Princess Diaries Books in Order
Part ofMeg Cabot Books in OrderBrowse The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot in order, with short summaries, reading order notes, and tips on where to start with Mia and Genovia.
Last updated: January 13, 2026
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Publication Order
16 books
The Quarantine Princess Diaries
by Meg Cabot
2023
Mia Thermopolis is older, still royal, and still writing, this time through a strange stretch of lockdown life. In diary form, she balances motherhood, public duty, and the small frustrations that become huge when the world shuts down.
Royal Wedding
by Meg Cabot
2015
Mia is grown up, still a princess, and still dealing with Genovia's public expectations. With a royal wedding on the horizon and politics in the mix, she has to step into adult leadership, and fight for her own happy ending.
Ransom My Heart
by Meg Cabot
2009
A writer is hired to finish a famous author's historical romance, and finds herself tumbling into a swashbuckling love story of her own. With danger, disguises, and a stubborn hero, the line between fiction and real feeling starts to blur.
Forever Princess / Ten Out of Ten / Crowning Glory
by Meg Cabot
2008
The original Princess Diaries story reaches its finale as Mia faces the biggest royal decisions of her life. With love, politics, and public expectations colliding, her diary captures a princess learning to lead, and to choose her own future.
Princess Mia / To the Nines / Bad Heir Day
by Meg Cabot
2007
Mia's diary follows her through bigger royal responsibilities, bigger feelings, and bigger consequences. With Genovia's future and her own happiness tugging in different directions, she has to grow up fast, even when she's terrified.
Sweet Sixteen Princess
by Meg Cabot
2006
Mia's sixteenth birthday comes with royal complications, public pressure, and the kind of expectations that can ruin a celebration. In diary form, she tries to keep the day from turning into a full-blown Genovian disaster.
Princess on the Brink / After Eight / Royal Scandal
by Meg Cabot
2006
Mia's diary shows her on the edge, overwhelmed by school, politics, and the feeling that nothing is fully hers anymore. As new royal problems hit, she has to decide what kind of princess she wants to become.
Party Princess / Royal Rebel
by Meg Cabot
2006
Mia's diary captures a new burst of Genovian drama, where politics, press, and teenage embarrassment collide. Between friends, romance, and royal expectations, she keeps learning that being a princess is never a private job.
The Princess Present
by Meg Cabot
2004
A Princess Diaries side story that drops Mia into a royal moment she can't control, and can't ignore. With her signature humor, she navigates family, friends, and the kind of public attention that makes even small decisions feel huge.
Princess in Training / Sixsational
by Meg Cabot
2004
Mia's princess training gets harder, and so does being a teenager with cameras on her. Between school drama, romance confusion, and Genovian expectations, her diary shows a girl trying to grow up without falling apart.
Project Princess
by Meg Cabot
2003
Mia's princess life collides with school politics and public expectations in a short Princess Diaries companion. In her diary voice, she navigates friendship drama, royal responsibilities, and the constant question of who gets to define her.
Princess in Pink / Prom Princess / Give Me Five
by Meg Cabot
2003
Mia's diary tackles a new round of royal drama and teen stress, with romance, friendships, and public pressure all colliding at once. It's a quick return to Genovia's chaos, where one event can spiral into a headline.
Princess in Waiting / Royally Obsessed
by Meg Cabot
2002
Mia tries to handle princess duties while surviving school drama, media attention, and the pressure of being "perfect." Her diary captures the chaos as she learns that waiting for your life to start isn't the same as living it.
Princess in the Spotlight / Take Two / A Royal Disaster
by Meg Cabot
2001
Mia thinks she has being a princess under control, then a televised interview, a secret admirer, and fresh Genovian drama prove her wrong. Her diary tracks every cringey moment as royal life collides with normal teen chaos.
Princess in Love / Princess in the Middle
by Meg Cabot
2001
Mia's diary dives into first love, first heartbreak, and the royal complications that make normal teen drama look simple. Between Genovian expectations and New York school life, Mia keeps trying to grow up without losing herself.
The Princess Diaries
by Meg Cabot
2000
Awkward New York teen Mia Thermopolis learns her dad is the prince of Genovia, and she's next in line. Through diary entries, she juggles school, friendships, crushes, and relentless princess lessons she never asked for.
Series background & context
The Princess Diaries is built around one big, awful, hilarious moment: a normal teen finds out she's not normal at all. Mia Thermopolis is a New York City ninth-grader who thinks her biggest problems are school, awkward crushes, and her mother's unpredictable life choices. Then she learns her father is the prince of Genovia, a tiny European principality, and she is in line for the throne.
The books are written as Mia's diary, which means you get everything, the panic, the sarcasm, the overthinking, and the sudden bursts of confidence. Cabot uses that voice to make the royal stuff feel personal instead of distant. Princess lessons turn into a running series of social disasters, while homework and friendship drama keep happening at the same time, because the universe is never kind enough to schedule your identity crisis around exams.
Genovia itself is part fairy-tale and part reality check. On paper, it's a palace, a title, and a lot of fancy stationery. In practice, it's a job Mia never asked for, complete with etiquette rules, constant media attention, and a very intense grandmother who treats "being a princess" like a full-time sport.
This series is funny, but it's also honest about how hard it is to be watched. Mia has to figure out who she is when everyone around her has an opinion, and when her mistakes can become headlines. The books keep the stakes grounded in everyday feelings, embarrassment, jealousy, first love, and that late-teen panic about the future, even when the setting gets more glamorous.
The cast grows with Mia. Relationships shift, friendships get tested, and the line between "private life" and "public life" keeps getting thinner. Over the series, the problems widen from school-level humiliation to choices that affect other people, and Mia has to learn how to make decisions she can live with.
The Princess Diaries also has a life beyond the page, including two Disney film adaptations, which helped introduce Mia and Genovia to a much wider audience.
If you're reading for the first time, it's easiest to start at The Princess Diaries and follow Mia forward through the main run. There are also shorter companion volumes, plus later books that revisit her life as an adult, including Royal Wedding and The Quarantine Princess Diaries, so you can either stop after the original finale or keep going if you want to check back in on Mia years later.
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