Carrie Jones Books in Order
Explore Carrie Jones books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and where-to-start tips for her YA fantasy, thrillers, and mysteries.
Last updated: July 6, 2026
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Publication Order
27 books
Tips on Having a Gay (Ex) Boyfriend
by Carrie Jones
2007
Belle thinks Dylan is her forever boyfriend until he tells her he is gay and her whole world tilts. In the wreckage of that breakup, she has to rethink love, loyalty, and who she is in a town that notices everything.
Girl, Hero
by Carrie Jones
2008
High school freshman Liliana Faltin is trying to handle family secrets, a frightening man in her home, and a sister in trouble. Writing letters to John Wayne becomes her way of learning how to be her own kind of hero.
Love
by Carrie Jones
2008
Belle heads into her last months of high school hoping life has finally settled down. Instead she faces rumors, hard choices about sex and love, a pregnant best friend, and the painful realization that growing up rarely comes neatly.
Need
by Carrie Jones
2008
After her stepfather dies, Zara is sent to live with her grandmother in wintry Maine, where a strange man seems to follow her everywhere. He is not a hallucination, and the gold dust he leaves behind leads straight into danger.
Captivate
by Carrie Jones
2010
Zara thought the pixie problem was contained, but a new king arrives and changes everything. As turf war, temptation, and danger tighten around her, she has to decide who deserves her trust before Nick pays the price.
Entice
by Carrie Jones
2010
Zara is now bound to the pixie world in a way she never wanted, and Nick is gone to Valhalla. With Bedford under attack and loyalties fraying, she has to fight for the people she loves without losing herself completely.
After Obsession
by Carrie Jones
2011
Aimee and Alan both have powers and secrets they would rather keep buried. When a desperate girl invites something evil into her life, the two teens have to work together before the darkness destroys far more than one family.
Endure
by Carrie Jones
2012
Zara is back from Valhalla with Nick, but Bedford is falling apart under pixie violence. Now a pixie queen as well as a girl in love, she has to choose how to fight when every side is asking something different of her.
Spy Who Played Baseball
by Carrie Jones
2012
This picture book biography tells the true story of Moe Berg, a major league baseball player with a law degree, a gift for languages, and a secret second life. During World War II, he traded the ball field for espionage.
Flying
by Carrie Jones
2016
Mana is just trying to survive high school until one night brings acid-spitting chaos, impossible jumps, and an alien in her garage. Soon she learns her mother is an alien hunter, and now Mana may be the only one who can save her.
Time Stoppers
by Carrie Jones
2016
Annie Nobody thinks she is just another unwanted foster kid until monsters, a dwarf on a hovercraft, and a hidden town change everything. In Aurora, she learns she is a Time Stopper and might be the key to protecting the enchanted.
Enhanced
by Carrie Jones
2017
Mana has rescued her mother, but she is left in a coma and the alien threat is still growing. Shut out by the adults around her, Mana fights to get back into the hunt before the next attack hits.
Quest for the Golden Arrow
by Carrie Jones
2017
Annie has finally found a home in Aurora when the villainous Raiff kidnaps her guardian. To get her back, Annie and her friends must trust a dragon, chase a magical weapon, and survive some hard truths about the past.
Escape from the Badlands
by Carrie Jones
2018
Aurora is in grave danger, and Annie is the only Time Stopper who can stand against Raiff. To save her magical home, she and her friends must venture into the Badlands and face a prophecy that says she may fall with evil.
In the Woods
by Carrie Jones
2019
When Logan witnesses a brutal attack near his family's farm, he and Chrystal are pulled into a nightmare stalking the woods. Whatever is out there is not natural, and it is getting closer.
Faith
by Carrie Jones
2020
This shorter work turns on belief, fear, and the things people cling to when life starts shifting under them. Jones keeps it compact, emotional, and interested in the cost of trusting what you cannot fully prove.
The Places We Hide
by Carrie Jones
2020
Rosie Jones and her daughter are hiding under new identities in Bar Harbor when her car is tampered with during a blizzard. Murder, poison, and a killer targeting women force Rosie to fight for the safe life she thought she had finally found.
Almost Dead
by Carrie Jones
2021
Alisa Thea sees how people die when she touches them, which makes normal life nearly impossible. A new job at a campground full of paranormals looks like a fresh start until murders begin and the danger lands right on her doorstep.
Inch Worms
by Carrie Jones
2021
A trip to a small Southern college is supposed to be Jessica Goodfeather's chance at a scholarship and a future beyond Maine. Instead she lands in another deadly mess when a drowning proves to be anything but accidental.
Saint
by Carrie Jones
2021
Cole Nicholaus has spent years sheltered after his best friend Norah was nearly abducted. When a kidnapping, a reporter, and a town curse collide, he has to decide whether he can finally step into the danger meant for him.
