Racially mixed people book series in reading order

V.C. Andrews was the name used by Cleo Virginia Andrews (June 6, 1923 to December 19, 1986), an American novelist best known for Flowers in the Attic (1979). That novel led to four sequels and two film adaptations. The publisher never classed the books as Young Adult, yet their young protagonists have drawn teenage readers for decades. After Andrews died in 1986, a ghostwriter first hired to finish two incomplete manuscripts went on publishing new books under the V.C. Andrews name. The catalogue carries 108 books under that name from 1979 to 2025, across series such as Dollanganger, Casteel, Cutler, Landry, Logan and De Beers.

P.J. Parrish writes crime fiction built around Louis Kincaid, a private investigator. Sixteen books are catalogued, from Dark of the Moon (1999) to Our Noir (2019), taking in Dead of Winter (2001), Paint It Black (2002), Island of Bones (2004) and A Thousand Bones (2007). Florida, serial murders, murder investigation and racially mixed people appear among the subject headings. Standalone novels and short stories sit beside the Kincaid books. No new title has appeared since 2019.

Kate Elliott is the pen name of Alis A. Rasmussen, an American fantasy and science fiction writer born in 1958. The catalogue lists 39 books, beginning with The Labyrinth Gate (1988), published as Alis Rasmussen, and reaching Barnacle (2025). A Passage of Stars, Revolution's Shore and The Price of Ransom appeared in 1990, followed by Jaran (1992) and King's Dragon (1997). Series include Crown of Stars, Jaran, Spiritwalker, Court of Fives, Black Wolves, Sun Chronicles and Witch Roads. Epic fantasy, revolutions and social classes feature in the subjects.

Jacquelyn Mitchard

29 books• 3 series

Jacquelyn Mitchard is an American journalist and novelist who also writes for children. The Deep End of the Ocean (1996) was the first title chosen for Oprah's Book Club, on 17 September 1996. Twenty-nine books are catalogued from Mother Less Child: The Love Story of a Family (1985) to The Birdwatcher (2025), among them The Most Wanted (1998), A Theory of Relativity (2001), Twelve Times Blessed (2003) and children's titles such as Baby Bat's Lullaby (2004). Mitchard's series are Cappadora Family, Midnight Twins and What We Saw at Night. Mitchard teaches creative writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Stephen Mack Jones, born in 1954, is an American novelist, poet and playwright. August Snow is Jones's crime series, set in Detroit and named for its investigator. Four books are catalogued: August Snow (2017), Lives Laid Away (2019), Dead of Winter (2021) and Deus X (2023). Race relations, mixed heritage and property development in the city supply the subjects. Nothing further has appeared since 2023.

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).