Charlaine Harris Reading Order

39 books (1997–2024)

Start with Murder, They Wrote, the first of 39 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Murder, They Wrote 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	Seven Seasons of Buffy 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Bite 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	Night's Edge 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Powers of Detection 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding 2006Buy 🇺🇸
7	Many Bloody Returns 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	Blood Lite 2008Buy 🇺🇸
9	Unusual Suspects 2008Buy 🇺🇸
10	Wolfsbane and Mistletoe 2008Buy 🇺🇸
11	Delta Blues 2009Buy 🇺🇸
12	Must Love Hellhounds 2009Buy 🇺🇸
13	Strange Brew 2009Buy 🇺🇸
14	Crimes by Moonlight 2010Buy 🇺🇸
15	Death's Excellent Vacation 2010Buy 🇺🇸
16	Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within 2010Buy 🇺🇸
17	Home Improvement: Undead Edition 2011Buy 🇺🇸
18	An Apple for the Creature 2012Buy 🇺🇸
19	Impossible Monsters 2013Buy 🇺🇸
20	Inherit the Dead 2013Buy 🇺🇸
21	Not Everyone's Cup of Tea 2013Buy 🇺🇸
22	Weird Detectives 2013Buy 🇺🇸
23	Dark Duets 2014Buy 🇺🇸
24	Dead But Not Forgotten 2014Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Best American Mystery Stories 2014 2014Buy 🇺🇸
26	Ad Astra 2015Buy 🇺🇸
27	Blood Sisters 2015Buy 🇺🇸
28	Seize the Night 2015Buy 🇺🇸
29	Unfettered II: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy 2016Buy 🇺🇸
30	Urban Allies 2016Buy 🇺🇸
31	Don't Go Alone 2017Buy 🇺🇸
32	In the Footsteps of Dracula 2017Buy 🇺🇸
33	Indigo 2017Buy 🇺🇸
34	MatchUp 2017Buy 🇺🇸
35	Shattering Glass 2020Buy 🇺🇸
36	Bullets and Other Hurting Things: A Tribute to Bill Crider 2021Buy 🇺🇸
37	Heroic Hearts 2022Buy 🇺🇸
38	Promophobia: Taking the Mystery Out of Promoting Crime Fiction 2022Buy 🇺🇸
39	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January-February 2025 2024Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (1990–2017)

Start with Real Murders, the first of 10 books in the Aurora Teagarden series.

#	Title
1	Real Murders 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Bone to Pick 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Three Bedrooms, One Corpse 1994Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Julius House 1995Buy 🇺🇸
5	Dead Over Heels 1996Buy 🇺🇸
6	A Fool and His Honey 1999Buy 🇺🇸
7	Last Scene Alive 2002Buy 🇺🇸
8	Poppy Done to Death 2003Buy 🇺🇸
9	All the Little Liars 2016Buy 🇺🇸
10	Sleep Like a Baby 2017Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2018–2025)

Start with An Easy Death, the first of 6 books in the Gunnie Rose series.

#	Title
1	An Easy Death 2018Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Longer Fall 2020Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Russian Cage 2021Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Serpent in Heaven 2022Buy 🇺🇸
5	All the Dead Shall Weep 2023Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Last Wizards' Ball 2025Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2005–2009)

Start with Grave Sight, the first of 4 books in the Harper Connelly series.

#	Title
1	Grave Sight 2005Buy 🇺🇸
2	Grave Surprise 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	An Ice Cold Grave 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Grave Secret 2009Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2011–2016)

Start with Grave Sight(With: William Harms) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Grave Sight(With: William Harms) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	Charlaine Harris' Grave Surprise 2016Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2011–2014)

Start with Part 1, the first of 6 books in the Harper Connelly/Grave Sight Graphic Novels series.

#	Title
1	Part 1 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	Part 2 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	Part 3 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	Part 4 2014Buy 🇺🇸
5	Part 5 2014Buy 🇺🇸
6	Part 6 2014Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1996–2001)

Start with Shakespeare's Landlord, the first of 5 books in the Lily Bard series.

#	Title
1	Shakespeare's Landlord 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Shakespeare's Champion 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	Shakespeare's Christmas 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	Shakespeare's Trollop 2000Buy 🇺🇸
5	Shakespeare's Counselor 2001Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2014–2016)

Start with Midnight Crossroad and read in order.

#	Title
1	Midnight Crossroad 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	Day Shift 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	Night Shift 2016Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2017–2022)

Start with Layla Steps Up and read in order.

#	Title
1	Layla Steps Up 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	The One That Got Away 2022Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2019–2019)

38 books (2003–2015)

Start with Seven Seasons of Buffy, the first of 38 books in the Smart Pop series.

