Below is the complete list of P. C. Cast’s House Of Night books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of House Of Night Books
with Kristin Cast
- Luck (2020)
(By Kristin Cast)
Luck is a 2020 release and appears as book #13 in the House Of Night series.
Publication Order of House Of Night Otherworld Books
with Kristin Cast
Publication Order of House Of Night Novellas Books
with Kristin Cast
Publication Order of House Of Night Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of House of Night: The Graphic Novel Books
with Kent Dalian
- House of Night #1 (2011)
House of Night #1 was published in 2011 and is listed as book #1 in the House of Night: The Graphic Novel series. - House of Night #3 (2012)
House of Night #3 is a 2012 release and appears as book #3 in the House of Night: The Graphic Novel series. - House of Night #5 (2012)
House of Night #5 was first published in 2012; within the House of Night: The Graphic Novel series, it is listed as book #5.
About House Of Night
P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast’s House of Night series is a young adult paranormal fantasy saga built around vampyre identity, goddess spirituality, friendship, betrayal, romance, and the dangerous process of growing into power. The original sequence begins with Marked and follows Zoey Redbird, a teenager in Tulsa who is Marked as a fledgling vampyre and sent to the House of Night, a school where students train, change, and either complete the transformation into adult vampyres or die before the process is finished.
The series stands apart from traditional vampire fiction partly through its spelling and mythology. “Vampyres” in this world are not simply undead monsters hidden in shadows. They are part of a visible society with schools, rituals, tattoos, social hierarchy, religious meaning, and biological risk. The goddess Nyx is central to the series’ spiritual framework, and Zoey’s unusual connection to her makes Zoey both gifted and targeted. Being chosen gives her power, but it also isolates her, placing her at the center of conflicts she does not yet fully understand.
Marked introduces the basic school structure: fledglings, professors, affinities, rituals, dorm life, rivalries, and the shock of leaving an old human life behind. Zoey’s move to the House of Night is not only supernatural transformation; it is also a teenage rupture involving family, identity, desire, and belonging. Her friends—especially Stevie Rae, Damien, Shaunee, Erin, and later other key allies—give the early books their emotional warmth, while Aphrodite’s role shifts in ways that show the series’ fondness for unstable loyalties and unexpected alliances.
As the sequence develops through books such as Betrayed, Chosen, Untamed, Hunted, Tempted, Burned, Awakened, Destined, Hidden, Revealed, and Redeemed, the story grows well beyond school drama. Neferet becomes the series’ major antagonist, transforming from powerful High Priestess into a figure of corruption, ambition, and spiritual darkness. The conflict expands into ancient forces, red fledglings, warrior bonds, elemental affinities, prophetic burdens, and repeated tests of whether power can be used without becoming poisoned by ego.
Publication order is the best way to read the House of Night books because the series is highly cumulative. Zoey’s powers, relationships, friendships, enemies, and mistakes build from one volume to the next. The emotional rhythm also depends on sequence: betrayal matters because trust has already been established; deaths and returns matter because the school community has become familiar; Neferet’s threat deepens because readers have seen how influence can disguise itself as guidance.
The novellas and companion works add background rather than replacing the main arc. Stories focused on characters such as Dragon, Lenobia, Neferet, and Kalona give added history to figures who shape the central conflict, while later books in the House of Night: Other World sequence revisit the setting after the original arc and explore alternate consequences and new dangers. These related books are most rewarding after the main series, when the mythology and character histories already have weight.
The House of Night series endures because it treats adolescence as transformation in the most literal sense. Bodies change, loyalties shift, powers awaken, and every choice feels magnified by destiny. At its best, the series combines melodrama, myth, and supernatural school life into a story about young people learning that being chosen is not the same as being ready.
























