Below is the complete list of Christina Lauren books in order. For each series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Beautiful Books
Publication Order of Lauren Billings Short Stories/Novellas Books
with Lauren Billings
- The Honeymoon Crashers (2023)
The Honeymoon Crashers was published in 2023 and is listed as book #1 in the Lauren Billings Short Stories/Novellas series.
Publication Order of Wild Seasons Books
- Not-Joe Story (2016)
Not-Joe Story was published in 2016 and is listed as book #6 in the Wild Seasons series.
Publication Order of Standalone Books
Publication Order of Meant To Be Books
Publication Order of Scared Sexy Books
Publication Order of The Improbable Meet-Cute Books
Publication Order of The Improbable Meet-Cute: Second Chances Books
About Christina Lauren
Christina Lauren is the shared pen name of American writers Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, longtime friends whose partnership has produced contemporary romance, romantic comedy, erotic romance, and young adult fiction. Writing under a single name, they have built a bibliography that ranges from tightly connected, high-heat series to largely independent novels concerned with friendship, work, family expectations, and the risks people take when an orderly life no longer feels sufficient.
The two authors arrived at fiction from markedly different professional backgrounds. Billings earned a doctorate in neuroscience from the University of California, Irvine, and researched neurodegeneration and aging before becoming a full-time writer. Hobbs worked in a junior high counseling office, an environment that gave her sustained contact with adolescents and the emotional pressures surrounding identity, family, and belonging. Those experiences do not translate mechanically into their stories, but they help explain the duo’s interest in interpersonal behavior and their ability to move between adult romance and younger characters.
Their publishing breakthrough came with Beautiful Bastard in 2013. The novel introduced an intense workplace relationship and launched the Beautiful series, an interconnected group of full-length romances and shorter companion stories following several couples within the same social and professional circle. Its confrontational chemistry, explicit sensuality, and rapid dialogue established the early Christina Lauren style. The Wild Seasons series continued that period of their career through a different group of friends whose impulsive Las Vegas marriages lead to longer, more complicated relationships.
As their bibliography expanded, Hobbs and Billings moved increasingly toward standalones and broader romantic comedies. Books such as Roomies, Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating, and The Unhoneymooners retain their gift for attraction and comic friction while placing greater weight on careers, friendship groups, family tensions, and the practical consequences of romantic choices. Love and Other Words uses a more reflective structure, moving between past and present to examine first love, separation, and memory. Other novels have incorporated holiday fantasy, adventure, matchmaking technology, reality television, and inherited wealth without abandoning the emotional focus on two people learning to interpret one another more honestly.
Their work for younger readers forms a distinct part of the bibliography rather than an extension of the adult romances. Autoboyography, one of their best-known young adult novels, centers on sexuality, faith, authorship, and the difficulty of living openly within a restrictive community. Their young adult fiction generally gives identity and family pressure more prominence while preserving the accessible dialogue and emotional immediacy associated with their adult work.
The Christina Lauren partnership is notable for producing a unified narrative voice rather than presenting two visibly separate styles. Their novels commonly use alternating perspectives, energetic conversation, sharply drawn attraction, and protagonists whose apparent confidence conceals uncertainty or loneliness. Humor often grows from awkward situations and mismatched temperaments, but the strongest stories allow embarrassment and desire to coexist with grief, fear, professional disappointment, or complicated family loyalty.
Their bibliography is best understood by separating the connected Beautiful and Wild Seasons books from the standalones and young adult novels. Some later works also share characters or occupy the same loose fictional world, most notably The Soulmate Equation and The True Love Experiment, but they do not form a large continuous saga. Across these changing formats, Hobbs and Billings have remained recognizable for emotionally direct storytelling, collaborative fluency, and romances built as much on conversation and companionship as physical chemistry.