Sookie Stackhouse Books in Order (Complete True Blood List)

The Sookie Stackhouse books are a popular urban fantasy series written by New York times bestselling author Charlaine Harris.

The Sookie Stackhouse novels are also known as the Southern Vampire Mysteries and consists of thirteen novels.

The series is set in a world where vampires live openly among humans after the development of synthetic blood, which allows them to sustain themselves without preying on humans.

The books follow the adventures of Sookie Stackhouse, a Louisiana cocktail waitress from the fictional town of Bon Temps, as she navigates her life and encounters supernatural creatures.

The Sookie Stackhouse series blend elements of mystery, fantasy, and romance and has been a popular choice for readers who enjoy paranormal fiction and supernatural beings. Additionally, the series served as the basis for the television series True Blood, which aired on HBO.

This is the list of the Sookie Stackhouse books in order.

Sookie Stackhouse Books in Order: Complete List

The Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) book series consists of several novels, and while they can be read in different orders, reading them in publication order will give you the best understanding of the overarching story.

Sookie Stackhouse Books in Order: Series

There are thirteen books in total in the Sookie Stackhouse series.

Sookie Stackhouse Books in Order Book One: Dead Until Dark (2001)

In the first book in the series, Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Bon Temps, Louisiana. She’s quiet, doesn’t get out much, and tends to mind her own business—except when it comes to her “disability.” Sookie can read minds. And these telepathic skills don’t make her too dateable.

Then along comes Bill Compton. He’s tall, dark, handsome—and Sookie can’t hear a word he’s thinking. He’s exactly the type of guy she’s been waiting for all her life…

But Bill has a disability of his own: he’s a vampire with a bad reputation. And when a string of murders hits Bon Temps—along with a gang of truly nasty bloodsuckers looking for Bill—Sookie starts to wonder if having a vampire for a boyfriend is such a bright idea.

Sookie Stackhouse Books in Order Book Two: Living Dead in Dallas (2002)

Even though Sookie has her own vampire to look out for her—her red-hot, cold-blooded boyfriend, Bill Compton—she has to admit that the bloodsuckers did save her life. So when one of the local Undead asks the cocktail waitress for a favour, she feels like she owes them.

Soon, Sookie’s in Dallas using her telepathic abilities to search for a missing vampire. She’s supposed to interview certain humans involved. There’s just one condition: The vampires must promise to behave—and let the humans go unharmed. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly…

Sookie Stackhouse Books in Order Book Three: Club Dead (2003)

There’s only one vampire that cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is involved with (at least voluntarily) and it’s Bill Compton. But when she catches him in a serious act of betrayal, she’s not sure whether to save him-or sharpen some stakes.

Sookie Stackhouse Books in Order Book Four: Dead to the World (2004)

When cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse sees a naked man on the side of the road, she doesn’t just drive on by. Turns out the poor thing hasn’t a clue who he is, but Sookie does. It’s the vampire Eric Northman—but now he’s a kinder, gentler Eric. And a scared Eric, because whoever took his memory now wants his life.

Sookie’s investigation into why leads straight into a dangerous battle among witches, vampires, and werewolves. But a greater danger could be to Sookie’s heart—because the kinder, gentler Eric is very difficult to resist…

Sookie Stackhouse Books in Order Book Five: Dead as a Doornail (2005)

When Sookie Stackhouse sees her brother Jason’s eyes start to change, she knows he’s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population, and Jason’s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter.

Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who’s behind the attacks—unless the killer decides to find her first…

Sookie Stackhouse Books in Order Book Six: Definitely Dead (2006)

Since Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has so few living relatives, she hates to lose one—even her cousin Hadley, undead consort of the vampire queen of New Orleans. Hadley’s left everything she had to Sookie, but claiming that inheritance has a high risk factor.

Some people don’t want her looking too deeply into Hadley’s past or Hadley’s possessions. And they’re prepared to do anything in their power to stop her…

Sookie Stackhouse Books in Order Book Seven: All Together Dead (2007)

Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full with shapeshifter Quinn—a possible new man in her life—and the upcoming central U.S. Vampire Summit on the shores of Lake Michigan. Sookie’s job at the summit is to support Vampire Queen Sophie-Anne, whose power base was weakened by hurricane damage to New Orleans.

But Sookie is about to discover just how dangerous that job can be, as she is drawn further and further into the vampire world…

Sookie Stackhouse Books in Order Book Eight: From Dead to Worse (2008)

After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina, and the manmade horror of the explosion at the vampire summit, Sookie Stackhouse is safe but dazed, yearning for things to get back to normal. But her boyfriend Quinn is among the missing. And things are changing, whether the Weres and vamps in her corner of Louisiana like it or not.

In the ensuing battles, Sookie faces danger, death…and once more, betrayal by someone she loves. And when the fur has finished flying and the cold blood ceases flowing, her world will be forever altered…

Sookie Stackhouse Books in Order Book Nine: Dead and Gone (2009)

Except for cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, knew little about vamps—and nothing about Weres. Until now.

The Weres and shifters have finally revealed their existence to the ordinary world, and the backlash may have claimed the life of someone Sookie knew. But her determination to find out who is responsible for the murder is put aside in the face of a far greater danger.

