Jay Coles Books in Order
Jay Coles has written 8 books, published between 2014 and 2025. The first book is The Growing Feathers (2014) and the newest is Your Final Moments (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 2014–2025
- Pages on record
- 2,345 in 7 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 39–59 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,345 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
Jay Coles, born 17 December 1995, is an American author of young adult fiction and a composer of concert band music. Tyler Johnson Was Here (2018), a stand-alone novel inspired by Black Lives Matter, sits in a catalogue of 8 books running from The Growing Feathers (2014) to Your Final Moments (2025). Lionheart Saga is the series recorded against the name. Subjects record children's fiction, grief, racism, African American teenagers and single-parent families. Under the Lights, Come as You Were, Things We Couldn't Say and Dead Break complete the list.
How many Jay Coles books are there?
Jay Coles has 8 books, released between 2014 and 2025. 1 of them belong to the Lionheart Saga series.
Jay Coles Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Jay Coles 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.
- 1The Growing Feathers2014 · 294 pages · confirmed 1/420142941/4
- 220154981/4
- 3Under the Lights2015 · 274 pages · confirmed 1/420152741/4
- 4Come as You Were2017 · 356 pages · confirmed 1/420173561/4
- 5Tyler Johnson Was Here2018 · 299 pages · confirmed 1/420182991/4
- 6Things We Couldn't Say2021 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/420213201/4
- 720233041/4
- 8Your Final Moments2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
Jay Coles 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.
Lionheart Saga in order
1 book- 1. Lionheart
Outer Banks in order
1 book- 2. Dead Break
Standalone books
6 books6 Jay Coles titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Jay Coles books in order?
You only need to read Jay Coles books in order within the Lionheart Saga series, which holds 1 of the 8 Jay Coles books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Jay Coles
Start with The Growing Feathers (2014), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Jay Coles book?
Your Final Moments (2025) is the newest Jay Coles book released so far.
Is there a new Jay Coles book coming?
No next Jay Coles book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Jay Coles at a glance
- Still publishing
- Jay Coles published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Jay Coles books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 2,345 pages across the 7 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 304 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Jay Coles books, 5 of 8, were published in the 2010s.
What the Jay Coles books are about
2 of the 8 Jay Coles books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. No subject is tagged on more than one of them, so each one below describes a single book. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- African American teenagers 1 of 2 books
- African Americans 1 of 2 books
- Brothers 1 of 2 books
- Children's fiction 1 of 2 books
- Death 1 of 2 books
- Grief 1 of 2 books
- Racism 1 of 2 books
- Single-parent families 1 of 2 books