Amy Meyerson Books in Order

If you want a bookish family mystery: The Bookshop of Yesterdays → The Imperfects
If you like big family secrets and historical threads: The Imperfects → The Bookshop of Yesterdays
If you want romance with a touch of magic: The Love Scribe
If you want domestic suspense: The Water Lies

Amy Meyerson grew up in Philadelphia and Lower Merion, then made her way west and built a life in Los Angeles. She studied at Wesleyan University, completed her graduate work in creative writing at the University of Southern California, and now teaches in USC's writing program.

Writing came first.

Meyerson has said she was the kid on her parents' bedroom floor, tapping out stories on a typewriter in second grade. She has also admitted that she loved writing before she fully fell in love with reading, which feels like a very writerly confession and a pretty honest one.

At Wesleyan, she wrote a senior thesis that began as a short story and kept growing. Her advisor, novelist Alex Chee, told her she was really writing a novel. That early nudge seems to have mattered. Meyerson has often talked about discovering that some ideas simply need more room.

Another turning point came in graduate school at USC. While working toward her master's degree, she pitched a story about a small bookshop, a literary scavenger hunt, and a family secret to Judith Freeman, who told her the idea could be a novel. Around the same time, an essay about odd objects left behind in used books stayed with her for years. Out of those sparks came The Bookshop of Yesterdays, her 2018 debut.

That first novel made a lot of readers take notice. It follows Miranda Brooks, who inherits her uncle's struggling Los Angeles bookstore and has to solve one last puzzle hidden among the shelves. Readers who love bookstores, family mysteries, and Los Angeles history tend to find a lot to enjoy there. The book also set up several things Meyerson keeps returning to, inheritance, buried stories, and the way the past keeps tug at the present.

She followed it with The Imperfects, a family mystery built around the real legend of the missing Florentine Diamond. Then came The Love Scribe, a warmer, more whimsical novel about a woman whose stories seem to help people fall in love. In 2026, Meyerson shifted into psychological suspense with The Water Lies, a Venice Beach-set story about two mothers trying to understand a young woman's death. The genres move around, but the engine is familiar: secrets, emotional stakes, and characters trying to make sense of what other people have hidden from them.

She likes stories that keep you turning pages.

That page-turning pull also seems tied to her life as a teacher. Meyerson joined the USC writing program in 2009 and became a full-time faculty member in 2013. She has spoken about how teaching and writing feed each other, and her books often feel shaped by someone who thinks carefully about structure without making the machinery obvious.

Before the novels, she published short work in literary magazines. Since then, her fiction has reached a much wider audience, and her books have been translated into eleven languages. These days she still lives in Los Angeles, still teaches, and still seems drawn to stories where ordinary lives collide with one strange object, one missing piece of family history, or one question that will not stay buried.