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.
Key facts about The Boyfriend List
E. Lockhart wrote The Boyfriend List, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2005. The book has 229 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781400099450 to find the main one.
The Boyfriend List is book 1 of 4 in the Ruby Oliver Quartet series. The series has 4 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
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 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