Curtis Sittenfeld Books in Order

Fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves Indiana for an elite Massachusetts boarding school, entering a world of unfamiliar privilege and social rules. Four years of friendships, romantic uncertainty, and observation shape her understanding of belonging and adolescent identity.

Hannah Gavener grows up amid her parents' troubled marriage, measuring real relationships against romantic fantasies. From adolescence into her late twenties, family tensions, complicated attractions, and changing cities challenge her expectations about love and adulthood.

Bookish Alice Lindgren's life takes her from a Wisconsin childhood into marriage with a future president. As his political career advances, private convictions conflict with public expectations, forcing her to reconsider love, responsibility, and compromise.

Identical twins Kate and Violet share psychic abilities but have built very different lives in St. Louis. Violet's public prediction of a devastating earthquake threatens Kate's suburban stability and reopens tensions between the sisters and within Kate herself.

In this contemporary reworking of Pride and Prejudice, sisters Liz and Jane Bennet return to Cincinnati after their father's health scare. Family disorder and encounters with doctors Chip Bingley and Fitzwilliam Darcy complicate their romantic lives.

Three stories follow a woman facing backlash over a racist encounter, a film crew that underestimates its subject, and writers competing for a bursary. Their conflicts expose assumptions about class, race, ambition, and the reputations people try to protect.

This alternate-history novel imagines Hillary Rodham's life if she had not married Bill Clinton. Blending fictional possibilities with historical events, it explores the personal choices, ambitions, and political pressures that might shape a different public career.

Sketch writer Sally Milz doubts that attractive celebrities ever fall for ordinary women. When pop star Noah Brewster hosts her comedy show, their creative partnership challenges her cynical assumptions, forcing her to reconsider whether their connection could become love.

These stories explore relationships and ambitions unsettled by unexpected encounters. A divorced woman revisits old friends, a married artist tests assumptions about attraction, and Prep's Lee Fiora returns to her boarding school for an alumni reunion.

Ten stories examine the assumptions beneath seemingly comfortable lives, from old friendships and school rivalries to marriage and social status. Misread encounters and questionable decisions expose tensions around class, gender, and relationships in contemporary American life.