Ally Carter

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2005
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Embassy Row

0.5 - Before the Fall (Jan-2015)
1 - All Fall Down (Jan-2015)
2 - See How They Run (Dec-2015)
3 - Take the Key and Lock Her Up (Jan-2017)

Gallagher Girls

0.5 - The Spies that Bind (Jun-2018)
1 - I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (May-2006)
2 - Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Oct-2007)
3 - Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover (Jun-2009)
4 - Only the Good Spy Young (Jul-2010)
4.5 - Classified Material (2012)
5 - Out of Sight, Out of Time (Mar-2012)
5.5 - Double Crossed (Jan-2013)
6 - United We Spy (Sep-2013)
6.5 - A Gallagher Wedding (2013)

A Heist Society Novel

1 - Heist Society (Feb-2010)
2 - Uncommon Criminals (Jul-2011)
2.5 - Double Crossed (Jan-2013)
3 - Perfect Scoundrels (Feb-2013)
3.5 - The Grift of the Magi (Nov-2016)

Julia James

1 - Cheating at Solitaire (Dec-2005)
2 - Learning to Play Gin (Nov-2006)

Winterborne Home

1 - Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor (Mar-2020)
2 - Winterborne Home for Mayhem and Mystery (Mar-2021)

Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Cheating at Solitaire

    Julia James - 1

    She's made a lot of money being single. But money isn't everything... Self-help guru Julia James is so good at being single that she's become famous for it -- advising women that they don't need a man to be happy. Then the unthinkable happens. Just ...

  • I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

    Gallagher Girls - 1

    CAMMIE MORGAN IS A STUDENT AT THE GALLAGHER ACADEMY FOR EXCEPTIONAL YOUNG WOMEN, a fairly typical all-girls school--typical, that is, if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE and the latest in chemical warfare in science, and students recei...

  • Learning to Play Gin

    Julia James - 2

    How does the queen of solitaire fare when someone else it dealing? Julia James was on a winning streak. The hot self--help author of the single-girls' guide 101 Ways to Cheat at Solitaire had millions in the bank and a boyfriend on the Hollywood A-l...

  • Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

    Gallagher Girls - 2

    AFTER STAKING OUT, obtaining, and then being forced to give up her first boyfriend, Josh, all Cammie Morgan wants is a peaceful semester. But that's easier said than done when you're a CIA legacy and go to the Gallagher Academy, the premier school in...

  • Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

    Gallagher Girls - 3

    WHEN CAMMIE MORGAN visits her roommate Macey in Boston, she thinks she's in for an exciting end to her summer. After all, she's there to watch Macey's father accept the nomination for vice president of the United States. But when you go to the world'...

  • Heist Society

    A Heist Society Novel - 1

    When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her to the Louvre...to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria...to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own--scamming h...

  • Only the Good Spy Young

    Gallagher Girls - 4

    When Cammie Morgan enrolled at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, she knew she was preparing for the dangerous life of a spy. She just didn't know that life would start during her junior year of high school. But that's exactly what ha...

  • Uncommon Criminals

    A Heist Society Novel - 2

    Katarina Bishop has worn a lot of labels in her short life: Friend. Niece. Daughter. Thief. But for the last two months she's simply been known as the girl who ran the crew that robbed the greatest museum in the world. That's why Kat isn't surprised ...

  • Classified Material

    Gallagher Girls - 4.5



  • Out of Sight, Out of Time

    Gallagher Girls - 5

    THE LAST THING CAMMIE Morgan remembers is leaving the Gallagher Academy to protect her friends and family from the Circle of Cavan -- an ancient terrorist organization that has been hunting her for over a year. But when Cammie wakes up in an Alpine c...

  • Double Crossed

    A Heist Society Novel - 2.5
    Gallagher Girls - 5.5

    Macey McHenry -- Glamorous society girl or spy-in-training? W.W. Hale V -- Heir to an American dynasty or master thief? There are two sides to every coin. Whether these two can work together is a tossup. Born into privilege, Macey and Hale a...

