Barry Lyga

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  • Bibliography:
    48 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2006
  • Latest Book:
    November 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Archvillain

1 - Archvillain (Oct-2010)
2 - The Mad Mask (Jan-2012)
3 - Yesterday Again (Jan-2013)

Crossover Crisis

1 - Green Arrow's Perfect Shot (Aug-2019)
2 - Supergirl's Sacrifice (Jun-2020)
3 - The Legends of Forever (Mar-2021)

The Flash (TV)

1 - Hocus Pocus (Oct-2017)
2 - Johnny Quick (Apr-2018)
3 - The Tornado Twins (Oct-2018)
4 - Green Arrow's Perfect Shot (Aug-2019)
5 - Supergirl's Sacrifice (Jun-2020)
6 - The Legends of Forever (Mar-2021)

Jasper (Jazz) Dent

0.5 - Lucky Day (Apr-2014)
1 - I Hunt Killers (Apr-2012)
2 - Game (Apr-2013)
3 - Blood of My Blood (Sep-2014)

Multi-Author Series List

Marvel's The Avengers

Thanos: Titan Consumed (Nov-2018)

Marvel's X-Men

Wolverine Young Readers Novel (May-2013)

Book List in Order: 48 titles

  • The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl

    Fanboy has never had it good, but lately his sophomore year is turning out to be its own special hell. The bullies have made him their favorite target, his best (and only) friend seems headed for the dark side (sports and popularity), and his pregnan...

  • Boy Toy

    A riveting and disturbing novel about a seventh-grade boy who has a very adult relationship with his female teacher. Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is. Five years ago, Josh's life changed. Drastically. And everyone in...

  • Teenagers from the Future: Essays on the Legion of Super-Heroes

    Foreword by MATT FRACTION. Afterword by BARRY LYGA. For 50 years, the Legion of Super-Heroes has occupied its own, vital corner of the DC Universe - and comics fandom. The Legion's expansive cast, bizarre characters, futuristic setting, extended stor...

  • Hero-Type

    Everyone is treating Kevin as a hero. He was in the right place and the right time and he saved a girl from being murdered. Only Kevin knows though, why he was able to save her. Things get even more complicated when Kevin is seen removing two patriot...

  • Worst Day Ever

    He's Marvel's most popular mutant...and the best there is at what he does! Now, for the first time ever, experience the storied saga of everybody's favorite feral X-Man. In his own words - fully illustrated with archival images from more than 30 year...

  • Goth Girl Rising

    Time is a funny thing in the hospital. In the mental ward. You lose track of it easily. After six months in the Maryland Mental Health Unit, Kyra Sellers, a.k.a. Goth Girl, is going home. Unfortunately, she's about to find out that while she was a...

  • Archvillain

    Archvillain - 1

    Kyle Camden knows exactly where he was the night Mighty Mike arrived: Sneaking around the fallow field behind Bouring Middle School (motto: "The U Makes It Exciting!"), running the electrical cabling that would allow him to dump the contents of the o...

  • Mangaman

    East meets West in this innovative and very smart graphic novel by Barry Lyga, illustrated by Colleen Doran. Sci-fi adventure meets love story -- and East meets West -- in Mangaman, an original graphic novel for teens. Ryoko, a manga character from...

  • The Mad Mask

    Archvillain - 2

    Things haven't been going well for Kyle since Mighty Mike became the new town hero. He's pretty sure he could fix this disaster if he could expose Mike's secret (he's an alien), but to do that Kyle would have to admit he is the Azure Avenger -- the u...



  • I Hunt Killers

    Jasper (Jazz) Dent - 1

    What if the world's worst serial killer...was your dad? Jasper (Jazz) Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say. But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was ye...

  • Yesterday Again

    Archvillain - 3

    Kyle Camden, a.k.a. the Azure Avenger, unintentional Bouring archvillain, has a foolproof plan to finally prove that Mighty Mike, unintentional town superhero, is an alien. Kyle's going back in time to the night Mike Mighty showed up on Earth and vid...

  • Game

    Jasper (Jazz) Dent - 2

    Billy grinned. "Oh, New York," he whispered. "We're gonna have so much fun." I Hunt Killers introduced the world to Jazz, the son of history's most infamous serial killer, Billy Dent. In an effort to prove murder didn't run in the family, Jazz ...

  • Wolverine Young Readers Novel

    Marvel's X-Men

    Award-winning writer Neil Gaiman presents a unique vision of the Marvel Universe...set four hundred years in the past! Classic Marvel icons such as the X-Men, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and Daredevil are re-imagined in this intriguing world of 17...

