Sarah Kuhn Books in Order
Explore Sarah Kuhn books in order, from Heroine Complex to her YA romances and comics, with quick summaries, series guides, and where to start.
Last updated: July 5, 2026
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Publication Order
18 books
One Con Glory
by Sarah Kuhn
2009
At a packed fan convention, shy superfan Julie is hunting a rare Glory Gilmore action figure and trying to survive her assignment. Then a run-in with actor Jack Camden turns fandom, rivalry, and romance into one messy weekend.
Heroine Complex
by Sarah Kuhn
2016
Evie Tanaka has spent years cleaning up after San Francisco's most glamorous superhero, Aveda Jupiter. When Evie's own hidden powers explode into the open, she has to stop hiding and help save the city from a demonic mess.
Big Dreams, Best Friends
by Sarah Kuhn
2017
Barbie lands a dream job designing costumes for a rock star's tour, then arrives on opening night to find her work destroyed. To save the show, she has to think fast and solve a backstage mystery.
Clueless: Senior Year
by Sarah Kuhn
2017
Senior year forces Cher, Dionne, and Tai to think past Beverly Hills and ask who they want to be after high school. It's a bright, funny follow-up built around friendship, fashion, and big life questions.
Heroine Worship
by Sarah Kuhn
2017
Now that Evie shares the spotlight, Aveda Jupiter feels like a sidekick in her own life. While helping plan Evie's wedding, she faces supernatural attacks on brides and hard truths about friendship, love, and identity.
Clueless: One Last Summer
by Sarah Kuhn
2018
Cher, Dionne, and Tai head into one last pre-college summer, hoping for fun, romance, and a little breathing room before adulthood hits. Instead they get tangled in fresh drama and a light mystery that tests their friendship.
Heroine's Journey
by Sarah Kuhn
2018
Bea Tanaka is tired of being treated like the reckless kid instead of a real hero. When a mysterious force hints at disaster, she grabs her chance to protect San Francisco, even if it could cost her everything.
I Love You So Mochi
by Sarah Kuhn
2019
After a blowup with her mother, fashion-loving Kimi escapes to Kyoto to stay with her grandparents. Between spring blossoms, family history, and a charming boy in a mochi mascot suit, she starts rethinking art and love.
Unsung Heroine
by Sarah Kuhn
2019
Lucy Valdez can handle demons, bodyguard work, and karaoke with ease, but not telling Rose how she feels. When strange happenings threaten her favorite club, Lucy has to investigate and drop the act at last.
Doctor Aphra
by Sarah Kuhn
2020
Rogue archaeologist Chelli Lona Aphra survives one disaster only to wind up in Darth Vader's orbit. Her luck, nerve, and love of dangerous relics are put to the test in a deadly Imperial power game.
Haunted Heroine
by Sarah Kuhn
2020
Evie should be happy, her marriage is strong and a baby is on the way, but doubt keeps creeping in. A Halloween case at a haunted women's college forces her to face ghosts, old choices, and the life she left behind.
Hello, Betty!
by Sarah Kuhn
2020
Betty Cooper expects middle school to be just like everything that came before, with best friend Val right beside her. When Val branches out and Veronica enters the picture, Betty has to figure out how friendship changes.
Shadow of the Batgirl
by Sarah Kuhn
2020
Cassandra Cain has been trained to hurt people, not to live an ordinary life. Hiding in Gotham, she starts searching for Batgirl and for a different future, even as her father closes in.
From Little Tokyo, with Love
by Sarah Kuhn
2021
Rika Rakuyama does not believe in fairy tales, but mysterious clues across Little Tokyo suggest her mother may still be alive. Following them with actor Hank Chen pushes her toward family secrets, romance, and a new sense of self.
Hollywood Heroine
by Sarah Kuhn
2021
A TV show about Evie and Aveda brings the team to Los Angeles, where fame quickly collides with demon trouble. As a supernatural plot grows on set, Aveda has to step up as both hero and leader.