The People Who Kill
by Carrie Jones
2021
After surviving one brutal case, Rosie Jones hopes for calm, then a local cop is found bludgeoned to death outside a summer estate. With suspects everywhere and pressure closing in, Rosie's search for the truth may make her the next target.
The Things We Seek
by Carrie Jones
2021
Rosie Jones and Seamus Kelley are finally ready to focus on each other when people start vanishing on their island. What looks like a game or treasure hunt quickly turns darker, and they have to solve it before more people disappear.
Those Who Survived
by Carrie Jones
2021
Jessica Dude Goodfeather is already limping through senior year when she finds a classmate's mutilated body. As gifted students begin dying one by one, Dude has to figure out who is hunting her classmates before she becomes next.
When You Bring Them Back
by Carrie Jones
2021
Snow secretly raises the dead for money, hoping to escape her Maine island life for good. When a cemetery demon kills Silas and he comes back wrong, they have to stop the evil before the barrier between the living and dead breaks open.
The Fear That Returns
by Carrie Jones
2022
Rosie Jones thought she had fought her way to something steadier, but old fear has a way of circling back. When danger returns to Bar Harbor, she has to protect her family and uncover who is pushing the past into the present.
The Greed That Kills
by Carrie Jones
2022
Rosie Jones and Seamus Kelley are closing in on their wedding when human remains turn up near a trail in Acadia. The case drags Rosie back into danger and threatens both the town she loves and the life she is trying to build.
The People Who Leave
by Carrie Jones
2022
A strange email makes Jessica Goodfeather question the story she has always believed about the mother who walked away. As Dude digs into the past with her friends, the mystery turns painfully personal.
Where should I start?
If you want YA paranormal romance: Need → Captivate → Entice → Endure
If you want middle grade fantasy: Time Stoppers → Quest for the Golden Arrow → Escape from the Badlands
If you want contemporary teen drama: Tips on Having a Gay (Ex) Boyfriend → Love → Girl, Hero
If you want Maine mysteries: The Places We Hide → The People Who Kill → The Things We Seek
Author bio
Carrie Jones was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, and grew up in Bedford. She later crossed into Maine for college, earning a BA from Bates, and that move north ended up shaping a lot of her life and fiction. Maine, especially its smaller towns and harsher weather, keeps showing up in her books, whether she is writing about pixies, hidden magical communities, or a reporter trying to solve a murder.
Before novels, she was a newspaper person.
Jones once thought she might become a lawyer, but journalism pulled her in first. She reported for Maine papers, edited the Ellsworth Weekly, and won Maine Press Association awards for reporting and photography. That background shows in the way her stories move. Even the fantastical ones tend to notice how people talk, what towns hide, and how fear changes a room.
She kept writing while doing all that day-job work. In 2007 she finished the MFA program in writing at Vermont College, and during that stretch she drafted the book that became her debut, Tips on Having a Gay (Ex) Boyfriend. It was an early sign of her range. Long before the supernatural series took off, she was already interested in teenagers trying to figure out love, identity, and how to keep going when life gets awkward or painful.
Then Need arrived and brought a much bigger audience with it. That series follows Zara White, a girl sent to Maine after a family loss, where creepy stalkers turn out to be pixies and nothing stays normal for long. Readers tend to like the mix of danger, romance, winter atmosphere, and Zara's habit of collecting phobias. Jones carried that same quick, emotional energy into later books like Captivate and Endure.
She has never stayed in one lane for very long.
Her middle grade fantasy Time Stoppers swaps teen romance for found family and magical adventure, while Flying throws a cheerleader into an alien-hunting story with a funny, fast-moving voice. She has also written contemporary novels like Girl, Hero, paranormal collaborations like After Obsession and In the Woods with Steven E. Wedel, and a picture book biography, The Spy Who Played Baseball, about Moe Berg.
More recently, she has written adult and crossover mysteries set in coastal Maine, including The Places We Hide and its sequels in the Bar Harbor Rose Mysteries. Those books center on reporter Rosie Jones, and you can feel Jones's newsroom experience all over them. She is especially good at people who are trying to build a safer life while trouble keeps finding them anyway.
Awards and bestseller lists are part of the story too. Need hit the New York Times list, and Jones has also received Maine Literary Awards and the Martin Dibner Fellowship. But the more useful thing to know as a reader is that her books tend to care about outsiders, smart girls, danger hiding inside ordinary places, and people who keep choosing courage even when they are scared.
These days she lives in coastal Maine and still seems happily busy. Along with writing books, she has worked as a podcaster, teacher, writing coach, journalist, and part-time police dispatcher. She also runs local news coverage in Bar Harbor and talks often about hiking, kayaking, dogs, and the everyday weirdness of life.
That mix feels very Carrie Jones. One foot in real life, one foot in the strange, and both moving fast.
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