Prejudices book series in reading order

by Loree Lough

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

by Malorie Blackman

Mildred DeLois Taylor, born September 13, 1943, is an American young adult novelist whose Logan family books portray family life and the racism African Americans faced in the Deep South. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry won the 1977 Newbery Medal. Taylor received the first NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2003, the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2020 and the Children's Literature Legacy Award in 2021. The 11 catalogued books include Let the Circle Be Unbroken (1981), The Road to Memphis (1992) and All the Days Past, All the Days to Come (2020).

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

131 books• 11 series

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, born in 1933, wrote 131 catalogued books for children and young adults across half a century. Shiloh, a quartet of children's novels, won the Newbery Medal in 1992, and the Alice McKinley series became one of the most frequently challenged sets of books of the early 21st century. The Boy/Girl Battle, Bessledorf Mysteries, Witch Saga, Cat Pack and Roxie and the Hooligans fill out the list, which runs from To Make a Wee Moon (1969) to Roxie and the Hooligans at Buzzard's Roost (2018). Family life, schools, friendship and siblings are the constant subjects, at a median of 154 pages.

Lisi Harrison

41 books• 10 series

Lisi Harrison is a Canadian author of young adult fiction, known for three series: The Clique, Alphas and Monster High. The Clique (2004) opens a catalogue of 41 titles, with middle schools, cliques, friendship and competition in the subject tags, and monsters, boarding schools and prejudice beside them. Graphic novels, a Clique Summer Collection and the Graveyard Girls follow. Two Truths and a Lion (2023) is the most recent title.

Loree Lough has 102 books catalogued from 1994 to 2022, covering both children's fiction and romance. Subjects include Christian life, American history, the Pilgrims of New Plymouth colony, the American Revolution, slavery, prejudice and the Depression. Pocketful Of Love (1994) is the first listed title, and The Christmas Letter (2022) the newest. Lough's series include American Adventure, Suddenly, Chesapeake, Accidental Blessings, Child to Love, Secrets on Sterling Street, By Way of the Lighthouse and Those Marshall Boys. The median book runs to 144 pages.

Malorie Blackman

78 books• 10 series

Malorie Blackman, born Oneta Malorie Blackman on 8 February 1962, is a British writer and was Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. Blackman writes books and television drama for children and young adults and uses science fiction to examine social and ethical questions. The Noughts and Crosses series uses a fictional alternative Britain to examine racism. Blackman won the 2022 PEN Pinter Prize and became a dame in the King's 2026 Birthday Honours. The 78 catalogued books run from Not So Stupid! (1990) to Just Sayin': My Life In Words (2022).

Tahereh Mafi

27 books• 6 series

Tahereh Mafi, born November 10, 1988, is an Iranian-American writer of young adult fiction based in Santa Monica, California. Mafi's series are Shatter Me, Shatter Me: The New Republic, This Woven Kingdom and Furthermore. Shatter Me (2011) is the first catalogued title, and Whichwood (2017) and A Very Large Expanse of Sea (2018) come later. Fantasy, science fiction, magic, dictatorship and resistance feature in the subjects. Escape Me (2026) is the newest Mafi title.

Tomi Adeyemi

6 books• 2 series

Tomi Adeyemi, born August 1, 1993, is an American writer and creative writing coach. Children of Blood and Bone (2018) opened the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy, debuted at number 1 on The New York Times Best Sellers List, and won the 2018 Andre Norton Award, the 2019 Waterstones Book Prize and the 2019 Lodestar Award. Children of Virtue and Vengeance (2019) and Children of Anguish and Anarchy (2024) are also catalogued, among 6 books through The Siren (2026). Adeyemi was on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2019 and the TIME 100 in 2020.

Cecelia Ahern

31 books• 6 series

Cecelia Ahern is an Irish novelist, born in Dublin on 30 September 1981. PS, I Love You (2003) begins a catalogue of 31 titles that reaches Paper Heart in 2025, and Where Rainbows End and If You Could See Me Now are the other novels Ahern is known for. Sales pass 25 million copies, publication reaches nearly fifty countries, two of the books have been adapted as films, and the story collection Roar became a series for Apple TV+. The Year I Met You took the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction. Ahern also created and produced Samantha Who?, an ABC comedy starring Christina Applegate.

