List of Buffy novels
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- See also: Buffyverse novels and Angel novels
Buffy novels have been published since 1998. Originally, under the Pocket Books imprint of Simon & Schuster they are now published by Simon Spotlight Entertainment which launched in 2004. Authors who have written original novels include Mel Odom, Christopher Golden, and Nancy Holder.
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[edit] Canonical issues
Buffy novels are not usually considered part of Buffyverse canon by fans. However, unlike fan fiction, overviews summarising the basic story of each novel (written early in the writing process) were approved by both Fox and Joss Whedon (or his office), thereby allowing the books to be published as "official Buffy/Angel merchandise."
[edit] Chronology
[edit] 490 BC – 1996 AD
[edit] History
Tales of the Slayer vol 1 vol 2 vol 3 vol 4
Spike and Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row (Buffy novel)
Blackout (Buffy novel) New York, 1977
[edit] BS1
These Buffyverse tales take place around Buffy Season 1 (from spring 1996 up until spring 1997).
| Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) |
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| Buffy book: Halloween Rain | Sunnydale, Halloween 1996 | ||||
| On Halloween Xander & Willow warn Buffy if it's raining. | |||||
| Buffy book: Night of the Living Rerun | Sunnydale, 1996/7 | ||||
| The Master attempts to rise once more. | |||||
| Buffy book: Coyote Moon | Sunnydale, summer 1997 | ||||
| It's summer vacation in Sunnydale and the carnival has come to town. | |||||
| Buffy anthology book: How I Survived My Summer Vacation | Sunnydale, & L.A., summer 1997 | ||||
| Buffy visits her Dad in L.A. whilst the others continue the good fight. | |||||
[edit] BS2
These tales take place during Buffy Season 2, (from autumn 1997 up until spring 1998).
| Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) |
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| Buffy book: Keep Me In Mind | Sunnydale, 1997 | ||||
| Ethan Rayne returns and releases an evil sorcerer from Middle Ages Bavaria. | |||||
| Buffy book: The Suicide King | Sunnydale, 1997 | ||||
| A number of strange student suicides have been taking place, and Buffy suspects something wrong. | |||||
| Buffy book: Colony | Sunnydale, 1997 | ||||
| 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!". | |||||
| Buffy book: Night Terrors | Sunnydale, 1997 | ||||
| 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. | |||||
| Buffy book: Bad Bargain | Sunnydale, 1997 | ||||
| Items for the school rumage sale become infected with Hellmouth parasites after being stored in the school basement. | |||||
| Buffy book: Portal Through Time | Sunnydale, 1997 | ||||
| Some of the Master's devotees travel through time to attempt to disrupt the Slayer lineage, thus preventing Buffy from destroying the Master. | |||||
| Buffy book: After Image | Sunnydale, 1997 | ||||
| Sunnydale drive-in reopens. | |||||
| Buffy book: Carnival of Souls | Sunnydale, 1997 | ||||
| A Traveling Carnival arrives in Sunnydale. It seems the carnival might be another victim of Sunnydale's weirdness. | |||||
| Buffy book: Go Ask Malice: A Slayer's Diary | Boston, December 1997 - June 1998 | ||||
| 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. | |||||
| Buffy book: Blooded | Sunnydale, 1997/8 | ||||
| The Scoobies become entangled in a long-running feud between Asian warriors. | |||||
[edit] BS3
These tales take place during Buffy Season 3 (from autumn 1997 up until spring 1998).
| Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) |
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| Buffy book: Sins of the Father | Sunnydale, 1998 | ||||
| Pike visits Sunnydale. | |||||
| Buffy book: Child of the Hunt | Sunnydale, 1998 | ||||
| The 'Wild Hunt' arrives in Sunnydale. | |||||
| Buffy book: Ghoul Trouble | Sunnydale, 1998 | ||||
| A new vampire arrives in town called Solitaire who is immune to the sun's rays. | |||||
| Buffy book: Paleo | Sunnydale, 1998 | ||||
| People try to resurrect dinosaur eggs. | |||||
| Buffy book: The Evil That Men Do | Sunnydale, 1998 | ||||
| Helen, an ancient vampire attempts to raise a goddess of destruction. | |||||
| Buffy book: The Deathless | Sunnydale, 1999 | ||||
| Ring Day is fast approaching at Sunnydale High. | |||||
| Buffy book: Doomsday Deck | Sunnydale, 1999 | ||||
| Tarot card-reader, Justine arrives in Sunnydale. | |||||
| Buffy book: Immortal | Sunnydale, 1999 | ||||
| Buffy faces Veronique, a vampire even more immortal than most. | |||||
| Buffy book: Prime Evil | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| Crystal Gregory is a beautiful new teacher at Sunnydale High, who also happens to give Buffy panic fits. | |||||
| Buffy book: Revenant | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| A Chinese gang arrives in Sunnydale. | |||||
| Buffy book: Power of Persuasion | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| The Moon family try to create a "Womyn Power" group at school, meanwhile there is a string of unusual killings. | |||||
| Buffy book: Resurrecting Ravana | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| The Rakshasa are in town to help with the resurrection on an ancient Hindu god called Ravana. | |||||
| Buffy books: The Gatekeeper [Trilogy] |
Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| 'The Gatekeeper' is frail and on the verge of death, yet must hold the walls of reality together in the face of increasing threat. | |||||
| Buffy book: Return to Chaos | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| 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. | |||||
| Buffy book: Visitors | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| Buffy thinks she's being stalked by a demon with a high-pitched giggle. | |||||
| Buffy book: Unnatural Selection | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| Willow battles against the 'faeries'. | |||||
| Buffy book: Obsidian Fate | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| An old Spanish expedition is found on the outskirts of Sunnydale. | |||||
| Buffy book: Deep Water | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| 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. | |||||
| Buffy book: Here Be Monsters | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| 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. | |||||
| Buffy book: The Book of Fours | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| The power of four slayers is needed to conquer a new threat. | |||||
| Sunnydale High Yearbook | Sunnydale, spring, 1999 | ||||
| Yearbook received by Scoobies when they graduated from High School. | |||||
[edit] BS4/AS1
These Buffyverse tales take place during Buffy Season 4, and Angel Season 1 (from autumn 1999 up until spring 2000).
| Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) |
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| Buffy books: Lost Slayer [series] |
Sunnydale, 1999 | ||||
| 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. | |||||
| Buffy book: Oz: Into the Wild | Sunnydale, 1999 | ||||
| Oz is in search of himself having left his home. | |||||
| Buffy book: These Our Actors | Sunnydale, 2000 | ||||
| Willow takes up drama class, and Spike recalls Cecily. | |||||
| Buffy/Angel books: Unseen [Trilogy] |
Sunnydale, L.A., 2000 | ||||
| Buffy and Angel have to work together to solve disappearances of teenagers and calm down the gang warfare going on in LA. | |||||
[edit] BS5/AS2
These Buffyverse tales take place during Buffy Season 5, and Angel Season 2 (from autumn 2000 up until spring 2001).
| Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) |
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| Buffy book: Wisdom of War | Sunnydale, 2001 | ||||
| Two strange breeds of sea creatures are beginning to appear in Sunnydale. | |||||
| Buffy book: Tempted Champions | Sunnydale, 2001 | ||||
| A deadly fighter arrives, willing to kill both humans and vampires. | |||||
| Buffy book: Little Things | Sunnydale, 2001 | ||||
| The town is terrorised by something mysterious and tiny. | |||||
| Buffy book: Crossings | Sunnydale, 2001 | ||||
| Xander learns of a terrifying total immersion video game beta testing. | |||||
| Buffy book: Sweet Sixteen | Sunnydale, 2001 | ||||
| Dawn befriends a girl named Arianna. | |||||
[edit] BS6/AS3
These Buffyverse tales take place around Buffy Season 6, and Angel Season 3 (from autumn 2001 up until spring 2002).
| Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) |
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| Buffy/Angel novel: Cursed | L.A., 2001 | ||||
| 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. | |||||
| Buffy/Angel novel: Monster Island | Sunnydale, L.A., Monster Island, 2001 | ||||
| The Fang Gang and the Scooby Gang must unite to protect a safe-haven of half-blood demons. | |||||
| Buffy books: Wicked Willow | Sunnydale, 2002 | ||||
| Supposing that Dark Willow did not return to the good so quickly. | |||||
[edit] BS7-8 /AS4-5
These Buffyverse tales take place around Buffy Season 7, and Angel Season 4 (from autumn 2002 up until spring 2003).
| Buffyverse stories | Location, time (if known) |
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| Buffy/Angel book: Seven Crows | Mexico, 2002 | ||||
| Between Mexico and Arizona Riley Sam Finn call in Buffy and Angel to investigate mysterious supernature. | |||||
| Buffy book: Apocalypse Memories | Sunnydale, 2002 | ||||
| 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. | |||||
| Buffy book: Mortal Fear | Sunnydale, 2002 | ||||
| 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. | |||||
| Buffy book: Spark and Burn | Sunnydale, 2002 | ||||
| Spike remembers his past as he suffers insanity in a school basement. | |||||
| Buffy/Angel book: Heat | Sunnydale, L.A., 2002 | ||||
| Buffy and Angel both battle the same ancient evil, a Possessor who was once "Qin". | |||||
| Buffy book: Queen of the Slayers | Sunnydale, Cleveland, Italy, Summer 2003-2004 | ||||
| Hundreds of potential slayers have been awakened. A number of leading dark figures unite in an attempt to retaliate against the new status quo. | |||||
| Buffy book: Dark Congress | 2003-2004 | ||||
| Until 500 years ago all of the demonic and monstrous races met at a Dark Congress. They prepare to meet again. | |||||
[edit] New/Upcoming novels
These novels are new or upcoming:
- The Deathless - Spring 2007
- Dark Congress - Summer 2007
- One Thing or Your Mother - January 2008
[edit] Novels by writer
For a list associating Buffyverse authors with their Buffyverse novels see here. List of authors who have written Buffy novels:
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