Jennifer Finney Boylan Books in Order

Four high-school students and three adults tour New England colleges together in a Winnebago. Interviews and campus visits collide with family resentments, romantic complications, and the teenagers' uncertainties about the futures they are supposed to be choosing.

Jennifer Finney Boylan recounts her transition and the experiences that shaped her understanding of gender. The memoir examines childhood confusion, changing friendships, marriage, and family relationships while reflecting on how love and identity affect one another.

Boylan revisits childhood in a supposedly haunted Pennsylvania mansion and investigates its strange events with ghost hunters. Memories of her family and her earlier identity become another kind of haunting, linking supernatural questions with loss, forgiveness, and change.

An ordinary school bus takes Falcon Quinn and his friends to an academy for monsters on Shadow Island. As they discover their unusual natures, the school's insistence on hiding those differences prompts them to question its purpose.

Falcon struggles to understand his angelic nature while his parents lead opposing groups of monsters and guardians. Doubts about his loyalty force him toward Guardian Island, where protecting a friend requires reconsidering both sides of the conflict.

Boylan combines memories of parenting before and after her transition with interviews about family life. The memoir explores how gender shapes motherhood and fatherhood, and how parents and children understand the changing relationships within their households.

The Riley family travels from Bar Harbor to Washington for their son's violin performance at Ford's Theatre. The journey brings changing identities and family tensions into focus as parents and children confront how little they understand one another.

Disguised as humans, Falcon Quinn and his monster friends enter ninth grade at a New Hampshire high school. They race to locate five hidden monsters while confronting bullying and the difficulties of belonging among people who seem different.

Decades after a disastrous night in an abandoned prison, new evidence implicates chef Jon Casey in murder. Judith Carrigan can establish his innocence, but testifying risks exposing secrets that could destroy her family and carefully rebuilt life.

Jennifer Finney Boylan recalls seven dogs that accompanied important stages of her life, from childhood through transition and adulthood. Their companionship becomes a way to reflect on identity, memory, and the ways people learn to give and receive love.

Co-written with Jennifer Finney Boylan. When a teen girl is found dead, her boyfriend is accused of murder. His mother defends him, but as secrets about the victim's identity and the boy's family history emerge, the truth becomes complicated.