Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel
By Michele Lee

Buffy the Vampire Slayer started off as a movie in 1992 that latter became a popular TV show running from 1997-2003.  The series follows Buffy who starts the series as a teenager in high school who discovers that she is a vampire slayer, endowed with enhanced strength and reflexes she patrols the night hunting and slaying evil vampires, demons, and other supernatural baddies.   Buffy goes through her adventures with her watcher the librarian Giles and her friends Willow and Xander.  Buffy’s romantic interests in the show are Angel a 200 year old vampire with a soul as well as a solider named Riley, and another vampire Spike.  Buffy the Vampire Slayers success eventually led to spin-off show for Angel.  While both Buffy and Angel shows have ended, their adventures continue in a popular series of books.  It is this series of books that have attracted a number of readers and the new books continue to come out today.

The following is a list of Buffy books and related material as compiled by Pesha and used with her permission.  This list was originally posted at the Buffyworld.com forums. **This list is presented in it’s entirely as originally published in black. Reading Bites editor Michele Lee is updating this list with further notes and links to MonsterLibrarian Review of the media in Purple.**

Novels

Graphic Novels

 

Episode Novelizations

  • The Angel Chronicles #1 by Nancy Holder (Features: “Angel” written by David Greenwalt, “Reptile Boy” written by David Greenwalt, “Lie to Me” written by Joss Whedon)
  • The Angel Chronicles #2 by Richie Tankersley (Features:
    “Halloween” written by Carl Ellsworth, “What’s My Line, Part 1” written by Howard Gordon and Marti Noxon, “What’s My Line, Part 2” written by Marti Noxon)
  • The Angel Chronicles #3 by Nancy Holder (Features: “Surprise” written by Marti Noxon, “Innocence” written by Joss Whedon, “Passion” written by Ty King
  • The Xander Years #1 by Keith R.A. DeCandido (Features: “Teacher’s Pet” Teleplay by David Greenwalt, “Inca Mummy Girl” Teleplay by Matt Keine and Joe Reinkemeyer, “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” Teleplay by Marti Noxon
  • The Xander Years #2 by Jeff Mariotte (Features: “The Pack” written by Matt Kiene and Joe Reinkemeyer, “Go Fish” written by David Fury and Elin Hampton, “The Zeppo” written by Dan Vebber)
  • The Willow Files #1 by Yvonne Navarro (Features:
    “I Robot, You Jane” written by Ashley Gable and Thomas A. Swyden, “Phases” written by Rob Des Hotel and Dean Batali, “Dead Man’s Party” written by Marti Noxon)
  • The Willow Files #2 by Yvonne Navarro (Features: “Gingerbread” written by Jane Espenson story by Thania St. John and Jane Espenson, “Doppelgängland” written by Joss Whedon, “Choices” written by David Fury)
  • The Faith Trials #1 by James Laurence (Features: “Faith, Hope & Trick” written by David Greenwalt, “Bad Girls” written by Douglas Petrie, “Consequences” written by Marti Noxon)
  • The Journals of Rupert Giles #1 by Nancy Holder (Features: “Helpless” written by David Fury, “A New Man” written by Jane Espenson, “Blood Ties” written by Steven S. DeKnight)
  • The Cordelia Collection, Vol. I. (Features: “Out of Mind, Out of Sight”, by Ashley Gable & Thomas A. Swyden (Story by Joss Whedon), “Some Assembly Required”, by Ty King, “Homecoming”, by David Greenwalt

Well that took a while.

There’s the novelizations of the episodes that I’ve got. There’s more that I know of like “The Harvest” for one. (I’ve not been able to find that one.)

There’s novelizations for AtS too. At least “City of” has a novelization.

YA Novels

  • Halloween Rain
  • Coyote Moon
  • Night of the Living Rerun
  • Blooded
  • Visitors
  • Unnatural Selection
  • Power of Persuasion
  • Deep Water
  • Here be Monsters
  • How I Survived My Summer Vacation Vol 1
  • Crossings
  • Little Things
  • Sweet Sixteen
  • Doomsday Deck
  • Ghoul Trouble

Stake Your Destiny Series

  • The Suicide King
  • Keep Me in Mind
  • Colony
  • Night Terrors

Tales of the Slayers

(Some good, some not so good)

  • Vol I
  • Vol II
  • Vol III
  • Vol IV

Adult Novels

For the adult novels, I noticed some that were missing (actually some notably good ones) so here’s the others that I know of:

  • Revenant
  • The Death of Buffy (I really liked this one. It takes place between seasons five and six of the show.)
  • The Lost Slayer (There’s an anthology version or you can get it in the four little books, but I don’t know the names of them individually.)
  •  Monster Island (Crossover with Angel) Seven Crows (Crossover with Angel—this one features Riley of all people. It’s a season four book.)
  • Cursed (Crossover with Spike and Angel…very VERY good book) Heat (Crossover with Angel)

