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David Levithan Books in Order

See the Jennifer Niven and David Levithan books in order, with quick summaries, collaboration background, reading guidance, and a clear place to start.

Last updated: July 3, 2026

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In the Eye of the Tornado

by David Levithan

1998

Stieg Atwood can sense when disaster is coming, and that gift pulls him toward danger instead of away from it. With his brother Adam beside him, he races to help others before a tornado destroys everything.

In the Heart of the Quake

by David Levithan

1998

Stieg’s strange power leads him toward another looming catastrophe, this time centered on an earthquake. As the ground and the people around him become less predictable, he and Adam have to act fast to save lives.

Ten Things I Hate about You

by David Levithan

1999

Cameron wants to date Bianca, but her strict father says she can only date if her older sister Kat does too. Enter Patrick, a risky plan, and a sharp, funny high school romance that gets messy fast.

The Mummy

by David Levithan

1999

Rick O’Connell and Evelyn Carnahan head into an ancient city and accidentally wake a buried curse. Soon they are facing the resurrected Imhotep, deadly plagues, and a race to stop a supernatural disaster.

My Class Project

by David Levithan

2000

Malcolm’s latest school assignment becomes another chance for trouble in this playful tie-in. The book mixes jokes, chaos, and TV-style energy as one class project turns into far more hassle than it should.

Journey Through the Lost Canyon

by David Levithan

2001

This companion guide takes readers through the Lost Canyon adventure with a focus on the landscape, discoveries, and history behind the journey. It is a quick tie-in built around place, exploration, and visual appeal.

Malcolm's Really Useful Guide to Getting Away with Anything!

by David Levithan

2002

This Malcolm in the Middle tie-in turns family chaos into a fake survival manual. Packed with jokes, bad ideas, and Malcolm-style commentary, it treats getting away with things as both art and disaster.

Boy Meets Boy

by David Levithan

2003

Paul lives in a town where queerness is ordinary, but love is still complicated. When he falls for Noah, first romance, old misunderstandings, and loyal friendships all get tangled together.

Charlie's Angels

by David Levithan

2003

Alex, Dylan, and Natalie race to recover stolen witness data before it falls into deadly hands. The job brings disguises, action, and an enemy with a personal connection to the Angels’ past.

The Perfect Score

by David Levithan

2004

Six high school seniors decide that if the SAT is going to decide their futures, they might as well fight back. Each has a different reason for joining the heist, and all of them have something to lose.

The Realm of Possibility

by David Levithan

2004

A group of teenagers speak through linked poems about crushes, friendships, loneliness, and the small moments that change everything. Their separate voices slowly form one shared emotional map of high school life.

Are We There Yet?

by David Levithan

2005

Brothers Elijah and Danny can barely stand each other, so their parents send them to Italy together. The trip only gets more complicated when romance, jealousy, and old wounds start crowding the itinerary.

Marly's Ghost

by David Levithan

2005

Ben is shattered after Marly’s death, then her ghost appears just before Valentine’s Day. With three visiting spirits, he is pushed through a painful reckoning with love, memory, and what comes after loss.

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

by David Levithan

2006

Nick and Norah meet by chance and spend one wild night roaming New York in search of a secret show. What begins as a fake favor turns into a music-soaked first date neither expected.

Wide Awake

by David Levithan

2006

After a disputed election throws the country into turmoil, Jimmy and Duncan join the protests and hit the road. Politics and first love become tangled in a story about action, belief, and what democracy asks of ordinary people.

Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

by David Levithan

2007

Naomi and Ely have always protected their friendship with a list of boys neither is allowed to kiss. Then someone breaks the rule, and their bond is tested by hurt, jealousy, and the messy truth about love.

How They Met and Other Stories

by David Levithan

2008

This story collection gathers romances, breakups, missed chances, and strange acts of devotion in David Levithan’s signature voice. Some pieces are funny, some ache, and all are interested in the many shapes love can take.

Love Is the Higher Law

by David Levithan

2009

In the days after September 11, three New York teens struggle to make sense of fear, grief, and sudden change. Their stories trace the shock of the city, and the fragile hope that follows.

