Marc Levy Books in Order

If you want the signature supernatural romance: If Only It Were True / Just Like Heaven → Vous revoir
If you want witty, contemporary love stories: P.S. from Paris → A Woman Like Her
If you want suspense and family secrets: The Last of the Stanfields → Replay
If you want science, adventure, and big ideas: The First Day → Hope
If you want history with higher stakes: The Children of Freedom → Symphony of Monsters

Marc Levy was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, just outside Paris, in 1961, and grew up in the Paris area. He has said he was a shy, reserved child, and writing later became a way to put into words what was hard to say aloud. Books were part of family life early on. His father was an art-book publisher and a serious reader, and that love of reading clearly stayed with him.

Family history mattered too. Levy is the son of a World War II resistance fighter, and the pull of memory, loyalty, and unfinished conversations runs through many of his novels. Even when he writes about romance or supernatural coincidences, there is usually something grounded underneath, a question about what people owe each other.

He did not come to fiction by a straight line. At 18 he joined the French Red Cross and spent six years there, an experience that left a lasting mark on him. Later he worked as an entrepreneur, first founding a computer graphics company in France and the United States, then co-founding an architecture and interior design firm in Paris.

Writing came later.

In his late thirties, he finished a manuscript that he had not originally planned to publish. His sister, who works in film, urged him to send it out, and that book became If Only It Were True, published in January 2000. It took off quickly. The film rights were acquired before the book was even out, and the 2005 adaptation, Just Like Heaven, helped bring Levy to a much wider audience.

Readers who come to Levy for the first time usually notice how easily he shifts between genres. If Only It Were True blends romance and the supernatural. All Those Things We Never Said starts with a funeral and turns into a story about a father and daughter trying, belatedly, to connect. P.S. from Paris is lighter on its feet, a Paris love story about reinvention, timing, and loneliness. Replay takes a thriller premise, a murdered journalist waking up two months in the past, and uses it to ask what a second chance is really worth.

He likes stories that bend reality just enough to let feeling in.

Other books show his range in a different way. The Children of Freedom draws on the true story of the 35th Brigade in Toulouse, where his father fought under the code name Jeannot, and it is one of his most personal novels. The Last of the Stanfields turns a family secret into a cross-generational mystery. Hope leans toward science and speculation, while Symphony of Monsters faces the present more directly, following a Ukrainian family after a child disappears in wartime.

Place matters in Levy's fiction. San Francisco, Paris, London, New York, Istanbul, Chile, and Ethiopia are not just backdrops in his books. They shape the plot, the mood, and the kind of people his characters become. He likes movement, big cities, emotional secrets, and ordinary men and women pushed into situations that feel one step beyond normal life.

Levy has now published 26 novels. His books have sold more than 50 million copies and been translated into 50 languages. He also writes for younger readers, has worked on graphic novels, and has seen several books adapted for film or television. He remains active in humanitarian work too, and currently serves as an ambassador for the French Red Cross.