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Old 09-16-2015, 11:11 AM   #1
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Favorite book series?
What are your favorite book series? I love series and am always looking for some really must have ones.
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Old 09-16-2015, 12:22 PM   #2
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Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon, although the first part of The Fiery Cross was hard to get through. I love series, too. .
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Old 09-16-2015, 01:00 PM   #3
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A few of mine:
Empire of Man Series by Weber and Ringo
Vlad Taltos by Brust
The Corp by WEB Griffin
Garrett PI by Glen Cook
Nero Wolf by Rex Stout
Others to come later.
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Where to start. Currently reading among others:
J D Robb's In Death series
Donna Andrews' Meg Langslow
Kerry Greenwood's Phyrne Fisher
Robert B Parker's Spenser, Jesse Stone & Sunny Randall
David Weber's Honor Harrington
Sofie Kelly's Magical Cats
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The Flashman series. Historical fiction by George MacDonald Fraser
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Old 09-17-2015, 03:35 AM   #6
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What are your favorite book series? I love series and am always looking for some really must have ones.
I don't think there are any "must have"s. What books and genres have you read before and enjoyed? (For bonus points, why?)
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Old 09-18-2015, 11:18 AM   #7
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All-time favorite? Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion books. I am still desperately longing for her to release #4 and #5.

Other really awesome series:
Lois McMaster Bujold - Miles Vorkosigan novels
Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn trilogy
David Eddings - The Belgariad
Piers Anthony - Xanth novels
Anne McCaffrey - Dragonriders of Pern
Robin McKinley - okay not really a series but Hero and the Crown + The Blue Sword
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Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe.

Everything else I've ever tried has eventually gone down in a death spiral (I'm talking to YOU, David Brin, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Frederik Pohl, Frank Herbert, Orson Scott Card, William Gibson, and especially Edgar Rice Burroughs. I'm sure I could name at least a dozen more if I had the time.)

This is one series in which the whole thing holds up and bears (almost requires) re-reading, because events in later books reveal the true meaning of seemingly-obvious events in earlier ones.
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Old 09-18-2015, 08:20 PM   #9
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Jasper Fforde's Tuesday Next series
the series with The Golden Compass
The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer (I think?) - I'm half way through it now
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Miss Seeton series by Heron Carvic (Only the first 5 written by Carvic himself)
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I second Outlander! On The Fiery Cross now, and 49Kat, you're right, it's sooo tough to wade through...

Here are some other favorites:
Dune series - Frank Herbert
Foundation series - Isaac Asimov
Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
Harry Potter (no, not ashamed of this one ) - JK Rowling
Gregor the Overlander (read this as an adult and loved it!) - Suzanne Collins
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Old 09-24-2015, 04:20 PM   #13
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Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta books. A former neighbor (now deceased) loaned me several of the books some yrs back.
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This seems a very open subject, it's hard to know where to start. I'm going to be repeating a few recommendations already mentioned above, but I guess that might be useful anyway.

In no particular order my favourites include:

Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling.
Discworld, Terry Pratchett
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Stephen Donaldson

Also in no particular order, honourable mentions go to:

Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs
Cluster Series, Piers Anthony
Belgariad and Malloreon, David Eddings
Riftwar and Empire, Rayment E. Feist and Janny Wurts
Amtrack Wars, Patrick Tilley
Duncton Chronicles, William Horwood
Temperance Brennan, Kathy Reichs
Kay Scarpetta, Patricia Cornwell
Hercules Piorot, Agatha Christie
Constatin Vadim, Donald James (only three books but very good)
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
John Corey, Nelson DeMille
Dirk Pitt, Clive Cussler
Robots, Empire and Foundation, Isaac Asimov
James Bond, Ian Fleming

There are some it's tempting to put here (LotR and so on), but it's arguable as to whether they qualify as series (I first read LotR as a single very heavy book). Also the Gap books by Stephen Donaldson may be 5 books long, but it's more like one huge book than a series. Anyway, the above gives a reasonably diverse collection to pick from .
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