#	Title
1	Seven Seasons of Buffy 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Taking the Red Pill(By: Glenn Yeffeth) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Five Seasons of Angel(By: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,Peter S. Beagle,Laura Anne Gilman,Sherrilyn Kenyon,Nancy Holder,Jacqueline Lichtenberg,Jean Lorrah,Josepha Sherman,Laura Resnick,Candace Havens,Glenn Yeffeth,Michelle Sagara,Steven Harper,Amy Berner,Marguerite Krause,Abbie Bernstein,Jennifer Crusie,Don DeBrandt,K. Stoddard Hayes,Joy Davidson,Don Kerns) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	Stepping through the Stargate(By: P.N. Elrod,Roxanne Conrad) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Alias Assumed(By: Tracy S. Morris) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	Farscape Forever! Sex, Drugs and Killer Muppets(By: Glenn Yeffeth) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
7	Finding Serenity(By: Robert Brian Taylor) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
8	Flirting With Pride And Prejudice(By: Glenn Yeffeth,Jennifer Crusie) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
9	King Kong Is Back! An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous Ape!(By: David Brin) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
10	Navigating the Golden Compass(By: Glenn Yeffeth) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
11	Revisiting Narnia(By: Shanna Caughey) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Anthology at the End of the Universe(By: Stephen Baxter,John Shirley,Adam-Troy Castro,Lawrence Watt-Evans,Adam Roberts,Susan Sizemore,Mark W. Tiedemann,Jacqueline Carey,Vox Day,Cory Doctorow,A.M. Dellamonica,Glenn Yeffeth,Selina Rosen,Amy Berner,Maria Alexander,Marguerite Krause,Bruce Bethke,Don DeBrandt,Marie-Catherine Caillava,Mike Byrne) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
13	The War of the Worlds(By: Connie Willis,Mercedes Lackey,H.G. Wells,Mike Resnick,Stephen Baxter,Lawrence Watt-Evans) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
14	Totally Charmed(By: Maggie Shayne,Rebecca York,Jody Lynn Nye,Evelyn Vaughn,Tanya Huff,Vera Nazarian,Jennifer Crusie) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
15	Boarding the Enterprise(By: Robert J. Sawyer,David Gerrold) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
16	Getting Lost(By: Orson Scott Card) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
17	Investigating CSI(By: Leah Wilson,Donn Cortez) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
18	So Say We All(By: Peter B. Lloyd,Richard Hatch) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Battle for Azeroth(By: Jody Lynn Nye,Justina Robson,Doranna Durgin,Bill Fawcett,Mel White,James John Bell,James M. Ward,Scott Cuthbertson,Nancy Berman,Jerry Jackson,Chris McCubbin,Maressa Hecht Orzack,Nancy Durgin) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Man from Krypton(By: Glenn Yeffeth) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Unauthorized X-Men(By: Leah Wilson,Len Wein) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
22	This Is Chick-Lit(By: Lauren Baratz-Logsted) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
23	Welcome to Wisteria Lane(By: Leah Wilson) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
24	Coffee at Luke's(By: Leah Wilson,Jennifer Crusie) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
25	Grey's Anatomy 101(By: Leah Wilson) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
26	Halo Effect(By: Glenn Yeffeth,Jennifer Thomason) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
27	House Unauthorized(By: Leah Wilson) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
28	Neptune Noir(By: Rob Thomas) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
29	Perfectly Plum(By: Leah Wilson) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
30	Serenity Found(By: Orson Scott Card,Jacob Clifton,Michael Marano,Jane Espenson,Natalie Haynes,Nathan Fillion) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
31	Webslinger(By: Leah Wilson,Gerry Conway) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
32	Batman Unauthorized(By: Leah Wilson) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
33	Secrets of the Dragon Riders(By: James A. Owen) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
34	In the Hunt(By: Leah Wilson) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
35	James Bond in the 21st Century(By: Leah Wilson,Glenn Yeffeth) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
36	A Taste of True Blood(By: Leah Wilson) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
37	Ardeur(By: Laurell K. Hamilton) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
38	You Do Not Talk About Fight Club(By: Chuck Palahniuk,Read Mercer Schuchardt) 2015Buy 🇺🇸

24 books (2001–2013)

Start with Dead Until Dark, the first of 24 books in the Sookie Stackhouse series.

#	Title
1	Dead Until Dark 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	In the Blue Hereafter 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	Living Dead in Dallas 2002Buy 🇺🇸
4	Club Dead 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	Dead to the World 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	Fairy Dust 2004Buy 🇺🇸
7	Dead as a Doornail 2005Buy 🇺🇸
8	Definitely Dead 2006Buy 🇺🇸
9	Small-Town Wedding 2006Buy 🇺🇸
10	All Together Dead 2007Buy 🇺🇸
11	From Dead to Worse 2008Buy 🇺🇸
12	A Touch of Dead 2009Buy 🇺🇸
13	Dead and Gone 2009Buy 🇺🇸
14	Gift Wrap 2009Buy 🇺🇸
15	Lucky 2009Buy 🇺🇸
16	One Word Answer 2009Buy 🇺🇸
17	Two Blondes 2009Buy 🇺🇸
18	Dead in the Family 2010Buy 🇺🇸
19	True Blood Collection 2010Buy 🇺🇸
20	Dead Reckoning 2011Buy 🇺🇸
21	Dancers in the Dark 2012Buy 🇺🇸
22	Deadlocked 2012Buy 🇺🇸
23	After Dead 2013Buy 🇺🇸
24	Dead Ever After 2013Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2011–2017)

Start with The First Sookie Collection and read in order.

#	Title
1	The First Sookie Collection 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	Games Creatures Play 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories 2017Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2011–2011)

#	Title
1	The Sookie Stackhouse Companion 2011Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1981–1984)

Start with Sweet and Deadly and read in order.

#	Title
1	Sweet and Deadly 1981Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Secret Rage 1984Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2014–2018)

Start with The Pretenders and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Pretenders 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	Inheritance 2015Buy 🇺🇸
3	Haunted 2018Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (2017–2019)

Start with Deserves to Be Dead(By: John Sandford,Lisa Jackson), the first of 11 books in the The MatchUp Collection series.