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The Vampire Chronicles Books in Order

by Anne RiceLiterature & Fiction

13 books from Interview with the Vampire (1672) to Blood Communion (2018). Rated 4.5 across 50,016 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Interview with the Vampire

    Book 1 1672 4.5 (12.8k)

    40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, "a magnificent, compulsively readable thriller...Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of…

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  2. The Vampire Lestat

    Book 2 1986 4.7 (7.6k)

    Lestat. The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes…

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  3. The Queen of the Damned

    Book 3 1988 4.7 (5.3k)

    In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night.

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  4. The Tale of the Body Thief

    Book 4 1992 4.7 (3k)

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER In another feat of hypnotic storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now classic Interview with the Vampire and continued with The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the…

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  5. Memnoch the Devil

    Book 5 1995 4.5 (3k)

    . . FIENDISH. . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING." --New York Daily News Like Interview With the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . .

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  6. The Vampire Armand

    Book 6 1998 4.2 (2k)

    See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Anne Rice in Large Print * About Large Print All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typeface In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons…

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  7. Merrick

    Book 7 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.

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  8. Blood and Gold

    Book 8 1998 4.6 (2.1k)

    Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, Marius is kidnapped and forced into that dark realm of blood, where he is made a protector of the Queen and King of the vampires–in whom the core of the supernatural race...

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  9. Blackwood Farm

    Book 9 1998 4.6 (2.7k)

    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.

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  10. Blood Canticle

    Book 10 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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  11. Prince Lestat

    Book 11 2014 4.4 (2.9k)

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER A stunning departure, a surprising and compelling return…From Anne Rice, perennial best seller, single-handed reinventor of the vampire cosmology--a new, exhilarating novel, a deepening of her vampire mythology, and a…

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  12. Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

    Book 12 2016 4.6 (2.5k)

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER An ambitious and exhilarating novel of utopian vision and power, from Anne Rice, conjurer of the beloved best sellers Interview with the Vampire and Prince Lestat "In my dreams, I saw a city fall into the sea.

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  13. Blood Communion

    Book 13 2018 4.0 (1.6k)

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel outlaw, addresses the tribe of vampires, telling us the mesmerizing story of how he became prince of the vampire world, and of the formation of the Blood Communion, and how his…

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About this reading order

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

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