Nancy Pearl

Nancy Pearl is a popular librarian, literary critic, and bestselling author from The United States, who likes to write fiction and nonfiction novels. She is particularly known for her series Book Lust and Now Read This, as well as several standalone novels. Until 2004, author Pearl used to work at the Seattle Public Library as its Executive Director.

The best place to start is the Now Read This series, the earliest of Nancy Pearl's multi-book series: it opens with Now Read This (1999) and runs to 3 books across 1999–2010, ending with Now Read This III (2010). Nancy Pearl's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Nancy Pearl has 11 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1999 and 2017. 8 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Book Lust series with 5 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. Nancy Pearl's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Now Read This (1999–2010, 3 books) and Book Lust (2003–2010, 5 books).

This guide splits Nancy Pearl's 11 books into 2 named series and 3 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Book Lust (5 books, 2003–2010); Now Read This (3 books, 1999–2010).