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Princess Diaries Books in Order

Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot contains 25 books, published between 2000 and 2023: 16 in the Princess Diaries series and 9 related titles. The first book is The Princess Diaries (2000) and the newest main-line book is The Quarantine Princess Diaries (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
25
Published
2000–2023
Confirmed
25 of 25 titles
Pages on record
4,974 in 23 of 25 books
Reading time
83–124 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,974 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 23 of 25 titles with a page count on record.

See all 25 books in order Printable Princess Diaries checklist

The Princess Diaries is a young adult series written as diary entries, about a teenage girl, her father and a royal identity, set largely in New York City. Meg Cabot published 25 catalogued titles between The Princess Diaries (2000) and The Quarantine Princess Diaries (2023), companion volumes such as Princess Lessons (2003) among them. School stories and humour run through the subjects, and no later entry is catalogued.

How many Princess Diaries books are there?

Princess Diaries has 25 books, released between 2000 and 2023. 16 of them belong to the Princess Diaries series, and 9 related titles sit outside it: companion books.

Princess Diaries Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 25 Princess Diaries 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 The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot, book 1 of the Princess Diaries series (2000)
  2. Cover of Princess in the Spotlight / Take Two / A Royal Disaster by Meg Cabot, book 2 of the Princess Diaries series (2001)
  3. Cover of Princess in Love / Princess in the Middle by Meg Cabot, book 3 of the Princess Diaries series (2001)
  4. Cover of Princess in Waiting / Royally Obsessed by Meg Cabot, book 4 of the Princess Diaries series (2002)
  5. Cover of The Secret Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot, book 1 of the Princess Diaries Companion series (2003)
  6. Cover of The Princess Diaries Guide to Life by Meg Cabot, book 2 of the Princess Diaries Companion series (2003)
  7. Cover of Princess Lessons by Meg Cabot, book 3 of the Princess Diaries Companion series (2003)
  8. Cover of Project Princess by Meg Cabot, book 5 of the Princess Diaries series (2003)
  9. Cover of Princess in Pink / Prom Princess / Give Me Five by Meg Cabot, book 6 of the Princess Diaries series (2003)
  10. Cover of Mia's Christmas by Meg Cabot, book 4 of the Princess Diaries Companion series (2004)
  11. Cover of Perfect Princess by Meg Cabot, book 5 of the Princess Diaries Companion series (2004)
  12. Cover of Princess Files by Meg Cabot, book 6 of the Princess Diaries Companion series (2004)
  13. Cover of Princess in Training / Sixsational by Meg Cabot, book 7 of the Princess Diaries series (2004)
  14. Cover of The Princess Present by Meg Cabot, book 8 of the Princess Diaries series (2004)
  15. Cover of The Princess Diaries Guide to Christmas by Meg Cabot, book 7 of the Princess Diaries Companion series (2005)
  16. Cover of Holiday Princess by Meg Cabot, book 8 of the Princess Diaries Companion series (2005)
  17. Cover of Party Princess / Royal Rebel by Meg Cabot, book 9 of the Princess Diaries series (2006)
  18. Cover of Sweet Sixteen Princess by Meg Cabot, book 10 of the Princess Diaries series (2006)
  19. Cover of Princess on the Brink / After Eight / Royal Scandal by Meg Cabot, book 11 of the Princess Diaries series (2006)
  20. Cover of Princess Mia / To the Nines / Bad Heir Day by Meg Cabot, book 12 of the Princess Diaries series (2007)
  21. Cover of Forever Princess / Ten Out of Ten / Crowning Glory by Meg Cabot, book 13 of the Princess Diaries series (2008)
  22. Cover of Ransom My Heart by Meg Cabot, book 14 of the Princess Diaries series (2009)
  23. Cover of Royal Wedding by Meg Cabot, book 15 of the Princess Diaries series (2015)
  24. Cover of The Quarantine Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot, book 16 of the Princess Diaries series (2023)
  1. 1
    The Princess DiariesPrincess Diaries #12000 · 256 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2000256
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  2. 2
    Princess in the Spotlight / Take Two / A Royal DisasterPrincess Diaries #22001 · 256 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2001256
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  3. 3
    Princess in Love / Princess in the MiddlePrincess Diaries #32001 · 256 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2001256
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  4. 4
    Princess in Waiting / Royally ObsessedPrincess Diaries #42002 · 259 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2002259
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  5. 5
    The Secret Princess DiariesPrincess Diaries Companion #12003 · 64 pages · confirmed 3/4
