[ Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter ]
edited 2026-06-14A complete reading order for Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series — 30 novels following Anita Blake, licensed zombie animator and vampire executioner in a world where the supernatural is legal and lethal. Publication order is the reading order: Hamilton wrote the series as a continuous first-person serial, and no separate chronological order exists.
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01NOVEL
1993The first Anita Blake novel, published in 1993 by Ace Books. Anita Blake — animator, vampire executioner, and consulting expert for the poli…
272 pp›02NOVEL
1994The second Anita Blake novel, published in 1994. A series of grisly murders points to a zombie raised with blood sacrifice — a form of dark…
304 pp›03NOVEL
1995The third Anita Blake novel, published in 1995. A new master vampire is trying to move into St. Louis and claim the city from Jean-Claude, a…
336 pp›04NOVEL
1996The fifth Anita Blake novel, published in November 1996. Anita is hired to raise an entire graveyard of colonial-era dead for a land dispute…
384 pp›05NOVEL
1996The fourth Anita Blake novel, published in January 1996. Anita is dating Richard Zeeman, who turns out to be a werewolf and second-in-comman…
369 pp›06NOVEL
1997The sixth Anita Blake novel, published in 1997. Someone has put a contract out on Anita's life, and the bounty is high enough that even powe…
387 pp›07NOVEL
1998The eighth Anita Blake novel, published in November 1998. Richard is arrested in Tennessee on a charge Anita believes is false, and she trav…
432 pp›08NOVEL
1998The seventh Anita Blake novel, published in June 1998. The Vampire Council — the ruling body of master vampires in the United States — sends…
400 pp›09NOVEL
2000The ninth Anita Blake novel, published in 2000. Anita travels to New Mexico to repay a debt to master vampire Itzpapalotl — a pre-Columbian…
608 pp›10NOVEL
2001The tenth Anita Blake novel, published in 2001. After months away from both Jean-Claude and Richard, Anita is drawn back in when shapeshifte…
424 pp›11NOVEL
2003The eleventh Anita Blake novel, published in 2003. A pair of Belle Morte's vampires — powerful servants of the European Vampire Council's mo…
405 pp›12NOVEL
2004The twelfth Anita Blake novel, published in 2004, and the longest in the series to date. Anita investigates a serial killer targeting stripp…
658 pp›13NOVEL
2006The fourteenth Anita Blake novel, published in June 2006. Jean-Claude is hosting a meeting of master vampires in St. Louis to showcase a tou…
576 pp›14NOVEL
2006The thirteenth Anita Blake novel, published in February 2006, and the shortest full novel in the series. Anita and wereleopard alpha Micah t…
245 pp›15NOVEL
2007The fifteenth Anita Blake novel, published in June 2007. The Harlequin — the Vampire Council's feared internal police force — arrive in St.…
496 pp›16NOVEL
2008The sixteenth Anita Blake novel, published in May 2008. Anita accompanies weretiger Jason Schuyler to his hometown in North Carolina to help…
340 pp›17NOVEL
2009The seventeenth Anita Blake novel, published in June 2009. A serial killer in Las Vegas sends Anita a severed head in the mail — a calling c…
560 pp›18NOVEL
2010The nineteenth Anita Blake novel, published in June 2010. The Vampire Council's most powerful master, the Mother of All Darkness — an ancien…
432 pp›19NOVEL
2010The eighteenth Anita Blake novel, published in February 2010. A grieving widower hires Anita to raise his dead wife — a commission she decli…
288 pp›20NOVEL
2011The twentieth Anita Blake novel, published in June 2011. A serial killer is targeting federal marshals who work with the preternatural commu…
336 pp›21NOVEL
2012The twenty-first Anita Blake novel, published in June 2012. A group of vampires is freeing enslaved humans from the city's master vampires —…
368 pp›22NOVEL
2013The twenty-second Anita Blake novel, published in July 2013. Micah's estranged father is dying — infected by a supernatural disease that is…
570 pp›23NOVEL
2014The twenty-third Anita Blake novel, published in December 2014. Weretiger Jason needs help navigating a personal situation involving his gir…
304 pp›24NOVEL
2015The twenty-fourth Anita Blake novel, published in June 2015. Someone is selling videos of animated zombies that appear to be fully aware and…
576 pp›25NOVEL
2016The twenty-fifth Anita Blake novel, published in October 2016, and the longest in the series. Ireland — a country that has never had a vampi…
720 pp›26NOVEL
2018The twenty-sixth Anita Blake novel, published in August 2018. Anita and her team travel to Florida for a wedding — Edward's, to Donna Prenti…
496 pp›27NOVEL
2020The twenty-seventh Anita Blake novel, published in August 2020. Anita is called to a small Michigan town where a young wereleopard named Bob…
624 pp›28NOVEL
2021The twenty-eighth Anita Blake novel, published in February 2021. Rafael, the king of the St. Louis werats, faces a challenge to his leadersh…
272 pp›29NOVEL
2023The thirtieth Anita Blake novel, published in November 2023. Anita faces a new supernatural threat that requires her to use the full extent…
416 pp›30NOVEL
2023The twenty-ninth Anita Blake novel, published in March 2023. As Anita and Jean-Claude's relationship deepens toward marriage, a dangerous th…
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