Richelle Mead books

Age Of X Reading Order

Anthologies

Bloodlines Reading Order

Dark Swan Reading Order

Dark Swan Graphic Novels

Georgina Kincaid Reading Order

Glittering Court Reading Order

Standalone Novels

Vampire Academy Reading Order

Vampire Academy Graphic Novels Reading Order

Vampire Academy Non-Fiction

Richelle Mead became a bestselling author with her Vampire Academy series, which launched in 2007 and redefined young adult vampire fiction. The six-book series introduced a world divided between living Moroi vampires, their half-human guardians called dhampirs, and the undead Strigoi. Rose Hathaway, a sharp-tongued dhampir training to protect her best friend, narrates the action. The series was followed by the Bloodlines spinoff, told from the perspective of a human alchemist named Sydney Sage.

Before Vampire Academy, Mead published the Georgina Kincaid series, an adult urban fantasy about a succubus living in Seattle who works at a bookstore and navigates complicated romantic entanglements. The series has a lighter, more humorous tone than her YA work. She also wrote the Age of X duology, a futuristic science fiction series about a world where religion and technology collide.

Mead’s Dark Swan series follows a shaman who can banish fairies back to the Otherworld but discovers she has ties to the fairy realm herself. Her work across adult and YA audiences shows range, though Vampire Academy remains her most widely known creation. The first book was adapted into a 2014 film and later into a Peacock streaming series in 2022.