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Meg Cabot
  • Bibliography:
    84 Books (15 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2000
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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About the Author

Meg Cabot was born on 1 February 1967 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA, daughter of Barbara and C. Victor Cabot, a college professor. She also lived in Grenoble, France and Carmel, California (the setting for her bestselling Mediator series) before moving to New York City after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Indiana University.

Meg had never planned on becoming a novelist. She dreamed of being a vet or an actress. She ended up pursuing neither and graduating with a fine arts degree. When she moved to New York City, she landed a job as a freshman dorm assistant manager, which gave her plenty of free time to write. Seven years and a bagful of rejection letters later, her first novel was published in 1998, after almost throwing in the towel. Since then she has published almost 44 works of fiction. She is a diverse writer who has gained success in several genres. She writes historical romance, young adult fiction, and contemporary fiction. She is probably most well known for writing “The Princess Diaries” which was made into a movie starring Anne Hathaway. She is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of books for both adults and tweens/teens under the pen names of Meg Cabot, Meggin Cabot, Patricia Cabot and Jenny Carroll.

She has been married to Benjamin D. Egnatz, a financial writer and poet, since April 1993. They have two homes: one in New York City and the other in Key West, Florida.

Full Series List in Order

Abandon

1 - Abandon (May-2011)
2 - Underworld (May-2012)
3 - Awaken (Jul-2013)

An Airhead Novel

1 - Airhead (Jun-2008)
2 - Being Nikki (May-2009)
3 - Runaway (May-2010)

An All-American Girl Novel

1 - All American Girl (Aug-2002)
2 - Ready or Not (Aug-2005)

Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls

1 - Moving Day (Mar-2008)
2 - The New Girl (Aug-2008)
3 - Best Friends And Drama Queens (Mar-2009)
4 - Stage Fright (Sep-2009)
5 - Glitter Girls and the Great Fake Out (Mar-2010)
6 - Blast from the Past (Sep-2010)

Avalon High

1 - Avalon High (Jan-2006)
2 - The Merlin Prophecy (Jul-2007)
3 - Homecoming (Jul-2008)
4 - Hunter's Moon (Sep-2009)

Avalon High: Coronation

1 - The Merlin Prophecy (Jul-2007)
2 - Homecoming (Jul-2008)
3 - Hunter's Moon (Sep-2009)

The Boy

1 - The Boy Next Door (Oct-2002)
2 - Boy Meets Girl (Jan-2004)
3 - Every Boy's Got One (Jan-2005)
4 - The Boy Is Back (Oct-2016)

A Heather Wells Mystery

1 - Size 12 Is Not Fat (Jan-2006)
2 - Size 14 Is Not Fat Either (Dec-2006)
3 - Big Boned (Nov-2007)
4 - Size 12 and Ready to Rock (Jul-2012)
5 - The Bride Wore Size 12 (Sep-2013)

Insatiable

1 - Insatiable (Jun-2010)
2 - Overbite (Jul-2011)

Little Bridge Island

0.5 - Bridal Boot Camp (May-2019)
1 - No Judgments (Sep-2019)
2 - No Offense (Aug-2020)
3 - No Words (Oct-2021)

The New York Journal

1 - The Boy Next Door (Oct-2002)
2 - Boy Meets Girl (Jan-2004)
3 - Party Planner (Sep-2004)
4 - Every Boy's Got One (Jan-2005)

The Princess Diaries

1 - The Princess Diaries (Nov-2000)
2 - Princess in the Spotlight (Apr-2001)
3 - Princess in Love (Mar-2002)
4 - Princess in Waiting (Apr-2003)
5 - Project Princess (Jul-2003)
6 - Princess in Pink (Apr-2004)
7 - Princess in Training (Apr-2005)
8 - The Princess Present (Sep-2004)
9 - Party Princess (Apr-2006)
10 - Sweet Sixteen Princess (Jun-2006)
11 - Valentine Princess (Dec-2006)
12 - Princess on the Brink (Jan-2007)
13 - Princess Mia (Jan-2008)
14 - Forever Princess (Jan-2009)
15 - Royal Wedding (Jun-2015)
16 - The Quarantine Princess Diaries (Mar-2023)
Princess Lessons (Mar-2003)
Perfect Princess (Mar-2004)
Holiday Princess (Nov-2005)

