Lisi Harrison Books in Order
Explore Lisi Harrison books in order, from The Clique to Monster High, with quick summaries, series background, and easy where-to-start tips for every series.
Last updated: July 8, 2026
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Publication Order
40 books
Best Friends for Never
by Lisi Harrison
2004
Massie plans the ultimate boy-girl Halloween party, but her parents insist everyone gets invited. As crushes, rivalries, and shifting loyalties heat up, the Pretty Committee starts to crack.
The Clique
by Lisi Harrison
2004
Claire Lyons arrives from Florida and lands in Massie Block's guesthouse, and suddenly Westchester's reigning clique has a problem. At Octavian Country Day, fitting in means surviving schemes, status games, and a queen bee who never shares power.
Invasion of the Boy Snatchers
by Lisi Harrison
2005
Claire moves even deeper into Massie's space just as Alicia's glamorous cousin Nina arrives from Spain. With the Briarwood boys suddenly distracted, Massie fights to protect her crush and her turf.
Monster High
by Lisi Harrison
2005
Frankie Stein is only days old when she heads into the human world hoping for parties, friends, and a normal school life. New girl Melody Carver soon realizes the town's coolest teens are hiding something monstrous.
Revenge of the Wannabes
by Lisi Harrison
2005
When Alicia and Olivia steal the spotlight with a school uniform contest win, Massie is determined to get even. Holiday shopping trips and photo-shoot buzz only make the social war nastier.
Dial L for Loser
by Lisi Harrison
2006
A brush with show business throws the Clique into a bigger spotlight, and fame starts scrambling the usual pecking order. Claire's rising profile brings fresh jealousy, pressure, and plenty of bad decisions.
The Pretty Committee Strikes Back
by Lisi Harrison
2006
Kristen's disastrous haircut sends the group into full crisis mode, while Claire is more worried about finally kissing Cam. Even after Claire joins the Clique, status and insecurity still rule everything.
It's Not Easy Being Mean
by Lisi Harrison
2007
A hunt for Octavian Country Day's legendary secret room turns popularity into a full-contact sport. While Massie chases the prize, Claire's growing fame and the girls' competing agendas put the Pretty Committee under strain.
Sealed with a Diss
by Lisi Harrison
2007
To win access to OCD's most coveted secret room, the Pretty Committee needs perfect dates for Skye Hamilton's famous-couples costume party. Massie can handle fashion emergencies, but boy politics are harder to control.
Alicia
by Lisi Harrison
2008
Alicia heads into summer expecting fun and control, then finds herself navigating competition, secrets, and the pressure to stay one move ahead. Even off campus, social strategy never really stops.
Bratfest at Tiffany's
by Lisi Harrison
2008
Summer is over, but old crushes and social grudges are just getting started again. As the girls head back to school, fresh alliances and Skye Hamilton's influence keep the Pretty Committee off balance.
Claire
by Lisi Harrison
2008
Claire spends the summer balancing romance, friendship, and the weirdness of belonging to a group that once shut her out. Distance from school gives her room to grow, but not much peace.
Dylan
by Lisi Harrison
2008
Dylan's summer looks glamorous on paper, but life away from the full Clique comes with new insecurities and surprises. She has to figure out who she is when the usual role no longer fits.
Kristen
by Lisi Harrison
2008
Kristen's summer is shaped by hard work, pressure, and the constant pull between fitting in and being herself. Away from the school hallway, she still cannot escape the rules of Clique life.
Massie
by Lisi Harrison
2008
After getting kicked out of riding camp, Massie is forced to find a summer job and lands on the perfect plan, selling Be Pretty cosmetics. Running a makeover empire sounds easy until real girls refuse to cooperate.
P.S. I Loathe You
by Lisi Harrison
2008
The Pretty Committee ends its boy fast and jumps into BOCD's first cheerleading squad. New crushes, old jealousy, and shifting loyalties make romance almost as dangerous as popularity.
Alphas
by Lisi Harrison
2009
Skye Hamilton leaves Westchester for Alpha Academy, a brutal boarding school for gifted girls on Alpha Island. There, talent opens doors, but one mistake can send you home.
