Life is Strange Books in Order

A year after choosing Chloe over Arcadia Bay, Max tries to build a life with her in Seattle. Strange disruptions in her time powers intrude on their new friendships, raising doubts about whether their hard-won future can last.

Max and Chloe return to Arcadia Bay as the consequences of Max's decision continue to surface. Her promise to stop using her powers becomes harder to keep when the past and their present refuse to stay separate.

Max's attempt to save Tristan draws her into danger when drug dealers capture her. Tristan seeks Chloe and Rachel's help, forcing the friends to act as the Waves arc closes and their choices carry unexpected consequences.

Max's search for her original Chloe unsettles the friendships around her as the road trip develops. Attempts to connect across realities reveal that the people she knows may be more complicated than she had assumed.

The Waves arc places Max in an unfamiliar timeline, with a different Chloe and a living Rachel Amber. Freed from the disruptions that forced her departure, Max must face the emotional cost of entering a life that is not hers.

Max's visions reveal lives in which Arcadia Bay's tragedy unfolded differently, while her place in reality grows increasingly uncertain. At the close of the Dust arc, she and Chloe confront a decision about how they can move forward.

The Strings arc begins with Max ready to reveal her origins to Chloe and Rachel after their rescue of her. Tristan's unusual powers complicate the disclosure, while Rachel's acting tour creates new questions about the friends' future.

Max's journey through an alternate timeline encounters new trouble while Chloe is happy and Rachel remains alive. Despite finding stability in this reality, Max still struggles to understand where she belongs after leaving her own Chloe behind.

Max continues adapting to a reality where Chloe and Rachel are together, keeping her own history hidden as familiar faces return. Her new surroundings offer companionship, but also reminders of the timeline and relationship she left behind.

After telling Chloe and Rachel the truth, Max acknowledges her wish to return to her own timeline. Their friends prepare to travel, while Tristan experiments with a power he barely understands and becomes central to a new challenge.

Back in Arcadia Bay, Max and Chloe try to understand the strange encounters that accompany Max's unstable powers. The mystery deepens as different realities intrude, threatening both Max's health and the future the two hoped to share.

The travelers' shifting relationships and brief moments of joy give way to an approaching storm. Max confronts another crisis in which using her powers could save her friends, while the consequences may complicate her hoped-for return.

The parallel road trips reach Tombstone, where Max, Chloe, and Rachel's pirate costumes collide with a Western setting. Meanwhile, Chloe and Tristan work on the problem of bringing Max back across the gap between their realities.

Max sets out with Chloe and Rachel on a cross-country journey following the High Seas, hoping to find a route home. Across parallel realities, another Chloe and Tristan begin seeking a way to reunite with her.

Max holds onto a fleeting connection with her original Chloe as Rachel prepares for her Hamlet tour. Working with Tristan to reach another reality, she faces the effects of her efforts on the Chloe beside her.

With Tristan's ability to phase between realities offering a possible route home, Max prepares to push her own powers further. Her journey with Chloe and Rachel continues as she works toward rejoining the Chloe in her original timeline.

Max's cross-country journey with Chloe and Rachel brings an unexpected discovery and a new ally, renewing her hope of returning home. This opening Coming Home issue also includes an additional story featuring True Colors protagonist Alex Chen.

As the Tracks arc concludes, Max, Chloe, and Rachel continue east while their separate universes seem to converge. Max must reckon with an instinctive use of her powers and what it means for Tristan's efforts to help her.