9 Books for Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Buffy is, astatine its core, a chosen 1 story. In this bid starter, 16-year-old Bree has conscionable mislaid her parent successful an mishap and temporarily escapes her world astatine a programme for talented teens astatine UNC–Chapel Hill. But past she witnesses a magical onslaught connected her archetypal night, and goes connected to observe a concealed nine of monster hunters and brushwood a mage who calls himself Merlin. When helium tries to hitch her representation of what she saw, she discovers that there’s much to her mother’s decease than she imagined, and has to fig retired what her ain relation is.

The Fell of Dark by Caleb Roehrig

This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

Briseis has a magical power: she tin turn plants from a effect with a azygous touch. When her aunt dies and leaves her a crumbling upstate New York estate, her parents anticipation she tin larn to power her magic there, but erstwhile they arrive, they observe immoderate instructions and a plot filled with deadly plants.

Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert

This witchy publication from the writer of The Hazel Wood has the bonus of dual timelines, 1 of them successful the 1990s (like the series) and 1 now. When Ivy astir runs idiosyncratic implicit successful the contiguous time suburbs, her communicative intersects with her mother’s supernatural experiments successful the metropolis years earlier.

The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

Although she was technically a demon, not a witch, this publication has large clip Anya vibes for me! Years ago, heartbroken Vivian cursed her ex-boyfriend and helium near town. When helium returns, things commencement to spell incorrect and she realizes that curse mightiness not person been arsenic harmless arsenic she thought. Forced to squad up to hole things, she finds herself drawn backmost to her ex.

Vampires Never Get Old: Tales With Fresh Bite edited by Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Parker

This anthology features each kinds of vampire stories including “Fire Kill” by V.E. Schwab, the ground for the caller Netflix series, arsenic good arsenic stories by Book Riot favorites Rebecca Roanhorse, Julie Murphy, Heidi Heilig, Mark Oshiro, and more!

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl

Holly’s been a vampire since her fellow Elton turned her successful 1987. But Elton dumped her, and she’s conscionable met 2 much of his exes, Ida and Rose, who person akin stories. They squad up to prevention his existent girlfriend, Parker, from the aforesaid fate…and past Holly starts to autumn for Parker.

The Coldest Touch by Isabel Starling

Elise is cursed to acquisition the mode radical volition dice erstwhile she touches them. Claire is already dormant — she’s a vampire, and has been sent to assistance Elise larn to usage her powers. (The watcher…is the vampire??) Elise has to fig retired whether she tin spot Claire, and arsenic though things weren’t analyzable enough, there’s a slayer successful municipality who they person to find.

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

The girls who co-pilot mecha Chrysalises extremity up dying successful the combat against mecha aliens, but not due to the fact that of the aliens — the intelligence strain of the psychic nexus to their antheral co-pilots kills them. When Zetian’s sister dies, she offers herself up arsenic a concubine-pilot and kills her co-pilot. Then she goes connected a ngo to find retired wherefore the strategy is truthful misogynistic, and to prevention different girls from her sister’s fate.