Books With Bite

Tall, Dark and Dead

By Tate Hallaway

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What's a girl to do if she's hot for a dead man walking? Recovering witch Carnet Lacey, manager of Wisconsin's premier occult bookstore, is about to find out. (Summary)
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Real Vampires Have Curves

By Gerry Bartlett

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"What-did you think all vamps were pale, thin and brooding? Don't I wish." Gloriana St. Clair is an eternally "full-figured" vampire-she just happened to be bloating when a sexy Scotsman sank his teeth into her. (Summary)
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You Suck: A Love Story

By Christopher Moore

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A raunchy slapstick comedy of young vampires in love...features Tommy and Jody trying to make an undeath for themselves. They have a few problems—like finding a new food source..., recruiting minions to help them when the sun is up, and dealing with a homicidal elder vampire.

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Sharp Teeth

By Toby Barlow

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It's a dog's life-and death-in the canine underworld of Los Angeles. Barlow unfolds a tale of romance and rival gangs using the form of epic poetry, the beat of rock 'n' roll lyrics, and the pace of a poetry slam. (BookList)
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Vamped

By David Sosnowski

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When (vampire) Marty decides to end his endless life of soul-crushing ennui...a three-foot blond obstacle is thrown in his path: Isuzu Trooper Cassidy, a refugee from a human hunting preserve. At first he thinks "midnight snack," but before the sun comes up, Isuzu…charms him into staying undead long enough to raise her in a world rife with danger and almost entirely populated by vampires yearning for the taste of real human blood. (Book Description)
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Undead and Unwed

By MaryJanice Davidson

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First Betsy Taylor loses her job, then she's killed in a car accident. But what really bites is that she can't seem to stay dead. And now her new friends have the ridiculous idea that Betsy is the prophesied vampire queen, and they want her help in overthrowing the most obnoxious power-hungry vampire in five centuries. (Book Description)
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Twilight

By Stephenie Meyer

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When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
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The Tooth Fairy

By Graham Joyce

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When seven-year-old Sam Southall of Redstone, near Coventry, loses a tooth, he's visited that night by a sinister, rank- smelling, foul-mouthed, mercurial Tooth Fairy; the Tooth Fairy, in turn, is astonished that Sam can see him. (Kirkus)
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The Historian

By Elizabeth Kostova

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A young girl discovers her father's darkest secret and embarks on a harrowing journey across Europe to complete the quest he never could--the quest to find history's most legendary fiend: Dracula.
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Monster

By Frank Peretti

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Miles away from the hectic city, Reed and Rebecca hike into the beautiful Northwestern woods. They're surrounded by gorgeous mountains, waterfalls, and hundreds of acres of unspoiled wilderness. But something - or someone -begins closing in on them. Something no human has ever seen. And it's killing everyone in its path without remorse. (Book Description)
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