Gayle Forman

(b.1970)

Award-winning author and journalist Gayle Forman has written several bestselling novels for young adults, including the Just One Series, I Was Here, Where She Went and the #1 New York Times bestseller If I Stay, which has been translated into more than 40 languages and in 2014 was adapted into a major motion picture.

Gayle published Leave Me, her first novel starring adults in 2016 and her latest novel, I Have Lost My Way, comes out in March of 2018.

Gayle lives with her husband and daughters in Brooklyn.

Genres: Young Adult Romance, Romance, Children's Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Fantasy, General Fiction

New and upcoming books

January 2025

After Life

Series

If I Stay
   1. If I Stay (2009)
   2. Where She Went (2011)
   If I Stay Collection (2014)

Just One Day
   1. Just One Day (2013)
   2. Just One Year (2013)
   2.5. Just One Night (2014)

Novels

   Sisters in Sanity (2007)
   I Was Here (2015)
   Leave Me (2016)
   I Have Lost My Way (2018)
   The End of My Heart (2020)
   We Are Inevitable (2021)
   Frankie & Bug (2021)
   Not Nothing (2024)
   After Life (2025)

Series contributed to

Faraway collection
5. The Wickeds (2020)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Gayle Forman

Foreshadow (2020)
Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading and Writing YA
edited by
Emily X R Pan and Nova Ren Suma

Dear Heartbreak (2018)
YA Authors and Teens on the Dark Side of Love
edited by
Heather Demetrios

Hope Nation (2018)
edited by
Rose Brock

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Gayle Forman recommends

The In-Between Bookstore (2025)
Edward Underhill
"The In-Between Bookstore is a charming and thoroughly modern take on the question of the road not taken that both challenges our assumptions about small-town prejudice and suggests that maybe you can go home again."

I Kick and I Fly (2023)
Ruchira Gupta
"I Kick and I Fly is a powerhouse of a debut. Ruchira Gupta has crafted a page-turner of a read, stepped in place and full of indelible characters, managing to be at once propulsive and enlightening, infuriating and inspiring. But maybe most important, Heera's story is a beacon of hope to a generation of young people trying to transform an unjust world."

Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim (2023)
Patricia Park
"...A dazzling YA debut...that is deep, real and scathingly funny."

Yerba Buena (2022)
Nina LaCour
"Yerba Buena is not just a book to read; it's a story to revel in, so full is it of sensual pleasures?food and flowers, cocktails and home decor?all of it enveloping a sexy, magnetic and unputdownable love story of two young women fighting their way past family demons and toward each other. This is Nina LaCour's best work yet."

Pony (2021)
R J Palacio
"R.J. Palacio, author of a modern classic children’s book of our era, has somehow crafted what feels like an entirely different breed of classic: page-turning and heart expanding, elegiac and adventurous, reminiscent of Jack London, with mediations on love and faith that feel timeless and utterly necessary to our current moment."

Fresh (2021)
Margot Wood
"This delightfully modern take on a classic story is both fun and funny, sexy and sex positive, and if all that’s not enough, I have two more words for you: Jane Austen."

Thoughts & Prayers (2020)
Bryan Bliss
"In his unflinching and resonant new novel, Bryan Bliss shows that there is no straight line through trauma, no easy recipe for healing. Instead, in three loosely connected stories of young people bound by an all-too familiar tragedy, he deftly illuminates the small moments of human connection and resolve that might just lead to a place of grace."

How It All Blew Up (2020)
Arvin Ahmadi
"Arvin Ahmadi’s dazzling and ingenious new novel crackles with the terrifying exhilaration of facing up to who you are—and who you want to be. Amir’s journey leads him from the confines of the closet to the bacchanal of Rome, to an airport interrogation room, and, ultimately, to his true self."

The Mall (2020)
Megan McCafferty
"Both a laugh-out-loud pean to those bygone cathedrals of the 1990s, and a zippy coming-of-age tale."

Again Again (2020)
E Lockhart
"E. Lockhart has done it again in this twisty, inventive, philosophical and romantic story about the many ways a person can find, lose, and understand love."

Breath Like Water (2019)
Anna Jarzab
"Expansive, romantic, and powerful."

The Astonishing Color of After (2018)
Emily X R Pan
"Magic and mourning, love and loss, secrets kept and secrets revealed all illuminate Emily X.R. Pan's inventive and heart-wrenching debut."

I'll Give You the Sun (2014)
Jandy Nelson
"Both structurally virtuosic . . . and emotionally wrenching. That alone is a rare combination in literature, YA or otherwise. But then add in the characters . . . This book is a rebuttal to anyone suggesting YA, because it tells stories of young people, is somehow of lesser stuff. I’ll Give You The Sun is literature. Full stop. In my opinion, it’s not just the best YA book of the year, but one of the best books of the year."

Wild Awake (2013)
Hilary T Smith
"This absorbing debut expolres that most profound mystery of all love."

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