If you are yearning for books like Vampire Academy after exploring Richelle Mead’s exciting fantasy world of loyalty and love, then don’t take your eyes off this article, as some of the books on this list would be to your liking.
Vampire Academy is a paranormal book that takes readers into a thrilling world where vampires, magic, and forbidden love intertwine. It features two vampire races in its supernatural world.
The Moroi-who are alive and wield elemental magic, and the Strigoi-who are evil and undead and feeds on the innocent to survive.
It also features Dhampir -the mortal half-vampires trained to be guardians to the Moroi vampires.
The book follows the story of seventeen-year-old Rosemarie Hathaway-a Dhampir, who dedicates her life to protecting her best friend, Lissa-a Moroi vampire.
They’ve been on the run, but now they’re being dragged back to St.Vladimir’s Academy.
Most of the book’s actions occur in St Vladimir’s Academy- a hidden boarding school for educating Moroi vampires in magic and training teenage Dhampirs to protect them.
Here at the school, the book follows the goings-on and the reasons the girls ran away in the first place as they fight a powerful vampire bent on taking Lissa’s powerful healing abilities for his benefit.
While learning to defeat Strigoi in St. Vladimir’s Academy, Rose and Lissa become tangled in forbidden romance and St. Vladimir’s ruthless social scene.
First published in 2007, the novel explores themes of duty, friendship, loyalty, love, class, and freedom.
It received positive reviews, and the series is said to have sold 8 million copies in 35 countries as of 2013.
After its publication in 2007, the author released five other series, making the set six.
Here’s The Reading Order of the Book
- Vampire Academy- the first book in the series, published in 2007
- Frostbite-published in 2008
- Shadow Kiss- the third book in the series, also published in 2008
- Blood Promise- published in 2009 and is the fourth book in the series
- Spirit Bound- the fifth book was published in 2010
- Last Sacrifice- the sixth and last book in the Vampire Academy series, was also released in 2010.
Now, let’s look at other books like Vampire Academy.
Books Like Vampire Academy
1. Blue Bloods
- By Melissa De La Cruz
This vampire mythology piece by Melissa De La Cruz narrates how vampires were part of the pilgrims who journeyed from distant lands to shape the new world.
These vampires were assimilated into society, rose to prominence, and gained wealth while keeping the secret of their immortality.
The book revolves around Schuyler Van Alen, viewed as a threat to blue bloods.
Schuyler, who has always led a normal life, wakes up one day with blue veins in her arms and becomes confused about what is happening to her.
That metamorphosis changes her perception of the world and introduces her to a world of secret societies and bitter intrigue.
Like Vampire Academy, the series deals with vampires and ancient bloodlines that can be likened to the royal families in Vampire Academy.
It also features prestigious private schools and forbidden love.
Again, just like Rose experienced with Dmitri and Aiden, this book also has a love triangle that keeps you guessing at every turn.
2. Half-Blood
- By Jennifer L. Armentrout
Half-blood in the Covenant series is also among books like Vampire Academy.
This young adult book has captivating and compelling scenes that feel like the world of Vampire Academy from the beginning.
The series also features Half-Bloods, Pure Bloods, and Daemons, similar to Dhampirs, Moroi, and Strigoi.
The book follows the story of seventeen-year-old Alexandria, who is a Half-Blood.
Half-Bloods only have two options: become trained sentinels who hunt and kill Daimons to protect the Pures or become servants with zero control over their lives in the homes of the Pures.
Alex, our protagonist, would rather risk her life fighting than become a mindless servant. But she is caught in a dilemma that may end up with her slumming it anyway.
She hopes to survive the covenant long enough to graduate and become a sentinel, as Rose wants to become a guardian.
However, Alex faces the allure of a forbidden relationship and several rules at the academy, which threaten her desire for freedom.
Besides, staying alive long enough to graduate and become a sentinel becomes daunting for our protagonist.
Even though the premise and setup in Half-Bloods look similar to Vampire Academy from the beginning, it changes course eventually.
As the series progresses, it ventures far away from any Vampire Academy storylines and eventually takes on a world of its own.
3. Bloodlines
- By Richelle Mead
With the same fantasy and excitement woven into its storyline, Bloodlines is also one of the books like Vampire Academy.
Bloodlines is a spin-off to the Vampire Academy series and follows Sydney.
It centers on boarding school with storylines like humor, political intrigues, love, and danger.
Sydney Sage is an alchemist (a group of humans that bridge the worlds of humans and vampires).
The alchemists here dabble in magic and work towards protecting vampire secrets and human lives.
The book follows Sydney in her quest to protect Jill Dragomir (Moroi queen Lissa Dragomir’s sister) from hired killers who want to throw the Moroi court into civil war.
On this adventure, Sydney discovers shocking secrets about her organization.
These secrets make her question her beliefs, her idea of family, and what it means to truly belong.
You will find glimpses of our favorite original characters from Vampire Academy in this series. What’s more?
If you are a fan of Adrian Ivashkov (playboy who was in love with Rose), then you will love this series since he also plays a central role in this book as so much drama unfolds.
