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Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels have been published since 1997. Originally under thePocket Books imprint ofSimon & Schuster, many titles were published bySimon Spotlight Entertainment since its launch in 2004. Various authors have written originalnovels for the series, includingMel Odom,Christopher Golden, andNancy Holder.
AfterDisney Entertainment acquiredBuffy's parent company20th Century Studios in 2019,[1] the publishing license is currently underDisney's Hyperion Avenue Books, which has published newBuffy novels since 2022.
TheseBuffyverse tales take place throughout the series and are novelizations of various episodes.
| Title | Novelization by | First published | ISBN-13 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Richie Tankersley Cusick | August 1992 | 978-0671792206 |
| Novelization of themovie | |||
| The Harvest | Richie Tankersley Cusick | September 1997 | 978-0671017125 |
| 'Welcome to the Hellmouth' and 'The Harvest' | |||
| The Angel Chronicles, Vol. 1 | Nancy Holder | July 1998 | 978-0-671-02133-7 |
| 'Angel,' 'Reptile Boy,' and 'Lie to Me' | |||
| The Angel Chronicles, Vol. 2 | Richie Tankersley Cusick | December 1998 | 978-0-671-02627-1 |
| 'Halloween,' 'What's My Line? Part 1,' and 'What's My Line? Part 2' | |||
| The Angel Chronicles, Vol. 3 | Nancy Holder | 1999 | 978-0671026318 |
| 'Surprise,' 'Innocence,' and 'Passion' | |||
| The Xander Years, Vol. 1 | Keith DeCandido | 1999 | 978-0671026295 |
| 'Teacher's Pet,' 'Inca Mummy Girl,' and 'Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered' | |||
| The Xander Years, Vol. 2 | Jeff Mariotte | 2000 | 978-0671039202 |
| 'The Pack,' 'Go Fish,' and 'The Zeppo' | |||
| The Willow Files, Vol. 1 | Yvonne Navarro | December 1999 | 978-0671039189 |
| 'I Robot, You Jane,' 'Phases,' and 'Dead Man's Party' | |||
| The Willow Files, Vol. 2 | Yvonne Navarro | 2001 | 978-0743400435 |
| 'Gingerbread,' 'Doppelgangland' and 'Choices' | |||
| The Faith Trials | James Laurence | April 2001 | 978-0743400442 |
| 'Faith, Hope, & Trick,' 'Revelatins,' 'Bad Girls,' and 'Consequences' | |||
| The Journals of Rupert Giles | Nancy Holder | February 2002 | 978-0743427128 |
| 'Helpless,' 'A New Man,' and 'Blood Ties' | |||
| The Cordelia Collection | Nancy Krulik | December 2002 | 978-0743427463 |
| 'Out of Mind, Out of Sight,' 'Some Assembly Required,' and 'Homecoming' | |||
| Chosen | Nancy Holder | June 2003 | 978-0689866258 |
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 7 | |||
TheseBuffyverse tales take place before the television series begins (from 490 BCE to CE 1996).
| Title | Setting | Author | First published | ISBN-13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tales of the Slayer, volume 1 | Various | Various | October 2001 | 978-0743400459 |
| Tales of the Slayer, volume 2 | Various | Various | December 2002 | 978-0743427449 |
| Tales of the Slayer, volume 3 | Various | Various | November 2003 | 978-0689864360 |
| Tales of the Slayer, volume 4 | Various | Various | November 2004 | 978-0689869556 |
| Spike and Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row | 1940s Europe | Christopher Golden | May 2001 | 978-0-7434-1892-8 |
| It is 1940 and for Drusilla's vampiric birthday, Spike decides he will acquire Freyja's Strand, a necklace that has the ability to allow Drusilla to view her reflection. | ||||
| Blackout | New York, 1977 | Keith R.A. DeCandido | August 2006 | 978-1-4169-1917-9 |
| Spike and Dru come to NYC during a blackout and face Nikki Wood. | ||||
TheseBuffyverse tales take place aroundBuffy season 1 (from spring 1996 until spring 1997).