Princess Olivia of Genovia

1 - From the Notebooks of a Middle-School Princess (May-2015)
1.5 - Royal Day Out (May-2016)
2 - Royal Wedding Disaster (May-2016)
3 - Royal Crush (Aug-2017)
4 - Royal Crown (Aug-2018)

Queen of Babble

1 - Queen of Babble (Jun-2006)
2 - Queen of Babble in the Big City (Jul-2007)
3 - Queen of Babble Gets Hitched (Jul-2008)

A Witches of West Harbor Novel

1 - Enchanted to Meet You (Sep-2023)

Multi-Author Series List

1-800-Where-R-You?

5 - Missing You (Jan-2007)

The Mediator

3.5 - Every Girl's Dream (Jan-2004)
5 - Haunted (Jan-2003)
6 - Twilight (Jan-2005)
6.5 - Proposal (Jan-2016)
7 - Remembrance (Feb-2016)

Book List in Order: 84 titles



  • Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there's nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who also happens to be flunking Algebra. First Mom announces that she's dating Mia's Algebra teacher. Then Dad has to go and reveal that he is...



  • NO ONE EVER SAID BEING A PRINCESS WAS EASY Just when Mia thought she had the whole Princess thing under control, things get out of hand, fast. First there's an unexpected announcement from her mother. Then Grandmere arranges a national primetime i...



  • PRINCESS MIA MAY SEEM LIKE THE LUCKIEST GIRL EVER. But the truth is, Mia spends all her time doing one of three things: preparing for her nerve-racking entree into Genovian society, slogging through the congestion unique to Manhattan in December, ...



  • Top Ten Reasons Samantha Madison is in Deep Trouble 10. Her big sister is the most popular girl in school 9. Her little sister is a certified genius 8. She's in love with her big sister's boyfriend 7. She got caught selling celebrity portra...



  • NICOLA Nicola Sparks, sixteen and an orphan, is ready to dive headlong into her first London Season. A whirlwind of fashionable activities awaits her, although nabbing a husband, ordinarily the prime object of every girl's Season, is not among them....



  • Who is... The Boy Next Door? (Melissa Fuller desperately needs to know!) Is he really Max Friedlander, notoriously wild, famously self-centered fashion photographer-nephew of poor old comatose Mrs. Friedlander? (But he seems so nice!) Has he ...



  • My name is Susannah Simon, and I am a mediator -- a liaison between the living and the dead. Yes, this does get in the way of my attempt at a normal sixteen-year-old life. At least I have Jesse, the ghost of a nineteenth-century hottie, haunting my ...



  • All you need to know to be a princess -- Or Just live like one Compiled by Mia Thermopolis aka Princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo of Genovia...



  • VICTORIA Growing up in far-off India, wealthy young heiress Lady Victoria Arbuthnot was accustomed to handling her own affairs -- not to mention everyone else's. But in her sixteenth year, Vicky is unceremoniously shipped off to London to find a hus...






  • Never before has the world seen such a princess. Nor have her own subjects, for that matter. Mia's royal introduction to Genovia has mixed results: while her fashion sense is widely applauded, her position on the installation of public parking mete...



  • What on earth is that princess up to now? Hammer in hand, Princess Mia embarks on an epic adventure for one so admittedly unhandy: Along with her cohorts from school, she's off to build houses for the less fortunate. It doesn't take Mia long to re...



  • Meet Kate Mackenzie. She: - works for the T.O.D. (short for Tyrannical Office Despot, also known as Amy Jenkins, Director of the Human Resources Division at the New York Journal) - is sleeping on the couch because her boyfriend of ten years refuse...



