To All the Boys I've Loved Before
What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them… all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Covey keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day that her sister Kathrine, secretly mailed the letters and Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control.
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Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Covey of Charlottesville, Virginia keeps five secret love letters in a hatbox under her bed, one for every boy she has ever liked. Then the letters get mailed.
Jenny Han's To All the Boys trilogy has three books: To All the Boys I've Loved Before, P.S. I Still Love You, and Always and Forever, Lara Jean. The series is complete.
Yes. Netflix released a film trilogy (2018, 2020, 2021) starring Lana Condor and Noah Centineo. A spinoff series, XO, Kitty, follows a younger sister and premiered in 2023.
To All the Boys I've Loved Before was written by Jenny Han, published in 2019 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
To All the Boys I've Loved Before is 373 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, To All the Boys I've Loved Before takes most readers 6 to 8 hours to finish.
To All the Boys I've Loved Before is a standalone novel by Jenny Han, not part of a series.
To All the Boys I've Loved Before is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.