Reading Guide: After Books In Order

If you haven’t heard of the After Series by Anna Todd, grab some popcorn and settle in. Today’s blog post is a reading guide where we’re going to be going over all of the After books in order.

This romance series features a flawed relationship between college students Tessa Young and bad boy Hardin Scott. Throughout the After book series, they go through many ups and downs as they grow into adults, and learn what love is. In today’s reading guide we’re going to be discussing the After books in order, so that you can read them in the correct order.

What are the After books In Order?

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After (2014)
After We Collided (2014)
After We Fell (2014)
After Ever Happy (2015)
Before (2015)

Who is Author Anna Todd?

Anna Todd is an American author best known as the author of the After series, which began as a fan fiction about Harry Styles published on Wattpad. The series gained massive popularity online and was later adapted into a collection of bestselling novels. It has since been turned into a successful film franchise. Todd’s work often explores themes of love, obsession, and personal growth. She’s considered one of the key figures who helped bring Wattpad stories into mainstream publishing.

Some other parts of Anna’s work include The Spring Girls, the Brightest Stars Series, as well as the After film adaptations (starring Josephine Langford and Hero Fiennes Tiffin) that were based off the original material from the bestselling book series.

What is After About? (Book 1)

After is the first book in the After Series by Anna Todd.

Tessa goes off to college with a dependable boyfriend waiting at home and her life and career neatly planned out. On her first day on campus, everything shifts when she encounters Hardin. With his disheveled brown locks, cocky British charm, and a canvas of tattoos, he’s a stark departure from her familiar world.

But Hardin’s rudeness borders on cruelty, and Tessa resolves to hate him. At least until they share a charged moment alone—and suddenly, Tessa is questioning everything she’s ever known about herself.

Despite his hot-and-cold attitude, Tessa is drawn to uncover the hidden layers within Hardin. In the midst of her newfound independence and electrifying uncertainty, Tessa’s connection with Hardin feels like the passionate love she’s been looking for. With her carefully laid plans forever disrupted, what comes after? (from Amazon.com)

What is After We Collided About? (Book 2)

After a tumultuous beginning to their relationship, Tessa and Hardin were on the path to making things work. She knew he could be cruel, but when a bombshell revelation is dropped about the origins of their relationship—and Hardin’s mysterious past—Tessa is beside herself.

Hardin will always be…Hardin. But is he really the deep, thoughtful guy Tessa fell madly in love with despite his angry exterior, or has he been a stranger all along? She wishes she could walk away. It’s just not that easy. Not with the memory of passionate nights spent in his arms. His electric touch. His hungry kisses.

Still, Tessa’s not sure she can endure one more broken promise. She put so much on hold for Hardin—school, friends, her mom, a relationship with a guy who really loved her, and now possibly even a promising new career. She needs to move forward with her life.

Hardin knows he made a mistake, possibly the biggest one of his life. He’s not going down without a fight. But can he change? Will he change…for love? (from Amazon.com)

What is After We Fell About? (Book 3)

Just as Tessa makes the biggest decision of her life, everything changes. Revelations about first her family, and then Hardin’s, throw everything they knew before in doubt and makes their hard-won future together more difficult to claim.

Tessa’s life begins to come unglued. Nothing is what she thought it was. Not her friends. Not her family. The one person she should be able to rely on, Hardin, is furious when he discovers the massive secret she’s been keeping. And rather than being understanding, he turns to sabotage.

Tessa knows Hardin loves her and will do anything to protect her, but there’s a difference between loving someone and being able to have them in your life. This cycle of jealousy, unpredictable anger, and forgiveness is exhausting. She’s never felt so intensely for anyone, so exhilarated by someone’s kiss—but is the irrepressible heat between her and Hardin worth all the drama? Love used to be enough to hold them together. But if Tessa follows her heart now, will it be…the end? (Amazon.com)

What is After Ever Happy About? (Book 4)

It’s never been all rainbows and sunshine for Tessa and Hardin, but each new challenge they’ve faced has only made their passionate bond stronger and stronger. But when a revelation about the past shakes Hardin’s inpenetrable façade to the core—and then Tessa suffers a tragedy—will they stick together again, or be torn apart?

As the shocking truth about each of their families emerges, it’s clear the two lovers are not so different from each other. Tessa is no longer the sweet, simple, good girl she was when she met Hardin—any more than he is the cruel, moody boy she fell so hard for. Tessa understands all the troubling emotions brewing beneath Hardin’s exterior, and she knows she’s the only one who can calm him when he erupts. He needs her.

But the more layers of his past come to light, the darker he grows, and the harder he pushes Tessa—and everyone else in his life—away. Tessa’s not sure if she really can save him—not without sacrificing herself. She refuses to go down without a fight. But who is she fighting for—Hardin or herself? (from Amazon.com)

What is Before About? (Book 5)

BEFORE Hardin met Tessa he was a raging storm. DURING those first moments they met, he realized he needed to keep her for himself—his life depended on it. AFTER they got together, the world would never be the same.

Hardin and Tessa’s dramatic love affair became a vortex pulling in everyone around them. For the first time these others are given voice as they appear before, during, and after the events in original After novels. Alongside them, Hardin’s account of his first encounters with Tessa—which will change what you thought you knew about the brooding boy and the angel who loved him. (from Amazon.com)

In Conclusion

Thank you for checking out today’s reading guide! I hope you found this information about Wattpad sensation Anna’s stories and her most popular young adult romance novel series. After is a complicated love story filled with so much angst and figuring things out. I think that’s why so many readers have become hooked on this captivating novel.

Hardin’s mind is not an easy one to understand, but young adults will enjoy these books as they dive into both Tessa and Hardin’s perspectives.

Thank you again for stopping by. Whether you check out the books or the movie series, I think you’ll enjoy this story of first love and trying to figure out a tumultuous relationship.

P.S. I think romance book lovers will really enjoy the movies because of Hardin’s cocky British accent. I mean, who doesn’t love an accent? Lol.