# Is "It Ends with Us" by Colleen Hoover a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover (Atria Books, 2016) is identified by: Atria Books, 2016, issued as a trade paperback original with no simultaneous hardcover at publication. The Atria trade-paperback original is the true first; no first-printing hardcover existed at publication.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- Atria Books, 2016, issued as a trade paperback original with no simultaneous hardcover at publication
- The true first is the Atria trade paperback dated August 2, 2016, with the copyright page noting the first Atria paperback edition and a full number line ending in 1 (ISBN 9781501110368, 367 pages)
- The defining BookTok-era romance
- Publisher imprint reads Atria Books
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Colleen Hoover |
| Publisher | Atria Books |
| Year | 2016 |
| True first | — |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | Atria Books, 2016, issued as a trade paperback original with no simultaneous hardcover at publication |
| Book-club edition exists? | No |

## Points of issue
Atria Books, 2016, issued as a trade paperback original with no simultaneous hardcover at publication. The true first is the Atria trade paperback dated August 2, 2016, with the copyright page noting the first Atria paperback edition and a full number line ending in 1 (ISBN 9781501110368, 367 pages). The defining BookTok-era romance.

## Is this the true first?
The Atria trade-paperback original is the true first; no first-printing hardcover existed at publication. Later collector and special-edition hardcovers are 'first thus.'

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
No book-club issue. Confirm the August 2016 first Atria paperback statement and the number line ending in 1. Later printings raise the cover price and break the line.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *It Ends with Us* by Colleen Hoover a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/it-ends-with-us
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-04.