Series
Dollanganger Children
V. C. Andrews & Andrew Neiderman · 11 novels · 1979–2020
V. C. Andrews' Dollanganger series opens with Flowers in the Attic, in which four siblings are hidden away in their wealthy grandparents' attic by a mother willing to sacrifice them to reclaim her inheritance, and follows the survivors' fallout across four more novels - Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and the prequel Garden of Shadows - as the family's incest, abuse, and secrets ripple into the next generation. Ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman continued the Dollanganger world after Andrews's death with further prequels and companion stories centered on the Foxworth family estate.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(4 editions)
Map
Dollanganger Children at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s1
- 1980s4
- 1990s0
- 2000s0
- 2010s5
- 2020s1
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book11 of 11 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Christopher's Diary: Secrets of Foxworthdarkest · calmest
- Flowers in the Atticbrightest
- Secret Brothermost intense