Logan Family Saga Books in Order
Part ofMildred D Taylor Books in OrderSee the Logan Family Saga books in order by Mildred D Taylor, with short summaries, series background, and tips on where to start and what to read next.
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Publication Order
10 books
All the Days Past, All the Days to Come
by Mildred D Taylor
2020
Cassie Logan is grown now, searching for her place in a changing America. Her path takes her from Toledo to California to law school in Boston, then back to Mississippi as the civil rights movement intensifies.
The Land
by Mildred D Taylor
2001
In the years after the Civil War, Paul-Edward Logan, the mixed-race son of a white landowner, dreams of owning land of his own. As he grows up, he faces prejudice from every side and fights for an independent future.
The Well
by Mildred D Taylor
1995
During a drought, the Logan family shares water from their well with neighbors, Black and white alike. But David Logan’s brother Hammer can’t stomach sharing with a cruel white boy, and the pressure builds toward a dangerous clash.
The Road to Memphis
by Mildred D Taylor
1992
In late 1941 Mississippi, seventeen-year-old Cassie Logan sees how quickly violence can erupt. When her friend Moe strikes back at white tormentors, Cassie and her brother must get him to Memphis before the town closes in.
Mississippi Bridge
by Mildred D Taylor
1990
On a rain-soaked day in 1930s Mississippi, Cassie Logan’s family watches the weekly bus load up for Jackson. When white passengers arrive, the driver forces Black riders off, and a shaky bridge turns the injustice into tragedy.
The Gold Cadillac
by Mildred D Taylor
1987
Lois and Wilma are thrilled when their family drives a brand-new gold Cadillac from Ohio to Mississippi. Deeper in the rural South, the shiny car draws suspicion and danger, and the girls face racism in a way they never have before.
The Friendship
by Mildred D Taylor
1987
Cassie Logan and her brothers head to the Wallace store expecting trouble. What they don’t expect is an elderly Black man calling the white storekeeper by his first name, a risky familiarity in 1933 Mississippi that sparks a public showdown.
Let the Circle Be Unbroken
by Mildred D Taylor
1981
The Logan family’s hard-won stability is shaken when their friend TJ is put on trial before an all-white jury. As neighbors are intimidated for voting and others try to pass for white, Cassie learns how high the cost of courage can be.
Song of the Trees
by Mildred D Taylor
1975
With the Depression squeezing hard, Cassie Logan clings to the trees outside her window, a piece of home that still feels steady. When a white man tries to force Big Ma to sell them, the family must decide what they’re willing to risk.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D Taylor
1975
In Depression-era Mississippi, Cassie Logan watches her family fight to keep their land and live on their own terms. Over one tense year, she learns how racism works in school, in town, and on the road, and what dignity can cost.
Series background & context
The Logan Family Saga is Mildred D. Taylor’s long-running set of novels and shorter stories about one Black family, their land, and the daily decisions it takes to hold on to both. Most of the books are rooted in Mississippi, and many are told through the eyes of children who are old enough to notice injustice, but young enough to be shocked by how normal adults treat it.
A lot of readers meet the Logans through Cassie, who narrates Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and returns in later books. Cassie and her brothers, Stacey, Christopher-John, and Little Man, grow up in a household where family love is steady, but safety is never guaranteed. Their parents and grandmother teach them how to survive without surrendering their self-respect, and those lessons are often learned in public places, at school, on the road, or in a store where the rules aren’t the same for everyone.
The series also reaches backward. In The Land, Taylor follows Cassie’s grandfather, Paul-Edward Logan, in the years after the Civil War as he tries to claim a piece of land that can’t be taken on someone else’s whim. The Well moves closer to the Depression years and focuses on David Logan as a boy, showing how family history isn’t just “backstory”, it’s something the next generation has to carry.
These are books where everyday moments can turn tense fast.
Across the saga, the big conflict is often simple to name and hard to escape: power. Who owns what, who gets believed, who can walk down a road without being threatened, and who has to swallow an insult to get home safely. Taylor doesn’t treat the Logans as symbols, she gives them arguments, jokes, grudges, and loyalties, plus friends and neighbors who sometimes surprise them. The novels build long arcs, while the shorter, illustrated entries, like The Friendship, The Gold Cadillac, and Mississippi Bridge, zoom in on one sharp moment, a conversation overheard, a road trip that turns risky, or a public humiliation that can’t be shrugged off.
As the Logans get older, the timeline moves into the 1940s and beyond. The Road to Memphis puts Cassie and her friends on the move in late 1941, when a moment of violence makes it clear that staying put can be dangerous. The series finale, All the Days Past, All the Days to Come, follows Cassie into adulthood, taking her from the Midwest to the West Coast and then to law school in the Northeast, before bringing her back to Mississippi during the voter registration fights of the 1960s.
Through it all, the saga stays focused on what a family can build and protect, even when the rules are rigged.
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