Taylor Jenkins Reid Books in Order: Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones, Atmosphere & What’s Next (2026)

Taylor Jenkins Reid books in order looks simple until you notice that four of her novels share one Hollywood universe, two of her best are queer love stories hiding in plain sight and almost every title is being adapted for something. Atmosphere, her 2025 novel about NASA’s first women scientists and the astronaut one of them falls for, spent weeks near the top of the bestseller list and is headed to film with Laika. Her next novel, The Last Days of Vic & Coco, is dated for March 2, 2027. Below is every Taylor Jenkins Reid book in publication order with a spoiler-free hook, the connected books explained, where to start, every adaptation update and hotter sapphic picks for when you’ve read them all.

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Taylor Jenkins Reid Books in Order: Where to Start

Start with The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. It’s the book that made her a phenomenon, the first of her connected Hollywood novels and the one everyone will ask you about. If you want something newer and quieter, start with Atmosphere. If you want her early love stories, Maybe in Another Life is the best of the first four.

Every Reid novel stands alone. Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones & The Six, Malibu Rising and Carrie Soto Is Back share a world and a few characters, so reading those four in publication order rewards you with cameos and a slow reveal of the Riva family, but none requires the others.

The Early Love Stories in Order

1. Forever, Interrupted (2013): Elsie meets Ben on New Year’s Day, they elope by May, and days later he’s dead. Now she has to grieve alongside his mother, Susan, who didn’t know she existed. Netflix is developing it as a limited series with Laura Dern and Margaret Qualley starring and producing.
2. After I Do (2014): Lauren and Ryan’s marriage is failing, so they agree to a year apart with no contact, and Lauren works out what she actually wants while secretly reading his emails.
3. Maybe in Another Life (2015): Hannah runs into an old flame on a night out and makes one small choice that splits her life into two parallel stories, each with its own love and its own heartbreak.
4. One True Loves (2016): Emma’s high school sweetheart and husband, Jesse, is presumed dead after going missing at sea. Years later she’s engaged to her old friend Sam, and then Jesse comes home. The 2023 film stars Phillipa Soo and Simu Liu, with a screenplay by Reid and her husband.

The Connected Hollywood Novels in Order

These four share a fictional entertainment world. Mick Riva, Evelyn Hugo’s third husband, is the clearest thread, and his family takes center stage later.

1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (2017): reclusive Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo, ready at last to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life, picks an unknown magazine reporter, Monique, to write it. Seven marriages from the 1950s on, and underneath them the real love story: Evelyn is bisexual, and the person she loved most was a woman, her co-star Celia. Our books like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo list is all sapphic readalikes.
2. Daisy Jones & The Six (2019): the rise and breakup of a fictional 1970s rock band, told as an oral history of interviews, with the will-they-won’t-they between singer Daisy Jones and bandleader Billy Dunne at its center. A deluxe hardcover edition came out in 2026. Our books like Daisy Jones & The Six guide has the rock-star readalikes.
3. Malibu Rising (2021): over twenty-four hours in 1983, Mick Riva’s children throw their famous end-of-summer party, family secrets come out, and by morning the Malibu mansion is on fire.
4. Carrie Soto Is Back (2022): Carrie Soto, a former tennis champion coached all her life by her father, comes out of retirement at thirty-seven when her Grand Slam record is broken, and trains with a rival she once almost loved. She first appears in Malibu Rising. Our tennis romance books list picks up from here.

Atmosphere and the Short Story

1. Evidence of the Affair (2018): a short story told in letters, as a desperate woman writes to a man she has never met and their correspondence reveals an illicit affair.
2. Atmosphere (June 3, 2025): in 1980, Joan Goodwin, a physics and astronomy professor at Rice University, is picked from thousands of applicants to train as one of NASA’s first women scientists for the Space Shuttle program. In the training class is Vanessa Ford, a magnetic, mysterious aeronautical engineer, and the love between the two women has to stay secret. Then comes the December 1984 mission, STS-LR9, with Joan on the ground as CapCom. Reid spent months researching at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, and the book was a Good Morning America Book Club pick and a long-running New York Times bestseller.

The Queer Threads in Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Books

Two of Reid’s biggest books are sapphic love stories at heart. Evelyn Hugo spends decades hiding her relationship with Celia behind marriages to men, and the whole memoir is built to deliver that truth. Atmosphere is more direct: Joan and Vanessa’s romance is the book’s spine, set against an institution and an era that left no room for it. If those are the parts that stayed with you, our best sapphic celebrity romance books and books like Carol lists are built for you.

