Interpersonal relations book series in reading order

by Chloe Taylor

by Alexandra Bracken

by Alyxandra Harvey

by Marlene Perez

by Nancy Krulik

by Amu Meguro

by Ann Brashares

by Laurie Friedman

by Robin Jones Gunn

by Ally Condie

by Coco Simon

by Graham Salisbury

by Sharon M. Draper

by Raina Telgemeier

Melody Carlson, born March 2, 1956 in San Francisco, is an American author of more than 250 books for women, teens and children, including the Diary of a Teenage Girl series. The catalogue lists 298 books from 1995, when Contemplative Bible Reading and How to Start a Quality Childcare Business in Your Home appeared, to All Booked Up (2026). Series include Carter House Girls, On The Runway, TrueColors, 86 Bloomberg Place, Secret Life of Samantha McGregor, Beary Patch Bears and Fruit Troops. Subjects include Christian life, high schools, friendship, Bible stories and stories in rhyme. Carlson grew up in Springfield, Oregon, attended Lane Community College and lives in Sisters, Oregon.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

34 books• 5 series

Gossip Girl (2002) opens Cecily von Ziegesar's catalogue and is the series she is best known for. Thirty-four titles are listed between 2002 and 2020, including You Know You Love Me (2002), All I Want is Everything (2003), Because I'm Worth It (2003), I Like It Like That (2004), Nobody Does it Better (2005) and Nothing Can Keep Us Together (2005). The It Girl, Gossip Girl: The Carlyles, the Gossip Girl manga graphic novels and a set of standalone novels divide the rest, ending with Cobble Hill (2020). Teenage girls, wealth, private and boarding schools and dating run through the subjects. Von Ziegesar is American and was born in 1970.

Nancy Krulik writes for children, and the catalogue lists Grades 1-3 as the reading level. Series credited to Krulik include Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo, How I Survived Middle School, Magic Bone, Princess Pulverizer and Project Droid, and George Brown, Class Clown appears among the characters. Subjects range across magic, schools, friendship, dogs, robots and humorous stories. The most recent listed book is Fangs for Having Us! (2021), and the catalogue marks the output as dormant.

Stephanie Perry Moore's 66 catalogued books date from 2000 to 2023, beginning with Saved Race, Sober Faith and Staying Pure in 2000. Subjects include Christian life, African Americans, high schools, universities and colleges, dating, friendship, family problems and sisters, along with children's fiction. Series include Payton Skky, Laurel Shadrach, Carmen Browne, Perry Skky Jr., Beta Gamma Pi Novels, Yasmin Peace, Morgan Love and Sharp Sisters. Women of Color Devotional dates from 2002, and Circus Web (2023) is the most recent title.

Alexandra Bracken

17 books• 5 series

Alexandra Bracken is an American author, born in 1987, known for The Darkest Minds and Passenger series. The catalogue lists 17 books from Brightly Woven (2010) to Immortal Rose (2026). The Darkest Minds (2012), Never Fade (2013) and In The After Light (2014) are among the early titles, and Passenger (2016) and Wayfarer (2017) follow. Other series are Prosper Redding and Silver in the Bone. Subjects include psychic ability, time travel, fantasy and science fiction.

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) was an English comedian who wrote comic fiction for teenage girls. The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson sets down the diary of a teenager and her friends, the Ace Gang, starting with Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (1999); the first two books became the film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey follows Georgia's younger cousin. The catalogue holds 17 titles, ending with The Taming of the Tights (2013).

Lauren Myracle

32 books• 6 series

Lauren Myracle, born in 1969, is an American writer of young adult and middle-grade fiction. The Internet Girls books - ttyl (2004), ttfn (2006) and l8r, g8r (2007) - are written in instant messages and are Myracle's best-selling titles. The Winnie Years counts off ages with Eleven (2004) and Twelve (2007), and Flower Power, Life of Ty, Wishing Day and Crestview Academy follow. Friendship, sisters, families and school are the constants across 32 catalogued books, from Joyride (2003) to Plays Well with Others (2025).

