Jamie McGuire Books in Order (Updated April 10, 2026)

Jamie McGuire’s catalog splits into several distinct lanes: the original Beautiful books, the larger Maddox family branch, YA paranormal in Providence, the novella serial Happenstance, the apocalyptic Red Hill pairing, the firefighter spinoff Crash and Burn, and a smaller set of standalones.

The biggest reading-order mistake is treating Beautiful and Maddox Brothers as separate universes. They are not. The Maddox books build out from the same family, and Jamie McGuire’s own reading-order page specifically recommends reading Walking Disaster before starting the Maddox Brothers sequence.

Start here, depending on what you want

1. For the book Jamie McGuire is most known for:
   Start with Beautiful Disaster.
2. For the full Maddox-family experience:
   Read Beautiful Disaster, Walking Disaster, and A Beautiful Wedding before moving into Beautiful Oblivion.
3. For paranormal romance instead of contemporary romance:
   Start with Providence.
4. For a short binge:
   Read the three Happenstance novellas back to back.
5. For a later, separate contemporary line:
   Start with From Here to You.

The order that makes the most sense for most readers

This is the cleanest path if you want the core Jamie McGuire experience without jumping between unrelated branches too early:

1. Beautiful Disaster
2. Walking Disaster
3. A Beautiful Wedding
4. Almost Beautiful
5. Beautiful Oblivion
6. Beautiful Redemption
7. Beautiful Sacrifice
8. Beautiful Burn
9. Something Beautiful
10. A Beautiful Funeral
11. Beyond Oblivion

After that, move sideways into whichever separate branch sounds best: Providence, Crash and Burn, Red Hill, or the standalones.

Why this order works

It keeps Abby and Travis together first, then opens the door into the wider Maddox family books in a way that preserves callbacks, family dynamics, and payoff. It also keeps Something Beautiful and A Beautiful Funeral where they make the most sense emotionally: after you already know the main Maddox players.

Jamie McGuire books in order

Beautiful series

1. Beautiful Disaster (2011): Abby Abernathy and Travis Maddox begin the series in the volatile college romance that became McGuire’s breakout book.
2. Walking Disaster (2013): The same central romance is retold from Travis’s point of view, and McGuire recommends reading this before you move into the Maddox Brothers books.
3. A Beautiful Wedding (2013): This novella fills in Abby and Travis’s elopement and wedding, so it works best once you know both sides of their story.
4. Almost Beautiful (2022): A later full-length return to Abby and Travis set after the wedding material, and the author’s FAQ says it can be read after A Beautiful Wedding, though she highly recommends reading the first two Maddox Brothers books as well.

Maddox Brothers

5. Beautiful Oblivion (2014): Trenton Maddox gets the first brother-centered novel, making this the true entry point into the wider family branch.
6. Beautiful Redemption (2015): Thomas Maddox takes over in book two, and this one pushes the family world beyond campus romance into more external pressure.
7. Beautiful Sacrifice (2015): Taylor Maddox’s book keeps the family sequence moving and is best read in published order for character continuity.
8. Beautiful Burn (2016): Tyler Maddox’s story shifts the focus again but still depends on the larger family framework already being in place.
9. Something Beautiful (2015): A Shepley-and-America novella that is best treated as extra Maddox-family material rather than as a new entry point.
10. A Beautiful Funeral (2016): A full-family Maddox novel that lands best after the earlier brother books, because it pulls together threads and relationships from across the line.
11. Beyond Oblivion (2025): The newest Maddox-family novel is a sequel to Beautiful Oblivion, returning to Trenton and Camille after the earlier series events.

Providence

12. Providence (2010): McGuire’s paranormal-romance opener begins Nina and Jared’s story and is the correct place to enter this separate YA trilogy.
13. Requiem (2011): Book two deepens the Providence mythology and should be read directly after the first novel.
14. Eden (2012): The trilogy finale closes the main Providence arc and belongs last among the core novels.
15. Sins of the Innocent (2015): A Providence novella that expands the series after the main trilogy rather than replacing any part of it.
16. Sins of the Immortal (2021): Another later Providence novella, set after the main story and the earlier novella material.

