Geek Girl Books in Order

Harriet Manners begins the Geek Girl series as a fifteen year old who would rather memorize facts than navigate the unspoken rules of school. She is bright, literal and easily overwhelmed, with one loyal best friend, Nat, a persistent classmate called Toby and a long history of being the target of bullies. Home is noisy but loving, split between her enthusiastic dad and her practical, protective stepmum Annabel.

Everything shifts when Harriet is accidentally discovered by a modeling scout at a fashion event Nat has been desperate to attend. In a matter of days she goes from invisible geek to the face of a major campaign, flying to foreign cities, walking catwalks and trying to survive a high pressure industry where beauty, confidence and social charm are supposed to come naturally.

Across the main novels and seasonal specials, the series follows Harriet from that first job through several school years and all over the world. She works in Tokyo, small town America, Paris, India and Australia, juggles exam timetables with photo shoots, and learns that the glossy backstage world of fashion can be lonely, chaotic and unexpectedly kind, sometimes all at once.

Running alongside the career drama is a knot of relationships that grow and change with her. Nat and Toby remain her anchors, even when jealousy and misunderstandings get in the way. Harriet falls for model Nick, fumbles her first serious romance, and keeps testing the patience of Annabel, her dad Richard, baby sister Tabitha and eccentric grandmother Bunty as she chases every new opportunity.

The books lean hard into comedy, slapstick disaster and Harriet's stream of random trivia, but they also take bullying, anxiety and self worth seriously. After Holly Smale received her own diagnoses, she described Harriet as autistic and dyspraxic too, which fits the way Harriet processes noise, crowds and emotions throughout the series. A big part of each book is her move from wanting to reinvent herself to accepting that her so called geekiness is not something to fix.

Readers who start Geek Girl can expect fast paced mishaps, fish out of water modelling jobs, friendship fallouts and reconciliations, first love and big family scenes, all told in a chatty first person voice. The spin off novellas, including the Christmas story All Wrapped Up and summer trip Sunny Side Up, slot neatly between the core books and add extra glimpses of Harriet figuring out who she is. The tone is warm, funny and earnest, and the books have since inspired a television adaptation that brings Harriet's world to screen.