Eli Raphael Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Eli Raphael is an American published author.

She grew up in Miami, Florida originally. Today she resides in a rural part of Washington State. Night Objects is her first novel and was released in 2026 for readers to enjoy for the first time. It’s neither too short nor too long, clocking in at 386 pages.

Night Objects is a 2026 fictional novel by Eli Raphael. This book has been critically acclaimed, with many reviewers raving about the debut. Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review where they proclaimed that Raphael is able to deliver ‘more than thrills, probing potent themes of grief, classism, and the slippery nature of memory’.

Other authors also had good things to say about this book and author. New York Times bestselling author Liz Moore praised her storytelling as ‘top-notch’ and describes the book as ‘Part mystery, part coming-of-age tale’. NYT bestselling author Stacy Willingham also loved the book, saying that it is ‘one of those rare novels that is somehow both a bingeable mystery and a literary work of art’ and said that it was ultimately a ‘breathtaking, ambitious debut’.

There have been so many others who have loved this book that it could be talked about all day! We’ll just keep it down to two more. Bestselling author Chelsea Bieker called this novel ‘Haunting, luminous, and utterly absorbing’, and said that she ‘couldn’t put this novel down’. Meanwhile, author Ariel Delgado Dixon described this as being a ‘campus novel with the dark heart of a thriller’ that turns out to be a ‘contemporary, clever debut’.

So many others have loved this book that you are sure to join their number upon picking up a copy of this novel! Eli Raphael is able to capture Washington State with its windy coast and a boarding school full of privilege and secrets in this story of power, grief, and the risky price that you can end up paying in order to belong.

Lenny Winter knows that she did not kill a certain boy, even if it’s true that she had wished he would die hundreds of times. Lenny was 15 years old when she moved in with her parents to an old houseboat located off Washington’s coast. She pictures a simple and quiet life where she charts constellations and goes after her dream of being an astronomer.

Everything ends up changing when a tragedy pulls her world apart. The event ends up sending her out of nowhere to Blanchard, a boarding school set up for the elite of the Pacific Northwest. Here tradition and wealth go hand in hand and are the law of the land. There are those there that seem to naturally belong there without issue, and then there is Lenny.

Blanchard is impressive and insular but also, at the same time, haunted by its own personal legends. At the center of all of it is the Pascalianum Club, a secret society that has worked hard to shape the greatest and most notorious students of the school who see their influence go way beyond the walls of the campus.

Lenny has never felt like more of an outsider. She wants to belong more than anything and gets pulled into its orbit, but has an inner instinct that is telling her that the club may end up feeding on the vulnerable things inside of her that she would prefer to hide.

Privilege is on a collision course with her own grief and as her loyalty turns into obsession, the choices that Lenny ends up making are going to lead to a reckoning that will be tough to forget as well as a murder investigation that may end up testing each and every story that she tells herself when it comes to things such as hope power, guilt, and who she is becoming.

This is a fascinating work that will pull readers into its mystery and a different world entirely. This book asks important questions, such as what we would end up risking to get something and what we end up becoming as the result of our choices. When the need to belong trumps other things, what will end up happening? Can Lenny truly afford to find out?

Anything is possible but only one ending will occur. This is the perfect summer read to flip through while hanging out by the pool but is a great read no matter what the season is. Read Night Objects by Eli Raphael to find out what happens in the end and see how this mystery resolves.