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Sookie Stackhouse Books in Order

13 books from Dead Until Dark (2007) to Dead Ever After (2013). Rated 4.5 across 93,382 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Dead Until Dark

    Book 1 2007 4.3 (13.2k)

    Vampires have officially "come out of the coffin", and Miss Sookie can't wait for one to come her way....

  2. Living Dead in Dallas

    Book 2 2002 4.5 (8.3k)

    Charlaine Harris' popular Southern Vampire mysteries have been described by Publishers Weekly as "humorous Southern-fried fantasy" with a little bit of romance.

  3. Club Dead

    Book 3 2003 4.5 (7.2k)

    In this entry from Anthony Award-winner Charlaine Harris' New York Times best-selling series, the gorgeous and feisty telepath hits the road to find her missing boyfriend, who may have run off with his former lover - a notorious vamp...

  4. Dead to the World

    Book 4 2004 4.6 (8.5k)

    New York Times best-selling author Charlaine Harris thrills listeners with the fourth book of her spectacular Sookie Stackhouse series.

  5. Dead as a Doornail

    Book 5 2005 4.5 (6.4k)

    New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Charlaine Harris has won an Anthony Award for her one-of-a-kind Sookie Stackhouse mystery series.

  6. Definitely Dead

    Book 6 2006 4.6 (6.7k)

    With a rabid fan base that grows larger each day, the New York Times and USA Today best-selling Sookie Stackhouse mysteries by acclaimed author Charlaine Harris are not to be missed.

  7. All Together Dead

    Book 7 2007 4.6 (6k)

    Anthony Award-winning author Charlaine Harris has earned a devoted fan base with her USA Today and New York Times best-selling Sookie Stackhouse mystery series.

  8. From Dead to Worse

    Book 8 2008 4.6 (5.9k)

    The eighth entry in Charlaine Harris' New York Times best selling, Anthony Award-winning series finds Sookie reeling from an explosive attack on the previous month's vampire summit.

  9. Dead and Gone

    Book 9 2009 4.5 (5.9k)

    Charlaine Harris' Anthony Award-winning Sookie Stackhouse mysteries have become a fixture on the New York Times best-seller list and have inspired the acclaimed HBO series True Blood.

  10. Dead In the Family

    Book 10 2010 4.4 (6.4k)

    Charlaine Harris delivers the 10th novel in her number-one New York Times best-selling Sookie Stackhouse series, which has been adapted into the smash hit television program True Blood.

  11. Dead Reckoning

    Book 11 2011 4.4 (6.2k)

    With her knack for being in trouble's way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area.

  12. Deadlocked

    Book 12 2012 4.4 (6.6k)

    It’s vampire politics as usual around the town of Bon Temps, but never before have they hit so close to Sookie’s heart…. Growing up with telepathic abilities, Sookie Stackhouse realized early on there were things she'd rather not know.

  13. Dead Ever After

    Book 13 2013 4.2 (6.3k)

    Number-one New York Times best-selling author Charlaine Harris has won numerous awards for her Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire series, which has been adapted into the hit HBO show True Blood.

Adapted for screen

  • True Blood TV series · HBO · 2008–2014 · 7 seasons

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About this reading order

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