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After Books in Order

After contains 16 books, published between 2012 and 2017. The first book is The Shock (2012) and the newest is After 3 (2017). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
16
Published
2012–2017
Confirmed
5 of 16 titles
Pages on record
4,420 in 11 of 16 books
Reading time
74–111 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,420 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 16 titles with a page count on record.

See all 16 books in order Printable After checklist

After is a catalogue listing of 16 books dated 2012 to 2017 that combines three separate runs under three credited authors. Scott Nicholson is credited on 7, beginning with The Shock (2012), The Echo (2013) and First Light (2013), and including Milepost 291 (2014). Anna Todd is credited on 5, including After, After We Collided and After We Fell, all from 2014. Joy Ohagwu is credited on 4: After (2015), After 2 (2015), Jabez (2016) and After 3 (2017). The sourced description presents After as a fantasy series about survivors of a powerful storm that destroyed much of civilization, while the subject headings list contemporary romance, college students, secrecy and jealousy.

How many After books are there?

After has 16 books, released between 2012 and 2017.

After Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 16 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 The Shock by Scott Nicholson, book 1 of the After series (2012)
  2. Cover of After by Anna Todd, book 1 of the After series (2014)
  3. Cover of After We Collided by Anna Todd, book 2 of the After series (2014)
  4. Cover of First Light by Scott Nicholson, book 3 of the After series (2013)
  5. Cover of After We Fell by Anna Todd, book 3 of the After series (2014)
  6. Cover of Before by Anna Todd, book 5 of the After series (2015)
  7. Cover of Red Scare by Scott Nicholson, book 6 of the After series (2015)
  1. 1
    The Shock2012 · 294 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012294
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  2. 1
    After2014 · 584 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2014584
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  3. 1
    After2015 · 312 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015312
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  4. 2
    The Echo2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  5. 2
    After We Collided2014 · 671 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2014671
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  6. 2
    After 22015 · 228 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015228
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  7. 3
    First Light2013 · 98 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201398
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  8. 3
    After We Fell2014 · 837 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2014837
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  9. 3
    Jabez2016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016–
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  10. 4
    Milepost 2912014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014–
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  11. 4
    After Ever Happy2015 · 512 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2015512
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  12. 4
    After 32017 · 258 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017258
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  13. 5
    Whiteout2014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014–
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  14. 5
    Before2015 · 338 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2015338
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  15. 6
    Red Scare2015 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015288
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  16. 7
    Dying Light2015 · confirmed 1/4
    2015–
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What order should you read After books in?

Read them in publication order, starting with The Shock (2012), the earliest published title. After it come After (2014), After (2015), The Echo (2013) and After We Collided (2014); the numbered table above continues from there.

What is the newest After book?

After 3 (2017) is the newest After book released so far.

Is there a new After book coming?

No next 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.

After at a glance

No recent titles
The newest After title on record dates from 2017, 9 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
After books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
4,420 pages across the 11 of 16 books with a recorded length, a median of 312 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most After books, 16 of 16, were published in the 2010s.
Corroboration
5 of the 16 titles appear in all four independent book listings.
Attribution
Of the 16 titles, 7 are credited to Scott Nicholson, 5 to Anna Todd and 4 to Joy Ohagwu.

What the After books are about

5 of the 16 After books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: contemporary romance is tagged on 4 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.