Laurell K. Hamilton Reading Order

34 books (1993–2023)

Start with Guilty Pleasures, the first of 34 books in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series.

#	Title
1	Guilty Pleasures 1993Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Laughing Corpse 1994Buy 🇺🇸
3	Circus of the Damned 1995Buy 🇺🇸
4	Bloody Bones 1996Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Lunatic Cafe 1996Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Killing Dance 1997Buy 🇺🇸
7	Blue Moon 1998Buy 🇺🇸
8	Burnt Offerings 1998Buy 🇺🇸
9	Obsidian Butterfly 2000Buy 🇺🇸
10	Narcissus in Chains 2001Buy 🇺🇸
11	Cerulean Sins 2003Buy 🇺🇸
12	Incubus Dreams 2004Buy 🇺🇸
13	Danse Macabre 2006Buy 🇺🇸
14	Micah 2006Buy 🇺🇸
15	Blood Noir 2007Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Harlequin 2007Buy 🇺🇸
17	Flirt 2009Buy 🇺🇸
18	Skin Trade 2009Buy 🇺🇸
19	Bullet 2010Buy 🇺🇸
20	Hit List 2011Buy 🇺🇸
21	Beauty 2012Buy 🇺🇸
22	Kiss the Dead 2012Buy 🇺🇸
23	Affliction 2013Buy 🇺🇸
24	Dancing 2013Buy 🇺🇸
25	Shutdown 2013Buy 🇺🇸
26	Jason 2014Buy 🇺🇸
27	Dead Ice 2015Buy 🇺🇸
28	Crimson Death 2016Buy 🇺🇸
29	Wounded 2016Buy 🇺🇸
30	Serpentine 2018Buy 🇺🇸
31	Sucker Punch 2020Buy 🇺🇸
32	Rafael 2021Buy 🇺🇸
33	Slay 2023Buy 🇺🇸
34	Smolder 2023Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2006–2006)

#	Title
1	Strange Candy 2006Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2007–2011)

Start with The First Death and read in order.

#	Title
1	The First Death 2007Buy 🇺🇸
2	Guilty Pleasures 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Laughing Corpse 2011Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2011–2012)

Start with The Charmer and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Charmer 2011Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Ingenue 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Scoundrel 2012Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2008–2010)

Start with Animator and read in order.

#	Title
1	Animator 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	Executioner 2008Buy 🇺🇸
3	Necromancer 2010Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (2001–2022)

Start with Out of This World, the first of 9 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Out of This World 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	Bite 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	Cravings 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	Never After 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	Ravens in the Library 2009Buy 🇺🇸
6	Blood Sisters 2015Buy 🇺🇸
7	Noir Fatale 2019Buy 🇺🇸
8	Fantastic Hope 2020Buy 🇺🇸
9	No Game for Knights 2022Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (2000–2026)

Start with A Kiss of Shadows, the first of 10 books in the Merry Gentry series.

#	Title
1	A Kiss of Shadows 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Caress of Twilight 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	Seduced by Moonlight 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	A Stroke of Midnight 2005Buy 🇺🇸
5	Mistral's Kiss 2006Buy 🇺🇸
6	A Lick of Frost 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	Swallowing Darkness 2008Buy 🇺🇸
8	Divine Misdemeanors 2009Buy 🇺🇸
9	A Shiver of Light 2014Buy 🇺🇸
10	A Glimmer of Death 2026Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2010–2010)

25 books (1991–2025)

Start with Knight of the Black Rose(By: James Lowder), the first of 25 books in the Ravenloft series.

#	Title
1	Knight of the Black Rose(By: James Lowder) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Vampire of the Mists(By: Christie Golden) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dance Of The Dead(By: Christie Golden) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	Heart of Midnight(By: J. Robert King) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
5	Carnival Of Fear(By: J. Robert King) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
6	I, Strahd: Memoirs of a Vampire(By: P.N. Elrod) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
7	Tapestry of Dark Souls(By: Elaine Bergstrom) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
8	Mordenheim(By: Chet Williamson) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
9	Tales of Ravenloft(By: Brian Thomsen,J. Robert King) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Enemy Within(By: Christie Golden) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
11	Tower of Doom(By: Mark Anthony) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
12	Baroness of Blood(By: Elaine Bergstrom) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
13	Death of a Darklord 1995Buy 🇺🇸
14	Scholar of Decay(By: Tanya Huff) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
15	King of the Dead(By: Gene DeWeese) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
16	To Sleep With Evil(By: Andria Cardarelle) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
17	Lord of the Necropolis(By: Gene DeWeese) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
18	I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin(By: P.N. Elrod) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
19	Shadowborn(By: William W. Connors,Carrie Bebris) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
20	Spectre of the Black Rose(By: Voronica Whitney-Robinson,James Lowder) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
21	Before I Wake(By: Ari Marmell) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
22	Black Crusade(By: Ari Marmell) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
23	Heaven's Bones(By: Samantha Henderson) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
24	Mithras Court(By: David A. Page) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
25	Heir of Strahd(By: Delilah S. Dawson) 2025Buy 🇺🇸

38 books (2003–2015)

Start with Seven Seasons of Buffy(By: Scott Westerfeld,Charlaine Harris,Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,Kevin Andrew Murphy,Christie Golden,Sherrilyn Kenyon,Nancy Holder,Lawrence Watt-Evans,David Brin,Jacqueline Lichtenberg,Jean Lorrah,Laura Resnick,Sarah Zettel,Nancy Kilpatrick,Michelle West,Glenn Yeffeth,Margaret L. Carter,Peg Aloi,Marguerite Krause,Jennifer Crusie,Carla Montgomery), the first of 38 books in the Smart Pop series.

