Guide to Emily Henry Books in Order

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When the local steel mill exploded, it affected everyone in the small town of Splendor. If you weren’t a victim of the accident, chances are that someone you love was. Seventeen-year-old Fanny, for example, has spent the five years since the accident waiting for her brother to wake up from his coma.

Fanny’s only escape from her grief is her group of friends (they call themselves “The Ordinary”) who spend their free time exploring local ghost stories and legends while filming it all for their small YouTube following. But one night truth becomes stranger than fiction when the friends film a bright light hurtling toward the Earth and go to investigate the crash site.

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Winona Olsen and Lucille Pryce have both been living with big secrets. Winona’s life with her celebrity weatherman father seems to be picture-perfect. But know one knows that he leaves her with unnoticed bruises and locks the pantry to control her eating.

Lucille has been scraping together her waitressing tips to meet her mother’s needs and feels trapped by her drug-dealing brother.

Their friendship is forged one night outside the local police station where both are deciding whether to report their families. The two decide that they can’t wait until graduation to start their new lives, so they leave Michigan bound for Vegas with just three thousand dollars and a stolen convertible.

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Best-selling romance novelist January Andrews is suffering extreme writer’s block after finding out her parents weren’t the perfect couple she thought they were. 

When she retreats to her dad’s secret Lake Michigan beach house in a last-ditch effort to meet her next book deadline as a romance writer, she finds another distraction instead. 

Her college English department rival lives next door and is suffering from his own bout of writer’s block. 

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Poppy and Alex became unexpected best friends on a car share ride home from college, but they have nothing in common. Poppy is an extroverted wild child and Alex is a pragmatic introvert. As the years go by, Poppy has a good life in New York City while Alex remains in their small hometown. For the next decade, the duo reunites each summer for a glorious week of vacation together.

But two years ago, everything changed. They haven’t spoken since. Poppy has everything she could want in life, but she feels discontent and realizes the last time she was truly happy was her last trip with Alex.

In a desperate attempt to find joy again, she contacts Alex hoping for one more trip to make everything right.

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Book Lovers is about a literary agent named Nora. When Nora’s younger sister, Libby, begs her to take a month-long summer trip to a small town in North Carolina, she envisions all the possible romance novel tropes that could happen in her own life. Why couldn’t she run into a handsome country doctor and find her happily ever after?

Instead, Nora runs into Charlie, a brooding editor she has encountered several times back in the city. While neither of them is the ideal heroine or hero, they kept being thrown together in unlikely situations and must confront the stories they’d told themselves about who they are.