Jodi Picoult Books in Order

Picoult's debut novel tracks a mother who flees her crumbling marriage in San Diego, taking her daughter across the country to her brother's apple farm in Massachusetts. Told through five different voices, it explores the weight of secrets and the complexity of love.

Paige O'Toole, haunted by the memory of the mother who abandoned her, leaves her own husband and newborn to find herself. She traces her mother's path, eventually learning that she must confront her past to stop running from her future.

Cassie Barrett wakes up in a cemetery with no memory of who she is or how she got there. When her handsome, famous husband arrives to take her home, she discovers a life that looks perfect on the outside but hides a dangerous reality.

Police chief Cameron McDonald is forced to arrest his own cousin for the mercy killing of his terminally ill wife. The trial tears the town apart, while Cameron struggles with his own marriage and the blurred lines between love and the law.

Two teenagers, inseparable since birth, are found shot in a swimming pool; one is dead, the other holds the gun. The surviving boy claims it was a suicide pact, but the investigation unravels a lifetime of secrets between their two families.

After a messy divorce, a young girl begins talking to an invisible friend who might be God. When she starts performing apparent miracles, her mother must fight a custody battle against a father who uses the religious controversy to claim she is unfit.

A dead infant is found in an Amish barn, and an eighteen-year-old Amish girl denies she was ever pregnant. A high-profile defense attorney, hiding in the community to escape her own life, agrees to defend her in a clash of cultures and justice.

A teacher with a past conviction for sexual assault moves to a small town for a fresh start. He finds love and a simple life until a group of teenage girls accuses him of a crime, forcing the town to decide if history is repeating itself.

A district attorney who has spent her career putting criminals behind bars takes the law into her own hands when her five-year-old son is abused. She finds herself on the other side of the courtroom, forced to defend an indefensible act.

In a town plagued by inexplicable events, a ghost hunter is hired to prove a property isn't haunted so a developer can build a mall. Instead, he uncovers a murder mystery from the 1930s involving eugenics and a love story that refuses to die.

Anna was conceived to be a marrow donor for her leukemia-stricken sister, Kate. At thirteen, she sues her parents for medical emancipation to stop the procedures. The lawsuit exposes deep family fractures and asks who owns a child's body.

Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life until she remembers a repressed memory that suggests her beloved father kidnapped her as a child. As he faces trial, Delia must decide if the man who raised her is a criminal or a hero.

When a comic book artist's teenage daughter claims she was raped, the family fractures. The father, who draws superheroes for a living, struggles with his own desire for vengeance, blurring the line between his ink-and-paper justice and reality.

A graphic novel collecting issues #6–10 of *Wonder Woman*. Diana Prince is assigned to capture Wonder Woman—her own alter ego—while battling the sorceress Circe and navigating complex Amazonian politics.

After years of bullying, a student opens fire at his high school, changing the town of Sterling forever. The novel explores the shooting from multiple perspectives—the shooter, the victims, and the judge whose own daughter is a witness.

The conclusion to Picoult’s five-issue run on the series. Wonder Woman faces a final confrontation involving her mother, Hippolyta, and the sorceress Circe, resolving the 'Love and Murder' storyline.

A death row inmate offers to donate his heart to the sister of the victim he was convicted of killing. The story questions the nature of redemption, the death penalty, and whether a miracle can come from a murderer.

A family struggles to pay for the medical care of their daughter, who has a severe brittle-bone disease. The mother makes a controversial decision to sue her obstetrician—her best friend—for wrongful birth, arguing she should have had the option to abort.

Jacob Hunt, a teenager with Asperger's syndrome and an obsession with forensic science, is accused of murdering his tutor. His behaviors, often misread by police as guilt, force his mother to fight a legal system that doesn't understand him.

A collection of three short pieces exploring the theme of departure. It includes two short stories—one about grief, one about a mother's vacation—and a personal letter Picoult wrote to her son as he left for college.

A musical play co-written with her son, Jake van Leer. This fractured fairy tale follows Luna (the moon) as she descends to Earth disguised as a boy to help humans find love, only to fall in love herself.

