L.J. Smith

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  • Bibliography:
    56 Books (10 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1987
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Dark Visions

1 - The Strange Power (Dec-1994)
2 - The Possessed (Feb-1995)
3 - The Passion (Apr-1995)

The Forbidden Game

1 - The Hunter (Mar-1994)
2 - The Chase (May-1994)
3 - The Kill (Jul-1994)

Morgana Shee

1 - The Night of the Solstice (Nov-1987)
2 - Heart of Valor (Dec-1990)

Night World

1 - Secret Vampire (Jun-1996)
2 - Daughters of Darkness (Aug-1996)
3 - Spellbinder (Oct-1996)
4 - Dark Angel (Dec-1996)
5 - The Chosen (Feb-1997)
6 - Soulmate (Apr-1997)
7 - Huntress (Sep-1997)
8 - Black Dawn (Nov-1997)
9 - Witchlight (Jan-1998)
10 - Strange Fate (Jul-2012)

The Secret Circle

1 - The Initiation (Sep-1992)
2 - The Captive (Oct-1992)
3 - The Power (Nov-1992)
4 - The Divide (Mar-2012)
5 - The Hunt (Sep-2012)
6 - The Temptation (Mar-2013)

Stefan's Diaries

1 - Origins (Nov-2010)
1 - Stefan's Diaries: Bloodlust (Jan-2011)
2 - Stefan's Diaries: The Craving (May-2011)
3 - Stefan's Diaries: The Ripper (Nov-2011)
4 - Stefan's Diaries: The Asylum (Jan-2012)
5 - Stefan's Diaries: The Compelled (Mar-2012)

The Vampire Diaries

1 - The Awakening (Sep-1991)
2 - The Struggle (Oct-1991)
3 - The Fury (Nov-1991)
4 - Dark Reunion (May-1992)
5 - Nightfall (Feb-2009)
6 - The Shadow Souls (Mar-2010)
7 - Midnight (Mar-2011)
8 - Phantom (Oct-2011)
9 - Moonsong (Mar-2012)
10 - Destiny Rising (Oct-2012)
11 - Unseen (Jun-2013)
12 - Unspoken (Nov-2013)

The Vampire Diaries: The Return

1 - Nightfall (Feb-2009)
2 - The Shadow Souls (Mar-2010)
3 - Midnight (Mar-2011)

The Vampire Diaries: The Hunters

1 - Phantom (Oct-2011)
2 - Moonsong (Mar-2012)
3 - Destiny Rising (Oct-2012)

The Vampire Diaries: The Salvation

1 - Unseen (Jun-2013)
2 - Unspoken (Nov-2013)
3 - Unmasked (May-2014)

Book List in Order: 56 titles

  • The Night of the Solstice

    Morgana Shee - 1

    WHEN CLAUDIA HODGES-BRADLEY meets a fox, she knows it will be an extraordinary day. Not just any fox, this vixen is the magical familiar of the sorceress Morgana Shee. For years Morgana has guarded the solitary gate between Earth and the Wildworld, a...

  • Heart of Valor

    Morgana Shee - 2

    WHEN AN EARTHQUAKE SHAKES California: Alys, Charles, Janie, and Claudia suspect it isn't a typical earthquake. A year and a half after their journey into the Wildworld, they believe that the Passage between their world, the Stillworld, and that paral...

  • The Awakening

    The Vampire Diaries - 1

    A LOVE TRIANGLE OF UNSPEAKABLE HORROR... ELENA Searching for the ultimate thrill, she vowed to have Stefan. STEFAN Haunted by his tragic past, he struggled to resist her passion. DAMON Driven by revenge, he hunted the brother who betrayed...

  • The Struggle

    The Vampire Diaries - 2

    A LOVE TRIANGLE OF UNSPEAKABLE HORROR... DAMON Determined to make Elena his queen of darkness, he'd kill his own brother to possess her. STEFAN Desperate for the power to destroy Damon, he succumbs to his thirst for human blood. ELENA Irr...

  • The Fury

    The Vampire Diaries - 3

    A LOVE TRIANGLE OF UNSPEAKABLE HORROR... STEFAN Tormented after losing Elena, he's determined to end the feud with his brother, Damon -- whatever the cost. DAMON Mocking Stefan and Elena, he laughs in the face of doom. ELENA Wild with her craving ...

