Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Hot Flash Club | 2003 | Nancy Thayer | Buy |
| 2 | The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again | 2004 | Nancy Thayer | Buy |
| 3 | Hot Flash Holidays | 2005 | Nancy Thayer | Buy |
| 4 | The Hot Flash Club Chills Out | 2006 | Nancy Thayer | Buy |
The Hot Flash Club series follows four women who meet at a spa retreat and bond over the shared experience of midlife. The Hot Flash Club (2003) introduces the group as they begin solving each other’s personal problems with the directness that comes from having lived long enough to stop being polite about it.
Three sequels, The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again (2004), Hot Flash Holidays (2005), and The Hot Flash Club Chills Out (2006), continue the foursome’s adventures through romantic entanglements, family conflicts, and holiday gatherings. The series is lighter and more openly comic than Thayer’s standalone novels, and the ensemble format gives it a different energy from her usual single-protagonist stories.