Here's a list (in no particular order) of some of the books the Twilightery fans at school have also enjoyed. They are not all vampire romances, but some are; some involve faerie/magic/science fantasy in a similar kinda sorta way:
Libba Bray: The Gemma Doyle trilogy
- A great and terrible beauty
- Rebel angels
- The sweet far thing
Suzanne Collins
- The hunger games (first of a series, the only one out so far)
James Pattinson: Maximum Ride series
- The angel experiment
- School's out - forever
- Saving the world and other extreme sports
- The final warning
Justine Larbalestier: Magic or Madness
- Magic or madness
- Magic lessons
- Magic's child
Justine Larbalestier
- How to ditch your fairy
Robin McKinley
- Sunshine (my personal favourite vampire book)
- Beauty
- Chalice
- The blue sword
- The hero and the crown (both these last two set in Damar, but standalone rather than sequential stories)
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies series
- Uglies
- Pretties
- Specials
- Extras
- Peeps
Richelle Mead: Vampire Academy series
- Vampire academy
- Frostbite
- Shadow kiss
Melissa De La Cruz: Blue bloods etc
- Blue bloods
- Masquerade
- Revelations
Melissa Marr: Wicked lovely etc
- Wicked Lovely
- Ink Exchange
Holly Black: Tithe etc series
- Tithe
- Valiant
- Ironside
Shannon Hale
- Book of a thousand days
- Graceling
Catherine Murdock
- Princess Ben
Juliet Marillier
- Wildwood dancing
Cornelia Funke: Inkheart series
- Inkheart
- Inkspell
- Inkdeath
Two other series that I find poorly written and shallow - a few kids like, but not as many as the books above. They read like try-hards, written too fast so they can exploit the trend:
- PC Cast and Kristen Cast: House of Night series
- Alex Duval: Vampire Beach series (just reissued in doublebook format with covers that ape the Twilight's white/red/black style - snort!)
Also of course Stephenie Meyer has written a separate science fiction/fantasy book, The host.
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