Lizzie Skurnick Books in Order

Determined to honor his late father's legacy, Michael Vaughn begins pursuing a CIA career. This Alias prequel follows his entry into intelligence work, where dangerous assignments and necessary deception demand sacrifices far greater than he initially expects.

Sydney Bristow balances sophomore-year college life with her most demanding SD-6 assignment yet: retrieving secret KGB research in Berlin. A rival pursuing the same material is repeatedly mistaken for Sydney, making an already dangerous mission harder to control.

Lizzie Skurnick revisits the teen books that shaped generations of readers, from familiar classics to less-remembered favorites. Her essays are joined by guest pieces, including Jennifer Weiner’s, exploring how those books influenced readers’ identities, expectations, and memories.

Lizzie Skurnick invents terms for familiar modern experiences that lack convenient names. Expanding her magazine column, this humorous lexicon combines wordplay and social observation to describe digital habits, domestic frustrations, relationships and other everyday contradictions.

In this essay collection, women writers examine labels often used to belittle or confine women, tracing their cultural meanings and personal effects. Jennifer Weiner contributes alongside writers using memoir, criticism, and commentary to challenge the language around gender.