| Title | Setting | Author | First published | ISBN-13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halloween Rain | Sunnydale, Halloween 1996 | Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder | November 1997 | 978-0-671-01713-2 |
| Buffy is warned that a scarecrow will come alive on Halloween if it's raining. | ||||
| Night of the Living Rerun | Sunnydale, 1996/7 | Arthur Byron Cover | March 1998 | 978-0-671-01715-6 |
| The Master attempts to raise an old Slayer nemesis. | ||||
| Coyote Moon | Sunnydale, summer 1997 | John Vornholt | January 1998 | 978-0-671-01714-9 |
| It's summer vacation in Sunnydale and the carnival has come to town, bringing with it some disturbing otherworldly creatures. | ||||
| How I Survived My Summer Vacation | Sunnydale, & L.A., summer 1997 | Various | August 2000 | 978-0-613-63300-0 |
| Buffy visits her Dad in L.A. whilst the others continue the good fight. | ||||
The Suicide King,Keep Me In Mind,Colony, andNight Terrors form a series ofgamebooks, titledStake Your Destiny. Each novel contains many numbered sections. Instead of reading the book from start-to-finish, the reader is given a choice at the end of each section. Depending upon the reader's decision, the reader will be directed to another numbered section that might be anywhere in the book. Unlike some other gamebooks,Stake Your Destiny novels do not contain any form of game system.
These tales take place duringBuffy season 2 (from autumn 1997 until spring 1998).
| Title | Setting | Author | First published | ISBN-13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Suicide King | Sunnydale, 1997 | Robert Joseph Levy | February 2005 | 978-1-4165-0242-5 |
| A number of strange student suicides have been taking place, and Buffy suspects something wrong. | ||||
| Keep Me In Mind | Sunnydale, 1997 | Nancy Holder | April 2005 | 978-1-4165-0241-8 |
| Ethan Rayne returns and releases an evil sorcerer from Middle Ages Bavaria. | ||||
| Colony | Sunnydale, 1997 | Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz | September 2005 | 978-1-4169-0057-3 |
| Mayor Richard Wilkins III invited a woman named Belakane to speak at the local Sunnydale High School. She has a program, "Be the Ultimate You!". | ||||
| Night Terrors | Sunnydale, 1997 | Alice Henderson | December 2005 | 978-1-4165-1146-5 |
| The Night Terror stalks its victims in their dreams. The demon replaces another's soul with its own, then wreaks chaos in the real world. | ||||
| Afterimage | Sunnydale, 1997 | Pierce Askegren | January 2006 | 978-1-4169-1181-4 |
| Sunnydale drive-in reopens. | ||||
| Carnival of Souls | Sunnydale, 1997 | Nancy Holder | April 2006 | 978-1-4169-1182-1 |
| A Traveling Carnival arrives in Sunnydale. It seems the carnival might be another victim of Sunnydale's weirdness. | ||||
| Go Ask Malice: A Slayer's Diary | Boston, December 1997 - June 1998 | Robert Joseph Levy | June 2006 | 978-1-4169-1587-4 |
| Faith has a tough time growing up in South Boston, moving from relative to relative when Diana Dormer arrives and informs Faith that she is a potential slayer. | ||||
| Portal Through Time | Sunnydale, 1998 | Alice Henderson | October 2006 | 978-1-4169-1918-6 |
| Some of the Master's devotees travel through time to attempt to disrupt the Slayer lineage, thus preventing Buffy from destroying the Master. | ||||
| Bad Bargain | Sunnydale, 1997 | Diana G. Gallagher | December 2006 | 978-1-4169-1919-3 |
| Items for the school rumage sale become infected with Hellmouth parasites after being stored in the school basement. | ||||
| One Thing or Your Mother | Sunnydale, 1997/8 | Kirsten Beyer | March 2008 | 978-1-84739-120-9 |
| Buffy is having a hard time dealing with Angelus and her grades and so Snyder forces her to get tutoring which takes time away from her slaying, just when things couldn't get worse Dru wants a child and sires a little girl who starts to become too much to handle. Buffy's new love interest makes Angelus jealous and a sleep-deprivation spell aimed at Snyder affects the whole Sunnydale community. | ||||
These tales take place duringBuffy season 3 (from autumn 1998 until spring 1999).
