Christina Lauren Books in Order
Browse Christina Lauren books in order, from the Beautiful and Wild Seasons books to the standalones, with summaries, reading guides, and where to start.
Last updated: July 1, 2026
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Publication Order
36 books
Beautiful Bastard
by Christina Lauren
2013
Chloe Mills is smart, ambitious, and stuck working for the one man who drives her mad, Bennett Ryan. Their office war turns into a secret affair that threatens both their careers and their carefully controlled lives.
Beautiful Beginning
by Christina Lauren
2013
Chloe and Bennett are finally getting married, if their families and their own chemistry do not derail the plan first. Wedding stress, a no-sex rule, and endless interruptions make the countdown anything but calm.
Beautiful Bitch
by Christina Lauren
2013
Chloe's career is taking off, and Bennett hates how little time they get alone. A forced getaway to France gives them room for heat, honesty, and a hard look at what comes next.
Beautiful Bombshell
by Christina Lauren
2013
A Vegas bachelor weekend is supposed to be simple, until the women the guys love refuse to stay out of the fun. Old sparks, secret hookups, and wedding nerves turn the trip into glorious chaos.
Beautiful Player
by Christina Lauren
2013
Bookish grad student Hanna Bergstrom asks notorious flirt Will Sumner to help her learn how to date. What starts as lessons in confidence quickly gets complicated when both teacher and student want much more.
Beautiful Stranger
by Christina Lauren
2013
Fresh off a bad breakup, Sara Dillon heads to New York ready for fun, not commitment. Then she meets Max Stella, a charming Brit whose appetite for risk makes keeping things casual much harder than planned.
Dirty Rowdy Thing
by Christina Lauren
2014
Harlow and Finn wake up from Vegas with an annulment on the horizon and no patience for each other. Their rough chemistry keeps dragging them back together, whether either of them is ready or not.
Sublime
by Christina Lauren
2014
Lucy is a ghost drawn to daredevil Colin with a force she cannot explain. But if he can only reach her when he is close to death, their love may destroy the very thing that makes it possible.
Sweet Filthy Boy
by Christina Lauren
2014
After a wild graduation trip to Vegas, Mia follows charming Frenchman Ansel to France for one impulsive summer. What begins as escape and chemistry starts to feel a lot like a life she might actually want.
Sweet Filthy Morning After
by Christina Lauren
2014
This short follow-up revisits the morning after Vegas through Ansel's eyes. It captures the instant pull between him and Mia, and the reckless hope that their impulsive connection could become something real.
Beautiful Beloved
by Christina Lauren
2015
Max and Sara have their hands full with a new baby and a relationship that suddenly looks very different. This short follow-up checks in on love, exhaustion, and finding room for each other again.
Beautiful Secret
by Christina Lauren
2015
When engineer Ruby Miller is sent to New York on business, she ends up in very close quarters with her brilliant, reserved boss, Niall Stella. A month away from home turns office tension into something much more personal.
Dark Wild Night
by Christina Lauren
2015
Lola and Oliver have spent ages pretending their drunken Vegas marriage meant nothing. Friendship, art, and long-buried desire collide when both finally have to face what they have wanted all along.
The House
by Christina Lauren
2015
When Delilah returns to her Kansas hometown, she is pulled toward Gavin, the outcast boy who lives in a house no one can quite explain. The closer she gets, the more dangerous the house becomes.
Beautiful
by Christina Lauren
2016
After catching her boyfriend cheating, free-spirited Pippa joins a wine-country road trip with the whole Beautiful crowd. Overworked Jensen Bergstrom is the last man she expects to want, which makes the trip much messier and sweeter.
Beautiful Boss
by Christina Lauren
2016
Will and Hanna are happy, but big career choices force them to ask where home really is. This short entry is about commitment, compromise, and deciding what kind of future they want together.
Wicked Sexy Liar
by Christina Lauren
2016
London likes her life loose, sunny, and uncomplicated until she meets Luke Sutter, a man with charm to spare and more baggage than he admits. Their attraction is easy, but trust is not.
Autoboyography
by Christina Lauren
2017
Tanner Scott is counting the days until he can leave Utah for college and stop hiding parts of himself. Then a writing class throws him together with Sebastian, and friendship becomes something neither can easily ignore.
Dating You, Hating You
by Christina Lauren
2017
Evie and Carter hit it off at a Halloween party and think they may have found something real. Then a merger makes them rivals at work, and flirtation turns into an escalating office war.
Roomies
by Christina Lauren
2017
Holland's crush on a gifted Irish musician turns into a fake marriage when his visa trouble threatens a Broadway breakthrough. What begins as a practical deal becomes much riskier once real feelings join the cast.
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating
by Christina Lauren
2018
Hazel is chaotic, funny, and absolutely herself, while Josh seems far too steady to be her match. Their plan to set each other up on terrible double dates only makes it clearer who they really belong with.
Love and Other Words
by Christina Lauren
2018
Macy has built a careful adult life, until a chance meeting with Elliot, her first love, cracks it open. Told across past and present, the novel follows friendship, heartbreak, and a second chance years in the making.
My Favorite Half-Night Stand
by Christina Lauren
2018
Millie and her best friend Reid agree their one amazing night together should change nothing. Then Millie starts chatting with him online under a fake profile, and the lie gets harder to control.
The Unhoneymooners
by Christina Lauren
2019
Olive and Ethan can barely stand each other, but when everyone else at the wedding gets food poisoning, they inherit a free honeymoon in Hawaii. Pretending to be newlyweds might be the worst idea either of them has ever loved.
Twice in a Blue Moon
by Christina Lauren
2019
As a teenager, Tate trusted Sam with the secret that could change her life, and he broke her heart. Years later, now an actress, she finds him waiting on the set of her biggest break.