  • Dark Reunion

    The Vampire Diaries - 4

    THE FINAL CONFLICT... THE LAST DEADLY KISS... ELENA Now she rises from the dead to recreate the powerful vampire trio. STEFAN Summoned by Elena, he keeps a promise to her and fights the most terrifying evil he's ever faced. DAMON Joinin...

  • The Initiation

    The Secret Circle - 1

    THE CIRCLE'S POWER HAS LURED HER HOME Alone, Cassie must confront a shattering challenge: an ordeal that could cost her life or gain her more than she's ever imagined.... Seduced by the Secret Circle, she's initiated into the mysterious "in cr...

  • The Captive

    The Secret Circle - 2

    CAN THE SECRET CIRCLE SURVIVE... Lured into the most popular in-crowd imaginable, Cassie is intoxicated by her newfound strength, a power as addictive as it is perilous. Caught between Faye and Diana's consuming desires to use the coven's myste...

  • The Power

    The Secret Circle - 3

    SO DEADLY A BATTLE ... United at last with Diana, mistress of her coven, must sacrifice her love for Adam to save the Secret Circle and the town of New Salem from the evil powers of the witch Faye. Threatened by the possibility of her destructi...



  • The Hunter

    The Forbidden Game - 1

    PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK. He sold her the Game, and Jenny Thornton walked out mesmerized by Julian, the gorgeous cyber-punk with electric blue eyes and frost-white hair. When she and her friends open the plain white box at her boyfriend Tom's birthda...

  • The Chase

    The Forbidden Game - 2

    THEY'RE PLAYING THE GAME OF THEIR LIVES Why is her boyfriend Tom avoiding her -- while other boys pursue her as never before? Jenny Thornton has changed. So have her friends. Because of Julian, the Shadow Man, who has returned to terrorize them wi...

  • The Kill

    The Forbidden Game - 3

    BEAT THE DEVIL It was Julian's last challenge before he disappeared into the Shadow World, taking Jenny Thornton's boyfriend Tom and her cousin Zach: "If you ant them, come On a treasure hunt. But remember: if you lose, there's the devil to pay." ...

  • The Strange Power

    Dark Visions - 1

    THEY SAID SHE HAD EVIL EYES.... Eyes that saw what was not meant to be seen. Kaitlyn Fairchild was frightened by her uncanny talent, by the prophetic drawings that isolated her at school. Until she was invited to California, to attend the Zetes In...

  • The Possessed

    Dark Visions - 2

    JOURNEY INTO FEAR They're gifted -- and damned, linked by psychic powers, pursued by an evil genius determined to own them, body and soul. Kaitlyn Fairchild and her four friends have no choice: They must follow the dream that drives them onward to...

  • The Passion

    Dark Visions - 3

    BETRAYED! Kaitlyn Fairchild and her four psychic friends nearly escape from the evil Mr. Zetes--until Gabriel defects to the Institute. Desperate to break the intimacy of their telepathic link, he becomes the enemy and hunter of Kaitlyn's group. R...

  • Secret Vampire

    Night World - 1

    PRINCE OF DARKNESS The pain was something Poppy couldn't ignore. The diagnosis was death. There was no hope--until James appeared in the darkened hospital room. James, her best friend and secret love, the handsomest boy in El Camino High. But this...

  • Daughters of Darkness

    Night World - 2

    UNEARTHLY BEAUTY There's something strange about the new girls in town. Briar Creek, Oregon, has never seen anything like the supernatural grace of Rowan, Kestrel, and Jade, three sisters who move into the dilapidated old house next to Mark and Ma...

  • Spellbinder

    Night World - 3

    BEWITCHED Her name is Blaise and she's irresistible to boys. Her dark, smoldering beauty is an invitation to jealousy and madness. And now she's ready for the kill. Eric Ross is the perfect catch, a star athlete who wants to be a vet. "Hands off,"...

  • Dark Angel

    Night World - 4

    "CAR ME ANGEL" HE SAYS. One winter day Gillian Lennox almost dies . . . and is saved by an angel. His hair is golden. His eyes are as violet as her own. And when Gillian comes back from her near-death experience, he comes with her. An invisible guar...



  • The Chosen

    Night World - 5

    VAMPIRE SLAYER She stalks the lonely back alleys of Boston, the deserted industrial docks of the harbor, seeking revenge on the vampires who killed her mother. Rashel Jordan knows where they live. But they don't yet know that the black-haired, green...

