Elin Hilderbrand

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Elin Hilderbrand
  • Bibliography:
    37 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2000
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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About the Author

Elin Hilderbrand is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the graduate fiction workshop at University of Iowa.

The popular author lives with her husband and their three children on Nantucket - the setting for all of her bestselling novels.

Hilderbrand often writes the first draft of her novels on paper which she says may take a long time but is worth it. We would agree. She has topped many bestseller charts with her summer-themed Nantucket books.

Full Series List in Order

28 Summers

1 - 28 Summers (Jun-2020)
1.5 - The Sixth Wedding (Jul-2021)

Beautiful Day

0.5 - The Surfing Lesson (May-2013)
1 - Beautiful Day (Jun-2013)

Nantucket

1 - A Summer Affair (Jun-2008)
2 - The Castaways (Jun-2009)
3 - The Perfect Couple (May-2018)
4 - Swan Song (Jun-2024)

Paradise

1 - Winter in Paradise (Oct-2018)
2 - What Happens in Paradise (Oct-2019)
3 - Troubles in Paradise (Sep-2020)

Quinn Family

1 - Winter Street (Oct-2014)
2 - Winter Stroll (Oct-2015)
3 - Winter Storms (Oct-2016)
4 - Winter Solstice (Oct-2017)
5 - Winter in Paradise (Oct-2018)

Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • The Beach Club

    Gorgeous Nantucket is an island where memories are made, friendships begun, passions ignited. Now, during one unforgettable summer, the exclusive Nantucket Beach Club and Hotel will shape the fates of the men and women who walk through its doors... ...

  • Nantucket Nights

    A FULL MOON, A TWENTY-YEAR-OLD FRIENDSHIP--AND A NANTUCKET NIGHT NO ONE WOULD EVER FORGET... For twenty years, Kayla, Antoinette, and Val have performed their ow~ special summer ritual. Once a year, the old friends put aside their daily, separate ...

  • Summer People

    IT WAS THE SUMMER THAT WOULD CHANGE THEIR LIVES FOREVER Every summer the Newton family retreats to their beloved home on Nantucket for three months of sunshine, cookouts, and bonfires on the beach. But this summer will not be like any other. When ...

  • The Blue Bistro

    AN UNEXPECTED OPPORTUNITY LEADS TO... Adrienne Dealey has spent the past six years working for hotels in exotic resort towns. This summer she has decided to make Nantucket home. Left flat broke by her ex-boyfriend, she is desperate to earn some fast...

  • The Love Season

    It's a hot August Saturday on Nantucket Island. Over the course of the next 24 hours, two lives will be transformed forever. Marguerite Beale, former chef of culinary hot spot Les Parapluies, has been out of the public eye for over a decade. This ...

  • Barefoot

    THREE WOMEN -- burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues -- tumble onto the Nantucket airport tarmac one hot June day. Vicki is trying to sort through the news that she has a serious illness. Her sister, Bre...

  • A Summer Affair

    Nantucket - 1

    CLAIRE WANTS IT ALL -- and in the eyes of her friends, she has it: a devoted husband, four beautiful children, even a successful career as an artist. But when serving as co-chair of Nantucket's social event of the year propels Claire into the orbi...

  • The Castaways

    Nantucket - 2

    WITH RUMORS OF INFIDELITY straining Greg and Tess MacAvoy's marriage, the couple head out on their sailboat one early-summer day to celebrate their wedding anniversary, hoping the roughest waters are behind them. But in an accident off Nantucket, the...

  • The Island

    Birdie Cousins has thrown herself into the details of her daughter Chess's lavish wedding, from the floating dance floor in her Connecticut back yard to the color of the cocktail napkins. Like any mother of a bride-to-be, she is weathering the storms...



  • Silver Girl

    Meredith Martin Delinn just lost everything: her friends, her homes, her social standing - because her husband Freddy cheated rich investors out of billions of dollars. Desperate and facing homelessness, Meredith receives a call from her old best ...

  • Summerland

    A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. But what begins as a graduation night celebration ends in tragedy after a horrible car crash leaves the driver of the car, Penny Alistair...

  • The Surfing Lesson

    Beautiful Day - 0.5

    Margot's reservoir of romantic feelings for her husband Drum is running dry. But while the family is on vacation in Nantucket, Margot finds an opportunity to potentially regain her romantic love for her husband - in the form of Hadley Axelram, his ex...

  • Beautiful Day

    Beautiful Day - 1

    It would be a perfect wedding... The Carmichaels and the Grahams have gathered on Nantucket for a wedding. Plans are being made according to the wishes of the bride's late mother, who left behind The Notebook: specific instructions for every detai...

  • The Tailgate

    A stirring portrait of a relationship at a crossroads, this digital original short story follows two irresistible young lovers as they cope with college life, and invites us into a world we don't want to leave. Clendenin Hughes first kissed Dabney Ki...

  • The Matchmaker

    A touching new novel from bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand in which a woman sets out to find love for those closest to her - before it's too late. 48-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her...

