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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2012
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Bone Street Rumba Novel

1 - Half-Resurrection Blues (Jan-2015)
2 - Midnight Taxi Tango (Jan-2016)
3 - Battle Hill Bolero (Jan-2017)

Dactyl Hill Squad

1 - Dactyl Hill Squad (Sep-2018)
2 - Freedom Fire (May-2019)
3 - Thunder Run (Jun-2020)

Outlaw Saints

1 - Ballad & Dagger (May-2022)
2 - Last Canto of the Dead (May-2023)

The Shadowshaper Cypher

1 - Shadowshaper (Jul-2015)
1.5 - Ghost Girl in the Corner (Nov-2016)
1.6 - Dead Light March (Jun-2017)
2 - Shadowhouse Fall (Sep-2017)
3 - Shadowshaper Legacy (Jan-2020)

Star Wars: A Han and Lando Novel

1 - Last Shot (Apr-2018)

Multi-Author Series List

Star Wars

Last Shot (Apr-2018)
Race to Crashpoint Tower (Jul-2021)
Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures, Vol. 1 (Nov-2021)
Midnight Horizon (Feb-2022)
Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures, Vol. 2 (Feb-2022)
Trail of Shadows (Apr-2022)
Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures, Vol. 3 (Sep-2022)
Star Wars: The High Republic, The Edge of Balance: Precedent (May-2023)
Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures--The Complete Phase 1 (Sep-2023)
Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures Volume 1 (Phase II) (Oct-2023)
Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures Volume 2 (Phase II) (Dec-2023)
Escape from Valo (Feb-2024)

Star Wars: The High Republic

Race to Crashpoint Tower (Jul-2021)
Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures, Vol. 1 (Nov-2021)
Midnight Horizon (Feb-2022)
Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures, Vol. 2 (Feb-2022)
Trail of Shadows (Apr-2022)
Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures, Vol. 3 (Sep-2022)
Star Wars: The High Republic, The Edge of Balance: Precedent (May-2023)
Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures--The Complete Phase 1 (Sep-2023)
Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures Volume 1 (Phase II) (Oct-2023)
Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures Volume 2 (Phase II) (Dec-2023)
Escape from Valo (Feb-2024)

Book List in Order: 34 titles



  • A 300-year-old story collector enlists the help of the computer hacker next door to save her dying sister. A half-resurrected cleanup man for Death’s sprawling bureaucracy faces a phantom pachyderm, doll-collecting sorceresses, and his own ghoulish...



  • Reza's job has put her in the face of every kind of death. Thanks to her guns, her car, and her dapper style, she came through the Bad Years alive, but since losing Angie things haven't been right. Tonight's job threatens to bring the worst terrors o...



  • Kia's a week shy of her seventeenth birthday, which is about how old her cousin Gio was six years ago when he just up and went away. Kia's a little bit in love with Giovanni (and who wasn't, really?) but she hasn't thought about him this much since t...



  • “Because I’m an inbetweener -- and the only one anyone knows of at that -- the dead turn to me when something is askew between them and the living. Usually, it’s something mundane like a suicide gone wrong or someone revived that shouldn’ta b...



  • From the world of Daniel José Older's immensely popular Bone Street Rumba series comes a Tor.com Original short story, "Ginga."Between her obscenely muscular new capoeira teacher, her crush going off with a new girl in their favorite park, and trig...



  • Paint a mural. Start a battle. Change the world. Sierra Santiago planned an easy summer of making art and hanging out with her friends. But then a corpse crashes the first party of the season. Her stroke-ridden grandfather starts apologizing over...



  • The author of Half-Resurrection Blues returns in a new Bone Street Rumba Novel -- a knife-edge, noir-shaded urban fantasy of crime after death. The streets of New York are hungry tonight... Carlos Delacruz straddles the line between the living...



  • In "Skin Like Porcelain Death" a half-resurrected cleanup man for the bureaucracy of death confronts a sorcerous collection of chipped porcelain dolls in an attempt to save the soul of a horny young man who chose the wrong girlfriend....



  • In this novella sequel to the New York Times"bestselling Shadowshaper, a couple is reunited by a missing black girl, a ghost haunting a newspaper office.Trying to shake off the strange malaise that separates her from even her girlfriend Izzy, Tee d...






  • The time has come for the dead to rise up against the shady powers-that-be... The time has come for the dead to rise up... Trouble is brewing between the Council of the Dead and the ghostly, half-dead, spiritual, and supernatural community th...



  • In this novella sequel to the New York Times"bestselling Shadowshaper, a magical crew of artists and musicians confront danger at a carnival celebration.Set between the New York Times bestseller Shadowshaper and its upcoming sequel Shadowhouse Fal...



