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Gayle Forman Books in Order

Gayle Forman has written 16 books, published between 2005 and 2025. The first book is You Can't Get There from Here: A Year On the Fringes of a Shrinking World (2005) and the newest is After Life (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
16
Published
2005–2025
Pages on record
2,458 in 8 of 16 books
Reading time
41–61 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,458 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 16 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Gayle Forman, author

Gayle Forman, born June 5, 1970, is an American author of young adult fiction. If I Stay (2009) is the best-known novel: it topped the New York Times Young Adult best sellers list and became a film of the same name. Where She Went followed in 2011, and Just One Day and Just One Year both appeared in 2013. The catalogue holds 16 titles from You Can't Get There from Here (2005) to After Life (2025), with Sisters in Sanity (2007), I Was Here (2015), Leave Me (2016) and I Have Lost My Way (2018) among them. If I Stay and Just One Day are the series on the author page. Grief, love, friendship and coming of age appear in the subject tags.

How many Gayle Forman books are there?

Gayle Forman has 16 books, released between 2005 and 2025. They include 3 series and 9 titles listed outside any series.

Gayle Forman Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 16 Gayle Forman books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of You Can't Get There from Here: A Year On the Fringes of a Shrinking World by Gayle Forman (2005)
  2. Cover of Sisters in Sanity by Gayle Forman (2007)
  3. Cover of If I Stay by Gayle Forman, book 1 of the If I Stay series (2009)
  4. Cover of Where She Went by Gayle Forman, book 2 of the If I Stay series (2011)
  5. Cover of Just One Day by Gayle Forman, book 1 of the Just One Day series (2013)
  6. Cover of Just One Year by Gayle Forman, book 2 of the Just One Day series (2013)
  7. Cover of I Was Here by Gayle Forman (2015)
  8. Cover of Leave Me by Gayle Forman (2016)
  9. Cover of I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman (2018)
  10. Cover of We Are Inevitable by Gayle Forman (2021)
  11. Cover of Frankie & Bug by Gayle Forman (2021)
  12. Cover of Not Nothing by Gayle Forman (2024)
  13. Cover of After Life by Gayle Forman (2025)
  1. 1
    You Can't Get There from Here: A Year On the Fringes of a Shrinking World2005 · 336 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005336
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  2. 2
    Sisters in Sanity2007 · confirmed 2/4
    2007–
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  3. 3
    If I StayIf I Stay #12009 · 272 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009272
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  4. 4
    Where She WentIf I Stay #22011 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011304
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  5. 5
    Just One DayJust One Day #12013 · 369 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013369
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  6. 6
    Just One YearJust One Day #22013 · confirmed 2/4
    2013–
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  7. 7
    Just One NightJust One Day #32014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014–
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  8. 8
    I Was Here2015 · confirmed 2/4
    2015–
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  9. 9
    Leave Me2016 · 343 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016343
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  10. 10
    I Have Lost My Way2018 · 258 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018258
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  11. 11
    The End of My HeartGayle Forman Audiobooks #12020 · confirmed 2/4
    2020–
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  12. 12
    The WickedsFaraway #32020 · confirmed 2/4
    2020–
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  13. 13
    We Are Inevitable2021 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2021288
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  14. 14
    Frankie & Bug2021 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2021288
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  15. 15
    Not Nothing2024 · confirmed 2/4
    2024–
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  16. 16
    After Life2025 · confirmed 2/4
    2025–
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Gayle Forman books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Just One Day in order

3 books
  1. 1. Just One Day
  2. 2. Just One Year
  3. 3. Just One Night

If I Stay in order

2 books
  1. 1. If I Stay
  2. 2. Where She Went

Gayle Forman Audiobooks in order

1 book
  1. 1. The End of My Heart

Faraway in order

1 book
  1. 3. The Wickeds

Standalone books

9 books

9 Gayle Forman titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Gayle Forman books in order?

You only need to read Gayle Forman books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Gayle Forman

Start with You Can't Get There from Here: A Year On the Fringes of a Shrinking World (2005), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Gayle Forman book?

After Life (2025) is the newest Gayle Forman book released so far.

Is there a new Gayle Forman book coming?

No next Gayle Forman book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Gayle Forman at a glance

Still publishing
Gayle Forman published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Gayle Forman books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,458 pages across the 8 of 16 books with a recorded length, a median of 296 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Gayle Forman books, 7 of 16, were published in the 2010s.

What the Gayle Forman books are about

10 of the 16 Gayle Forman books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 5 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.