Taylor Jenkins Reid Books in Order

Taylor Jenkins Reid started as a romance novelist and became the unofficial historian of twentieth-century celebrity: since 2017 her novels are faux-documentary portraits of famous people who never existed - a Golden Age screen siren, a 1970s rock band, a tennis champ, an astronaut - told through interviews, tabloid clips and oral-history fragments that read like found artifacts. Four consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers, three of them optioned or on screen (Daisy Jones became an Amazon series, Evelyn Hugo a Netflix film in development), and a fan theory - every book quietly shares a universe - that this page tracks. All nine novels, sequenced (2013–present).

Where to start

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (2017) - the book that changed her career and still the most common door. Readers who want the full shared-universe effect can start at the beginning with Forever Interrupted (2013), but Evelyn Hugo was written to be walked into cold.

Does the reading order matter?

Publication order works for all nine, with one rule and one treat. The rule: Malibu Rising (2021) comes after Daisy Jones (2019) - its June Riva is the daughter of Daisy's Mick Riva, so read Daisy first. The treat: Carrie Soto Is Back (2022) and Evelyn Hugo share a sportscaster and a timeline - reading them back to back lights up the connections, and Atmosphere (2025) is set in the same universe's space program. Otherwise each novel stands alone; the early trio (Forever Interrupted, After I Do, Maybe in Another Life) is straightforward romance before the celebrity run begins.

Which one is the best?

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (2017), the modern classic; Daisy Jones & The Six (2019), the oral-history experiment that became an Amazon series; and Carrie Soto Is Back (2022), the ferocious one.

Covered in depth here

An 8-question quiz, reading time, club questions and verified quotes for The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

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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.