.2K) - 15
"I Give You My Body . . .": How I Write Sex Scenes
★ 3.99 BLT Score (1.9K ratings)★ 4.14 Goodreads (1.9K) - 16
Legends II: Volume II
Legends II • Book 2
by Diana Gabaldon, Terry Brooks
★ 3.71 BLT Score (0 ratings) - 17
Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love
Guardians #3.6 - The Demon Dancer
by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Daniel Abraham, Jacqueline Carey, Lisa Tuttle, Linnea Sinclair, Mary Jo Putney, Tanith Lee, Peter S. Beagle, Yasmine Galenorn, Diana Gabaldon, Jo Beverley, Carrie Vaughn, M.L.N. Hanover, Cecelia Holland, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Robin Hobb, Neil Gaiman, Marjorie M. Liu, Jim Butcher
★ 3.57 BLT Score (4.3K ratings)★ 3.76 Goodreads (4.3K) - 18
Dangerous Women
The Dresden Files #13.1 - Bombshells
by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Carrie Vaughn, Lev Gossman, Joe R. Lansdale, Megan Lindholm, Lawrence Block, Brandon Sanderson, Sharon Kay Penman, Lev Grossman, Nancy Kress, Diana Rowland, Diana Gabaldon, S.M. Stirling, Sam Sykes, Pat Cadigan, Caroline Spector, Joe Abercrombie, Megan Abbott, Cecelia Holland, Jim Butcher, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Melinda M. Snodgrass
★ 3.56 BLT Score (13.2K ratings)★ 3.67 Goodreads (13.2K)
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