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Whatever After Books in Order

Sarah Mlynowski has written 20 Whatever After books, published between 2012 and 2025. The first book is Fairest of All (2012) and the newest is Mirror Mirror (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
20
Published
2012–2025
Confirmed
5 of 20 titles
Pages on record
2,135 in 12 of 20 books
Reading time
36–53 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,135 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 12 of 20 titles with a page count on record.

See all 20 books in order Printable Whatever After checklist

A magic mirror drops a brother and sister into fairy tales in Whatever After, Sarah Mlynowski's series for children. Fairest of All (2012) opens the run, and the 20 catalogued books work through familiar stories one at a time - If the Shoe Fits, Sink or Swim, Once Upon a Frog. Mirror Mirror (2025) is the most recent, and the series continues. Books are short, at a median of 176 pages.

How many Whatever After books are there?

Whatever After has 20 books, released between 2012 and 2025.

Whatever After Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 20 Whatever After 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 Fairest of All by Sarah Mlynowski, book 1 of the Whatever After series (2012)
  2. Cover of If the Shoe Fits by Sarah Mlynowski, book 2 of the Whatever After series (2012)
  3. Cover of Sink or Swim by Sarah Mlynowski, book 3 of the Whatever After series (2013)
  4. Cover of Dream On by Sarah Mlynowski, book 4 of the Whatever After series (2013)
  5. Cover of Bad Hair Day by Sarah Mlynowski, book 5 of the Whatever After series (2014)
  6. Cover of Cold As Ice by Sarah Mlynowski, book 6 of the Whatever After series (2014)
  7. Cover of Beauty Queen by Sarah Mlynowski, book 7 of the Whatever After series (2015)
  8. Cover of Once Upon a Frog by Sarah Mlynowski, book 8 of the Whatever After series (2015)
  9. Cover of Genie in a Bottle by Sarah Mlynowski, book 9 of the Whatever After series (2016)
  10. Cover of Sugar and Spice by Sarah Mlynowski, book 10 of the Whatever After series (2016)
  11. Cover of Abby in Wonderland by Sarah Mlynowski, book 1 of the Whatever After Special Edition series (2017)
  12. Cover of Two Peas in a Pod by Sarah Mlynowski, book 11 of the Whatever After series (2018)
  13. Cover of Seeing Red by Sarah Mlynowski, book 12 of the Whatever After series (2018)
  14. Cover of Spill the Beans by Sarah Mlynowski, book 13 of the Whatever After series (2019)
  15. Cover of Abby in Oz by Sarah Mlynowski, book 2 of the Whatever After Special Edition series (2020)
  16. Cover of Good as Gold by Sarah Mlynowski, book 14 of the Whatever After series (2021)
  17. Cover of Just Dance by Sarah Mlynowski, book 15 of the Whatever After series (2022)
  18. Cover of Liar, Liar by Sarah Mlynowski, book 16 of the Whatever After series (2024)
  1. 1
    Fairest of AllWhatever After #12012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  2. 2
    If the Shoe FitsWhatever After #22012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    Sink or SwimWhatever After #32013 · 165 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013165
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Dream OnWhatever After #42013 · 176 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013176
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    Bad Hair DayWhatever After #52014 · 165 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014165
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    Cold As IceWhatever After #62014 · 176 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2014176
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Beauty QueenWhatever After #72015 · confirmed 2/4
    2015–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    Once Upon a FrogWhatever After #82015 · 176 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2015176
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Genie in a BottleWhatever After #92016 · 157 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016157
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    Sugar and SpiceWhatever After #102016 · confirmed 2/4
    2016–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    Abby in WonderlandWhatever After Special Edition #12017 · confirmed 2/4
    2017–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  12. 12
    Two Peas in a PodWhatever After #112018 · 176 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018176
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  13. 13
    Seeing RedWhatever After #122018 · 176 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018176
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  14. 14
    Spill the BeansWhatever After #132019 · 176 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019176
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  15. 15
    Abby in OzWhatever After Special Edition #22020 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020240
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  16. 16
    Good as GoldWhatever After #142021 · 176 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2021176
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  17. 17
    Just DanceWhatever After #152022 · 176 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2022176
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  18. 18
    Abby in NeverlandWhatever After Special Edition #32023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  19. 19
    Liar, LiarWhatever After #162024 · confirmed 2/4
    2024–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  20. 20
    Mirror MirrorWhatever After #172025 · confirmed 3/4
    2025–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Do you have to read Whatever After books in order?

You should read the Whatever After books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Whatever After book also stands alone.

Where to start with Whatever After

Start with Fairest of All (2012), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Whatever After book?

Mirror Mirror (2025) is the newest Whatever After book released so far.

Is there a new Whatever After book coming?

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

Whatever After at a glance

Still running
Whatever After is still running, with a title published as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Whatever After books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
2,135 pages across the 12 of 20 books with a recorded length, a median of 176 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Whatever After books, 14 of 20, were published in the 2010s.

What the Whatever After books are about

16 of the 20 Whatever After books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: magic is tagged on 12 of 16. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Sarah Mlynowski

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.