Best Drew Hayes Books

The best books by Drew Hayes — 9 titles spanning Fantasy, Sci-Fi, averaging 4.10 BLT stars.

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Drew Hayes has carved out a niche that almost no one else occupies: comedic urban fantasy that works precisely because it plays everything completely straight. Fred, the Vampire Accountant is the pitch-perfect execution of that premise — a mild-mannered CPA who becomes a vampire and remains, stubbornly, a mild-mannered CPA. Starting with The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant and continuing through entries like Undeath and Taxes and Bloody Acquisitions, Hayes mines the collision between supernatural drama and mundane professional life for jokes that never get old. His prose is breezy and confident, his world-building just detailed enough to feel real without slowing down the fun. Readers who want their fantasy laced with dry wit, likable protagonists, and plots that actually go somewhere will find Hayes consistently delivers — book after book, pun-laden title after pun-laden title.

Drew Hayes's highest-rated book in our collection is Bloody Acquisitions : Fred, the Vampire Accountant 3 (Fred, the Vampire Accountant) (4.27 BLT stars). Browse the full list below.

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    Bloody Acquisitions : Fred, the Vampire Accountant 3 (Fred, the Vampire Accountant)

    Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 3

    by Drew Hayes

    ★ 4.27 BLT Score (6.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.34 Goodreads (6.8K)
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    Deadly Assessments : Fred, the Vampire Accountant 5

    Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 5

    by Drew Hayes

    ★ 4.25 BLT Score (5.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.38 Goodreads (5.3K)
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    The Fangs of Freelance (Fred, the Vampire Accountant)

    Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 4

    by Drew Hayes

    ★ 4.24 BLT Score (5.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.34 Goodreads (5.9K)
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    Undeath and Taxes : Fred, the Vampire Accountant 2 (Fred, the Vampire Accountant)

    Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 2

    by Drew Hayes

    ★ 4.24 BLT Score (8.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.25 Goodreads (8.2K)
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    Undeading Bells : Fred, the Vampire Accountant 6

    Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 6

    by Drew Hayes

    ★ 4.21 BLT Score (4.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.36 Goodreads (4.6K)
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    The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant (Dramatized Adaptation)

    Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 1

    by Drew Hayes

    ★ 4.08 BLT Score (0 ratings)
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    Shingles Audio Collection

    Shingles Audio Collections • Book 1

    by Authors and Dragons, Cassandra Myles, Cal Wembly, Robert Bevan, Rick Gualtieri, John G. Hartness, Drew Hayes, Steve Wetherell

    ★ 3.77 BLT Score (101 ratings)
    ★ 3.87 Goodreads (101)
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    Shingles Audio Collection

    Shingles Audio Collections • Book 6

    by Authors and Dragons, Robert Bevan, R.E. Carr, Drew Hayes

    ★ 3.67 BLT Score (15 ratings)
    ★ 3.6 Goodreads (15)
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