Maddie Dawson Books in Order
Maddie Dawson has written 10 books, published between 2010 and 2024. The first book is The Stuff That Never Happened (2010) and the newest is Let's Pretend This Will Work (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 10
- Published
- 2010–2024
- Pages on record
- 3,440 in 9 of 10 books
- Reading time
- 57–86 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,440 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 10 titles with a page count on record.
Maddie Dawson writes about families, marriages and the people who complicate them; divorce, sisters, love triangles and town life run through the subject record. Ten books are catalogued from The Stuff That Never Happened (2010) to Let's Pretend This Will Work (2024), including The Opposite of Maybe (2014), Matchmaking for Beginners (2018), A Happy Catastrophe (2020) and The Magic of Found Objects (2021). No series is recorded, so the novels stand alone.
How many Maddie Dawson books are there?
Maddie Dawson has 10 books, released between 2010 and 2024.
Maddie Dawson Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 10 Maddie Dawson 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.
- 1The Stuff That Never Happened2010 · 325 pages · confirmed 2/420103252/4
- 2The Opposite of Maybe2014 · 391 pages · confirmed 2/420143912/4
- 3The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness2016 · 372 pages · confirmed 2/420163722/4
- 4Kissing Games of the World2017 · 466 pages · confirmed 2/420174662/4
- 5A Piece of Normal2017 · 404 pages · confirmed 2/420174042/4
- 6Matchmaking for Beginners2018 · 370 pages · confirmed 2/420183702/4
- 7A Happy Catastrophe2020 · 380 pages · confirmed 2/420203802/4
- 8The Magic of Found Objects2021 · 365 pages · confirmed 2/420213652/4
- 9Snap Out of It2023 · 367 pages · confirmed 2/420233672/4
- 10Let's Pretend This Will Work2024 · confirmed 2/42024–2/4
Maddie Dawson 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.
Standalone books
10 books10 Maddie Dawson titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Maddie Dawson books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 10 Maddie Dawson books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Maddie Dawson
Start with The Stuff That Never Happened (2010), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Maddie Dawson book?
Let's Pretend This Will Work (2024) is the newest Maddie Dawson book released so far.
Is there a new Maddie Dawson book coming?
No next Maddie Dawson book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Maddie Dawson at a glance
- Still publishing
- Maddie Dawson published a book as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- Maddie Dawson books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 3,440 pages across the 9 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 372 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Maddie Dawson books, 6 of 10, were published in the 2010s.
What the Maddie Dawson books are about
5 of the 10 Maddie Dawson books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: divorced women is tagged on 2 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Divorced women 2 of 5 books
- Family life 2 of 5 books
- Triangles (interpersonal relations) 2 of 5 books
- American literature 1 of 5 books
- Birthmothers 1 of 5 books
- City and town life 1 of 5 books
- Cuckolds 1 of 5 books
- Divorced people 1 of 5 books
- Women's fiction 1 of 5 books
- Friendship 1 of 5 books