  • Unsoul'd

    "Like Nick Hornby writing an episode of Californication!" -- Sarah Maclean, New York Times bestselling author."Funny…interesting and complex… honest and doesn't shy away from the raw/uncomfortable truth" -- Maria V. Snyder, author of Poison Stu...

  • Lucky Day

    Jasper (Jazz) Dent - 0.5

    This is the story of the small town sheriff who captured one of the world's most ruthless and cunning murderers. A prequel to the New York Times bestselling thriller, I Hunt Killers. It all started with Dead Girl #1 and Dead Girl #2, the first kil...

  • Career Day

    A prequel short story set one year before the events in the New York Times bestselling I HUNT KILLERS!Jasper has a problem, and everyone knows it: His father is Billy Dent, world-famous serial killer. Even though Dear Old Dad is in jail, Jasper still...

  • Neutral Mask

    A prequel short story set one year before the events in the New York Times bestselling I HUNT KILLERS!Connie is the new girl in town, but she already has friends...and maybe even a boyfriend. Her father isn't happy that Connie is dating a white boy l...

  • Blood Boy

    Fan-favorite character Howie Gersten -- Jazz Dent’s hemophiliac best friend from the I HUNT KILLERS series -- finally gets a story all his own! Set one year before the events of the series, “Blood Boy” takes you inside Howie’s hilariously...

  • Blood of My Blood

    Jasper (Jazz) Dent - 3

    Jazz Dent has been shot and left to die in New York City. His girlfriend Connie is in the clutches of Jazz's serial killer father, Billy. And his best friend Howie is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz's own home in tiny Lobo's Nod. Somehow, thes...



  • After the Red Rain

    A postapocalyptic novel with a cinematic twist from New York Times bestseller Barry Lyga, actor Peter Facinelli, and producer Robert DeFranco. On the ruined planet Earth, where 50 billion people are confined to megacities and resources are scarce,...

  • The Secret Sea

    Twelve-year-old Zak Killian is hearing a voice. Could it be a guardian angel? A ghost? No, that's crazy. But sometimes the voice is so real. . . . It warns him of danger. One day Zak is standing on the subway platform when the tunnel starts to fil...

  • The Ghosts at 95

    ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS STORY BENEFIT THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION! The year is 2006, and Jeremy Castle has it pretty good. His girlfriend has left him, true, but he has a job at a top downtown financial firm that has made him pretty rich. From ...

  • Loving the University

    ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS STORY BENEFIT THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION Stavros has worked his whole life at the Pizza Emporium. (Or has he?) He's watched generations of University men come and go, ever-changing, while his life has remained the same....

  • Four Minutes

    ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS STORY GO TO THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION!The place: The suburbs.The time: Tomorrow, maybe.The situation: Ray is just trying to get by in the newer, greater America. With a wife and a new baby, he can’t afford to get mix...

  • The Ideas of March

    ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS STORY BENEFIT THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION! A girl receives the most disturbing Valentines present ever. While everyone is talking about that, a famous actress adopts her latest child overseas, to the camera flashes of th...

  • Bang

    A chunk of old memory, adrift in a pool of blood. Sebastian Cody did something horrible, something no one--not even Sebastian himself--can forgive. At the age of four, he accidentally shot and killed his infant sister with his father's gun. Now...

  • Pulse vs. the Killing Fiend

    ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS STORY GO TO THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION!A hero. A villain. And a cop caught in between.“Sometimes it feels more like they’re all involved in some kind of celestial chess match and we’re less than pawns. We’re the...

  • Her Decade

    ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS STORY GO TO THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION! A young man celebrates his eighteenth birthday with some drinking. Who could get hurt? Susan Ann Marchetti, that's who. Killed in a drinking and driving accident. And now the youn...

  • The Life Cycle of Stars

    ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS STORY BENEFIT THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION! With her son now in school, bored stay-at-home mom Heather no longer needs to stay at home. At the local university, she starts auditing classes, looking for something to do as ...



  • Bobby

  • Trading Worlds

  • When I Die

    ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS STORY BENEFIT THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION! Robert Ogilvy served his country, just as his father and grandfather before him did. There was never any question; never any doubt. Then Robert's son is killed during a routine ...

  • Hocus Pocus

    The Flash (TV) - 1

    Race into action in this all-new original adventure based on the hit CW TV series, The Flash! In a timeline where Flashpoint never happened, The Flash (aka Barry Allen) must face a mysterious villain who can control the minds and actions of citi...

