Below is the complete list of Molly Harper’s Naked Werewolf books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Naked Werewolf Books
- How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf (2011)
How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf was published in 2011 and is listed as book #1 in the Naked Werewolf series. - The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf (2011)
Published in 2011, The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf is listed as book #2 in the Naked Werewolf series. - How to Run with a Naked Werewolf (2013)
How to Run with a Naked Werewolf is a 2013 release and appears as book #3 in the Naked Werewolf series.
About Naked Werewolf
Molly Harper’s Naked Werewolf books are a compact paranormal romance series that leans hard into the things she does especially well: sharp dialogue, small-town absurdity, romantic chemistry, and supernatural chaos treated with a straight enough face to stay funny. The series is set in Grundy, Alaska, a remote town where isolation, weather, and local secrecy all help create the right conditions for werewolf trouble. That setting matters a lot. These books would not feel the same anywhere else. Alaska gives the series its personality just as much as the romance does.
The core series runs through three novels: How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf, The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf, and How to Run with a Naked Werewolf. Read in publication order, they work best as a connected supernatural small-town sequence rather than three unrelated werewolf romances. The world-building, social dynamics, and recurring atmosphere deepen from book to book, even though each installment has its own central romantic arc.
The first book, How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf, introduces the world through Mo Wenstein, a Southern transplant trying to reinvent herself in a place that could not be more different from where she came from. The premise immediately captures the series’ tone: a fish-out-of-water heroine, an inhospitable but intriguing Alaskan town, and a very inconveniently attractive man with a supernatural problem. Harper uses that setup for humor, but also for something more useful: it lets the reader discover Grundy at the same pace Mo does. The series begins with culture shock, suspicion, and attraction all tangled together, which makes it a strong opener.
The second novel, The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf, broadens the world by shifting focus while keeping Grundy central. That is one of the strengths of the series. It does not stay trapped inside one couple’s story. Instead, it shows that this odd little werewolf town has enough character, history, and emotional mess to support multiple romances. The wider social world becomes more important here, and that helps the series feel like a real community rather than a one-book premise stretched too far.
By the time How to Run with a Naked Werewolf arrives, the series feels much more settled in its own skin. The supernatural elements are already established, so the story can move faster and lean harder into action, danger, and the emotional complications that come from trying to build trust in a place where almost everyone is hiding something. The third book benefits from publication order because the town, the werewolf culture, and the social texture are already in place. Readers are no longer just learning what Grundy is; they are returning to it.
What makes the series work is tone. These books are funny, but they are not parody. Harper writes paranormal romance with a breezy confidence that keeps everything moving. Her werewolves may have serious problems, but the books never lose their sense of humor about bodies, awkwardness, territorial instincts, small-town gossip, and the general inconvenience of supernatural life. That comic energy keeps the romances lively and helps the series stand apart from darker, more self-serious paranormal fiction.
Another strength is scale. Because the series is only three books long, it never overstays its welcome. It has enough room to establish the town, expand its relationships, and let the recurring setting become part of the reader’s attachment, but not so much room that the concept gets diluted. That compactness helps the books feel brisk and satisfying.
Read in publication order, the Naked Werewolf series becomes more than a run of amusing paranormal romances. It turns into a lively little Alaska-set supernatural community story built around werewolves, reinvention, attraction, and the comic truth that even monsters still have to deal with weather, neighbors, and messy feelings.