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Deb Caletti Books in Order

Browse Deb Caletti books in order, with quick summaries, related series, and simple guidance on where to start with her YA and adult novels.

Last updated: July 9, 2026

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The Queen of Everything

by Deb Caletti

2002

Jordan thinks her life is mostly under control until her father's affair with a married woman starts warping everything around him. What begins as family drama turns darker and more unsettling as the fallout spreads.

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

by Deb Caletti

2004

Quiet Ruby gets pulled into the orbit of a reckless rich boy just as her mother drags her to a seniors' book club. The result is a funny, aching road trip about bad choices, old love, and growing up fast.

Wild Roses

by Deb Caletti

2005

Cassie is living with a famous violinist stepfather whose moods are turning frightening and unpredictable. Falling for his gifted young student, Ian, only raises the stakes in a story where music, fear, and first love are tightly knotted together.

The Nature of Jade

by Deb Caletti

2007

Jade lives with panic disorder and finds calm by watching the elephants at the zoo. Then she meets Sebastian, falls for his houseboat family, and faces a secret that makes love feel far more complicated than safety.

The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

by Deb Caletti

2008

Indigo's ordinary, busy life is blown apart when a stranger leaves her a $2.5 million tip at work. The money opens doors, strains relationships, and forces her to ask what can actually make a person happy.

The Secret Life of Prince Charming

by Deb Caletti

2009

Quinn wants to believe in love, even after a breakup and a lifetime of warnings about men. When she realizes her charming father has wronged women all over the map, she sets out with her sisters to make things right.

The Six Rules of Maybe

by Deb Caletti

2010

Scarlet is used to fixing everyone else's problems, until her sister comes home unexpectedly married and pregnant. Then Scarlet falls for the one person she shouldn't, and her careful role in the family starts to crack.

Stay

by Deb Caletti

2011

Clara has escaped her obsessive ex-boyfriend and is hiding out on remote Bishop Rock, trying to breathe again. But even as new friends and new love pull her forward, the fear of being found never quite lets go.

The Story of Us

by Deb Caletti

2012

Cricket is already on shaky ground with her boyfriend when her mother's wedding week explodes into family drama, old secrets, and a new attraction. In the middle of all that chaos, she has to figure out what change and love really mean.

He's Gone

by Deb Caletti

2013

When Dani's husband, Ian, doesn't come home one Sunday morning, worry slowly hardens into panic. As the police search, Dani replays their marriage and confronts the secrets, guilt, and blind spots she can no longer ignore.

The Last Forever

by Deb Caletti

2014

Still reeling from her mother's death, Tessa follows her father to her grandmother's coastal town and feels more unmoored than ever. Then she meets Henry Lark, and grief, love, and change start tangling together.

The Secrets She Keeps

by Deb Caletti

2015

After finding a strange phone number in her husband's trash, Callie flees to her aunt's rundown Nevada divorce ranch. There she uncovers old love stories, family secrets, and hard questions about marriage, loyalty, and what makes a life feel true.

Essential Maps for the Lost

by Deb Caletti

2016

Mads finds a woman's body in Lake Union and becomes obsessed with the life behind the headline. When that obsession leads her to grieving Billy Youngwolf Floyd, two wounded teens are pulled into a tender, complicated story about loss, lies, and finding solid ground.

What's Become of Her

by Deb Caletti

2017

Back on Parrish Island after her mother's death and a divorce, Isabelle falls hard for the mysterious Henry North. Then rumors about his past begin to surface, and love turns into a tense search for the truth.

A Heart in a Body in the World

by Deb Caletti

2018

After a shattering year, Annabelle runs from Seattle to Washington, DC with her grandfather trailing behind in an RV. The miles become a way through trauma, grief, and fear, and toward a fragile kind of hope.

A Flicker of Courage

by Deb Caletti

2020

When the tyrant Vlad Luxor turns Apollo's little brother into a lizard, lonely Henry Every and his friends set out to break the spell. It's a funny, perilous quest about bravery, books, and doing the right thing while scared.

Girl, Unframed

by Deb Caletti

2020

Sydney goes home to San Francisco for a tense summer with her famous mother, only to find herself surrounded by unwanted attention and real danger. As old warnings turn into threats, one night on the beach stairs changes everything.