  • Many years ago, I was asked by the original publisher of the Mediator series (back when I was writing it under the name Jenny Carroll) to write a short story for their teen magazine, Pulse, about Suze Simon, the heroine of the series. Here, at last, ...



  • Sleeping Beauty, Victoria, Cleopatra, Snow White, Elizabeth, Pocahontas, Mia Thermopolis: all princesses Do YOU have what it takes to be a princess? Princess Mia will help you find out...



  • Even princesses have dreams In her heart of hearts, Mia has but one wish: an evening spent with Michael in a tux and a corsage on her wrist -- in other words, the PROM. Michael, however, does not seem to share the dream that is the prom. Worse still...



  • Can an ordinary girl handle the spotlight? High school junior Jenny Greenley is so good at keeping secrets that she's the school newspaper's anonymous advice columnist. She's so good at it that, when hotter-than-hot Hollywood star Luke Striker com...



  • Mia would give all the jewels in Genovia for the perfect present Every year, Princess Mia spends the holidays in Genovia with Grandmere. This year, she's looking forward to the most perfect Christmas ever: her boyfriend, Michael, and her best friend...



  • 21 tales from today's hottest young female writers. Featuring bestselling authors: Jennifer Weiner, Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, Carole Matthews, Isabel Wolff, Lynda Curnyn, Jill A. Davis, Marian Keyes, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Lisa Jewell, Stella Duff...



  • To: Jane Harris Fr: Claire Harris Re: You Hi, honey! It's me, Mom. I know it's a big secret that your friend Holly and her boyfriend Mark are eloping in Italy, and that you and Mark's friend Cal La...






  • This time it's life or death. Suze has gotten used to ghosts. She's a mediator, after all, and communicating with the dead is all in a day's work. So she certainly never expected to fall in love with one: Jesse, a nineteenth-century hottie. But wh...



  • Princess for president Student body president, that is. It's all the fault of Princess Mia's power-mad best friend and campaign manager, Lilly, who nominates her in the first place. This is not how Mia imagined kicking off her sophomore year, even i...



  • Top ten things Samantha Madison isn't ready for: 10. Spending Thanksgiving at Camp David 9. With her boyfriend, the president's son 8. Who appears to want to take their relationship to the Next Level 7. Which Sam inadvertently and shockin...



  • A princess always knows how to celebrate the holidays. There's Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, Chinese New Year, Saturnalia . . . to name just a few. Then there's gift giving, the royal Genovian Faberge Advent calendar, hot chocolate with marshmallows--o...



  • HEATHER WELLS ROCKS! Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two -- and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina)...



  • Avalon High seems like a typical high school, attended by typical students: There's Lance, the jock. Jennifer, the cheerleader. And Will, senior class president, quarterback, and all-around good guy. But not everybody at Avalon High is who they ap...



  • Princess just want to have fun This spring, Mia's determined to have a good time, despite the fact that the student government over which she presides is suddenly broke. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it) Grandmere has ...



  • Lizzie Nichols has a problem: she can't keep anything to herself. And when she opens her big mouth on a trip to London, her good intentions get her long-distance beau, Andrew, in major hot water. Now she's stuck in England with no boyfriend and no pl...



  • Sixteen is the magic number Mia doesn't always have the best luck with parties, so even though it's her sweet sixteenth, she doesn't want a birthday bash. As usual, Grandmre has other ideas, and thinks a reality TV special is just the thing in o...



  • Too tired to doll up and head out for a night on the town? (It happens to the best of us.) Just dip into this year's must-read collection for a Girls' Night Out to remember and indulge in tales of reunions and weddings, sisters and friends, endings a...






  • Do you want to be popular? Everyone wants to be popular-or at least, Stephanie Landry does. Steph's been the least popular girl in her class since a certain cherry Super Big Gulp catastrophe five years earlier. Does being popular matter? ...



  • HEATHER SINGS THE BLUES Former pop star Heather Wells has settled nicely into her new life as assistant dorm director at New York College--a career that does not require her to drape her size 12 body in embarrassingly skimpy outfits. She can even ...



