Tanya Huff Reading Order

32 books (1995–2019)

Start with Investigating Women, the first of 32 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Investigating Women 1995Buy 🇺🇸
2	Northern Frights III 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	Vampire Detectives 1995Buy 🇺🇸
4	Swords of the Rainbow 1996Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Time of the Vampires 1996Buy 🇺🇸
6	Virtuous Vampires 1996Buy 🇺🇸
7	Bending the Landscape: Fantasy 1997Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Fortune Teller 1997Buy 🇺🇸
9	Crossing the Line 1998Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women 2001Buy 🇺🇸
11	DAW 30th Anniversary Fantasy 2002Buy 🇺🇸
12	DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthologies 2002Buy 🇺🇸
13	Fifteenth Annual Collection 2002Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Repentant 2003Buy 🇺🇸
15	Totally Charmed 2005Buy 🇺🇸
16	Women of War 2005Buy 🇺🇸
17	Mythspring 2006Buy 🇺🇸
18	Many Bloody Returns 2007Buy 🇺🇸
19	Under Cover of Darkness 2007Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Dragon Done It 2008Buy 🇺🇸
21	Evolve 2010Buy 🇺🇸
22	Vampires in Love 2010Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Wild Side 2011Buy 🇺🇸
24	Those Who Fight Monsters 2011Buy 🇺🇸
25	A Fantasy Medley 2 2012Buy 🇺🇸
26	Armored 2012Buy 🇺🇸
27	Imaginarium 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸
28	Weird Detectives 2013Buy 🇺🇸
29	Blood Sisters 2015Buy 🇺🇸
30	Operation Arcana 2015Buy 🇺🇸
31	Warrior Women 2015Buy 🇺🇸
32	Infinite Stars 2019Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2000–2024)

Start with Valor's Choice, the first of 6 books in the Confederation series.

#	Title
1	Valor's Choice 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Better Part of Valor 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Heart of Valor 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Valor's Trial 2008Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Truth of Valor 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	Last-Ditch(By: Troy Carrol Bucher) 2024Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2022–2022)

17 books (1999–2017)

Start with More Short Trips, the first of 17 books in the Doctor Who Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	More Short Trips 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Short Trips and Side Steps 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Companions 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Doctor Who: Short Trips: 2040 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Reprecussions 2004Buy 🇺🇸
6	Tales from the TARDIS: Volume 2: Multi-Doctor Stories 2004Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Solar System 2005Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Centenarian 2006Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Ghosts of Christmas 2007Buy 🇺🇸
10	Short Trips: Transmissions 2008Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Doctor Who Stories 2009Buy 🇺🇸
12	Queers Dig Time Lords 2013Buy 🇺🇸
13	Summer Falls and Other Stories 2013Buy 🇺🇸
14	Heroes and Monsters Collection 2015Buy 🇺🇸
15	Doctor Who: Twelve Doctors of Christmas 2016Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Twelve Doctors of Christmas 2016Buy 🇺🇸
17	Red White and Who: The Story of Doctor Who in America 2017Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2009–2014)

Start with The Enchantment Emporium and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Enchantment Emporium 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Wild Ways 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Future Falls 2014Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1998–2003)

Start with Summon the Keeper and read in order.

#	Title
1	Summon the Keeper 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Second Summoning 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Long Hot Summoning 2003Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2015–2018)

Start with An Ancient Peace and read in order.

#	Title
1	An Ancient Peace 2015Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Peace Divided 2017Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Privilege of Peace 2018Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1994–2016)

Start with Sing the Four Quarters, the first of 5 books in the Quarters series.

#	Title
1	Sing the Four Quarters 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	Fifth Quarter 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	No Quarter 1996Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Quartered Sea 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	Three Quarters: A Quarters Collection 2016Buy 🇺🇸

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(By: Laurell K. Hamilton) 1995Buy 🇺🇸
14	Scholar of Decay 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 🇺🇸

10 books (1999–2021)

Start with Stealing Magic, the first of 10 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Stealing Magic 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	What Ho, Magic! 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	Relative Magic 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	He Said, Sidhe Said & Other Tales 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Finding Magic 2007Buy 🇺🇸
6	February Thaw & Other Stories of Contemporary Fantasy 2011Buy 🇺🇸
7	Nights of the Round Table and Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy 2011Buy 🇺🇸
8	Swan's Braid and Other Tales of Terizan 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	Third Time Lucky 2015Buy 🇺🇸
10	Blood Banked 2021Buy 🇺🇸

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 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 🇺🇸

3 books (2004–2006)

Start with Smoke and Shadows and read in order.

#	Title
1	Smoke and Shadows 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Smoke and Mirrors 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	Smoke and Ashes 2006Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1989–2025)

Start with Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light, the first of 5 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Fire's Stone 1990Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Silvered 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	Into the Broken Lands 2022Buy 🇺🇸
5	Direct Descendant 2025Buy 🇺🇸

23 books (1990–2026)

Start with Valdemar Companion(By: Mercedes Lackey), the first of 23 books in the Valdemar Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Valdemar Companion(By: Mercedes Lackey) 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sword of Ice and Other Tales of Valdemar(With: Gary A. Braunbeck,Mercedes Lackey,John Helfers,Larry Dixon,Richard Lee Byers,Mickey Zucker Reichert,Elisabeth Waters,Janni Lee Simner,Lawrence Schimel,Kristin Schwengel,Stephanie D. Shaver,Ben Ohlander,Michelle Sagara,Mel White,John Yezeguielian,Philip M. Austin) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	Sun in Glory and Other Tales of Valdemar(By: Josepha Sherman) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	Crossroads and Other Tales of Valdemar(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
5	Moving Targets and Other Tales of Valdemar(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
6	Changing the World(By: Elisabeth Waters) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
7	Finding the Way and Other Tales of Valdemar(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
8	Under the Vale and Other Tales of Valdemar(By: Elisabeth Waters) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
9	No True Way(By: Mercedes Lackey,Dayle A. Dermatis,Ron Collins,Jennifer Brozek,Elisabeth Waters) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
10	The One Left Behind(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
11	Crucible(By: Mercedes Lackey,Anthea Sharp) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
12	Tempest(By: Anthea Sharp) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
13	Pathways(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
14	Choices(By: Anthea Sharp) 2018Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Demon's Den and Other Tales of Valdemar 2018Buy 🇺🇸
16	Seasons(By: Anthea Sharp) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
17	Passages(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
18	Boundaries(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
19	Shenanigans(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
20	Anything With Nothing(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2023Buy 🇺🇸
21	Feuds(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2024Buy 🇺🇸
22	Smoke and Mirrors(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2025Buy 🇺🇸
23	A Many-Splintered Thing(By: Mercedes Lackey) 2026Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1991–2020)

Start with Blood Price, the first of 7 books in the Vicki Nelson series.

#	Title
1	Blood Price 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Blood Lines 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Blood Trail 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	Blood Pact 1993Buy 🇺🇸
5	Blood Debt 1997Buy 🇺🇸
6	Blood Bank 2008Buy 🇺🇸
7	Blood Shot 2020Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1988–1989)

Start with Child of the Grove and read in order.

#	Title
1	Child of the Grove 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Last Wizard 1989Buy 🇺🇸