Mindy Kaling

Mindy Kaling is an American comedian, actress, and New York Times bestselling author from Cambridge Massachusetts that is best known for her eccentric humor. Before she became the first woman of color to win an Emmy for writing, she had been a fan favorite character named Kelly Kapoor on “The Office.” She was a pop culture obsessed customer service representative and also served as director, producer, and writer on the show. Before writing, directing, producing, and starring in “The Mindy Project” and “Champions” her newest sitcom, she lent her voice to Pixar’s Oscar award-winning picture “Inside Out,” where…

The best place to start is the Nothing Like I Imagined series, the earliest of Mindy Kaling's multi-book series: it opens with Kind of Hindu (2020) and runs to 6 books across 2020, ending with Once Upon a Time in Silver Lake (2020). Mindy Kaling's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Mindy Kaling has 15 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2004 and 2027. 12 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the I Did Everything Right, Right? series with 6 books — and 3 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Mindy Kaling's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Nothing Like I Imagined (2020, 6 books) and I Did Everything Right, Right? (2027, 6 books).

This guide splits Mindy Kaling's 15 books into 2 named series and 3 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: I Did Everything Right, Right? (6 books, 2027); Nothing Like I Imagined (6 books, 2020).