Nic Stone Books in Order
See Nic Stone books in order, with quick summaries, reading order help, series guides, and easy tips on where to start with Dear Martin, Shuri, and more.
Last updated: July 6, 2026
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Publication Order
16 books
Dear Martin
by Nic Stone
2017
After a racist encounter with police, honor student Justyce McAllister starts writing letters to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As school tensions and public violence close in, he has to decide what justice and survival really look like.
Odd One Out
by Nic Stone
2018
Best friends Coop and Jupiter have always been inseparable, until new girl Rae changes the balance between them. Told from three sides, this love triangle digs into friendship, attraction, and the messy gap between labels and feelings.
Jackpot
by Nic Stone
2019
Rico sells a winning lottery ticket while juggling school, work, and care for her little brother. Teaming up with rich classmate Zan to find the mystery winner, she gets a sharp look at class, luck, and who gets choices.
Clean Getaway
by Nic Stone
2020
Scoob jumps into his grandma's new RV for a surprise road trip that quickly becomes something bigger. Using an old Green Book as their guide, they travel through family secrets and Civil Rights history at the same time.
Dear Justyce
by Nic Stone
2020
From juvenile detention, Quan Banks writes to his old friend Justyce and tries to explain how he got there. Flashbacks and letters trace the choices, pressures, and failures of a system that keeps closing doors on him.
Hazel and Gray
by Nic Stone
2020
Hazel and Gray wake up lost in the woods, far past curfew and far from safety. This dark, modern Hansel and Gretel retelling turns a forbidden romance and an open door in the forest into something deeply unsettling.
Shuri
by Nic Stone
2020
When Wakanda's heart-shaped herb starts dying, Shuri refuses to wait for someone else to fix it. The princess, scientist, and warrior heads into danger to save her homeland and prove she's more than the Black Panther's little sister.
Blackout
by Angie Thomas
2021
During a sweltering New York City blackout, six interconnected stories follow teens stumbling into first kisses, second chances, and hard truths. The city goes dark, but love, friendship, and possibility keep sparking all night.
Fast Pitch
by Nic Stone
2021
Softball captain Shenice Lockwood is chasing a championship when a family mystery throws off her focus. As she fights for her team and digs into the past, she also has to prove Black girls belong at the center of the game.
The Vanished
by Nic Stone
2021
While trying to focus on her training, Shuri learns that brilliant girls around the world are disappearing. With her friend K'Marah pushing her to act, she follows the mystery beyond Wakanda and into a high-stakes rescue.
Whiteout
by Angie Thomas
2022
A rare Atlanta snowstorm throws holiday plans into chaos as twelve teens join forces to help a friend pull off a big apology. Along the way, crushes flare, old feelings shift, and the storm opens space for something new.
Chaos Theory
by Nic Stone
2023
Shelbi, a brilliant senior guarding her private struggles, crosses paths with Andy, a politician's son unraveling under grief and addiction. Their connection is tender and intense, but getting close means facing the pain both of them would rather outrun.
Symbiosis
by Nic Stone
2023
A break-in at Wakanda's royal palace sends Shuri chasing a powerful intruder no one can explain. The trail leads into the Jabari Lands, where a fast-moving mystery forces her to face dangers bigger than tech can easily solve.
The (Young) Antiracist's Workbook
by Nic Stone
2023
This interactive workbook turns big ideas about race, identity, and justice into questions young readers can wrestle with for themselves. Through prompts and activities, it helps teens reflect, speak up, and build a personal antiracist practice.
Boom Town
by Nic Stone
2025
When a dancer vanishes from one of Atlanta's most notorious clubs, former headliner Lyriq starts asking questions no one wants answered. Her search for two missing women pulls her into a dangerous tangle of power, money, and deceit.
Dear Manny
by Nic Stone
2025
On a college campus, Jared Christensen runs for student office and thinks he knows what allyship looks like. Then a transfer student challenges his record, his motives, and his heart, while letters to Manny help him sort the mess.
Where should I start?
If you want the essential starting point: Dear Martin → Dear Justyce → Dear Manny
If you want romance with big feelings: Odd One Out → Jackpot → Chaos Theory
If you want middle grade adventures: Clean Getaway → Fast Pitch → Shuri
If you want collaborative love stories: Blackout → Whiteout
Author bio
Nic Stone was born and raised in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, and stories seem to have been part of the plan early. On her own site, she says she was talking about becoming a bestseller back in eighth grade. She grew up loving adventure, but also the feeling of being pulled all the way into someone else's world for a while.
She stayed in Atlanta for college, graduating from Spelman, then spent years working in teen mentoring. That work mattered. It put her in close contact with young people from different races, religions, and backgrounds, and it helped shape the way she thinks about voice, conflict, and what teenagers carry that adults often miss.
Travel changed the direction of her life.
While living in Israel and spending time in Palestine in her early twenties, Stone met a young woman in Bethlehem whose story stayed with her. Stone has said that encounter made her realize how many powerful lives and perspectives she was not hearing about in books. It was a turning point, not just personally, but artistically. She came back wanting to write the kinds of stories that could make readers look harder at the world around them.
She did not jump into fiction with total confidence. Stone has said that until 2013 she did not think she could write the kind of popular young adult fiction she loved, partly because she did not see many authors who looked like her doing it. Then she tried anyway. That leap led to Dear Martin, the novel that introduced many readers to her work and made clear what she does well: short, sharp storytelling, big questions, and characters who feel like actual teenagers instead of arguments in human form.
Since then, she has built a bibliography that moves around on purpose. Readers who come for the social pressure cooker of Dear Martin often stay for Dear Justyce and Dear Manny, which widen the conversation around justice, privilege, and who gets believed. Others find her through Odd One Out, a messy, tender story about friendship, attraction, and labels, or Jackpot, which uses a love story to talk about money and class. Chaos Theory brings mental health, grief, and romance together in a way that is intense but still hopeful.
She does not stay in one lane.
Stone has also written for younger readers. Clean Getaway pairs a family road trip with Civil Rights history, Fast Pitch mixes softball with a family mystery, and her Shuri novels let her play in Wakanda without losing sight of character and stakes. Across all of it, one thing stays steady: she writes toward the stories she felt were missing, especially stories that let Black kids be complicated, funny, scared, bright, stubborn, loving, and fully alive in more than one kind of book.
Now she lives in Atlanta with her family. She has said she plans to keep writing the books she wants to see in the world, and that feels like the cleanest way to describe her career so far. Nic Stone's work is wide-ranging, but it always comes back to people trying to figure out who they are, what they owe each other, and how to keep moving when the answers are not simple.
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