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Are you new to Janet Evanovich? What are the best Janet Evanovich books? For some, it’s a mix of all her different series. For others, they can’t get enough of Stephanie Plum and want to know what the next book will be about. Whatever your preference is, we’ll list out every book by Janet Evanovich.
Who is Janet Evanovich?
Janet Schneider Evanovich was born in South River, New Jersey on April 22, 1943. Evanovich started her writing career under the pseudonym Steffie Hall in the contemporary romance genre. However, she is now well-known for writing contemporary mysteries.
Evanovich has published more than 40 novels and has collaborated with many other writers, including Stephen J. Cannell, Charlotte Hughes, and Lee Goldberg. She has sold more than 90 million copies of her books worldwide.
Hero at Large was her debut novel and was published under the pseudonym Steffie Hall in 1987. She signed a contract with Bantam Loveswept in 1988. She began to write romance novels for Bantam in her name over the course of the next five years.
Janet Evanovich Books in Order of Publication
It can be hard to keep track of the many novels that Janet Evanovich has written over the years. Below, I will list all Janet Evanovich books in order of publication. Keep reading!
Stephanie Plum Books in Order
Stephanie Plum is a tough, no-nonsense woman from New Jersey whose life changes drastically when she’s fired from her job and her car is repossessed. She turns to her cousin Vinnie for help in finding new work, but he doesn’t have any suggestions. However, Stephanie takes up bounty hunting as an activity until something better comes along – which eventually does happen!
- One for the Money (1994)
- Two for the Dough (1996)
- Three to Get Deadly (1997)
- Four to Score (1998)
- High Five (1999)
- Hot Six (2000)
- Seven Up (2001)
- Hard Eight (2002)
- Visions of Sugar Plums (2002) (Between the Numbers Novella)
- To the Nines (2003)
- Ten Big Ones (2004)
- Eleven on Top (2005)
- Twelve Sharp (2006)
- Plum Lovin’ (2007) (Between the Numbers Novella)
- Lean Mean Thirteen (2007)
- Plum Lucky (2008) (Between the Numbers Novella)
- Fearless Fourteen (2008)
- Plum Spooky (2009) (Between the Numbers Novella)
- Finger Lickin’ Fifteen (2009)
- Sizzling Sixteen (2009)
- Smokin’ Seventeen (2011)
- Explosive Eighteen (2011)
- Notorious Nineteen (2012)
- Takedown Twenty (2013)
- Top Secret Twenty-One (2014)
- Tricky Twenty-Two (2015)
- Turbo Twenty-Three (2016)
- Hardcore Twenty-Four (2017)
- Look Alive Twenty-Five (2018)
- Twisted Twenty-Six (2019)
- Fortune and Glory: Tantalizing Twenty-Seven (2020)
- Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight (2021)
- Going Rogue: Rise and Shine Twenty-Nine (2022)
- Dirty Thirty (2023)
- Now or Never (Expected: November 5, 2024)
Elsie Hawkins Books in Order
- Back to the Bedroom (1989)
- Smitten (1990)
- Wife for Hire (1990)
- The Rocky Road to Romance (1991)
Full/Max Holt Series in Order
- Full House (1981)
- Full Tilt (2002)
- Full Speed (2003)
- Full Blast (2004)
- Full Bloom (2005)
- Full Scoop (2006)
Alexandra Barnaby Books in Order
- Metro Girl (2004)
- Motor Mouth (2006)
- Troublemaker (2007)
- Troublemaker 2 (2010)
Hot/Cate Madigan Series in Order
- Hot Stuff (2007)
Lizzy and Diesel Books in Order
- Wicked Appetite (2009)
- Wicked Business (2012)
- Wicked Charms (2015)
Culhane Family Series in Order
- Love in a Nutshell (2012)
- The Husband List (2012)
Fox and O’Hare Series in Order
- Pros and Cons (2013) (Short Story)
- The Heist (2013)
- The Chase (2014)
- The Shell Game (2014) (Short Story)
- The Job (2014)
- The Scam (2015)
- The Pursuit (2016)
- The Big Kahuna (2019)
- The Bounty (2021)
Knight and Moon Series
- Curious Minds (2016)
- Dangerous Minds (2017)
Gabriella Rose Series
- The Recovery Agent (2022)
- The King’s Ransom (Expected: June 1, 2025)
Janet Evanovich Standalone Books in Order
- Hero at Large (1987)
- Thanksgiving (1988)
- The Grand Finale (1988)
- Manhunt (1988)
- Foul Play (1989)
- Love Overboard (1989)
- Naughty Neighbor (1992)
Janet Evanovich Non-Fiction Books
Janet Evanovich Anthologies
- The Plot Thickens (1997)
Is There a Janet Evanovich Movie Adaptation?