Kieran Scott, born 11 March 1974, is an American author who also publishes as Kate Brian. Under the Kate Brian name come chick lit books such as The Princess and the Pauper, The Virginity Club, Sweet 16, Fake Boyfriend and the Private series. Books under Scott's own name include She's So Dead to Us, Brunettes Strike Back, Geek Magnet and I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader, a YALSA Teens Top Ten nominee. The catalogue subjects include boarding schools, high schools, cliques and teenage girls, and the listing runs from 1998 to 2026.

Robin Jones Gunn

99 books• 14 series

Robin Jones Gunn is an award-winning Christian author of more than 100 books. Christy Miller and Sierra Jensen are series for teen girls, and Christy Miller's characters carry on in Christy and Todd: College Years, Christy & Todd: The Married Years, Christy & Todd: The Baby Years and Katie Weldon. Glenbrooke and Sisterchicks are further series, and Sisterchicks in Gondolas won the Christy Award in 2007. The site lists 99 books from 1985 to Shortbread in the Highlands (2026), starting with the Billy 'n' Bear titles of 1985.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

131 books• 11 series

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, born in 1933, wrote 131 catalogued books for children and young adults across half a century. Shiloh, a quartet of children's novels, won the Newbery Medal in 1992, and the Alice McKinley series became one of the most frequently challenged sets of books of the early 21st century. The Boy/Girl Battle, Bessledorf Mysteries, Witch Saga, Cat Pack and Roxie and the Hooligans fill out the list, which runs from To Make a Wee Moon (1969) to Roxie and the Hooligans at Buzzard's Roost (2018). Family life, schools, friendship and siblings are the constant subjects, at a median of 154 pages.

Jessica Burkhart is the pen name of Jessica Ashley, an American author born in 1987 who works in tween fiction. The Canterwood Crest novels are hers. Nineteen books are catalogued between 2009 and 2015, carrying a Grades 3-5 reading level, from Take the Reins (2009) to Wild Hearts (2015). Subjects recorded across the listing include horses, horsemanship, boarding schools, private schools, teenage girls, friendship and cliques.

Lisi Harrison

41 books• 10 series

Lisi Harrison is a Canadian author of young adult fiction, known for three series: The Clique, Alphas and Monster High. The Clique (2004) opens a catalogue of 41 titles, with middle schools, cliques, friendship and competition in the subject tags, and monsters, boarding schools and prejudice beside them. Graphic novels, a Clique Summer Collection and the Graveyard Girls follow. Two Truths and a Lion (2023) is the most recent title.

Heather Vogel Frederick is a children's author whose 24 books run from 2002 to 2023. The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed (2002) is her earliest title, and The Education of Patience Goodspeed followed in 2004. The Mother-Daughter Book Club appeared in 2007, with Much Ado About Anne and Dear Pen Pal after it. Frederick's series are Mother-Daughter Book Club, Spy Mice, Pumpkin Falls Mystery and Patience Goodspeed, and Truly, Madly, Sheeply (2023) is the newest title.

Chloe Taylor is catalogued with the Sew Zoey series, children's fiction about a middle school student, fashion design and sewing. Titles from 2013 include Ready to Wear, Lights, Camera, Fashion!, On Pins and Needles and Stitches and Stones. A Change of Lace, A Tangled Thread, Bursting at the Seams and Cute as a Button followed in 2014, and Cut from the Same Cloth (2016) is the latest. Friendship, blogs and toleration also appear among the subjects.

Across 194 catalogued books, Danielle Steel writes contemporary romance and family drama: love stories, marriages, widowhood and the turns that reshape a life. The run starts with Going Home (1973) and continues through Celebration, with 24 Hours scheduled for 2027. Steel's catalogue also holds children's picture books, short stories and non-fiction beside the standalone novels that make up most of it.