Angel Novels

  • City of… (novelization)
  • Not Forgotten
  • Redemption
  • Close to the Ground
  • Shakedown
  • Hollywood Noir
  • Avatar
  • Bruja
  • Haunted
  • The Summoned
  • Image
  • Vengeance
  • Stranger to the Sun
  • Endangered Species
  • The Longest Night Vol 1 (It’s an anthology of some sort. I’ve never seen it, but I was told to list it.)
  • Fearless
  • Impressions
  • Solitary Man (Wesleycentric)
  • Sanctuary
  • Nemesis
  • Monolith
  • Dark Mirror
  • Book of the Dead
  • Love and Death

 

 

Graphic Novels

Before the Series Finale

Omnibuses
  • BTVS Omnibus 1 (Featuring: Spike & Dru- All’s Fair, The Origin 1-3, Broken Parts, Full House, Deuce’s Wild, The Big Fold, Dawn & The Happy Bear, Slayer, Interrupted 1-4)
  • BTVS Omnibus 2 (Featuring: Angels We Have Seen on High, Stake to the Heart, Macguffins, Queen of Hearts, Ring of Fire, Paint the Town Red, The Dust Waltz)
  • BTVS Omnibus 3 (Featuring: WuTang Fang, Halloween, cold Turkey, Dance with Me, White Christmas, Happy New Year, New Kid in the Block 1 &2, A Nice Girl Like You, Play with Fire, The Food Chain, The Final Cut, The Latest Craze, The Remaining Sunlight)
  • BTVS Omnibus 4 (Featuring: Hey Good Lookin’ 1 & 2, A Boy Named Sue, Love Sick Blues 1 & 2, Lost Highway, She’s No Lady 1 & 2, Old Friend, Hello Moon, Cursed, Deadlove, Stinger, Mallrats, Spike & Dru: Who Made Who, The Hallower 1-3, Double Cross)
  • BTVS Omnibus 5 (Featuring: Haunted 1-4, Take Back the Night, Killing Time, The Blood of Carthage 1-5, Heart of a Slayer 1 & 2, Cemetery of Lost Love, Oz 1-3)
  • BTVS Omnibus 6 (Featuring: City of Despair, Jonathan: Comrades, Giles: Beyond the Pale, One Small Promise, Punish Me with Kisses, Past Lives 1-4, Lost and Found, Invasion, Hive Mentality, Out of the Fire, Into the Hive, Wanna Blessed be, Demonology Menagerie 1 & 2, Remember the Beginning, Remember the Lies, Remember the Truth, Remember the End)
  • BTVS Omnibus 7  (Featuring: Night of 1,000 Vampires, Ugly Little Monsters 1-3, Chaos Bleeds, Lost and Found, Rock n’ Roll All Night, Wilderness 1 & 2), Death of Buffy 1-3, Reunion, Withdrawal, Hellmouth to Mouth 1-4)

 

Buffy Season 8

Buffy Season 9

  • #1 Freefall
  • #2 On Your Own
  • #3 Guarded
  • #4 Welcome to the Team
  • #5 The Core
  • Willow Wonderland

Buffy Season 10

  • #1 New Rules
  • #2 I Wish
  • #3 Love Dares You
  • #4 Old Demons
  • #5 Pieces on the Ground
  • #6 Own it

Buffy Season 11

  • #1 The Spread of Their Evil
  • #2 One Girl in All the World
  • Giles: Girl Blue

Buffy Season 12

  • The Reckoning

 

Angel After the Fall

  • After the Fall #1
  • # 2: First Night
  • After the Fall pt. 3
  • After the Fall pt. 4
  • Aftermath
  • Last Angel in Hell
  • Immortality for Dummies
  • Crown Prince syndrome
  • The Wolf, The Ram, and the Hart
  • The End

 

Angel & Faith

  • Live Through This
  •  Daddy Issues
  • Family Reunion
  • Death and Consequences
  • What You Want, Not What You Need
  • Where the River Meets the Sea
  • Lost and Found
  • United
  • A Little More than Kin
  • A Tale of Two Families

 

Angel Omnibus

  • Omnibus 1 (Featuring: Surrogates 1-3, The changeling Wife, Earthly Possessions 1-3, Hunting Ground, Beneath the Surface 1 & 2, Strange Bedfellow 1 & 2, Vermin 1 & 2, Little Girl Lost, Cordelia, Point of Order, Angel: The Nepalese Switcheroo, Long Night’s Journey)

Spike

  • Spike & Dru
  • Spike vs Dracula
  • The Devil You Know
  • Asylum
  • Shadow Puppets
  • Spike: After the Fall
  • Spike Omnibus
  • Alone Together Now
  • Stranger Things
  • A Dark Place
  • Lost & Found
  • Spike: Old Times

 

Various

 

BTVS Reboot

  • High School is Hell
  • Volume 2
  • From Beneath You