The answer is yes, as there is a movie adaptation based on Janet Evanovich’s 1994 novel: One for the Money.
The movie adaption of One for the Money was made in 2012. The screenplay was written and directed by Julie Anne Robinson. Debbie Reynolds, Sherri Shepherd, and Jason O’Mara star in the film.
The story centers on unemployed Stephanie Plum, who becomes a bail enforcement agent to pursue a previous high school crush after he fails to pay his bills and becomes the suspect in a murder investigation.
A Summary of the Best Janet Evanovich Books
Below is an overview of some of the best Janet Evanovich books. These summaries include her Lizzy and Diesel series, the Knight and Moon series, Alexandra Barnaby series, and the Full series.
1. Wicked Appetite
Diesel has no choice but to appear in Salem after the news that the SALIGIA, the seven stones of power representing the Seven Deadly Sins, are seen in Boston. He partnered with Elizabeth Tucker, otherwise known as Lizzie, a pastry baker from Salem, to recover them.
Lizzie is an unmentionable witch who has the talent for locating things. Diesel’s cousin, Gerwulf Grimoire, a genius hardened criminal with an insatiable desire for the forbidden, is also hunting for Invidia, the stone representing gluttony.
Battling through the hurdles in Salem and beyond together, Diesel and Lizzie, with her adopted odd one-eyed cat and Carl the monkey, set out to track and find the stones. But, unfortunately, that won’t be easy as they have Gerwulf and the Invidia stone to contend with.
2. Wicked Business
Gilbert Reedy was an English Professor at Harvard University before he was killed and thrown from the fourth floor of his home. He had a nineteenth-century sonnet book containing clues to find Luxuria: The third stone in the SALAGIA. Luxaria is believed to induce lust.
The battle between Lizzie and Diesel with Gerwulf Grimoire continues as Gerwulf is determined to find the stones to become very powerful, and Diesel wants to stop him.
Armed with the clues found in Gilbert Reedy’s book of sonnets, Lizzie and Diesel set out to look for Luxuria with Gerwulf and his minions on their tail and Anarchy, a mysterious woman who also wants the stone. They have also had to deal with the sexual tension that is increasingly growing between them.
3. Wicked Charms
The adventures of Lizzie and Diesel continue. This time they are looking for the stone of Avarice, the second stone of the SALAGIA stones.
Avarice was part of a famous pirate’s treasure which Collier Dazzle, a notorious smuggler, found and re-hid before he was killed and mummified. They need to find a treasure map and a ship that can sail the seven seas, neither of which is easy to find. Gerwulf is also hunting for the stone and Martin Ammon who believes he is Mammon, the demon god.
4. Curious Minds
This is the first book in the Knight and Moon series. It features an eccentric but likable, handsome introverted human who doesn’t know how to relate with others effectively and has a knack for solving mysteries: Emerson Knight. Riley Moon, on the other hand, is an extrovert with a ferocious attitude and a degree from Harvard Law and Harvard Business.
Moon thought she had just landed her dream job as a junior analyst with a mega-bank. That was until her boss told her to babysit Emerson Knight. What starts as an inquiry into Knight’s missing bank funds leads to inquires about a missing man, missing gold, and a life-and-death race across the country.
5. Dangerous Mind
When Emerson Knight found out that the island of Wayan Bagus had gone missing without a trace, he knew he had to solve this unsolvable mystery. He would never let it pass him by.
His clues led him to a bigger and sinister secret guarded by the National Park Service. He will need help to solve this mystery and who else would fit in other than Riley Moon and his cousin, Vernon.
6. Metro Girl
Metro Girl is the first in Janet Evanovich’s Alexandra Barnaby series.
When Wild Bill, the younger brother of brilliant Alexandra Barnaby, went missing, she headed to Florida to look for him. As she deals with the long line of heartbroken ladies that Wild Bill left in his wake, bugs, and heat, Barnaby didn’t think her search could get worse.
That was until she met Sam Hooker. His boat has been stolen, and all clues lead to Wild Bill. He has no choice but to follow Barnaby and hope they find her wayward younger brother.
7. Motor Mouth
Alexandra Barnaby is NASCAR driver Sam Hooker’s race-day spotter, telling Hooker when to pass and when to get off the gas. From her vantage point she’s also seeing things going on in the infield that will change her life. Things that will lead to a stolen racecar hauler, a kidnapped Saint Bernard, a bizarre murder, and some restless nights under the covers with Hooker.
