C.B. Lee Books in Order

C.B. Lee has written 8 books, published between 2015 and 2025. The first book is Seven Tears at High Tide (2015) and the newest is Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
8
Published
2015–2025
Confirmed
1 of 8 titles
Pages on record
1,921 in 6 of 8 books
Reading time
32–48 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,921 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 8 titles with a page count on record.

C.B. Lee writes young adult science fiction and fantasy. Eight books are catalogued under the name, from Seven Tears at High Tide (2015) to Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe (2025). Subject headings record superheroes, magic, high school students, lesbian teenagers and LGBT young adult fiction. Not Your Sidekick (2016), Not Your Villain (2017), Not Your Backup (2019), The Shipwreck (2020), A Clash of Steel (2021) and Not Your Hero (2022) also appear, and the Sidekick Squad series is filed under Lee's name.

How many C.B. Lee books are there?

C.B. Lee has 8 books, released between 2015 and 2025. 4 of them belong to the Sidekick Squad series.

C.B. Lee Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 8 C.B. Lee books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. 1
    Seven Tears at High Tide2015 · confirmed 1/4
    2015
  2. 2
    Not Your SidekickSidekick Squad #12016 · 283 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016283
  3. 3
    Not Your VillainSidekick Squad #22017 · 307 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017307
  4. 4
    Not Your BackupSidekick Squad #32019 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019320
  5. 5
    The ShipwreckMinecraft #72020 · 272 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2020272
  6. 6
    A Clash of SteelRemixed Classics #12021 · 403 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2021403
  7. 7
    Not Your HeroSidekick Squad #42022 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2022336
  8. 82025

C.B. Lee books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Sidekick Squad in order

4 books
  1. 1. Not Your Sidekick
  2. 2. Not Your Villain
  3. 3. Not Your Backup
  4. 4. Not Your Hero

Remixed Classics in order

1 book
  1. 1. A Clash of Steel

Minecraft in order

1 book
  1. 7. The Shipwreck

Standalone books

2 books

2 C.B. Lee titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read C.B. Lee books in order?

You only need to read C.B. Lee books in order within the Sidekick Squad series, which holds 4 of the 8 C.B. Lee books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with C.B. Lee

Start with Seven Tears at High Tide (2015), the earliest published title.

What is the newest C.B. Lee book?

Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe (2025) is the newest C.B. Lee book released so far.

Is there a new C.B. Lee book coming?

No next C.B. Lee book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

C.B. Lee at a glance

Still publishing
C.B. Lee published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
C.B. Lee books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,921 pages across the 6 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 314 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most C.B. Lee books, 4 of 8, were published in the 2020s.

What the C.B. Lee books are about

5 of the 8 C.B. Lee books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 3 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.