| Title | Setting | Author | First published | ISBN-13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sins of the Father | Sunnydale, 1998 | Christopher Golden | November 1999 | 978-0-671-03928-8 |
| Pike visits Sunnydale. | ||||
| Blooded | Sunnydale, 1998 | Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder | August 1998 | 978-0-671-02134-4 |
| The Scoobies become entangled in a long-running feud between Asian warriors. | ||||
| Child of the Hunt | Sunnydale, 1998 | Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder | October 1998 | 978-0-671-02135-1 |
| The 'Wild Hunt' arrives in Sunnydale. | ||||
| Ghoul Trouble | Sunnydale, 1998 | John Passarella | October 2000 | 978-0-7434-0042-8 |
| A new vampire arrives in town called Solitaire who is immune to the sun's rays. | ||||
| Paleo | Sunnydale, 1998 | Yvonne Navarro | September 2000 | 978-0-7434-0034-3 |
| People try to resurrect dinosaur eggs. | ||||
| The Evil That Men Do | Sunnydale, 1998 | Nancy Holder | July 2000 | 978-0-671-02635-6 |
| Helen, an ancient vampire attempts to raise a goddess of destruction. | ||||
| The Deathless | Sunnydale, 1999 | Keith R.A. DeCandido | April 2007 | 978-1-84739-037-0 |
| Ring Day is fast approaching at Sunnydale High. | ||||
| Doomsday Deck | Sunnydale, 1999 | Diana G. Gallagher | December 2000 | 978-0-7434-0041-1 |
| Tarot card-reader, Justine arrives in Sunnydale. | ||||
| Immortal | Sunnydale, 1999 | Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder | October 1999 | 978-0-671-04117-5 |
| Buffy faces Veronique, a vampire even more immortal than most. | ||||
| Prime Evil | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | Diana G. Gallagher | March 2000 | 978-0-671-03930-1 |
| Crystal Gregory is a beautiful new teacher at Sunnydale High, who also happens to give Buffy panic fits. | ||||
| Revenant | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | Mel Odom | January 2001 | 978-0-7434-0035-0 |
| A Chinese gang arrives in Sunnydale. | ||||
| Power of Persuasion | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | Elizabeth Massie | October 1999 | 978-0-671-02632-5 |
| The Moon family try to create a "Womyn Power" group at school, meanwhile there is a string of unusual killings. | ||||
| Resurrecting Ravana | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | Ray Garton | January 2000 | 978-0-671-02636-3 |
| The Rakshasa are in town to help with the resurrection on an ancient Hindu god called Ravana. | ||||
| Out of the Madhouse (The Gatekeeper Trilogy book 1) | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | Christopher Golden with Nancy Holder | January 1999 | 978-0-671-02434-5 |
| The Gatekeeper is frail and on the verge of death, yet must hold the walls of reality together in the face of increasing threat. | ||||
| Ghost Roads (The Gatekeeper Trilogy book 2) | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | Christopher Golden with Nancy Holder | March 1999 | 978-0-671-02749-0 |
| Sons of Entropy (The Gatekeeper Trilogy book 3) | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | Christopher Golden with Nancy Holder | May 1999 | 978-0-671-02750-6 |
| Return to Chaos | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | Craig Shaw Gardner | December 1998 | 978-0-671-02136-8 |
| Four Druids arrive in town. They're in town to try a spell on a certain night to close the gateway in the Hellmouth so that demons would not be allowed to pass through. | ||||
| Visitors | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | Laura Anne Gilman and Josepha Sherman | April 1999 | 978-0-671-02628-8 |
| Buffy thinks she's being stalked by a demon with a high-pitched giggle. | ||||
| Unnatural Selection | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | Mel Odom | August 1999 | 978-0-671-02630-1 |
| Willow battles against the "faeries." | ||||
| Obsidian Fate | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | Diana G. Gallagher | September 1999 | 978-0-671-03929-5 |
| An old Spanish expedition is found on the outskirts of Sunnydale. | ||||
| Deep Water | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | Laura Anne Gilman and Josepha Sherman | February 2000 | 978-0-671-03919-6 |
| After an oil spill on a nearby Sunnydale beach, Willow discovers a 'selkie'; that is, a girl that can turn into a seal with her sealskin. | ||||
| Here Be Monsters | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | Cameron Dokey | June 2000 | 978-0-671-03921-9 |
| After Buffy kills twin teenage vampires, their vampire mother summons a Goddess of balance who puts Buffy on a trial that could cost people's lives. | ||||
| The Book of Fours | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | Nancy Holder | April 2001 | 978-0-7434-1240-7 |
| The power of four slayers is needed to conquer a new threat. | ||||
| Sunnydale High Yearbook | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder | September 1999 | 978-0-671-03541-9 |
| Yearbook received by Scoobies when they graduated from high school. | ||||
TheseBuffyverse tales take place duringBuffy season 4 andAngel season 1 (from autumn 1999 until spring 2000).
