Author guide
Tananarive Due Books in Order
Tananarive Due is an award-winning American author and educator whose work spans supernatural horror, Afrofuturism, historical fiction, memoir, collaborative fiction, and graphic fiction. Her bibliography includes the African Immortals, Tennyson Hardwick, and Devil's Wake series, the novels The Between, The Black Rose, The Good House, Joplin's Ghost, and The Reformatory, and the story collections Ghost Summer: Stories and The Wishing Pool and Other Stories. She co-authored Freedom in the Family with her mother, civil-rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, and The Keeper with Steven Barnes. Due teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA and was an executive producer of Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror.
horrorBlack horrorAfrofuturismspeculative fictionsupernatural fictionhistorical fictionmemoirgraphic fiction
Tananarive Due's Newest Book
Not sure where to begin?
Start with one of these
The Reformatory
A recent standalone novel and a defining work of Due's Black horror.
My Soul to Keep
The entry point to the African Immortals series and one of Due's signature novels.
Ghost Summer: Stories
A representative short-story collection showing the breadth of Due's speculative and horror fiction.
Read in order
Books by series
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African Immortals
A four-book supernatural horror series about an immortal Ethiopian family and the uses and costs of their blood.
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Tennyson Hardwick
A four-book crime-thriller series about actor-turned-private investigator Tennyson Hardwick, co-written by Tananarive Due, Blair Underwood, and Steven Barnes.
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Devil's Wake
A two-book young-adult speculative horror series about survivors of an alien-engineered zombie apocalypse, co-written with Steven Barnes.
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (7)
Nonfiction (1)
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Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil RightsAmazon ↗memoir · 2003
Short fiction (3)
Essays and speeches (1)
- On the Destruction of Horror: Notes from Your POC EditorsAmazon ↗
essay_collection · 2016
Collaborations (1)
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Naked Came the ManateeAmazon ↗collaborative_novel · 1996