Gossip Girl: Book #1 The story begins with Blair Waldorf attending a party at her house with her friends Kati Farkas and Isabel Coates. Soon after, Blair sneaks away from the party to her bedroom in order to have sex with her boyfriend, Nate Archibald. However, they are interrupted (an occurrence that happens several times throughout the series) by the arrival of Serena van der Woodsen, Blair's old friend who left one year ago to attend boarding school. When Serena was around, Blair was always left in her shadow, so when she returned Blair was not particularly thrilled to see her. Especially when Blair finds out that Serena and Nate had sex the summer before Serena left. Serena does not understand why she is being ignored by all of her friends, but the reader knows that Blair had something to do with that. Also all throughout the book, Gossip Girl, a popular blog site written by a girl which many visit, spreads around rumors or gossip about this group.

You Know You Love Me: Book #2 This second novel began on Blair Waldorf's dad's advance birthday party at the Le Giraffe restaurant, together with Nate Archibald. Nate and Blair attempted to have sex again, but unfortunately it was held back because her mother, Eleanor Waldorf, was now engaged to her stubby boyfriend, Cyrus Rose, and even scheduling the short-notice wedding on her seventeenth birthday, ruining Blair's life more than ever, including her relationship with Nate. In another setting, Serena van der Woodsen and Dan Humphrey were on an ice cream date, but nothing exactly comes of it, due to Dan's dark poetry, which starts to freak Serena out. She seems happy to remain as friends, even if she doesn't see him as boyfriend material. To make things up for Nate, Blair decides to buy cashmere pajama pants but her credit card was invalid so she ended up stealing them, with Serena as an eye witness. Meanwhile, Nate meets Jenny Humphrey completely by accident and they start seeing each other behind Blair's back. Halfway through the novel, Nate, his friends, Serena, and Dan, go up to Brown University for their interviews, completely leaving Blair behind. Aaron Rose, Cyrus' son and Blair's new stepbrother, moves in the Waldorf household with his boxer, Mookie. He drives Blair to her Yale University interview, but with her situation she is in, she ends up kissing her interviewer and telling her the sad story, completely messing up her chance of getting in. Aaron and Blair become friends, despite the fact that Blair disapproves of their parents' marriage. On the wedding, though, things get a lot worse, because Blair finds out that Nate went out with Jenny when she caught them kissing in the hotel lobby where the reception was being held. She goes to the bathroom and bumps into Serena; they finally make up and became best friends again.

All I Want Is Everything: Book #3 The book begins with Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen at a Black And White charity ball, hosted by rock star, Flow. Blair is angry after being dumped by Nate Archibald in favor of Jenny Humphrey. Serena catches the attention of Flow, and, after being asked by Aaron Rose's best friend, Miles, to go onto a new nightclub, she strikes up much speculation as to her relationship with Flow. Blair has written a college admissions essay, based on Audrey Hepburn, but it is denied by her guidance counselor, Mrs. Glos. Blair has naturally invited Serena to her winter vacation to St. Barts, much to the envy of her classmates, and sets off, expecting to complete her essay whilst there. Aaron has developed feelings for Blair, and he starts to fall in love with her, but his friend Miles has already got Blair's attention. Blair's mother announces that she is pregnant with her third child, with Cyrus Rose. Serena receives large and strange gifts from Flow, Kati and Isabel, including a talking parrot and a bowl full of baby barracudas. Blair has decided to lose her virginity to Miles, and almost does, until Aaron disturbs them. Blair is obviously furious, and asks Serena to leave with her to go back to New York. Whilst Blair completes her college application, Serena organizes a huge New Years Eve party. Meanwhile, Nate and Jenny's relationship is still strong, and are accidentally filmed in the park, fooling around, by Vanessa Abrams. However, Nate soon realizes how much he missed Blair, and, after realizing Jenny's obsessiveness towards him, decides to break the relationship off, unknown to Jenny. On New Years, Aaron and Serena get together, much to the dismay of Flow. Jenny catches Nate and Blair together and realizes that Nate doesn't love her, and then Nate gets dumped by Blair, leaving him with no-one.

