Order of Cynthia Kadohata Books
Cynthia Kadohata is an American author of YA and children’s novels. Cynthia is of Japanese descent, and writes coming-of-age stories involving Asian American women. She spent some of her time growing up in the South, and has set some of her novels there. Cynthia earned her B.A. in journalism from the University of Southern California. She also attended graduate programs at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University. She lives in Los Angeles, California with her boyfriend, son, and dogs.
Cynthia Kadohata made her debut as a novelist in 1989 with the novel The Floating World. Below is a list of Cynthia Kadohata’s books in order of when they were first released:
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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Floating World | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In the Heart of the Valley of Love | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Glass Mountains | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kira-Kira | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Weedflower | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cracker! | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Outside Beauty | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Million Shades of Gray | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Thing About Luck | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Half a World Away | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Checked | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Place to Belong | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Saucy | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Under the Fading Sky | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
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Cynthia Kadohata Synopsis: The Floating World by Cynthia Kadohata is a standalone novel. Olivia, and her Japanese-American family are constantly on the road, looking for a home in the 1950s. Then traveling becomes a kind of home, a place for her parents to work out their difficulties, in towns that barely linger in memory, hanging in the air among them as the part of a family history that reaches further back than they care to recall, but can’t help remembering…