Jennifer Brown Books in Order

Jennifer Brown has written 14 books, published between 2009 and 2020. The first book is Hate List (2009) and the newest is The Game Changer (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
14
Published
2009–2020
Pages on record
4,026 in 12 of 14 books
Reading time
67–101 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,026 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 12 of 14 titles with a page count on record.

Jennifer Brown is a young adult novelist whose 14 catalogued books run from Hate List (2009) to The Game Changer (2020). Before writing novels full time, Brown wrote a weekly humor column for The Kansas City Star for more than four years and won the Erma Bombeck Global Humor Award in 2005 and 2006. The series in the catalogue are Hate List, Shade Me, Pennybaker School and Parkwood Mysteries. Subject tags include school shootings, grief, dysfunctional families and gifted children. Brown lives in the Kansas City, Missouri area.

How many Jennifer Brown books are there?

Jennifer Brown has 14 books, released between 2009 and 2020. They include 4 series and 6 titles listed outside any series.

Jennifer Brown Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 14 Jennifer Brown 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
    Hate ListHate List #12009 · 408 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009408
  2. 2
    Bitter End2011 · 364 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011364
  3. 3
    Perfect Escape2012 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012384
  4. 4
    Thousand Words2013 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013304
  5. 5
    Say SomethingHate List #22014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014
  6. 6
    Torn Away2014 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014304
  7. 7
    Life on Mars2014 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014256
  8. 82015256
  9. 9
    Shade MeShade Me #12016 · 448 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016448
  10. 10
    Headed for DisasterPennybaker School #12017 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017336
  11. 11
    Dare YouShade Me #22017 · confirmed 2/4
    2017
  12. 12
    School Is RevoltingPennybaker School #22018 · 278 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018278
  13. 13
    Break UsShade Me #32018 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018384
  14. 14
    The Game ChangerParkwood Mysteries #12020 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020304

Jennifer Brown 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.

Shade Me in order

3 books
  1. 1. Shade Me
  2. 2. Dare You
  3. 3. Break Us

Hate List in order

2 books
  1. 1. Hate List
  2. 2. Say Something

Pennybaker School in order

2 books
  1. 1. Headed for Disaster
  2. 2. School Is Revolting

Parkwood Mysteries in order

1 book
  1. 1. The Game Changer

Standalone books

6 books

6 Jennifer Brown titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Jennifer Brown books in order?

You only need to read Jennifer Brown books in order within each series: the books listed here span 4 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Jennifer Brown

Start with Hate List (2009), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Jennifer Brown book?

The Game Changer (2020) is the newest Jennifer Brown book released so far.

Is there a new Jennifer Brown book coming?

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

Jennifer Brown at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Jennifer Brown title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Jennifer Brown books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
4,026 pages across the 12 of 14 books with a recorded length, a median of 320 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Jennifer Brown books, 12 of 14, were published in the 2010s.

What the Jennifer Brown books are about

12 of the 14 Jennifer Brown 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 9 of 12. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.