The complete sookie stackhouse stories by charlaine harris. May 1, 2001 saw the release of dead until dark, the first novel by charlaine harris to feature the character sookie stackhouse. All the sookie stackhouse novels, in 100ish words or less. She has one sibling, her older brother jason stackhouse. If you like the sookie stackhouse series by charlaine. Midnight texas series aurora teagarden series sookie stackhouse series southern vampire, true blood based on cemetery girl triology harper connelly series lily bard shakespeare series non series. The series is narrated in first person perspective by sookie stackhouse. With this first book in the series, charlaine harris founded an incredibly rich supernatural world, with plenty of angst and heartache but lots of laughs. Sookie stackhouse already knows about them, of course her brother turns into a panther at the full moon, shes friend to the local were pack and sam, her boss at merlottes bar, is a shifter. The first book honestly was the most poorly written of the series.
The first book in the series, dead until dark, won an anthony award. The first installment, dead until dark 2001, won the anthony award for best. Dead until dark sookie stackhouse is just a smalltime cocktail waitress. Sookie stackhouse audiobooks listen to the full series. Deadlocked sookie stackhouse southern vampire series. She is a barmaid and telepath in the fictional town of bon temps, louisiana. In hbos television adaptation, true blood, sookie is portrayed by anna paquin. The first book in the series also won an award, the anthony award for best paperback mystery, in 2001. Vampires have begun coming out of their coffins since the japanese developed an. Sookie stackhousetrue blood series penguin random house. The series of books in which the hbo original series.
The sookie stackhouse series by charlaine harris is a series of fictional books that was first published in 2001 and it is also known as the southern vampire mysteries novels. The series centers around the life and times of a seemingly ordinary heroin, sookie, who is graced with the talent of mindreading, and, who stumbles into a myriad of situations in which her talent as well as her good old fashioned common sense helps her to survive. She had heard of it through advertisement for the true blood television show. The sookie stackhouse book series by multiple authors includes books dead until dark, living dead in dallas, club dead, and several more. Sookie stackhouse is a fictional character and protagonist of the southern vampire mysteries book series, written by charlaine harris. I had read a few of these before, but i very much enjoyed reading them again and getting to catch up on the ones that i had missed previously. After all the recommendations, i decided to just bite the bullet and give it a go. The sookie stackhouse series is not your typical vampire book. The sookie stackhouse novels, also known as the southern vampire mysteries, is a series of books written by bestselling author charlaine harris that were first published in 2001 and now serve as the source material f. Over the years, charlaine has published more than 65 novels and short stories across several different series, including the bestselling sookie stackhouse series that was adapted for the true blood tv show on hbo. In the sixth book, definitely dead, sookie discovers she is part faerie. Dead until dark is the first in a series of books that revolve around sookie stackhouse, described as a smalltime cocktail waitress in smalltown louisiana.
Sookie stackhouse series charlaine harris book list. Dead until dark which is the first book in the series won the best paperback mystery anthony award in year 2001. Publications in or related to charlaines sookie stackhouse series. She is best known for the adaptations of her series the southern vampire mysteries, which was adapted as the tv series true blood. Sookie stackhouse series by charlaine harris goodreads. The television show was a critical and financial success for hbo, running seven seasons, from 2008 through 2014. Bill compton the southern vampire mysteries wikipedia. The first book is very similar to the first season of true blood, and there are elements of book 2 and book 3 in season 2 and season 3, but there are many. Sookie stackhouse box set sookie stackhouse southern. Her disability makes it hard for her to date or really even have a lot of freinds, but that all changes when she meets bill compton. The southern vampire mysteries southern vampire mysteries. Sookie stackhouse series may 1, 2001 saw the release of dead until dark, the first novel by charlaine harris to feature the character sookie stackhouse. People always ask me if they should bother reading these books, and the answer is.
Sookie stackhouse book series by charlaine harris. This was the first story in what would go on to become a new york times bestselling series and would inspire the tv show true blood. If you like dead until dark, the first in the sookie stackhouse series, check out the rest of charlaine harris series as well as these suggestions by other authors. Sookie stackhouseseries overdrive rakuten overdrive. Sookie stackhouse is just a smalltime cocktail waitress in smalltown bon temps, louisiana. The first novel was first published on may of 2001 followed by the second in april of the next year. He is a vampire and is introduced in the first novel in the series, dead until dark, and has appeared in all of the novels since. Having spent a huge chunk of my youth hoping the vampires in anne rices novels would knock on. Chris so, before halloween 2010, i started reading through the sookie stackhouse books because of my enjoyment of the true blood tv series. After 10 years and a whopping books, charlaine harris last week released the final novel in the longrunning sookie stackhouse series, the literary impetus for hit hbo show true blood. See the complete sookie stackhouse series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. The sookie stackhouse companion contains the novella small town wedding featuring sookie, sam and quinn ace, august 30, 2011, isbn10. It shows the coexistence of vampires, telepaths and shape shifters. Sookie lives in her ancestral home, which she inherits it from her grandmother, adele stackhouse, is murdered in the first book.