8. Troublemaker
Troublemaker is a Barnaby and Hooker graphic novel illustrated by Joëlle Jones. It is written by Janet and Alex Evanovich.
Trouble never seems to leave Sam Hooker and Alexandra Barnaby, and they always get their fill of it. Rosa Florez has been kidnapped, and her kidnapping was linked to a cunning voodoo priest obsessing over a mysterious stolen statue.
Barnaby and Hooker set out to find her leaving a lot of chaos and disorder in their wake.
9. Full House
Full House is the first book in Janet Evanovich’s Full series.
Nicholas Kaharchek, a super-rich polo instructor, is immediately attracted to Billie Pearce as soon as he meets her. Billie, a happy mother of two and a divorcée, is the epitome of stability. Nick finds her irresistible and fascinating.
Billie feels something back, something she never thought she’d feel again. But for Billie and Nick, things are never simple. Someone is not happy about the couple’s blossoming romance, and it looks like they’re willing to kill over it.
10. Full Tilt
Jamie Swift is the editor of Beaumont’s local newspaper. She will do anything to keep her beloved Beaumont Gazette afloat. But Jamie’s life is shaken when her financial partner, Max Holt, arrives.
Multi-millionaire Max is handsome, charming, and pathologically flirtatious. But someone wants Max in town even less than Jamie does – and they’ve got the guns and dynamite to prove it.
11. Full Speed
Journalist Jamie Swift and millionaire Max Holt drive each other crazy when they work together – but they just can’t stop. Especially when they both have their reasons for wanting to investigate a charismatic preacher with suspected ties to the Mob and a long history with his female church members.
The trouble is, someone has got wind of Jamie and Max’s snooping around, and is pretty eager to introduce them to their Maker – a lot sooner than either Jamie or Max had planned.
12. Full Blast
Jamie Swift is facing the story of a lifetime that could make or break her. Someone from her newspaper’s Lonely Heart’s column has murdered a local woman.
To find the killer, and save her newspaper, Jamie will have to call in mega-handsome millionaire genius Max Holt, who right now is still frustratingly far from becoming anything more than just her business partner.
But the real problem isn’t that Jamie wants to get closer to Max, it’s that the killer wants to get closer to Jamie.
13. Full Bloom
Annie Fortenberry is the newest entrepreneur in Beaumont, South Carolina. Annie has inherited her grandmother’s B&B. A psychic in the area said that Annie also inherited a spirit from its glory days as a brothel – not the publicity Peachtree Bed & Breakfast wants when hosting millionaire Max Holt’s wedding.
As if the rumors about a ghost-prankster weren’t enough, a man mysteriously appears with his eye on Annie and her master suite. All leather and jeans, Wes Bridges is straddling a Harley and sending the B&B’s testosterone levels through the roof. Annie’s cool demeanor is dropping just as quickly as Wes’s jeans.
But, leave it up to her ex-husband to ruin the mood. He’s turned up dead and all evidence is pointing to Annie. She must find the killer and save her own neck if she wants to end up back in Wes’s arms.
14. Full Scoop
Mercury is in retrograde, and Beaumont, South Carolina residents face gossip, scandal, and more secrets than ever. But, Maggie Farnsworth, a local pediatrician, has bigger concerns.
Maggie Farnsworth’s wild-girl past is now catching up to her. Her ex-boyfriend has just escaped prison and is determined to track Maggie down.
For protection, Zack Madden, an FBI agent, is sent in for help. But, unfortunately, his presence is causing Maggie to feel a lot more stressed with an attraction Maggie has no time for. Or does she?
15. The Heist
The Heist is the first novel in the Fox and O’Hare series.
FBI Special Agent Kate O’Hare is known for her fierce dedication and discipline on the job. Her boss thinks she is tenacious and ambitious; her friends think she is tough, stubborn, and maybe even a bit obsessed. And while Kate has made quite a name for herself, for the past five years, the only name she’s cared about is Nicolas Fox – an international crook she wants in more ways than one.
Audacious, handsome, and dangerously charming, Nicolas Fox is a natural con man. At first he did it for the money. Now, he does it for the thrill.
He knows the FBI has been hot on his trail – particularly Kate O’Hare, who has been watching his every move. For Nick, there’s no greater rush than being pursued by a beautiful woman…even one who aims to lock him up.
But just when it seems like Nicolas Fox has been captured for good, he pulls off his greatest con of all: He convinces the FBI to offer him a job, working side by side with special agent Kate O’Hare.
Final Thoughts on Janet Evanovich Books in Order
If you are a fan of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series or any other book by the author, we’ve compiled all Janet Evanovich books in order for your reading pleasure. I hope this list will help you find out how many novels she has written and where to start reading!
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