Vampire Reading Roundup

In honor of tonight’s release of the Twilight Trailer and my weekend reading (I realized that I had read one and a half vampire books this weekend, completely unintentionally. This is what happens when you browse the library’s sci-fi section by cover, apparently — you take home Sunshine and Fledgling, and realize that they are both, lo and behold, about everyone’s favorite sparkling hotties supernatural boogeymen, and then you decide teh internets needs to know all about your favorites), here is my Vampire Reading Roundup. Note: These are mostly PG-13, if not R.

The Hilarious: Christopher Moore’s Bloodsucking Fiends and sequel You Suck, Terry Pratchett’s Carpe Jugulum

When You Just Can’t Get Enough, or The Series: Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files, Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse, Laurel K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles

The Classic: Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian, Le Fanu’s Carmilla

The Socially Fluent: Octavia Butler’s Fledgling

The Just Plain Spooky: Robin McKinley’s Sunshine, Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend

Pop Quiz, Hotshot

A “What Are You Reading?” Poll of Our Booksellers (who were in the store at 10:50 a.m. this morning):

• Sue: just finished Out Stealing Horses (“wonderful”) and The Loser’s Guide to Life and Love, currently working on The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Supreme Courtship (due out in September), and The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
• Chris: in the middle of Death: A Life (due out in September) and The Pesthouse
• AB: The Two Kinds of Decay (“superb”)
• Bunny: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (“liking it a lot”)
• Anne: A Case of Exploding Mangoes
• Mary: all of Kittredge, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, Eat, Pray, Love, and People of the Book
• Jenn (a.k.a. me): just finished Such a Pretty Face (utterly fabulous) and Does This Book Make Me Look Fat? (due out in January), in the middle of Please Don’t Come Back From the Moon, This is the Place, and (Not that You Asked)