

Author guide
Jennifer Finney Boylan Books in Order
Jennifer Finney Boylan is an American author and professor. Her books include the memoirs She's Not There, I'm Looking Through You, Stuck in the Middle with You, Good Boy, and Cleavage; the novels The Planets, The Constellations, Getting In, Long Black Veil, and Mad Honey, co-authored with Jodi Picoult; the short-story collection Remind Me to Murder You Later; the Falcon Quinn young adult series; and books published under the pseudonym Jonah Black. She has taught at Colby College and Barnard College, where she became the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence. She has also served as president of PEN America and as a GLAAD board member.
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She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
The best-known entry point to Boylan's work and her foundational memoir about gender transition.

The Planets
Her first novel and a strong introduction to her literary fiction.

Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs
A warm, accessible memoir centered on dogs, family, identity, and personal transformation.

Mad Honey
A widely accessible co-authored contemporary novel combining suspense, family drama, and questions of identity.
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Books by series
series · complete
Diary of a Teenage Stud
A four-volume young adult series written under Jennifer Finney Boylan's pseudonym Jonah Black, following a teenage boy's romantic and sexual coming-of-age.
- 1 The Black Book: Girls, Girls, GirlsAmazon ↗
Book 1 · young-adult-novel · 2001
- 2 The Black Book: Stop, Don't StopAmazon ↗
Book 2 · young-adult-novel · 2001
- 3 The Black Book: Run, Jonah, RunAmazon ↗
Book 3 · young-adult-novel · 2002
- 4 The Black Book: Faster, Faster, FasterAmazon ↗
Book 4 · young-adult-novel · 2002
series · complete
Falcon Quinn
A three-volume young adult fantasy series about a teenage half-monster and his friends navigating identity, belonging, and the human world.
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (5)
Nonfiction (5)
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She's Not There: A Life in Two GendersAmazon ↗memoir · 2003
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I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up HauntedAmazon ↗memoir · 2008
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Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three GendersAmazon ↗memoir · 2013
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Good Boy: My Life in Seven DogsAmazon ↗memoir · 2020
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Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between UsAmazon ↗memoir · 2025
Short fiction (1)
- Remind Me to Murder You LaterAmazon ↗
short-story-collection · 1988
Collaborations (1)
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Mad HoneyAmazon ↗coauthored-novel · 2022
Other (1)
- You Are YouAmazon ↗
graphic-work · 2015