"I deeply admire her boldness of vision and her eagerness to challenge the status quo of how women are allowed to behave in their own stories."

award-winning producer of Wild, Big Little Lies, & Luckiest Girl Alive

— Bruna Papandrea

Author, Screenwriter & Producer

Jessica Knoll is the New York Times bestselling author of Helpless, Bright Young Women, The Favorite Sister, and Luckiest Girl Alive — now a major motion picture on Netflix starring Mila Kunis. She adapted and executive produced Luckiest Girl Alive for the screen. Her new novel, Helpless, is out July 7, 2026.

In 2021 She was named a screenwriter to watch by Variety, and in 2019 her original script, ‘Til Death, sold to Amazon and made The Black List. Her books have been published in over forty languages. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and Bright Young Women comes a smoldering erotic thriller with a singular, mind-bending ending.

"Unapologetically kinky and almost diabolically twisty." — Oprah Daily

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Bright Young Women

Bright Young Women tells the story of two women from opposite sides of the country who forge a sisterhood in grief and in the fervent pursuit of justice. Toggling between those terrifying days in 1978 and a letter that brings them together in the present, this is a novel that flips the script on the oft-perpetuated glorification of a sadistic but ultimately average man and instead turns the spotlight on the exceptional women he targeted.

AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 19TH, 2023

“An unsettling and thrilling page-turner… Knoll’s haunting, must-read account will captivate [readers] until the end.”

—Library Journal (starred Review)

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Luckiest Girl Alive

As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, Ani FaNelli endured a shocking, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now, with a glamorous job, expensive wardrobe, and handsome blue blood fiancé, she’s this close to living the perfect life she’s worked so hard to achieve. But Ani has a secret. There’s something else buried in her past that still haunts her, something private and painful that threatens to bubble to the surface and destroy everything.

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX MOTION PICTURE STARRING MILA KUNIS

Fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train will thrill at this “perfect page-turner” (People)—that Reese Witherspoon describes as “one of those reads you just can’t put down!”

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The Favorite Sister

A blisteringly paced thriller starring two sisters who join the cast of a reality TV series. One won’t make it out alive. So…who did it? When five hyper-successful women agree to appear on a reality series set in New York City called Goal Diggers, the producers never expect the season will end in murder…

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Engrossing…Deliciously savage and wildly entertaining.”—People Magazine (Book of the Week)