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Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter Series

This series follows Anita Blake, a woman with an unusual profession: she hunts vampires and other supernatural creatures. In a thrilling world where magic is becoming part of everyday reality, Anita must contend with dangerous monsters as well as her own inner demons. The stories are packed with action, romance, and dark secrets that will draw readers in. Fans of the urban fantasy genre will find everything they are looking for here.

The Killing Dance
Bloody Bones
The Lunatic Cafe
Circus of the Damned: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
The Laughing Corpse: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Guilty Pleasures

Recommended Reading Order

  1. Guilty Pleasures

    • 272 pages
    • 10 hours of reading

    Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that “blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache”(Diana Gabaldon). Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling series has captured readers’ wildest imaginations and addicted them to a seductive world where supernatural hungers collide with the desires of the human heart, starring a heroine like no other... Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy... “What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.”—USA Today

    Guilty Pleasures1
    4.1

  4. The Lunatic Cafe

    • 388 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    Anita has fallen for the leader of a local pack of werewolves. She's survived a lot, but this love thing may kill her yet.

    The Lunatic Cafe4
    4.0

  5. Bloody Bones

    • 370 pages
    • 13 hours of reading

    First, there were the dead in the graveyard two hundred years dead. I've been hired to raise them to settle a dispute over who owned the land they were buried in. Then there were the three dead teenagers in the woods, slaughtered in a way I'd never seen before. And then they found the dead girl, drained of blood and left in her bed. I knew what that meant of coure. It didn't take a degree in prenatural studies to figure out that something was wrong. And I was right in the middle of it. My name is Anita Blake. Welcome to my life... ---back cover.

    Bloody Bones5
    4.0

  6. The Killing Dance

    • 400 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    In the sixth adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Anita Blake’s unique skills make her a wanted woman—by vampire, by werewolf, and by a hit man... Though she’s dating a vampire and a werewolf, Anita is keeping them at arm’s length. Which isn’t easy considering that Jean-Claude is the master vampire of St. Louis and Richard Zeeman is the sexiest junior high school teacher she’s ever seen. Just to complicate Anita’s already messy life, someone has put a price on her head. Love cannot save her this time, so she turns to Edward, hit man extraordinaire for help. But finding the person behind it won’t be easy, because she’s made a lot of enemies—human and otherwise.

    The Killing Dance6
    4.0

  7. Burnt Offerings

    • 392 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    Anita Blake, vampire hunter - sharp, sassy, sexy and good fun, finds she's sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the city. So it hits close to home when an arsonist begins to target vampire-owned businesses all over the town.

    Burnt Offerings7
    4.1

  8. Blue Moon: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

    • 432 pages
    • 16 hours of reading

    When she chose master vampire Jean-Claude over her ex-fiancé, alpha werewolf Richard Zeeman, Anita learned that sometimes love is not enough. But though she and Richard won’t be walking down any aisles, she can’t turn her back on him when he’s arrested on a rape charge in Tennessee. Anita knows firsthand that Richard has the morals of a saint—or at least a boy scout. But his guilt or innocence is not the issue. He’s behind bars, and in five days a full moon will rise…

    Blue Moon: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel8
    4.1

  10. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Narcissus in Chains

    • 424 pages
    • 15 hours of reading

    With the highly acclaimed Obsidian Butterfly , Laurell K. Hamilton's vampire hunter, Anita Blake, came into her own. She survived a supernatural onslaught unlike any she had ever faced before - and she did it without the two men in her life. Now, six months have passed since Anita has seen either Jean-Claude or Richard. Six months of celibacy. Six months of indecision. Six months of danger. for her body carries the marks of both vampire and werewolf, and until the triumvirate is consummated, all three remain vulnerable. But when a kidnapper targets innocents that Anita has sworn to protect, she needs all the help she can get. In an earth-shattering union, Anita, Jean-Claude, and Richard merge the marks - and melt into one another. Suddenly, Anita can harness both their powers. She can feel their hearts... hear their thoughts... know their hungers.... Nothing can save Anita from a twist of fate that draws her ever closer to the brink of humanity - to finally surrender to the bloodlust, the beast, and the desire transforming her body and consuming her soul....

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Narcissus in Chains10
    3.9

  11. Cerulean Sins

    An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

    In this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, vampire hunter Anita Blake learns what it's like to be at the new end of a centuries-old bloodline—and just how far she’ll let herself get pushed around. Once a sworn enemy of all monsters, Anita is now the human consort of both Jean-Claude, the Master Vampire, and Micah, the leopard shapeshifter. Not quite as human as she once was, she is consumed by both their hungers—desires that must be sated time and time again. And when a centuries-old vampire targets Jean-Claude and his clan, Anita finds herself tested as never before—needing all the dark forces her passion can muster to save the ones she loves the most...

    Cerulean Sins11
    3.9

  12. Incubus Dreams

    In the latest installment of Hamilton's bestselling series, vampire hunter Anita Blake faces a vampire serial killer targeting strippers. Struggling with a conflict of interest, she seeks help, navigating the complexities of her duties to both the living and the undead.

    Incubus Dreams12
    3.8

  13. Micah

    • 288 pages
    • 11 hours of reading

    "RAISING THE DEAD IS EASY. LOVE IS HARD..." There are lots of reasons to raise the dead-some private, some public. In this case, the feds have a witness who died before he could speak on the record. They want him raised so his testimony can be taken. So here I am, on a plane to Philadelphia, flying off to do my job. But I'm not alone. Micah is with me. Micah, head of the St. Louis wereleopard pard. King to my Queen. The only one of my lovers who can stir my blood with just a glance from his chartreuse cat's eyes. I was happy to have him at my side. Until he mentioned that this will be our first time alone together. No Master Vampire. No Alpha Werewolf. Just me and Micah. And all my fears and doubts...

    Micah13
    3.7

  14. Danse Macabre

    • 576 pages
    • 21 hours of reading

    Anita Blake is worried that her careers as a Federal Marshal who raises the dead and as a vampire executioner may be jeopardized when she realizes that she may be pregnant and the father could be a vampire, a werewolf, or someone else entirely. Reprint.

    Danse Macabre14
    3.9

  15. The Harlequin

    • 448 pages
    • 16 hours of reading

    Into Anita Blake's world-a world already overflowing with power-come creatures so feared that centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names.

    The Harlequin15
    4.0

  16. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 16: Blood Noir

    An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

    • 340 pages
    • 12 hours of reading

    When Anita Blake takes a trip with Jason, a young werewolf who is her friend and sometimes lover, there are consequences both in Jason's small hometown and in Anita's life with Jean-Claude. As master vampire of the city, Jean-Claude has appearances to maintain, and if his lover has gone off with someone else, the other vampires are led to certain conclusions: maybe Jean-Claude is getting soft. And if Jean-Claude is vulnerable, maybe Anita - who seems to amplify the powers of any man she stays with - might be stolen away from him, by force if necessary.

    Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - 16: Blood Noir16
    4.0

  17. Skin Trade

    The stunning seventeenth adventure from Laurell K. Hamilton featuring her Vampire Hunter heroine Anita Blake

    Skin Trade17
    4.0

  18. Flirt

    • 224 pages
    • 8 hours of reading

    The eighteenth enthralling outing for Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter

    Flirt18
    3.8

  19. Bullet

    The Mother of All Darkness-the first vampire-wants to enter into a new human body...and the one she has in mind belongs to Anita Blake.

    Bullet19
    4.0