Daisy Jones & The Six
Now a Streaming Series
Now in paperback
A New York Times Bestseller
A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous break up.
Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the real reason why they split at the absolute height of their popularity…until now.
Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.
Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.
Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.
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Reviews & Praise
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I devoured Daisy Jones & The Six in a day, falling head over heels for it. Taylor Jenkins Reid transported me into the magic of the 70’s music scene in a way I’ll never forget. The characters were beautifully layered and complex...Daisy and the band captured my heart, and they’re sure to capture yours too.
Reese Witherspoon
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Taylor Jenkins Reid has written a stylish and propulsive if sometimes sentimental novel set against that backdrop, in the stadiums, studios and pool houses of late-1970s L.A…easily her most sophisticated and ambitious novel… In the end, that’s the most surprising gift of Daisy Jones & The Six – it’s a way to love the rock n roll of the 1970s, without apology, without cynicism, bell-bottoms and all.
New York Times Book Review
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A deep dive into the best band you’ve never heard of.
Marie Claire
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This dreamy novel follows the rise and fall of an iconic band lead by the enigmatic Daisy, and it's full of a) sex, b) drugs, c) rock n' roll, and d) characters who you'll wish could leap out of the page and into your life.
Cosmopolitan
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Backstage intrigue is the engine of Daisy Jones & The Six, Los Angeles novelist Taylor Jenkins Reid’s celebration of American mythmaking. The enigmatic Daisy is bound for stardom—and likely to live on beyond the pages of this book.
Vogue
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Decades after their sudden split, members of a rock band recall their rise to fame in the 1970s—and what wrong. Taylor Jenkins Reid’s fictional tell-all will rock you.
Us Weekly
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This novel, framed as an oral history, charts the rise of a hard-partying, iconic band in the 1970s. Daisy is an up-and-coming young singer, and after her duet with Billy, the frontman of The Six, becomes a breakout hit, she joins the band full-time. The book is a love story, too: not only of Daisy and Billy’s will-they-won’t-they romance, but also a sentimental appreciation for the era.
New York Times
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In Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid imagines an oral history of the band’s rise and fall. It’s fictional—though Reid was inspired by Fleetwood Mac and others—but the band and the era are so fully realized you’ll think you’re reading a true story.
Real Simple
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In an impressive feat of imagination, Taylor Jenkins Reid creates a meticulous history for a ‘70s rock band that never existed — though reading the book, which takes the shape of a transcript from a rock documentary, you might briefly think otherwise.
Refinery29
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An iconic cover is matched by an iconic story about the effervescent Daisy Jones and the highs-and-lows of the rockstar lifestyle of the late '70s, inventively told through interviews, emails, lyrics, and oral history.
Bustle
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Wild fun from cover to cover.
HelloGiggles
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Sex? Check. Drugs? Check. Rock ‘n’ roll? Check. This is the perfect novel for anyone who invariably chooses “Landslide” when doing karaoke…Reid’s wit and gift for telling a perfectly paced story make this one of the most enjoyably readable books of the year.
Nylon, “Most Anticipated of 2019”
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This oral-history-style page-turner follows the rise and sudden fall of fictional ’70s rocker group Daisy Jones & The Six.
InStyle
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Daisy Jones & The Six is an explosive, dynamite, down-and-dirty look at a fictional rock band told in an interview style that gives it irresistible surface energy...although the real power of this delicious novel is at its tender beating heart. It’s an anthem and a ballad and a marvel.
Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Perfect Couple
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Taylor Jenkins Reid is a stunning writer whose characters are unforgettable and stories are deeply emotional. Her new book is her most gripping book yet and takes her writing to a whole new level.
Emily Giffin, author of All We Ever Wanted
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As a writer, you try to stay in your own lane. Every now and then you come across a book and think 'I wish I had thought of that.' Daisy Jones & The Six is the first book I've read where I thought 'I wish I were cool enough to write that.' Raw, emotive and addictively voyeuristic, Daisy Jones is imbued with the same anguished heart that fuels the very best rock and roll. Like my favorite albums, this book will live with me for a very long time.
Steven Rowley, author of Lily and the Octopus