If you’re looking for The Summer I Turned Pretty books in order, there are three novels in Jenny Han’s completed young adult romance trilogy. Published from 2009 through 2011, the books follow Isabel “Belly” Conklin, Conrad Fisher, and Jeremiah Fisher through first love, heartbreak, grief, and the summers that reshape their relationships.
The story begins at Susannah Fisher’s beach house in fictional Cousins Beach, where Belly’s family has spent summers with the Fishers for as long as she can remember. Jenny Han created the Prime Video adaptation and served as its co-showrunner, but the show makes substantial changes, so I still recommend reading the complete trilogy even if you’ve already watched it.
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The Summer I Turned Pretty Books in Order
The Summer I Turned Pretty is a completed trilogy of three novels. The publication order is also the correct reading order, and I recommend reading all three because they tell one continuing story about Belly and the Fisher brothers.
- The Summer I Turned Pretty (2009)
- It’s Not Summer Without You (2010)
- We’ll Always Have Summer (2011)
The first two books follow consecutive summers, but the third novel includes a time jump rather than beginning the very next summer. That doesn’t change the reading order. We’ll Always Have Summer is the third and final published novel, and no fourth book has been announced.
Some paperback editions of We’ll Always Have Summer include Conrad’s letters to Belly as bonus material. The letters add context to the ending, but they aren’t a separate book, novella, or numbered entry in the series.
About The Summer I Turned Pretty TV Series and Movie
The Summer I Turned Pretty is a romantic coming-of-age drama on Prime Video. The series ran for three seasons from 2022 through 2025, with Lola Tung as Belly, Christopher Briney as Conrad, and Gavin Casalegno as Jeremiah.
Each season broadly draws from the corresponding book in the trilogy, but I wouldn’t expect a scene-for-scene adaptation. The show adds characters and storylines, expands several relationships, and changes parts of the timeline. In my view, the central love triangle and family story remain recognizable, but the books and series are different enough to enjoy on their own terms.
A feature film directed by Jenny Han has been announced to conclude the screen version of Belly’s story. The film is a continuation of the adaptation, not a fourth book in the novel series.
About Jenny Han
Jenny Han is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Summer I Turned Pretty and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before series. She is also the author of Shug and Clara Lee and the Apple Pie Dream, and she co-wrote the Burn for Burn trilogy with Siobhan Vivian.
Han earned an MFA in creative writing from the New School and previously worked as a children’s librarian. Beyond writing the books, she is the creator and co-showrunner of The Summer I Turned Pretty series and the creator and executive producer of XO, Kitty, the existing To All the Boys spinoff.
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