Listed below are the series I like, in the order I like them. In the case of two series set in the same universe, I’ve put them both in the same “place”, as I generally see them as the same series by the same author.

The series in places three through eight are all pretty much on par with each other and I had a really hard time deciding which I liked more. I actually considered having a five way tie for 3rd place, but decided I needed to try to put them in order, so I did.

My Ranking Series Name Author Genre	Description	Books in the series
1. Night Huntress Series by Jeaniene Frost Urban Fantasy	Main protagonist is half vampire – her mother was raped and impregnated by a newly turned vampire, new enough the sperm wasn’t dead yet. Young Katherine (later to be known as Cat) was raised to believe that all vampires are evil. But she’s half vampire, so doesn’t that make her evil? The series opens with her searching for and killing vampires, but she’s doing it to try to get her mother’s approval. Then she meets a vampire that shows her that all vampires aren’t evil. And… it gets complicated. This is my favorite series. Humans do not know of the existance of vampires in this series.	1. Halfway to the Grave 2. One Foot in the Grave 3. At Grave’s End 4. Destined for an Early Grave 5.
1. Night Huntress World by Jeaniene Frost	Set in the above Universe, but the stories of some of the others we’ve met in that universe.	1. First Drop of Crimson  (Feb 9,’10) 2. Eternal Kiss of Darkness (July 27 ‘10)
2. Kate Daniels Series by Ilona Andrews Urban Fantasy / Dark Fantasy	Set in an alternate Atlanta, where magic and tech come in waves, so that magic works for a little while but technology doesn’t, and then technology (cars, phones, computers) works for a little while and magic doesn’t. Sometimes it might be ten or fifteen minutes between changes, and other times it might be weeks between changes. Kate is kind of like a magical police officer, only she works for… I dunno, the equivalent of a federal agency instead of a local one, maybe? Anyway, she manages to get pulled into shapeshifter politics and ends up being the only Knight of the Order who can handle anything related to the shapeshifters. It’s hard to describe the series, but Kate has this snarky attitude that is great and really makes her fun to read. When she first meets the Beast Master (a werelion that everyone is pretty much terrified of) and he’s back in the shadows so she can’t see him very good she sings out "here kitty kitty".	1. Magic Bites (2007) 2. Magic Burns (2008) 3. Magic Strikes *. Magic Mourns in the anthology Must Love Hellhounds 4. Magic Bleeds (May 2010)
3. The Hollows / Rachel Morgan series by Kim Harrison Urban Fantasy	In this universe a large percentage of humans got sick and dyed when they ate some genetically altered tomatoes. The supernaturals did not, and they realized that they were no longer so outnumbered by humans anymore, so they announced themselves to the Humans. The story takes place a few decades after this. This series has plots within plots, as well as a lot of heavy emotion. The author is great at making you hate the villain and then showing you why the villain does the things he does so that he is still the villain but it’s not so easy to hate him (or her) anymore.	1. Dead Witch Walking 2. The Good, the Bad, and the Undead 3. Every Which Way But Dead 4. A Fistful of Charms 5. For a Few Demons More 6. The Outlaw Demon Wails 7. White Witch, Black Curse 8. Black Magic Sanction (Feb 23,’10)
4. Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton Urban Fantasy	In this universe humans know about vampires. Anita is a necromancer (raises the dead for legal reasons, such as when a will is in question), and a vampire executioner. You can’t really arrest a vampire and put them in jail, so when they are found guilty an executioner is sent after them. Anita begins the series thinking all vampires are bad. She doesn’t think a whole lot of shapeshifters, either. But then she meets some of them and gets to know them. Most books involve a job with the police (usually helping to solve a supernatural crime) and something to do with either vampire politics or shapeshifter politics (or both) and frequently something going on in her private life as well. This is a pretty controversial series. Once you get past Obsidian Butterfly the sex gets a bit over the top.  Obsidian Butterfly is most excellent though, and there is no sex in that one.	1. Guilty Pleasures      2. The Laughing Corpse   3. Circus of the Damned   4. The Lunatic Cafe     5. Bloody Bones      6. The Killing Dance     7. Burnt Offerings     8. Blue Moon     9. Obsidian Butterfly    10. Narcissus in Chains  11. Cerulean Sins    12. Incubus Dreams     13. Micah (novella)     14. Danse Macabre     15. The Harlequin  16. Blood Noir (2008)     17. Skin Trade (2009)  18. Flirt (novella) (2/2/10)  19. Bullet (June 1, ‘10)