#	Title
1	Seven Seasons of Buffy(By: Scott Westerfeld,Charlaine Harris,Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,Kevin Andrew Murphy,Christie Golden,Sherrilyn Kenyon,Nancy Holder,Lawrence Watt-Evans,David Brin,Jacqueline Lichtenberg,Jean Lorrah,Laura Resnick,Sarah Zettel,Nancy Kilpatrick,Michelle West,Glenn Yeffeth,Margaret L. Carter,Peg Aloi,Marguerite Krause,Jennifer Crusie,Carla Montgomery) 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 2010Buy 🇺🇸
38	You Do Not Talk About Fight Club(By: Chuck Palahniuk,Read Mercer Schuchardt) 2015Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1992–1992)

#	Title
1	Nightseer 1992Buy 🇺🇸

72 books (1987–2015)

Start with Encounter at Farpoint(By: David Gerrold), the first of 72 books in the Star Trek: The Next Generation series.

#	Title
1	Encounter at Farpoint(By: David Gerrold) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ghost Ship(By: Diane Carey) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Children of Hamlin(By: Carmen Carter) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Peacekeepers(By: Gene DeWeese) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	Masks(By: John Vornholt) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	Power Hungry(By: Howard Weinstein) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
7	Strike Zone(By: Peter David) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
8	Survivors(By: Jean Lorrah) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Captain's Honor(By: David Dvorkin,Daniel Dvorkin) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
10	A Rock and a Hard Place(By: Peter David) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
11	Doomsday World(By: Peter David,Carmen Carter,Robert Greenberger,Michael Jan Friedman) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
12	Exiles(By: Howard Weinstein) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
13	Gulliver's Fugitives(By: Keith Sharee) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Eyes of the Beholders(By: A.C. Crispin) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
15	Boogeymen(By: Mel Gilden) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
16	Contamination(By: John Vornholt) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
17	Perchance to Dream(By: Howard Weinstein) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
18	Q-in-Law(By: Peter David) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
19	Chains of Command(By: Bill McCay,Eloise Flood) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
20	Imbalance(By: V.E. Mitchell) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
21	Nightshade 1992Buy 🇺🇸
22	Spartacus(By: Terry Mancour) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
23	War Drums(By: John Vornholt) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
24	Grounded(By: David Bischoff) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
25	Guises of the Mind(By: Rebecca Neason) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
26	Here There Be Dragons(By: John Peel) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Romulan Prize(By: Simon Hawke) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
28	Debtors' Planet(By: W.R. Thompson) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
29	Foreign Foes(By: Dave Galanter,Greg Brodeur) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
30	Requiem(By: Michael Jan Friedman,Kevin Ryan) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
31	Sins of Commission(By: Susan Wright) 1994Buy 🇺🇸
32	Balance of Power(By: Dafydd ab Hugh) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
33	Blaze of Glory(By: Simon Hawke) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
34	Into the Nebula(By: Gene DeWeese) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Last Stand(By: Brad Ferguson) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Romulan Stratagem(By: Robert Greenberger) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
37	A Fury Scorned(By: Pamela Sargent) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
38	Dragon's Honor(By: Greg Cox,Kij Johnson) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
39	Infiltrator(By: W.R. Thompson) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
40	Klingon(By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Dean Wesley Smith) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
41	Possession(By: Kathleen O'Malley,J.M. Dillard) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
42	Rogue Saucer(By: John Vornholt) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
43	The Soldiers of Fear(By: Dean Wesley Smith) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
44	Intellivore(By: Diane Duane) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
45	The Death of Princes(By: John Peel) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
46	To Storm Heaven(By: Esther M. Friesner) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
47	Q-Strike(By: Greg Cox) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
48	Q-Zone(By: Greg Cox) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
49	Double or Nothing(By: Peter David) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
50	Dyson Sphere(By: George Zebrowski) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
51	I, Q(By: Peter David,John de Lancie) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
52	Infection(By: John Gregory Betancourt) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
53	Quarantine(By: John Vornholt) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
54	Red Sector(By: Michael Jan Friedman,Diane Carey) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
55	The First Virtue(By: Christie Golden,Michael Jan Friedman) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
56	The Forgotten War(By: William R. Forstchen) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
57	Vectors(By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Dean Wesley Smith) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
58	Gemworld, Book One(By: John Vornholt) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
59	Gemworld, Book Two(By: John Vornholt) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
60	The Genesis Wave Book One(By: John Vornholt) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
61	Vectors: Double Helix #2(By: Dean Wesley Smith) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
62	Diplomatic Implausibility(By: Keith R.A. DeCandido) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
63	Maximum Warp: Book One(By: Dave Galanter,Greg Brodeur) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
64	Maximum Warp: Book Two(By: Dave Galanter,Greg Brodeur) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
65	The Genesis Wave, Book Two(By: John Vornholt) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
66	Tooth and Claw(By: Doranna Durgin) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
67	A Hard Rain(By: Dean Wesley Smith) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
68	The Genesis Wave, Book Three(By: John Vornholt) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
69	Genesis Force(By: John Vornholt) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
70	Sand and Stars(By: Diane Duane,A.C. Crispin) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
71	Engines of Destiny(By: Gene DeWeese) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
72	Takedown(By: John Jackson Miller) 2015Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2021–2021)

#	Title
1	A Terrible Fall of Angels 2021Buy 🇺🇸