Because I'm Worth It: Book #4 This fourth best-selling novel started with Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen taking over the Monday peer group, with Jenny Humphrey, her new best friend Elise Wells, and some lower-graders. Later, leaving Serena to her peer group to tell them how much she loved her new boyfriend Aaron Rose and while Blair gets a new haircut and wardrobe, she gets a stroke of good luck when an alumni interviewer from Yale and her father's colleague, Owen Wells, calls her and tells her that Yale had given her a second chance to make up for the first one she had messed up. But Owen had turned to be more than hot as Blair could've imagined, and ended up almost having sex with him in a hotel suite. Unfortunately, she found out that Owen had a daughter, who was in her peer group last Monday, and that she was convinced he was a fat liar and a bastard for hiding it from her. Although he had told her that he had a family, she was still convinced that he was nothing but a loser. With this, she blew her second chance of getting to Yale once again. Serena, on the other hand, also had a stroke of good luck. While shopping for a jacket to give to Aaron at Les Best, a man named Guy Reed, a part of the Les Best couture, decided to put her on the Fashion Week fashion show that starred the Les Best clothing. When the whole show was a hit, and she was finally back to the good graces of everybody, she even scored to do a perfume ad for Les Best with her signature scent of sandalwood and patchouli that she always wore. On the photo shoot for the ad, where she wore a sundress in the middle of February at the park, Aaron broke up with her, with the reason that things weren't exactly working out.

I Like It Like That: Book #5 It's Spring break and love is in the air. Or is that a blend of Chanel no.9 and Gucci Rush? Is there a difference? Blair Waldorf moves in with Serena van der Woodsen and they're back to being best friends. But will the love-fest last or will they end up tearing out one another's newly highlighted hair? And speaking of new, Nate Archibald is on the straight and narrow, playing Nate-in-shining-armor to his crazy new girlfriend, Georgie. But he will definitely get more than he bargained for when he, Georgie, Blair and Serena end up hanging out together in Sun Valley, Idaho. Back in Manhattan, Jenny Humphrey is spending time with a mysteriously nice new boyfriend and Dan Humphrey is spending his time crying in the office of the Paris Review literary journal. And Vanessa Abrams, wait, is that Vanessa shopping at Barneys with a guy in a Lacoste shirt? The long cold winter is over and the sun is finally shining along Fifth Avenue. The trees are in bloom and NYC's most fabulous are ready for a truly outrageous vacation!

You're The One That I Want: Book #6 Our college acceptance letters are arriving today. Those who do best will act all shocked and modest; the ones who fail miserably will declare how unimportant it all is, even though they secretly know they are doomed; Fee Fie Foe Fum, I smell a cat fight!! But after today it's time to get back to what's important: our love lives. Can't wait for this day to be over so the real fun can begin!! Good luck, everybody.

Nobody Does It Better: Book #7 In this book Jenny's desire to go to boarding school first becomes apparent. In the last book, it was kept implied and foreshadow that Jenny will go to boarding school. After compromising photographs of her and The Raves' drummer and guitarist appear on Page Six, Mrs. McLean, Constance Billard's headmistress, suggests that she do the remainder of her schooling elsewhere, as she is tarnishing Constance Billard's reputation. After giving birth to Yale, Blair's mother Eleanor Waldorf is suffering from postpartum depression and becomes irrational and prone to unpredictable mood swings. After Eleanor purchases four exotic islands, one for each of her children (Blair, Aaron, Tyler and Yale), Blair decides she's had enough and moves out. She stays at the Plaza Hotel, until Mrs McLean also recommends that she find a more stable residence. This leads to Blair moving in with Vanessa, an odd pairing, but the two become friends, even after Blair redecorates Vanessa's Williamsburg apartment. At the beginning of the book, Nate and Blair are in a state of bliss after finally consummating their relationship. However, their happiness is quickly dashed when a stoned Nate and his friends take Captian Archibald's yacht to Bermuda without telling anyone. By the time Nate has returned, Blair has already set her eyes on Stanford Parris 5, though only because she thinks he can get her into Yale. The drama culminates on Constance Billard's Senior Cut Day. Isabel and Kati organised the whole senior class to have a girls-only sleepover at Isabel's Hamptons beach house. However, many crashers tag along include Jenny and her best friend Elise, Dan, Blair's stepbrother Aaron, The Raves, Chuck Bass and of course, Nate. Blair learns from Aaron that she has finally been accepted to Yale University, the college of her dreams. Ecstatic, she rushes to find Nate and Serena to share the good news-only to find them kissing half-naked in a bathtub in the bathroom.

