Tananarive Due

Due, a leading voice in black speculative fiction for over twenty years, has won an NAACP Image Award, an American Book Award in 2002 for “The Living Blood”, and a British Fantasy Award. She is a two time finalist for the Bram Stoker Award. And her writing’s been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. “The Good House” is a stand alone novel and was released in 2003.

The best place to start is the African Immortals series, the earliest of Tananarive Due's multi-book series: it opens with My Soul to Keep (1997) and runs to 4 books across 1997–2011, ending with My Soul to Take (2011). Tananarive Due's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Tananarive Due has 244 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1995 and 2026. 189 of them belong to 8 named series — the largest being the African Immortals series with 4 books — and 55 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Tananarive Due's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are African Immortals (1997–2011, 4 books), Tennyson Hardwick (2007–2012, 4 books) and Devil's Wake (2012–2013, 2 books).

This guide splits Tananarive Due's 244 books into 8 named series and 55 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: African Immortals (4 books, 1997–2011); Tennyson Hardwick (4 books, 2007–2012); Devil's Wake (2 books, 2012–2013); Akashic Noir (121 books, 2002–2025); Best Horror of the Year (19 books, 2009–2026), plus 3 further series.