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Janet Evanovich Books in Order
Below is the complete list of Janet Evanovich books in order of publication. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series.
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Stephanie Plum Series
- One for the Money (1994)
Buy on Amazon - Two for the Dough (1996)
Buy on Amazon - Three to Get Deadly (1997)
Buy on Amazon - Four to Score (1998)
Buy on Amazon - High Five (1999)
Buy on Amazon - Hot Six (2000)
Buy on Amazon - Seven Up (2001)
Buy on Amazon - Hard Eight (2002)
Buy on Amazon - To the Nines (2003)
Buy on Amazon - Ten Big Ones (2004)
Buy on Amazon - Eleven on Top (2005)
Buy on Amazon - Twelve Sharp (2006)
Buy on Amazon - Lean Mean Thirteen (2007)
Buy on Amazon - Fearless Fourteen (2008)
Buy on Amazon - Finger Lickin’ Fifteen (2009)
Buy on Amazon - Sizzling Sixteen (2009)
Buy on Amazon - Smokin’ Seventeen (2011)
Buy on Amazon - Explosive Eighteen (2011)
Buy on Amazon - Notorious Nineteen (2012)
Buy on Amazon - Takedown Twenty (2013)
Buy on Amazon - Top Secret Twenty-One (2014)
Buy on Amazon - Tricky Twenty-Two (2015)
Buy on Amazon - Turbo Twenty-Three (2016)
Buy on Amazon - Hardcore Twenty-Four (2017)
Buy on Amazon - Look Alive Twenty-Five (2018)
Buy on Amazon - Twisted Twenty-Six (2019)
Buy on Amazon - Fortune and Glory (2020)
Buy on Amazon - Game On (2021)
Buy on Amazon - Going Rogue (2022)
Buy on Amazon - Dirty Thirty (2023)
Buy on Amazon - Now or Never (2024)
Buy on Amazon - Split Second: Thirty-Two Switcheroo (2026)
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Stephanie Plum Between the Numbers/Holiday Novels Series
- Visions of Sugar Plums (2002)
Buy on Amazon - Plum Lovin’ (2007)
Buy on Amazon - Plum Lucky (2008)
Buy on Amazon - Plum Spooky (2009)
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Alexandra Barnaby Series
- Metro Girl (2004)
Buy on Amazon - Motor Mouth (2006)
Buy on Amazon - Troublemaker (2007)
Buy on Amazon - Troublemaker 2 (2010)
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Culhane Family Series
with Dorien Kelly
- Love in a Nutshell (2012)
Buy on Amazon - The Husband List (2012)
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Elsie Hawkins Series
- Back to the Bedroom (1989)
Buy on Amazon - Smitten (1990)
Buy on Amazon - Wife for Hire (1990)
Buy on Amazon - The Rocky Road to Romance (1991)
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Full/Max Holt Series
with Charlotte Hughes
- Full House (1981)
Buy on Amazon - Full Tilt (2002)
Buy on Amazon - Full Speed (2003)
Buy on Amazon - Full Blast (2004)
Buy on Amazon - Full Bloom (2005)
Buy on Amazon - Full Scoop (2006)
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Gabriella Rose Series
- The Recovery Agent (2022)
Buy on Amazon - The King’s Ransom (2025)
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Hot/Cate Madigan Series
- Hot Stuff (2007)
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Lizzy & Diesel Series
with Phoef Sutton
- Wicked Appetite (2009)
Buy on Amazon - Wicked Business (2012)
Buy on Amazon - Wicked Charms (2015)
(With Phoef Sutton)
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Kate O’Hare & Nicolas Fox Series
- The Caper (2013)
Buy on Amazon - Pros and Cons (2013)
(With Lee Goldberg)
Buy on Amazon - The Heist (2013)
(With Lee Goldberg)
Buy on Amazon - The Chase (2014)
(With Lee Goldberg)
Buy on Amazon - The Shell Game (2014)
(With Lee Goldberg)
Buy on Amazon - The Job (2014)
(With Lee Goldberg)
Buy on Amazon - The Scam (2015)
(With Lee Goldberg)
Buy on Amazon - The Pursuit (2016)
(With Lee Goldberg)
Buy on Amazon - The Big Kahuna (2019)
(With Peter Evanovich)
Buy on Amazon - The Bounty (2021)
(With Steve Hamilton)
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Knight and Moon Series
with Phoef Sutton
- Curious Minds (2016)
(With Phoef Sutton)
Buy on Amazon - Dangerous Minds (2017)
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Standalone Novels Series
- Hero at Large (1987)
(As: Steffie Hall)
Buy on Amazon - Thanksgiving (1988)
Buy on Amazon - The Grand Finale (1988)
Buy on Amazon - Manhunt (1988)
Buy on Amazon - Foul Play (1989)
(As: Steffie Hall)
Buy on Amazon - Love Overboard / Ivan Takes a Wife (1989)
