This is a searchable version of the MixedRaceBooks master list. Use it to find specific authors, titles, or genres.
At some point, I hope to expand the search terms to include specific races and ethnicities (particularly those that are mixed) included in each book.
Happy searching and reading!
| Author | Title | Year | Genre | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abrams, Sil Lai | Black Lotus: A Woman's Search for Racial Identity | 2016 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Adoff, Arnold | Black Is Brown Is Tan | 1973 | Children/YA | ||
| Alexie, Sherman | Flight | 2007 | Children/YA | ||
| Anzaldúa, Gloria | Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza | 1987 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Arboleda, Teja | Jeni So Many | 2016 | Children/YA | ||
| Armstrong, Jason | Chocolate Mixer | 2015 | Children/YA | ||
| Baker, Amanda | Ella and the Knot Fairies | 2016 | Children/YA | ||
| Beauvais, Garcelle, and Sebastian A. Jones | I Am Mixed | 2013 | Children/YA | ||
| Bednar, Chuck | Derek Jeter: All-Star Major League Baseball Player | 2009 | Children/YA | ||
| Berlatsky, Noah | Multiracial America | 2013 | Children/YA | ||
| Bodden, Marlen Suyapa | The Wedding Gift | 2013 | Fiction | ||
| Boney, Joanie | Dad's My Best Buddy | 2015 | Children/YA | ||
| Boyd, Loree | Spirit Moves: The Story of Six Generations of Native Women | 1996 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Brodber, Erna | Louisiana | 1994 | Fiction | ||
| Brown, William Wells | Clotel; or, the President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States | 1853 | Fiction | ||
| Broyard, Bliss | One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets | 2007 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Buck, Pearl S. | The Eternal Wonder: A Novel | 2013 | Fiction | ||
| Campbell, Maria | Halfbreed | 1973 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Cardwell, Daniel | A Question of Color: A Brown Baby's Search for Identity in a Black and White World | 2010 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Castillo, Ana | Sapagonia: An Anti-Romance in 3/8 Meter | 1990 | Fiction | ||
| Catledge, Tiffany | Mixed Me: A Tale of a Girl Who Is Both Black and White | 2012 | Children/YA | ||
| Chai, May-lee | Hapa Girl: A Memoir | 2007 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Cheek, Gene | The Color of Love: A Mother's Choice in the Jim Crow South | 2005 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Chesnutt, Charles | The House Behind the Cedars | 1900 | Fiction | ||
| Chesnutt, Charles | The Marrow of Tradition | 1901 | Fiction | ||
| Cosman, Marsha | Mixed Blessing: A Children's Book About a Multi-Racial Family | 2012 | Children/YA | ||
| Cosman, Marsha | Mixed Blessing 2: A Book About an Interracial Family (A Day at the Aquarium) | 2015 | Children/YA | ||
| Craft, William | Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery | 1860 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Cross, June | Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away | 2006 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Daniels, Lucy | The Eyes of the Father | 2005 | Fiction | ||
| Davenport, Kiana | Shark Dialogues | 1994 | Fiction | ||
| Davol, Marguerite W. | Black, White, Just Right! | 1993 | Children/YA | ||
| de la Peña, Matt | Mexican Whiteboy | 2010 | Children/YA | ||
| de Waal, Kit | My Name Is Leon | 2016 | Fiction | ||
| Derricotte, Toi | The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey | 1997 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Díaz, Junot | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | 2007 | Fiction | ||
| Diggs, Taye | Mixed Me! | 2015 | Children/YA | ||
| Durrow, Heidi W. | The Girl Who Fell from the Sky | 2010 | Fiction | ||
| Edwards, Myrtice J. | Dirty Sally: The Untold Stories of Mixed Race Children Who Find a New Identity, Love, Faith and Forgiveness Through God | 2007 | Children/YA | ||
| Edwards, Myrtice J. | Mixed Race Kids of All Nations: Raising Awareness of the Biracial, Multiracial, and Transracially Adopted Kids in a Raceconscious World | 2008 | Children/YA | ||
| Edwards, Myrtice J. | Mixed Race Pre-Teens of All Nations: Unmasking the Invisible Disabilities | 2010 | Children/YA | ||
| Erdrich, Louise | The Beet Queen | 1986 | Fiction | ||
| Erdrich, Louise | The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse | 2001 | Fiction | ||
| Erdrich, Louise | Love Medicine | 1984 | Fiction | ||
| Erdrich, Louise | Tracks | 1988 | Fiction | ||
| Faulkner, William | Light in August | 1932 | Fiction | ||
| Fauset, Jessie Redmon | Plum Bun | 1928 | Fiction | ||
| Flood, Pansie Hart | It's Test Day, Tiger Turcotte | 2004 | Children/YA | ||
| Frazier, Sundee T. | Brendan Buckley's Sixth-Grade Experiment | 2012 | Children/YA | ||
| Frazier, Sundee T. | Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It | 2007 | Children/YA | ||
| Frazier, Sundee T. | Cleo Edison Oliver in Persuasion Power | 2017 | Children/YA | ||
| Frazier, Sundee T. | Cleo Edison Oliver, Playground Millionaire | 2016 | Children/YA | ||
| Frazier, Sundee T. | The Other Half of My Heart | 2011 | Children/YA | ||