In a Holidaze
by Christina Lauren
2020
Mae Jones is stuck in a dead-end job, tangled love life, and what might be her last Christmas at the family cabin. Then a car crash sends her into a holiday time loop, giving her repeated chances to figure out what will make her happy.
The Honey-Don't List
by Christina Lauren
2020
Carey and James are overworked assistants stuck managing the explosive marriage of a home-renovation power couple on tour. Keeping their bosses from imploding is hard enough before sparks start flying between them.
The Soulmate Equation
by Christina Lauren
2021
Single mom Jess Davis agrees to test a DNA matchmaking service and is horrified to be paired at 98 percent with the company's stiff, brilliant founder. A fake public romance starts to look dangerously real.
Something Wilder
by Christina Lauren
2022
Lily Wilder runs fake treasure hunts through Utah's red rock country, using the maps left by her notorious father. When her ex Leo joins a trip that goes wildly wrong, old feelings and real danger come roaring back.
The True Love Experiment
by Christina Lauren
2023
Romance novelist Fizzy Chen signs on to a reality dating show designed to find her perfect match. The problem is Connor, the producer behind the camera, may be the man she cannot stop wanting.
Tangled Up In You
by Christina Lauren
2024
Raised off the grid, Ren arrives at Corona College brilliant, sheltered, and ready for her real life to begin. A class assignment and a road trip throw her together with Fitz, whose careful plans she is perfectly equipped to ruin.
The Exception to the Rule
by Christina Lauren
2024
A mistyped Valentine's Day email starts a yearly tradition between two strangers who agree on a few careful rules. As the messages pile up over the years, distance and anonymity become harder to keep.
The Paradise Problem
by Christina Lauren
2024
Anna thought her quick college marriage to Liam West was over years ago, until he needs her to play the devoted wife for one last inheritance scheme. Paradise gets awkward fast when fake marriage starts feeling real.
Falling
by Christina Lauren
2025
At a Halloween party, Cat meets Brigan, a stranger whose supernatural charm leaves everyone else helpless. She alone can resist him, which turns one dangerously hot night into a chance to break an ancient curse.
Accidentally Yours
by Christina Lauren
2026
Veronica crashes the wrong Zoom meeting and accidentally tears apart a presentation, only to be offered a job by the company's intriguing CEO. Flirty emails, a mystery crush next door, and Valentine's Day do the rest.
The Romance Revival
by Christina Lauren
2026
Emery Finch loses her husband Luca in a tragic accident, then breaks every rule to bring him back. When he returns without their shared memories, love becomes her only chance to rebuild what they lost.
Where should I start?
If you want the steamiest starting point: Beautiful Bastard → Beautiful Stranger → Beautiful Player
If you want funny vacation chaos: The Unhoneymooners → In a Holidaze → The Paradise Problem
If you want emotional second chances: Love and Other Words → Twice in a Blue Moon → Something Wilder
If you like smart, high-concept romance: The Soulmate Equation → The True Love Experiment
If you want YA first: Autoboyography → Tangled Up In You
Author bio
Christina Lauren is the shared pen name of Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, two best friends who built a writing career together almost by accident. They met in 2009 in online fan fiction circles, then met in person that same year at San Diego Comic-Con. Before long they were collaborating on a story that was later rewritten and published as Beautiful Bastard.
That beginning still tells you a lot about their books. They like big chemistry, quick banter, messy feelings, and setups that sound playful on paper but get surprisingly tender once you are inside them.
Before writing full time, Billings earned a doctorate in neuroscience from UC Irvine and spent years researching neurodegeneration and aging. Hobbs worked in a junior high counseling office, a job that kept her close to teenagers, family stress, and the small emotional explosions that show up all through their fiction.
They came to books from very different day jobs, and that contrast seems to help.
The early Beautiful and Wild Seasons books made them go-to names for readers who wanted steamy contemporary romance with humor. But they did not stay in one lane. Roomies turns a marriage-of-convenience setup into a Broadway love story, The Unhoneymooners leans hard into enemies-to-lovers vacation chaos, and The Soulmate Equation mixes dating, statistics, and single-mom life in a way that feels both smart and warm.
They also know when to slow down. Love and Other Words is a second-chance story told across past and present, and it is often the book readers mention when they want something more emotional. Something Wilder takes that same interest in longing and reunion and drops it into Utah red rock country, adding treasure hunting and real danger to the romance.
More recent books show how comfortable they are mixing familiar romance beats with slightly off-center hooks. The True Love Experiment pairs a romance writer with a documentary filmmaker behind a dating show. The Paradise Problem starts with a marriage that is supposed to be over but very much is not. And The Romance Revival pushes into a science-tinged second-chance premise, which feels exactly like the kind of odd, heartfelt swing they enjoy taking.
Their young adult books matter just as much to the shape of their career. Sublime and The House let them play with ghosts, haunted spaces, and darker moods, while Autoboyography follows a bisexual teenager in Utah falling for a boy from a conservative religious community. It is one of the clearest examples of how Christina Lauren can be funny and gentle without sanding off the harder parts of a story.
Across all of this, certain things keep showing up: friendship as the backbone of romance, families that complicate everything, and characters who have to learn how to be honest before they can be happy. They have published in more than thirty languages and built a long string of bestsellers, but the appeal is still very human-sized. A Christina Lauren novel usually feels like a conversation between two people who know how to keep each other laughing and keep the story moving.
These days Billings lives in California with her husband, teenagers, and dogs. Hobbs lives in Utah with her husband and daughter, and together they are still writing books that bounce between swoony, sexy, funny, and unexpectedly heartfelt.
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