You First: A Joe Goldberg Prequel

You

by Caroline Kepnes

How did Joe Goldberg become Joe Goldberg? What led to his first love…first kiss…first kill?

Find out in the highly anticipated prequel to New York Times bestselling author Caroline Kepnes’s hit You series, which inspired the blockbuster Netflix show.

Genres: Mystery Thriller

416 pages, Hardcover

Expected publication June 9, 2026

About the author

Caroline Kepnes is the New York Times bestselling author of You, Hidden Bodies, Providence and...

You Love Me. Publishing in the US on Aril 6, 2021

(You know You Netflix? That's based on my Joe Goldberg books! You can read You3 before Season 3)

Her work has been translated into a multitude of languages and inspired a television series adaptation of You, currently on Netflix. Kepnes graduated from Brown University and then worked as a pop culture journalist for Entertainment Weekly and a TV writer for 7th Heaven and The Secret Life of the American Teenager. She grew up on Cape Cod, and now lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

[Catherine (alternativelytitledbooks) - why is GR broken? -_-]

“But it doesn’t come out until next June,” the bookstore employees keep telling me…but I am ALREADY seated.

[Mariah Kraus · Rating 5 out of 5]

how do I get an arc bc I need to know what happened to Candace 🤣