Books in Order: A Comprehensive Guide to Kira Peikoff's Novels

Kira Peikoff was named for a character in Ayn Rand's We the Living, and by age 13 — fresh off Gone with the Wind — she had decided novels were her future. She took a practical route first, graduating with honors in journalism from New York University, then made good on the plan in 2012 with Living Proof, a thriller sparked by her frustration with President Bush's stance on stem-cell research.

That debut set her template: fast-moving suspense built on real scientific and moral fault lines. Her five novels span 2012 to 2024, closing with Baby X, and following them in publication order shows how steadily those questions about science and ethics have sharpened.