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Author Emily Henry is the number 1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author and romance writer of stories about love and family for both teens and adults. She studied creative writing at Hope College and the now-defunct New York Center for Art & Media Studies and now spends most of her time in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the part of Kentucky just beneath it.

Emily Henry Books in Order

Are you looking for all of Emily Henry’s books in chronological order? Then look no further. Below you’ll find all of her young adult novels and romance novels in the order that they were published. 

The Love That Split the World (2016) by Emily Henry

Emily Henry’s stunning debut novel is Friday Night Lights meets The Time Traveler’s Wife and perfectly captures those bittersweet months after high school when we dream not only of the future but of all the roads and paths we’ve left untaken.

Natalie’s last summer in her small Kentucky hometown is off to a magical start . . . until she starts seeing the “wrong things.” They’re just momentary glimpses at first—her front door is red instead of its usual green, and there’s a preschool where the garden store should be. But then her whole town disappears for hours, fading away into rolling hills and grazing buffalo, and Nat knows something isn’t right.

Then there are the visits from the kind but mysterious apparition she calls “Grandmother,” who tells her, “You have three months to save him.” The next night, under the stadium lights of the high school football field, she meets a beautiful boy named Beau, and it’s as if time just stops and nothing exists. Nothing, except Natalie and Beau.

A Million Junes (2017) by Emily Henry

Romeo and Juliet meet One Hundred Years of Solitude in Emily Henry’s brilliant follow-up to The Love That Split the World, about the daughter and son of two long-feuding families who fall in love while trying to uncover the truth about the strange magic and harrowing curse that has plagued their bloodlines for generations. 

In their hometown of Five Fingers, Michigan, the O’Donnells and the Angerts have mythic legacies. But for all the tall tales they weave, both founding families are tight-lipped about what caused the century-old rift between them, except to say it began with a cherry tree.

Eighteen-year-old Jack “June” O’Donnell doesn’t need a better reason than that. She’s an O’Donnell to her core, just like her late father was, and O’Donnell family stay away from the Angert family. Period.

But when Saul Angert, the son of June’s father’s mortal enemy, returns to town after three mysterious years away, June can’t seem to avoid him. Soon the unthinkable happens: She finds she doesn’t exactly hate the gruff, sarcastic boy she was born to loathe. 

Saul’s arrival sparks a chain reaction, and as the magic, ghosts, and coywolves of Five Fingers conspire to reveal the truth about the dark moment that started the feud, June must question everything she knows about her family and the father she adored. And she must decide whether it’s finally time for her—and all of the O’Donnells before her—to let go.

When the Sky Fell on Splendor (2019) by Emily Henry

A gripping story about a group of friends in a small town who find themselves dealing with unexpected powers after a cosmic event.

Almost everyone in the small town of Splendor, Ohio, was affected when the local steel mill exploded. If you weren’t a casualty of the accident yourself, chances are a loved one was. That’s the case for seventeen-year-old Franny, who, five years after the explosion, still has to stand by and do nothing as her brother lies in a coma.

In the wake of the tragedy, Franny found solace in a group of friends whose experiences mirrored her own. The group calls themselves The Ordinary, and they spend their free time investigating local ghost stories and legends, filming their exploits for their small following of YouTube fans. It’s silly, it’s fun, and it keeps them from dwelling on the sadness that surrounds them.

Until one evening, when the strange and dangerous thing they film isn’t fiction–it’s a bright light, something massive hurtling toward them from the sky. And when it crashes and the teens go to investigate…everything changes.

Hello Girls (2019) by Emily Henry and Brittany Cavallaro

Thelma and Louise get remade in this powerful, darkly funny novel by acclaimed authors Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry. When Winona and Lucille have had enough of the controlling men in their lives, they take their rage on the road to make a new life for themselves.

Winona has been starving for life in the seemingly perfect home that she shares with her seemingly perfect father, celebrity weatherman Stormy Olsen. No one knows that he locks the pantry door to control her eating and leaves bruises where no one can see them.

Lucille has been suffocating beneath the needs of her mother and her drug-dealing brother, wondering if there’s more out there for her than disappearing waitress tips and a lifetime of barely getting by.

One harrowing night, Winona and Lucille realize they can’t wait until graduation to start their new lives. They need out. Now. One hour later, they’re armed with a plan that will take them from their small Michigan town to Chicago.

All they need is three grand, fast. And really, a stolen convertible can’t hurt.

Chased by the oppression, toxicity, and powerlessness that has held them down, Winona and Lucille must reclaim their strength if they are going to make their daring escape–and get away with it.

Beach Read (2020) by Emily Henry

Two writers. One holiday. A romcom waiting to happen…

January is a hopeless romantic who narrates her life like she’s the lead in a blockbuster movie.
Gus is a serious literary type who thinks true love is a fairy-tale.

But January and Gus have more in common than you’d think:
They’re both broke.
They’ve got crippling writer’s block.
And they need to write bestsellers before summer ends.

The result? A bet to swap genres and see who gets published first in a summer-long challenge.The risk? In telling each other’s stories, their worlds might be changed entirely…

Set over one sizzling summer, Beach Read is a witty love story that will make you laugh a lot, cry a little and fall head over heels.