A race of unhuman beings—older, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolves—is preparing for war. And Sookie will find herself an all-too-human pawn in their battle…

Sookie Stackhouse Books in Order Book Ten: Dead in the Family (2010)

After enduring torture and the loss of loved ones during the brief but deadly Fae War, Sookie Stackhouse is hurt and she’s mad. Just about the only bright spot in her life is the love she thinks she feels for vampire Eric Northman.

But he’s under scrutiny by the new vampire king because of their relationship. And as the political implications of the shifters’ coming-out are beginning to be felt, Sookie’s connection to one particular Were draws her into the dangerous debate.

Also, unknown to her, though the doors to Faery have been closed, there are still some fae on the human side—and one of them is angry at Sookie. Very, very angry.

Sookie Stackhouse Books in Order Book Eleven: Dead Reckoning (2011)

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.

Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realises that her lover, Eric Northman, and his “child” Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master.

Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot—which is much more complicated than she knows…

Sookie Stackhouse Books in Order Book Twelve: Deadlocked (2012)

Felipe de Castro, the vampire King of Louisiana (and Arkansas and Nevada), is in town. It’s the worst possible time for a human body to show up in Eric Northman’s front yard—especially the body of a woman whose blood he just drank.

Now it’s up to Sookie and Bill Compton, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder. Sookie thinks that, at least this time, the dead girl’s fate has nothing to do with her.

But she is wrong.

She has an enemy, one far more devious than she would ever suspect, who has set out to make Sookie’s world come crashing down.

Sookie Stackhouse Books in Order Book Thirteen: Dead Ever After (2013)

When a shocking murder rocks the small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, psychic cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse learns that she has more than one enemy waiting to get vengeance for the past. Because nothing is ever clear-cut in Bon Temps.

What passes for truth is only a convenient lie. What passes for justice is more spilled blood. And what passes for love is never enough…

Sookie Stackhouse Books in Order: Other Books

These books, although not in the original series, all involve and include Sookie Stackhouse and the town of Bon Temps.

A Touch of Dead (2009)

Together in one edition, five stories from Harris’s supernatural world of Bon Temps, featuring telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse.

In “Fairy Dust,” Sookie must use her talents to help fairies in danger.

In “One Word Answer,” Sookie comes face to face with some unpleasant family secrets.

Sookie gets an unexpected—though not unpleasant—present while celebrating the Prince of Darkness’s birthday in “Dracula Night.”

Sookie’s witchy friend Amelia helps Sookie on a case in “Lucky.”

And in “Giftwrap,” Sookie fights to overcome holiday blues until she has a surprising chance encounter.

The Sookie Stackhouse Companion (2011)

Explore the unconventional, otherworldly life of psychic waitress Sookie Stackhouse in this companion to the bestselling series that takes a closer look at Sookie and her family, friends, enemies, adventures, and—of course—the lovers who set her world on fire…

Visit Bon Temps, the small Louisiana town that Sookie calls home, with a detailed map created by Charlaine herself, and learn the characteristics of the supernaturals who live there: vampires, two-natured, and fae. Examine all the branches of Sookie’s family tree. And eavesdrop on the private conversations between rival vampires Eric and Bill.

Also, enjoy the compelling novella “Small-Town Wedding,” in which Sookie accompanies her shapeshifting boss, Sam, to his brother’s wedding in Texas, where happily-ever-after seems very far away….

Exclusive interviews with True Blood creator Alan Ball and author Charlaine Harris—compiled from fan questions—will satisfy your craving for all things Sookie, as will trivia questions, recipes (including Caroline Bellefleur’s famous chocolate cake!), and a concordance to the Sookie Stackhouse novels.

After Dead (2013)

Dead Ever After marked the end of the Sookie Stackhouse series—novels that garnered millions of fans and spawned the hit HBO television show True Blood. It also stoked a hunger that will never die…a hunger to know what happened next.

With characters arranged alphabetically—from the Ancient Pythoness to Bethany Zanelli—bestselling author Charlaine Harris takes fans into the future of their favourite residents of Bon Temps and environs. You’ll learn how Michele and Jason’s marriage fared, what happened to Sookie’s cousin Hunter, and whether Tara and JB’s twins grew up to be solid citizens.

This coda provides the answers to your lingering questions—including details of Sookie’s own happily-ever-after…

The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories (2017)

For the first time together in one volume, here is the complete short story collection starring Louisiana’s favourite telepathic waitress, Sookie Stackhouse—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris.

New fans can fill in the gaps in their Sookie lore while old friends can revisit some of their favourite moments and characters. From investigating the murder of a local fairy to learning that her cousin was a vampire, from remodelling her best friend’s house to attending a wedding with her shapeshifting boss, Sam, Sookie navigates the perils and pitfalls of the paranormal world.

Belly up to the bar at Bon Temps’s favourite watering hole and hear short stories that will make you wish Sookie never left, including…

“Fairy Dust”
“One Word Answer”
“Dracula Night”
“Lucky”
“Gift Wrap”
“Two Blondes”
“If I Had a Hammer”
“Small-Town Wedding”
“Playing Possum”
“In the Blue Hereafter”

This definitive collection is the perfect binge read for people who like their stories with bite!