Are you a Taylor Jenkins Reid fan wondering how all her books connect? Or do you want to know which Taylor Jenkins Reid books have crossover characters? Looking for a timeline that tells you what Evelyn Hugo was up to when Daisy Jones and the Six were breaking up? Want to help me find Easter Eggs ij Taylor Jenkins Reid books like Malibu Rising and Carrie Soto is Back? Join me and let’s explore the Fictional World of Taylor Jenkins Reid!
The Fictional World of Taylor Jenkins Reid
Table of Contents:
- A timeline of how all Taylor Jenkins Reid books fit together
- A list of crossover characters that appear in more than one Taylor Jenkins Reid book
- A list of TJR Easter Eggs when someone in one book mentions something in another!
Note: the timeline will contain some spoilers, which will be marked.
Master Timeline of All Taylor Jenkins Reid Books
Key: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (EH), Daisy Jones and the Six (DJ), Malibu Rising (MR), Carrie Soto is Back (CS), Atmosphere (AT)
NOTE: there will be some spoilers toward the end of the timeline for Daisy Jones and Evelyn Hugo.
The 1930s-1950s
1933
Mick Riva is born. (MR)
1938
Evelyn Hugo is born in New York. (EH)
1951
Daisy Jones is born in California. (DJ)
1953
Fifteen year-old Evelyn Hugo goes with her first husband to Hollywood (EH).
1957
Mick Riva marries June. (MR).
Evelyn marries Don Adler (EH)
1958
Nina Riva is born to Mick and June Riva. (MR)
1959
Mick tells June that he is leaving her for another woman. (MR)
Evelyn Hugo gets divorced from Don Adler and dropped by Sunset Studios. (EH)
The 1960s-1970s
1961
Mick marries Veronica Lowe. The marriage only lasts four months. (MR)
In September, Mick is divorced and telling the press he wants to marry Evelyn Hugo. (EH)
In December, Evelyn Hugo marries Mick Riva in Las Vegas. They annul the marriage right away. (EH)
1962
Evelyn marries Rex North. (EH)
1967
Evelyn marries Harry Cameron. (EH)
1969
Camila meets Billy Dunne at a hotel. He and the band are playing a wedding. (DJ)
1973
The Six release their first album. (DJ)
1975
Daisy releases her first album. (DJ)
1976
The Six release a second album that has Daisy and Billy’s duet, Honeycomb. (DJ)
1977
Daisy joins The Six and the band is renamed. (DJ)
Daisy throws a party at her cottage at Chateau Marmont and Mick Riva shows up, orders a bunch of liquor, and invites a bunch of friends. (DJ)
Joan Goodwin first applies to be a NASA astronaut (AT)
1978
Nina and her siblings throw the first Malibu party, which is always the last Saturday in August and started out being held at the Riva’s Malibu beach cottage. (MR)
Daisy Jones and The Six release their first album. (DJ)
1979
Daisy Jones and the Six splits up. (DJ)
Carrie is dominating women’s tennis. She has four Grand Slam titles but wants to hold the record for the most Grand Slams ever. She drops her father as coach. (CS)
Joan Goodwin applies again for NASA and is accepted into the training program. (AT)
The 1980s-1990s
1980
At the Riva’s Malibu party, Doug Tucker, the new head of Sunset Studios, gets drunk and tells everyone he has proof that actress Celia St. James is gay. (MR)
1981
In 1981, Nina Riva, who is 23, meets professional tennis player Brandon Randall, 25.
As she training with NASA, Joan Goodwin watches the STS-1 Columbia launch, the first orbital space flight of NASA’s Space Shuttle program (real event; AT)
1982
Nina and Brandon marry that spring and he buys the Malibu house without asking her. (MR)
1983
Carrie Soto’s father tells her to find a “nice guy like Brandon Randall.” (CS)
In July, the press catch Brandon cheating with Carrie. Brandon tells Nina he’s leaving her for Carrie. (MR and CS)
Brandon comes to the beach party in August and asks Nina to take him back but she rejects him. Brandon goes back to Carrie but leaves her for another woman in December 1983. (MR and CS)
Nina and Brandon’s house burns down. (MR)
1984
Joan Goodwin is the CAPCOM for the STS-LR9 Navigator flight when disaster strikes (AT)
1988
Evelyn tells Celia she is ready to give up everything and be with her. (EH)
1989
Harry Cameron dies in a car accident with his lover, James. (EN)
Injured and having to pull out of tournaments, Carrie announces her retirement from tennis. (CS)
1990
Evelyn marries Celia’s brother, Robert Jamison. (EH)
1994
Carrie begins her comeback training. (CS)
The 2000s
2000
Celia dies of heart failure. (EH)
2012
Camila dies. Before her death, she asks her daughters to tell Billy to call Daisy after she’s gone. (DJ)
2013 or 2014
Evelyn’s daughter Connor dies of breast cancer. (EH)
2017
Evelyn Hugo, suffering from breast cancer, takes an overdose and dies. (EH)
Crossover Characters in Taylor Jenkins Reid Books
Mick Riva
Mick is first mentioned in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo as Evelyn’s third husband.