Happenstance

17. Happenstance: Part One (2014): The first novella introduces Erin Easter and the premise that drives this compact serialized romance.
18. Happenstance: Part Two (2014): The second installment continues directly from part one, so this series works best as a straight binge read.
19. Happenstance: Part Three (2015): The third novella completes the story and should be read immediately after the first two parts.

Red Hill

20. Red Hill (2013): A standalone-feeling apocalyptic thriller with multiple points of view, but still the main book of this small branch.
21. Among Monsters (2014): A companion novella to Red Hill, told from a different perspective and best read after the novel.

Crash and Burn

22. From Here to You (2018): The first Alpine Hotshots novel begins a firefighter-centered contemporary-romance spinoff tied to the broader Maddox orbit.
23. The Edge of Us (2019): Book two continues the line with another hotshot-focused romance and should stay in order.
24. The Art of Dying (2023): The third Crash and Burn novel is currently the latest completed entry in that sequence.

Standalones

25. Apolonia (2014): A separate sci-fi romance that blends darker, more speculative material than McGuire’s better-known contemporary books.
26. Sweet Nothing (2015): A standalone co-authored contemporary romance, separate from the Maddox, Providence, and Crash and Burn continuities.
27. All the Little Lights (2018): A standalone first-love story with suspense elements, best approached as its own book rather than as part of any series.

The Sovereign Saga

28. The Sovereign: Part One (2025): A dystopian-romantic series opener that begins a new branch of McGuire’s catalog and is currently the only visible published entry in that saga.

Separate continuity notes

• Beautiful + Maddox Brothers:
  These are the books most readers should think about together. The Maddox line grows out of the same family and is not a cleanly separate series.
• Crash and Burn:
  This is best treated as a spinoff lane. It is connected in the larger Maddox-world sense, but it reads like its own firefighter-romance series.
• Providence, Happenstance, Red Hill, Apolonia, Sweet Nothing, All the Little Lights, The Sovereign:
  These are separate branches and do not need to be interwoven with the Beautiful/Maddox books.

Do you need publication order instead?

Only if you want to watch the catalog evolve exactly as readers first encountered it. For actual reading, continuity matters more than strict publication order here.

The main place where publication order and recommended order almost match anyway is the Beautiful/Maddox side of the catalog. The only practical adjustment is that Almost Beautiful is easiest to place after A Beautiful Wedding, with the understanding that McGuire also recommends having the first two Maddox Brothers books behind you.

Latest release status

The latest confirmed Jamie McGuire novel I found is Beyond Oblivion (2025) in the Maddox Brothers line. The newest separate-series opener is The Sovereign: Part One (2025). Jamie McGuire’s official upcoming-projects page also lists working titles such as Beautiful Oblivion 2, Red Hill 2, Apolonia 2, Beautiful Redemption 2, an Abernathy prequel, and a future Crash and Burn book four, but those are still presented as works in progress rather than fully dated releases.

FAQs

What is the best Jamie McGuire book to start with?
Start with Beautiful Disaster unless you specifically want paranormal romance, in which case start with Providence.

Do I need to read Walking Disaster?
Yes, if you want the best Maddox-family reading experience. McGuire’s official reading-order page specifically recommends reading it before starting the Maddox Brothers series.

Where does Almost Beautiful go?
After A Beautiful Wedding. McGuire’s FAQ says that placement works, while also recommending that readers have the first two Maddox Brothers books behind them.

Is Crash and Burn part of the Maddox world?
It is treated as a Maddox Brothers spinoff series, so it is adjacent rather than fully separate.

Is Red Hill a series?
It is best treated as one novel plus one companion novella, not a long ongoing sequence.

Conclusion

If you only want one clean Jamie McGuire route, read the Beautiful books first and then move into the Maddox Brothers. That is the center of the catalog and the place where order matters most. After that, choose by mood: Providence for paranormal romance, Crash and Burn for hotshot firefighters, Red Hill for apocalypse, or the standalones when you want a full stop between series.