  • That is, it usually means those things. But when you're Princess Mia, nothing happens the way it's supposed to. For one thing, Grandmre seems determined to prove that boy (or Michael, as he is commonly known) isn't the right one for the crown prince...



  • GOOD-BYE, LIGHTNING GIRL Ever since a walk home on a particularly stormy day, Jessica Mastriani has had an ability like no other. She became known worldwide as Lightning Girl--a psychic who could find the location of anyone, dead or alive. Jess fi...



  • At last, Mia is a junior. An upperclassperson. Free of her responsibilities as student body president. So why is it that everything is going so terribly wrong? What is she doing in Intro to Creative Writing? When she has made it through Algebra and G...



  • Katie Ellison is not a liar. It's just that telling the truth is so . . . tricky. She knows she shouldn't be making out with a drama club hottie behind her football-player boyfriend's back. She should probably admit that she can't stand eating qu...



  • In this exciting collection, bestselling authors Meg Cabot (How to Be Popular), Kim Harrison (A Fistful of Charms), Michele Jaffe (Bad Kitty), Stephenie Meyer (Twilight), and Lauren Myracle (ttyl) take bad prom nights to a whole new level--a paranorm...



  • "I wonder if Judy Blume really knows how many girls' lives she affected. I wonder if she knows that at least one of her books made a grown woman finally feel like she'd been a normal girl all along. . . ." -- FROM Everything I Needed to Know About...



  • Being a new student at Avalon High has been exciting for Ellie, to say the least--she's an honor student, a star on the track team, and, oh yeah, dating the super-hot class president, Will. Who also happens to be the alleged reincarnation of King Ar...



  • Big Mouth. Big Heart. Big City...Big Problems Lizzie Nichols is back, pounding the New York City pavement and looking for a job, a place to live, and her proper place in the universe (not necessarily in that order). "Summer Fling" Luke's use of the...






  • IT'S NOT EASY BEING JINX Jean Honeychurch hates her boring name (not Jean Marie, or Jeanette, just ... Jean). What's worse? Her all-too-appropriate nickname, Jinx. Misfortune seems to follow her everywhere she goes -- even to New York City, where J...



  • BIG BONED IS BEAUTIFUL! Life is reasonably rosy for plus-size ex-pop star turned Assistant Dormitory Director and sometime sleuth Heather Wells. Her freeloading ex-con dad is finally moving out. She still yearns for her hot landlord, Cooper Cartwr...



  • A princess on her own . . . Mia has been invited to speak at a gala for Domina Rei, an elite society of powerful businesswomen. But what could she possibly have to say? Now that Michael has broken things off, Mia can barely get out of bed, and he...



  • I like rules. What I'm not so crazy about is everything else. When nine-year-old Allie Finkle's parents announce that they are moving her and her brothers from their suburban split-level into an ancient Victorian in town, Allie's sure her life is ov...



  • Emerson Watts is gone. Emerson Watts didn't even want to go to the new SoHo Stark Megastore grand opening and had zero interest in meeting the newly appointed Face of Stark, teen supermodel sensation Nikki Howard. But how was Em to know that di...



  • Meg Cabot's magical Arthurian epic continues . . . Manga style Will's dangerous brother, Marco, has been released from the mental hospital, and it seems as if he's turned over a new leaf. But Ellie isn't sure she trusts him yet, especially when she ...



  • Big mouth. Big heart. Big wedding. Big problems. It's the wedding of the century! Things are looking up at last for Lizzie Nichols. She has a career she loves in the field of her choice (wedding gown restoration), and the love of her life, J...



  • When you are starting at a brand-new school, you have to wear something good. Allie Finkle's starting her first day of school at Pine Heights Elementary! But being the New Girl is turning out to be scary, too, especially since one of the girls in Al...



  • HER ROYAL HIGHNESS MIA THERMOPOLIS, CROWN PRINCESS OF GENOVIA -- whose published "Diaries" have been a #1 bestselling sensation -- now graces the world with her first novel of danger, desire, and timeless romance ... with a most able assist from Meg ...



