I am a sucker for a good vampire story, but I'm havin a bit of trouble finding a good vampire book and I was hoping y'all could help me! I usually try to look for stories that maybe have a little mystery in them, or are a vampire romance without pages of sex scenes, or just a good old fashioned spooky vamp story. I've got Dracula, the Twilight series, and The Vampire Diaries series, but I'm really wanting to expand my collection a bit. Any suggestions?

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Wed Killian Jones (Captain Hook) 4/20/13

Evernight by Claudia Grey is pretty good. It's YA fiction involving vampires and it's set in a boarding school. It wasn't super scary as far as I remember, but it was interesting and pretty well-written.

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Thanks Ari, I'll check that one out! I heard about some books called The Vampire Academy, I think thats what they're called, anyone ever read those, and if so how were they?

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Wed Killian Jones (Captain Hook) 4/20/13

If you want something a bit different try The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, it's vampire fiction mixed with travel writing and history. It's based on the idea that Dracula was a real person and that he is still alive and the characters have to trace him down, not the scariest, but there plenty of mystery.

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This is a fun novel. Anno Dracula by Kim Newman. The premise is that Dracula marries Queen Victoria and takes over the British Empire. It's great because it's a huge crossover between most of the literary characters of that time and you've got cameos like Dr Jekyll and Professor Moriarty appearing.

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I was cured all right.

I agree with Lembas about The Historian. I really enjoyed this book.

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I've only really read one vampire book, and that's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith. I truly enjoyed it and I reccomend it to just about anyone.

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Thanks for the suggestions, I'll have to look for those!

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Wed Killian Jones (Captain Hook) 4/20/13

Here you are:

1. Darren Shan works.
2. Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber.
3. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead.
4. 8 House of Night by P.C. Cast.
5. Night World by L. J. Smith.
6. Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz.
7. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod by Heather Brewer.
8. Morganville Vampires by Rachel Caine.
9. My sister the vampire (Middle Grad book but so cute).
10. The Evernight Series by Claudia Gray.

My list is all Young Adult...

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Thanks Alatáriël! I'll have to look for those

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Wed Killian Jones (Captain Hook) 4/20/13

You are welcome. I hope you like them ...

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Married Dean Winchester 3/18/13 (est. 2005)

The Sookie Stackhouse series, by Charlaine Harris— it's a series of nine (or is it 10+ now? I don't recall ATM.) books that literally melds the mystery genre with the genre that stories about vampires, werewolves, and the like fall under (though the main character herself isn't a vampire). The TV show True Blood is very loosely based on the novels in the series, if you've heard of that, and/or have seen it. The only thing is it's a bit on the adult side— the content isn't quite as mature as, say, Anne Rice's books (she's one of the most well-known writers of fiction involving vampires), but pretty close.

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