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

by David Levithan

2010

A red notebook full of dares brings cynical Dash and exuberant Lily together across holiday-season New York. Their scavenger-hunt flirtation is charming on the page, but meeting in real life may be harder.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

by David Levithan

2010

Two teenage boys with the same name cross paths in Chicago and throw each other’s lives off course. Friendship, depression, love, and an unforgettable high school musical all collide at once.

Every You, Every Me

by David Levithan

2011

After the troubled Ariel disappears from his life, Evan starts finding disturbing photographs that seem to know too much. Grief, guilt, and paranoia twist together as he tries to understand what really happened.

The Lover's Dictionary

by David Levithan

2011

A love affair unfolds through dictionary-style entries, one word at a time. The form is clever, but the story stays grounded in the ordinary tenderness, hurt, humor, and drift of a real relationship.

Every Day

by David Levithan

2012

Every morning, A wakes up in a different body and lives a different life. Then A meets Rhiannon, and one impossible romance starts to challenge every rule that has kept A safe.

Six Earlier Days

by David Levithan

2012

This short prequel follows six days in A’s life before the events of Every Day. It offers a sharper look at the rules, loneliness, and constant adjustment that shape A’s strange existence.

Invisibility

by Andrea Cremer

2013

Stephen has been invisible since birth, and Elizabeth is the first person who can truly see him. Their growing connection pulls them into a hidden world of curses, family secrets, and dangerous magic in New York City.

Two Boys Kissing

by David Levithan

2013

Harry and Craig set out to break the world record for the longest kiss. Around them, other teens wrestle with love, identity, and belonging as a chorus of men lost to AIDS watches and remembers.

Another Day / Rhiannon

by David Levithan

2015

These companion stories revisit the strange romance at the heart of Every Day through Rhiannon’s eyes. After one perfect day changes everything, she has to decide what love means when the person she loves never stays the same.

Hold Me Closer

by David Levithan

2015

Tiny Cooper finally gets center stage in the full musical version of his own life. It is funny, loud, heartfelt, and packed with songs that turn teen heartbreak and self-dramatizing into a full-on show.

The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily

by David Levithan

2016

Lily has lost her usual holiday spark after a hard year, and Dash refuses to let Christmas slip away. With help from friends and family, he sets out to remind her why New York in December used to feel magical.

You Know Me Well

by David Levithan

2016

During Pride Week in San Francisco, Kate and Mark form a fast, honest friendship just when both need it most. Over a few summer days, they face crushes, secrets, and the truth about who they want to be.

Sam & Ilsa's Last Hurrah

by David Levithan

2018

Twins Sam and Ilsa plan one last high school party, with each inviting secret guests the other knows nothing about. In one crowded apartment, old rivalries, crushes, and surprises make the night spin wildly off course.

Someday

by David Levithan

2018

A has spent a lifetime waking in a different body every day, but now A learns there may be others like them. The result is a bigger, stranger, more searching continuation of the Every Day story.

19 Love Songs

by David Levithan

2020

A short story collection about love in many forms, from unrequited crushes to returning favorite characters. The pieces include fiction, nonfiction, and verse, all shaped by Levithan’s longtime Valentine’s Day tradition.

Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily

by David Levithan

2020

Dash is at Oxford, Lily is in New York, and long distance is not treating them kindly. When Lily flies to London for Christmas, a romantic plan quickly turns into a test of how well they really know each other.

Be More Chill

by David Levithan

2021

Jeremy Heere swallows a tiny supercomputer called a squip to become cooler, braver, and finally noticeable. The transformation works, until giving up control of your life starts to feel more dangerous than being a loser.

Take Me with You When You Go

by David Levithan

2021

When Bea Ahern disappears, her brother Ezra is left alone with their abusive stepfather and neglectful mother. Told through emails, this novel follows two siblings searching for safety, family truth, and a way back to each other.

The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S.

by David Levithan

2021

Aidan vanishes for six days and comes back with an impossible story. His brother Lucas wants to believe him, but school rumors, worried parents, and mounting doubt make that harder by the day.

