Best vampire books?

[twolittledarlings]

Any recommendations?

how 'romance' are you looking for?

pitiful end of the scale: twilight

mid: true blood/sookie stackhouse

full on sex scenes: black dagger brotherhood

I loved the True Blood and twlight series.

Have also read the Harper series and the Lily Bard series from Charlaine Harris.

Have read The Vampire Diaries (OK) and have just finished reading the Vampire Academy series which are great page turners.

Not sure what to read next?

Will find out more about the Black Dagger ones - thank you BellaBearisWideAwake

First one is Dark Lover, the ninth is out soon. Warning: they really are vampire porn!

JR Ward btw

Have you read 'shiver'

not vampires ...warewolves [set of three books]

Don't read The Blackdagger Brotherhood if ridiculous over-use of the letter H offends you.
The Brhothers all have names like Rhage, Phury and Phucking Useless.

Bram Stoker's Dracula?

depends what you are looking for

Dracula is very good the original forget about the silly movie
Fevre Dream
Let the Right one in
I am legend
Fangland
Suckers

all proper vampire books

TeamLemon - I reckon that should be brohthers

Team - No bhrhothehr talk here!

Thank you all. making a note of all these to go through.

Team hasn't got a damn clue what she is talking about since she has never read the books

The Black Dagger Brotherhood books are fantastic as are:

The Demonica Books (about Demons & Vampires)
The Dark Hunters
Vampire Academy
The Mortal Instruments
The Succubus Series

Morganville & Vampire Diaries were not so good imo.

Dracula
Let The Right One In (but the ending is stupid)
The Historian

For me Let the Right One In was one of the worst books I've ever read.

Yeah, i read 'handling the undead' by the same guy and was a bit disappointed. An interesting premise, but not sure he'd entirely thought through where he wanted to go with it.

Of course, if you've never read Interview With the Vampire, you've missed out on a big landmark vampire novel....

I found Interview With The Vampire completely unreadable.

The Vampire Lestat. Anne Rice. Actually, the whole series is pretty good.

I Am Legend is a vampire story... thought it was a zombie type one. Granted, I've only seen the movie. Either way, it scared the crap out me.

Unreadable (Gasp!) I loved it.

The Night Huntress is another series - by Jeaniene Frost - BONES IS HOT!

Chloe Neil - Chicagoland Vampires

Midnight Breeds - Lara Adrian
Lords of the Underworld - Geno Showalter

The entire Necroscope series by Brian Lumley. Proper dark vampire stuff, not sparkly crap kids. Thousands of pages across the series, real epic stuff

The Night Watch series by Sergei Lukyanenko are really good, set in Russia, but they are not sexy vampires, more supernatural.