Annette Curtis Klause
The Silver Kiss
Zoe’s mom is dying of cancer, her father is distracted, and her best friend moved away. She feels utterly alone until she meets Simon, who wants to avenge his own mother’s death, over 300 years ago.
Blood & Chocolate
Hot Romance & werewolves; much better than the movie.

Robin McKinley
Sunshine
In a not-so-distant future where werewolves, demons, and other creatures take over the world, teen Sunshine unearths her magical legacy and saves a vampire and herself from death.

Claudia Gray
Evernight
Stephenie Meyer fans will find similar rewards in the flashes of humor; the terrifying battle between ancient, supernatural societies; and the steamy romance in which love bites aren’t just a euphemism. Similar narrative POV with a completely surprising twist!
Stargazer

Alyson Noel
Evermore.
First in the Immortal series. Since a horrible accident claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras, hear people’s thoughts, and know a person’s life story by touch. Going out of her way to shield herself from human contact to suppress her abilities has branded her as a freak at her new high school—but everything changes when she meets Damen August who is gorgeous, exotic and wealthy, and he holds many secrets. Damen is able to make things appear and disappear, he always seems to know what she’s thinking—and he’s the only one who can silence the noise and the random energy in her head. She doesn’t know who he really is—or what he is. Damen is equal parts light and darkness, and he belongs to an enchanted new world where no one ever dies.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Demon in My View.
Jessica, a teen author, creates a world of witches and vampires. But when the irresistible Alex and the mysterious Caryn show up at school, the pages of her novels suddenly come to life.

Rachel Caine
Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires
College freshmen Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don’t show many signs of life, but they’ll have Claire’s back when the town’s deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood.
Dead Girls Dance
When Claire Danvers and her equally outcast best friend Eve are invited to the annual Dead Girls’ Dance at a fraternity, all hell breaks loose when the living group party with the dead group in a town rampant with bloodthirsty vampires.
Midnight Alley
Feast of Fools

Kate Cary
Bloodline
A new generation of Dracula’s descendants fight to find their own paths, while discovering horrifying family secrets in this gothic horror/mystery/romance novel.

P.C. Cast
Marked: A House of Night Novel
In this first book of a series, 16-year-old Zoey Redbird enters the House of Night, a school where she will train to become an adult vampyre. Zoey finds she is no average fledgling. She has been marked by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx. But she is not the only fledgling with special powers.

Caroline Cooney
Deadly Offer
A vampire can make ‘nobody’ Althea popular if she just agrees to bring him dinner. Maybe all the students who were so nasty to her deserve to die anyway?

Melissa De La Cruz
Blue Bloods
In this first of a series, select teenagers from some of New York City’s wealthiest and socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.

Julie Kenner
The Good Ghouls’ Guide to Getting Even.
Beth Frasier’s junior year of high school is going great until she is turned into a vampire, so now she is trying to find a way to end her nightmare, and get revenge.

Katie Maxwell
Got Fangs?
Francesca is stuck in Hungary with her mother, who works with a bunch of traveling psychics and magicians. But then Benedict shows up. He’s got a cool motorcycle – and fangs.

Ellen Schreiber
Vampire Kisses
In this first of a series, 16-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire someday, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true.

Cynthia Leitich Smith
Tantalize
When multiple murders in Austin, Texas threaten the grand re-opening of her family’s vampire-themed restaurant, 17-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best friend turned love interest, Kieren, a werewolf in training, may be the prime suspect.

L.J. Smith
Vampire Diaries: The Awakening & The Struggle
Tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them.

Vivian Vande Velde
Companions of the Night
Quite by accident, 16-year-old Kerry interrupts a group of vampire hunters who have captured and tortured Ethan, an alleged vampire. Kerry helps Ethan escape, but will she pay a price?

Charlaine Harris
Sookie Stackhouse (Southern Vampire) series (True Blood TV series)
Dead until dark
Love blossoms between Sookie Stackhouse, a cocktail waitress in rural Louisiana who keeps to herself because of her ability to read minds, and Bill, a tall, dark, and handsome vampire with ties to a creepy crowd that may be responsible for the death of one of Sookie’s coworkers.
Living Dead in Dallas
Club Dead
Dead to the World
Dead as a doornail
Definitely dead
All together dead
From dead to worse
Dead and gone (Due in May 2009)

Kelley Armstrong
Women of the Otherworld series
Bitten
On the eve of her marriage, Elena Michaels learns that her fiance has been concealing his secret life as a werewolf, and, as a bonus, he has made her into one also.
Stolen
Dime Store Magic
Industrial Magic
Haunted
Broken
No humans involved
Personal demon
Living with the dead