Boys "R" Us
by Lisi Harrison
2009
After blowing up the Pretty Committee, Massie tries to reinvent the social order with a hotter new crew. But once friendships splinter, rebuilding power is much messier than taking it.
Charmed and Dangerous
by Lisi Harrison
2009
This prequel goes back to the moment before the Pretty Committee existed. A New Year's party, a handful of ambitious betas, and one future alpha show how Massie's world first clicked into place.
Cliquetionary: The Wit And Wisdom Of The Clique
by Lisi Harrison
2009
Part guidebook, part joke manual, this companion collects Clique slang, rules, quizzes, and insider wisdom. It is a fun extra for readers who want more of Massie's worldview without a full novel.
These Boots Are Made for Stalking
by Lisi Harrison
2009
The Clique is still chasing status, style, and the right boys, but life gets harder when every move feels watched and judged. Staying on top is exhausting when someone may be one step ahead.
Belle of the Brawl
by Lisi Harrison
2010
The pressure rises on Alpha Island as rivalries sharpen and nobody wants to be the next girl cut loose. At a school built for winners, even friendships can start to feel like competitions.
Movers & Fakers
by Lisi Harrison
2010
Life at Alpha Academy looks glamorous from the outside, but talent alone does not keep anyone safe. Skye and the other girls learn fast that ambition, romance, and friendship can all get weaponized.
My Little Phony
by Lisi Harrison
2010
Holiday chaos hits the Pretty Committee with boy drama, frienemies, and a fake lice scare. Massie is focused on Landon, but the season keeps proving that image is easier to fake than confidence.
Where There's a Wolf, There's a Way
by Lisi Harrison
2010
Clawdeen wants independence, Melody's own secrets are surfacing, and Frankie's circle feels more fragile than ever. Family pressure and human suspicion make life harder on both sides of the monster divide.
A Tale of Two Pretties
by Lisi Harrison
2011
The long-running Clique saga heads toward goodbye as years of rivalry, crushes, and social games catch up with the girls. Massie and the Pretty Committee have one last chance to figure out who they really are.
The Clique: The Manga
by Lisi Harrison
2011
Massie Block's battle to stay queen of the social scene gets a manga makeover. Claire's arrival still upsets the balance, but the drama hits faster when every glare and outfit lands on the page.
The Ghoul Next Door
by Lisi Harrison
2011
Monster teens and their human allies are still juggling crushes and secret identities, but the pressure to stay hidden is getting worse. One wrong move could expose far more than a social misstep.
Top of the Feud Chain
by Lisi Harrison
2011
At Alpha Academy, every bad week can get a girl sent home. Skye, Allie, and Charlie each face messy love triangles and fierce competition as Shira Brazille narrows the field.
Back and Deader Than Ever
by Lisi Harrison
2012
As the monster world edges further into the open, Frankie, Melody, and Draculaura face romance, family tension, and big questions about identity. Hiding is no longer as simple as it used to be.
Pretenders
by Lisi Harrison
2013
Five of Noble High's most admired freshmen look perfect from a distance, until someone leaks their private journals. Told through those entries, the story turns popularity into a mystery with real emotional fallout.
License to Spill
by Lisi Harrison
2014
The Phoenix Five return to Noble High with their private journals exposed and their secrets out in the open. As more entries spill, the cost of pretending starts to hit every friendship and crush.
The Dirty Book Club
by Lisi Harrison
2017
When magazine editor M.J. Stark moves to California, she stumbles into a strange inheritance, a secretive book club started by older women. The club becomes a lifeline as she rethinks love, loss, and friendship.
Crush Stuff.
by Lisi Harrison
2021
An overnight school trip brings bigger feelings, new crushes, and the kind of friend drama nobody can ignore. Fonda, Drew, and Ruthie are learning that romance never stays in its own lane.
Girl Stuff.
by Lisi Harrison
2021
Fonda, Drew, and Ruthie start seventh grade expecting to do everything together, then get split apart almost instantly. Popular girls, crush confusion, and feeling left out put their friendship to the test.