5. Riley Jensen, Guardian, Bk 5) by Keri Arthur Urban Fantasy	Riley is half werewolf and half vampire, as is her twin brother. Riley is more werewolf than vampire (she’s basically a werewolf with a few of a vampire’s strengths) and her brother is a little more vampire than werewolf (most think he used to be a werewolf but was turned into a vampire). In this universe werewolves go into "heat" in the days leading up to a full moon and have a lot of sex. The first book happens during this time, but most of the other books do not. So, the first book has a lot more sex in it than the other books (kind of the reverse of the Anita Blake series – LOL). Riley and her brother are agents of… kind of the equivelant of todays FBI (or higher), only from a supernatural point of view.  In this universe humans know about werewolves and vampires, and this is the agency responsible for policing the supernaturals.	1. Full Moon Rising 2. Kissing Sin 3. Tempting Evil 4. Dangerous Games 5. Embraced by Darkness 6. The Darkest Kiss 7. Deadly Desire 8. Bound to Shadows 9. Captured by Vengeance (Feb 2010)
6. Kitty Norville series by Carrie Vaughn Urban Fantasy	Kitty is a werewolf (the name came first, she was turned as an adult against her will). She begin a radio show called The Midnight Hour, which is kind of what the old Art Bell show used to be, but she only does it once a week. And, she’s a werewolf who knows about the existence of vampires, so she’s got a leg up on everyone. Humans do not know about the existance of vampires or werewolves or any other supernatural as the series begins.	1. Kitty and the Midnight Hour 2. Kitty Goes to Washington 3. Kitty Takes a Holiday 4. Kitty and the Silver Bullet 5. Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand 6. Kitty Raises Hell 7. Kitty’s House of Horrors (Jan 1,’10)
7. Sookie Stackhouse (Southern Vampire) Series by Charlaine Harris Urban Fantasy	Sookie is a telepathic "bar maid" in small-town northern Louisiana. Vampires are out of the closet in this series, and when Sookie finally meets a vampire she discovers she can’t hear their thoughts. This is heaven to someone who can’t help but hear people’s thoughts. She gets involved in vampire politics and things get very interesting. Humans know of the existence of vampires, but not shapeshifters or witches or fae (or anything else) in this series.	1. Dead Until Dark 2. Living Dead in Dallas 3. Club Dead   4. Dead to the World   5. Dead as a Doornail 6. Definitely Dead   7. All Together Dead 8. From Dead to Worse 9. Dead and Gone 10. A Touch of Dead 11. Dead in the Family (May 4, ‘10)
8. Mercedes Thompson Series by Patricia Briggs Urban Fantasy	Mercy Thompson is a Volkwagen mechanic and is of Native American descent. She can shift into the form of a Coyote. Her father died before she was born, and her mother didn’t know any of his family. Her mother did not know how to raise a child who could turn into a coyote, and found a pack of wolves who could foster her. So, Mercy was raised in a wolf pack, though she is not a werewolf. She is now grown and on her own, not living near her pack or her mother. Her current neighbor is the Alpha of the local wolves. The first book deals mostly with the local wolves. The second mostly with the local Vampires, and the third deals mostly with the local Fae population. At the start of the series humans do not know about werewolves and vampires, though they do know about the Fae.	1. Moon Called 2. Blood Bound 3. Iron Kissed 4. Bone Crossed 5. Silver Borne (Mar 30,’10)
8. Alpha and Omega Series by Patricia Briggs	Set in the same world as the above story, this series appears that it will focus on Mercy’s original pack. We’ve already met most of the players in the series, though not in the short story that starts off the series.	*. Alpha and Omega in On the Prowl 1. Cry Wolf 2. Hunting Ground
9. Psy-Changelings Series by Nalini Singh Romantic Urban Fantasy	This series is more of a parallel world. There are humans, changelings, and Psy. The Psy have various types of psychic abilities, and they have this kind of psychic internet that their minds are all psychically linked in to. Without the feedback of that network, they die. About 100 years before the story takes place, the psy had a problem with those who used their abilities to kill, often because they could not control their abilities when they were emotional. When you can kill someone with a thought, you have to be very careful when you’ve just caught your boyfriend kissing someone else. So they implemented Silence, where kids are taught from infancy to not feel emotions. There is a training protocol with painful feedback when an emotion is felt. But Silence has its problems, too. And as the series progresses, there are all sorts of shades of grey between the black and white that we originally see. Each book is a romance, so we get a different focus (from the same narrator) for each book. I usually don’t like those, but this series is good enough that it doesn’t matter.	1.Slave to Sensation 2.Visions of Heat 3.Caressed By Ice 4.Mine to Possess 5.Hostage to Pleasure 6.Branded by Fire 7.Blaze of Memory 8. Bonds of Justice (July 6,’10)
10. Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer Romantic Urban Fantasy	A different kind of vampire than most of the urban fantasy books. This one is Young Adult, so it stays at a PG where the sex is concerned. Edward and his "family" look like older teens or early 20’s, so when they move to a new town they start out in high school so they can stay longer before having to move again. Bella moves to a new town and meets Edward when she starts her new school. It is impossible to tell much about this series without giving spoilers.   The series is complete. No more books.	1. Twilight 2. New Moon 3. Eclipse 4. Breaking Dawn
11. Meredith Gentry by Laurell K. Hamilton Urban Fantasy	This series is about the Fae. As the series starts Merry is a Fairy Princess who has ran from her home and is hiding out in California. Over the course of the books she goes home to the UnSeelie Court and has a whole lot of adventures. Her aunt, the Queen of the Unseelies doesn’t like her very much. The first book doesn’t have much sex. The rest of them do. A lot of sex.	1. A Kiss of Shadows 2. A Caress of Twilight 3. Seduced by Moonlight 4. A Stroke of Midnight   5. Mistral’s Kiss 6. A Lick of Frost   7. Swallowing Darkness   8. Divine Misdemeanors
12. Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich Humor / Crime	As the series open Stephanie has been laid off from her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store. She blackmails her cousin Vinnie (this is set in New Jersey, after all) to let her try to bring a bounty in that is worth 10,000 if she can manage to bring her guy in. Throughout the rest of the series Stephanie is a bounty hunter. She’s not very good at it, which is part of the comic relief. The other part of it are the characters she interacts with. A good bit of the humor comes from her grandmother. This is a series that will have you laughing until tears come out of your eyes. It’s a very entertaining read. There are no deep plots, or plots within plots, it’s just a nice, easy, entertaining, series.	One For the Money Two For the Dough Three to Get Deadly Four to Score High Five Hot Six Seven Up Hard Eight To the Nines Visions of Sugar Plums Ten Big Ones Eleven on Top Twelve Sharp Plum Lovin’   Lean Mean Thirteen Plum Lucky   Fearless Fourteen Plum Spooky Finger Lickin’ Fifteen Sizzling Sixteen (June 22,’10)
13. Nadia Stafford Series by Kelley Armstrong Crime Drama	Nadia is an ex-cop turned hitman. If you like Edward from the Anita Blake series, or Corman from the Kitty series, then you’ll like this series.	1. Exit Strategy 2. Made to Be Broken
14. Dark Hunter Series by  Sherrilyn Kenyon Romantic Urban Fantasy	This series pulls from Greek Mythology and gives us something that the vampire myths could easily have come from. The Dark Hunters are hunting something similar to a vampire, but not a vampire. The Dark Hunters were once men and women, but who made a bargain with their soul and now they are unbelievably rich, have supernatural powers, don’t age, and are practically impossible to kill. But, they must hunt. And they can’t be around each other or their powers are drained. The first book is not about the Dark Hunters, it’s an introduction to their world and a few of the characters in the series, though. Each book is a HEA book for a different couple. We don’t get the same narrator twice.	1. Fantasy Lover 1.5 Dragonswan 2. Night Pleasures 3. Night Embrace 4. Dance with the Devil 5. Kiss of the Night 6. Night Play 7. Seize the Night 8. Sins of the Night 9. Unleash the Night 10. Dark Side of the Moon 11. Devil May Cry 12. Acheron 13. One Silent Night 14. Bad Moon Rising 15. No Mercy (Aug 3,’10) Chronicles of Nick 1. Infinity (June 8,’10)
15. Women of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong Urban Fantasy	The first two books are about werewolves and are told to us by the same narrator. Books three and four are from a different narrator, and they give us a completely different set of characters. The series has werewolves, witches, warlocks, wizards, ghosts, vampires, necromancers, and more. The stories tie together nicely once you get into the series, even though you’ve got different women narrating the stories. Humans do not know of the existence of supernaturals in this world.	1. Bitten 2. Stolen 3. Dime Store Magic 4. Industrial Magic 5. Haunted 6. Broken 7. No Humans Involved 8. Personal Demon 9. Living with the Dead *. Men of the Otherworld *. A Fantasy Medley 10. Frostbitten *. Angelic (Novella) *. Tales of the Otherworld (Apr 13,’10) 11. Waking the Witch (Aug 3,10)