4. Marked
- By P.C. Cast
Set in a supernatural world where vampires have always existed. Marked is the first book in the House of Night series and makes an interesting read.
It follows the story of 16-year-old Zoey Redbird as she navigates the intrigues in the house of night.
The name of this book comes to play as the character is marked with a crescent moon on her forehead by the Vampyre goddess Nyx.
The mark on Zoey’s forehead makes her special and bestows her with affinities for all five elements: air, fire, water, earth, and spirit.
Zoey, like Lissa, is a spirit user, a rarity in both books, and this is a help and hindrance to both girls.
She faces troubles here to defeat the darkness and live under the goddess Nyx.
Now, as Zoey trains in the school for fledglings vampires, she must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny.
5. Mythos Academy
- By Jennifer Estep
Mythos Academy is also one of the books like Vampire Academy.
The story takes place in a school setting like Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy and is also a young adult fantasy series.
The book centers on 17-year-old gypsy girl Gwen Frost, whose heritage imbued her with the gift of Psychometry. I.e., she can know the history of an object just by touching it.
Her gift led her to discover a friend’s big secret, which later resulted in her transfer to Mythos Academy.
The academy is a school for the offspring of ancient warriors like Spartans, Valkyries, and Amazons.
In this school, everybody seems to have some magical power.
Thrown into a world of magic, myth, and monsters, Gwen Frost discovers more secrets about her power and identity even as she deals with her classes, mourning her mom and her attraction to the Spartans.
6. The Mortal Instruments
- By Cassandra Clare
Another book like Vampire Academy is The Mortal Instrument.
Apart from this book being a young adult fantasy series, the book also shares certain similarities with Vampire Academy.
One similarity is that the main protagonists in both books are female humans with special abilities and powers (Clary and Rose).
Further, these protagonists work conscientiously hard toward saving a race of supernatural-powered beings.
More so, the plot revolves around good vs. evil and the need to uphold good at all times.
Another factor is the presence of hierarchy and secret community in the supernatural world and its salient effect in the normal world.
In this book, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray witnesses a murder committed by three people that seems invincible to everyone else around her.
The question now is, why is she the only one who can see them?
That singular action soon introduces her to the world of shadow hunters- a secret cadre of warriors whose mission is to drive demons out of our world and back to their own.
Her awareness of the supernatural community soon opens her eyes to a world of angels, demons, vengeance, and adventure.
With that, Clary discovers there is more to her than meets the eye.
She gets sucked into the world of shadow hunters when demons attack her and they kidnap her mother.
The way to all these is buried within the pages of this masterpiece.
7. Vampire Diaries
- By L.J Smith
The Vampire Diaries is a Y.A. fantasy romance and horror series like Vampire Academy.
Just as the book title suggests, the blood-drinking characteristics of a vampire are inherent in both books.
Set in an academy also, Vampire Diaries centers on Elena Gilbert, a young, beautiful high school girl torn between two centuries-old vampire brothers.
This book series features themes of love, lust, depression, and grief.
Apart from the vampire title endemic to both books, Vampire Diaries is one of the books like Vampire Academy, as both female protagonists are caught in a love triangle.
Still, the characters of The Vampire Academy are more concerned about vampiric war.
This book makes a refreshing read if you love vampire academy.
It is an adventure and action-packed book with supernatural breeds like werewolves, hybrids, witches, and phoenixes.
8. The Immortal Rules
- By Julie Kagawa
The Immortal Rules is a young adult book like Vampire Academy and the first in the Blood of Eden series.
It tells the story of an orphaned teenager-Allison Sekemoto. Allison lives in a dystopian fantasy world where vampire masters enslave humans.
In that same world, most of the human population was killed by the red lung disease, which made it easy for vampires to conquer them.
For survival, humans must either give their blood to the vampires to live a somewhat comfortable life or keep their blood.
Humans keeping their blood means a hard life wrought with hunger and torment from demons and vampires while battling the threat of disease.
Now, humans are considered pets, scavengers, and monsters themselves.
Allison joins the few humans who would rather live in the fringe and scavenge for survival than become vampires.
Ironically, she becomes a vampire and begins to battle the morality of being a monster. Hence, Allison must learn about the immortal rules and seek a cure.
This adventure series is filled with unexpected twists and turns as Allision joins a ragged group of pilgrims seeking paradise in a bid for treatment.
9. Evernight
- By Claudia Gray
Also among our list of books like Vampire Academy is Evernight. Like Vampire Academy, this young adult book features a strong female protagonist and supernatural elements.
Evernight centers on Bianca and the dark world she is a part of.
It also features a secluded boarding school, forbidden love, and stories that complement each other with interesting plot twists.
It follows Bianca as she is taken from her ancestral home and enrolled at Evernight Academy.
She feels uncomfortable in the school and eventually meets another outsider-Lucas, and they are drawn to each other like moths to a flame.
The book also features oppressive settings, omens and prophecy, vampire hunters, and ghosts.
It has themes of mystery, romance, tragedy, betrayal, and forbidden love.