The Weird in the Wilds

by Deb Caletti

2020

Vlad Luxor is dividing the province and casting fresh spells, so Henry, Jo, Apollo, and Pirate Girl head into the Wilds to save a classmate. Their strangest journey yet mixes danger, odd creatures, and a big-hearted lesson about difference and love.

One Great Lie

by Deb Caletti

2021

Charlotte wins a scholarship to a Venice writing workshop and hopes to solve a family mystery about a forgotten poet in her bloodline. But her charismatic mentor grows unsettling, and the summer becomes a reckoning with art, power, and buried secrets.

The Epic Story of Every Living Thing

by Deb Caletti

2022

Harper Proulx, anxious, heartbroken, and tired of not knowing her anonymous sperm donor father, connects with newly found half siblings and heads to Hawaii to find him. The trip forces her to rethink identity, family, and who she wants to become.

Plan A

by Deb Caletti

2023

When Ivy learns she is pregnant, a summer in small-town Texas turns into a road trip to Oregon for an abortion. Along the way, family stories, judgment, and love reshape what choice, courage, and care look like.

True Life in Uncanny Valley

by Deb Caletti

2025

Artist Eleanor slips into a false identity to work as nanny for the billionaire father she's never known, an AI mogul with a carefully managed image. The summer brings romance, big questions about technology, and a sharper view of what is real.

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You, Me, and Infinity

by Deb Caletti

2026

Margaret meets star-obsessed Mars and falls into a first love that feels cosmic and immediate. When tragedy shatters that world, she has to face grief, memory, and the terrifying beauty of keeping her heart open.

Where should I start?

If you want her big emotional YA: A Heart in a Body in the WorldGirl, UnframedOne Great Lie
If you like smart, romantic YA: The Nature of JadeThe Secret Life of Prince CharmingThe Story of Us
If you want adult suspense: He's GoneThe Secrets She KeepsWhat's Become of Her
If you want middle grade fantasy: A Flicker of CourageThe Weird in the Wilds
If you want her newer, issue-driven novels: The Epic Story of Every Living ThingPlan ATrue Life in Uncanny Valley

Author bio

Deb Caletti was born in San Rafael, California, and spent much of her childhood moving from one Northern California town and school to another. She has said she was the kind of kid who always had a book close by, the one reading in the car by flashes of streetlight and hurrying back to her room to write stories.

She was a reader first.

That matters because Caletti often talks about books as both shelter and training. Stories gave her a place to hide, a place to rest, and a place to feel understood. Later she studied journalism at the University of Washington in Seattle, but she also describes herself as being taught by years of reading everything from Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle to Tess of the D’Urbervilles.

Her path to publication was not quick. Her second manuscript brought agent interest, but it took three more books, and a pile of rejections, before The Queen of Everything became the novel that sold. The next book, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart, went on to become a National Book Award finalist, and from there she built a career that moved between young adult and adult fiction.

And she kept going.

Readers who come to Caletti for the first time usually notice how easily she moves between tenderness and trouble. The Nature of Jade pairs a love story with panic disorder and the daily work of managing fear. A Heart in a Body in the World, which received a Printz Honor, follows Annabelle on a cross-country run after trauma, and turns motion into a way of thinking about survival.

She also likes putting young women in rooms, towns, or whole systems that do not see them clearly. In One Great Lie, a teen writer heads to Venice and starts pulling at the history of powerful men and buried women. In Plan A, a road trip to get an abortion becomes a story about choice, shame, and the conversations women pass down to one another. Even when the plots get tense, the books stay rooted in emotion, family, and the question of how to keep going.

Setting matters a lot in her work. Many of her books live in the Pacific Northwest, on islands, along the water, or in small towns with a little weather and mystery in the air. She long drew from her years in Issaquah, Washington, which became the model for the fictional Nine Mile Falls in several books, and she returns again and again to complicated parents, first love, secrecy, grief, and girls learning to trust their own judgment.

Her adult novels carry those same interests into older lives. He's Gone begins with a missing husband and turns inward, toward marriage, memory, and guilt. What's Become of Her brings romance and suspense together on an isolated island, while The Secrets She Keeps heads to a Nevada divorce ranch to look at love across generations.

Caletti now lives in Seattle with her family, after many years in Issaquah. She has written about swimming, hiking, collecting antiquarian books, and being a regular library person, the kind who still goes back week after week. That feels right. Her fiction may roam into danger, heartbreak, or big moral questions, but it usually starts in the same place her own story does, with curiosity, empathy, and somebody paying close attention.

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