Meg Wolitzer Books in Order

Claire and her college friends are obsessed with poetry and death, living inside a haze of performance and longing. As one relationship pulls Claire outward, she must face the difference between romantic pose and real loss.

During the Vietnam War, Becca's family is shaken when her older brother Stevie is picked in the draft lottery and chooses Canada instead. His decision turns dinner-table politics into something immediate, painful, and personal.

Laura Giovanni's marriage is ending, and the unraveling forces her to look at desire, identity, and the life she thought she wanted. As she falls in love with a woman, family and domestic stability grow more complicated.

Eleven-year-old Claudia lives alone with her mother until she befriends tough Danger Roth. When the girls start sharing vivid dreams in which Claudia's missing father seems to send messages, mystery and longing begin to mix.

Dottie Engels, a single mother and rising stand-up comic, chases success while her daughters watch the family change around her. It is funny and rueful about fame, adolescence, and the cost of becoming the main act.

Not a novel but a collection of sly, brainy cryptic crosswords created with Jesse Green. It is a playful challenge for puzzle lovers who enjoy tricky clues, wordplay, and the satisfaction of finally cracking them.

When Mr. Graham invites the girls to help with a summer project, they realize he may be planning for a happier future. Their good intentions pull them into another round of well-meant meddling.

When their teacher's wife dies, five classmates decide sympathy cards are not enough. Their effort to help Mr. Graham is kind, chaotic, and full of the trouble only earnest fifth graders can create.

Now in sixth grade, Julie, Alison, Trina, Susan, and Stacy decide their former teacher Mr. Graham needs a new wife. Their matchmaking mission is heartfelt, chaotic, and almost certain to go off course.

Lisa, Meredith, and Ann have known one another since childhood and still meet regularly in New York as thirty approaches. Careers, lovers, and old rivalries start testing a friendship that once felt automatic.

This is Wolitzer's practical guide to writing screenplays, aimed especially at prose writers making the jump to film. She breaks down structure, visual storytelling, collaboration, and the different demands of the script form.

After a young woman dies, the friends who loved her and the mother she left behind gather at a summer house to grieve. Old resentments, loyalties, and half-buried truths rise slowly to the surface.

On a flight to Helsinki, Joan Castleman decides she may finally leave her celebrated novelist husband. As the trip unfolds, the novel becomes a sharp reckoning with marriage, ambition, and the stories couples tell.

A family's private life is blown open when the parents publish a wildly famous sex manual starring themselves. Their children grow up in the long, awkward shadow of that book, carrying its fallout into adulthood.

Amy and her friends once expected big careers and full adult lives. A decade into motherhood, they begin taking stock of work, marriage, ambition, and the uneasy gap between the women they planned to be and the women they are.

At a youth Scrabble tournament, Duncan Dorfman, April Blunt, and Nate Saviano each have something to prove. Duncan also has a strange gift in his fingertips, which makes the competition more complicated than it looks.

At a suburban high school staging *Lysistrata*, women across the community begin turning away from sex, seemingly under a shared spell. The result is funny, uneasy, and revealing about marriage, desire, and power.

Six teens meet at an arts camp in 1974 and stay tangled in one another's lives for decades. Wolitzer tracks friendship, envy, talent, money, and the hard truth that growing up rarely looks like the dream.

After heartbreak leaves Jam Gallahue adrift, she is sent to a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont. In a mysterious English class centered on Sylvia Plath, memory, grief, and friendship take on a strange new shape.

Shy college freshman Greer Kadetsky meets legendary feminist Faith Frank and is pulled into a larger world of ambition, activism, and influence. As Greer's life opens up, mentorship, love, and power get complicated.

Through emails and letters, Bett and Avery discover their dads are dating and their lives may be joining. Their funny, messy plan turns two wary strangers into something much closer to sisters.

Max thinks he is the one and only Max until he meets two other kids with the same name at the playground. A missing toy sends them on a small adventure that changes how Max sees what makes someone special.

Felix expects a dull summer in Blissfield until a mysterious recording draws him and neighbor Marigold into a sound-based scavenger hunt. The clues lead through science, family tension, and the question of who set the whole thing in motion.