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Tananarive Due Books in Order

Tananarive Due has written 24 books, published between 1995 and 2026. The first book is The Between (1995) and the newest is Battle of the Round House (2026). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
24
Published
1995–2026
Confirmed
1 of 24 titles
Pages on record
5,316 in 14 of 24 books
Reading time
89–133 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,316 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 14 of 24 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Tananarive Due, author

Tananarive Due, born January 5, 1966, is an American author, educator and film historian of Black horror. Due won the American Book Award for The Living Blood (2001). The Reformatory (2023) took the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award. At UCLA, Due teaches "The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival and the Black Horror Aesthetic", a course built on Jordan Peele's Get Out. The catalogue holds 24 books from The Between (1995) to Battle of the Round House (2026), with the African Immortals and Tennyson Hardwick series.

How many Tananarive Due books are there?

Tananarive Due has 24 books, released between 1995 and 2026. They include 2 series and 14 titles listed outside any series.

Tananarive Due Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 24 Tananarive Due 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. Cover of The Between by Tananarive Due (1995)
  2. Cover of My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due, book 1 of the African Immortals series (1997)
  3. Cover of The Black Rose by Tananarive Due (2000)
  4. Cover of The Living Blood by Tananarive Due, book 2 of the African Immortals series (2001)
  5. Cover of The Good House by Tananarive Due (2003)
  6. Cover of Joplin's Ghost by Tananarive Due (2005)
  7. Cover of Casanegra by Tananarive Due, book 1 of the Tennyson Hardwick series (2007)
  8. Cover of The Ancestors by Tananarive Due (2008)
  9. Cover of In the Night of the Heat by Tananarive Due, book 2 of the Tennyson Hardwick series (2008)
  10. Cover of Blood Colony by Tananarive Due, book 3 of the African Immortals series (2008)
  11. Cover of From Cape Town with Love by Tananarive Due, book 3 of the Tennyson Hardwick series (2010)
  12. Cover of My Soul to Take by Tananarive Due, book 4 of the African Immortals series (2011)
  13. Cover of South by Southeast by Tananarive Due, book 4 of the Tennyson Hardwick series (2012)
  14. Cover of Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due (2015)
  1. 1
    The Between1995 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995288
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  2. 2
    My Soul to KeepAfrican Immortals #11997 · 346 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997346
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  3. 3
    The Black Rose2000 · 375 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000375
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  4. 4
    The Living BloodAfrican Immortals #22001 · 515 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001515
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  5. 5
    Freedom in the Family2003 · 389 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003389
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  6. 6
    The Good House2003 · 496 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003496
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  7. 7
    Joplin's Ghost2005 · 484 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005484
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  8. 8
    CasanegraTennyson Hardwick #12007 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007320
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  9. 9
    The Ancestors2008 · 312 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008312
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  10. 10
    In the Night of the HeatTennyson Hardwick #22008 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008320
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  11. 11
    Blood ColonyAfrican Immortals #32008 · 432 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008432
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  12. 12
    From Cape Town with LoveTennyson Hardwick #32010 · 365 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010365
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  13. 13
    The Lake2011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011–
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  14. 14
    My Soul to TakeAfrican Immortals #42011 · 418 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011418
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  15. 15
    South by SoutheastTennyson Hardwick #42012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
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  16. 16
    Ghost Summer2015 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015256
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  17. 17
    The Keeper2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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  18. 18
    Incident at Bear Creek Lodge2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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  19. 19
    Milestones In HistoryDC Anthology Specials #132022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022–
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  20. 20
    Rumpus Room2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
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  21. 21
    The Reformatory2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
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  22. 22
    Black Panther: Sins of the King2024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
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  23. 23
    Battle of the Round HouseMagic & Mystery Collection #62026 · confirmed 3/4
    2026–
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  24. 24
    Mazywood2026 · confirmed 1/4
    2026–
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Tananarive Due 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.

African Immortals in order

4 books
  1. 1. My Soul to Keep
  2. 2. The Living Blood
  3. 3. Blood Colony
  4. 4. My Soul to Take

Tennyson Hardwick in order

4 books
  1. 1. Casanegra
  2. 2. In the Night of the Heat
  3. 3. From Cape Town with Love
  4. 4. South by Southeast

Magic & Mystery Collection

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

DC Anthology Specials

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Standalone books

14 books

14 Tananarive Due titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Tananarive Due books in order?

You only need to read Tananarive Due books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Tananarive Due

Start with The Between (1995), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Tananarive Due book?

Battle of the Round House (2026) is the newest Tananarive Due book released so far.

Is there a new Tananarive Due book coming?

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

Awards Tananarive Due has won

Wikidata records 7 awards and 13 nominations for Tananarive Due. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • World Fantasy Award for Best Novel2024Wonfor The Reformatory
  • Bram Stoker Award for Novel2023Wonfor The Reformatory
  • World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction2023Wonfor Incident at Bear Creek Lodge
  • The Ember Award2022Won
  • Ignyte Award for Best in Creative Nonfiction2020Won
  • British Fantasy Award for Best Collection2016Wonfor Ghost Summer
  • American Book Awards2002Won
  • Locus Award for Best Novelette2025Shortlistedfor A Stranger Knocks
  • Ignyte Award for Best Novelette2025Shortlistedfor A Stranger Knocks
  • Locus Award for Best Horror Novel2024Shortlistedfor The Reformatory
  • Locus Award for Best Short Story2024Shortlistedfor Suppertime
  • Locus Award for Best Collection2024Shortlistedfor The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

Tananarive Due at a glance

Still publishing
Tananarive Due published a book as recently as 2026.
Release pace
Tananarive Due books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
5,316 pages across the 14 of 24 books with a recorded length, a median of 370 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Tananarive Due books, 9 of 24, were published in the 2000s.

What the Tananarive Due books are about

15 of the 24 Tananarive Due books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: horror is tagged on 7 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.