  • Soulmate

    Night World - 6

    ETERNAL LOVE Hannah Snow's life was so together. Friends, terrific grades, dreams of a career in paleontology. Everything was perfect . . . until the notes started appearing. Notes in her own handwriting, warning of the danger that was coming. Dea...

  • Huntress

    Night World - 7

    BLOOD FEVER Jez Redfern is unique. She's a vampire hunter...who's half vampire. Raised in the Redfern family, the girl with fiery hair and silver-blue eyes was the undisputed leader of a gang of vampire raiders. Then came the discovery that shattere...

  • Black Dawn

    Night World - 8

    VAMPIRE PRINCE First he put her in a dungeon. Then he realized they were soulmates. Now he wants to make her a vampire princess. Maggie Neely is a short, spunky sixteen-year-old with auburn hair and an iron will. When her brother turns up missing, ...

  • Witchlight

    Night World - 9

    Keller is a black panther. At least when she's not being a tough, no-nonsense seventeen-year-old girl. She's a shapeshifter who grew up on the streets and will do whatever it takes to survive. But when Circle Daybreak hires her to protect a new Wild ...

  • Nightfall

    The Vampire Diaries - 5
    The Vampire Diaries: The Return - 1

    To save the two vampire brothers who love her, Elena Gilbert sacrificed her life. Now that a supernatural force has brought Elena back from the dead, all handsome, brooding Stefan wants is to keep her safe. But when he is lured away from Fell's Chu...

  • Night World: The Ultimate Fan Guide

    You loved the Night World series and are counting down to the Strange Fate apocalypse. But who was the first made vampire? How do you properly greet a witch? And why are shapeshifters and werewolves rivals? Prepare to test your Night World knowledge ...

  • The Shadow Souls

    The Vampire Diaries - 6
    The Vampire Diaries: The Return - 2

    Elena Gilbert is alive--again. When Elena sacrificed herself to save the two vampire brothers who love her--the handsome, brooding Stefan and the sleek and dangerous Damon--she was consigned to a fate beyond death. Until a powerful supernatural f...

  • Heart of Valour

    Morgana Shee, the great sorceress, has been free from imprisonment for more than a year, and the crossing to the Wildworld is now closed. But when an earthquake hits California and the ground continues to shake with aftershocks, Claudia, Alys, Jane a...

  • The Reunion



  • Origins

    Stefan's Diaries - 1

    Set during the Civil War, against a backdrop of grand estates, unimaginable riches, and deadly secrets, three teenagers in Mystic Falls, Virginia enter a torrid love triangle that will span eternity. Brothers Stefan and Damon Salvatore are insepar...

  • Stefan's Diaries: Bloodlust

    Stefan's Diaries - 1

    A new beginning . . . When Stefan Salvatore's first love turned him into a vampire, his world -- and his soul -- were destroyed. Now he and his brother, Damon, must flee their hometown, where they risk being discovered . . . and killed. The brother...

  • Midnight

    The Vampire Diaries - 7
    The Vampire Diaries: The Return - 3

    The devil you know . . . With the help of charming and devious Damon, Elena rescued her vampire love, Stefan, from the depths of the Dark Dimension. But neither brother returned unscathed. Stefan is weak from his long imprisonment and needs mor...

  • Stefan's Diaries: The Craving

    Stefan's Diaries - 2

    Blood brothers . . . After his brother, Damon Salvatore, betrays him in New Orleans, Stefan starts over in Manhattan. Vowing never to harm another human, he roams the streets, trying to disappear into the city's chaos. But just when he thinks he's l...

  • Phantom

    The Vampire Diaries - 8
    The Vampire Diaries: The Hunters - 1

    The past is never far. . . . Elena Gilbert and her friends saved Fell's Church from evil spirits bent on destroying it, but the town's freedom came at a price: Damon Salvatore's life. Damon's death changes everything. He and his vampire brother...

  • Stefan's Diaries: The Ripper

    Stefan's Diaries - 3

    Haunted by the past . . . The year is 1888, and the scent of blood lingers heavy in the London air. Stefan Salvatore thought he could escape his violent origins by settling in the peaceful countryside of England, but when a heinous murderer named ...

  • Stefan's Diaries: The Asylum

    Stefan's Diaries - 4

    The hunters become the hunted. . . . Driven from their hometown of Mystic Falls, both Stefan Salvatore and his brother, Damon, arrived in Europe looking for a fresh start. But Samuel, a wealthy and cunning vampire, has other plans for them. First ...