Music therapist Zoe Baxter fights for the right to use the frozen embryos she created with her ex-husband. When he converts to evangelical Christianity and remarries, the custody battle becomes a legal and religious firestorm over who defines a family.

Delilah hates high school but loves the fairy tale *Between the Lines*. She is shocked when Oliver, the book’s handsome prince, talks back to her. Together they hatch a plan to get him out of the story and into her world.

Luke Warren, a wolf researcher, is left in a vegetative state after a car accident. His two estranged children must decide whether to let him go or keep him alive, sparking a courtroom battle that tears the family apart.

A non-fiction guide offering behind-the-scenes insights into Picoult’s novels, themes, and writing process. It serves as a resource for book clubs and dedicated fans wanting to dig deeper into her work.

A short story about a young boy named Raymond who attends a Bible camp for inner-city kids. He confronts issues of race, privilege, and the painful realization that good intentions aren't always enough to bridge the divide.

Sage Singer befriends a beloved old man in her grief support group, only to learn he was a Nazi SS officer. He asks her to help him die, forcing Sage to confront her own grandmother's Holocaust survival story and the limits of forgiveness.

A novella set in the Botswana wilds. It serves as a prequel to *Leaving Time*, following Alice as she studies elephants and learns about the fierce protective bond between mothers and calves.

Jenna Metcalf has never stopped looking for her mother, an elephant researcher who vanished after a tragic accident. She teams up with a disgraced psychic and a jaded detective to uncover the truth, which is far stranger than she imagined.

A short story prequel to *Leaving Time* featuring Serenity Jones, a psychic medium. It explores her rise to fame and the disastrous reading that caused her to lose her confidence and career.

The sequel to *Between the Lines*. Oliver has finally escaped his book to be with Delilah, but the story he left behind is unraveling without him. They must fix the chaos in the fairy tale world before Oliver is pulled back forever.

Edited by Liesa Mignogna, this essay anthology asks writers to explore the personal connections they formed with beloved comic-book heroes. Jodi Picoult, Neil Gaiman, Brad Meltzer, and others reflect on why superheroes can shape identity, offer comfort, and help people endure hardship.

A prequel short story to *Small Great Things*. It introduces Ruth Jefferson as a child starting at a prestigious new school, where she first encounters the subtle and overt racism that will shape her life and career.

Ruth Jefferson, an experienced Black nurse, is ordered not to touch the baby of a white supremacist couple. When the baby goes into cardiac arrest and she hesitates, she is charged with murder, triggering a trial about race and privilege.

A fantasy short story about Hope Payne, a woman who was once a mermaid. Now married to a marine biologist, she must navigate a mysterious loss and decide if she is willing to sacrifice her new life to return to the water.

A gunman bursts into a women's reproductive health clinic, taking hostages. Told in reverse chronological order, the story peels back the hours to reveal the intersecting lives of the staff, patients, and the negotiator outside.

Edited by Maureen Johnson, this anthology gathers essays, interviews, art, and reflections on activism from a wide range of contributors. It is a practical, hopeful collection about speaking up, organizing, and finding ways to act.

After surviving a plane crash, a death doula finds herself thinking not of her husband, but of an old flame from her Egyptology days. She decides to pursue the path not taken, leading to a journey across the globe and into the past.

Diana O'Toole is stranded in the Galápagos Islands when the COVID-19 pandemic shuts down the world. Cut off from her life in New York, she re-evaluates her entire future, only to discover that her isolation is not what it seems.

A prequel short story to *Wish You Were Here*. It follows a young Diana O'Toole as she learns a hard lesson about priorities when her mother, a famous photographer, chooses her career over her daughter's tenth birthday.

A dystopian short story written in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. In a world where men are the ones who get pregnant, a man named James faces an unwanted pregnancy and the legal restrictions that come with it.

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.

A dual-timeline novel linking a modern playwright to her ancestor, Emilia Bassano, the first published female poet in England. The story explores the theory that Emilia was the true author behind Shakespeare's plays.

After losing her mother in the World Trade Center attacks as an infant, Molly Fitzgerald grows up determined to prepare for catastrophe and leads Rhode Island’s emergency-preparedness department. When an unexpected crisis shakes her new marriage, past and present converge around family secrets and mother-daughter bonds.