Books in Order: A Comprehensive Guide to Julia Quinn's Novels

Julia Quinn is the pen name of Julie Pottinger, picked strategically so her novels would shelve next to Amanda Quick's in bookstores. She studied art history at Harvard and was bound for medical school when two of her manuscripts sold at auction; she gave medicine a brief try anyway before admitting that writing had already won. Her debut, Splendid, arrived in 1995 with Dancing at Midnight close behind, and the Bridgerton and Smythe-Smith series went on to make her one of historical romance's most recognizable names.

One more detail, because it is too good to skip: in 2001 she won $79,000 on The Weakest Link. Now settled in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, Paul, she has published thirty-seven books between 1995 and 2023, ordered here from Splendid through Queen Charlotte.