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Below you will also find a basic chronological list for the books and Sookie short stories. You will also find a timeline, bibliography and my notes.
The timeline is according to Sookie's world for the 9 books and short stories, where Sookie appears. There are real life things like Hurricane Katrina that happen in the books so we do have specific dates to work around.
This is not the timeline for the True Blood TV series but I have done an episode timeline and you can find it here for Season One.
Books and Stories are to be read in this order if possible.
Books are numbered# / Short Stories are *( you can find short story anthology info below)
1. Dead Until Dark
2. Living Dead in Dallas
3. Club Dead
4. Dead to the World
* "Fairy Dust" from Powers of Detection
5. Dead as a Doornail
* "Dracula Night" from Many Bloody Returns
* "One Word Answer" from Bite
6. Definitely Dead
* "Lucky" from Unusual Suspects
7. All Together Dead
8. From Dead to Worse
* "Gift Wrap" from Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
9. Dead and Gone
* "Bacon" from Strange Brew
* "The Britlingens Go to Hell" from Must love Hellhounds
* " Dahlia Underground"
* "Two Blondes” from Death's Excellent Vacation
10. Dead in the Family
11. Dead Reckoning
* “If I Had a Hammer” from Home Improvement: Undead Edition
* New Sookie Novella - The Sookie Stackhouse Companion
* "Death by Dahlia" from Down these Strange Streets
Book Actual Timeline ( the date in the books)
(this is the Sookieverse timeline for all 11books and short stories with Sookie)
1. Dead until Dark- between April 4th and June 21st 2004
2. Living Dead in Dallas - Early September 2004
3. Club Dead -December 1-13th 2004
4. Dead to the World -First weeks of January 2005
* "Fairy Dust" from Powers of Detection - Late January 2005
5. Dead as a Doornail - End of January 2005
* "Dracula Night" from Many Bloody Returns -February 8th 2005
* "One Word Answer" from Bite- late February 2005
6. Definitely Dead - March 21st - March 31st 2005
* "Lucky" from Unusual Suspects - late April early May 2005
7. All Together Dead- week of September 19th 21- 2005 (Shortly after Hurricane Katrina)
8. From Dead to Worse - very last weeks of October 2005
* "Gift Wrap" from Wolfsbane and Mistletoe -Christmas Day, December 25th 2005.
9. Dead and Gone - Takes place first 2 week of January 2006
10. Dead in the Family - 1st week of March 2006
* "Two Blondes" from Death's Excellent Vacation- February 2006
11. Dead Reckoning Late May 2006
Sookie short stories can be found in these anthologies
Sookie appears
Fairy Dust : Powers of Detection (contains short story, “Fairy Dust”) Ace 2004, ISBN 0-441-01197-7
One Word Answer : Bite (contains short story "One Word Answer") Jove 2005, ISBN 0-515-13970-X
Lucky: Unusual Suspects (contains short story, “Lucky”) Ace, December 2008, ISBN-10: 0441016375;
Dracula Night: Many Bloody Returns (contains short story, “Dracula Night”) Ace 2007, ISBN-10: 0441015220
Gift Wrap: Wolfsbane and Mistletoe (contains short story, “Gift Wrap”) Ace, October 7, 2008, ISBN-10: 0441016332;
Two Blondes Death's Excellent Adventure (contains short story, “Two Blondes”) Ace, August 3, 2010, ISBN-10: 0441018688; ISBN-13: 978-0-441-01868-0 (H)
If I Had a Hammer : Home Improvement: Undead Edition (contains short story, “If I Had a Hammer”)Ace Hardcover; 1 edition August 2, 2011 ISBN-10: 0441020356
NewSookie Novella - The Sookie Stackhouse Companion (Aug 2011) Ace ISBN-10: 0441019714
Other Sookieverse stories ( no Sookie)
My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding (contains short story "Tacky") St. Martin's Griffin 2006, ISBN 0312343604
Night's Edge (contains the novella "Dancers in the Dark") Harlequin, Oct. 2004, ISBN 0373770103
Strange Brew ( contains the short story "Bacon") St Martin’s Griffin 7th July 2009 0312383363
Must Love Hellhounds ( contains the novella " The Britlingens Go to Hell ") Berkley Trade September 1, 2009 0425229599
Crimes by Moonlight (contains short story “Dahlia Underground" ) Prime Crime, April 6 2010, ISBN-10: 0425235637
Down These Strange Streets (contains short story "Death by Dahlia") Penguin, October, 2011, ISBN-13: 978-0-441-02074-4
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Publication dates for books and stories
1. Dead Until Dark (2001)
2. Living Dead in Dallas (March 2002)
3. Club Dead (May 2003)
4. Dead to the World (May 2004)
- "Fairy Dust" in Powers of Detection (October 2004)
- Dancers in the Dark (novella) in Night's Edge (Harlequin Enterprises) (October 2004) (a Sookie-universe story without the character of Sookie Stackhouse)
- "One Word Answer" in Bite (2005)
5. Dead as a Doornail (May 2005)
6. Definitely Dead (May 2006)
- "Tacky" in My Big, Fat Supernatural Wedding (2006) (a Sookie-universe story without the character of Sookie Stackhouse)
7. All Together Dead (May 2007)
- "Dracula Night" in Many Bloody Returns (September 2007)
8. From Dead to Worse (May 2008)
- "Gift Wrap" in Wolfsbane and Mistletoe (October 2008)
- "Lucky" in Unusual Suspects ( December 2008)
9. Dead and Gone (May 2009)
- "Bacon" in Strange Brew ( July 2009)
- "The Britlingens Go to Hell" in Must Love Hellhounds ( Sept 2009)
Touch of Dead - short story collection ( Oct 2009)
- "Dahlia Underground" Crimes by Moonlight (April 2010)
10. Dead in the family (May 2010)
-" Two Blondes" Death's Excellent Adventure ( Aug 2010)
"If I Had a Hammer" Home Improvement: Undead Edition Aug 2011
The Sookie Stackhouse Companion (Aug 2011)
- "Death by Dahlia" Down these Strange Streets ( Oct 2011)
Book Time Line Notes
1. Dead until Dark- between April 4th and June 21st 2004
Spring is mentioned and Gran says they are on Daylight savings time. The first day of daylight saving time was April 4 that year and the first day of summer was 22nd of June.