The Pack
by Lisi Harrison
2021
Sadie arrives at Charm House wanting to stay invisible, then learns she has the fiercest animal light of all. Joining the Pack brings power, popularity, and a crush that could cause real trouble.
1-2-3-4, I Declare a Thumb War
by Lisi Harrison
2022
Five friends in Misery Falls, Oregon are lured to a cemetery just as the town obsesses over killer Silas Hoke's legacy. Their spooky night launches the Graveyard Girls and a deeper mystery.
Awkward Stuff.
by Lisi Harrison
2022
Health class, first kisses, and mixed signals turn seventh grade into a minefield for Fonda, Drew, and Ruthie. The girls want big milestone moments, but growing up refuses to stick to a plan.
Claw and Order
by Lisi Harrison
2022
Sadie is trying to handle cheer practice, animal powers, and her growing feelings for Beak without losing control. One big secret could wreck her bond with Lindsey and the Pack.
Scream for the Camera
by Lisi Harrison
2023
A month after discovering Silas Hoke's empty grave, the Graveyard Girls start receiving eerie messages from beyond. While Sophie drifts from the group, a mortician with secrets may know what is coming.
Where should I start?
If you want the classic social-climbing drama: The Clique → Best Friends for Never → Revenge of the Wannabes
If you want a sharper boarding-school spin-off: Alphas → Movers & Fakers → Belle of the Brawl → Top of the Feud Chain
If you want paranormal high school chaos: Monster High → The Ghoul Next Door → Where There's a Wolf, There's a Way
If you want newer middle grade friendship stories: Girl Stuff. → Crush Stuff. → Awkward Stuff.
If you want spooky mystery with a friend group at the center: 1-2-3-4, I Declare a Thumb War → Scream for the Camera
Author bio
Lisi Harrison was born in Toronto and grew up there before moving to the United States at twenty. She started college at McGill University in Montreal, then transferred to Emerson College in Boston, where she earned a BFA in creative writing.
She did not come to books through a quiet, straight line.
After school, she spent twelve years in New York City working at MTV Networks, eventually as a senior director of development. She has said that job taught her a lot about storytelling, pace, and what keeps young audiences paying attention. It also gave her a close-up view of image, status, and the pressure to fit in, which would later become central to her fiction.
While still working at MTV, she wrote The Clique and Best Friends for Never. When those early books found readers, she left television and started writing full time. That jump turned into a long career built around school drama, sharp comedy, and the emotional chaos of wanting to belong.
The Clique was the book that changed everything. Massie Block, Claire Lyons, and the Pretty Committee gave Harrison a world big enough for main novels, companion books, a prequel, summer stories, and a film adaptation. Readers came for the fashion, insults, and social scheming, but the books lasted because Harrison understood something simple and true: middle school feelings can be huge, funny, and brutal all at once.
She knows school hallways can feel like battlegrounds.
That same energy runs through Alphas, her competitive boarding-school spin-off, and Monster High, where teen monsters and outsider kids try to hide, connect, and survive. In Pretenders, she used leaked journals and multiple points of view to dig into performance, pressure, and secrets. Later, with Girl Stuff. and The Pack, she kept the drama but wrote in a warmer middle grade mode, with more room for friendship, self-acceptance, and honest growing pains.
Her stories move fast, but the stakes are usually emotional first. Again and again, she returns to girls trying to belong, friendships under strain, crushes that scramble good judgment, and the gap between how someone looks on the outside and what is really going on underneath. Even when the setup is paranormal or exaggerated, the feelings are familiar.
She has also written for adults. Her novel The Dirty Book Club shifts away from lockers and lunch tables, but it still shows her interest in reinvention, loneliness, and the small groups people build to get through hard stretches of life.
Harrison now lives in Laguna Beach, California. Alongside her fiction, she has worked with kids, teens, and parents on healthier, drama-free friendships, which feels like a fitting second act for a writer so interested in social life and the cost of getting it wrong.
Even now, she writes like someone who remembers exactly how intense it feels to want a seat at the right table.
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