16. Immortals After Dark, Bk 5) by Kresley Cole Romantic Urban Fantasy	Each book is a HEA book of a couple getting together. You don’t get the same narrator more than once. But, after the first book, you’ve already met the narrator and usually know a little bit of their story. There is a very good plot line that runs through the books, so you have to read each book to continue with the main plot – a battle shaping up between good and bad supernaturals, and the winner will control things for the next (appx) 500 years. This series is great at pulling old mythologies in and bringing them to life.	1. A Hunger Like No Other 2. No Rest for the Wicked 3. Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night 4. Dark Needs at Night’s Edge 5. Dark Desires After Dusk 6. Kiss of a Demon King 7. Pleasure of a Dark Prince (Jan 19,’10)
17. Cal Leandros series by Rob Thurman Dark Urban Fantasy	Mom is a crack wh.. uh, prostitute. Dad was a very evil thing. Think, much worse than the most evil vampire ever written. Maybe closer to one of the dark Fae than a vampire. Or a cross of the darkest of those mythologies. Cal and his big brother basically survived on their own while their mom was wasted or gone. Cal’s big brother was four when Cal was born and pretty much raised Cal without help from "mom". The non-human things took Cal once and he escaped, and now they are grown and on the run from them.	1. Nightlife 2. Moonshine 3. Madhouse 4. Deathwish 5. Roadkill (Mar 2,’10)
18. The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher Urban Fantasy	Harry Dresden is a wizard in Chicago. Humans do not know about vampires or werewolves or fae or wizards in this series. Harry has a yellow pages ad as a wizard, but the general public doesn’t really take it seriously. Harry helps out the police on crimes that have them stumped. And he gets clients of his own who need a wizard, too. This series pulls in dozens and dozens of creatures from various mythologies. The sex in this series is pretty much nonexistant. The Sci Fi made it into a television series for one season. You can buy the completel first season on DVD.	1 Storm Front 2 Fool Moon 3 Grave Peril 4 Summer Knight 5 Death Masks 6 Blood Rites 7 Dead Beat 8 Proven Guilty 9 White Night 10 Small Favor * Backup 11 Turn Coat 12 Changes (Apr 2010)
19. Phoenix Chronicles by Lori Handeland Urban Fantasy	Liz was once a cop but is working as a bartender when we meet her. She’s psychic, and that caused problems working as a cop. She needed proof to arrest someone, and her psychic sense was not considered proof. When her foster mother is murdered Liz gets thrown into the middle of things and discovers that humans aren’t as close to the top of the food chain as she’d believed. This series  has werewolves and vampires and dhampirs and skinwalkers and a whole host of creatures from various mythologies.	1. Any Given Doomsday 2. Doomsday Can Wait 3. Apocalypse Happens 4. Chaos Bites (2010)
20. Dante Valentine series by Lilith Saintcrow Dark Urban Fantasy	Dante is a necromancer who gets caught up in the politics of the demons. Necromancers do not learn about demons, that is the job of the Magi, but Dante is hired by Lucifer himself, so she’s got to figure it out as she goes. This series is finished. No more books.	1. Working for the Devil 2. Dead Man Rising 3. The Devil’s Right Hand 4. Saint City Sinners 5. To Hell and Back
21. The Spellmans by Lisa Lutz Crime Drama	Isabel (Izzy) Spellman is a 28 year old woman who is still growing up. She led a very wild childhood and young adulthood (as in drugs and indiscriminate sex and various irresponsible behaviors). Izzy is a PI, as are her parents. She started as a child and was doing surveillance before she could drive. Her little sister was doing surveillance before she could read. This is a family with deadbolts on bedroom doors because, since they are all professional snoops, they don’t trust anyone. Not even family. The family is… functionally dysfunctional? Maybe dysfunctional is too strong of a word. We’ll just say they love each other, but they are not normal. It’s a good story, but the way it as told, as a report, didn’t work great for me.	1. The Spellman Files: A Novel 2. Curse of the Spellmans: A Novel 3. Revenge of the Spellmans: A Novel (Mar 16,10) 4. The Spellmans Strike Again (March ‘10)