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Lives of the Mayfair Witches Books in Order

6 books from The Witching Hour (1990) to Blood Canticle (1998). Rated 4.5 across 25,319 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. The Witching Hour

    Book 1 1990 4.4 (10.2k)

    Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of four centuries of witches—a family given to poetry and incest, murder and philosophy, a family that over...

  2. Lasher

    Book 2 1993 4.6 (4.7k)

    From the day her first Vampire Chronicle was published, critics and readers--readers by the hundreds of thousands--have been mesmerized by the writings of Anne Rice.

  3. Taltos

    Book 3 1994 4.6 (3.3k)

    --The Washington Post Book World "CAPTIVATING...TALTOS IS A WONDERFUL OFFERING...THE BEST SHE'S DONE....There is a new member of Anne Rice's macabre family of monsters...

  4. Merrick

    Book 4 2000 4.4 (2.4k)

    In her mesmerizing new novel, the author of The Vampire Chronicles and the saga of the Mayfair Witches demonstrates once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of myth and magic.

  5. Blackwood Farm

    Book 5 1998 4.6 (2.6k)

    Perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative—her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches—to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets.

  6. Blood Canticle

    Book 6 1998 4.4 (2k)

    Anne Rice continues her astonishing Vampire Chronicles in a new novel that begins where Blackwood Farm left off — and tells the story of Lestat’s quest for redemption, goodness, and the love of Rowan Mayfair.

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Lives of the Mayfair Witches is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.