| Title | Author | Date published | ISBN-13 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prophecies (The Lost Slayer Part One) | Christopher Golden | 2001 | 978-0-7434-1185-1 | ||
| Dark Times (The Lost Slayer Part Two) | Christopher Golden | 2001 | 978-0-7434-1186-8 | ||
| King of the Dead (The Lost Slayer Part Three) | Christopher Golden | 2001 | 978-0-7434-1187-5 | ||
| Original Sins (The Lost Slayer Part Four) | Christopher Golden | 2001 | 978-0-7434-1185-1 | ||
| The Lost Slayer (Omnibus Edition) | Christopher Golden | 2001 | 978-0-7434-1226-1 | ||
| The Lost Slayer series. Buffy, new to UC Sunnydale faces a group of vampires with bats tattooed across their faces who will have huge and not-so-appealing consequences for the Scooby Gang's future. Sunnydale, 1999. | |||||
| Oz: Into the Wild | Christopher Golden | May 2002 | 978-0-7434-0038-1 | ||
| Oz is in search of himself having left his home. Sunnydale, 1999. | |||||
| The Burning (Unseen book one) | Nancy Holder and Jeff Mariotte | May 2001 | 978-0-7434-1893-5 | ||
| Door to Alternity (Unseen book two) | Nancy Holder and Jeff Mariotte | June 2001 | 978-0-7434-1894-2 | ||
| Long Way Home (Unseen book three) | Nancy Holder and Jeff Mariotte | August 2001 | 978-0-7434-1895-9 | ||
| Unseen trilogy. Buffy and Angel have to work together to solve disappearances of teenagers and calm down the gang warfare going on in LA. Sunnydale, Los Angeles, 2000. Crossover book series withAngel. | |||||
TheseBuffyverse tales take place duringBuffy season 5 andAngel season 2 (from autumn 2000 until spring 2001).
| Title | Setting | Author | First published | ISBN-13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| These Our Actors | Sunnydale, 2000 | Ashley McConnell and Dori Koogler | September 2002 | 978-0-7434-5034-8 |
| Willow takes up drama class, and Spike recalls Cecily. | ||||
| The Wisdom of War | Sunnydale, 2001 | Christopher Golden | July 2002 | 978-0-7434-5033-1 |
| Two strange breeds of sea creatures are beginning to appear in Sunnydale. | ||||
| Tempted Champions | Sunnydale, 2001 | Yvonne Navarro | March 2002 | 978-0-7434-5031-7 |
| A deadly fighter arrives, willing to kill both humans and vampires. | ||||
| Little Things | Sunnydale, 2001 | Rebecca Moesta | August 2002 | 978-0-7434-4982-3 |
| The town is terrorised by something mysterious and tiny. | ||||
| Crossings | Sunnydale, 2001 | Mel Odom | June 2002 | 978-0-7434-2734-0 |
| Xander learns of a terrifying total immersion video game beta testing. | ||||
| Sweet Sixteen | Sunnydale, 2001 | Scott Ciencin | April 2002 | 978-0-7434-2732-6 |
| Dawn befriends a girl named Arianna. | ||||
| Chaos Bleeds | Sunnydale, 2001 | James A. Moore | August 2003 | 978-0-7434-6821-3 |
| The First has made Ethan a deal he can't refuse: ultimate power. All he has to do is lure Buffy into battle. | ||||
TheseBuffyverse tales take place aroundBuffy season 6 andAngel season 3 (from autumn 2001 until spring 2002).