| Fulbeck, Kip | Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids | 2010 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Fulbeck, Kip | Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography | 2001 | Fiction | ||
| Fulbeck, Kip | Part Asian, 100% Hapa | 2006 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| García, Cristina | I Wanna Be Your Shoebox | 2008 | Children/YA | ||
| Gaskins, Pearl Fuyo (ed.) | What Are You? Voices of Mixed-Race Young People | 1999 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Gibbs, Jewelle Taylor | Destiny's Child: Memoirs of a Preacher's Daughter | 2014 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Golden, Marita | Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex | 2004 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Golliday-Cabell, Gina | Mixed Like Me | 2012 | Children/YA | ||
| Graybill, Andrew R. | The Red and the White: A Family Saga | 2013 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Haizlip, Shirlee Taylor | Finding Grace: Two Sisters and the Search for Meaning Beyond the Color Line | 2004 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Haizlip, Shirlee Taylor | The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White | 1994 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Hand, Dana | Deep Creek | 2010 | Fiction | ||
| Hartfield, Ronne | Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family | 2004 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Hill, Ingrid | Ursula, Under | 2005 | Fiction | ||
| Hilton, Marilyn | Full Cicada Moon | 2015 | Children/YA | ||
| Hoyles, Asher and Martin | Remember Me: Achievements of Mixed Race People Past and Present | 1999 | Children/YA (UK) | ||
| Hughes, Dean | Missing in Action | 2010 | Children/YA | ||
| Jackson, Helen Hunt | Ramona | 1884 | Fiction | ||
| Jacobs, Harriet | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Written by Herself | 1861 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Jen, Gish | The Love Wife | 2004 | Fiction | ||
| Jensen, Toni | From the Hilltop | 2010 | Fiction | ||
| Johnson, James Weldon | The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man | 1912 | Fiction | ||
| Johnson, Mat | Loving Day | 2015 | Fiction | ||
| Jones, Edward P. | The Known World | 2003 | Fiction | ||
| Jones, Gayl | Corregidora | 1975 | Fiction | ||
| Kaeser, Gigi, and Peggy Gillespie | Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families | 1997 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Kandel, Bethany | Trevor's Story: Growing Up Biracial | 1997 | Children/YA | ||
| Kissiedu-Green, Mrs. Naomi Y. | Same but Different: The Colourful Life! | 2015 | Children/YA | ||
| Lamb, Wally | We Are Water | 2013 | Fiction | ||
| Lanier, Shannon, and Jane Feldman | Jefferson's Children: The Story of One American Family | 2002 | Children/YA | ||
| Larsen, Nella | Passing | 1929 | Fiction | ||
| Larsen, Nella | Quicksand | 1928 | Fiction | ||
| Lazarre, Jane | Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness | 1996 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Lee, Chang-Rae | Aloft | 2004 | Fiction | ||
| Lee, Don | Country of Origin | 2004 | Fiction | ||
| Lee, Sherry Quan | Love Imagined: A Mixed-Race Memoir | 2014 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Lester, Joan Steinau | Black, White, Other: In Search of Nina Armstrong | 2011 | Children/YA | ||
| Lester, Joan Steinau | Mama's Child | 2013 | Fiction | ||
| Liu, Aimee E. | Cloud Mountain | 1997 | Fiction | ||
| López-Medina, Sylvia | Cantora | 1992 | Fiction | ||
| Luvwefwa, Béatrice | Mixed Marriages, Mixed Heritage: My Own Experience | 2006 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Lythcott-Haims, Julie | Real American: A Memoir | 2017 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Madison, Paula Williams | Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem | 2015 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| McBride, James | The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother | 1996 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Miller, Cheryl D. Holmes | Black Coral: A Daughter's Apology to Her Asian Island Mother | 2013 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Monk, Isabell | Hope | 1999 | Children/YA | ||
| Moraga, Cherríe | Loving in the War Years/lo que nunca pasó por sus labios | 1983 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Morrison, Toni | Tar Baby | 1981 | Fiction | ||
| Mourning Dove (Hum-ishu-ma) | Cogewea, the Half-Blood | 1927 | Fiction | ||
| Murphy-Shigematsu, Stephen | When Half Is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities | 2012 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Murray, Pauli | Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family | 1956 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Myers, Walter Dean | Riot | 2009 | Children/YA | ||
| Nash, Gary B. | Forbidden Love: The Secret History of Mixed-Race America | 1999 | Children/YA | ||
| Ng, Celeste | Everything I Never Told You | 2014 | Fiction | ||
