Below is the complete list of Jennifer Weiner books in order. For each series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Cannie Shapiro Books
Publication Order of The Littlest Bigfoot Books
Publication Order of Standalone Books
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books
- A Memoir of Grief (2012)
In the Short Stories/Novellas series, A Memoir of Grief is book #4 and was published in 2012. - Disconnected (2013)
Disconnected was first published in 2013; within the Short Stories/Novellas series, it is listed as book #5. - Everyone’s a Critic (2019)
Everyone’s a Critic was published in 2019 and is listed as book #6 in the Short Stories/Novellas series. 
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books
About Jennifer Weiner
Jennifer Weiner is an American novelist, essayist, and former journalist whose fiction has become closely associated with contemporary women’s lives, complicated families, friendship, body image, motherhood, ambition, and the gap between the lives women are expected to want and the ones they actually choose. Since the publication of her debut novel, Good in Bed, in 2001, she has built a long career in popular fiction while repeatedly challenging assumptions about which women deserve to occupy the center of commercial novels.
Weiner grew up in Connecticut and graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1991 with a degree in English literature. Before becoming a full-time novelist, she worked as a newspaper reporter in Pennsylvania and Kentucky and later joined The Philadelphia Inquirer as a reporter, feature writer, and columnist. Her journalism background is visible in the observational quality of her fiction: her characters are often sharply aware of class, appearance, work, family expectations, and the social judgments surrounding them.
Good in Bed introduced Cannie Shapiro, a Philadelphia journalist dealing with a humiliating breakup, a difficult family history, and her relationship with her plus-size body. Although Cannie shares certain biographical traits with Weiner, the novel established themes that would reach far beyond one semi-autobiographical protagonist. Weiner became particularly interested in women who do not conform neatly to conventional ideals of beauty, success, marriage, or motherhood, and in giving their emotional lives the seriousness normally reserved for supposedly weightier subjects.
Her second novel, In Her Shoes, strengthened her reputation through the turbulent relationship between sisters Rose and Maggie Feller. The novel was adapted into a 2005 feature film starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and Shirley MacLaine, bringing Weiner’s work to an even wider audience. Sisterhood, female friendship, and strained family bonds subsequently became recurring elements throughout her fiction.
Rather than building her career around one large fictional series, Weiner has primarily written stand-alone novels, though some books share characters or continue earlier stories. Certain Girls, for example, returns to Cannie Shapiro years after Good in Bed. Elsewhere, novels such as Little Earthquakes, Then Came You, and All Fall Down examine motherhood, fertility, addiction, marriage, and the pressures surrounding supposedly successful adult lives from markedly different perspectives.
Her later fiction has broadened further in scope. Mrs. Everything follows sisters Jo and Bethie through decades of American social change, allowing Weiner to consider gender expectations, sexuality, motherhood, work, and the different compromises available to women across generations. Big Summer, That Summer, The Summer Place, and The Breakaway combine accessible relationship-driven storytelling with subjects including friendship, betrayal, body acceptance, family secrets, sexual misconduct, and changing definitions of love. The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits turns toward the rise and collapse of a fictional early-2000s pop duo, using music and celebrity as a framework for another story about sisters, mothers, daughters, ambition, and unresolved history.
Weiner has also written outside adult fiction. Her nonfiction collection Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing blends memoir and personal essays, while her Littlest Bigfoot books brought her character-centered storytelling to younger readers. She has additionally written extensively about gender, publishing, popular culture, and the critical treatment of fiction by and about women.
Across her bibliography, Weiner’s most consistent interest is in women whose lives are messier than cultural narratives allow. Her novels may involve romance, but romantic fulfillment is rarely the only measure of a character’s future. Careers, sisters, mothers, daughters, friendships, bodies, creativity, aging, and self-respect matter just as much. That combination of humor, social observation, emotional accessibility, and sustained attention to women’s experiences has defined her work from Good in Bed onward.