Coldest Winter Ever Books in Order
Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah contains 5 books, published between 1999 and 2024. The first book is The Coldest Winter Ever (1999) and the newest is Love After Midnight (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 5
- Published
- 1999–2024
- Pages on record
- 1,201 in 3 of 5 books
- Reading time
- 20–30 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,201 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 3 of 5 titles with a page count on record.
The Coldest Winter Ever is a series by Sister Souljah, five books long. The first novel, The Coldest Winter Ever (1999), introduces Winter, named for the New York snowstorm she was born in and the daughter of a wealthy Brooklyn drug-dealing family. A Deeper Love Inside followed in 2012, Life After Death in 2021 and Love After Midnight in 2024. The Coldest Winter Ever was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller, was nominated for PBS's The Great American Read, and Essence named it among the 50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years. African American women, New York, inner cities and urban fiction run through the subjects.
How many Coldest Winter Ever books are there?
Coldest Winter Ever has 5 books, released between 1999 and 2024.
Coldest Winter Ever Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 5 Coldest Winter Ever 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 Coldest Winter Ever1999 · 337 pages · confirmed 1/419993371/4
- 2A Deeper Love Inside2012 · 480 pages · confirmed 1/420124801/4
- 3A Deeper Love Inside2013 · confirmed 1/42013–1/4
- 4Life After Death2021 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/420213841/4
- 5Love After Midnight2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
Is there a chronological order for Coldest Winter Ever?
No separate chronological order is on record for Coldest Winter Ever, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.
Do you have to read Coldest Winter Ever books in order?
You should read the Coldest Winter Ever books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Coldest Winter Ever book also stands alone.
Where to start with Coldest Winter Ever
Start with The Coldest Winter Ever (1999), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Coldest Winter Ever book?
Love After Midnight (2024) is the newest Coldest Winter Ever book released so far.
Is there a new Coldest Winter Ever book coming?
No next Coldest Winter Ever book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Coldest Winter Ever at a glance
- Still running
- Coldest Winter Ever is still running, with a title published as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- Coldest Winter Ever books have appeared about one every 6 years on average.
- Length
- 1,201 pages across the 3 of 5 books with a recorded length, a median of 384 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Coldest Winter Ever books, 2 of 5, were published in the 2020s.
What the Coldest Winter Ever books are about
3 of the 5 Coldest Winter Ever books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: african american women is tagged on 3 of 3. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- African American women 3 of 3 books
- African Americans 3 of 3 books
- New York (N.Y.) 3 of 3 books
- Inner cities 2 of 3 books
- African american & black 1 of 3 books
- African american & black, urban & street lit 1 of 3 books
- African american & black, women 1 of 3 books
- Urban fiction 1 of 3 books
More books by Sister Souljah
The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.
- Sister Souljah books in order 9 books