  • The Divide

    The Secret Circle - 4

    Keep your enemies close. . . . For the first time since moving to New Salem, Cassie Blake feels normal. She's dating her soul mate Adam and making new friends in town. But between the secret coven of witches she belongs to and the incredible power...

  • Stefan's Diaries: The Compelled

    Stefan's Diaries - 5

    Control or be controlled . . . Stefan and Damon thought they knew evil. But nothing compares to Samuel, the ruthless vampire hell-bent on avenging Katherine's death by destroying the Salvatore brothers. Reeling from Samuel's latest attack, Stef...

  • Moonsong

    The Vampire Diaries - 9
    The Vampire Diaries: The Hunters - 2

    Evil never dies. . . . After escaping the horrors of the Dark Dimension, Elena and her friends can't wait to attend Dalcrest College, the beautiful ivy-covered campus where Elena's parents met. Life with Stefan is better than ever, and with her cl...



  • Strange Fate

    Night World - 10

    The Night World is all around us. The creatures of the Night World - vampires, werewolves, witches and shapeshifters - live among us. They are incredibly beautiful. And they are incredibly deadly. According to the laws of the Night World, humans are ...

  • The Hunt

    The Secret Circle - 5

    There's no turning back. . . . For Cassie and her Circle of witches, it's hard to imagine life in New Salem getting any worse. A band of powerful witch hunters is targeting the group, determined to destroy them one by one. And Cassie's half siste...

  • Night World No. 1: Secret Vampire; Daughters of Darkness; Spellbinder

    Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters -- they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World. In Secret Vampire, P...

  • Night World No. 3: Huntress, Black Dawn, Witchlight

    The Night World isn’t a place. It’s all around us. It’s a secret society of vampires, werewolves, witches, and other creatures of darkness that live among us. In the third bind-up of this series, the Night People are preparing for the apocalyps...

  • Destiny Rising

    The Vampire Diaries - 10
    The Vampire Diaries: The Hunters - 3

    Destiny Rising is the gripping conclusion to the Hunters arc in the New York Times bestselling series, created by L. J. Smith, which also inspired the hit CW TV show The Vampire Diaries. Elena Gilbert has never been an ordinary teenager. In love w...

  • The Temptation

    The Secret Circle - 6

    It's always darkest before the dawn. Cassie hasn't felt this alone since she moved to New Salem and joined the Circle -- the closest thing to a family she's ever known. But now that the Circle has been possessed by powerful evil spirits, Cassie is...

  • Unseen

    The Vampire Diaries - 11
    The Vampire Diaries: The Salvation - 1

    The greatest threats are the ones unseen…. For what seems like the first time, Elena and her friends are happy. Elena and Stefan have built a home for themselves in Dalcrest, and all of Elena’s friends are as in love as she and Stefan are. Even...

  • Unspoken

    The Vampire Diaries - 12
    The Vampire Diaries: The Salvation - 2

    Death is only the beginning... Elena Gilbert’s entire world has shattered in a single moment. Her true love, Stefan, is dead, staked through the heart by their so-called friend Jack. Now the only thing Elena cares about is destroying Jack and hi...

  • Unmasked

    The Vampire Diaries: The Salvation - 3

    Love is the most powerful force of all… Elena Gilbert is dying. When Damon Salvatore avenged his brother Stefan’s death, he broke the sacred deal he’d made with the Guardians -- and put Elena’s life at risk. She should be dead, but inst...

  • The Hunters



  • Lost Priority

    Lost Priority is a modern day treasure hunt. Jack is an ex-Navy Seal down on his luck. His ex-wife is hooked on drugs and is living with a drug smuggling biker. He doesn't make enough to pay child support and live even working Two jobs. Jack's 85-...

  • The Compelled

  • The Asylum

  • Bloodlust

  • The Salvation

  • The Secret Circle

  • Womb for Rent

    Twenty-eight-year-old Carrie Sansone has been losing hope that her streak of bad luck would ever turn around. She’s an alcoholic, she’s struggling financially, and -- after a stint in rehab following a DUI that totaled her car -- she’s desperat...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

L.J. Smith has published 56 books.

L.J. Smith does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Womb for Rent, was published in October 2022.

The first book by L.J. Smith, The Night of the Solstice, was published in November 1987.

Yes. L.J. Smith has 10 series.
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