  • SHADOWHOUSE RISING Sierra and her friends love their new lives as shadowshapers, making art and creating change with the spirits of Brooklyn. Then Sierra receives a strange card depicting a white beast called the Hound of Light -- an image from the ...



  • Han Solo and Lando Calrissian are reunited on the Millennium Falcon in a galaxy-spanning novel inspired by Solo: A Star Wars Story. But even the fastest ship in the universe can’t outrun the past. . . . The hardcover edition includes a reversibl...



  • It's 1863 and dinosaurs roam the streets of New York as the Civil War rages between raptor-mounted armies down South. Magdalys Roca and her friends from the Colored Orphan Asylum are on a field trip when the Draft Riots break out, and a number of the...



  • Magdalys and the squad are flying south on pteroback. South to rescue her older brother. South to war. The squad links up with the dino-mounted troops of the Louisiana Native Guard, an all-black regiment in the Union Army fighting to free their pe...



  • The Book of Lost Saints is an evocative multigenerational Cuban-American family story of revolution, loss, and family bonds from New York Times-bestselling author Daniel José Older.Marisol vanished during the Cuban Revolution, disappearing with hard...



  • The epic conclusion to the acclaimed Shadowshaper Cypher trilogy!A house dividedSierra and the shadowshapers have been split apart. Juan, Anthony, and Izzy are in jail, anxiously waiting to find out what will become of them. Back in Brooklyn, the oth...



  • "An unforgettable historical, high-octane adventure." -- Dav Pilkey, author-illustrator of the Dog Man seriesMagdalys's connection with the dinosaurs has led the US Army to some important victories, but the Civil War's not over yet and the squad memb...



  • The battle for Earth begins now.Welcome to Flood City, the last inhabitable place left above the waters that cover Earth. It's also the last battleground between the Chemical Barons, who once ruled the planet and now circle overhead in spaceships, de...






  • Another exciting story in the #1 New York Times best-selling series! The Republic Fair is coming! Visitors from all over the galaxy are traveling to the planet Valo for a massive, awe-inspiring festival celebrating the Republic. While his fellow Valo...



  • Centuries before the events of the Skywalker Saga, the galaxy is experiencing unparalleled peace—until a new enemy threatens everything the Jedi have built.In the days of the High Republic, the Jedi are at the height of their power. But the eme...



  • Centuries before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, in the era of the glorious High Republic, the Jedi are the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy! After a series of staggering losses, the Republic seems to finally have the villain...



  • Journey to an even longer time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, and witness new adventures of Lula and her fellow Padawans in the Republic’s golden age!The High Republic is an unexplored period in Star Wars history, set hundreds of years before ...



  • Collects Star Wars: The High Republic - Trail Of Shadows (2021) #1-5. A murder the likes of which the Order has never seen before! One Jedi Master is dead. Another is in a state of complete shock. And Jedi investigator Emerick Caphtor must solve the ...



  • Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Daniel José Older's music-and-magic-filled YA urban fantasy about two teens who discover each other and their powers during a political battle within a unique diaspora community."Brimming with mystery, mayhe...




  • "San Madrigal is as real as Wakanda or the Shire or Earthsea. Only the best authors can make me feel nostalgic for a place that never existed but needs to exist, and Daniel Jose Older is one of the best."--Rick Riordan Two gods-turned-teenagers wage ...



  • The next phase of the interconnected cross-publisher initiative, Star Wars: The High Republic, an all-new era of Star Wars storytelling.In the all-new era of the glorious HIGH REPUBLIC, the noble and wise Jedi Knights must face a frightening thre...







  • “For light and life!”Set hundreds of years before the Skywalker Saga, Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures chronicles a time of galactic renaissance when the Jedi are at the height of their power and the Republic is experiencing unparalleled p...




  • Phase II of Star Wars: The High Republic kicks off from Dark Horse with this thrilling tale of Jedis and pirates! From New York Times bestselling author Daniel José Older comes the origin story of Jedi Sav Malágan.As a teenage Padawan, Sav has been...



  • The Battle of Jedha, the biggest event in the High Republic cross-platform initiative, reaches its climax in this stunning conclusion to Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures, Phase II!As the Jedi Order desperately tries to end the conflict that ra...



  • Centuries before the Clone Wars or the Empire, it is a dangerous time for the galaxy, and the Jedi of the High Republic must face their greatest trials yet. . . .The villainous Nihil control an area of space known as the Occlusion Zone, where no one ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Daniel Jose Older has published 34 books.

Daniel Jose Older does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Escape from Valo, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Daniel Jose Older, Salsa Nocturna: Stories, was published in July 2012.

Yes. Daniel Jose Older has 5 series.