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Books like Joe Pitt Casebooks: 9 series to read next

Joe Pitt Casebooks is noir and horror, about vampires, set in north america, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Joe Pitt Casebooks is 5 books, 2005–2009.

“Each casebook chronicles Joe Pitt's life as well as his struggles in the underground of vampyre clans of New York.”
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Jerusalem's Lot
Anita Blake
Joe Kurtz
They Thirst
The Strain
The Shining
Necroscope
Little Tall Island / In the Path of the Eclipse
Peeps

Jerusalem's LotSeries

seriesStephen King3 books1975

Eerie in tone, about grief and loss, set in small town.

“Stephen King's 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot follows writer Ben Mears as he returns to his childhood town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, only to discover that its residents are being turned into vampires by a newly arrived stranger.”
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Start with 'Salem's Lot →

Anita BlakeSeries

seriesLaurell K. Hamilton & Jonathon Green42 books1993

Urban fantasy, dark and tense in tone, about vampires, set in contemporary and north america.

“The books have sold more than six million copies; many have made The New York Times Best Seller list.”
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Start with Guilty Pleasures →

Joe KurtzSeries

seriesDan Simmons3 books2001

Mystery & detective, about revenge.

Start with Hardcase →

They ThirstSeries

seriesRobert R. McCammon2 books1981

About survival.

“In Robert R. McCammon's They Thirst, an ancient vampire prince arrives in Los Angeles and, in a matter of nights, begins turning the city into a stronghold for the undead, with Disneyland as an eerie staging ground for his conquest.”
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Start with They Thirst →

The StrainSeries

seriesChuck Hogan & Guillermo Del Toro3 books2009

About survival and plague and pandemic.

“When a Boeing 777 lands at JFK Airport with nearly everyone aboard dead, CDC epidemiologist Ephraim Goodweather is called in and instead uncovers a vampiric plague beginning to spread through New York City.”
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Start with The Strain →

The ShiningSeries

seriesStephen King5 books1977

About psychic powers and addiction.

“Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.”
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Start with The Shining →

NecroscopeSeries

seriesBrian Lumley26 books1982

About undead.

“Harry turns that gift against Thibor Ferenczy, a vampire buried since the Middle Ages, and against Ferenczy's agent Boris Dragosani, a Soviet spy who has learned to tear secrets from corpses in pursuit of world domination.”
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Start with Necroscope →

Little Tall Island / In the Path of the EclipseSeries

seriesStephen King4 books1989

Psychological thriller, about survival.

“The first two novels share a real total solar eclipse as a pivotal, connecting event despite having otherwise unrelated plots and characters.”
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Start with Home Delivery →

PeepsSeries

seriesScott Westerfeld2 books2005

Science fiction, about plague and pandemic and survival.

“The apocalyptic threat to the world that begins in Peeps continues in The Last Days, which features some of the same characters.”
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Start with Peeps →

Why these

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Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

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What should I read after Joe Pitt Casebooks?: Jerusalem's Lot — the closest match to Joe Pitt Casebooks on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Joe Pitt Casebooks?: Already Dead. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Joe Pitt Casebooks.
How big is Joe Pitt Casebooks?: Joe Pitt Casebooks is 5 books, 2005–2009.

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