| Title | Setting | Author | First published | ISBN-13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cursed | L.A., 2001 | Mel Odom | November 2003 | 978-0-689-86437-7 |
| An organised, united effort is being made to put Spike out of the picture. Angel and Spike reluctantly work together and deal with their shared evil pasts. Crossover book withAngel. | ||||
| Monster Island | Sunnydale, L.A., Monster Island, 2001 | Christopher Golden and Thomas E. Sniegoski | March 2003 | 978-0-689-85665-5 |
| Team Angel and the Scooby Gang must unite to protect a safe-haven of half-blood demons. Crossover book withAngel. | ||||
| Blood and Fog | England 1888, Sunnydale, 2002 | Nancy Holder | May 2003 | 978-0-7434-0039-8 |
| Buffy Summers is on the trail of a killer demon in Sunnydale, and reluctantly accepts the help of Spike. But Spike—as usual—has his own agenda. | ||||
| Wicked Willow #1: The Darkening | Sunnydale, 2002 | Yvonne Navarro | May 2004 | 978-0-7434-2774-6 |
| Wicked Willow #2: Shattered Twilight | Sunnydale, 2002 | Yvonne Navarro | July 2004 | 978-0-689-86953-2 |
| Wicked Willow #3: Broken Sunrise | Sunnydale, 2002 | Yvonne Navarro | September 2004 | 978-0-689-86954-9 |
| Wicked Willow Omnibus | Sunnydale, 2002 | Yvonne Navarro | 2004 | |
| Wicked Willow trilogy. Supposing that Dark Willow did not return to the good so quickly. | ||||
TheseBuffyverse tales take place aroundBuffy season 7 andAngel season 4 (from autumn 2002 until spring 2003).
| Title | Setting | Author | First published | ISBN-13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spark and Burn | Sunnydale, 2002 | Diana G. Gallagher | July 2005 | 978-1-4165-0237-1 |
| Spike remembers his past as he suffers insanity in a school basement. | ||||
| Apocalypse Memories | Sunnydale, 2002 | Laura J. Burns with Melinda Metz | March 2004 | 978-0-689-86700-2 |
| Willow is terrified that using her magic powers might result in dark magic consuming her whilst the Angel Michael brings signs of apocalypse to Sunnydale. | ||||
| Heat | Sunnydale, L.A., 2002 | Nancy Holder | June 2004 | 978-0-689-86017-1 |
| Buffy and Angel both battle the same ancient evil, a Possessor who was once "Qin". Crossover book withAngel. | ||||
| Seven Crows | Mexico, 2002 | John Vornholt | July 2003 | 978-0-7434-6865-7 |
| Between Mexico and Arizona Riley and Sam Finn call in Buffy and Angel to investigate mysterious supernature. Crossover book withAngel. | ||||
| Mortal Fear | Sunnydale, 2002 | Scott and Denise Ciencin | September 2003 | 978-0-7434-6867-1 |
| Buffy is being sent on random missions by a man that goes by the name of Simon. He wants her to retrieve parts of a mystical sword and put them together, but he refuses to say why or who he even is. | ||||
TheseBuffyverse tales take place afterBuffy season 7 and afterAngel season 4.
| Title | Setting | Author | First published | ISBN-13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queen of the Slayers | Sunnydale, Cleveland, Italy, Summer 2003-2004 | Nancy Holder | May 2005 | 978-1-4165-0240-1 |
| Hundreds of potential slayers have been awakened. A number of leading dark figures unite in an attempt to retaliate against the new status quo. | ||||
| Dark Congress | 2003–2004 | Christopher Golden | August 2007 | 978-1-4169-3631-2 |
| Until 500 years ago all of the demonic and monstrous races met at a Dark Congress. They prepare to meet again. | ||||
Buffy novels are not usually considered part ofBuffyverse canon by fans. However, unlikefan fiction, overviews summarizing the basic story of each novel (written early in the writing process) were approved by both Fox andJoss Whedon (or his office), thereby allowing the books to be published as officialBuffy/Angel merchandise.
For a list associatingBuffyverse authors with theirBuffyverse novels seehere. List of authors who have writtenBuffy novels:
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