Books: Stephanie Plum

 I blame Nanette.  She's the one who would not shut up about how funny the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich books were.  I finally decided to try one.  I went to my local public library and they had abridged versions of the first three books on cd.  I checked them out and started driving.  I no longer remember why I was driving to Moscow ID, probably for an Idaho Library Association conference.  

In any case these abridged books were awesome.  I laughed and drove and laughed and drove and when I got home I knew these would be something I would look for.  Eventually I found a large portion of the series at a used book store.  Nan kept telling me that I'd like the unabridged versions better and she was right.  

Now I own all of them via Audible.  Audiobooks are my addiction of choice.  What's interesting is that I find the abridged versions to be really good so I have both editions where available.  The abridged versions are super funny and make good road trip reads for shorter excursions. Especially when I have people in my car who have never read one. 

There's a feeling of repetition of theme and content if you read them one right after another so I have found it to be better if I read one then read something else.  I read a lot of authors who set books in a series one year between each book.  These books make more sense if you think of them as taking only a few weeks inbetween.  It makes the romantic conundrum more sensible if it's only a few weeks not years.  

I love the characters, the situations (yes they are improbable), and the lighthearted romp of these stories.  They are lovely brain candy.  

Stephanie Plum Main Series

1. One for the Money (1994)
2. Two for the Dough (1996)
3. Three to Get Deadly (1997)
4. Four to Score (1998)
5. High Five (1999)
6. Hot Six (2000)
7. Seven Up (2001)
8. Hard Eight (2002)
9. To the Nines (2003)
10. Ten Big Ones (2004)
11. Eleven on Top (2005)
12. Twelve Sharp (2006)
13. Lean Mean Thirteen (2007)
14. Fearless Fourteen (2008)
15. Finger Lickin' Fifteen (2009)
16. Sizzling Sixteen (2010)
17. Smokin' Seventeen (2011)
18. Explosive Eighteen (2011)
19. Notorious Nineteen (2012)
20. Takedown Twenty (2013)
21. Top Secret Twenty-One (2014)
22. Tricky Twenty-Two (2015)
23. Turbo Twenty-Three (2016)
24. Hardcore Twenty-Four (2017)
25. Look Alive Twenty-Five (2018)
26. Twisted Twenty-Six (2019)
27. Fortune & Glory Tantalizing Twenty-Seven (2020)

Stephanie Plum and Diesel

• 8.5 Visions of Sugar Plums (2002)
• 12.5 Plum Lovin' (2007)
• 13.5 Plum Lucky (2008)
• 14.5 Plum Spooky (2009)

Happy reading - Jenny