  • Winter Street

    Quinn Family - 1

    In bestseller Elin Hilderbrand's first Christmas novel, a family gathers on Nantucket for a holiday filled with surprises. Kelley Quinn is the owner of Nantucket's Winter Street Inn and the proud father of four, all of them grown and living in var...

  • The Rumor

    Nantucket writer Madeline King has a new novel coming out, "The Rumor," and it's got bestseller potential. But Madeline is terrified, because in her desperation to revive her career, she's done the unthinkable: "The Rumor" reveals the truth behind an...

  • Winter Stroll

    Quinn Family - 2

    "Happy Holidays 2015! It has been a rough year for the Quinns, but I would like to start by saying thank you for all of the well wishes and positive missives sent our way." Another Christmas on Nantucket finds Winter Street Inn owner Kelley Quinn ...

  • Here's to Us

    Three romantic rivals. One crowded house. Plenty of room for jealousy. Laurel Thorpe, Belinda Rowe, and Scarlett Oliver share only two things; a love for the man they all married, Deacon Thorpe--a celebrity chef with an insatiable appetite for lif...



  • Winter Storms

    Quinn Family - 3

    Gather under the mistletoe for one last round of caroling with the Quinn family in this heartwarming conclusion to Elin Hilderbrand's bestselling Winter Street Trilogy. Some of the stormy weather of the past few seasons seems to have finally lifte...

  • The Identicals

    Identical twin sisters who couldn't look more alike...or live more differently. Harper Frost is laid-back, easygoing. She doesn't care what anyone thinks of her. She likes a beer and a shot and wouldn't be caught dead wearing anything fashionable....

  • Winter Solstice

    Quinn Family - 4

    Raise one last glass with the Quinn Family at the Winter Street Inn. It's been too long since the entire Quinn family has been able to celebrate the holidays under the same roof, but that's about to change. With Bart back safe and sound from Afghanis...

  • The Perfect Couple

    Nantucket - 3

    From New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand, comes a novel about the many ways family can fill our lives with love...if they don't kill us first. It's Nantucket wedding season, also known as summer--the sight of a bride racing down Ma...

  • Winter in Paradise

    Paradise - 1
    Quinn Family - 5

    Spend the coldest days of winter on a Caribbean beach with New York Times Bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand. Join New York Times Bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand on the stunning beaches of St. John for the beginning of her thrilling new wint...

  • Summer of '69

    Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed, in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It&#...

  • What Happens in Paradise

    Paradise - 2

    Spend your winter on sunlit shores in the New York Times bestselling follow-up to Winter in Paradise, as secret lives and new loves emerge under the bright Caribbean sky. A year ago, Irene Steele had the shock of her life: her loving husband, fath...

  • Summer of '79

    Elin Hilderbrand's brief, irresistible postscript to her #1 New York Times bestselling novel Summer of '69. Catch up with Blair, Jessie, and Kirby Levin ten years after the summer everything changed. This "Summer of '69 story" by Elin Hilderbran...

  • 28 Summers

    28 Summers - 1

    Their secret love affair has lasted for decades -- but this could be the summer that changes everything When Mallory Blessing's son, Link, receives deathbed instructions from his mother to call a number on a slip of paper in her desk drawer, h...

  • Troubles in Paradise

    Paradise - 3

    Travel to the bright Caribbean one last time in the satisfying conclusion to the nationally bestselling Winter in Paradise trilogy by Elin Hilderbrand.. After uprooting her life in the States, Irene Steele has just settled in at the villa on St. J...



  • Reunion Beach

    In this warm and moving anthology, a group of bestselling authors and writers pay tribute to legendary, larger-than-life New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank and her literary legacy. Inspired by the title Dorothea Benton Frank p...

  • Golden Girl

    In this satisfying page-turner, a Nantucket novelist has one final summer to protect her secrets while her loved ones on earth learn to live without their golden girl. On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother ...

  • The Sixth Wedding

    28 Summers - 1.5

    A postscript to the #1 New York Times bestseller 28 Summers â€" Jake McCloud returns to Nantucket for Labor Day weekend 2023, this time without Mallory. ...

  • The Hotel Nantucket

    Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. When she’s named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes th...

  • Summer Days Again

    The "queen of beach reads” (New York Magazine) presents nine captivating stories of summer on Nantucket -- and days that last forever -- to carry us through when those warm sandy days feel far off. Bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand revisits her ...

  • Endless Summer

    Bask in the brilliance of the "queen of beach reads” (New York Magazine) with nine captivating stories of summer on Nantucket—and days that last forever—to carry us through when those warm sandy days feel far off. Bestsel...

  • The Five-Star Weekend

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hotel Nantucket After tragedy strikes, Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages in her life to spend an unforgettable weekend on Nantucket. Hollis Shaw’s life seems picture-p...

  • Swan Song

    Nantucket - 4

    The beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author brings her Nantucket novels to a brilliant finish: when rich strangers move to the island, social mayhem -- and a possible murder follow. Can Nantucket’s best locals save the day, and their...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Elin Hilderbrand has published 37 books.

Elin Hilderbrand does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Swan Song, was published in June 2024.

The first book by Elin Hilderbrand, The Beach Club, was published in June 2000.

Yes. Elin Hilderbrand has 5 series.
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