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Vampires are Back and Better Than Ever

By Grace Menary-Winefield

Sink your teeth into these recent teen books about blood lust, forbidden romance, and monstrous murders--especially if you're coming off a Twilight kick and need something to follow up after your trip to Forks.

  • A Tempest of Tea

    2024 by Faizal, Hafsah

    By day, Arthie Casimir runs a tea room. But at night, her establishment turns into a blood house for the underground vampire society. When enemies threaten her existence, she must arrange a heist to rival Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows to save herself.

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  • The Revenant Games

    2024 by Fuston, Margie

    This action-packed, paranormal dystopian is like if The Hunger Games met Twilight, but without the moping teen immortals. When Bly's sister is killed, she enters a competition held by warring vampire and witch kingdoms to win a resurrection spell; however, things get complicated when she starts to fall for an enemy vampire.

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  • Scarlet Veil

    2023 by Mahurin, Shelby

    Set in the world of Mahurin's Serpent & Dove, this new duology stands firmly on its own. Célie Tremblay is the only female paranormal hunter in society, and everyone underestimates her. But when she is abducted to Requiem, a hidden kingdom ruled by a ruthless vampire king, the others will see how capable she really is.

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  • Youngblood

    2022 by Laurens, Sasha

    Gossip Girl meets Vampire Academy when Kat and Taylor, ex-best friends and vampires, find a dead body at their boarding school. They try to put their differences aside for safety, but when they discover the conspiracy goes all the way to the top of Vampirdom--and an attraction starts to grow between them--things become a bloody mess.

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  • Bride

    2024 by Hazelwood, Ali

    Misery Lark must leave her Vampyre family to marry the Alpha of the Weres, Lowe Moreland. While it's technically written for an adult audience, this paranormal romance between a werewolf and a vampire is perfect for all romantasy fans (and some older teen readers).

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  • Little Monsters

    2022 by Lemire, Jeff

    It's the end of the world (as we know it), and in this graphic novel the last children on our dying planet are vampires. When an adult survivor stumbles into their midst and they get their first taste of human blood, their innocence is shattered and their vampiric existence gets a lot more complicated.

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  • Don't Want to Be Your Monster

    2023 by Moulton, Deke

    Adam and Victor are two normal brothers who bicker over the remote, whine to their parents, and drink blood . . . wait, did you read this correctly? Hidden from society in a pro-vampire household, both boys reckon with their own identity while a possible serial killer stalks the streets. This middle-grade book definitely has bite!

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  • Baby Teeth: A Novel in Verse

    2022 by Grehan, Meg

    Immy and Claudia are utterly besotted with each other. And while Immy happens to be a vampire, Claudia isn't in danger--is she? This captivating novel-in-verse tells the story of true love and self-acceptance, grief, and mental health.

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  • Sign of the Slayer

    2023 by Harris, Sharina

    It's tough to be the Slayer--and for Raven, it means casting aside her feelings for the guy she used to love and team up with a society of annoying authority figures to save the world. All because it's her destiny? Blech. Joss Whedon's world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is expanded with this action-packed novel (no previous knowledge of Sunnydale required).

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  • Cruel Illusions

    2022 by Fuston, Margie

    Ava is on a mission to destroy the vampire who killed her mother and must compete in a deadly competition to prove her worth. This sensuous and sinister paranormal fantasy combines bloody revenge, a captivating love triangle, and a traveling magician troupe masquerading as monster hunters. Come for the theatrics, stay for the stake through the heart.

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  • Go Hunt Me

    2022 by deVos, Kelly

    If your dream has ever been to spend the night in a (most definitely sinister) Romanian castle, do we have the book for you! Alex and her friends are filming her vampire movie when things start to go terribly wrong. As crew members begin to get picked off one-by-one, they realize the castle has a past that goes back all the way to the OG bloodsucker himself.

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  • Vampironica

    2019 by Smallwood, Greg

    Archie and the Gang are back in this totally tubular, completely clean and innocent: heck, who am I kidding? This bloodbath turns the Archie comics on their head and brings Veronica into the vampire fold. It's gruesome, hilarious, and still totally tubular. It's a teen graphic novel, but note it does include drinking.

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