Book Review of Beach Reads

January Andrews fell in love with romance stories back when her mum was first diagnosed with cancer. Picking up a dog-eyed book in the waiting room, she found herself lost in the magic of romance. Alongside seeing her parent’s romance she set about writing her own romance novels, with four successful publications. Then her dad died suddenly, leaving behind the sadness of his death but also a bucket load of secrets that January was only just finding out.

Still spinning from the new revelations in her life, her long-term boyfriend dumping her and the need for getting a fifth novel written. She heads to the beach house that her dad has left for her. How can she write about love and happily ever afters when she’s not sure that they really exist? Her neighbour next door makes a bad impression on her, however, she soon discovers that she knows him from college. Somewhat of a frienemy, they have digs at each other’s style of books and make a bet to write about each other’s genre to see who can get published first.

What follows is a journey through researching books, discovering the secrets from their past and learning how to move on with their lives. A rollercoaster of emotions that will have you laughing, crying and feeling all the lust.

You and Me on Vacation: Also known as People We Meet On Vacation (2021) by Emily Henry

Two friends. Ten summer trips. Their last chance to fall in love…

12 YEARS AGO: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other and are pretty confident they’ll never speak again.
11 YEARS AGO: They’re forced to share a ride home from college and by the end of it a friendship is formed. And a pact: every year, one summer vacation together.
10 YEARS AGO: Alex discovers his fear of flying on the way to Vancouver. Poppy holds his hand the whole way.
7 YEARS AGO: They get far too drunk and narrowly avoid getting matching tattoos in New Orleans.
2 YEARS AGO: It all goes wrong.
THIS YEAR: Poppy asks Alex to join her on one last trip. A final trip that will determine the rest of their lives.

Get ready to travel the world, snort with laughter and – most of all – lose your heart to Poppy and Alex.

Book Review of You and Me on Vacation

Take a journey through the friendship of Poppy and Alex who met 12 summers ago and didn’t actually like each other at first. However, a year later they spend a car journey together as they return back to their hometown in Ohio which allows them to form a friendship and plans for their first vacation. Over the years during college and beyond they make sure to plan a summer vacation together.

The story starts with Poppy discovering that she has met all her professional goals as a travel writer and influencer, however, feels as though there is something missing from her life. Her friend Rachel asks her to think about the last time she was truly happy, which instantly brings a flashback of Alex to her mind. However, the best friends haven’t spoken in two years. An incident on their last vacation led to them giving each other space, which as time went on it wasn’t ever easier to reach out and reconnect. However, Poppy has decided that she’d love to have one more summer vacation with Alex – if he’ll speak to her.

Flitting between the stories from their previous summers together gives you an insight into their friendship, their loves and passions in life. With Alex due to attend his younger brother’s wedding they make a plan to spend a few days beforehand together before heading to the celebration. Whilst her travel job at R&R have said no to her low budget vacation idea Poppy goes ahead with it paying and booking everything herself which doesn’t quite go to plan.

After having been friends for so many years, are they able to find the friendship they once had and possibly take it to the next level? But their lives are different, is there a way to make it work? Laugh out loud moments and tissues at the ready for this one.

Book Lovers (2022) by Emily Henry

One holiday. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn’t see coming…

Nora is a cut-throat literary agent at the top of her game. Her whole life is books.

Charlie is an editor with a gift for creating bestsellers. And he’s Nora’s work nemesis.

Nora has been through enough break-ups to know she’s the one that men date before finding their happy-ever-after. To prevent another dating dud, Nora’s sister has persuaded her to swap her city desk for a month’s holiday in Sunshine Falls.

It’s a small town straight out of a romance novel, but instead of meeting sexy lumberjacks, a handsome country doctor or cute bartenders, Nora keeps bumping into…Charlie.

She’s no heroine. He’s no hero. So can they take a page out of an entirely different book?

Book Review of Book Lovers

Two years ago Nora had her first interaction with book editor Charlie as she arrived later for a lunch meeting to discuss a book from one of her authors. Having just been dumped over the phone by yet another man who has fallen foul of a romance trope and she is the woman left behind. Slipping her professional mask back in place she hopes that the meeting will be OK, however, Charlie doesn’t like the book and passes on the opportunity stating that Dusty has clearly never visited Sunshine Falls, North Carolina.

Now they work in the same building and Nora can be smug that the book became a hit without his assistance. Meeting with her pregnant younger sister she suddenly notices how tired she looks so when she suggests a trip away just the two of them Nora can’t say no. Heading to Sunshine Falls as Libby loved the ‘Once In A Lifetime’ book. The town is not how it is described in the book but it doesn’t appear to bother Libby, although finding Charlie in town is somewhat of a surprise to Nora.

Literary enemies, they banter back and forth via email and text, with him taking over from Dusty’s usual editor who has gone on maternity leave early they are forced to work together from his family’s book store. Whilst Libby has a checklist of things she wants to complete together before they head back to New York City. As she and Charlie grow closer they discover that they each have made sacrifices for the ones they love and would give up a chance at happiness for them.

Happy Place (2023) by Emily Henry

Two exes. One pact.
Could this holiday change everything?

Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple – they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.

Every year, they take a holiday from their lives to drink far too much wine with their favourite people in the world.

Except this year, they are lying through their teeth, because Harriet and Wyn broke up six months ago. And they still haven’t told anyone.

But the cottage is for sale so this is the last time they’ll all be here together. They can’t bear to break their best friends’ hearts so they’ll fake it for one more week.

But how can you pretend to be in love – and get away with it – in front of the people who know you best?

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