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Caroline Kepnes Biography & Facts
Caroline Kepnes (born November 10, 1976) is an American writer, screenwriter, author, and former entertainment reporter. She is best known for her novel series You, consisting of You (2014), Hidden Bodies (2016), You Love Me (2021), and For You and Only You (2023), writing for the 2018–present Lifetime/Netflix television series adaptation of the same name, and the stand-alone novel Providence (2018). Career Kepnes was born November 1976 on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Her father was Jewish and Kepnes identifies as "half-Jewish." During her formative years, she attended Barnstable High School. After graduation, she commenced her studies at Brown University. Later, she obtained an undergraduate degree in American Civilization and worked as an entertainment reporter for Entertainment Weekly. In an interview with the Boston Globe Kepnes said her first paid writing gig was an article on boy bands, for Tiger Beat magazine. In addition to her work as a writer, she performed as a background character in the television series The $treet. In 2014 Kepnes released her first novel of the thriller series, You. Kepnes explained the darkness of You, which deconstructs the romantic-comedy tropes highlighted in many films and shows by making the protagonist a violent stalker and serial killer, saying it was written in a dark period of her life, the year her father died of cancer, and in which she experienced several other personal challenges. Later, Kepnes was initially hesitant on labeling Joe, as a few readers argued that his actions classified him as a serial killer. The author then clarified her position on the matter, citing that "I remember when I wrote You and someone first referred to Joe as a serial killer. I argued 'he’s not a serial killer, he meets these terrible people and has these awful thoughts, but he’s very sensitive'. It’s very strange to realise you have written a serial killer." In February 2015, it was announced that Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble would develop a television series based on the novel at Showtime. Two years later, it was announced that the series was purchased by Lifetime and put on fast-track development. You premiered on September 9, 2018. On July 26, 2018, ahead of the series premiere, Lifetime announced that the series had been renewed for a second season. On December 3, 2018, it was confirmed that Lifetime had passed on a second season and that Netflix had picked up the series. The second season was released exclusively on Netflix on December 26, 2019. On January 14, 2020, You was renewed for a third season by Netflix. The third season was released on October 15, 2021. In October 2021, ahead of the third season premiere, the series was renewed for a fourth season. In 2016, Kepnes published a sequel to You, Hidden Bodies. It was loosely adapted in the second season of the Netflix thriller series, You. For Hidden Bodies, Kepnes had thoughts for a potential direction before its conception, stating that before "I was even finished with the first book I knew what my second one was going to be. I wanted to trap Joe somewhere." Her third novel, Providence, published in 2018, has been described as romance-suspense-thriller, with supernatural aspects. Alison Flood, in a review published by The Guardian, wrote "Providence is compelling, and Kepnes provides a sometimes piercing insight into the small, strange, sad details that make up a life, though without quite achieving the deep, dark pleasures of You." According to Cheryl Wassenaar, in a review in Cultures magazine, the novel is "a bit like Dexter meets, well, H.P. Lovecraft." In January 2021, it was announced that Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble would reunite to develop a television series based on the novel for Peacock. The third novel and the sequel to Hidden Bodies, titled You Love Me was released on April 6, 2021. Kepnes published the fourth novel for the You series, titled For You and Only You: A Joe Goldberg Novel released on April 25th, 2023. Bibliography You series You (2014) Hidden Bodies (2016) You Love Me (2021) For You and Only You (2023) Stand-alone works Stephen Crane (2004) Providence: A Novel (2018) Other works Television You (2018–present, writer) 1.08 – "You Got Me, Babe" (written by) (October 28, 2018) The Secret Life of the American Teenager (staff writer - 3 episodes, 2008 - 2009) Born Free (written by) July 20, 2009 Money for Nothing, Chicks for Free (written by) February 23, 2009 Just Say No (written by) September 9, 2008 7th Heaven (staff writer - 2 episodes, 2006–2007) Script Number Two Hundred Thirty-Four (written by) January 21, 2007 Turn, Turn, Turn (written by) September 25, 2006 References External links Official website . Discover the Caroline Kepnes popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Caroline Kepnes books.
