Sarah Strohmeyer Books in Order
Sarah Strohmeyer has written 21 books, published between 1997 and 2025. The first book is Barbie Unbound: A Parody of the Barbie Obsession (1997) and the newest is A Mother Always Knows (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 21
- Published
- 1997–2025
- Pages on record
- 5,218 in 16 of 21 books
- Reading time
- 87–130 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,218 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 16 of 21 titles with a page count on record.

Bubbles Yablonsky, a Pennsylvania hairdresser drawn into solving crimes, is Sarah Strohmeyer's best known creation. Strohmeyer writes crime novels and comic fiction about relations between men and women, starting with the parody Barbie Unbound (1997) and running to A Mother Always Knows (2025), 21 titles in all. The Bubbles books, Bubbles Unbound (2001), Bubbles In Trouble, Bubbles Ablaze, Bubbles Betrothed, Bubbles All The Way, fill the first decade. Female friendship, journalists and humour mark the subject tags.
How many Sarah Strohmeyer books are there?
Sarah Strohmeyer has 21 books, released between 1997 and 2025. 7 of them belong to the Bubbles Yablonsky series.
Sarah Strohmeyer Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 21 Sarah Strohmeyer 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.
- 1Barbie Unbound: A Parody of the Barbie Obsession1997 · 119 pages · confirmed 2/419971192/4
- 220013412/4
- 320023362/4
- 420043232/4
- 520043362/4
- 6The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives2005 · confirmed 2/42005–2/4
- 720053362/4
- 8The Cinderella Pact2006 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/420063522/4
- 920063412/4
- 10The Sleeping Beauty Proposal2007 · 322 pages · confirmed 2/420073222/4
- 11Sweet Love2008 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/420083682/4
- 12The Penny Pinchers Club2009 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/420093362/4
- 13Kindred Spirits2011 · confirmed 2/42011–2/4
- 14Smart Girls Get What They Want2012 · 348 pages · confirmed 2/420123482/4
- 15How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True2013 · confirmed 2/42013–2/4
- 16The Secrets of Lily Graves2014 · 298 pages · confirmed 2/420142982/4
- 17This Is My Brain on Boys2016 · 342 pages · confirmed 2/420163422/4
- 182018–2/4
- 19Do I Know You?2021 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/420213522/4
- 20We Love to Entertain2023 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/420233682/4
- 21A Mother Always Knows2025 · confirmed 2/42025–2/4
Sarah Strohmeyer 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.
Bubbles Yablonsky in order
7 booksStandalone books
14 books14 Sarah Strohmeyer titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Sarah Strohmeyer books in order?
You only need to read Sarah Strohmeyer books in order within the Bubbles Yablonsky series, which holds 7 of the 21 Sarah Strohmeyer books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Sarah Strohmeyer
Start with Barbie Unbound: A Parody of the Barbie Obsession (1997), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Sarah Strohmeyer book?
A Mother Always Knows (2025) is the newest Sarah Strohmeyer book released so far.
Is there a new Sarah Strohmeyer book coming?
No next Sarah Strohmeyer book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Sarah Strohmeyer at a glance
- Still publishing
- Sarah Strohmeyer published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Sarah Strohmeyer books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 5,218 pages across the 16 of 21 books with a recorded length, a median of 338 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Sarah Strohmeyer books, 11 of 21, were published in the 2000s.
What the Sarah Strohmeyer books are about
17 of the 21 Sarah Strohmeyer books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: beauty operators is tagged on 6 of 17. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Beauty operators 6 of 17 books
- Bubbles Yablonsky (Fictitious character) 5 of 17 books
- Pennsylvania 5 of 17 books
- Women journalists 5 of 17 books
- Friendship 4 of 17 books
- Best friends 2 of 17 books
- Children's fiction 2 of 17 books
- Female friendship 2 of 17 books
- High schools 2 of 17 books
- Humor 2 of 17 books
- Interpersonal relations 2 of 17 books
















