Recommend me a vampire novel!

[MonadProxy]

the house of night saga is worth a look, Takes a bit of patience but you can get into it by chapter 3 i found.

 

[PayneTrayne]

Vampirates!

It's about vampires that are pirates. I don't think it fits any of your criteria, or is even well written. But I nearly bought the book on name alone.

 

[silver wolf009]

What I want is a modern-day vampire story (not a romance).

Then prepare for shit covered in shit. All modern-day supernatural stories tend to fail from what I've read and seen.

EDIT:

You should try the Saga of Darren Shan. Those are quite good. Twelve books in all, you can get through each one in about a day (I did), and they are an interesting read. Well, that's my two cents on this.

I like Darren Shan.

I love those freaking books.

either that or mabye i am legend.

 

[Sarkule]

Hellsing!
Also might be worth trying the Anita Blake series, probably the first few ones, because they get smutty later on.
I'm pretty sure they're aimed at wimmins, but still quite enjoyable

 

[ry4jd]

Wicked Game by Jeri Smith-Ready is a pretty good novel that has a cast of OCD vampire DJs

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Those are actually Werewolve stories. But the Author wrote enourmous good modern Vampire Books,which should be available in english pretty soon, or perhaps they already are and i just didnt find them in my quick search.

One of the best Vampire Novels i ever read.
"Children of Judas" would be the word-by-word translation, don't know what the title will be
edit: looks it is (oh surprise)

Children of Judas
Leipzig, 2006. Everyone in the hospital sees Sia as a kindly soul who comforts the patients and stays with them in their hour of need. To most people, the young woman watching over the dying looks like an angel ? if only they knew her secret? True, Sia is young, beautiful and healthy, but she has been that way for centuries. It may sound enviable, but for Sia it is a curse and her only desire is to fall asleep and never wake up. There is no chance of that. Her guilt is too great and so too is her debt to humanity. One long, lonely night she tries to ease her pain by writing down her story. It begins in 1670 with a young girl who becomes caught up in a dark conspiracy of the ?children of Judas?, a powerful alliance of scientists and vampires?

 

[DarkHourPrince]

"Dead Witch Walking" by Kim Harrison. It's a story about this witch who's on a police force and through circumstances she ends up having to live with a kickass vampire named Ivy. Together the two of them try to take down this big smuggling ring that the inhuman police forces have been trying to take out for years and it's an awesome read.

 

[Marter]

The Last Vampire by Christopher Pike. My favorite book series ever. Just go read it. ^_^

 

[ThaBenMan]

Well, it's set in the 1800's rather than modern times, but I'd recommend Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin (the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, if you like that series at all). It's about a riverboat captain in the Southern U.S. who's hired to be the captain of a vampire's private riverboat, called the Fevre Dream. Later they run afoul of a rival group of vampires. It was quite good, although if you don't like Anne Rice's stuff, I don't know if you'll like this. You could check it out, anyway.