You First: A Joe Goldberg Prequel

Caroline Kepnes

Jun 2026 · You Book 5 · Penguin Random House Audio

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About this audiobook

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.

About the author

Caroline Kepnes is the author of You, Hidden Bodies, You Love Me, For You and Only You, and Providence. 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 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, Massachusetts, and now lives in Los Angeles.

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