Kirsten Miller Books in Order
Browse Kirsten Miller books in order, with short summaries, series guides, and easy starting points for her YA, middle grade, and adult fiction.
Last updated: July 4, 2026
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Publication Order
20 books
Inside the Shadow City
by Kirsten Miller
2006
After a sinkhole opens in Manhattan, Ananka Fishbein discovers a hidden world beneath the city. Teaming up with the mysterious Kiki Strike and the Irregulars, she tumbles into tunnels, secrets, and a dangerous new life.
The Empress's Tomb
by Kirsten Miller
2007
Kiki Strike and the Irregulars are back when strange attacks and old royal secrets start stirring up trouble in New York. Ananka is swept into another fast-moving adventure where every clue seems to lead deeper into danger.
The Eternal Ones
by Kirsten Miller
2010
Haven Moore has spent her life haunted by memories that seem to belong to another girl. When she recognizes a famous young man from those visions, she runs to New York and into a dangerous mystery about reincarnation, love, and murder.
All You Desire
by Kirsten Miller
2011
Haven wants a quiet life with Iain, but Beau's disappearance pulls her back toward the secrets she thought she had escaped. To save her best friend, she may have to get close to Adam Rosier, the man she distrusts most.
How to Lead a Life of Crime
by Kirsten Miller
2013
Flick has clawed his way to the top of the Mandel Academy, an elite New York school for young criminals. But when his old flame arrives as a rival and only one of them is expected to survive, the rules turn deadly.
The Darkness Dwellers
by Kirsten Miller
2013
The Irregulars' biggest case yet pulls them from Manhattan to Paris catacombs and into a web of royal grudges. As enemies close in on Kiki, the girls will need every trick they have to survive.
Nightmares!
by Kirsten Miller
2014
Charlie Laird thinks his new stepmother is a witch and her purple mansion is a nightmare waiting to happen. Then his bad dreams start leaking into the waking world, and saving Cypress Creek means facing what scares him most.
Nightmares! The Sleepwalker Tonic
by Kirsten Miller
2015
Charlie thought the nightmare trouble was over, until a nearby town fills with sleepless, zombie-like people. To stop a new outbreak, he and his friends have to uncover what is poisoning everyone's dreams.
Nightmares! the Lost Lullaby
by Kirsten Miller
2016
The nightmares return when Charlie finds himself trapped inside a dream that is not even his own. With creepy black sheep closing in and old enemies back in play, sleep is dangerous all over again.
Everything You Need to Know about Nightmares! And How to Defeat Them
by Kirsten Miller
2017
This playful guide turns the Nightmares! world into a handbook for kids with bad dreams. It offers creepy creatures, practical tips, and funny advice for facing whatever shows up after the lights go out.
Otherworld
by Kirsten Miller
2017
When Kat is left unresponsive after a suspicious accident, Simon enters the ultra-immersive world of Otherworld to find her. What starts as a rescue mission turns into a fight against a tech empire that wants far more than gamers.
OtherEarth
by Kirsten Miller
2018
Simon and Kat may have escaped Otherworld, but the Company is only getting stronger. As the battle spreads across new virtual landscapes and the real world, they have to decide what they are willing to risk to stop it.
OtherLife
by Kirsten Miller
2019
On the run from the Company, Simon and his friends face a new platform that could rewrite reality itself. To shut it down, they will have to survive the next evolution of the game and finally choose what kind of world they want.
Everything You Need to Know When You Are 8
by Kirsten Miller
2020
Part joke book, part life guide, this handbook helps eight-year-olds tackle everything from germs to Halloween to gross-out fun. It is packed with quick tips, facts, and confidence boosters for a big year.
Everything You Need to Know When You Are 9
by Kirsten Miller
2020
Nine is a sweet spot between little kid and big kid, and this handbook leans into that. Kirsten Miller mixes useful advice, funny bits, and genuinely handy survival skills for everyday life.