Best Seller Caroline Kepnes Books of 2024
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Blackbird
Michael FiegelFeatured on the Lifetime and Netflix TV show You A darkly compelling debut of an unusual bond between two killersand the destruction left in their wake.A coldblooded killerfor...
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The Stalker
Alex GrayDiscover your next reading obsession with Alex Gray's bestselling Scottish detective series Don't miss the latest from Alex Gray. Book 20 in the Lorimer series, QUESTIONS FOR A DEA...
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Dark Stars
John F.D. TaffDark Stars, edited by John F.D. Taff, is a tribute to horror’s longstanding short fiction legacy, featuring 12 terrifying original stories from today's most noteworthy authors.With...
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Love Lies Beneath
Ellen HopkinsThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Collateral “is at her best in this outstanding novel written in gorgeous prose…a sexfilled masterpiece of mystery and romance” (Library ...
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The Secrets She Keeps
Michael Robotham“Two terrific female characters, both with secrets. Add Michael Robotham’s clean prose and whipcrack pacing. The result? A book you won’t be able to put down, although you may occa...
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Blood Sisters
Jane CorryThree little girls. One accident. A lifetime of lies. From the bestselling author of The Dead Ex.Three little girls set off to school one sunny morning. Within an hour, one of th...
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An Unwanted Guest
Shari LapenaAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Another thrilling domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door and Not a Happy Family “A grippi...
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The Majesties
Tiffany TsaoIn this “bold and dramatic portrayal of characters on the cusp of an impossible choice” (Publishers Weekly), two sisters from a wealthy ChineseIndonesian family grapple with secret...
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The Pleasure Principle
Maria Del ReySex is deviant. Disgusting. Depraved. Sex is banned. And yet despite the law, and the Moral Guardians who police it, a sexual underworld exists which recognizes no rule but that of...
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The Dead Ex
Jane CorryFrom the bestselling author of My Husband's Wife, one man's disappearance throws four women's lives into chaoswho will survive?Vicki works as an aromatherapist, healing her cl...
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A Sin Such as This
Ellen HopkinsIn this gripping followup to Love Lies Beneath, #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins’s “fabulous, sexfilled masterpiece of mystery and romance” (Library Journal, star...
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They Did Bad Things
Lauren A ForryAnd Then There Were None meets The Last Time I Lied in this dark and twisty psychological thriller. In 1995, six university students moved into the house at 215 Caldwell Stree...
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Good Girl, Bad Girl
Michael RobothamFrom the internationally bestselling author who Stephen King calls “an absolute master,” a “gripping and eerie” (Karin Slaughter) thriller about a dangerous young woman with the ab...
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The Writing Retreat
Julia BartzINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Sex, suspense, and the supernatural fuel this propulsive debut.” PeopleA young author is invited to an exclusive writer’s retreat that soon descen...
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Follow Me
Kathleen BarberFrom the author of Truth Be Told (formerly titled Are You Sleeping)now an Apple TV+ series of the same namecomes “a thriller for the Instagram age” (Amy Gentry, author of Good as G...
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The Unraveling
Vi KeelandThis chilling, sizzling, and addictive thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Vi Keeland follows a New York psychiatrist’s dark descent into dangerous obsession.After e...
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For You and Only You
Caroline KepnesNew York Times bestselling author Caroline Kepnes, whose acclaimed YOU series inspired the hit show on Netflix, follows “addictively charming antihero” (The Washington Post)...
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Social Misconduct
S. J. MaherA timely and shocking thriller about a young woman who is the target of a socialmedia smear campaign.“Smart, sardonic, sexy, suspensefuland scary, because it’s probably true.” Lee ...
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The Hunted
Roz NayThe Beach meets The Woman in Cabin 10 in this twisty new thriller about two couples who meet backpacking through Africa, but what begins as friendship quickly turns to obsession, w...
