Jenny Lawson Books in Order
Jenny Lawson has written 6 books, published between 2012 and 2026. The first book is Let's Pretend This Never Happened (2012) and the newest is How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 6
- Published
- 2012–2026
- Pages on record
- 807 in 3 of 6 books
- Reading time
- 13–20 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 807 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 3 of 6 titles with a page count on record.
Jenny Lawson writes humorous memoir about living with mental illness. Let's Pretend This Never Happened (2012) came first, followed by Furiously Happy (2015), You Are Here (2017), Broken (in the best possible way) (2021) and I Choose Darkness (2022). Colouring books and affirmations sit among the catalogued subjects. Six books in total, the newest How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay in 2026.
How many Jenny Lawson books are there?
Jenny Lawson has 6 books, released between 2012 and 2026.
Jenny Lawson Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 6 Jenny Lawson 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.
- 120123182/4
- 220153292/4
- 320171602/4
- 42021–2/4
- 52022–2/4
- 62026–2/4
Jenny Lawson 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.
JennyLawson Non-Fiction
6 books6 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Jenny Lawson books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 6 Jenny Lawson books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Jenny Lawson
Start with Let's Pretend This Never Happened (2012), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Jenny Lawson book?
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay (2026) is the newest Jenny Lawson book released so far.
Is there a new Jenny Lawson book coming?
No next Jenny Lawson book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Jenny Lawson at a glance
- Still publishing
- Jenny Lawson published a book as recently as 2026.
- Release pace
- Jenny Lawson books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 807 pages across the 3 of 6 books with a recorded length, a median of 318 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Jenny Lawson books, 3 of 6, were published in the 2020s.
What the Jenny Lawson books are about
3 of the 6 Jenny Lawson books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: american humorists is tagged on 2 of 3. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- American Humorists 2 of 3 books
- Biography 2 of 3 books
- Journalists 2 of 3 books
- Affirmations 1 of 3 books
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs 1 of 3 books
- Coloring books 1 of 3 books
- Humor 1 of 3 books
- Humorists 1 of 3 books
- Mental Disorders 1 of 3 books
- Mental illness 1 of 3 books
- Texas 1 of 3 books