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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_literature#Twenty-first_century

Let the Right One in is a novel that spawned movies based on it. Salem's Lot is a vampire story by Stephen King (it's kind of Dracula in small town America). I Am Legend is a lesser known one by Richard Mathson (thanks Will Smith for ruining this for everyone. Your damn movie didn't even have vampires).

There's also anything by Anne Rice, if you can get over her flippyness with religion which sometimes spoils the reading.

Though it's not directly in line, and they are romance novels, I always recommend fans of supernatural books the Women of the Otherworld series. Vampires don't feature prominently in the series as much as werewolves and witches but the series is mature romance/thriller novels, not Twilight grade melodrama.

Although her first two novels in the series are a bit heavier on the romance (particularly the sex), that toned down a GREAT deal once she hit her stride and realized she didn't have to write supernatural soft porn to succeed.

Agree Bitten and Stolen were good, but also fairly standard fair for the supernatural romance genre in terms of contents. Once she hit Dime Store Magic, she was on fire from that point onward. The only books in the entire series I found to be let downs were Frostbitten and Spellbound.

The issue is that probably 50% of YA fiction is romance and almost all the vampire themed stuff I can think of in that age genre fits in there.

Twilight is bad but most of Twilight's problem is that Meyer is a terrible writer and the story is deeply disturbing when you really sit and think about it (Armstrong Bitten is imo the same way, though unlike Meyer I think Armstrong figured this out fast and started fixing it). Vampire Academy and Bloodlines are decently written and tell okay stories. Evernight starts bad but gets better by the end of the series. EDIT: I actually think House of Night is worse than Twilight. Don't touch it with a ten foot pole. Nightworld has vampires, but the stories are really big on mellodrama (and the last book in the series has been in writing hell longer than George R.R. Martin has been writing SoIaF).

Vampire YA is a rather specific sub0genre and most of it is so-so writing and romance. You kind of need to go up in age range to find better stuff.