How To (Cassie Mae) Books in Order

The How To books are some of Cassie Mae's clearest love letters to nerdy teens. These are sweet high-school romances packed with comics, band kids, study sessions, awkward reputations, and crushes that feel huge because, at that age, they are huge. The books are linked by shared people and overlapping friendships, so they are especially fun in order, but each one centers a different couple.

How to Date a Nerd starts with a girl who has worked hard to become popular even though the version of herself she misses most is the comic-reading nerd underneath. The boy she wants is not interested in the polished act. He wants the real her. That tension between image and honesty sets the tone for the whole series.

Then How to Score a Band Geek, also published as How to Seduce a Band Geek, shifts to Sierra and her crush on Levi. The story pulls in Levi's sister Brea, school programs, family trouble, and the uncomfortable moment when a plan to learn someone else's secrets turns into an actual chance to know them. It keeps the series sweet, but it also makes room for the fact that teenage confidence is often half performance.

These books are gentle about embarrassment.

How to Hook a Bookworm brings Brea to the center and lets the series circle back to friendship, school pressure, and the kind of kiss that rearranges everything. Because Brea already feels familiar by that point, the book lands like a payoff. The series has built a little community, and now another part of it gets its turn.

What makes How To work is how clearly it knows its lane. These are not dark, cynical school stories. They are funny, earnest, and very interested in kids trying to figure out whether being themselves will cost them something. If you want geeky YA romance with a big heart, this is one of Cassie Mae's easiest series to recommend.