Kim Harrison
Rachel Morgan series
Dead Witch Walking
Sexy bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan prowls the dark streets of Cincinnati, keeping tabs on the vampires and other creatures of the supernatural who prey on the city’s innocent and vulnerable inhabitants.
The Good, the Bad and the Undead
Every Which Way but Dead
A Fist Full of Charms
For a Few Demons More
Outlaw Demon Wails

Patricia Briggs
Mercedes “Mercy” Thompson series
Moon Called
While trying to live a so-called normal existence, mechanic Mercy Thompson, a shapeshifter raised by werewolves, gets into trouble with the gremlins, witches, and vampires with whom she deals on a daily basis.
Blood bound
Iron kissed
Bone Crossed

Rachel Vincent
Faythe Sanders/Shifters series
Stray
After narrowly escaping an attack by a Stray, Faythe, a shape-shifting young werecat and rebellious member of a Pride, discovers that two of her fellow female werecats have disappeared and launches a personal campaign to find her missing friends and stop the kidnappers before it is too late.
Rogue: The Claws are Out
Pride

Jim Butcher
Dresden Files
Storm Front
A modern-day mage and consultant to the police finds his stale life suddenly enlivened by the presence of a rival in the black arts. Urban Fantasy at its best with a compelling hero, excellent world-building, and a noir Chicago.

Katie Macalister
Dead ones series
A Girl’s Guide to Vampires.
Joy Randall, an American woman equipped with a killer sense of humor and a magical bag of rune stones, finds herself caught in a dangerous world of murderers and immortal beings where she encounters a gorgeous stranger, who, while stealing her heart and soul, harbors a dark secret.
Sex and the Single Vampire
Sex, Lies and Vampires
Even Vampires Get the Blues

MaryJanice Davidson
Queen Betsy/Undead series
Undead and Unwed
After being killed in a car accident, fashion savvy Betsy Taylor becomes one of the undead and, with the help of her newfound friends, the lure of designer shoes, and a sexy vampire, must destroy a dark enemy and fulfill her destiny as the prophesied vampire queen
Undead and Unemployed
Undead and Unappreciated
Undead and Unreturnable
Undead and Unpopular
Undead and Uneasy
Undead and Unworthy

Christopher Moore
Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
Jody awakes under a dumpster with mysterious bruises and a thirst for blood. She decides to make the best of it, meets a cute night-clerk and has a hilarious adventure through San Francisco.
You Suck: A Love story

David Sosnowski
Vamped
Now that bloodsucking has gone mainstream, depressed Marty Kowalski has an eternity to kill. Can a little girl named Isuzu Trooper make him feel undead again?

Westerfield, Scott
Peeps
In a world where a parasite turns people into vampires, reformed party boy Cal Thompson learns that he is a carrier. He must now track down all the girls he unknowingly infected before they create more ghouls.

Steamier Fare

L.A. Banks
Minion: A Vampire Huntress Legend
First in a series. Sexy spoken word artist and vampire slayer Damali Richards and her band fight super vampires, and Blood Music – a rival record company and all around wicked multinational corporation.

Christine Feehan
Carpathian/Dark series
Dark Prince
In a vampire romance set in the Carpathian Mountains, a mysterious stranger appears in the life of an unsuspecting American psychic. Steam alert!

Laurell K. Hamilton
Anita Blake series
Guilty Pleasures
Vampire hunter Anita Blake–known to the vampires she kills as “The Executioner”–is hired by the most powerful vampire in the city to find out who has been murdering innocent vampires.

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dark-Hunter series
Fantasy Lover
Cursed to remain a love slave for all eternity, Julian of Macedon, a one-time ancient Greek general, finds himself falling for his latest owner, Grace Alexander, a sensitive and beautiful woman who could hold the promise of breaking the two-thousand-year-old curse that binds him.

Anne Rice
Chronicles of the Vampires
Interview with a Vampire
Confessions from a vampire of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead.

J.R. Ward
Black Dagger Brotherhood series
Dark Lover
When one of his most trusted fighters is killed, orphaning a half-breed daughter, Wrath, the only purebred vampire left on Earth, finds Beth Randall and ushers her into the world of the undead where she must fulfill her destiny by his side.

Wilson, Paul
Midnight Mass
As bloody night descends across America, Father Joe and Rabbi Zev raise the stakes and bring them down on the heart of a grisly vampire plague.

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