2. Living Dead in Dallas - September 2004
Sookie says it's almost fall pg 5 and it's was unbearably hot in Dallas --sounds like early September in TX.
3. Club Dead -December 1-13th 2004
We know the book opens on that night in December and then there are a certain number of days that Bill is missing. When Alcide shops for Christmas presents, it is 2 Saturdays (2 weeks) until Christmas.
4. Dead to the World -First weeks of January 2005
Sookie finds Eric on New Year's Day and he's at her house a couple of weeks.
* "Fairy Dust" from Powers of Detection - Late January 2005
Spring night, we know she meets Claude before Dead as a Doornail
5. Dead as a Doornail - End of January 2005
Book opens on January 25th , the first full moon because Jason turns for the first time. Sookie says it's the end of January on pg 3, 5 and 51. Eric says to Sookie 4 pages from the end of the book that he needs to hire her in early March.
* "Dracula Night" from Many Bloody Returns -February 8th 2005
Dracula Night is February 8th and the Fangtasia invitation Sookie receives has that date for the party. I don't know why according to the CH bibliography the story is listed in October.
* "One Word Answer" from Bite- Late February 2005
Trimming bushes with Bubba at night, it's 62 degrees at night and it's been 4 weeks since Hadley's murder ( Quinn did the hierarchical wedding in January)
6. Definitely Dead - March 21st - March 31st 2005
It's been about 6 weeks since Hadley's murder. Spring begins on March 21st and Claudine says it's March.
* "Lucky" from Unusual Suspects - late April -early May 2005
Sookie says Amelia has been living with her for about a month
7. All Together Dead- week of September 19th 21- 2005 (Shortly after Hurricane Katrina)
Sookie says it's the 3rd week of September on pg 5.
8. From Dead to Worse - very last weeks of October 2005
Sookie says its October on page 32/ Portia's wedding was moved from the 2nd Saturday in April until late October because of Caroline's illness/ Sookie talks about Halloween.
* "Gift Wrap" from Wolfsbane and Mistletoe -Christmas Day, December 25th 2005
Preston comes to Sookie on Christmas Day.
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6 comments:
Are we only assuming the timeline based on Hurricane Katrina? I was confused on the timelines myself as I read them in order yhen the Hurricane came up. The first book I recall said that Vamps "Outed" two years prior. By by the last published book, it seemed like the timeline pushed the Outed date to 5 years ago? However, it reads as thought it all takes place in under 1 1/2 years. I think reading the first book in 2002/03 messed me up on the timeline!
Thank you for posting this. It is helpful.
Though, I am a bit confused. How can "Dracula Night" be placed where it is in the time line when Col Flood is in attendance at the party. Didn't he die back in "Dead as a Doornail"? Am I way off?
The time line is NOT exact
There are inconsistencies with Dracula Night, many place Dracula Night later because of Colonel Flood but then you are ignoring the printed and dated invitation that Sookie receives which says the event happens on February 8th.
So neither is perfect!
OK, thanks.
I am re-reading the entire series for the second time and was confused by your post that Sookie's invitation in Dracula Night has the date Feb. 8, because I read Dracula Night in A Touch of Dead and the date on the invitiation in that book was changed to Jan. 13. I confirmed at the library this morning that in Many Blood Returns the date is Feb. 8. I suspect that Ms. Harris changed the date due to the Col. Flood inconsistency to place Dracula Night BEFORE Dead as a Doornail.
Also, Gift Wrap actually starts on on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24), in both Wolfsbane and Misteltoe and A Touch of Dead. Sookie finds Preston that evening, and wakes up Christmas morning with a note from him saying it was the best Christmas Eve. Then Niall joins her for Christmas dinner.
Yep ---in all later editions Charlaine does corrections like dates, names etc .
Glad to know it's changed in subsequent editions.
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