Answers in the Pages

by David Levithan

2022

Donovan is caught in the middle when his mother tries to ban a beloved school book. As the town argues, he starts asking harder questions about stories, identity, and why some people are afraid of both.

Every Day: The Graphic Novel

by David Levithan

2023

This graphic adaptation brings A’s shifting daily life to the page in visual form. The core story remains the same: a teen who wakes in a new body every morning and falls in love with Rhiannon.

Ryan and Avery

by David Levithan

2023

Ryan and Avery meet at queer prom and fall into a story told across their first ten dates. Snowstorms, family worries, shyness, and heartbreak all shape a tender account of first love.

Wide Awake Now

by David Levithan

2024

Jimmy and Duncan’s story returns in a version set against the real 2024 presidential election. It is part queer love story, part protest novel, and fully concerned with what happens when apathy becomes dangerous.

Songs for Other People's Weddings

by David Levithan

2025

J is a wedding singer who writes an original song for every couple he performs for. While he helps other people celebrate love, his own relationship starts shifting in ways he cannot score so easily.

New

The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America

by David Levithan

2026

This nonfiction book traces the AIDS crisis in the United States through history, activism, science, and personal testimony. It is a wide-ranging account of grief, neglect, resistance, and the people who fought back.

New

Winter Breakage

by David Levithan

2026

A winter-break gathering among college friends becomes unexpectedly revealing as old feelings and fragile connections rise to the surface. In a short space, the story turns nostalgia into something more complicated and honest.

Where should I start?

If you want his classic queer YA first: Boy Meets BoyTwo Boys Kissing
If you want the big-concept romance: Every DayAnother Day / RhiannonSomeday
If you like witty collaborations and New York energy: Nick & Norah's Infinite PlaylistDash & Lily's Book of DaresThe Twelve Days of Dash and Lily
If you want something more adult and intimate: The Lover's Dictionary

Author bio

David Levithan grew up in New Jersey and later went to Brown University, where he studied English and political science. Long before readers knew his books, he was the friend who wrote Valentine’s Day stories for the people around him.

That habit changed everything.

He started those annual stories in high school, and years later two of them grew into Boy Meets Boy and The Realm of Possibility. That origin story explains a lot about his work. Even when the premise is unusual, the feeling underneath is usually close to home, a crush, a friendship, a hard conversation, a moment when someone finally feels seen.

Levithan also built a full career in publishing. He has worked for Scholastic for many years, became an editorial director there, and founded the PUSH imprint, which was created to bring new voices into teen literature. He is one of those writers who has spent just as much time helping other people’s books reach readers as he has writing his own.

As a novelist, he keeps returning to love, identity, friendship, and the social worlds teenagers have to navigate every day. In Boy Meets Boy, he imagined a funny, hopeful queer love story in a town that feels almost utopian. In Every Day, he took a much stranger setup, a teen who wakes up in a different body every morning, and used it to ask very direct questions about empathy, attraction, and what makes a person who they are.

He also likes collaboration, and he is very good at it. With Rachel Cohn, he wrote books like Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares, novels full of music, banter, and New York energy. With John Green, he co-wrote Will Grayson, Will Grayson, which mixes comedy, sadness, and teenage chaos with a lot of heart. Those partnerships never feel like side projects. They feel like another way he explores voice and connection.

He makes room for joy.

That matters, especially because so many of his books center queer characters as full people, not symbols, not lessons, and not side notes. Readers come to Two Boys Kissing, Ryan and Avery, or Answers in the Pages for different reasons, but they often find the same thing: characters who want love, safety, honesty, and a little room to figure themselves out. In 2016, that body of work was recognized with the Margaret A. Edwards Award for a lasting contribution to young adult literature.

He has also moved easily between age groups and formats. There is the adult novel The Lover’s Dictionary, told through brief dictionary entries. There are middle grade books like The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S. There are story collections, companion novels, and even graphic adaptations. The form changes, but the voice usually stays clear, curious, and emotionally awake.

Today he continues to write while living in New Jersey and working in publishing. He still comes across like someone who believes stories can make people feel less alone, which is a pretty good place for a writing life to begin, and a pretty good place for it to keep going.

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