Ruby Oliver Quartet · Book 1
The Boyfriend List
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 229
- ISBN-13
- 9781400099450
- Type
- novel
About this book
E. Lockhart opened the Ruby Oliver Quartet in 2005 with The Boyfriend List, running 229 pages. It introduces Seattle teenager Ruby Oliver through the literal boyfriend list that gives the book its title -- a running tally of the fifteen boys she's ever had feelings about -- told in her wry, footnote-heavy first-person voice amid panic attacks and a fractured friend group.
Its place in Ruby Oliver Quartet
The Boyfriend List is book 1 in the Ruby Oliver Quartet series. It is followed by The Boy Book. 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 9781400099450