LJ Smith – The Vampire Diaries Series Reading Order

thanks soo much for posting this! I’ve been wanting to read the books in order and not one website that I saw had them in order! So thanks:) and btw could you check out my fan made Tvd vids?? (On youtube) my user name is Marikashamman 🙂 Thanks:)

is there going to be an 8th book???????? i’ve seen some yes some no i’m confused can anyone help???

best novels i ever read takes you to total new reality waiting for the next book!!!!!

Love this series. Who wouldn’t?

next two are…
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I was wondering what was The Hunters about and is it with this series and where in the series does it belong it says it is vol 1 and so I am confused now.

i was just wondering if you could post the stefan’s diaries books in order on here for me please i really want to read them but i dont know which 1 is first second or third nd so on… i am goin got start reading your books the vampire diaries series when im done with this other series im reading. the books look amazing nd i cant wait to start reading them. 🙂

I started reading Stephen’s diaries and then i came across the books listed on your website, Where do i start?

I would read Stefan’s diaries first…it starts in 1864 and how they met Katherine.

I disagree with Dawn. It doesn’t really matter when you read Stephens Diaries because they do not follow along with the rest of the books. They follow along with the show on CW. That is just my opinion though and mean no offence to Dawn. On the show the boys lived during Civil War times and that is when they met Kathrine. In the books they lived much longer ago. Katherine is portrayed completely different from the book to the show. I love both but please do not read the books expecting it to be like the show or vice versa. Character names and the fact that they are Vampires are about the only thing that stays the same. I read the first original ones when they came out way back when and was very excited when they started making more. Hope that helps. 🙂

Some of the names aren’t even the same. Bonnie’s last name in the show is Bennet, but in the book Vickie has that last name. Also, Meredith is a doctor I believe, Meredith Fell. But I agree with Beth, there is very little that is the same. Not meaning to offend anyone. 🙂

Where exactly does the book Stefan’s diaries fall into order with the series?

Love the series

hey cool books!!!

OMG! love the shows. started watching them wayy before i knew there were any books. But now I am super addicted only on the fourth book but it is sooo awesome! And you guys are right. the books are wayy different than the show. Like, Elena has a 2- year old sister, Margaret, and in the show she has a teenage brother, Jeremy, plus he’s a vampire hunter! SUPER different! and wayy different than i was expecting. (not that I’m complaining.)

Glad I found the list. I feel in love with the show first, then looked up the books. Needless to say I was horrible disappointed in the first 3 books I read. As a avid reader and book lover it is the only series I have ever said the show/movie is better. Ever. and Im sure I’ll never say it about any other book.

For me what makes the CW show great is all the depth and detail. All the interesting family and community connections that tie everyone together in some way. The books lack that completely. The book is not detailed and doesn’t have much depth. There is a reason the publishers replaced the author with a ghost writer.

That being said, Its been 2 years since I read them and Ive been picking them up whenever I see them on clearance at BooksAMillion, I think I’ve collected 4 or 5 of them now for about $2 a piece so I am about to give them a second try. Maybe the wont be as bad as I remember.

I totally agree with you. I always say books are better. They always have so much more detail and go so much more deep into facts. Like in the Twilight series they go so much more into detail. But in these books I would really deffinately say the show is way better!

Does Damon have his own series of books like Stefan?

m realy happy that some directors are able to produce thier own innovation in the series nt just copy of the books and cn change th meaning of the book nd endings also….

I like the CW show but its so different the the books For one day completely changed the characters like Elena has blonde hair blue eyes in the book in on the show she has she’s a Burnett and has brown eyes bonnie is a small little redhead in the book in the show she’s black And their 3rd friend Meredith doesn’t even exist in the show and that really made me mad I mean come on Caroline isn’t even really their friend in the book I mean the show is good and all but the books are so much better and the books their characters are so different than the characters on the show that’s the only thing I don’t like about it

does anyone know if…when Katherine took over elena’s body if elena really died?

Can’t wait 4r the third trilogy- THE SALVATION!!!!

Completely awesome series!!

I have one seen the tv show but i wanted to know in which book is season 6 based on?

i love the books

i want to start reading the vampire diaries and stefan’s diaries and I wanted to know which one is better to start with first?

beth,,nicola,,samantha and brittany..i totally agree wid u guys. Those r exactly my feelings too!! by da way i looove damon!!u rock

The vamp is a very good series i love it a lot.

I can’t get enough of Vampire Diaries!! I’m getting the last two Hunter books and the last two Stephans diaries to complete my collection, and I want to know should I bother with the salvation series?? Your input would be appreciated. Thank you….Molly Fink

Thank you so much for putting all the Vampire Diaries in order.
I am a big fan and hoping for something more in the future. Any other series you would recommend? Even though I don’t think I’ll tire of listening to this series again and again. I do listen to other books.

Oh I so agree with Nicola! I am a huge fan of reading books compared to watching their TV shows/Movies. I always feel the TV version does not do justice to all the details in the books. But this is probably the first series where I too felt like TVD show is much better than the books. Honestly I only read these novels because I don’t like to leave any book half way, but I just love the way the show turned out. For a change (and I never thought I would say this ever), I cannot say the same for the novels.

Brittany.. exact same feels!

Thank you so much for posting this it really helped me find the order but your missing the salvation series of 3 books. Which goes before the prequel of The Stephen Diary’s.

Thank you for posting this. I have watched all of the vampire diaries and im obsessed. I wanted to read the books and i couldnt have found all of them without you. Thank you so much.

I enjoy ur books they’re the best one I enjoy the shadow soul that’s that one have a good meaning with love n spirit

The humorous thing is I read these books in college as they came out (the covers are quite antiquated, lol), hell, I think my original books are around here still bc I just knew I would have book crazy daughters like myself, and sure enough I did and still have one I’ll need to do some digging to fine the books for since she prefers books to eBooks, which amazes me every time in this day and age…now for whims I’m reading them again, and yes I’m old, the original books began in 1990, if you noticed the dates Bonnie, Meredith and the rest of the gang graduated, of course Elena didn’t in the books, and the lack of cell phones in the first few, those were extreme luxury in those days…the series recommissioned in 2007 I believe and became the spin off of the Stephen Diaries and the TVD series.

Oh, don’t forget to read her series The Secret Circle, which was a short lived series a few years back on CW I believe, the books were written in ’92 then recommissioned when the series came out…all about witches.

But these are only 6 books. Where can I get the seventh book ?? Please tell if you do not mind …