Yearbook Trilogy Books in Order

Ally Condie’s Yearbook trilogy is a connected set of young adult stories about students, families, teachers, and friends whose lives overlap in and around Lakeview High School. These are grounded books about the everyday pressure of growing up: school, dating, family trouble, big plans, mistakes, and the awkward work of becoming more honest with yourself.

The series opens with Yearbook, which follows a wide group of Lakeview students and teachers across a school year. Different characters carry different burdens. Some are dealing with divorce or loss. Others are trying to fit in, figure out romance, repair friendships, or decide what they believe. The book’s many viewpoints make the school feel like a real community rather than a single hero’s story.

Everyone has a story that is bigger than the version people see in the hallway.

First Day picks up later, when several characters are facing the next stage of life. Andrea Beckett is at college, making choices about work and love, while other familiar faces are navigating missions, relationships, and new responsibilities. The book keeps the group structure but allows the characters to age into a different set of worries. High school decisions do not disappear just because graduation has passed.

In Reunion, the lens shifts again. Addie Sherman, Sam Choi, and Cate Giovanni take larger roles as they deal with college, family expectations, future plans, and relationships that are not as simple as they hoped. Earlier characters remain part of the larger picture, giving the trilogy a sense of time passing and friendships changing shape.

The series has a warm, conversational tone, even when it takes on serious subjects. Faith is part of many characters’ lives, but the larger focus is on ordinary people trying to make thoughtful choices when there is no perfect answer. Readers who enjoy ensemble casts may especially like seeing side characters become central in later books.

Lakeview High matters because it is the starting point where these lives connect. The trilogy gradually moves beyond its classrooms and into college towns, homes, jobs, and new relationships, while keeping the same interest in community. Start with Yearbook, then read First Day and Reunion in order to follow the recurring characters and the changes that bind their stories together.