Anna Carey Books in Order
Browse Anna Carey books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, historical titles, and where-to-start tips for Eve, Blackbird, Jess Show, and more.
Last updated: July 11, 2026
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Anna Carey books in publication order
19 books
Sloane Sisters
by Anna Carey
2009
When two rich New York sisters are suddenly blended with two London sisters after their parents' whirlwind romance, nobody is thrilled about instant family. Private school politics, fashion, and rivalry make the adjustment even harder.
Survival of the Fiercest
by Anna Carey
2009
Now officially one family, the Sloane sisters are stuck sharing a Manhattan townhouse, social circles, and crushes. Rivalries flare as Cate fights for status, Stella plots, Andie stirs trouble, and Lola steps into the fashion world.
Drama Queens
by Anna Carey
2010
The Sloane sisters are still juggling status games, crushes, and family tension, but now every alliance feels shakier than before. The final book keeps the Upper East Side drama sharp, stylish, and deliciously messy.
Eve
by Anna Carey
2011
Sixteen years after a deadly virus shattered the world, eighteen-year-old Eve learns the terrifying truth behind the girls' school that raised her. Her escape becomes a dangerous journey through a broken country and into a love she was taught to fear.
Once
by Anna Carey
2012
Safe for a moment in Califia, Eve is pulled back into danger when she learns Caleb may still need her. Her search leads straight into the heart of the New America, where personal truths and political ones collide.
Rise
by Anna Carey
2013
Eve is trapped in the palace, forced to play along with the lies of the New America while Caleb's rebellion lingers in her mind. To change the future, she has to fight from inside the system that tried to own her.
Blackbird
by Anna Carey
2014
A girl wakes on train tracks in Los Angeles with no memory, a strange tattoo, and the certainty that someone wants her dead. The hunt for her identity becomes a fast, paranoid chase where every answer makes things worse.
Deadfall
by Anna Carey
2015
Still hunted and still missing pieces of her past, the girl from Blackbird flees to New York with Rafe after Ben's betrayal. As her memory begins to return, the danger only gets closer.
The Making of Mollie
by Anna Carey
2016
In 1912 Dublin, fourteen-year-old Mollie discovers that her older sister is secretly involved in the suffrage movement. What starts as curiosity turns into a lively, thoughtful story about friendship, politics, and finding a cause worth joining.
Family
by Anna Carey
2018
A simple picture book about what family can mean and how children make sense of belonging. It invites gentle conversation about care, connection, and the people who help a child feel safe.
I Guessed
by Anna Carey
2018
A short reflective book about adoption from a parent's point of view. Carey writes about expectation, uncertainty, and the emotional work of building a family with honesty and warmth.
Meet The Peas
by Anna Carey
2018
This introductory Little Green Pea book welcomes readers into the pea pod world through playful verse and character sketches. It sets the tone for stories about feelings, belonging, and everyday relationships.
Perky Pea and the Secret Smile Stash
by Anna Carey
2020
Perky Pea's hidden smile stash becomes a child-friendly way to explore feelings that are hard to share out loud. The story is simple, warm, and built to start calm conversations with trusted grown-ups.
Pickle Peaand the Disappearing Friends
by Anna Carey
2020
Pickle Pea is worried about making friends in the playground and keeps trying the wrong ways to join in. With help from Mimi Pea, he begins to understand loneliness, friendship, and what to do next time.
Pickle's Pea Pod
by Anna Carey
2020
Pickle faces an invisible pester-bug that turns an ordinary day into something much harder to manage. This gentle Little Green Pea story gives children a simple way to talk about big feelings and trusted support.
The Boldness of Betty
by Anna Carey
2020
Fourteen-year-old Betty Rafferty has just left school for a job in a Dublin sweet shop when the 1913 Lockout turns the city upside down. Funny, observant, and brave, she finds her voice in the middle of class struggle and growing unrest.
This Is Not the Jess Show
by Anna Carey
2021
In 1998, Jess Flynn thinks her biggest problems are school, family, and a crush on her best friend, until her town starts acting strangely and a future-era phone appears. What follows is a smart, unsettling mystery about manufactured reality and control.
This Is Not the Real World
by Anna Carey
2022
After escaping the fake 1990s life she thought was real, Jess is dragged back into the orbit of the company that built it. To save the people she loves, she has to go undercover and fight from inside the machine.
Our Song
by Anna Carey
2025
Laura gets an unexpected message from Tadhg, the former bandmate, almost-love, and now superstar she has tried to put behind her. Finishing the song they started years ago might reopen old hurt, or offer a real second chance.
Where to start with Anna Carey
If you want dystopian YA: Eve → Once → Rise
If you like twisty speculative thrillers: This Is Not the Jess Show → This Is Not the Real World
If you want fast, cinematic suspense: Blackbird → Deadfall
If you prefer historical coming-of-age stories: The Making of Mollie → The Boldness of Betty
If you want a grown-up second-chance romance: Our Song
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Author bio
Anna Carey is one of those author names that can send you in a few very different directions. On this page, the name covers several books that do not come from one single career, so the most useful place to start is with that simple fact.
One Anna Carey is the American young adult novelist behind Sloane Sisters, Eve, Blackbird, and This Is Not the Jess Show. She grew up on Long Island, the daughter of a special education teacher and an astronomer. She studied literature and creative writing at New York University, later earned an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College, and worked in children's publishing before moving into fiction full time.
Her books tend to put girls in high-pressure worlds and then ask what happens when the story they have been told turns out to be false. Eve starts with an all-girls school in a ruined future and opens into a dystopian escape story. Blackbird and Deadfall turn into lean, paranoid thrillers built around amnesia, pursuit, and identity. This Is Not the Jess Show and This Is Not the Real World mix 1990s nostalgia, media satire, and conspiracy energy. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and some of it has been optioned for film and television.
She likes fast plots, sharp turns, and heroines who have to think for themselves.
Another Anna Carey is the Irish novelist and journalist from Dublin, more specifically Drumcondra, whose books include The Making of Mollie, The Boldness of Betty, and Our Song. Before novels took over, she spent her teens and twenties playing in bands, then built a career in journalism and editing. Her first novel, The Real Rebecca, won a major Irish children's book prize, and the books that followed kept that same lively mix of humor, feeling, and close observation.
Her historical fiction for younger readers looks carefully at ordinary girls caught inside much bigger political moments. The Making of Mollie follows a teenager pulled toward the suffrage movement in 1912 Dublin. The Boldness of Betty moves into the 1913 Lockout and the world of work, class, and protest. Then Our Song, her first adult novel, shifts into contemporary romance, with music, missed chances, and old feelings coming back at awkward times. She is married to journalist and author Patrick Freyne and lives in Dublin.
Same name, very different shelves.
There is also a separate Anna Carey associated with the Little Green Pea books and I Guessed, titles that focus on family, feelings, attachment, and adoptive parenting. Those books use simple language and child-friendly setups to open difficult conversations, which gives them a very different purpose from the YA thrillers or the Irish historical novels.
So if the Anna Carey bibliography feels a little unusual, that is because it is. What links these books on this page is not one neat author arc, but a shared byline across very different kinds of writing: glossy teen drama, dystopian romance, puzzle-box thrillers, historical coming-of-age stories, therapeutic picture books, and contemporary romance. The good news is that once you know which Anna Carey, and which mood, you are after, the reading path gets a lot clearer.
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