Below is the complete list of Jenny Han books in order. For each series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of The Summer I Turned Pretty Books
Publication Order of Clara Lee Books
Publication Order of Burn for Burn Books
with Siobhan Vivian
Publication Order of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Books
Publication Order of Standalone Books
Publication Order of Graphic Novels Books
About Jenny Han
Jenny Han is an American author, screenwriter, producer, and television creator best known for young adult stories that treat first love, family bonds, cultural identity, and the emotional intensity of adolescence with unusual warmth. Her two landmark trilogies, The Summer I Turned Pretty and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, developed large international readerships before becoming major screen franchises. Han’s career has since expanded well beyond novel writing: she has become closely involved in adapting and extending her own fictional worlds for television and film, giving her an unusually direct role in how contemporary young adult literature moves across media.
Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, Han began her publishing career with Shug, a 2006 middle-grade novel about twelve-year-old Annemarie Wilcox and the insecurities of early adolescence. That debut already contained concerns that would recur throughout her work: changing friendships, unreturned affection, family tension, embarrassment, and the painful uncertainty of growing into a new version of oneself. She later published the children’s book Clara Lee and the Apple Pie Dream, while her career increasingly centered on young adult fiction.
The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy established Han as a major voice in contemporary YA romance. Beginning with The Summer I Turned Pretty in 2009, the series follows Isabel “Belly” Conklin and the emotional significance of summers spent with the Fisher family, particularly brothers Conrad and Jeremiah. The beach-house setting gives the novels a strong atmosphere of memory and recurrence, but the story extends beyond a simple love triangle. Grief, changing families, friendship, growing independence, and the difficulty of separating childhood attachment from adult choice all shape Belly’s development across the trilogy.
Han then collaborated with author Siobhan Vivian on the Burn for Burn trilogy. Beginning with Burn for Burn, the sequence follows three girls brought together by plans for revenge and moves into darker territory than Han’s best-known romances, combining high-school conflict with increasingly heightened and supernatural elements. The collaboration occupies a distinct place in her bibliography because it demonstrates her range outside the intimate romantic realism most strongly associated with her solo work.
Her next major success began with To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before in 2014. The novel centers on Lara Jean Song Covey, whose private letters to former crushes are unexpectedly mailed, forcing imagined relationships into real life. Across the trilogy, Han combines romance with a detailed portrait of the Covey sisters, their widowed father, Korean American family identity, domestic rituals, and the transition from high school toward adulthood. Lara Jean’s emotional world is shaped as much by family loyalty and fear of change as by romance, giving the series a broader foundation than its famous love-letter premise suggests.
Screen adaptations transformed Han’s public career. She served as an executive producer on the three To All the Boys films and later created XO, Kitty, a television spin-off centered on Lara Jean’s younger sister. For Prime Video, Han created and co-showran The Summer I Turned Pretty adaptation, becoming deeply involved in reshaping her earlier novels for serialized television. Her official biography also identifies her as creator and executive producer of XO, Kitty, while her books have been published in more than thirty languages.
Han’s bibliography is best understood through a small number of strongly defined bodies of work rather than a long succession of unrelated titles. The Summer I Turned Pretty explores memory, seasonal ritual, grief, and romantic choice; To All the Boys centers intimacy, family, and the risks of making private feeling visible; Burn for Burn brings collaboration and revenge into a darker register; and her earlier children’s fiction captures the awkward thresholds of growing up. Across them, Han’s defining subject is emotional transition—the moment when a familiar life begins changing, and a young person must decide what, and whom, to carry forward.