Dead ever after marked the end of the sookie stackhouse seriesnovels that garnered. The southern vampire mysteries, also known as the true blood novels and the sookie stackhouse novels, is a series of books written by bestselling author charlaine harris. I was introduced to the southern vampire mystery series by a coworker. The whole story revolves around its main character sookie stackhouse and is told in a narrative by its main character in. Charlaine harris threatened by fans over final sookie. I came to the sookie stackhouse series when i heard my mother raving about how much she loved the series true blood. Sookie stackhouse has 51 entries in the series overdrive rakuten overdrive borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and videos from thousands of public libraries worldwide. Though she is pretty, she has not exactly been dating a great deal as there is just one small problem. Charlaine harris schulz born november 25, 1951 is an american author who specializes in mysteries. The complete sookie stackhouse stories charlaine harris. Anna paquin is the first millennial to have received an academy award nomination for acting, and the first to win. I confess i picked this up at the bookstore for a few reasons. Bill and sookie in the first series of true blood harriss uk editor, gillian redfearn at gollancz, said she was quite saddened by the reaction, but put it down to a very small minority of.
Just about any book by katie macalister is the first in the dark one series is the first in her dragon series message 17. The sookie stackhouse novels, also known as the southern vampire mysteries, is a series of books written by charlaine harris about a waitress and a telepath in the fictional town of bon temps, louisiana who tangles with vampires, werewolves and more. After reading the excerpt from the first book in the series on amazon, i was very skeptical about this series. In the fifth season of the television adaption, bill plays the role of the main antagonist. The novels are a set of books that tell one complete story that centres on its main protagonist and titular character sookie stackhouse. The sookie stackhouse novels inspired the hbo television series true blood, which ran for seven seasons. Below is a list of charlaine harris sookie stackhousetrue blood books in order of when they were originally published which is also their chronological order. First published in 2001, the books served as the source material for the hbo series true blood.
I myself have not seen the show, and am purposefully not until i finish all the books as i hear theyve altered the story some for tv. When a vampire enters the bar and sookie cant read his mind she is intrigued and wants to know this mysterious man better. Dead until dark is the first book in awardwinning author charlaine harris new york times bestselling series the southern vampire mysteries, also known as the sookie stackhouse novels, and as of recent, the true blood novels. Dead until dark sookie stackhousetrue blood, book 1. The first installment, dead until dark 2001, won the anthony award for best paperback mystery in 2001 and later served as the source material for the hbo drama series true blood 20082014. The complete sookie stackhouse stories does just what it says, compiling all of the various sookie short stories and one novella in one place for the first time. The sookie stackhouse books are delightful southern gothic supernatural mysteries, starring sookie, the telepathic cocktail waitress, and a cast of increasingly.
List of the southern vampire mysteries characters wikipedia. She was born in winnipeg, manitoba, canada, in 1982, to mary brophy, an english teacher from wellington, new zealand, and brian paquin, a canadian physed teacher. This box set includes books 17 of the southern vampire mystery series by charlaine harris. The complete sookie stackhouse stories for the first time together in one volume, here is the complete short story collection starring louisianas favorite telepathic waitress, sookie stackhouse. It is an introduction to the world of sookie stackhouse. Sookie stackhouse is just a smalltime cocktail waitress in sma. Harris later created the southern vampire mysteries series which talks about telepathic waitress known as sookie stackhouse who goes to work in a northern louisiana bar. The series began with dead until dark in 2001 with a new installment being published every year. Sookie has until the next full moon to find out whos behind the attacks unless the killer decides to find her first. The sookie stackhouse novels, also known as the southern vampire mysteries, is a series of books written by bestselling author charlaine harris that were first. This is the first book in the series which introduces us to sookie as she is working as a cocktail waitress in smalltown louisiana. We follow the life of sookie, a waitress in louisiana, who also has the ability to read peoples minds. Dead until dark by charlaine harris is the first book in the sookie stackhouse series.