Order of Sookie Stackhouse Books
Sookie Stackhouse is a series of mystery novels by American author Charlaine Harris. It is also known as the Southern Vampire Mysteries and has also been retronymed as the True Blood series. The popular series was adapted into the hit HBO television series True Blood by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under).
The title character is a telepath who works at the local restaurant called Merlotte’s in the fictional town of Bon Temps, LA. She meets a vampire by the name of Bill Compton, but just as soon as she falls in love with him, a series of murders start occurring around her. The series began with Dead Until Dark in 2001 with a new installment being published every year. Below is a list of Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood books in order of when they were originally published (which is also their chronological order):
Publication Order of Sookie Stackhouse Books
| Dead Until Dark | (2001) |    |
| Living Dead in Dallas | (2002) | |
| Club Dead | (2003) | |
| Dead to the World | (2004) | |
| Dead as a Doornail | (2005) | |
| Definitely Dead | (2006) | |
| All Together Dead | (2007) | |
| From Dead to Worse | (2008) | |
| Dead and Gone | (2009) | |
| A Touch of Dead | (2009) | |
| Dead in the Family | (2010) | |
| True Blood Collection | (2010) | |
| Dead Reckoning | (2011) | |
| The First Sookie Collection | (2011) | |
| Deadlocked | (2012) | |
| Dancers in the Dark | (2012) | |
| Dead Ever After | (2013) | |
| After Dead | (2013) | |
Publication Order of Sookie Stackhouse Collections
| The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories | (2017) | |
Publication Order of Sookie Stackhouse Anthologies
(By: Charlaine Harris, Jonathan Maberry, Bill Crider, Rachel Caine, Toni L.P. Kelner, Nancy Holder, Dana Cameron, Christopher Golden, Seanan McGuire, MaryJanice Davidson, Jeanne C. Stein, Nicole Peeler, Miranda James, Suzanne McLeod, Leigh Perry, Jeffrey J. Mariotte)
| Dead But Not Forgotten | (2014) | |
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Southern Vampire Mysteries Synopsis: Living Dead in Dallas picks up where Dead Until Dark left off. Sookie is employed by the vampires of Dallas to help find their sheriff Godric using her telepathic gifts. In doing so, she has to meet with an anti-vampire religious group. Meanwhile, in Sookie’s absence, a maenad has wreaked havoc all over Bon Temps. This book was later adapted into the second season of True Blood, with several differences.
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