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The Vampire Chronicles Reading Order
The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice has 13 main books (1976–2018), plus 2 novella or companions. Start with Interview with the Vampire (1976) and read the numbered books in order.
By Anne Rice
The Vampire Chronicles books in order
Your reading speed
- 6 h 7 min
- 10 h 37 min
- 10 h 2 min
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- 8 h 53 min
- 7 h 34 min
- 8 h 45 min
- 7 h 33 min
- 10 h 21 min
- 11 h 5 min
- 7 h 6 min
- 9 h 48 min
- 10 h 13 min
- 4 h 46 min
- 6 h 11 min
- 5 h 7 min
Main books together: 6,444 pages, about 112 h 50 min at 238 words per minute.
Page counts: median across editions on Open Library. Times assume about 250 words per page. How we calculate.
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The Vampire Chronicles: common questions
- How many books are in the The Vampire Chronicles series?
- There are 13 main books in The Vampire Chronicles, plus 2 novella or companion books. The most recent main book listed here is Blood Communion (2018).
- What order should I read The Vampire Chronicles in?
- Read The Vampire Chronicles in its numbered order: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, and so on.
- What is the first The Vampire Chronicles book?
- The first book is Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, published in 1976.
- How long does it take to read the whole The Vampire Chronicles series?
- The 13 main books add up to about 6,444 pages (median edition lengths). At 238 words per minute that is about 113 hours of reading, or about 226 days at 30 minutes a day.
- Do I need to read the The Vampire Chronicles novellas?
- The 2 novella or companion books (Pandora, Vittorio the Vampire) sit outside the main numbering. You can follow the main story without them; their numbers (like 0.5 or 2.5) show where they fit between the main books.