Buy on Amazon - Naughty Neighbor (1992)
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Non-Fiction Series
- How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author (2006)
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About Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich built one of the most recognizable careers in modern commercial fiction by combining mystery, romance, slapstick disaster, and a distinctly New Jersey sense of attitude. Her official site identifies her as a #1 New York Times bestselling author, and both her own pages and her publisher make clear that the Stephanie Plum novels remain the center of her career, even as her bibliography has expanded into multiple additional series and collaborations. She was born in South River, New Jersey, and her first published novel was Hero at Large, long before Stephanie Plum made her a publishing phenomenon.
The clearest way to understand Evanovich’s bibliography is in phases. She began by writing romance, including books published under the name Steffie Hall, and that early background matters because the emotional rhythm of romance never really disappeared from her later work. Even in her crime novels, attraction, banter, and relationship chaos remain central. Her official novel list still separates out pre-Plum romance novels and co-authored romance novels, which is a useful reminder that the comic-mystery voice readers now associate with her grew out of a broader commercial-writing foundation.
Everything changed with Stephanie Plum. That series became not only Evanovich’s signature success but one of the defining long-running comic mystery franchises in American popular fiction. Stephanie is a Trenton bounty hunter by necessity rather than calling, and the books thrive on that mismatch between the danger of the job and the barely controlled chaos of the heroine’s life. Evanovich’s official site gives the Plum books pride of place, and her publisher continues to market them as the core of her list. Recent and upcoming titles make clear that the series is still active, with Now or Never as book 31 and Split Second: Thirty-Two Switcheroo announced for November 10, 2026.
What made Evanovich last was that she never relied on plot alone. Plenty of mystery writers can build a caper or a chase, but Evanovich built a reading experience around voice. Her books are fast, irreverent, flirtatious, and openly comic, yet they are structured with enough discipline that the farce never fully loses momentum. Stephanie Plum may be the most famous vehicle for that style, but it carries over into other lines too, including the Fox and O’Hare books, the Lizzy and Diesel novels, the Knight and Moon books, the Alexandra Barnaby novels, and more recently the Recovery Agent series. Her publisher’s biography and her official novels pages both show how wide that second half of her career has become.
That broader bibliography is important because Evanovich is not just “the Plum author,” even if Plum is the center of gravity. She has repeatedly used collaboration and side series to test variations on the same strengths: witty dialogue, mismatched partners, high-energy pursuit, treasure-hunt plotting, and a heroine or hero whose competence is often tangled up with improvisation. The Recovery Agent novels, for example, show her still expanding into adventure-thriller territory, with publisher pages already listing the second book, The King’s Ransom, for November 2025.
The best way to understand Janet Evanovich’s bibliography, then, is as the work of a writer who found a comic suspense voice durable enough to sustain decades of variation. She began in romance, broke through in mystery, and then built a body of work that keeps returning to the same pleasures: momentum, chemistry, wisecracks, trouble, and characters who are rarely as prepared as they need to be. Her books are meant to entertain, but the consistency of that entertainment is its own kind of achievement. She did not just create a bestselling series. She created a tone readers know almost instantly, and that tone is what holds her shelf together.
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