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Candace Bushnell Books in Order

Candace Bushnell has written 10 books, published between 1996 and 2020. The first book is Sex and the City (1996) and the newest is Rules for Being a Girl (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
1996–2020
Pages on record
2,530 in 6 of 10 books
Reading time
42–63 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,530 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 10 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Candace Bushnell, author of the Carrie Diaries series

Candace Bushnell is an American author, journalist and television producer. Her New York Observer column of 1994 to 1996 became the Sex and the City anthology (1996), which HBO adapted as a series and two films. Novels followed: Four Blondes (2000), Trading Up (2003), Lipstick Jungle (2005), One Fifth Avenue (2008), The Carrie Diaries (2010) and Summer and the City (2011). Lipstick Jungle and The Carrie Diaries were themselves televised. Ten catalogued books end at Rules for Being a Girl (2020).

How many Candace Bushnell books are there?

Candace Bushnell has 10 books, released between 1996 and 2020. 2 of them belong to the Carrie Diaries series.

Candace Bushnell Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Candace Bushnell 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. Cover of Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell (1996)
  2. Cover of Four Blondes by Candace Bushnell (2000)
  3. Cover of Trading Up by Candace Bushnell (2003)
  4. Cover of Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell (2005)
  5. Cover of One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell (2008)
  6. Cover of The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell, book 1 of the Carrie Diaries series (2010)
  7. Cover of Summer and the City by Candace Bushnell, book 2 of the Carrie Diaries series (2011)
  8. Cover of Killing Monica by Candace Bushnell (2015)
  9. Cover of Is There Still Sex in the City? by Candace Bushnell (2019)
  10. Cover of Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell (2020)
  1. 1
    Sex and the City1996 · confirmed 2/4
    1996–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  2. 2
    Four Blondes2000 · 371 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2000371
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    Trading Up2003 · 586 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003586
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Lipstick Jungle2005 · 544 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005544
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    One Fifth Avenue2008 · 464 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008464
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    The Carrie DiariesCarrie Diaries #12010 · confirmed 2/4
    2010–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Summer and the CityCarrie Diaries #22011 · confirmed 2/4
    2011–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    Killing Monica2015 · confirmed 2/4
    2015–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Is There Still Sex in the City?2019 · 261 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019261
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    Rules for Being a Girl2020 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020304
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Candace Bushnell 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.

Carrie Diaries in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Carrie Diaries
  2. 2. Summer and the City

Standalone books

8 books

8 Candace Bushnell titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Candace Bushnell books in order?

You only need to read Candace Bushnell books in order within the Carrie Diaries series, which holds 2 of the 10 Candace Bushnell books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Candace Bushnell

Start with Sex and the City (1996), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Candace Bushnell book?

Rules for Being a Girl (2020) is the newest Candace Bushnell book released so far.

Is there a new Candace Bushnell book coming?

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

Candace Bushnell at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Candace Bushnell title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Candace Bushnell books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
2,530 pages across the 6 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 418 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Candace Bushnell books, 4 of 10, were published in the 2010s.

What the Candace Bushnell books are about

All 10 Candace Bushnell 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 3 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.