Sarah Everett books

Sarah Everett is a Canadian YA and middle grade author whose emotionally honest novels explore grief, identity, and belonging through high-concept premises — from an AI that replicates a dead boyfriend's voice to a girl preparing for an asteroid impact. Her middle grade novel The Probability of Everything won the Governor General's Literary Award, and her books have been published in eleven languages.

Standalone Novels

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Everyone We’ve Been 2016 Buy
No One Here Is Lonely 2019 Buy
Some Other Now 2021 Buy
How to Live Without You 2022 Buy
The Probability of Everything 2023 Buy
The Shape of Lost Things 2024 Buy
The Romance Rewind 2026 Buy

Sarah Everett was born in West Africa and moved to Alberta, Canada, where she pursued graduate studies while writing her first novels. She speaks two Nigerian languages and some Afrikaans, and has spoken about the push and pull between assimilating into a new culture and holding onto where you came from — themes that surface across her fiction in various forms. Her debut novel, Everyone We’ve Been, was published by Penguin Random House in 2016 and drew comparisons to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for its exploration of memory and identity through a teenage protagonist who begins to lose track of her own past after an accident.

Her middle grade debut, The Probability of Everything (2023), marked a shift in age category and earned her the Governor General’s Literary Award for Young People’s Literature. The novel follows Kemi, a science-minded girl who learns an asteroid has an 84.7% chance of hitting Earth in four days, and uses the approaching end of the world to process her father’s death and preserve what matters most to her family. The book has been praised for handling grief, racism, and belonging with warmth and precision, and has earned a strong Goodreads rating across thousands of reviews.

Across her YA titles, Everett is drawn to high-concept emotional premises: an AI that replicates a dead boyfriend’s voice (No One Here Is Lonely), a teenager who inherits her sister’s secrets when she disappears (How to Live Without You), a time-loop story about a relationship the protagonist is not sure she ever understood (The Romance Rewind, 2026). Her fiction has been published in eleven languages, and reviewers frequently compare her to Gayle Forman, Nina LaCour, and Morgan Matson.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Sarah Everett written?

Sarah Everett has written seven books in one series.

What was Sarah Everett's first book?

Sarah Everett’s first book is Everyone We’ve Been, published in 2016.

What themes run through Sarah Everett's books?

Everett’s novels consistently return to grief, identity, and the difficulty of belonging — often channelled through unusual premises that make these themes feel fresh. In No One Here Is Lonely, a teenager uses an AI phone service to keep talking to her dead crush. In The Probability of Everything, a girl prepares for an asteroid impact while processing her father’s death. In How to Live Without You, a seventeen-year-old searches for her missing sister while uncovering family secrets about mental illness. Everett was born in West Africa and grew up between cultures, and questions of assimilation and who we become under pressure run through much of her fiction.

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