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Deep Water
Emma BamfordThe dark side of paradise is exposed when a terrified couple reveals their daunting experience on a remote island to their rescuersonly to realize they’re still in the grips of the...
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The Truth of Right Now
Kara Lee CorthronTwo isolated teens struggle against their complicated lives to find a true connection in this “timely and timeless” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) debut novel about first love an...
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The Next Girl
Pip DrysdaleFor fans of The Perfect Girlfriend, The Flight Attendant, and Promising Young Woman, a compulsively readable suspense novel about a woman who will stop at nothing to expose the dar...
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You
Caroline KepnesNOW A HIT NETFLIX SERIES A NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER “Hypnotic and scary.” Stephen King “I am riveted, aghast, aroused, you name it. The rare instance when prose and ...
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The Astrology House
Carinn JadeA group of wealthy Manhattanites escape to an astrologythemed retreat, where simmering resentments and longheld secrets lead to a shocking death in this fresh, twisty, and suspense...
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The End of Getting Lost
Robin KirmanSoon to be a major motion picture starring Margaret Qualley and Paul Mescal!A young woman and her husband travel around Europe to celebrate their first year of marriagea year that ...
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Lie to Me
C. J. CooperThe gripping new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of THE BOOK CLUB'Gripping, unpredictable and immensely satisfying' SOPHIE HANNAH, author of Haven't They Grown'A...
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Temper
Layne FargoFor fans of the highstakes tension of the New York Times bestsellers Luckiest Girl Alive and The Lying Game, comes “a brilliantly paced thriller that gets under your skin in the be...
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The Mysterious Affair at Castaway House
Stephanie LamThis stunning debut novel is a gripping read laced with mystery, secrets and love perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Tracy Chevalier and Sarah Waters. There are secrets hiding b...
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Girl with No Past
Kathryn CroftIch wusste sofort, dass ich etwas in Händen hielt, was ich nicht sehen wollte. Dennoch zog ich die Karte aus dem Umschlag und starrte auf die Schrift. Alles Gute zum Jahrestag! ...
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Zero Days
Ruth WareThe New York Times bestselling “new Agatha Christie” (Air Mail) Ruth Ware returns with this adrenalinefueled thriller that combines Mr. and Mrs. Smith with The Fugitive about a wom...
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Hidden Bodies
Caroline KepnesNOW A HIT NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES THE RIVETING SEQUEL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING YOU “Kepnes hits the mark, cuts deep, and twists the knife.” Entertainment Weekly “Delicious...
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Providence
Caroline Kepnes“Part love story, part supernatural thriller and completely engrossing” (People)from the acclaimed author of You, now a hit Netflix series IN DEVELOPMENT AS A PEACOC...
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The It Girl
Ruth WareINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “claustrophobic spinetingler” (People) One by One returns with an unputdownable mystery following a...
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff LindsayMeet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheep’s clothing. He’s handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide by a different set of rules. He’s a serial killer ...
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The Arrangement
Robyn HardingA Pretty Woman tale turns toxic and deadly in this provocative thriller of sex, obsession, and murder from Robyn Harding, the “master of domestic suspense” (Kathleen Barber) and th...
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The Homecoming
Andrew PyperInstant National BestsellerBestselling author Andrew Pyper returns with a riveting psychological thriller about how the people you’ve known your whole life can suddenly become stra...
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The Ten Visions
Olivia KnightThe moment she starts her doctorate in Oxford, Sarah is beset with mysteries. An old portrait in her rented house bears an uncanny resemblance to her.Her new lover insists he's...
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Miss Misery
Andy GreenwaldOnce I started, I couldn't stop. It felt like falling down the stairs.... Meet David Gould: abandoned by his girlfriend, pushing the deadline for his first book, tormented by write...
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You Love Me
Caroline KepnesNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Can’t get enough of Joe Goldberg? Don’t miss the latest thriller in Caroline Kepnes’s compulsively readable You series, with an allnew plot not seen...