Neta Jackson has 101 books in the catalogue, published between 1974 and 2021. Living Together in a World Falling Apart (1974) is the earliest, and Hero Tales, Vol. IV (2021) is the newest. The Yada Yada Prayer Group is among the character entries, and series include Yada Yada House of Hope, Trailblazer, Hero Tales, SouledOut Sisters, Windy City Neighbors, Pet Parables and Secret Adventures. Subjects include Christian life, Christian women, missionaries, prayer groups, female friendship, orphans, biography and children's fiction.

Rumer Godden

69 books

Rumer Godden was a British author with more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books to her name. Black Narcissus opened the catalogue in 1939 and reached the screen in 1947; The River followed in 1946 and was filmed in 1951; nine of Godden's works were adapted for film in all. India, nuns, family life and children's stories about dolls and mice, The Mousewife (1951), Mouse House (1952), Impunity Jane (1954), run through the work. Godden wrote a few books with her elder sister, the novelist Jon Godden, among them Two Under the Indian Sun, a memoir of a childhood spent in a part of India now inside Bangladesh. The catalogue holds 69 entries reaching 2012.

Ann Rinaldi was an American journalist and young adult novelist, known above all for historical fiction, who lived from August 27, 1934 to July 1, 2021. Rinaldi worked as a newspaper columnist before writing novels, eight of which the ALA named notable. In 2000, Wolf by the Ears (1991) was listed among the best young adult novels of the preceding twenty-five years. Rinaldi also contributed to the Dear America series. The catalogue holds 48 books from Term Paper (1980) to Leigh Ann's Civil War (2011), including The Last Silk Dress (1988) and A Break with Charity (1992).

Jan and Stan Berenstain wrote picture books about the Berenstain Bears. The run begins with The Big Honey Hunt (1962) and reaches 400 titles by The Berenstain Bears: Father's Day Blessings (2018). Family life, school, brothers and sisters, scouting, Christmas and Christian life supply the recurring subjects, and many of the books are told in rhyme. A median length of 32 pages places them with early readers. Publication peaked in the 1990s and the catalogue is likely complete.

Isabelle Holland was an American author who wrote for both children and adults, living from 1920 to 2002. Holland produced gothic novels, adult mysteries and romantic thrillers alongside many children's and young adult books, among them The Man Without a Face (1972). The Claire Aldington mysteries, built around a woman priest, are her main detective series, with Maggie and Annie Lavin beside them. The catalogue records 54 titles between 1967 and 2010, with a median length of 208 pages.

Sandra Scoppettone, born June 1, 1936 in Morristown, New Jersey, is an American author of mysteries and young adult fiction. Scoppettone's earliest catalogued book, Suzuki Beane (1961), was made with illustrator Louise Fitzhugh. Happy Endings Are All Alike (1978), one of the first young adult novels to portray a lesbian relationship, made the ALA Best Books for Young Adults list. Her mystery series feature Lauren Laurano and Faye Quick, and the catalogue holds 22 books through Tag Sale (2011).

A.S. King

12 books• 1 series

A.S. King, born Amy Sarig King on March 10, 1970, is an American writer of short fiction and young adult fiction. King received the 2022 Margaret Edwards Award and is the only author to win the Michael L. Printz Award twice, for Dig (2019) and for editing and contributing to The Collectors: Stories (2023). The catalogue lists 12 books from The Dust of 100 Dogs (2009) to Pick the Lock (2024), including Please Ignore Vera Dietz (2010) and Ask the Passengers (2012).

Marie Myung-Ok Lee is an American novelist and essayist who co-founded the Asian American Writers' Workshop, an organisation set up in 1991 for writers of color in New York City. Her 8 catalogued books run from Finding My Voice (1992) to Hurt You (2023), with The Evening Hero arriving in 2022. Several earlier titles carry the byline Marie G. Lee, among them If It Hadn't Been for Yoon Jun (1993) and Necessary Roughness (1996). Catalogue subjects include Korean Americans, adoption, identity, prejudice, schools and children's fiction. Finding My Voice also names a series under Lee's credit.