The Boy Book
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 193
- ISBN-13
- 9780385732086
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Boy Book followed a year later, in 2006, trimmed to 193 pages as the second entry. It continues directly from The Boyfriend List, tracking Ruby through the social fallout of a breakup that cost her most of her friends and several rounds of not-quite-relationships.
Key facts about The Boy Book
The Boy Book is a novel by E. Lockhart. Readers have had it since 2006. It runs to 193 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Boy Book. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780385732086 to find the main one.
The Boy Book is book 2 of 4 in the Ruby Oliver Quartet series. The series has 4 published books. However, the series starts with The Boyfriend List (2005).
Additionally, E. Lockhart writes We Were Liars as a separate series. Those series sit on our young adult shelf. Meanwhile, The Pools is the latest published E. Lockhart book on file, from 6 October 2026.
About E. Lockhart
E. Lockhart is the pen name of Emily Jenkins (born 1967), an American author best known for young adult fiction, including the bestselling We Were Liars series. Lockhart's breakout early work, the Ruby Oliver Quartet (2005-2010) and The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (2008), established her voice for wry, socially sharp contemporary YA before We Were Liars (2014) shifted her into psychological suspense and became a word-of-mouth bestseller. See every E. Lockhart book in order.
Its place in Ruby Oliver Quartet
The Boy Book is book 2 in the Ruby Oliver Quartet series. It follows The Boyfriend List. It is followed by The Treasure Map of Boys. See the full Ruby Oliver Quartet reading order.
The Ruby Oliver Quartet follows Ruby Oliver, a Seattle teenager navigating panic attacks, a fractured friend group, and a running list of the fifteen boys she's ever had feelings about -- the literal boyfriend list that opens the series and gives the first book its title. Told in Ruby's wry, list-making, footnote-heavy first-person voice, the four novels track her through the social fallout of a breakup that costs her most of her friends, several rounds of not-quite-relationships, and a slow rebuilding of her own…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780385732086