Series
Pack / Pride Universe
Shelly Laurenston · 18 novels · 1 novella · 1 short story · 2006–2025
Shelly Laurenston's Pride novels, beginning with The Mane Event, are paranormal romances set among shapeshifter clans — lions, hyenas, wolves, and more — who mix pack politics with broad comedy and romantic pairings across a sprawling ensemble cast. The connected Pack books extend the same shared world with a different cluster of characters.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
- Magnus Pack(4 works)
- Pride Stories(10 works)
- The Honey Badgers Chronicles(6 works)
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
Pack / Pride Universe at the centre, 3 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s8
- 2010s8
- 2020s4
Shape
18 novels · 1 novella · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:paranormal romanceshapeshiftersnorth americacontemporaryfunnyadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 68% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book19 of 20 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Mane Squeezedarkest
- Here Kitty, Kitty!brightest · calmest
- Bite Memost intense