  • What's a Princess to do? It's Mia's senior year, and things seem great. She aced her senior project, got accepted to her dream college(s), and has her birthday gala coming up . . . not to mention prom, graduation, and Genovia's first-ever electio...






  • You're only a big baby if you let yourself think you're a big baby Allie Finkle is excited when a new girl, who comes all the way from Canada, joins her class at Pine Heights Elementary. Now Allie won't be the new girl anymore! But her excitement ...



  • Things aren't pretty for Emerson Watts. Em was sure there couldn't be anything worse than being a brainiac the body of a teenaged supermodel. But it turned out she was wrong. Because that supermodel could turn out to have a mother who's gone ...



  • The exciting conclusion to Meg Cabot's magical Arthurian manga! Ellie has only one day left to get her boyfriend Will to truly believe he's the reincarnation of King Arthur, or the world will plunge into eternal darkness. But Will refuses to belie...



  • Room 209 is putting on a play for the Pine Heights Elementary School Spring Open House, and almost all the girls in Allie's class want the lead role, Princess Penelope...including Allie. Allie just knows her life is going to be ruined if she doesn't ...



  • It's all good practice for later, when it really counts. Allie plans on having the best weekend ever when she finds out Erica's sister Missy is in the regional Twirltacular baton competition -- until Allie's mom announces that she has to go to Britt...



  • EM WATTS IS ON THE RUN She's on the run from school, from work, from her family, from her friends, from herself. With everyone she loves furious with her for something she can't explain, and nothing but the live Stark Angel fashion show on New Yea...



  • SICK OF HEARING ABOUT VAMPIRES? SO IS MEENA HARPER. Meena Harper is familiar with the supernatural. After all, she knows how you're going to die. (Not that you're going to believe her. No one ever does.) But not even Meena's precognition can prepar...



  • You can't have enough buddies... Allie's excited about her class field trip, even if it's only to a historic one-room schoolhouse. But she gets to ride on a bus, which she usually misses out on, living so close to school. But then Mrs. Hunter annou...



  • Don't turn out the lights. Don't go out alone. And whatever you do, don't let down your guard. Because your neighbors might seem normal, but why do they collect knives and eat their steaks so bloody? And when the boy of your dreams finally asks you o...



  • It’s time to decide: Team Zombie or Team Unicorn? A must-have anthology with contributions from bestselling YA authors is now available in paperback!It’s a question as old as time itself: Which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? This all-origi...



  • PIERCE KNOWS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO DIE. BECAUSE SHE'S DONE IT BEFORE. Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can't help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she's never alone . . . because so...



  • Meena Harper has a special gift, but it’s only now that anyone’s ever appreciated it. The Palatine Guard -- a powerful secret demon-hunting unit of the Vatican -- has hired her to work at their new branch in Lower Manhattan. With Meena’s abilit...



  • A stellar collection from Newbery medalists and bestselling authors written to benefit Darfuri refugees With contributions from some of the best talent writing for children today, What You Wish For is a compelling collection of affecting, inspirin...



  • From #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, the dark reimagining of the Persephone myth begun in ABANDON continues ... into the Underworld. Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera isn't dead. Not this time. But she is being held against ...



  • Summer break . . . and the livin' ain't easy! Just because the students at New York College have flown the coop doesn't mean assistant residence hall director Heather Wells can relax. Fischer Hall is busier than ever, filled with squealing thirtee...



  • Death has her in his clutches. She doesn't want him to let go. Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera knew by accepting the love of John Hayden, she'd be forced to live forever in the one place she's always dreaded most: the Underworld. The sacrifice ...



  • Heather Wells is used to having her cake and eating it too, but this time her cake just might be cooked. Her wedding cake, that is. With her upcoming nuptials to PI Cooper Cartwright only weeks away, Heather's already stressed. And when a pretty j...



  • Olivia Grace Clarisse Mignonette Harrison is a completely average twelve-year-old: average height, average weight, average brown hair of average length, average brown skin and average hazel eyes. The only things about her that aren't average are her ...



  • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Princess Diaries series, comes the very first adult installment, which follows Princess Mia and her Prince Charming as they plan their fairy tale wedding -- but a few poisoned apples could turn thi...



  • The short story Mediator fans everywhere have been waiting years to read… a fun, fast-paced, never-before-read scene in which Suze Simon agrees to marry her no-longer-dead ghost boyfriend, Jesse de Silva! The last place Suze Simon expects to fin...



  • The highly anticipated return of Meg Cabot’s bestselling Mediator series featuring fan-favorite ghost whisperer Susannah Simon You can take the boy out of the darkness. But you can’t take the darkness out of the boy. All Susannah Simon wan...



  • Olivia Grace Clarisse Mignonette Harrison never thought that being a real life PRINCESS OF GENOVIA could ever be boring, but with all of the new vans and paparazzi staked out in front of the palace, the whole family has been on lockdown for weeks. So...



  • Olivia Grace Clarisse Mignonette Harrison still finds it hard to believe that she's a real live PRINCESS OF GENOVIA. Not only does she get to live in an actual palace with her newly discovered family and two fabulous poodles (who all love her and thi...



  • In this brand new stand alone novel for adult readers, a scandal brings celebrity golfer Reed back home to the small town, the crazy family, and first love he once left behind. Reed Stewart thought he'd left all his small-town troubles-including a...



  • Olivia Grace Clarisse Mignonette Harrison is turning thirteen. Even better, she’s finally starting to get the hang of this princess thing. Just in time, too, since her half-sister, Princess Mia Thermopolis, is expected to give birth to twins any da...



  • It’s the first coronation of a female monarch of Genovia in 200 years, and Her Royal Highness, Princess Olivia Grace Clarisse Mignonette Harrison, is giving you the inside scoop in this newest (illustrated!) diary from New York Times―bestselling ...




  • From #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot comes the first story in her Little Bridge Island series -- which also includes an excerpt from her forthcoming new full-length novel No Judgments!Looking for a tropical escape?Welcome to Little Bri...



  • The storm of the century is about to hit Little Bridge Island, Florida -- and it’s sending waves crashing through Sabrina “Bree” Beckham’s love life… When a massive hurricane severs all power and cell service to Little Bridge Island -- a...



  • Thirteen-year-old Dinah Lance knows exactly what she wants, who she is, and where she's going. First, she'll win the battle of the bands with her two best friends, then she'll join the Gotham City Junior Police Academy so she can solve cr...



  • New York Times-bestselling author Meg Cabot's returns with a charming romance between a children's librarian and the town sheriff in the second book in the Little Bridge Island series. Welcome to Little Bridge, one of the smallest, most ...



  • Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries, returns to Little Bridge Island with a new story about a children’s book author with a case of writer’s block and an arrogant novelist who have to set aside their difference...



  • Mia Thermopolis knows just what to do in a crisis: Rule.During the Covid-19 pandemic, a section of the diary of Princess Mia Thermopolis of Genovia fell into the hands of Meg Cabot, the Princess’s royal biographer. As reported in media outlets such...



  • A witchy rom-com from New York Times bestseller Meg Cabot about a plus size witch who must team up with a handsome stranger to help protect her village from an otherworldly force -- but will she be able to protect her heart? It’s Magic When You Me...



  • “Meg Cabot is a fabulous author.” — USA Today“Meg Cabot is chick-lit royalty.” — Newsweek“Meg Cabot is best known for her books for younger readers, but her adult fiction is a total delight.” — Po...


Award-Winning Books by Meg Cabot

All American Girl
2005 Evergreen Young Adult Book Award -- Young Adult
2005 Garden State Teen Book Award -- Fiction (Grades 9-12)
The Princess Diaries
2002 Volunteer State Book Award -- Young Adult
2003 Evergreen Young Adult Book Award -- Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Meg Cabot has published 84 books.

The next book by Meg Cabot, The Last Show at the Seaside, will be published in September 2024.

The first book by Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries, was published in November 2000.

Yes. Meg Cabot has 15 series.