Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series

30 primary works • 43 total works

Series of urban fantasy novels, narrated by title character, Anita Blake. Anita lives in a parallel universe, much like our own, save that not only do things like vampires and shapeshifters exist, but their presence is public knowledge. The novels follow Anita's conflicts with the supernatural as she attempts to solve a variety of mysteries, come t…

Book 0.5

Strange Candy

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.77 · 16930 Ratings · 403 Reviews · published 2006 · 26 editions

The #1 New York Times bestselling author's short s…

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Book 1

Guilty Pleasures

Guilty Pleasures

by Laurell K. Hamilton

4.02 · 144494 Ratings · 6218 Reviews · published 1993 · 111 editions

Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her tur…

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Book 2

The Laughing Corpse

The Laughing Corpse

by Laurell K. Hamilton

4.12 · 83772 Ratings · 2254 Reviews · published 1994 · 77 editions

Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars…

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Book 3

Circus of the Damned

Circus of the Damned

by Laurell K. Hamilton

4.17 · 92833 Ratings · 1785 Reviews · published 1995 · 72 editions

In Circus of the Damned-now in trade paperback for…

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Book 4

The Lunatic Cafe

The Lunatic Cafe

by Laurell K. Hamilton

4.12 · 77301 Ratings · 1525 Reviews · published 1996 · 64 editions

Anita has fallen for the leader of a local pack of…

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Book 5

Bloody Bones

by Laurell K. Hamilton

4.11 · 73210 Ratings · 1407 Reviews · published 1996 · 66 editions

Hired to exhume two-hundred-year-old graves in the…

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Book 6

The Killing Dance

The Killing Dance

by Laurell K. Hamilton

4.13 · 71706 Ratings · 1459 Reviews · published 1997 · 52 editions

With a price on her head and professional hitmen o…

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Book 7

Burnt Offerings

Burnt Offerings

by Laurell K. Hamilton

4.08 · 68494 Ratings · 1150 Reviews · published 1998 · 63 editions

"You can't trust anyone who sleeps with the monste…

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Book 8

Blue Moon

by Laurell K. Hamilton

4.06 · 64716 Ratings · 1154 Reviews · published 1998 · 60 editions

When she chose master vampire Jean-Claude over her…

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Book 8.5

Bite

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.78 · 16311 Ratings · 464 Reviews · published 2004 · 15 editions

The bite is back in vampire fiction as five of tod…

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Book 9

Obsidian Butterfly

Obsidian Butterfly

by Laurell K. Hamilton

4.09 · 63661 Ratings · 1602 Reviews · published 2000 · 49 editions

The Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter backlist takes fli…

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Book 10

Narcissus in Chains

Narcissus in Chains

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.91 · 58411 Ratings · 1305 Reviews · published 2001 · 44 editions

Hamilton's vampire-hunting Anita Blake faces a ple…

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Book 11

Cerulean Sins

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.86 · 51309 Ratings · 952 Reviews · published 2003 · 63 editions

Cerulean Sins, the eleventh entry in the hugely-po…

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Book 12

Incubus Dreams

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.80 · 49367 Ratings · 1127 Reviews · published 2004 · 53 editions

In the latest New York Times bestselling Anita Bla…

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Book 12.5

Cravings

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.83 · 8708 Ratings · 217 Reviews · published 2004 · 15 editions

Four favorite authors present their favorite chara…

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Book 13

Micah

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.66 · 45575 Ratings · 1032 Reviews · published 2006 · 38 editions

"RAISING THE DEAD IS EASY. LOVE IS HARD..."

