The Anne Rice Checklist:

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Anne Rice's books are my guilty pleasure lowbrow beach reads. Sue me.

The Vampire Chronicles


Interview with the Vampire
1976

I read this one ages and ages ago, as a teenager, which started the whole "reading Anne Rice" thing. Then after the first three vampire chronicles, I kind of forgot about her for several decades and have only recently come back through them. Anyway, the first one is kind of a classic and still stands out as the best modern vampire novel.

The Vampire Lestat
1985

See above. Terrible movie, pretty decent book.

The Queen of the Damned
1988

More interesting than Lestat, for sure. The Old Ones and their lore are more aligned with traditional vampire novels.

The Tale of the Body Thief
1992

I really think Rice comes into her own when she is combining different monster stories. This one is much like a marriage of Jekyll and Hyde with the vampire mythos. It's hilarious to read Lestat having to be human again. Top 3 for me. (Oh, and David and the whole Talamasca subplot is great.)

Memnoch the Devil
1995

Yawn.... is this when Rice started to convert to Christianity? A total snoozer. Some people really dug it though.

The Vampire Armand
1998

OK, Armand's story is much better. She got my attention again.

Merrick
2000

Yay, vampires and Candomble! And lost jungle cities! Now we're back to the Rice I know and love.


Blood and Gold
2001



Blackwood Farm
2002

Vampires and personal hauntings! Very nice. Great characters, lovely setting, poltergeist-y with southern charm.

Blood Canticle
2003



Prince Lestat
2014



Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
2016


New Tales of the Vampires


Pandora
1998 (a Vampire Chronicle)

Vittorio the Vampire
1999


The Lives of the Mayfair Witches


The Witching Hour
1990
I tried reading this one a long time ago and couldn't get into it. I'll try again later, same for the other witchy books.

Lasher
1993
Taltos
1994


And all of the sleeping beauty books, because life without spice is bland.