Lucy Score Books in Order

Lucy Score is the self-published-to-superstar of the BookTok romance wave: Things We Never Got Over (January 2022) - a woman flees to small-town Virginia with her niece in tow and meets a bearded tavern owner who will not be ignored - became one of the most-recommended romances of the decade, and its Knockemout trilogy carried her to the number-one spot on the New York Times list. Her back shelf runs deep: the Blue Moon series (eight books), standalones like Rock Bottom Girl, the Riley Thorn mysteries - and since 2025 a brand-new small town, Story Lake, whose second book arrived in March 2026. The order question is which town to visit first, and this page maps every lane (2015–present).

Where to start

Things We Never Got Over (2022), always - Knockemout book one, her biggest book, and the cleanest example of the Score mechanism: banter, trauma, found family, a chapter from his point of view that readers screenshot. The other door is Story of My Life (2025) if you want her current, most polished writing.

Does the reading order matter?

Pick a lane: Knockemout (2022-23, complete trilogy - Naomi and Knox, then Lina and Nash, then Lucian and Sloane - read straight through, the three overlap); Story Lake (Story of My Life, 2025; Mistakes Were Made, March 2026; Just One More Chapter announced March 2027); the Blue Moon series (eight books, start at No More Secrets); Riley Thorn (two romantic mysteries); and the standalones (Rock Bottom Girl, Under Lori Lake). New readers should not start at Blue Moon - it is the apprentice work; the two named series are the destination shelf.

Which one is the best?

Things We Never Got Over (2022), the phenomenon; Things We Left Behind (2023), the trilogy closer many rank highest - Lucian's book; and Mistakes Were Made (2026), proof the new town runs as deep as the old one.

Related guides

Readers finishing this shelf usually want the map next door: Abby Jimenez books in order, Emily Henry books in order, Ali Hazelwood books in order. Every guide follows the same format — the shelf, the entry point, the honest answer about order.

Make it a project

Pick a session size and let the days accumulate — at the pace our reading speed test measures, most shelves above clear in a few weeks of half-hours. Every guide on the books in order shelf follows this same format, and when a book lands, its 8-question quiz is waiting on the original book quiz.