    200364
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  6. 6
    The Princess Diaries Guide to LifePrincess Diaries Companion #22003 · 176 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2003176
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  7. 7
    Princess LessonsPrincess Diaries Companion #32003 · 126 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2003126
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  8. 8
    Project PrincessPrincess Diaries #52003 · 50 pages · confirmed 3/4
    200350
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  9. 9
    Princess in Pink / Prom Princess / Give Me FivePrincess Diaries #62003 · 288 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2003288
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  10. 10
    Mia's ChristmasPrincess Diaries Companion #42004 · 64 pages · confirmed 3/4
    200464
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  11. 11
    Perfect PrincessPrincess Diaries Companion #52004 · 143 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2004143
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  12. 12
    Princess FilesPrincess Diaries Companion #62004 · 160 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2004160
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  13. 13
    Princess in Training / SixsationalPrincess Diaries #72004 · 304 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2004304
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  14. 14
    The Princess PresentPrincess Diaries #82004 · 85 pages · confirmed 3/4
    200485
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  15. 15
    The Princess Diaries Guide to ChristmasPrincess Diaries Companion #72005 · 176 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2005176
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  16. 16
    Holiday PrincessPrincess Diaries Companion #82005 · confirmed 3/4
    2005–
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  17. 17
    Party Princess / Royal RebelPrincess Diaries #92006 · 320 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2006320
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  18. 18
    Valentine PrincessPrincess Diaries Companion #92006 · 86 pages · confirmed 3/4
    200686
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  19. 19
    Sweet Sixteen PrincessPrincess Diaries #102006 · 82 pages · confirmed 3/4
    200682
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  20. 20
    Princess on the Brink / After Eight / Royal ScandalPrincess Diaries #112006 · 272 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2006272
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  21. 21
    Princess Mia / To the Nines / Bad Heir DayPrincess Diaries #122007 · 304 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2007304
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  22. 22
    Forever Princess / Ten Out of Ten / Crowning GloryPrincess Diaries #132008 · 416 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2008416
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  23. 23
    Ransom My HeartPrincess Diaries #142009 · 396 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2009396
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  24. 24
    Royal WeddingPrincess Diaries #152015 · 435 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2015435
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  25. 25
    The Quarantine Princess DiariesPrincess Diaries #162023 · confirmed 3/4
    2023–
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Do you have to read Princess Diaries books in order?

You should read the Princess Diaries series in publication order, the order of the numbered table above; the 9 related titles (companion books) sit outside that sequence. The catalogue does not record whether each Princess Diaries book also stands alone.

Where to start with Princess Diaries

Start with The Princess Diaries (2000), the earliest published book in the Princess Diaries series.

What is the newest Princess Diaries book?

The Quarantine Princess Diaries (2023) is the newest book in the Princess Diaries series.

Is there a new Princess Diaries book coming?

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

Princess Diaries at a glance

Paused
No new main-line Princess Diaries title has appeared for 3 years. The last was The Quarantine Princess Diaries (2023).
Release pace
Princess Diaries books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
4,974 pages across the 23 of 25 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Princess Diaries books, 23 of 25, were published in the 2000s.

What the Princess Diaries books are about

24 of the 25 Princess Diaries books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: princesses is tagged on 22 of 24. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Meg Cabot

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.