Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some Girls Bite | 2009 | Chloe Neill | Buy |
| 2 | Friday Night Bites | 2009 | Chloe Neill | Buy |
| 3 | Twice Bitten | 2010 | Chloe Neill | Buy |
| 4 | Hard Bitten | 2011 | Chloe Neill | Buy |
| 5 | Drink Deep | 2011 | Chloe Neill | Buy |
| 6 | Biting Cold | 2012 | Chloe Neill | Buy |
| 7 | House Rules | 2013 | Chloe Neill | Buy |
| 8 | Biting Bad | 2013 | Chloe Neill | Buy |
| 9 | High Stakes | 2014 | Chloe Neill | N/A |
| 10 | Howling For You | 2014 | Chloe Neill | Buy |
| 11 | Wild Things | 2014 | Chloe Neill | Buy |
| 12 | Blood Games | 2014 | Chloe Neill | Buy |
| 13 | Lucky Break | 2015 | Chloe Neill | Buy |
| 14 | Dark Debt | 2015 | Chloe Neill | Buy |
| 15 | Midnight Marked | 2016 | Chloe Neill | Buy |
| 16 | Phantom Kiss | 2017 | Chloe Neill | Buy |
| 17 | Blade Bound | 2017 | Chloe Neill | Buy |
| 18 | Slaying It | 2018 | Chloe Neill | Buy |
| 19 | Midnight Bites | 2015 | Chloe Neill | Buy |
The Chicagoland Vampires series is Chloe Neill’s longest and most popular work, spanning 13 full-length novels, several novellas, and a short story collection. It begins with Some Girls Bite, where Merit, a University of Chicago graduate student, is attacked and turned into a vampire by Ethan Sullivan, the Master of Cadogan House. Merit has to adjust to her new life as a vampire while becoming Cadogan House’s Sentinel, responsible for protecting the House from supernatural threats.
As the series progresses, Merit deals with vampire politics both within Chicago and across the wider supernatural world. She faces off against rogue vampires, the Greenwich Presidium (the governing body for North American vampires), and various magical threats to the city. Her relationship with Ethan Sullivan develops from adversarial to romantic over the course of the books. The series also features a strong supporting cast including Mallory, Merit’s best friend and a sorcerer, and Jeff and Catcher, who round out her inner circle.
The reading order listed above includes the novellas in their recommended positions. Howling For You tells the story of Jeff Christopher, while Lucky Break and Phantom Kiss fill in events between the main novels. Midnight Bites collects shorter stories from across the series timeline. The main series concludes with Blade Bound and Slaying It, but the story continues with Merit’s daughter Elisa in the Heirs of Chicagoland sequel series.