Reading theme for November 2009
VAMPIRES
VAMPIRES
Suggested reading...but feel free to choose your own
Novels by:
Nancy Baker - The Night Inside
L.A. Banks - The Awakening, The Hunted
Patricia Briggs - Bone Crossed
P.C. Cast - Marked, Betrayed, Chosen, Untamed
MaryJanice Davidson - Undead and Unwed
Melissa de la Cruz - Blue Bloods, Masquerade, Revelations
P.N. Elrod - I, Strahd
Christine Feehan - Conspiracy Game, Dark Curse
Andrew Fox - Fat White Vampire Blues
Heather Graham - Kiss of Darkness, Blood Red
Claudia Gray - Evernight
Laurell K. Hamilton - Skin Trade, Obsidian Butterfly
Charlaine Harris - Club Dead, Dead Until Dark
Kim Harrison - White Witch, Black Curse
Tom Holland - Lord of the Dead
A.M. Jenkins - Night Road
Jeanne Kalogridis - Covenant with the Vampire
Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian
Brian Lumley - Blood Brothers, The Last Aerie
Amanda Marrone - Uninvited
A. Lee Martinez - Gil's All Fright Diner
Richelle Mead - Vampire Academy, Shadow Kiss, Frostbite
Brian Meehl - Suck It Up
Stephenie Meyer - Twilight, New Moon, Breaking Dawn
Christopher Moore - Practical Demonkeeping
C.E. Murphy - Heart of Stone
Kim Newman - Anno Dracula
Kimberly Pauley - Sucks to Be Me
Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat, Memnoch the Devil
Fred Saberhagen - A Sharpness on the Neck
Ellen Schreiber - Vampire Kisses, Vampireville
L.J. Smith - Night World, Vampire Diaries
Justin Somper - Blood Captain
Vivian Vande Velde - Companions of the Night
Guillermo del Toro - The Strain
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Darker Jewels, Writ in Blood
Non-fiction:
In search of Dracula
by Raymond T. McNally
Slayers and their vampires
by Bruce A. McClelland
Vlad the impaler
by Enid A. Goldberg
and of course the original:
DRACULA
by Bram Stoker
Nancy Baker - The Night Inside
L.A. Banks - The Awakening, The Hunted
Patricia Briggs - Bone Crossed
P.C. Cast - Marked, Betrayed, Chosen, Untamed
MaryJanice Davidson - Undead and Unwed
Melissa de la Cruz - Blue Bloods, Masquerade, Revelations
P.N. Elrod - I, Strahd
Christine Feehan - Conspiracy Game, Dark Curse
Andrew Fox - Fat White Vampire Blues
Heather Graham - Kiss of Darkness, Blood Red
Claudia Gray - Evernight
Laurell K. Hamilton - Skin Trade, Obsidian Butterfly
Charlaine Harris - Club Dead, Dead Until Dark
Kim Harrison - White Witch, Black Curse
Tom Holland - Lord of the Dead
A.M. Jenkins - Night Road
Jeanne Kalogridis - Covenant with the Vampire
Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian
Brian Lumley - Blood Brothers, The Last Aerie
Amanda Marrone - Uninvited
A. Lee Martinez - Gil's All Fright Diner
Richelle Mead - Vampire Academy, Shadow Kiss, Frostbite
Brian Meehl - Suck It Up
Stephenie Meyer - Twilight, New Moon, Breaking Dawn
Christopher Moore - Practical Demonkeeping
C.E. Murphy - Heart of Stone
Kim Newman - Anno Dracula
Kimberly Pauley - Sucks to Be Me
Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat, Memnoch the Devil
Fred Saberhagen - A Sharpness on the Neck
Ellen Schreiber - Vampire Kisses, Vampireville
L.J. Smith - Night World, Vampire Diaries
Justin Somper - Blood Captain
Vivian Vande Velde - Companions of the Night
Guillermo del Toro - The Strain
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Darker Jewels, Writ in Blood
Non-fiction:
In search of Dracula
by Raymond T. McNally
Slayers and their vampires
by Bruce A. McClelland
Vlad the impaler
by Enid A. Goldberg
and of course the original:
DRACULA
by Bram Stoker
Maybe it’s the inherent intimacy of the lips-to-neck pose. Maybe it’s the lure of immortality. Maybe it’s the Transylvanian accent. Maybe for you it’s something else altogether--but something is coming together to make vampires into popular reading. Some of these books are romantic, some deadly serious, some light-hearted, some erotic; some are mysteries, some are comedies; some claim to be based on historical fact, some are completely made up. Pick one and sink your teeth in.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to get your comb-over-the-bald-spot hairstyle right when you can't see yourself in the mirror. The bald man is just a regular guy named Earl who happens to be a vampire. His buddy driving the pickup is a werewolf named Duke. The book is Gil's All Fright Diner, by A. Lee Martinez. The diner has infestation problems, but nothing as easy as cockroaches--the place keeps getting trashed by unrelenting zombies. The book is full of scary stuff but never takes itself seriously. The vampire falls in love with a ghost, the cows turn into zombies, the zombies talk back, the teenagers fool around with each other and with black magic, and the waitress takes everything in stride.
ReplyDeleteThat's quite a list of vampire literature! I would recommend "Sunshine" by Robin McKinley, which is an urban fantasy about a young woman who works in a bakery and thrives on sunshine -- and the vampire she inadvertently saves one day (since sunshine isn't his strength). There's some sort of mutual attraction, but the inherent awkwardness and inhuman-ness of the vampires is well written and renders this much more than a romantic fantasy.
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