The Lizzie Bennet Diaries Books in Order

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a modern-day reworking of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, told through the life of Lizzie Bennet, a twenty-four-year-old graduate student whose video project becomes far more public than she expected. The books grow out of the web series of the same name, but they also give readers a chance to spend more time inside the characters’ heads.

The first novel, The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet, follows Lizzie as she films video diaries for her thesis, deals with student debt, and shares a home with her sisters, Jane and Lydia. What begins as a personal project turns the Bennet sisters into online personalities. Suddenly, family trouble, romance, and every awkward opinion Lizzie has voiced can be watched, discussed, and picked apart by strangers.

Then Bing Lee arrives, along with his guarded friend William Darcy. Lizzie’s immediate dislike of Darcy is one of the story’s main sparks, but the series is never only about romance. It is also about siblings who love one another without always listening well, parents whose choices affect everyone, and the stress of being visible online before you know how to handle it.

The camera catches a lot, but not everything.

Lizzie’s diary format matters because it fills in the spaces around the videos. Readers see more of her worries about her family’s money, her uncertain future, and the gap between the version of herself she presents online and the one she keeps private. The tone is witty and conversational, with the plot using vlogs, texts, posts, and everyday digital noise as part of the story rather than as decoration.

The second novel, The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet, shifts the focus to Lizzie’s younger sister. Lydia has always enjoyed attention, but attention becomes much harder to live with after her former boyfriend uses her online fame against her. The book follows her attempt to regain her family’s trust and work out who she wants to be when people think they already know her from the internet.

Together, the books make a lively, character-driven series about a family under pressure. Start with Lizzie’s diary for the main story and its updated Austen connections, then move to Lydia’s book for a closer look at what happens after the cameras stop rolling. It is a good fit for readers who enjoy contemporary retellings, sister stories, and romances complicated by pride, assumptions, and public scrutiny.