Barry Lyga Books in Order

Allyson and Barry Lyga explain how school libraries can select and use graphic novels. The guide includes curriculum-linked lesson plans, collection resources, visual literacy discussions, and advice on supporting reluctant readers and building bookstore partnerships.

A bullied teenager secretly creates a graphic novel he hopes will help him escape his hometown. His friendship with Kyra, a fellow comics fan known as Goth Girl, opens possibilities while revealing troubling secrets.

Josh Mendel approaches graduation while struggling with a past everyone thinks they understand. Rachel's return, college choices, and baseball pressures complicate his life, but Eve's reappearance forces him to confront what happened five years earlier.

After saving Leah Muldoon's life, Kevin Ross must decide what being called a hero actually means. Supported by his unconventional friends, he wrestles with guilt, private secrets, and questions about doing the right thing.

Kyra Sellers returns home after six months in a psychiatric unit, hoping to reconnect with Fanboy. Finding him transformed awakens old anger and memories, pushing her toward retaliation against people connected to her pain.

Keenly aware of his disappointing mutant power, Eric Mattias records life at Xavier's School for Gifted Students. His blog entries recount a particularly miserable day that also becomes a very bad day for Wolverine.

An encounter with alien energy gives Kyle Camden powers and brings Mighty Mike to Earth. While everyone celebrates Mike as a superhero, Kyle determines to expose his alien origins, even at the cost of becoming a villain.

Manga character Ryoko Kiyami falls through a dimensional rip into an American high school. His search for a way home becomes complicated when he falls for a girl from the Western comic world, where his familiar conventions make him an outsider.

Jasper Dent knows serial killers from growing up with one as his father. When bodies appear in Lobo's Nod, he helps the police investigate while fearing that his father's influence may have shaped him too deeply.

Kyle Camden wants to expose Mighty Mike's alien origins, but doing so risks revealing his own villainous identity. A newcomer called the Mad Mask offers help in exchange for Kyle's assistance building a powerful robot.

A New York detective asks Jazz Dent to help pursue the Hat-Dog Killer. Jazz and his girlfriend Connie travel from Lobo's Nod to the city, where they become entangled in the murderer's deadly game.

New in town, Connie develops feelings for Jasper Dent despite her father's objections to their interracial relationship. Learning that Jasper's father is a notorious serial killer adds another obstacle to their growing connection.

Unremarkable novelist Randall Banner wants greater fame, money, and attention. When he meets the devil at his usual coffee shop, he signs a bargain promising success, beginning an increasingly troubling journey into its consequences.

To prove Mighty Mike is an alien, Kyle Camden plans to film his arrival using a time machine. Instead, Kyle becomes stranded in 1987, befriends his young father, and confronts threats to the present.

Howie Gersten spends Halloween navigating friendship, secrets, and life with hemophilia. Set before I Hunt Killers, this story follows Jazz Dent's best friend for one night and explores his relationships with Jazz and Connie.

Wounded Jazz Dent must pursue his serial killer father while Connie remains captive and Howie fights for his life. As Jazz becomes a target himself, the pursuit raises new fears about what he might become.

A year before I Hunt Killers, Jasper Dent struggles with being known as a serial killer's son. Howie's friendship offers some relief, but meeting Connie suggests another possibility for connection amid his doubts about himself.

Two murders disrupt Sheriff G. William Tanner's reelection year in Lobo's Nod. Mourning his wife and facing a cold trail, he investigates killings that may connect his quiet town to the notorious Billy Dent.

On an overcrowded, ruined Earth, Deedra befriends Rose, a mysterious boy with unusual abilities. Their bond is threatened when the Magistrate's son is murdered and Rose becomes the prime suspect, drawing them into wider dangers.

Twelve-year-old Zak Killian hears a voice warning him of danger and foresees a subway flood. With friends Moira and Khalid, he enters an alternate universe where discovering the voice's source may threaten their home.

Sebastian Cody has lived for years with guilt over accidentally killing his infant sister with a gun. A new friendship with Aneesa offers respite, but his grief and thoughts of suicide remain difficult to escape.

In a timeline untouched by Flashpoint, Barry Allen confronts Hocus Pocus, a villain who controls people's minds. When Barry falls under that power, Team Flash must intervene before their own hero becomes a weapon.

Serial killer Billy Dent takes a vacation four years before the events of I Hunt Killers. A mysterious death in his hotel interrupts the break, drawing him toward a case with unsettling implications.

Barry Allen's pursuit of Hocus Pocus strands him on an Earth where heroes and villains have exchanged roles. Facing the evil speedster Johnny Quick, he seeks a way home while Team Flash confronts another threat.

Rejected by the people of his doomed homeworld, Thanos believes mass sacrifice can save Titan. Exile sends him across the galaxy seeking the power to impose his solution, transforming his determination to restore balance into a destructive obsession.

Barry Allen travels to the sixty-fourth century to investigate Hocus Pocus and face Abra Kadabra. Back in the present, Kid Flash pursues Earthworm while the team also struggles to protect Barry's police department job.

Barry Allen helps Green Arrow hunt a bomber in Star City, then faces a dimensional rift above Central City. Thousands of speedster refugees arrive, forcing their teams to manage the upheaval before the breach destroys their universe.

Cassie McKinney believes in the Hive's system of punishing online misconduct until her own joke goes viral. Hunted by an angry crowd, she turns to outcasts while uncovering the machinery behind sanctioned mob justice.

After closing Central City’s dimensional rift, the Flash’s allies confront stranded speedsters, missing friends, and an uncaught bomber. Anti-Matter Man’s arrival on Supergirl’s Earth forces a wider alliance to defend the multiverse against a new threat.

With Anti-Matter Man defeated, the Flash and his allies seek help from the Legends of Tomorrow against a threat beyond time. Cisco’s disappearance and Owlman’s plans complicate the final struggle to preserve the endangered multiverse.

Four teenagers open their parents' forgotten time capsule and discover a bloody knife with a confession. Their investigation connects present-day danger to events in 1986, exposing secrets someone may be willing to kill to preserve.

After driving Philomel away, Mike notices that reality itself has changed. His search for a way to recover their relationship becomes an investigation into the universe, its missing pieces, and the storyteller behind his life.

These prequel stories explore Jasper Dent’s childhood with a serial killer father and the events that shaped him before he began hunting murderers. The collection includes earlier tales and a new episode from Jazz’s troubled past.

When brides are murdered on their wedding nights, the FBI seeks help from Jasper Dent, now living in self-imposed exile. Understanding killers once saved him, but returning to that work means confronting the scars his parents left.