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The Vampire Chronicles books in order

The 12 books of The Vampire Chronicles in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 10 books with page data add up to about 4,440 pages.

Books in order
12
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
4,440
sum of medians, 10 books
Reading time
78h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Interview With the Vampire
    12 editions
    346 pages
    6 h 06 min
  2. 2
    The Vampire Lestat
    8 editions
    555 pages
    9 h 47 min
  3. 4
    The Tale of the Body Thief
    7 editions
    448 pages
    7 h 54 min
  4. 5
    Memnoch the Devil
    8 editions
    385 pages
    6 h 47 min
  5. 6
    The Vampire Armand
    7 editions
    400 pages
    7 h 03 min
  6. 7
    Merrick
    7 editions
    320 pages
    5 h 38 min
  7. 8
    Blood and Gold
    10 editions
    570 pages
    10 h 03 min
  8. 9
    Blackwood Farm
    8 editions
    536 pages
    9 h 26 min
  9. 10
    Blood Canticle
    10 editions
    400 pages
    7 h 03 min
  10. 11
    Prince Lestat
    5 editions
    480 pages
    8 h 28 min
  11. 12
    Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
    2016 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  12. 13
    Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat
    2018 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –

Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. Interview With the Vampire3462. The Vampire Lestat5554. The Tale of the Body Thief4485. Memnoch the Devil3856. The Vampire Armand4007. Merrick3208. Blood and Gold5709. Blackwood Farm53510. Blood Canticle40011. Prince Lestat480
1. Interview With th…3462. The Vampire Lestat5554. The Tale of the B…4485. Memnoch the Devil3856. The Vampire Armand4007. Merrick3208. Blood and Gold5709. Blackwood Farm53510. Blood Canticle40011. Prince Lestat480
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 4,440 pages for the 10 books with page data.

Reading time
78 h 16 min
At 30 min a day
157 days
At 1 hour a day
79 days
Order follows the series number recorded on Wikidata. Novellas numbered with decimals (for example 2.5) sit between the main books.

Data: Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors); Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).