| Nissel, Angela | Mixed: My Life in Black and White | 2006 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Obama, Barack | Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance | 1995 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| O'Hearn, Claudine Chiawei | Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural | 1998 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Ozeki, Ruth L. | My Year of Meats | 1998 | Fiction | ||
| Peterson, Nancy M. | Walking in Two Worlds: Mixed-Blood Indian Women Seeking Their Path | 2006 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Phillips, Delores | The Darkest Child | 2004 | Fiction | ||
| Prasad, Chandra | Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience | 2006 | Fiction | ||
| Ragusa, Kym | The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging | 2006 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Ra'Oof, Mae | Biracial: Born Wrong--Half White, Half Black in America Deep South | 2008 | Fiction | ||
| Ratliff, Sarah, and Bryony Sutherland | Being Biracial: Where Our Secret Worlds Collide | 2015 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Rekdal, Paisley | The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In | 2000 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Revoyr, Nina | Wingshooters | 2011 | Fiction | ||
| Robbins, David L. | Scorched Earth | 2002 | Fiction | ||
| Roberts, Dmae | The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed-Race Family | 2016 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Roberts, Russell | Alicia Keys: Singer-Songwriter, Musician, Actress, and Produce | 2013 | Children/YA | ||
| Robinson, Frank E., Jr. | Letters to a Mixed Race Son | 2012 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Roth, Philip | The Human Stain | 2000 | Fiction | ||
| Rowell, Victoria | The Women Who Raised Me: A Memoir | 2007 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Ryan, Leslie V. | I Am Flippish! | 2011 | Children/YA | ||
| Sandweiss, Martha A. | Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line | 2009 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Sapet, Kerrily | Halle Berry: Academy Award-Winning Actress | 2009 | Children/YA | ||
| See, Lisa | On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family | 1995 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Senna, Danzy | Caucasia | 1998 | Fiction | ||
| Senna, Danzy | New People | 2017 | Fiction | ||
| Senna, Danzy | Symptomatic | 2004 | Fiction | ||
| Senna, Danzy | Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History | 2009 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Silko, Leslie Marmon | Ceremony | 1977 | Fiction | ||
| Silko, Leslie Marmon | Storyteller | 1981 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Silko, Leslie Marmon | The Turquoise Ledge | 2010 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Smith, Crystal | I Am Hapa | 2016 | Children/YA | ||
| St. Stephen's Community House | It's Not All Black and White: Multiracial Youth Speak Out | 2012 | Children/YA | ||
| Stevenson, Sarah Jamila | The Latte Rebellion | 2011 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Straight, Susan | A Million Nightingales | 2008 | Fiction | ||
| Szto, Trisha K. M. | Hapa Babies, Happy Blessings: A Faithful Mother's Prayers Are Answered with a Special Sign for Each of Her Hapa Babies | 2017 | Children/YA | ||
| Tamagawa, Kathleen | Holy Prayers in a Horse's Ear: A Japanese American Memoir | 1932 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club | 1984 | Fiction | ||
| Tauber, Mike | Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America | 2009 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Tharps, Lori L. | Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America's Diverse Families | 2016 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Thurman, Wallace | The Blacker the Berry | 1929 | Fiction | ||
| Toomer, Jean | Cane | 1923 | Fiction | ||
| Twain, Mark | Pudd'nhead Wilson | 1894 | Fiction | ||
| Valdes-Rodriguez, Alisa | The Dirty Girls Social Club | 2003 | Fiction | ||
| Varma-Change, Namika | Nihao, Namaste Baby Kai! | 2017 | Children/YA | ||
| Vizenor, Gerald | Earthdivers: Tribal Narratives on Mixed Descent | 1981 | Fiction | ||
| Waldfogel, Sabra | Sister of Mine | 2016 | Fiction | ||
| Walker, Margaret | Jubilee | 1966 | Fiction | ||
| Walker, Rebecca | Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence | 2007 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Walker, Rebecca | Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self | 2001 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Washington-Williams, Essie Mae, and William Stadiem | Dear Senator: A Daughter's Memoir | 2005 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Waters, Michele L. | Through the Eyes of My Mulatto Daughter | 2010 | Fiction | ||
| Watkins, Schertevear Q. | Chyna's Doll: Chyna and Luna | 2015 | Children/YA | ||
| White, Walter | A Man Called White: The Autobiography of Walter White | 1948 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| White, Walter | Flight | 1926 | Fiction | ||
| Wilner, Geraldine Ebbert | Lucky Hapa Haole: Memoirs of a Chinese, German, Irish Woman, Born and Raised in Hawaii | 2011 | Biography/Memoir | ||
| Xi, Xu | Habit of a Foreign Sky | 2010 | Fiction |