Don't Tell a Soul
by Kirsten Miller
2021
Bram flees family scandal for her uncle's half-burned mansion in Louth, a Hudson River town full of whispers. The house has a history of dead girls, and the deeper she digs, the less certain she is that anyone is telling the truth.
Everything You Need to Know When You Are 10
by Kirsten Miller
2021
Turning ten means more freedom, more responsibility, and a lot more to figure out. This upbeat guide covers the serious, the silly, and the slightly gross parts of hitting double digits.
The Change
by Kirsten Miller
2022
Three women in midlife discover strange new powers and join forces after a teenage girl's body is found near a Long Island beach. Their search for answers leads them toward wealth, violence, and the men who think they are untouchable.
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
by Kirsten Miller
2024
When Lula Dean sets up a little library to push her idea of proper reading, someone quietly swaps the books inside. In a Georgia town already fighting over censorship, those disguised banned books start changing lives in messy, funny ways.
The Women of Wild Hill
by Kirsten Miller
2025
Brigid, Phoebe, and Sybil are drawn back to Wild Hill, where the women in their family have carried strange gifts for generations. To claim their legacy, they will have to face old grief, old power, and the fight waiting for them on ancestral ground.
Where should I start?
If you want clever girl-gang adventure: Inside the Shadow City → The Empress's Tomb → The Darkness Dwellers
If you like eerie YA romance and mystery: The Eternal Ones → All You Desire
If you want spooky middle grade fun: Nightmares! → Nightmares! The Sleepwalker Tonic → Nightmares! The Lost Lullaby
If you want fast YA sci-fi: Otherworld → OtherEarth → OtherLife
If you want her adult fiction first: The Change → Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books → The Women of Wild Hill
Author bio
Kirsten Miller grew up in the mountains of North Carolina and moved to New York City after high school to attend Barnard College. She still sounds like a Southerner at heart, even after many years in the city, and that mix of small-town memory and big-city energy shows up all through her books.
She did not set out with a tidy plan to become a novelist.
After college, Miller thought publishing might be the path. Instead, she took a job in advertising because, in the most practical way possible, she needed to eat. She stayed in that world for more than two decades, working at agencies and learning a lot about ambition, image, power, and the ways women are treated when the room gets competitive.
That long detour mattered.
Around 2004, she started writing about six delinquent Girl Scouts who discover a hidden city beneath Manhattan. At first, she did not even realize she was writing a novel. That project became Inside the Shadow City, the first Kiki Strike book, and it set the tone for a lot of what came next: smart girls, secret histories, danger tucked inside familiar places, and characters who refuse to stay in the lane laid out for them.
Readers who meet Miller through The Eternal Ones usually find a different side of her. That series leans into reincarnation, obsessive love, and a Tennessee girl trying to make sense of memories that may belong to another life. Then there is How to Lead a Life of Crime, one of her darkest books, about an elite school for young criminals in New York. Even when the setup is wild, her stories tend to come back to the same questions: who gets power, who gets used, and what it costs to fight back.
She has also written with Jason Segel on the Nightmares! books and the Last Reality trilogy, which let her play in two more sandboxes, spooky middle grade fantasy and fast-moving virtual reality science fiction.
Then she turned to adult fiction.
Her first adult novel, The Change, grew in part from what she saw during her years in advertising, especially the sexism and ageism that shaped life for women on the job. After that came Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books, a funny and sharp small-town novel about censorship, and The Women of Wild Hill, which brings witches, family history, and Long Island anger into the picture. Across those books, Miller keeps circling the same territory: women underestimated for too long, communities with rot under the surface, and ordinary people discovering they are far less powerless than they were told.
These are not delicate little stories.
Miller lives in Brooklyn now with her kid and her cat. She has said there are five bagel shops within two blocks of home, which sounds like exactly the kind of New York detail one of her characters would notice and remember. It also feels right for a writer whose work can move from underground tunnels to haunted manors to book wars in a Georgia town without ever losing its sense of place.
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