Alex Flinn Books in Order

Alex Flinn has written 15 books, published between 2001 and 2020. The first book is Breathing Underwater (2001) and the newest is Love, Jacaranda (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
15
Published
2001–2020
Pages on record
4,391 in 13 of 15 books
Reading time
73–110 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,391 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 13 of 15 titles with a page count on record.

Alexandra Flinn, born in 1966, writes novels for young adults, many of them modernised versions of classic fairy tales. Flinn's books have reached the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists, have been translated into over twenty languages, and have landed on the American Library Association's Best Books for Young Adults and Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers lists. Fifteen catalogued titles run from Breathing Underwater (2001) to Love, Jacaranda (2020), Beastly (2007) and A Kiss in Time (2008) among them, with the Kendra Chronicles as the named series.

How many Alex Flinn books are there?

Alex Flinn has 15 books, released between 2001 and 2020. 4 of them belong to the Kendra Chronicles series.

Alex Flinn Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 15 Alex Flinn books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. 1
    Breathing Underwater2001 · 263 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001263
  2. 2
    Breaking Point2002 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002256
  3. 3
    Nothing to Lose2004 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004304
  4. 4
    Fade to Black2005 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005208
  5. 5
    Diva2006 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2006304
  6. 6
    BeastlyKendra Chronicles #12007 · confirmed 1/4
    2007
  7. 7
    A Kiss in Time2008 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008400
  8. 8
    Cloaked2011 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011368
  9. 9
    Beastly: Lindy's DiaryKendra Chronicles Short Stories/Novellas #12012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012
  10. 10
    BewitchingKendra Chronicles #22012 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012368
  11. 11
    Towering2013 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013304
  12. 12
    MirroredKendra Chronicles #32015 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015400
  13. 13
    BeheldKendra Chronicles #42017 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017368
  14. 14
    Girls of July2019 · 480 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019480
  15. 15
    Love, Jacaranda2020 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020368

Alex Flinn books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Kendra Chronicles in order

4 books
  1. 1. Beastly
  2. 2. Bewitching
  3. 3. Mirrored
  4. 4. Beheld

Kendra Chronicles Short Stories/Novellas

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Standalone books

10 books

10 Alex Flinn titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Alex Flinn books in order?

You only need to read Alex Flinn books in order within the Kendra Chronicles series, which holds 4 of the 15 Alex Flinn books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Alex Flinn

Start with Breathing Underwater (2001), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Alex Flinn book?

Love, Jacaranda (2020) is the newest Alex Flinn book released so far.

Is there a new Alex Flinn book coming?

No next Alex Flinn book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Alex Flinn at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Alex Flinn title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Alex Flinn books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
4,391 pages across the 13 of 15 books with a recorded length, a median of 368 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Alex Flinn books, 7 of 15, were published in the 2010s.

What the Alex Flinn books are about

14 of the 15 Alex Flinn books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 8 of 14. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.