Reading order
Undead reading order
- Undead and Unwed2004
- Undead and Unemployed2004
- Undead and Unappreciated2005
- Undead and Unpopular2006
- Undead and Uneasy2007
- Undead and Unworthy2008
- Undead and Unwelcome2009
- Undead and Unfinished2010
- Undead and Undermined2011
- Dead and Loving It
- 7.57.5 / 10139 ratings
- Score
- 10 volumes
- Volumes
- 2004–2011
- Published
- about 55 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Romance
- Genre
Quick answer

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Publication order
10 volumes2004–2011Completed
- MaryJanice Davidson’s comic paranormal romance series about Betsy Taylor, a shoe-loving Minnesota secretary who loses her job, dies on her birthday and wakes up as the prophesied queen of the vampires, to the dismay of the brooding vampire king Sinclair.
- Light, silly and quick; the jokes matter more than the plot.
- Start with Undead and Unwed and read in order.
- Ratings are modest.
A plan for the whole series
10 volumes, 2,936 pages, about 55 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 10 weeks.
Share of volume 1’s readers who reach the last volume. Chance of reaching the last volume: high
Stages
3 stages, with 2 short books from outside the series between them. You finish around January 22, 2027, 13 days later than in one go.
- Stage 120 habout 4 weeksby November 25, 2026
- BreakMaus · Art Spiegelman · 295 pp. · score 9.0
- Stage 216 habout 3 weeksby December 25, 2026
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 318 habout 3 weeksby January 22, 2027
- 9. Undead and Unfinished
- 10. Undead and Undermined
- 10. Dead and Loving It
- The end of the series
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How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Undead book is the best?
By reader score, Undead and Unemployed (7.5/10). The lowest-rated is Undead and Unwed (7.5/10).
Which Undead book is the longest?
“Undead and Undermined” is the longest at 325 pages; the shortest is “Undead and Unemployed” with 262 pages.









