Vampires are featured as characters in more and more mainstream popular fiction. There are vampire detectives such as Anita Blake in Laurell K. Hamilton’s Vampire Hunter series, Sookie Stackhouse of Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire series, and Leo Hawk of David Thurlo’s Lee Nez series. Love stories by Nina Bangs, Christine Feehan, Angela Knight, and the various authors of the Crimson City series feature strong, beautiful women struggling with the powerful attraction of vampires. Other authors, such as L.A. Banks, Jim Butcher, Douglas Clegg, Kim Harrison, Tanya Huff, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro incorporate vampires with fantasy, other worlds, or the paranormal.

If you are interested in exploring vampire fiction, explore some of the novels listed here. Take a bite! Remember, though, this is just the beginning. Contact Readers Services for more vampire reading suggestions.

Full Moon Rising, Keri Arthur

Wicked Pleasure*, Nina Bangs

The Forsaken: A Vampire Huntress Legend*, L.A. Banks

Proven Guilty: A Novel of the Dresden Files*, Jim Butcher

Fledgling, Octavia E. Butler

The Lady of Serpents*, Douglas Clegg

A Hunger Like No Other, Kresley Cole

Undead and Unpopular*, MaryJanice Davidson

Song in the Dark*, P.N. Elrod

Underland*, Mick Farren

Dark Celebration: A Carpathian Reunion*, Christine Feehan

Worse Than Death, Barbara J. Ferrenz

Bride of the Fat White Vampire*, Andrew Fox

Tall, Dark & Dead, Tate Hallaway

Renfield: Slave of Dracula, Barbara Hambly

The Killing Dance*, Laurell K. Hamilton

Definitely Dead*, Charlaine Harris

A Fistful of Charms*, Kim Harrison

Bloodroom, Naima Haviland

Traitor to the Blood*, Barb Hendee

Smoke and Ashes*, Tanya Huff

Baked to Death: A Simon Kirby-Jones Mystery*, Dean James

A Darker Crimson**, Carolyn Jewel

Dark Side of the Moon*, Sherrilyn Kenyon

Vampire Hunter D. Volume 2, Raiser of Gales*, Hideyuki Kikuchi

Master of Wolves*, Angela Knight

Daylight, Elizabeth Knox

The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova

Seduced by Crimson**, Jade Lee

A Taste of Crimson**, Marjorie M. Liu

Fangs for the Memories, Kathy Love

The Book of Renfield: A Gospel of Dracula, Tim Lucas

Nightwatch, Sergei Lukyanenko

Necroscope. The Touch*, Brian Lumley

Manitou Blood, Graham Masterton

Crimson Rogue**, Liz Maverick

Sunshine, Robin McKinley

Glass Dragons, Sean McMullen

After Midnight, Teresa Medeiros

The Syndicate*, Jon F. Merz

Dark Desire, Elaine Moore

Through a Crimson Veil**, Patti O’Shea

The Salem Branch, Lara Parker

Blood Canticle*, Anne Rice

Morrigan’s Cross*, Nora Roberts

American Gothic: A Vampire Story, Michael Romkey

Vamped, David Sosnowski

Vamps and the City*, Kerrelyn Sparks

The Burning, Susan Squires

Lilith’s Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life*, Whitley Strieber

Pale Death: A Lee Nez Novel*, David (& Aimée) Thurlo

Lover Awakened: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood*, J.R. Ward

Midnight Mass, F. Paul Wilson

Roman Dusk: A Novel of the Count Saint-Germain*, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

*part of a series featuring vampires
**part of the Crimson City series, written by various authors

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