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Wendy Wax Books in Order

Wendy Wax has written 21 books, published between 1999 and 2025. The first book is Key to My Heart (1999) and the newest is Just Beachy (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
21
Published
1999–2025
Confirmed
8 of 21 titles
Pages on record
3,969 in 11 of 21 books
Reading time
66–99 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,969 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 21 titles with a page count on record.

See all 21 books in order Printable Wendy Wax checklist

Female friendship holds Wendy Wax's women's fiction together, often with a house restoration or a reality television programme in the plot. Key to My Heart (1999) opens the catalogue and 7 Days and 7 Nights (2003) follows. Ten Beach Road is the named series. Twenty-seven titles are catalogued, reaching Just Beachy in 2025.

The Ten Beach Road series follows a group of women who renovate a beach house together while rebuilding their own lives, with the project bringing new beginnings alongside personal challenges.

How many Wendy Wax books are there?

Wendy Wax has 21 books, released between 1999 and 2025. 8 of them belong to the Ten Beach Road series.

Wendy Wax Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 21 Wendy Wax 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 7 Days and 7 Nights by Wendy Wax (2003)
  2. Cover of Leave It to Cleavage by Wendy Wax (2004)
  3. Cover of Hostile Makeover by Wendy Wax (2005)
  4. Cover of Meet Leatherhead by Wendy Wax, book 6 of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series (2005)
  5. Cover of Single in Suburbia by Wendy Wax (2006)
  6. Cover of The Accidental Bestseller by Wendy Wax (2009)
  7. Cover of Ten Beach Road by Wendy Wax, book 1 of the Ten Beach Road series (2011)
  8. Cover of Ocean Beach by Wendy Wax, book 2 of the Ten Beach Road series (2012)
  9. Cover of While We Were Watching Downton Abbey by Wendy Wax (2013)
  10. Cover of One Good Thing by Wendy Wax, book 6 of the Ten Beach Road series (2017)
  11. Cover of My Ex-Best Friend's Wedding by Wendy Wax (2019)
  12. Cover of The Break-Up Book Club by Wendy Wax (2021)
  1. 1
    Key to My Heart1999 · confirmed 2/4
    1999–
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  2. 2
    7 Days and 7 Nights2003 · confirmed 2/4
    2003–
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  3. 3
    Leave It to Cleavage2004 · confirmed 2/4
    2004–
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  4. 4
    Hostile Makeover2005 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005384
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  5. 5
    Meet LeatherheadTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #62005 · 24 pages · confirmed 2/4
    200524
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  6. 6
    Single in Suburbia2006 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006384
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  7. 7
    The Accidental Bestseller2009 · confirmed 2/4
    2009–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    Magnolia Wednesdays2010 · 437 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2010437
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Ten Beach RoadTen Beach Road #12011 · confirmed 3/4
    2011–
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  10. 10
    Ocean BeachTen Beach Road #22012 · confirmed 3/4
    2012–
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  11. 11
    Christmas at the BeachTen Beach Road #32013 · confirmed 3/4
    2013–
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  12. 12
    While We Were Watching Downton Abbey2013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
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  13. 13
    The House on Mermaid PointTen Beach Road #42014 · 416 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014416
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  14. 14
    A Week at the Lake2015 · 418 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015418
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  15. 15
    Sunshine BeachTen Beach Road #52016 · 420 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2016420
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  16. 16
    One Good ThingTen Beach Road #62017 · 349 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2017349
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  17. 17
    A Bella Flora ChristmasTen Beach Road #72017 · confirmed 3/4
    2017–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  18. 18
    Best Beach EverTen Beach Road #82018 · 385 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2018385
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  19. 19
    My Ex-Best Friend's Wedding2019 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019368
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  20. 20
    The Break-Up Book Club2021 · 384 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2021384
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  21. 21
    Just Beachy2025 · confirmed 2/4
    2025–
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Wendy Wax 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.

Ten Beach Road in order

8 books
  1. 1. Ten Beach Road
  2. 2. Ocean Beach
  3. 3. Christmas at the Beach
  4. 4. The House on Mermaid Point
  5. 5. Sunshine Beach
  6. 6. One Good Thing
  7. 7. A Bella Flora Christmas
  8. 8. Best Beach Ever

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in order

1 book
  1. 6. Meet Leatherhead

Standalone books

12 books

12 Wendy Wax titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Wendy Wax Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Wendy Wax books run from Key to My Heart (1999) to Just Beachy (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Wendy Wax in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Wendy Wax books in order?

You only need to read Wendy Wax books in order within the Ten Beach Road series, which holds 8 of the 21 Wendy Wax books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Wendy Wax

Start with Key to My Heart (1999), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Wendy Wax book?

Just Beachy (2025) is the newest Wendy Wax book released so far.

Is there a new Wendy Wax book coming?

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

Wendy Wax at a glance

Still publishing
Wendy Wax published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Wendy Wax books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,969 pages across the 11 of 21 books with a recorded length, a median of 384 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Wendy Wax books, 12 of 21, were published in the 2010s.

What the Wendy Wax books are about

16 of the 21 Wendy Wax books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: female friendship is tagged on 10 of 16. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.