Barry Lyga

Barry Lyga is a bestselling young adult novelist from New York who has been called the rebel of the Young adult genre. Over the course of more than a decade, he had published more than twenty novels, most of which have gone on to become New York Times bestsellers. His debut novel was “Archvillain” of the “Archvillain” series of novels first published in 2010.

The best place to start is the Archvillain series, the earliest of Barry Lyga's multi-book series: it opens with Archvillain (2010) and runs to 3 books across 2010–2013, ending with Yesterday Again (2013). Barry Lyga's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Barry Lyga has 43 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2004 and 2026. 17 of them belong to 5 named series — the largest being the I Hunt Killers series with 8 books — and 26 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Barry Lyga's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Wolverine (2009, 1 book), Archvillain (2010–2013, 3 books) and I Hunt Killers (2012–2018, 8 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Barry Lyga's 43 books into 5 named series and 26 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: I Hunt Killers (8 books, 2012–2018); The Flash (4 books, 2017–2021); Archvillain (3 books, 2010–2013); Un/Edited (1 book, 2022); Wolverine (1 book, 2009).