E. Lockhart

14 books• 3 series

E. Lockhart is a pen name of Emily Jenkins, an American writer born September 13, 1967, whose work spans picture books, young adult novels and adult fiction. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (2008) and We Were Liars (2014) are the best-known novels, and We Were Liars became a television series in 2025. The catalogue lists 14 books from The Boyfriend List (2005) to The Pools (2026), including the Ruby Oliver series. High schools, boarding schools and dating feature in the subjects.

Lurlene McDaniel, born April 5, 1944 in Philadelphia, is an American author of more than 70 young adult books, known for stories of young people facing mortality and chronic illness. McDaniel began writing on the subject as a therapeutic response after a son was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at age 3. The characters face cancer, diabetes, organ failure and the deaths of loved ones. The catalogue counts 82 books from A Horse for Mandy (1981) to The Girl with the Broken Heart (2018), with series such as One Last Wish, Dawn Rochelle, Angels Trilogy and Angels in Pink. McDaniel graduated from the University of South Florida in Tampa and lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Alyson Noel

32 books• 5 series

Thirty-two books by Alyson Noel are catalogued, from Faking 19 (2005) to Chasing Eternity (2024). Noel, born December 3, 1965, is an American author from Orange County, California. Paranormal fiction dominates the recorded subjects, along with psychic ability, immortality, the dead, high schools and death. Soul Seekers, Riley Bloom, Beautiful Idols and Stealing Infinity are the series listed, and Evermore (2009), Blue Moon (2009) and Shadowland (2009) are among the titles.

David Levithan

43 books• 7 series

David Levithan, born 7 September 1972, is an American young adult fiction author and editor. Levithan has written numerous works with strong gay male characters, notably Boy Meets Boy (2003) and Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List. Six Levithan books have won or been finalists for the Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Series in the catalogue include Every Day and Dash & Lily, and the subjects on file include love, friendship, gay teenagers and high schools.

Jack Canfield, born August 19, 1944, is an American author and motivational speaker. Canfield co-authored the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which has more than 250 titles and 500 million copies in print across over 40 languages. The Success Principles, written with Janet Switzer, followed in 2005. The catalogue lists 182 books from Dare to Win (1988) to Everyday Catholicism (2020), with Mark Victor Hansen co-credited on 148 and Amy Newmark on 46. Chicken Soup for the Soul appeared in 1993.

Coco Simon is the name on Cupcake Diaries and its companion series for middle-grade readers. Katie and the Cupcake Cure (2011) opens a catalogue of 63 books that reaches Natalie's Sprinkle of Light (2025). Sprinkle Sundays, Donut Dreams, Cupcake Diaries: The New Batch and a graphic novel line follow. Friendship, middle school and baking are the recurring subjects, and the books run to a median 144 pages.

Elizabeth Eulberg is an American children's author. Eulberg is the only credited name across 22 books published between 2010 and 2026, from The Lonely Hearts Club (2010) to Cruel Summer (2026). Girl Detective, Scared Silly and Taylors Version are the recorded series. Friendship, dating, clubs, high schools, pianists and mystery and detective stories head the subject list, and the Beatles sit among the headings too.

Boarding schools, coming of age, friendship, dating and the relationships of mothers and daughters and fathers and daughters are the subjects recorded for Emily Franklin. Principles of Love and Chalet Girls are the two series in the catalogue, which holds 22 books published between 2003 and 2026. Liner Notes (2003) opens the run; Piece, Love, and Happiness and The Principles of Love date from 2005; and Love & Other Monsters (2026) is the newest listing. The 2000s hold the most titles, the median book is 256 pages, and Franklin is still publishing.

Marlene Perez is an American writer of fiction for pre-teens and teens. Two series are catalogued to the name: Dead Is and Nyx Fortuna. Recorded subjects include the supernatural, psychic ability, paranormal fiction, high schools, werewolves, Greek mythology and popularity. The 17 books run from Unexpected Development (2004) to A Sucker for You (2022), taking in Dead Is the New Black (2008), Dead Is a State of Mind (2009) and Dead is a Battlefield (2012).