Nothing Can Keep Us Together: Book #8 The character of Lord Marcus Beaton-Rhodes is introduced in Nothing Can Keep Us Together. He becomes the new boyfriend of Blair and is often described as a “hotter, taller, more refined, better-bred, British version of Nate…”. Lord Marcus is a Yale graduate and comes from a wealthy background. He even refers to designer Oscar de la Renta as “Uncle Oscar”. Indie filmmaker, Ken Mogul is back as he is directing a modernized version of Breakfast At Tiffanys entitled Breakfast At Fred’s set at the restaurant in Barneys of the same name. Both Blair and Serena audition, but Serena gets the part. When Blair discovers she reflects “[Serena] may well have gotten the part, but [Blair] lived it, every day." Even though throughout the book there is tension between Blair and Serena (on account of Serena being Nate’s new girlfriend and snagging the role in Breakfast At Fred’s) the book ends with the two of them kissing murmuring “You know you love me” at Blair’s graduation party held at the Yale Club. This leads us to think that Blair and Serena are both “Gossip Girl”. But there is also an occasion to suspect Blair of being Gossip Girl because she states in her final column, “I thought about making complicated plans to take a bunch of friends out to the beach in Sag Harbour in my exquisite new European-import car.” We get told earlier in the book that Blair received an imported car from her gay father in Paris. However, this might be pure coincidence as Blair might not have been the only graduate on the Upper East Side to receive a European car.

Only In Your Dreams: Book #9 Only in Your Dreams takes place during the last summer before the gang heads off to college. Blair is across the Atlantic with Lord Marcus. Serena is given an apartment as she prepares for her new movie role in the modern version of Breakfast at Tiffany's; Vanessa is also working on the film. Daniel has a job at the famous Strand bookstore, while Nate is working off his graduation deal by fixing his coach's house. Lights! Camera! Designer action! Right? Well, fans of the Gossip Girl series know that surprises are the order of the day, along with hot clothes. Blair is put into a hotel by Lord Marcus, who introduces her to a kissing cousin who is always around. While Blair is buying everything in sight in London, including an amazing wedding dress for 10,000 pounds, where is he? When a hotel employee hints that the other woman may not be a cousin, she packs her new purchases and returns home to staggering credit card bills and angry parents. Now they actually want her to work for the summer - ugh. Of course, work for these teens is interning with a famous fashion designer, what else? Returning home means that Blair needs a place to stay, so she moves into Serena's apartment, which of course is above the residence of a very good-looking guy. Serena dives into her new role, or rather belly flops. She struggles to learn the lines that her famous co-star knows without a problem. And what's up with him anyway? She gives him every chance to get close, and he just doesn't. The apartment is pretty ratty, and Serena is getting tired of being yelled at by the director. Will her acting career be over before she even starts at Yale? Vanessa hates that she sold out and went to work for a big commercial film, but her sister kicked her out of their apartment and she's crashing at Dan's while earning money for the fall. Dan hardly ever sees her, though, as he is busy with a beautiful girl who talks to him at the bookstore. She is introducing him to deep books and naked yoga. Nate can't help but attract women, even Hamptons townies. They think he is a poor laborer like them, and he enjoys the anonymity while finishing his community service-type work for the coach. But when he tries to return to his elite world, he feels a big culture clash. Luckily, he will soon be off to Yale.

