Saturday, October 12, 2024

Ten top contemporary & genre-spanning vampire books

Claudia Guthrie is a writer covering culture, entertainment, and lifestyle content. Her work has appeared in ELLE, The Muse, Food52, and more. Originally from Kansas City, she now resides
 in Denver, where you can find her reading the newest thriller or knitting sweaters for her cats.

At Electric Lit Guthrie tagged ten of "the best contemporary and genre-spanning vampire books, including:
Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

As a half-vampire, Lydia has been able to sate her hunger with pigs blood for her entire life. But she craves more: pizza and sausages and stir fry and other meals … maybe, even, other sources of blood.

After she moves to London to pursue an internship at an art gallery, pig’s blood is much more difficult to come by—and there are a lot more humans in close quarters. Now, Lydia has never been more tempted as she wrestles with her identity and her humanity.
Read about the other entries on the list.

Woman, Eating is among Isabelle McConville's eleven greatest recent bloodsucking books.

--Marshal Zeringue