  • The Autopsying of Michael Edward Morgan

    ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS STORY GO TO THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION! From Manhattan to Baltimore to Vietnam to Iraq, a coroner reflects on his life, his experiences, and his relationship to violence....

  • Meet Me Tonight

    ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS STORY BENEFIT THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION! In a small town that is more than it seems, Alex Beckman confronts the woman he loved and left, a deranged homeless man, an innkeeper who may be living in the past, and most imp...

  • Johnny Quick

    The Flash (TV) - 2

    Based on the hit CW TV show, this second title in The Flash middle-grade series follows Barry Allen as he continues his mission to protect Central City from the sinister Hocus Pocus -- but this time, a new evil lurks beneath the city streets... W...

  • The Tornado Twins

    The Flash (TV) - 3

    Catch up with the super adventures of Barry Allen, also known as the Flash, in the third book of this middle-grade series. Featuring adventures not seen on TV, Barry continues his mission to protect Central City from sinister plots. The book builds u...

  • Thanos: Titan Consumed

    Marvel's The Avengers

    In Avengers: Infinity War, a threat emerged from the cosmos--Thanos, a ruthless warlord who plans to collect all six Infinity Stones. Joined by his formidable allies, he will be near-unstoppable at achieving his goal. The Avengers, the Guardians of t...

  • Green Arrow's Perfect Shot

    Crossover Crisis - 1
    The Flash (TV) - 4

    It’s the crossover event fans have been waiting for, as The Flash joins forces with Green Arrow! When the Green Arrow needs help tracking down a sinister bomber in Star City, speedster Barry Allen is out the door in a ash. But as The Flash save...



  • Supergirl's Sacrifice

    Crossover Crisis - 2
    The Flash (TV) - 5

    The can’t-miss crossover adventure continues as Supergirl and the Flash team up to save the multiverse! While the Flash and Team Arrow closed the dimensional rift looming over Central City, they still have plenty of chaos to deal with: Cisco an...

  • Mike and Phil and All the World

    What if you could change everything about one thing on the spot? What if what you thought was your life was really just someone's creation? This is not your typical love story.

    In spite of his doubts, seventeen-year-old Mike believed that he w...

  • The Legends of Forever

    Crossover Crisis - 3
    The Flash (TV) - 6

    The Legends of Tomorrow enter the fray in this epic conclusion to the Crossover Crisis trilogy   The Flash and his friends have defeated Anti-Matter Man, but the race to save the multiverse is far from over. As a threat looms large at the end of...

  • The Flash: Supergirl's Sacrifice

    The can’t-miss crossover adventure continues as Supergirl and the Flash team up to save the multiverse -- now in paperback!   While the Flash and Team Arrow closed the dimensional rift looming over Central City, they still have plenty of chaos...

  • Time Will Tell

    A young-adult thriller ricocheting between the bigotry of the past and present as teens unravel their parents’ secrets. Perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying. Four teens have dug up the time capsule that their parents buried in 1986 and never...

  • Generation Wonder

    Generation Wonder: The New Age of Heroes is a high-flying YA anthology featuring 13 short stories that turn superhero tropes on their head and offer fresh perspectives on modern myths.   Triumph. Tragedy. The empyreal. The infernal. Even the mun...

  • Edited

    In the spirit of The Princess Bride and Stranger Than Fiction, New York Times bestselling author Barry Lyga takes the reader on a wild and surreal ride through the heart of his own creation—perfect for fans of A. S. King, Andrew Smith, and Jeff...

  • A.K.A. Mike and Phil and All the World

    In the spirit of Stranger Than Fiction, New York Times bestselling author Barry Lyga takes the reader on a wild and surreal ride through the heart of his own creation—perfect for fans of A. S. King, Andrew Smith, and Jeff Zentner.What starts as...

  • Down Time

    • / Mystery
    • Buy Buy

    Billy Dent is the world's most notorious serial killer, but even killers need to go on vacation sometimes. When a mysterious death occurs in the hotel where Billy is staying, his "job" seems to call. Will his vacation truly be down time for him after...

Award-Winning Books by Barry Lyga

I Hunt Killers
2014 Kentucky Bluegrass Award -- Grades 9-12


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Barry Lyga has published 48 books.

Barry Lyga does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Edited, was published in November 2022.

The first book by Barry Lyga, The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, was published in October 2006.

Yes. Barry Lyga has 4 series.
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