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 200300 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.

  1. 1
    The Coldest Winter Ever1999 · 337 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999337
  2. 2
    A Deeper Love Inside2012 · 480 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012480
  3. 3
    A Deeper Love Inside2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013
  4. 4
    Life After Death2021 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021384
  5. 5
    Love After Midnight2024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024

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.

More books by Sister Souljah

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