Best Carrie Vaughn Books

The best books by Carrie Vaughn — 6 titles spanning Fantasy, Horror, averaging 3.67 BLT stars.

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Carrie Vaughn has built a reputation as one of genre fiction's most versatile and dependable voices — equally at home in horror, fantasy, and the murky territory between them. She's a short fiction specialist in an era that undervalues the form, and her contributions to anthologies like Dangerous Women and Vampires: The Recent Undead show a writer who can establish character and tension fast, then leave you wanting more. The Naturalist Society shifts registers entirely — a Victorian-inflected secondary world where magic feels like a branch of natural philosophy, written with quiet elegance and intellectual warmth. Vaughn's prose is clean and unhurried; she trusts the reader and rarely overexplains. Readers who love urban fantasy with emotional grounding, or who want genre fiction that respects craft at the sentence level, will find her endlessly rewarding — especially if they give her short work the same attention they'd give a novel.

Carrie Vaughn's highest-rated book in our collection is The Glass Slide World (The Naturalist Society Book 2) (3.94 BLT stars). Browse the full list below.

Where to Start with Carrie Vaughn

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    The Glass Slide World (The Naturalist Society Book 2) cover

    The Glass Slide World (The Naturalist Society Book 2)

    The Naturalist Society • Book 2

    by Carrie Vaughn

    3.94 BLT Score (1.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.23 Goodreads (1.0K)
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    Unfettered III: New Tales

    The Chathrand Voyage #Thasha's cure for cabin fever • Book 3

    by Shawn Speakman, Tad Williams, Naomi Novik, Megan Lindholm, John Gwynne, David Anthony Durham, Callie Bates, Jason Denzel, Carrie Vaughn, Deborah A. Wolf, Anna Stephens, Patrick Swenson, Ramon Terrell, Peter Orullian, Terry Brooks, Lev Grossman, Seanan McGuire, Delilah S. Dawson, Mark Lawrence, Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan, Todd Lockwood, Cat Rambo, Robert V.S. Redick, Ken Scholes, Scott Sigler, Anna Smith Spark, Marc Turner

    3.85 BLT Score (571 ratings)
    ★ 3.98 Goodreads (571)
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    Zombies: More Recent Dead

    by Paula Guran, Mike Carey, Neil Gaiman, Kathleen Tierney, Stephen Graham Jones, Joe R. Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, Carrie Vaughn, Carrie Ryan, Matthew Johnson

    3.64 BLT Score (212 ratings)
    ★ 3.63 Goodreads (212)
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    Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

    Guardians #3.6 - The Demon Dancer

    by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Daniel Abraham, Jacqueline Carey, Lisa Tuttle, Linnea Sinclair, Mary Jo Putney, Tanith Lee, Peter S. Beagle, Yasmine Galenorn, Diana Gabaldon, Jo Beverley, Carrie Vaughn, M.L.N. Hanover, Cecelia Holland, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Robin Hobb, Neil Gaiman, Marjorie M. Liu, Jim Butcher

    3.57 BLT Score (4.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.76 Goodreads (4.3K)
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    Dangerous Women

    The Dresden Files #13.1 - Bombshells

    by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Carrie Vaughn, Lev Gossman, Joe R. Lansdale, Megan Lindholm, Lawrence Block, Brandon Sanderson, Sharon Kay Penman, Lev Grossman, Nancy Kress, Diana Rowland, Diana Gabaldon, S.M. Stirling, Sam Sykes, Pat Cadigan, Caroline Spector, Joe Abercrombie, Megan Abbott, Cecelia Holland, Jim Butcher, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Melinda M. Snodgrass

    3.56 BLT Score (13.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.67 Goodreads (13.2K)
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    Vampires: The Recent Undead

    The Morganville Vampires: Extras #9 (Dead Man Stalking )

    by Paula Guran, Albert E. Cowdrey, J.A. Konrath, Jeanne C. Stein, Karen Russell, Kelley Armstrong, Kim Newman, Mary Turzillo, Michael Marshall Smith, Nancy Kilpatrick, Nisi Shawl, Barbara Roden, Rachel Caine, Stephen Dedman, Susan Sizemore, Tanith Lee, Tanya Huff, Tina Rath, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Carrie Vaughn, Charlaine Harris, Charles de Lint, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Conrad Williams, Holly Black, John Langan

    3.45 BLT Score (958 ratings)
    ★ 3.6 Goodreads (958)

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