  • A Gallagher Wedding

    Gallagher Girls - 6.5

    Cammie and the rest of the Gallagher Girls attend the wedding of Cammie's mother and Joe Solomon....

  • Perfect Scoundrels

    A Heist Society Novel - 3

    Katarina Bishop and W W. Hale the Fifth were born to lead completely different lives: Kat comes from a long, proud line of lovable criminal masterminds, while Hale is the scion of one of the most seemingly perfect dynasties in the world. If their fam...

  • United We Spy

    Gallagher Girls - 6

    Cammie Morgan has lost her father and her memory, but in the heart-pounding conclusion to the best-selling Gallagher Girls series, she finds her greatest mission yet. Cammie and her friends finally know why the terrorist organization called the Circl...

  • Star of Bethlehem

    in My True Love Gave to Me

    If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you're going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories b...

  • All Fall Down

    Embassy Row - 1

    Grace Blakely is absolutely certain of three things: 1. She is not crazy. 2. Her mother was murdered. 3. Someday she is going to find the killer and make him pay. As certain as Grace is about these facts, nobody else believes her -- so thereâ...

  • Before the Fall

    Embassy Row - 0.5

  • See How They Run

    Embassy Row - 2

    For the past three years, Grace Blakely has been desperate to find out the truth about her mother's murder. She thought it would bring her peace. She thought it would lead her to answers. She thought she could put the past to rest. But the truth h...

  • The Grift of the Magi

    A Heist Society Novel - 3.5

    Katarina Bishop is a thief. To many it wouldn’t matter that she now uses her considerable skills to re-steal valuable works of art and return them to their rightful homes.She’s still a thief.So that’s why Kat’s surprised when an Interpol agen...



  • Take the Key and Lock Her Up

    Embassy Row - 3

    For the past three years, Grace Blakely has been desperate to find out the truth about her mother's murder. She thought it would bring her peace. She thought it would lead her to answers. She thought she could put the past to rest.         Â...

  • Not If I Save You First

    Maddie thought she and Logan would be friends forever. But when your dad is a Secret Service agent and your best friend is the president's son, sometimes life has other plans. Before she knows it, Maddie's dad is dragging her to a cabin in the mi...

  • The Spies that Bind

    Gallagher Girls - 0.5

    The first day at a new school is tough for any kid, but it's especially scary when you're going to a school for spies. Cammie Morgan has spent her whole life dreaming of becoming a Gallagher Girl, but she has no idea what she’ll face when s...

  • Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor

    Winterborne Home - 1

    April didn't mean to start the fire. She wasn’t the one who broke the vase. April didn’t ask to go live in a big, creepy mansion with a bunch of orphans who just don't understand that April isn’t like them. After all, April’s mother i...

  • Winterborne Home for Mayhem and Mystery

    Winterborne Home - 2

    Five orphans. Two sword-wielding vigilantes. One mansion. No rules. April thought she had her happy ending. After all, she has her new house and new friends and new guardian. But she also has a very big new secret. The kids of Winterborne House...

  • The Blonde Identity

    The New York Times bestselling YA author of the beloved Gallagher Girls series bursts onto the adult scene with a fast-paced, hilarious road trip rom-com about a woman with amnesia who discovers she’s the identical twin sister of a rogue spy… and...

  • The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

    Knives Out gets a holiday rom-com twist in this rivals-to-lovers romance-mystery from New York Times bestselling author Ally Carter.The bridge is out. The phones are down. And the most famous mystery writer in the world just disappeared out...

Award-Winning Books by Ally Carter

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
2010 Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award -- Grades 6-8
Not If I Save You First
2020 Beehive Award -- Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ally Carter has published 26 books.

The next book by Ally Carter, The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year, will be published in September 2024.

The first book by Ally Carter, Cheating at Solitaire, was published in December 2005.

Yes. Ally Carter has 5 series.
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