Thanks to Melissa for pointing out a very important (yet missing) series from my list. What was I thinking!? Especially considering I’ve already collected a bunch of these for my own reading pleasure 
About the series:
Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force–a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses.
- Interview with the Vampire
- The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Book II)
- The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles)
- The Tale of the Body Thief (Vampire Chronicles)
- Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles)
- New Tales of the Vampires: includes TWO BOOKS —> Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire (sort of a spin-off of her “Vampire Chronicles” as it references Vampire Chronicle characters and is part of the “same world” - Pandora should be read at this point in the series as it is integral to the next book).
- The Vampire Armand (The Vampire Chronicles) Book 6
- New Tales of the Vampires: includes TWO BOOKS —> Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire (sort of a spin-off of her “Vampire Chronicles” as it references Vampire Chronicle characters and is part of the “same world” - Vittorio the Vampire should be read at this point in the series).
- Prince Lestat <— expected release date October 28th 2014
(Anne Rice then proceeds to cross over her Mayfair Witches series into the “wrap-up” of the Vampire Chronicles. You *might* want to catch up on her “Mayfair Witches” before continuing. Click HERE for the Mayfair Witches reading order guide)
- Merrick (Vampire/Witches Chronicles) (In these novels her past Mayfair Witches series becomes part of the Vampire Chronicles world.)
- Blood and Gold (Vampire Chronicles)
- Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles) (In these novels her past Mayfair Witches series becomes part of the Vampire Chronicles world.)
- Blood Canticle (Vampire Chronicles) (In these novels her past Mayfair Witches series becomes part of the Vampire Chronicles world.)
I am happily addicted to reading but I need to expend my book energy (especially when one puts me in an emotional frenzy - SO fun!). So, I release my feelings about the stories, by writing them down here. It's my book therapy. 
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I really need to go back and reread these, it’s been so many years!
I need to just read ‘em. My friend LOVES the series and can’t believe as much as I’m into the whole vampire thing, that i haven’t even started these yet… shameful, really *blush*
Well since its been 20 years since I read interview, it’ll be like the first time for me too!
I’m reading The Vampire Lestat and I absolutely love these books.
why does every Anne Rice novel AND every list on the web have a completely different order? I have NEVER run into so much confusion regarding a series before! In my experience, authors always list their series in reading order (inside the next novel) so their readers have no confusion on which book to read next. The year it was written isn’t necessarily the order it is meant to be read in. I am totally frustrated! Are you sure you have the vampire chronicles reading order correct? Please respond, I would very much appreciate it! Thanks,
Cheryl
I’m reading the last book in the series. I don’t want to know how I’m going to feel after I flip to the last page. These books have been written tremendously well. I love Anne Rice!!!
Over the past about 40 years I have purchased most of the Anne Rice books and they stand mostly as first edition reading in my collection pirvate library. Now that the Vampire Chronicles is being revisited with Prince Lestat I decided to read the whole series again probably for the 3rd time. Presently I am reading “Queen of the Damned”. At this time my favorite Young Fledgling Vampire, all of you know him as “The Boy” in Interview, then introduced as “Daniel” who as a mortal built the “Night Island” with Armand has survived the old queens firery onslaught and with his lover Armand have escaped the scene of the Vampire Lestat Concert somehow simply being passed over. So I need advice from any of you who are reading the chronicles what book should be # 4? if any of the others are mentioned in the newest Prince Lestat Book. I guess that I would expect that David Talbot’s adventures in the Body Thief might need a reading and maybe Blackwood Farm. I have this feeling that some of the other individual books just describe the characters in more detail but I am really going to put my foot down and say no way will I ever read Memnoch again it really sucked. So what will I miss if I go straight to Anne’s latest Vampire Novel?
What order do they go in cause I want to get them and read them in order cause I’m weird like that
They generally take place in the order released but they also crossover with other series. The complete order (IMO) goes like this:
1976 Interview with the Vampire
1985 The Vampire Lestat
1988 The Queen of the Damned
1989 The Mummy (mentioned in the vampire books)
1990 The Witching Hour (Witch books crossover several times)
1992 The Tale of the Body Thief
1993 Lasher
1994 Taltos
1995 Memnoch The Devil
1998 Pandora
1998 The Vampire Armand
1999 Vittorio the Vampire
2000 Merrick
2001 Blood and Gold
2002 Blackwood Farm
2003 Blood Canticle
2014 Prince Lestat
2016 Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis