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What you’ll find on my bookshelves
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items I’m an avid reader and am sharing the books I have loved most from all the years of my voracious need to read read read.
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Sarah J. Mass Fantasy Sagas
Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles
Anne Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches
Sarah J. Mass Fantasy Sagas
Absolutely fell in love with these fantasy worlds of the fae, demons, witches, and other various creatures. An author’s ability to transport you into the realm they’ve created is a necessary element to any book, and Sarah J. Maas does a wonderful jo...
In this series we follow a teen assassin, Celaena, who is freed from a brutal salt mine labor camp to compete in a deadly tournament for the title of King's Champion to earn her freedom. She ends up discovering her own hidden destiny, uncovering dar...
Throne of Glass [TOG] Hardcover Box Set (8 books)
Absolutely fell in love with this fantasy world of the fae, the characters, and the romance/spice is nice too. The author’s ability to transport you into the realm they’ve created is a necessary element to any book, and Sarah J. Maas does a wonderful...
A Court of Thorns and Roses [ACOTAR] Paperback Box Set (5 books)
This adult fantasy series follows Bryce, a half-Fae, half-human party girl seeking revenge after her best friend is murdered. Set in an urban fantasy world where humans, angels, werewolves, and mermen coexist. Bryce is forced to team up with a Fall...
Crescent City Hardcover Box Set (3 books)
Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles
If you love vampires and the supernatural, dive into Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles; the most seductively immersive books you’ll ever find yourself craving to enter. You’ll fall in love with the vampire Lestat and feel every word pull you deeper int...
A beautiful collectors edition of the first 3 books. This large hardback leather bound book is one of my favorite editions. It has a silvery metallic, embossed cover and usually with gold foil page edges.
Anne Rice’s vampire series is the most se...
The Vampire Chronicles: Interview with a Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, and ...
Book 1 of Anne Rice’s 13 book Vampire Chronicles series. The first book in the series is Louis’ story, where he introduces us to the existence of vampires and gives you his perspective of events with his sire, the vampire Lestat, through an intervie...
Interview with the Vampire (Vampire Chronicles Series #1)|Hardcover
Book 2 of Anne Rice’s 13 book Vampire Chronicles series. In this book you will be introduced to Lestat himself and quickly fall in love with him and his story. He is the leading character in the entire series. Here you will follow him through his ...
The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles Series #2)|Hardcover
Book 3 of Anne Rice’s 13 book Vampire Chronicles where you’ll learn the history of her vampires and how they came into existence through a twisting tale from three different intertwining narratives, and then what may become of the world when they all...
The Queen of the Damned (Vampire Chronicles Series #3)|Paperback
Book 4 of Anne Rice’s 13 book Vampire Chronicles where Lestat’s story continues after the world changing events of The Queen of the Damned. More Talamasca revealed and Lestat’s encounter with a former member who manages to take Lestat’s physical bod...
The Tale of the Body Thief (Vampire Chronicles Series #4)
Book 5 of Anne Rice’s 13 book Vampire Chronicles where Lestat overhears snippets of conversations between God and the Devil and gets transported through time to the beginning of creation, dragged off to hell, and endures a spiritual crisis through di...
Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles Series #5)|Paperback
Essentially book 6 in the Vampire Chronicles even though it is not listed as such because she was presented as the first of the New Tales of the Vampires and is shorter as a novella, but is essential to the storyline with Marius, and picks up at the ...
Pandora (New Tales of the Vampires Series #1)|Paperback
Book 6 of the 13 book Vampire Chronicles picks up at the end book 5, Memnoch the Devil, where we follow Armand’s story through time back to his boyhood and travel with him into his vampirism. But really should be considered book 7 if you read the no...
The Vampire Armand (Vampire Chronicles Series #6)|Paperback
Book 7 of the 13 book Vampire Chronicles and creates the crossover with The Lives of the Mayfair Witches, so you will want to catch up with those 3 books before diving into this one. In this book we meet a new character from the Talamasca, Merrick; ...
Merrick (Vampire Chronicles Series #7)|Paperback
Book 8 of the 13 book Vampire Chronicles where we follow Marius (whom we met in Lestat’s journey early on) in his journey through life and death, the protector of ‘those who must be kept’, and what becomes of him after The Queen of the Damned.
You s...
Blood and Gold (Vampire Chronicles Series #8)|Paperback
Book 9 of the 13 book Vampire Chronicles now fused with The Mayfair Witches, we follow Quinn Blackwood through the struggles of his life and his seeking Lestat for help.
This cover version of book 9 won’t match the first four books I’ve listed (for ...
Blackwood Farm (Vampire Chronicles Series #9)|Hardcover
Book 10 of the 13 book Vampire Chronicles now fused with The Mayfair Witches, we join Lestat at Blackwood Farm with Rowan and the Mayfairs for more bewitching tales leading back to the Taltos we discovered in The Lives of the Mayfair Witches.
This c...
Blood Canticle (Vampire Chronicles Series #10)|Paperback
Book 11 of the Vampire Chronicles where we follow Lestat as he becomes the leader of the vampire tribe in the chaos after The Queen of the Damned. We hear from a number of the other vampires we’ve met along the way through this series of books as th...
Prince Lestat (Vampire Chronicles Series #11)|Paperback
Book 12 of the Vampire Chronicles where we follow Lestat into the ancient history of Atlantis and the source of vampires. As with all of her books, Anne Rice loves to delve into history and myths and bring it to life for us to explore. Many readers...
Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (Vampire Chronicles Series #12)|Paperback
Book 13 of the Vampire Chronicles and the final tale of Lestat, we get a review of his life from the earlier books (since it’s been a very long time between this book and previous ones) and witness Lestat establishing his monarchy over the vampires, ...
Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat|Paperback
This novella is a stand alone story that has nothing to do with the Vampire Chronicles. It was created as book 2 of The New Tales of the Vampires, coming after the novella Pandora but not connected to it either, whereas Pandora actually is in the Vam...
Vittorio the Vampire (New Tales of the Vampires Series #2)|Paperback
Anne Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches
The Lives of the Mayfair Witches is a series of only 3 books, but contain quite the spiraling expansive tale of a family of witches with deep dark secrets and a very complex family tree. This series eventually crosses over into The Vampire Chronicle...
The Lives of the Mayfair Witches is a series of only 3 books, but contain quite the spiraling expansive tale of a family of witches with deep dark secrets and a very complex family tree. We follow Rowan as she discovers her families secrets and the ...
Anne Rice's Mayfair Chronicles: 3-Book Boxed Set: The Mayfair Witches, Lasher, and Taltos|Paperback
Book 1 of the trilogy Lives of the Mayfair Witches or otherwise known as the Mayfair Chronicles. We meet Rowan, a brilliant neurosurgeon with special powers that she will soon learn the source of when she discovers that she comes from an ancient fam...
The Witching Hour (Mayfair Witches Series #1)|Paperback
Book 2 of the trilogy of The Lives of the Mayfair Witches, Rowan’s story continues with Lasher abducting her and putting her through unspeakable tortures. We hear his story from his perspective. We also meet Mona Mayfair, a character that challenge...
Lasher (Mayfair Witches Series #2)|Paperback
Book 3 of the Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy. We dive deeper into the Taltos species and the sole surviving ancient male named Ashlar. He learns of the possible existence of another of his kind and finds himself in the mesmerizing world of th...
Taltos (Mayfair Witches Series #3)|Paperback