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To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Jenny Han

  • 373 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2014
  • 28 editions
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1 About this book

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.

  • Romance
  • Scandals
  • Love
  • Teenage girls
  • Infatuation
  • Dating (Social customs)
  • Sisters
  • Children's fiction

2 What to expect

A light young adult romance: a sixteen-year-old's private love letters are mailed without her knowing, and a pretend relationship follows. Family matters as much as boys, especially the bond between three sisters who lost their mother. The narrator is a dreamer who has kept her feelings on paper, the setting is ordinary high school life, and the story continues in two sequels.

Good for readers who want: teen romance, sisters and family, and an easy, light read.

3 About Jenny Han

Born 1980

Jenny Han (born September 3, 1980) is an American author, screenwriter, executive producer, and showrunner. She is best known for writing The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy, which she adapted into a TV series for Prime Video. She also wrote the To All the Boys trilogy, which was adapted into a Netflix film series.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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