Starring Veronica: A Graphic Novel
by Sarah Kuhn
2021
Veronica Lodge is determined to throw the perfect birthday party, even as her father's job troubles threaten the image she wants everyone to see. A school contest turns into a lesson about pride, friendship, and growing up.
Holiday Heroine
by Sarah Kuhn
2022
Bea is trying to build a new life in Maui when Christmas, family pressure, and ocean-born monsters hit all at once. Then she is pulled into a too-perfect holiday fantasy that hides a dangerous demonic trap.
Girl Taking Over
by Sarah Kuhn
2023
Teenage Lois Lane arrives in the big city with a careful plan for her future, only to watch it fall apart at her internship. Chasing a scandal forces her to rethink ambition, truth, and who gets to tell the story.
Where should I start?
If you want superhero fantasy first: Heroine Complex → Heroine Worship → Heroine's Journey
If you want a sweet YA romance: I Love You So Mochi → From Little Tokyo, with Love
If you want franchise comics and familiar icons: Shadow of the Batgirl → Girl Taking Over → Doctor Aphra
If you want lighter middle-grade comics: Hello, Betty! → Starring Veronica: A Graphic Novel → Big Dreams, Best Friends
If you want nostalgic Beverly Hills fun: Clueless: Senior Year → Clueless: One Last Summer
Author bio
Sarah Kuhn was born in McMinnville, Oregon, and grew up there until she left for college. She has talked about what it was like to be a biracial Japanese American kid in a small, very white town, and how often she felt like she did not quite fit.
Stories helped.
She was an early reader, and her mother made sure books and library trips were a regular part of life. Kuhn has said she tore through science fiction, fantasy, teen favorites, and comics, looking for escape, excitement, and some sign that there was a bigger world beyond the one she saw every day.
She started making stories young, too. As a kid, she drew homemade comics with her brother, and even in those early pages you can see the shape of what would later matter to her, pop culture, visual storytelling, and characters who carry a lot of feeling under a bright surface.
Writing became practical before it became glamorous. Kuhn has said she went into journalism because someone told her it was a job where you could get paid to write every day. She worked as an entertainment journalist and essayist, and that background shows in her fiction, which tends to move fast, land jokes cleanly, and keep a close eye on character voice.
Her early breakthrough was the geeky romantic comedy novella One Con Glory. But Heroine Complex was the real turning point. In that book, Kuhn built a demon-infested San Francisco full of Asian American superheroines, sharp banter, messy friendships, and real emotional fallout. It let her put women who looked more like her at the center of the story, not off to the side.
That world kept growing. Heroine Worship, Heroine's Journey, and the later Heroine books deepen the lives of Evie Tanaka, Annie Chang, Bea Tanaka, and the people around them. Readers tend to come for the superhero action, killer cupcakes, and urban fantasy chaos, then stay for the friendships, sister dynamics, romance, anxiety, and questions about adulthood running underneath all of it.
She moves easily between formats.
In YA, I Love You So Mochi sends a fashion-loving teen to Kyoto for a sweet, funny story about art, family, and first love. From Little Tokyo, with Love brings the focus back to Los Angeles in a modern fairy tale that mixes romance, anger, identity, and a deep love of place. Both books show one of Kuhn's recurring strengths, girls who are allowed to be awkward, ambitious, guarded, funny, and deeply themselves.
Comics fit her well, too. Shadow of the Batgirl gives Cassandra Cain room to become more than the role she was trained for. Girl Taking Over follows a young Lois Lane through a summer full of professional setbacks and self-reckoning. Doctor Aphra lets Kuhn play in the Star Wars universe with a heroine who is clever, reckless, and always one bad decision from disaster.
Across all of her work, Kuhn keeps returning to big feelings inside pop settings, friendship that gets complicated, heroines who want more than the world expects from them, and Asian American girls and women who get to have adventures instead of just lessons. She is a third-generation Japanese American and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband, an overflowing closet of vintage treasures, and a well-documented love of mochi.
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