Racially mixed people book series in reading order

by Frank Leslie

Yakima Henry is the recurring character in the westerns published as Frank Leslie. Twenty-eight books are catalogued between 2007 and 2021, at a median of 288 pages, opening with The Lonely Breed and The Thunder Riders in 2007 and continuing through The Killing Breed, The Wild Breed and The Savage Breed. Colter Farrow and Bloody Arizona are the other named series. Outlaws, revenge, gunfights and frontier life supply the subjects, and Stripped and Branded (2021) is the last dated entry.

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.

Chet Gecko is named as a fictitious character in the subject records for Bruce Hale, which also cite geckos, children's fiction, humorous stories, mystery and detective stories, schools and sharks. The catalogue lists 64 books, starting with The Legend of the Laughing Gecko (1989). The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse (2000), The Mystery of Mr. Nice (2000) and Farewell, My Lunchbag (2001) are among the titles. Chet Gecko Mystery, Clark the Shark, Underwhere, Class Pets, SCHOOL FOR S.P.I.E.S. and Monstertown Mysteries are the listed series.

Cherokee Indians and the Indians of North America appear among Robert J. Conley's subjects, along with westerns, outlaws and sheriffs. The catalogue lists 59 books from The Rattlesnake Band & Other Poems (1984) to Plastic Indian (2018). Series include Real People, Sheriff Go-Ahead Rider, Texas Outlaw and Native American Library. The Saga of Henry Starr (1989) and Go-Ahead Rider (1990) are among the earlier titles.

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).

Virginia Hamilton (March 12, 1936 to February 19, 2002) was an American children's author who wrote 41 books. M.C. Higgins, the Great (1974) won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 1975 Newbery Medal. Hamilton's work explores the African-American experience, which Hamilton termed "Liberation Literature". Further honours were the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1992 and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 1995. The catalogue lists 44 entries from Zeely (1967) to Liberation Literature (2024), including The House of Dies Drear (1968), The Planet of Junior Brown (1971) and Justice and Her Brothers (1978).

Sarah Zettel, born December 14, 1966, is an American author working mainly in science fiction. A first short story reached Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1991, and the debut novel Reclamation followed in 1996 with Fool's War in 1997. Zettel's novels have taken the Philip K. Dick Award and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Romance novels and mysteries appear under the pseudonym Darcie Wilde, and the novel Bitter Angels under C. L. Anderson. The catalogue gathers 36 titles running to The Abduction of Rosalind Thorne (2026), and Isavalta, Paths to Camelot, Useful Woman Mysteries, American Fairy, Palace of Spies and Vampire Chef are among the series on record.

Kate Cann is an English author of fiction, born in 1954. Teenagers, love, dating, self-esteem, bullying and sexual ethics supply the subject matter across 24 catalogued books published between 1997 and 2012. In the Deep End / Ready? (1997) opens the run and Witch Crag (2012) closes it. Art & Coll, the Hard Cash Trilogy, Crow Girl and Rayne are the four series listed under Cann's name. The 2000s are the busiest decade, and the median recorded length is 329 pages.

Lucinda Roy, born in 1955, is a British novelist, educator and poet based in the United States. Nine books are catalogued, from Wailing The Dead To Sleep (1983) to The Bird Tribe (2026), a span of more than forty years. Dreambird Chronicles is the series recorded here. Subjects record poetry, Africa, London, sisters, interracial marriage and racially mixed children. Lady Moses (1998), The Hotel Alleluia (2000), No Right to Remain Silent (2009), Fabric (2017), The Freedom Race (2021) and Flying the Coop (2022) fill out the list.

Akemi Dawn Bowman

8 books• 2 series

Akemi Dawn Bowman is an American writer whose eight catalogued books run from Starfish (2017) to The Afterlands (2026). Starfish, a young adult novel centred on a Japanese-American teenager named Kiko Himura, was a finalist for the William C. Morris Award. Bowman's early novels sit in realistic fiction, and the science fiction series The Infinity Courts, launched in April 2021, moved her work into another genre. Generation Misfits is her other series. Identity, self-perception, mixed heritage, grief and family conflict recur across the subjects.