He pops up in Daisy Jones and the Six in 1977 at a party that Daisy is hosting at Chateau Marmont. (The one where Daisy steps on broken glass.) Billy is there and mentions “an old geezer .. probably only forty” who is drinking with Daisy. This is probably Mick, who is 44 at that point! Billy leaves and goes home to write “Impossible Woman.”
He reappears as the father of main character Nina Riva in Malibu Rising. Mick is also a major character and his rise to fame and his own multiple marriages are discussed.
Mick is also mentioned in Carrie Soto is Back, when Carrie’s father is trying to find her a boyfriend, Javier says he can’t stand Mick.
Carrie Soto
Carrie is a minor character in Malibu Rising as the woman that Nina’s husband Brandon Randall left Nina for. Carrie is then the main character in Carrie Soto is Back.
Brandon Randall
Brandon is a minor character in both Malibu Rising (Nina’s cheating husband) and Carrie Soto is Back, as a fellow tennis player that Carrie sleeps with.
Vivant Magazine
Not a character, but mentioned in most of the books.
Vivant is the magazine that Monique Grant works for in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
In Malibu Rising, a modeling scout for Vivant magazine approaches Nina at the beach. She appears in the June 1979 issue with a headline that reads California Cool: The New Beach Bum.
In Carrie Soto is Back, the editor of Vivant writes a letter entitled Why I’m Thankful for Carrie Soto, praising her comeback.
Easter Eggs (mentions of one book or character within another):
At the Rivas’s Malibu party in 1979, Warren Rhodes (band member of Daisy Jones and the Six) and Lisa Crowne (musician who marries Warren) get naked in the Rivas’ pool. (Malibu Rising)
At the next year’s Malibu party (1980), Doug Tucker, the new head of Sunset Studios, gets drunk and tells everyone he has proof that actress Celia St. James (a character from The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo) is gay. (Malibu Rising)
Carrie Soto’s father Javier tells her to find a nice guy like Brandon Randall. She says that Brandon is married to Nina Riva, daughter of Mick Riva. Javier says about Mick Riva: “I cannot stand that guy.” (Carrie Soto is Back)
On tour in 1995, Carrie Soto is reading an unauthorized biography of Daisy Jones and the Six so she can find out who is sleeping with whom. (Carrie Soto is Back)
Mick Riva gets a deal with Runner Records in the 1950s, the same company that signs both The Six and Daisy Jones in the 1970s.
Thanks for reading The Fictional World of Taylor Jenkins Reid! If you think I missed any connections, crossover characters, or Easter eggs, PLEASE tell me in comments and I will add them and credit you!
Also Check These Related Taylor Jenkins Reid Posts Out!
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Spoiler Discussion and Movie News
Daisy Jones and The Six: Spoiler Discussion and Movie News
Malibu Rising: Spoiler Discussion and Movie News
Carrie Soto is Back: Spoiler Discussion
Wasn’t Don Adler one of Evelyn’s husband’s? He shows up at the Riva party!
Yes, he was. He is at the Malibu Rising party? Thanks for the tip. I will add it.
Is the Monique that writes the interview with Evelyn the same one Carrie’s agent leaves her husband for??? Actually probably not cause wouldnt she still be a child at that point…
Hi Olivia!
Can you give me more details? I just searched my Carrie Soto e-book and didn’t get any results for Monique. I also searched Malibu Rising, since Carrie is in that one. Gwen divorces her husband, but that’s all I found.
And I agree, Carrie Soto takes place in the 80s and Monique was born in 1982 so yes she would be a small child in the Carrie universe.