Below is the complete list of Tahereh Mafi’s Furthermore books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Furthermore Books
About Furthermore
Tahereh Mafi’s Furthermore books form a small but richly imagined middle-grade fantasy sequence made up of Furthermore and its companion novel Whichwood. The two books are connected more by world, sensibility, and thematic design than by a conventional continuing plot. Furthermore introduces readers to Ferenwood, a place where color, magic, social identity, and personal worth are closely entangled, while Whichwood moves into a darker Persian-inspired setting shaped by death, grief, and spiritual labor. Together, they show a very different side of Mafi from the dystopian romance of Shatter Me: more whimsical on the surface, but still deeply concerned with loneliness, self-worth, and the pain of being unseen.
Furthermore centers on Alice Alexis Queensmeadow, a girl born without the vivid color that defines the people around her. In Ferenwood, color is not merely decorative; it is bound to beauty, magic, belonging, and social value. Alice’s near-colorless appearance makes her feel like an error inside a world that prizes brightness, and her sense of rejection is sharpened by the disappearance of her father. When Oliver Newbanks offers her a chance to search for him in the dangerous land of Furthermore, the story becomes both a quest and a test of Alice’s understanding of herself.
The land of Furthermore gives the first book much of its force. It is strange, rule-bound, beautiful, treacherous, and often illogical in a fairy-tale way. Mafi uses that world to create wonder, but also to challenge Alice’s assumptions. Magic does not operate as simple wish fulfillment, and appearances cannot be trusted. The journey repeatedly forces Alice and Oliver to rely on imagination, caution, honesty, and courage rather than the forms of value their society has taught them to recognize.
Whichwood shifts the focus to Laylee, a young mordeshoor in the village of Whichwood. Her work is grim and sacred: she washes the bodies and souls of the dead to prepare them for the afterlife. Unlike Furthermore, whose palette is built around color and outward difference, Whichwood is colder, sadder, and more shadowed by exhaustion. Laylee has inherited a responsibility far too heavy for a child, and the novel’s emotional center lies in how neglect, grief, and duty have isolated her from ordinary tenderness.
The companion structure matters because Whichwood is not simply Furthermore 2 in a straightforward adventure-series sense. Alice and Oliver are part of the wider connection, but Laylee’s story has its own atmosphere, cultural inspiration, and emotional purpose. The first book is about a girl who believes she lacks the qualities her world values; the second is about a girl whose value is tied to work no one wants to see clearly. Both novels ask what happens to children who are made to carry loneliness as if it were their natural state.
Mafi’s prose is central to the identity of these books. Her language is lush, playful, image-heavy, and often deliberately extravagant, which suits worlds where magic and emotion are inseparable. At the same time, the stories are grounded in recognizable childhood fears: being different, being abandoned, being overburdened, being misunderstood, and wondering whether love must be earned by becoming more useful or more beautiful.
The Furthermore sequence is compact, but it has a clear place in Mafi’s bibliography. It shows her working in middle-grade fantasy without losing the emotional intensity that defines her better-known young adult fiction. Across Ferenwood, Furthermore, and Whichwood, the books turn magical landscapes into reflections of inner life, building stories where friendship and self-acceptance are not soft lessons but acts of rescue.