Anna Gracia Books In Order

Publication Order of AnnaGracia Standalone Novels

Anna Gracia
Anna Gracia was born and grew up in Minnesota, where she survived on the joy of fall colors and Dairy Queen blizzards, neither of which exist in San Francisco where she lives.

“Boys I Know” was an Indie Next pick and an American Booksellers Association Indies Introduce pick.

Anna’s books have been featured in Paste, The New York Times, and Seventeen, as well as others.

She is a forever-Midwesterner that moved to San Francisco so that she could play Division I tennis for The University of San Francisco. After spending years studying and working, tallying up a CPA license, 2 teaching credentials, a Master’s in Education, and a sleep debt that’ll never be repaid, she decided to keep living in one of the most expensive cities in the entire world and begin penning books instead.

When she is not busy writing, she can be found taking a nap, wishing she was taking a nap, or lecturing everybody about the dismal state of public education funding. She excels at snacking as she yells advice at the TV. Her weaknesses include temperatures over 70 degrees, crying at movies, and running long distances.

Her kids continue to urge her to hurry up and finish writing the next novel so that they can celebrate it with cake.

“Boys I Know” is the first stand alone novel and was released in 2022. June Chu is a “just good enough” girl. Good enough to line all the shelves with a slew of 3rd place trophies and steal some secret kisses from Rhys, her AP Bio partner. However not quite good enough to meet literally any of her Taiwanese mom’s unrelenting expectations or get Rhys to commit to anything beyond a well timed joke.

As June’s mom insists she follow in her (perfect) sister’s footsteps and get a full-ride violin scholarship to Northwestern in order to study pre-med, June does not see the point in trying all that hard if she is destined to just fall short anyway. Instead, she focuses her efforts on making her relationship with Rhys “official”. However after her methodically planned yet tipsily executed plot explodes on the level of some nuclear disaster, and she flings herself into this new relationship with a guy that isn’t allergic to the word “girlfriend”.

However while the line between love and sex starts to blur, and pressure to map out her whole future threatens to burst, she’ll have to decide on whose terms she’ll live her life. Even if this means fraying her relationship with her mom beyond all repair.

One high school senior navigates messy boys and even messier relationships in a bitingly funny and much needed look into the overlap of teen sexuality and Asian American identity.

“The Misdirection of Fault Lines” is the second stand alone novel and was released in 2024. Three teen girls are competing at this elite tennis tournament for a chance at their dreams, if only they even knew what their dreams were.

Violetta is Bastille’s darling: coach’s pet, social media influencer, and the daughter of a former tennis star that fell from grace. Bastille is her shot at reclaiming the future that her mom gave up in order to raise her. However is that truly what she wants for herself?

Alice is all on her own for the very first time. She has no friends. No coach. Not even clothes which meet the Bastille Invitational’s strict dress code. There is just the steady drumbeat of guilt inside of her, pressure to make the tournament’s costly expense “worth it” in the wake of Ba’s unexpected death. However is a win on the court justify the price that she paid in order to get here?

Leylah has not competed in 2 years now, thanks to her backstabbing ex friend. Bastille is her final opportunity to prove that she is ready for a life of professional tennis. However will her fixation on previous wrongs going to keep her from reclaiming her rightful place up at the top?

A week at the elite Bastille Invitational tennis tournament is going to decide their futures. If only the competition between them all would stay on the court.

This is an incisive coming of age tale that is infused with wisdom and wit, and is about three Asian American teenaged girls that are trying to find their ways backward, forward, and in some cases, back to one another again. It’s like if “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” went to the French Open in an emotionally honest and openhearted novel.

“The Breakup Vacation” is the first novel in the “Beach House” series and was released in 2024. It is summer before Grace’s senior year of college and she is about to make the worst choice of her life which captures the messiness of your early 20s, as it highlights the necessity of girlfriends at any (and every) age.

Just how far would you go in order to win back an ex?

If Grace is being honest, she knows that her choices skate past questionable and probably right into destructive. However her heart is broken and the guy that broke it (her ex Josh) continues to hint at a reunion. So when Camille and Tiff (her best friends) suggest that they take a girls trip to help her get over her heartache, Grace does not hesitate to recommend Cancun. However she just leaves out that Josh also happens to be there as well.

However juggling Josh, her friends, the mounting number of lies that she is telling is much harder than she had expected. And things just get more complicated when she clicks with this hot local named Daniel, who is half-Taiwanese it turns out. While the days unfold, she begins thinking that maybe she will get away with it. However are her past choices and her need for closure going to come back and ruin the relationships which matter the most to her?

It’s full of true friendship, all the swoons, and deep self-discovery. The novel captures the hilarious chaos of being 21, when love’s still new, when adulthood feels so very close yet so far away, and when your friends are everything to you.