Reading order
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants reading order
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants2001
- The Second Summer of the Sisterhood2003
- Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood2005
- Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood2007
- Sisterhood Everlasting2011
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5- 7.57.5 / 10701 ratings
- Score
- 5 volumes
- Volumes
- 2001–2011
- Published
- about 30 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Young adult#62
- Genre
Quick answer
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Publication order
5 volumes2001–2011Completed
- Four friends share one pair of jeans that fits them all, passing it between them over four summers.
- Read the four Summer books in order; Sisterhood Everlasting (2011), set ten years later for adult readers, is a much darker epilogue.
- The first book is the most-read.
A plan for the whole series
5 volumes, 1,630 pages, about 30 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 6 weeks.
Share of volume 1’s readers who reach the last volume. Chance of reaching the last volume: low
Stages
2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 12, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.
- Stage 119 habout 4 weeksby November 23, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 211 h15 daysby December 12, 2026
- The end of the series
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How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants book is the best?
By reader score, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (7.6/10). The lowest-rated is The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (7.4/10).
Which The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants book is the longest?
“Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood” is the longest at 400 pages; the shortest is “Sisterhood Everlasting” with 205 pages.