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Call the Midwife Books in Order

3 books from Call the Midwife (2002) to Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End (2011). Rated 4.6 across 14,654 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Call the Midwife

    Book 1 2002 4.5 (9.7k)

    Audie Award Nominee, Solo Narration - Female, 2013 At the age of 22, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London’s East End slums.

  2. Shadows of the Workhouse

    Book 2 2005 4.7 (2.8k)

    When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the…

  3. Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End

    Book 3 2011 4.8 (2.2k)

    When 22-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the…

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Call the Midwife is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.