Below is the complete list of Emily Giffin’s Adventures of Darcy books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Adventures of Darcy Books
About Adventures of Darcy
Emily Giffin’s Adventures of Darcy is a loosely connected contemporary fiction sequence built around Darcy Rhone, one of the central characters introduced in Giffin’s debut novel, Something Borrowed. The grouping primarily encompasses Something Borrowed and its direct sequel, Something Blue, which revisit the same complicated circle of friendship and romance from different perspectives. Rather than functioning as a conventional series of independent adventures, the books tell two sides of a continuous story involving Darcy, her longtime best friend Rachel White, Dex Thaler, and the consequences of choices that transform their relationships.
Something Borrowed introduces Darcy largely through Rachel’s perspective. Rachel is a successful New York attorney who has spent much of her life feeling overshadowed by her beautiful, confident, and socially dominant best friend. Darcy appears to possess many of the things Rachel believes she lacks, including an engagement to Dex, a man Rachel originally met while attending law school.
The situation changes after Rachel’s thirtieth birthday celebration, when she and Dex sleep together. What might have remained a single betrayal develops into an affair, forcing Rachel to confront both her feelings for Dex and the increasingly uncomfortable realities of her friendship with Darcy. Giffin deliberately complicates the moral structure by revealing weaknesses and deceptions on multiple sides. Rachel has betrayed her best friend, but the relationships surrounding that betrayal are not as straightforward as they first appear.
Although Darcy is essential to Something Borrowed, she is not its principal narrator. That changes with Something Blue, which turns the story over to Darcy herself. The shift in perspective is the defining feature of the sequence. A character who could easily have remained the glamorous, selfish obstacle in Rachel’s story is instead required to explain herself and then live with the consequences of her own decisions.
Darcy begins Something Blue accustomed to receiving attention and expecting life to conform to her plans. The collapse of her engagement and friendship is followed by another upheaval when she becomes pregnant. Rather than remaining in New York, she eventually travels to London and reconnects with Ethan, a longtime friend whose attitude toward her is very different from the admiration she usually expects.
London becomes the setting for a substantial transformation. Darcy cannot rely indefinitely on beauty, charm, social status, or other people’s willingness to accommodate her. Pregnancy and the prospect of motherhood force her to consider what kind of life she wants to build and how much responsibility she bears for the relationships she has damaged.
This character development is why Something Blue is more than a companion novel retelling the first book from another angle. It continues beyond the central events of Something Borrowed and gives Darcy an independent emotional arc. Her flaws are not erased, but Giffin allows a character who behaved badly to mature rather than permanently defining her by her worst choices.
The two novels are therefore best read in publication order. Something Borrowed establishes the friendship, affair, and rupture from Rachel’s viewpoint; Something Blue deliberately depends upon readers carrying that understanding into Darcy’s version of what follows.
The Adventures of Darcy label should also be understood as a bibliographic grouping rather than the formal title of a large ongoing series. Emily Giffin’s wider novels are mostly stand-alone works, even when characters or connections occasionally cross between them. For Darcy’s central storyline, Something Borrowed and Something Blue provide the essential sequence.
Together, the books turn a friendship crisis into a study of perspective. Rachel’s story demonstrates that the person who appears to have everything may not understand what others have sacrificed for her, while Darcy’s story demonstrates that being selfish in someone else’s narrative does not make personal growth impossible.