Reading order

Undead reading order

MaryJanice Davidson

  1. Undead and Unwed2004
  2. Undead and Unemployed2004
  3. Undead and Unappreciated2005
  4. Undead and Unpopular2006
  5. Undead and Uneasy2007
  6. Undead and Unworthy2008
  7. Undead and Unwelcome2009
  8. Undead and Unfinished2010
  9. Undead and Undermined2011
  10. Dead and Loving It
7.57.5 / 10
139 ratings
Score
10 volumes
Volumes
2004–2011
Published
about 55 h
Reading time
Completed
Status

Quick answer

Undead and Unemployed
Start withUndead and Unemployed2004 · Volume 2 of 10

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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.

64%

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.

  1. BreakMaus · Art Spiegelman · 295 pp. · score 9.05 h, by December 4, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  2. Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.82 h, by December 29, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  3. Stage 318 habout 3 weeksby January 22, 2027
  4. The end of the series
    January 22, 2027
In one goJanuary 9, 2027about 10 weeks
In stages, with breaksJanuary 22, 2027about 3 months · +8 h of other books

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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

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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.