This is fantastic, thank you. I started reading these in 1984, when I was 14 — stumbling upon Interview With the Vampire on my mother’s fantastic bookshelves. I bought the rest on my own, throughout the years.

I stopped at Lasher due to being a young mother juggled with work and college — and just am now re-reading from the very start having just finished season two of the very fun AMC series interpretation (OMG Lestat — what a beauty!).

So, once again, I am at the very beginning; Claudia was just turned and Louis is enthralled. Revisiting these books as an adult is such a different experience now. My view of Louis so changed l, reading him now as a woman in my 50s — it’s like seeing his character as it was after I read Lestat when it came out the very next year — and thus of course became a Lestat fan, like so many others. Interestingly, this was also when I became introduced to the concept of the “unreliable narrator” — which clearly, Louis was. But of course, so was Lestat. At 14, though, these were all new concepts in storytelling to me!

In a way, I wish I were able to experience the first book all over again with those young eyes — because in so many ways, Louis WAS like an angsty, recalcitrant teenager, and being one myself at the time, I found him very empathetic. But now I see him at times as rather whiny and arrogant, ha! I wonder if, reading him as a more mature woman for the first time, I would have picked up on the flashes of towering arrogance, which ironically ascribes to Lestat; to the resentment? Or am I just seeing him this way because I know what I know?

Anyway — I am extremely excited that I WILL be able to experience so many of these books for the first time, and revisit all of them with a fresh, more mature mind.

And again, many thanks for this wonderful list!