Would I Lie To You: Book #10 In the 10th book of the Gossip Girl series, old flames reunite and things take on an interesting turn. Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf are now muses for a famous designer, who has decided to import B & S look-alikes from a foreign country. The only thing faker than these are those LV Handbags. Things were about to get nasty, but luckily Nate Archibald comes in and saves the day (again). Problem is this time, he only has eyes for Blair. Serena can't help but get jealous, especially since he's been with her before, too. And when she accidentally hears Nate say "I love you" to Blair, she writes him a letter about her true feelings. Blair happens to find the letter before Nate, and rips it up. Nate gets a call from his lacrosse coach who he's been working for to get his high school diploma, courtesy of a Viagra-stealing incident, telling him to get his ass back and that he's never going to get into Yale. Dan Humphrey has started a literary salon, and founding himself in a same-sex orgy, kissing his friend Greg. Vanessa goes away to the Hamptons to work, only to find herself back in Dan's arms. What will happen when they all go off to college?

Don't You Forget About Me: Book #11 Blair and Nate return from their sailing trip, very much in love, while Serena struggles to come to terms with her feelings for Nate. Upon returning home, Blair finds out that her mother is throwing her and Aaron, her stepbrother, a graduation party at the Metropolitan Museum. She also finds out that their family is moving to Los Angeles, because of Cyrus' work and her father and his partner Giles adopted two Cambodian twins named Ping and Pong. This leaves Blair irritated and enraged, not only at her family, but also at Serena, who has not confessed her love letter to Nate. Meanwhile, Vanessa is still trying to cope with the fact that Dan was gay and that her sister was getting married to Piotr. Dan's mother, Jeanette, comes to visit, clearly pleased with her son's sexual orientation. She organizes a coming out party for him. Nate's father, Captain Archibald, sends him to his old mentor, Captain Chips White, thinking that his strict and hard demeanor would get through to Nate and finally straighten him out. When Nate meets him, he discovers that Captain Chips was not the mentor his father knew. He encourages him to "...think with your balls, not with your dick." Blair and Serena make up, after Blair discovers that her mother assigned Serena and Nate to pick out old pictures for her party. Meanwhile, Serena's movie, Breakfast at Fred's release date is pushed to a sooner date, revealing Ken Mogul's plans for a sequel and another movie starring Serena. Nate finally confesses to Blair that he didn't get his high school diploma, so he wouldn't be going on to Yale with her. He also has to repeat senior year in order to earn it back. Blair gets mad, which leads Nate to run to Serena. She tells him that she loves him, and that she was thinking of deferring her admission to Yale. They spend the night together. Greg breaks up with a still sexually-oriented confused Dan, which Vanessa mistakes for love. She asks Blair for help with a makeover, which Blair gladly obliges. She treats her to a salon and a blond wig, something she wore at her sister's bachelorette party at Coyote Ugly bar. Blair finally calms down, and convinces her father to talk to the Dean of Admissions for Nate. She also makes up with him while dorm room shopping with her brother, Tyler, and the newly-returned Aaron. Ruby's wedding day arrives. Dan reads his poem out loud to the guests, while maintaining eye contact with Vanessa, establishing that he was not gay and that he still loved her. They make up at Blair's graduation party. The next day, Dan leaves for Evergreen while Vanessa stays behind for NYU. At the graduation party, Harold Waldorf tells his daughter that Nate could go to Yale. This makes Blair happy, because all of her plans are finally coming true. She tells Nate, but upon seeing her and Serena hug at the end of Eleanor's slideshow, he makes plans of his own. Blair and Serena meet at Grand Central, where Serena confesses that she told Nate she loved him. Before the train to New Haven leaves, they both receive a message from Nate, saying that he loved them both and was going to sail with Captain Chips around the world. Instead of fighting with Serena, Blair laughs, and says that this was an ending they never expected.

It Had To Be You: Book #12 How Serena van der Woodsen start falling for Nate and what led to their affair, and why she left Constance Billard School for Girls. When Blair Waldorf began to like Audrey Hepburn and when her dad left her mom for another man, when she first fell in love with Nate, and what caused her to start making herself sick. How Nate Archibald came in between Blair and Serena. How Vanessa got into film making and when she shaved her head. Jenny, before her growth spurt kicked in. And of course, when Dan started his caffeine and cigarettes addiction and when he wrote his first poem.

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