Ally Carter Books in Order
Ally Carter has written 29 books, published between 2005 and 2026. The first book is Cheating at Solitaire (2005) and the newest is It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 29
- Published
- 2005–2026
- Confirmed
- 27 of 29 titles
- Pages on record
- 5,020 in 16 of 29 books
- Reading time
- 84–126 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,020 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 16 of 29 titles with a page count on record.
Spies, thieves and boarding schools furnish Ally Carter's fiction for young readers. The Gallagher Girls series, set at a school that trains teenage spies, runs from 2006 through Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover and Only the Good Spy Young. Heist Society turns to con artists, Embassy Row to diplomatic intrigue, and Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor to a mystery for younger readers. Thirty titles make up the catalogue, which began with the adult novel Cheating at Solitaire (2005).
Cammie Morgan is the protagonist of Ally Carter's Gallagher Girls series, a boarding-school story whose students train for espionage work while keeping the assignments they carry out together secret from the outside world.
How many Ally Carter books are there?
Ally Carter has 29 books, released between 2005 and 2026. They include 6 series and 1 title listed outside any series.
Ally Carter Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 29 Ally Carter 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.
- 120052643/4
- 22006–3/4
- 320062773/4
- 42007–3/4
- 520092883/4
- 620102873/4
- 720102883/4
- 82011–3/4
- 920123203/4
- 102013–3/4
- 112013–3/4
- 122013–3/4
- 1320132933/4
- 142014–2/4
- 15Perfect Scoundrels2014 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/420143361/4
- 162015–3/4
- 1720153103/4
- 1820153363/4
- 1920163363/4
- 202016–3/4
- 2120182933/4
- 222018–3/4
- 2320193363/4
- 24Winterborne Home for Vengeance and ValorWinterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor #12020 · 336 pages · confirmed 3/420203363/4
- 25Winterborne Home for Mayhem and MysteryWinterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor #22021 · 336 pages · confirmed 3/420213363/4
- 2620233843/4
- 272024–3/4
- 282025–3/4
- 292026–3/4
Ally Carter series in order
Each series linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Gallagher Girls books in order 8 books
- Heist Society books in order 5 books
Ally Carter 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.
Embassy Row in order
5 booksAlly Carter Standalone Novels
3 books3 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Cheating At Solitaire in order
2 booksWinterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor in order
2 booksBlonde Identity in order
2 booksAlly Carter Non-Fiction
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Standalone books
1 book1 Ally Carter title here is not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Ally Carter books in order?
You only need to read Ally Carter books in order within each series: the books listed here span 6 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Ally Carter
Start with the first book of the Ally Carter series you want to read: Gallagher Girls starts with I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (2006) and Heist Society starts with Heist Society (2010). The earliest catalogued title overall is Cheating at Solitaire (2005).
What is the newest Ally Carter book?
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder (2026) is the newest Ally Carter book released so far.
Is there a new Ally Carter book coming?
No next Ally Carter book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Ally Carter at a glance
- Still publishing
- Ally Carter published a book as recently as 2026.
- Release pace
- Ally Carter books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 5,020 pages across the 16 of 29 books with a recorded length, a median of 315 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Ally Carter books, 18 of 29, were published in the 2010s.
What the Ally Carter books are about
15 of the 29 Ally Carter 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 7 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Children's fiction 7 of 15 books
- Crime 4 of 15 books
- Mystery & detective 4 of 15 books
- Boarding schools 3 of 15 books
- Embassy 3 of 15 books
- Murder 3 of 15 books
- Schools 3 of 15 books
- Spies 3 of 15 books
- Swindlers and swindling 3 of 15 books
- Thrillers 3 of 15 books
- Wealth 3 of 15 books