All Taylor Jenkins Reid Books in Publication Order

1. Forever, Interrupted (2013)
2. After I Do (2014)
3. Maybe in Another Life (2015)
4. One True Loves (2016)
5. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (2017)
6. Evidence of the Affair (2018, short story)
7. Daisy Jones & The Six (2019)
8. Malibu Rising (2021)
9. Carrie Soto Is Back (2022)
10. Atmosphere (2025)
11. The Last Days of Vic & Coco (March 2, 2027)

Taylor Jenkins Reid Adaptations: Every Update

• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Netflix film): announced in 2022 and still in development, with a script by Liz Tigelaar and Reid as an executive producer. Maggie Betts was long attached to direct, and 2026 reports name Anna Kendrick as director. No cast or release date has been announced.
• Daisy Jones & The Six (Prime Video): the Emmy-winning limited series with Riley Keough and Sam Claflin premiered in March 2023.
• One True Loves (film): released April 2023 with Phillipa Soo and Simu Liu.
• Atmosphere (film): Laika is developing a live-action film, adapted by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. No cast or date yet.
• Carrie Soto Is Back (Netflix series): in early development since April 2025, with Serena Williams reportedly executive producing and Amanda Kate Shuman writing.
• Forever, Interrupted (Netflix limited series): in development since 2024, with Laura Dern and Margaret Qualley starring and executive producing and Julia Bicknell as showrunner.
• Malibu Rising (TV): announced at Hulu in 2021, reportedly in need of a new home, and still without a release date or cast.

What’s Next for Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Last Days of Vic & Coco arrives March 2, 2027 from Atria. It’s set in the 1970s and follows two young women running a lucrative pool hustle: Coco lures the men into a game and Vic takes their money, until word spreads and they have to wonder how long it can last. Reid has called it her love letter to female friendship. Preorders are open now.

See The Last Days of Vic & Coco on Amazon →

Read Next: Hotter Picks From Fractal Enigma

Reid readers come for the star with a secret, the reporter who gets the real story, the champion who won’t lose and the two women at work who can’t be seen together. These Fractal Enigma sapphic romances keep all of that and put the love story on the page.

Make Me Your Secret — Aurora North

Five years ago, Laura King left Savannah for Hollywood and left Mia Bennett behind, no explanation, no goodbye, after sleeping with her in secret while Mia worked as her assistant. Now Laura is an A-list actress back in town for a six-week prestige film shoot, and she wants Mia in her bed and out of the pictures. Evelyn and Celia’s secret, with a second chance.

Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Second Chance, Celebrity Romance, Secret Relationship, Forced Proximity, Small Town Return, Coming Out

Start reading Make Me Your Secret →

Off the Record — Blair Lennox

Investigative journalist Rowan Bell once called queer country-pop superstar Wren Wilder’s coming out “market-tested authenticity” in a viral takedown. Now her editor has assigned her a thirty-day tour profile of Wren, on the tour bus, with one bed. The reporter-and-legend setup of Evelyn Hugo, with both women alive to it. Free with Kindle Unlimited.

Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, Forced Proximity, Celebrity Romance, Secret Relationship, One Bed, Grumpy/Sunshine

Start reading Off the Record →

Serve Her Right — Aurora North

Naomi Grant has spent fifteen years becoming the most disciplined and feared champion in women’s tennis. She doesn’t lose her temper and she doesn’t discuss her private life. Then a fearless young star beats her, flirts with her at the press conference and finds out how uncontrolled Naomi is when the cameras are off. Carrie Soto’s ferocity, sapphic and with an age gap. Free with Kindle Unlimited.

Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Rivals to Lovers, Age Gap, Ice Queen/Sunshine, Secret Relationship, Tennis Romance, Injury Caretaking

Start reading Serve Her Right →

Layer by Layer — Aurora North

Sloane Nakamura is a hardware engineer who builds custom PCs and automated 3D print farms with surgical precision, and after her ex-business-partner stole her designs she intends to work alone. Then she’s forced to share her warehouse workshop with a chaotic drone pilot, Roxy Delgado. Two brilliant women, a shared workspace and a lot of competence, Atmosphere’s engineer-meets-flier spark set in the present day.

Heat: Scorching 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Workplace Romance, Opposites Attract, Forced Proximity, Grumpy/Sunshine, Slow Burn, Competence Kink

Start reading Layer by Layer →

FAQ: Taylor Jenkins Reid Reading Order

Do you need to read Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books in order?

No. Every book stands alone. Reading Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones, Malibu Rising and Carrie Soto in publication order gives you the cameos and the Riva family backstory as they unfold.

Which Taylor Jenkins Reid book should I read first?

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. For something newer, Atmosphere; for her early romances, Maybe in Another Life.

How spicy are Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books?

Mild, around 1 to 2 chilis. Sex is acknowledged and sometimes on the page but rarely explicit, and the focus is on the relationships and the lives around them. Our romance spice levels guide explains the scale; every Fractal Enigma pick above is far hotter.

When is The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo movie coming out?

There’s no date. Netflix’s film has been in development since 2022 with no cast announced; Atmosphere’s film at Laika and several TV series are also in development.

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