Reading order
The Princess Diaries reading order
- The Princess Diaries2000
- The Princess Diaries, Volume II: Princess in the Spotlight2001
- The Princess Diaries, Volume III: Princess in Love2002
- The Princess Diaries, Volume IV: Princess in Waiting2003
- The Princess Diaries, Volume IV and 1/2: Project Princess2003
- The Princess Diaries, Volume V: Princess in Pink2004
- The Princess Diaries, Volume VI and 1/2: The Princess Present2004
- The Princess Diaries, Volume VI: Princess in Training2005
- The Princess Diaries, Volume VII and 1/2: Sweet Sixteen Princess2005
- The Princess Diaries, Volume VII: Party Princess2006
- The Princess Diaries, Volume VII and 3/4: Valentine Princess2006
- The Princess Diaries, Volume VIII: Princess on the Brink2007
- Every volume in order (15) ↓
1
6- 7.57.5 / 10321 ratings
- Score
- 15 volumes
- Volumes
- 2000–2015
- Published
- about 55 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Young adult
- Genre
Quick answer
Affiliate link: buying through it supports BookRank at no extra cost to you.
Publication order
15 volumes2000–2015Completed
- Eleven numbered books plus the half-numbered ones, and the halves are the thing to understand: Volume IV and 1/2, VI and 1/2, VII and 1/2 and VII and 3/4 are short companion books published between the novels, and they read best exactly where their numbers put them.
- Mia narrates all of it as a diary in real time, so nothing here works out of order — she is fourteen in the first book and married in Royal Wedding, which came nine years after what everyone assumed was the ending.
- The films share the first book's premise and almost nothing else.
A plan for the whole series
15 volumes, 3,107 pages, about 55 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 2 months.
Stages
4 stages, with 3 short books from outside the series between them. You finish around January 29, 2027, 16 days later than in one go.
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Short breakThe Emperor's Soul · Brandon Sanderson · 96 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 320 habout 4 weeksby January 15, 2027
- BreakMaus · Art Spiegelman · 295 pp. · score 9.0
- Stage 44 h5 daysby January 29, 2027
- The end of the series
We count 1.1 min per page, the pace of an average novel reader. Faster? Move the slider.
≈ next to a page count: a volume with no page count in our data is counted at this series’s average.
How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which The Princess Diaries book is the longest?
“The Princess Diaries, Volume VII: Party Princess” is the longest at 304 pages; the shortest is “The Princess Diaries, Volume IV and 1/2: Project Princess” with 50 pages.
What should I read after The Princess Diaries?
Other series by Meg Cabot: The Mediator.
