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Man Hands

by Sarina Bowen

The Man Hands series by Sarina Bowen has 4 known books (4 published). It is best read in publication order, starting with Man Hands (2017). Man Cuffed is the latest book with a fully recorded publication date.

Books
4 known books (4 novels)
Published
4
First published
2017
Status
completed
Shelved under
Romance , Humour
Start here: Man Hands (2017) — then read straight through in publication order.
Book one
Cover of Man Hands
Man Hands (2017)

Reading order

The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.

  1. Man Hands

    Novel
    Man Hands, released December 11, 2017, opens the co-written Sarina Bowen/Tanya Eby rom-com series with a recently divorced recipe blogger dragged into a girls' night that puts her in the path of an unexpected new man.
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  2. Man Card

    Novel
    Man Card arrived just five weeks after the series opener, on January 15, 2018, running 244 pages as the story shifts to a new couple within the same friend group. Sarina Bowen and Tanya Eby keep the broad, over-the-top humor of their shared audiobook-narration background front and center rather than the slow-burn emotional stakes of Bowen's hockey series.
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  3. Boy Toy

    Novel
    At 216 pages, Boy Toy (August 2018) is the shortest of the four Man Hands books, continuing the pattern of following different couples from the same small circle of friends in Sarina Bowen and Tanya Eby's broadly comic rom-com series.
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  4. Man Cuffed

    Novel
    Man Cuffed (November 2019) closes the Man Hands quartet at 254 pages, its longest entry, arriving roughly a year after Boy Toy and wrapping up the loose friend-group continuity that ties Sarina Bowen and Tanya Eby's four standalone romances together.
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Key facts about the Man Hands series

Our list has 4 books in the Man Hands series. Since all 4 are out now, you can read the whole list today.

Start with Man Hands, since it opens the publication order in 2017. Man Card is book 2, from 2018. Boy Toy is book 3, from 2018. Man Cuffed is book 4, from 2019.

The list keeps the books in date order, while each title links to its own page. Each book page shows its dates and editions.

Man Cuffed is the latest book with a full release date, out on 19 November 2019. Since the catalogue marks the series as complete, we list no next book.

The books came out between 2017 and 2019, while their length runs from 216 to 254 pages. That is a run of 2 years.

Sarina Bowen has 61 books on our list. Additionally, they write Gravity, The Ivy Years and Him, plus 10 more series. We shelve the books under romantic comedy.

About the Man Hands series

Man Hands is a broadly comic, non-hockey romance series Sarina Bowen co-writes with fellow author and audiobook narrator Tanya Eby. It opens with the title book, in which a recently divorced thirty-something who just wants to stay home and blog recipes gets talked into a girls' night out by her friends, only to run into her ex with his new date -- and into a man who very much is not her type but keeps turning up anyway. The follow-ups, Man Card and Boy Toy, move to new couples in the same small circle of friends, and Man Cuffed closes out the quartet.

Where Bowen's hockey and small-town series lean into slow-burn emotional stakes, Man Hands is pitched squarely at rom-com readers: broad humor, deliberately over-the-top titles and premises, and a lighter touch throughout, closer in tone to the two authors' shared background in comic audiobook narration than to Bowen's more literary contemporary work. Each book follows a different couple and can be read alone, though returning secondary characters give the four books a loose, friend-group continuity for readers who go through them in order.

Frequently asked questions

How many books are in the Man Hands series?

Four: Man Hands (2017), Man Card (2018), Boy Toy (2018), and Man Cuffed (2019).

Who writes the Man Hands series?

Sarina Bowen co-writes the series with fellow romance author Tanya Eby.

What order should I read Man Hands in?

Publication order: Man Hands, Man Card, Boy Toy, Man Cuffed. Each book follows a different couple and stands alone.

Is Man Hands connected to Sarina Bowen's hockey books?

No -- it's a separate, unrelated friend-group romantic comedy series, tonally lighter and broader than her hockey or small-town series.

Is Man Hands a completed series?

Yes, all four books were published between 2017 and 2019, with no further installments announced as of August 2026.

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