Entire list of Taylor Jenkins Reid books in order, her biography, and plot outlines of her best books

Order of Taylor Jenkins Reid books

Historical fiction is that genre that makes you see your favorite characters or favorite historical event in an altogether different timeline.

Historical fiction books weave stories from questions such as ‘What if a particular event had turned out differently?’

And when it comes to historical fiction books, the name of the brilliant author Taylor Jenkins Reid comes to mind because of her New York Times best-selling novels The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones & The Six, and Malibu Rising.

This article brings you the list of Taylor Jenkins Reid books in order of release.

You will also find the plot outlines of each of the books by Taylor Jenkins Reid in this blog post.

And we start with knowing a little bit about Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Who is Taylor Jenkins Reid

Reid did her major in media studies and then got into a career in film production.

In her initial days, she worked as a casting director but soon she got a book deal at the age of 24 when she worked with a high school.

She published her first novel in 2013, titled Forever, Interrupted.

Taylor Jenkins Reid rose to critical and commercial success with her novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in which a fictional Hollywood star Evelyn Hugo tells her personal story to a rookie journalist and the truth behind her marriages.

Glamour acclaimed her novel Maybe in another life: A novel as the ‘Best Book of the Summer’.

Her novel Daisy Jones & The Six won the Goldsboro Glass Bell award in the year 2020.

The audiobook version of Daisy Jones & The Six won the Apple’s Book’s Best Audiobooks of 2019 award.

Amazon studios have adapted Daisy Jones & The Six for a web-based mini-series that is currently under development.

Reid’s novels have been picked for acclaim by Reese’s book club, Read With Jenna, Indie Next, Best of Amazon, and many more.

Taylor Jenkins Reid lives with her screenwriter husband, Alex Jenkins Reid, and their daughter in Los Angeles.

Taylor Jenkins Reid books in order of release

  • Forever, Interrupted (2013)

  • After I Do (2014)

  • Maybe in Another Life (2015)

  • One True Loves (2016)

  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (2017)

  • Evidence of the Affair (2018)

  • Daisy Jones & The Six (2019)

  • Daisy Jones and The Six / The Flatshare / Such a Fun Age (2020)

  • Malibu Rising (2021)

  • Carrie Soto Is Back (2022)

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Retired and formerly famous Hollywood star Evelyn Hugo wants to reveal all about her glamorous life.

But she has chosen a rookie reporter Monique Grant to tell her story.

Monique is shocked as to why Evelyn Hugo has shown interest in her, an unknown magazine reporter, to tell the truth about her life.

Monique is looking forward to this interview as a way to move ahead on the professional front.

Her personal and professional life is going nowhere as of now.

Evelyn Hugo starts revealing her story to Monique in her lavish apartment.

She tells about her entrance to showbiz in the 1950s, her rise to fame, her seven husbands, ambition, forbidden love, and her voluntary retirement from show business in the 1980s.

As Evelyn to Monique tells all about her, she begins to sense a personal connection with the aging star.

The story takes a wild turn when Monique finds her past coinciding with Evelyn’s in a tragic manner.

Daisy Jones and The Six

Daisy Jones and The Six is a band documentary written in the form of interview transcripts by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

This novel is about the union and break-up of Daisy Jones, with a band ‘The Six’ led by Billy Dunne.

Daisy Jones is an open-minded girl in LA in the late 60s. She enjoys sex, and she enjoys drugs but she is more thrilled by Rock and Roll.

By the time she turns 20, her voice has started receiving attention.

On the other hand, is a band ‘The Six’ rising in popularity led by Billy Dunne on whose first tour his girlfriend finds out that she is pregnant.

A producer sees a big opportunity in uniting Daisy Jones and The Six and he does so. But what happens because of which at the height of their popularity, Daisy Jones breaks up with ‘The Six’?

Carrie Soto Is Back

Carrie Soto is a star tennis player whose relentless determination to win, has won her twenty grand slam titles.

She has been coached and trained by her father, Javier from the age of two.

Carrie has sacrificed many things to get to this success.

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But 6 years after retirement from Tennis, Carrie sees a stupendous player Nicki Chan breaking her record in the 1994 US Open.

Carrie thus gets motivated and gets filled with the determination to reclaim her record. Thus, she decides to come back to the game at the age of 37.

She wants her father to coach her for one final year, one final season.

Carrie Soto is back to Tennis despite all odds and thus follows a heartfelt, emotional sports drama.

One True Loves

Emma Blair is in her twenties when she marries her high school sweetheart Jesse.

Their life is perfect, they travel the world together, never leaving an opportunity for an adventure.

In short, Jesse and Emma are living their life to the fullest.

But their life hits a rough road when on the first anniversary of their wedding, Jesse goes missing. Over the pacific, Jesse went on a helicopter ride which was never found.

Emma is shattered. She wants to put her life together so she goes back home quitting her job.

Emma is now in her thirties. One fine day she meets an old friend Sam.

She falls for Sam and they get engaged.

When it seems that life is giving her a second chance, Jesse is back, he was alive all this time and was trying to get back to her.

Emma now has to choose between her husband who she loved and who was gone for a long time and her fiance who she is in love with now.

How will Emma find out whom she wants? Who is her One True Love?

Malibu Rising

Malibu Rising is the story of one night that centers around the four siblings of the Riva family - Nina, Jay, Hud, and Kit.

They are the children of a famous Legendary singer Mick Riva.

It’s August 1983 and it’s Nick Riva’s annual end-of-summer party in Malibu. The party is going to turn more and more electric as the night progresses.

But Nick Riva is not looking forward to her own party. She has been recently publicly renounced by her tennis player husband.

Hud is also on the back foot because of withholding a confession to someone from whom he has been inseparable since birth.

Jay is also looking forward to meeting a girl who is always in her head and who has promised to meet him this night and Kit has invited someone without informing or consulting with anyone.

The night is young but by midnight the atmosphere will turn electric.

The party will see alcohol, there will be music and all the fun that a typical end-of-summer party must have, but in the dawn something terrible will happen because of which the life of these 4 siblings will change forever.

What will that be? Grab a copy and find it out.

Conclusion: Taylor Jenkins Reid books list

Historical fiction novels are not easy to write. This fact makes you wonder how talented Taylor Jenkins Reid is.

She knows her art and is really good at it.

If you would ask me ‘which Taylor Jenkins Reid book should I read first?’ then straightaway I would say ‘The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’.

This book is one of the bright shining stars in the universe of the historical fiction genre because it has been written so perfectly.

The book has suspense, glamour, pain, sorrow, and a mysterious intersection of the lives of Evelyn Hugo and the rookie journalist to whom she chooses to give an interview.

The book shows the writing class of Taylor Jenkins Reid who has a long and bright future ahead as an author.

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