Emily Henry Books in Order: The Ultimate Guide to This Best-Selling Author
Don’t miss this ultimate guide to all of the Emily Henry books in order so you never miss a book by the popular romance author!
Her work has wowed readers each and every summer since publishing Beach Read, and I’ve got the entire list of Emily Henry books below just for you.
Emily Henry has such a gift with her writing that she not only attracts lovers of slow burn romances like me, but a wide range of readers, hence her latest in adult romance earning spots on the bestseller lists.
If you haven’t yet read her books, this list of Emily Henry books in order is the perfect starting point!
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Emily Henry Books in Order by Publication Year:
- The Love That Split the World (January 2016)
- A Million Junes (May 2017)
- When the Sky Fell on Splendor (March 2019)
- Hello Girls with Brittany Cavallaro (August 2019)
- Beach Read (May 2020)
- People We Meet on Vacation (May 2021)
- Book Lovers (May 2022)
- Happy Place (April 2023)
- Funny Story (April 2024)
- Great Big Beautiful Life (April 2025)
Emily Henry Books in Adult Romance:
Emily Henry Books in Young Adult Romance:
- The Love That Split the World
- A Million Junes
- When the Sky Fell on Splendor
- Hello Girls with Brittany Cavallaro
Emily Henry Bonus Material:
- Layover – Extended Epilogue for Beach Read
Emily Henry Books: Goodreads Choice Awards Nominees and Winners
- Book Lovers – 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards Winner for Best Romance
- People We Meet on Vacation – 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards Winner for Best Romance
- Beach Read – 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance
Emily Henry Books Adapted for TV and Movies:
Emily Henry Books in Order with Publisher Summaries:
The Love That Split the World
by Emily Henry
Young Adult Romance
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, 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
by Emily Henry
Young Adult Romance
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’Donnells stay away from Angerts. 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
by Emily Henry
Young Adult Romance
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 blast, 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
by Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry
Young Adult Romance
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
by Emily Henry
Adult Romance
2020 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance
Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.
They’re polar opposites.
In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block.
Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel.
She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously).
Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.
Related: The Beach Read Movie: The Complete Guide
People We Meet on Vacation
by Emily Henry
Adult Romance
2021 Goodreads Choice Awards Winner for Best Romance
Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis.
She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends.
For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.
Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.
Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut.
When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex.
And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.
Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?
Related: People We Meet on Vacation Movie: The Complete Guide
Book Lovers
by Emily Henry
Adult Romance
Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart.
In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.
Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story.
But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city.
It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute.
If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.
Related: Book Lovers Movie: The Complete Guide
Happy Place
by Emily Henry
Adult Romance
Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t.
They broke up six months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends.
Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade.
Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most.
Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other.
Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. They can’t stand to break their friends’ hearts, and so they’ll play their parts.
Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show.
It’s a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses).
After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week…in front of those who know you best?
Check out my book review of Happy Place by Emily Henry.
Funny Story
by Emily Henry
Adult Romance
Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together.
He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.
Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.
Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads —Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection.
The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan.
If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?
But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex…right?
Check out my book review of Funny Story.
Related: 10 Books Like Funny Story to Read Next
Great Big Beautiful Life
by Emily Henry
Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: to write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years—or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives.
Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the twentieth century.
When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice’s head in the game.
One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over.
Two: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication.
Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.
But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.
And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad…depending on who’s telling it.
Check out my book review of Great Big Beautiful Life.
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