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Colleen Hoover: How to Read the Best-Selling Author's Books in the Correct Order

Her sky-high book sales literally surpassed the Good Book.

Chances are, if you are heading to a beach vacation or simply looking to enjoy a saucy love story, then you've probably heard of Colleen Hoover. Hoover has written several young adult romance novels, and is a New York Times best-selling author, holding six of the 10 top spots. Her list of books is quite extensive, with 25 separate novels and novellas, to be exact. She began publishing in 2012 and is showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, she has suspense novels set to come out in 2025 and 2027 with Grand Central. She's also set to publish two romance novels with Atria in 2024 and 2026. The woman is busy.

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Even though she has two dozen books to her name, it was her stand-alone novel, Verity and series, It Ends With Us, that catapulted her into a fiction heroine. Peruse any social media app like Instagram or TikTok, and Hoover's name and novels are trending. One search for the hashtag #BookTok and Colleen Hoover novels make the best of lists time and time again. If that's not enough, she sold more copies of her books than the Bible in 2022. That's right...the actual Bible.

One of her most popular books, It Ends With Us, is even being turned into a highly anticipated movie, set for release on February 9, 2024. Blake Lively will star as the main character, Lily, alongside Justin Baldoni (Ryle, as well as the film's director). In an interview with Today, Hoover was over the moon on finding out Lively would be portraying the main character. Hoover said, "I didn't believe it...I have been obsessed with Blake Lively since 'Gossip Girl' days — I'm just a huge fan of hers, and of course of her husband."

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With 25 books to date, several of them series, it can be a bit daunting knowing where to start. If you want to read the books, you'll have to make sure you read them in the correct order, otherwise, you could be starting in the middle of the series or giving yourself some serious spoilers. We've broken down the order you should read them, starting with the standalone novels, followed by her series. 

Colleen Hoover's Series

Colleen Hoover has four separate series, each with a differing number of books. When it comes to her series, you want to make sure you read them in order, as the characters remain the same, as well as the plot. The series remained contained within themselves, meaning there isn't a correct order to read each separate series. You can pick one, and go from there. To make it easy, we've sorted the series in chronological order, starting with the oldest. We've also outlined her standalone books in publishing date order.

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