Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charm & Strange | 2013 | Stephanie Kuehn | Buy |
| 2 | Complicit | 2014 | Stephanie Kuehn | Buy |
| 3 | Delicate Monsters | 2015 | Stephanie Kuehn | Buy |
| 4 | The Smaller Evil | 2016 | Stephanie Kuehn | Buy |
| 5 | When I Am Through with You | 2017 | Stephanie Kuehn | Buy |
| 6 | We Weren’t Looking to Be Found | 2022 | Stephanie Kuehn | Buy |
Stephanie Kuehn’s standalone novels share a willingness to go to dark places that a lot of YA fiction avoids. Starting with Charm & Strange, which won the William C. Morris Award in 2014, these books feature teenagers dealing with trauma, secrets, and the kind of moral questions that don’t have clean answers.
Books like Complicit and Delicate Monsters put readers inside the heads of characters who may be lying to themselves as much as to anyone else. The Smaller Evil and When I Am Through with You continue this pattern, using unreliable narration and psychological tension to keep readers off balance. We Weren’t Looking to Be Found, published in 2022, tackles mental health with the same unflinching approach that defines Kuehn’s work.