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Some other recommended vampire books

A lot of people have asked me to recommend other great vampire books (other than Sucks to Be Me :-) and Twilight). This is a tough question for me since I stopped reading vampire books after I found out my book was going to be published. Some authors read everything they can about their topic, but I only read non-fiction (i.e. research-y) stuff on mine. I don’t like to get things confused in my head (there’s enough crazy stuff going on in there as it is!).

That said, I can recommend some that I’ve either read or had recommended to me…so, here you go…I’ll try to add to this list over time.

  • Suck It Up by Brian Meehl (on the funny side)
  • Thirsty by M. T. Anderson.
  • Cynthia Leitich Smith’s Tantalize
  • Life Sucks by Jessica Abel (it’s a graphic novel)
  • House of Night series (those are by P.C. and Kristin Cast)
  • The Hallowmere series features some vampiric-ish Faeries. It’s by Tiffany Trent
  • The Morganville Vampires series
  • Mari Mancusi’s books (think the first one is Boys that Bite)
  • Vivian Vande Velde’s books
  • Blue Bloods (I understand it’s kind of a vampiric Gossip Girls-ish series)
  • Evernight by Claudia Gray
  • And, of course, Anne Rice’s books (but I’d only recommend that for older YA readers)
  • Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot (another I’d recommend more for older YA readers)
  • Annette Curtis Klause’s books
  • Heather Brewer’s Vlad books

Feel free to comment and add your own suggestions as well!