There …

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Book 14

Danse Macabre

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.83 · 46287 Ratings · 985 Reviews · published 2006 · 66 editions

Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN […

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Book 15

The Harlequin

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.93 · 44686 Ratings · 989 Reviews · published 2007 · 64 editions

Anita Blake is about to face the challenge of her …

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Book 16

Blood Noir

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.87 · 41000 Ratings · 1091 Reviews · published 2008 · 57 editions

Readers can't get enough of the #1 New York Times …

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Book 17

Skin Trade

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.93 · 37913 Ratings · 1232 Reviews · published 2009 · 45 editions

Once you tell someone certain things, like, say, y…

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Book 18

Flirt

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.74 · 34602 Ratings · 1217 Reviews · published 2009 · 39 editions

When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Ton…

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Book 19

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.85 · 33665 Ratings · 1282 Reviews · published 2010 · 37 editions

The music came back up and the next group of littl…

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Book 20

Hit List

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.96 · 29201 Ratings · 1655 Reviews · published 2011 · 2 editions

A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest, …

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Book 20.5

Beauty

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.71 · 8213 Ratings · 384 Reviews · published 2012 · 6 editions

The steamy outtake that takes readers even further…

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Book 21

Kiss the Dead

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.84 · 25134 Ratings · 1735 Reviews · published 2012 · 36 editions

When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampir…

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Book 22

Affliction

by Laurell K. Hamilton

4.05 · 21224 Ratings · 1843 Reviews · published 2013 · 27 editions

Micah’s estranged father lies dying, rotting away …

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Book 22.5

Dancing

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.95 · 6430 Ratings · 334 Reviews · published 2013 · 4 editions

For most people, summer barbecues are nothing to b…

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Book 22.75

Shutdown

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.64 · 1895 Ratings · 155 Reviews · published 2013 · 1 edition

This story is for all my readers who have been imp…

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Book 23

Jason

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.53 · 12796 Ratings · 1106 Reviews · published 2014 · 21 editions

"Enjoying pain with your pleasure is something you…

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Book 24

Dead Ice

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.94 · 14660 Ratings · 1462 Reviews · published 2015 · 28 editions

"If you've never read this series, I highly recomm…

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Book 24.5

Wounded

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.90 · 3759 Ratings · 251 Reviews · published 2016 · 4 editions

Be proud of Life’s battle scars, it means you were…

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Book 25

Crimson Death

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.90 · 11905 Ratings · 1371 Reviews · published 2016 · 21 editions

In her twenty-fifth adventure, vampire hunter and …

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Book 25.1

A Girl, a Goat, and a Zombie

A Girl, a Goat, and a Zombie

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.81 · 244 Ratings · 18 Reviews · published 2016 · 1 edition

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Book 26

Serpentine

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.95 · 9471 Ratings · 1212 Reviews · published 2018 · 18 editions

Vampire hunter Anita Blake has managed to overcome…

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Book 26.5 (Zombie Dearest)

Fantastic Hope

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.89 · 1771 Ratings · 318 Reviews · published 2020 · 9 editions

An anthology collection of sixteen sci-fi and fant…

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Book 27

Sucker Punch

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.97 · 7661 Ratings · 1195 Reviews · published 2020 · 18 editions

A brutal murder, a suspect in jail, and an executi…

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Book 28

Rafael

by Laurell K. Hamilton

4.19 · 7178 Ratings · 816 Reviews · published 2021 · 11 editions

Rafael, king of the wererats, must fight to the de…

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Book 29

Smolder

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.84 · 3199 Ratings · 529 Reviews · published 2023 · 6 editions

The wedding of the century between vampire hunter …

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Book 30

Slay

by Laurell K. Hamilton

3.90 · 10 Ratings · 4 Reviews · 2 editions

Evil continues to terrorize vampire hunter Anita B…

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Book 1-3

Club Vampyre

by Laurell K. Hamilton

4.46 · 2835 Ratings · 66 Reviews · published 1997 · 12 editions

Club Vampyre brings together the first three Anita…

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Book 4-6

The Midnight Cafe

The Midnight Cafe

by Laurell K. Hamilton

4.48 · 2685 Ratings · 33 Reviews · published 1997 · 3 editions

Three Anita Blake novels in collector's edition ha…

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Book 7-8

Black Moon Inn

by Laurell K. Hamilton

4.48 · 1917 Ratings · 17 Reviews · published 1998 · 4 editions

Two novels. Burnt Offerings - Blue Moon.

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Book 9-10

Nightshade Tavern

Nightshade Tavern

by Laurell K. Hamilton

4.50 · 1096 Ratings · 15 Reviews · published 2005 · 4 editions

Omnibus edition with both Obsidian Butterfly and N…

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