What Book Series have you read?

[David Eastwood]

Originally Posted by ManyMartinMan

It's been a while but the Redwall series was a great deal of fun. If you didn't have any little one's, or haven't read it, try the first book - Redwall. You'll either not like it a lot or get sucked right in.

My kids loved those when they were young, and I did too. Still have most of them - you might have just added to my re-reading list

Other series I've read in recent years:

C.S. Forester: Hornblower - a childhood favourite which I have revisited more than once
Patrick O'Brian: Aubrey/Maturin series (I do have a couple go there)
C.J. Sansome: Shardlake series
Louise Penny: Gamache mysteries - 7 or 8 into this collection
Mervyn Peake: Gormenghast trilogy

[Jeremy]

The Breach Series - Patrick Lee:

- The Breach
- Ghost Country
- Deep Sky

Sam Dryden Series - Patrick Lee:

- Runner
- Signal
- Dark Site

The Soul Archives Series - Simon West-Bulford:

- The Soul Consortium
- The Soul Continuum
- The Soul Conundrum (pending)

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by RP

Robert Parker - Spenser
Lee Child - Jack Reacher
Randy Wayne White - Doc Ford
Patricia Cornwell - Kay Scarpetta
James Patterson - Alex Cross
Linda Fairstein - Alexandra Cooper

I've never read a James Patterson book before but I am familiar with his name. So, I just googled Alex Cross. I didn't realize that the Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls movies were based on his books.

[catdaddy]

Travis McGee series- John D. MacDonald
The Hobbit/Lord of The Rings trilogy- J.R.R. Tolkien
Sherlock Holmes series- Arthur Conan Doyle
Harry Bosch series- Michael Connelly
Dave Robicheaux series- James Lee Burke
Cork O'Connor series- William Kent Kruger
Joe Pickett series- C.J. Box
Armand Gamache series- Louise Penny
Oryx and Crake trilogy- Margaret Atwood
Inspector Brunetti series- Donna Leon
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series- Alexander McCall Smith
Shadow Country trilogy- Peter Matthiessen
Foundation Trilogy and Robot series- Isaac Asimov
Harry Potter series- J.K. Rowling
Alex McKnight series- Steve Hamilton
Poke Rafferty series- Timothy Hallinan

[H165]

Most of the above.

I've read, for social-avoidance, all my life. If you are at a music festival or concert you will recognize me...I'm the guy reading a book in the middle of the headliner act (and all other performances, and during the breaksl).

Right now I've gone temporarily lame-brain...just at middle of the 6th book of Kloos ("Fields of Fire").

Related trivia: I spent a huge part of my childhood trying to avoid my family, and as a result I've actually read the Book of Knowledge (the 20 volume set - 1923).

I'll bet I'm similar to many heavy readers in that I managed to make it through the Bible. It's hard to get through the vast majority of English-language fiction written up to the year 1980 without seeing a reference to the The Book. I've also made it through most of "the series" (The Seven Valleys and The Four Valleys, The Tipitaka, The Vedas and The Upanishads, The Quran and The Hadiths, The Agamas, The Tanakh, The Talmud, The Kojiki). Bhagavad Gita is sitting on my night stand right now.

Like most of my peers (I'm 70, with some education), I'm partway thrugh the "college list": Plato, Hobbes, Machiavelli, Aristotle, etc: The Elements of Style, The Republic, Leviathan, The Prince, The Clash of Civilizations, Democracy in America, A Theory of Justice, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, On Liberty, The Evolution of Cooperation, Canterbury Tales, Paradise Lost, Hamlet, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Yellow Wallpaper, Young Goodman Brown, Persuasion, The Faerie Queene, The Spanish Tragedy.

All of Dick Francis, Jules Verne, Clive Cussler, Albert Payson Terhune, August Derleth, HP Lovecraft.

Hey, I'll fess up now....I've also read all the Nancy Drew series.

[spock]

Done many of the ones already mentioned. Will add:

The Asimov Robot Series

I, Robot (not really a novel)
The Caves of Steel
The Naked Sun
The Robots of Dawn
Robots and Empire

The Galactic Empire Series

The Stars, Like Dust
The Currents of Space
Pebble In The Sky

The Black Widowers Series


As you can see, I was, am, a big Isaac Asimov fan. He came to speak at my campus library (Ohio State) back in the early 70's and I managed to get him to autograph my freshman college chemistry textbook (only thing I had available).

[tbeltrans]

Originally Posted by H165

Most of the above.

I've read, for social-avoidance, all my life. If you are at a music festival or concert you will recognize me...I'm the guy reading a book in the middle of the headliner act (and all other performances, and during the breaksl).

Right now I've gone temporarily lame-brain...just at middle of the 6th book of Kloos ("Fields of Fire").

Related trivia: I spent a huge part of my childhood trying to avoid my family, and as a result I've actually read the Book of Knowledge (the 20 volume set - 1923).

I'll bet I'm similar to many heavy readers in that I managed to make it through the Bible. It's hard to get through the vast majority of English-language fiction written up to the year 1980 without seeing a reference to the The Book. I've also made it through most of "the series" (The Seven Valleys and The Four Valleys, The Tipitaka, The Vedas and The Upanishads, The Quran and The Hadiths, The Agamas, The Tanakh, The Talmud, The Kojiki). Bhagavad Gita is sitting on my night stand right now.

Like most of my peers (I'm 70, with some education), I'm partway thrugh the "college list": Plato, Hobbes, Machiavelli, Aristotle, etc: The Elements of Style, The Republic, Leviathan, The Prince, The Clash of Civilizations, Democracy in America, A Theory of Justice, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, On Liberty, The Evolution of Cooperation, Canterbury Tales, Paradise Lost, Hamlet, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Yellow Wallpaper, Young Goodman Brown, Persuasion, The Faerie Queene, The Spanish Tragedy.

All of Dick Francis, Jules Verne, Clive Cussler, Albert Payson Terhune, August Derleth, HP Lovecraft.

Hey, I'll fess up now....I've also read all the Nancy Drew series.

There is a story in there somewhere...

Tony

[boombox]

I'd read everything by Tolkien and CS Lewis by my early teens and have revisited them many times since. I can't believe no-one's yet mentioned Terry Pratchett's Discworld series (though I have read everything he ever published). Also all the Elric books by Michael Moorcock, Bernard Cornwall's Uther and Sharpe series and James Barclay's Raven series. In non-friction, I'd also recommend the Charley Boorman & Ewan McGregor travel series - Long Way Round/Down etc, which are very entertaining.

[Nash Rambler]

Harry Bosch Series and Mickey Haller Series by Michael Connelly
Joe Pickett Series by C. J. Box
Elvis Cole Series by Robert Crais

Originally Posted by fazool

Also "more than I've forgotten".....quickly off the top of my head:

The Lord of The Rings Series
Harry Potter Series
The Witcher Series
The Dune Series
The Discworld Series
John Carter of Mars Series
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Series
The Pillars of The Earth books
The Game of Thrones series
The Hunger Games series

And a whole bunch I've forgotten

You read the whole discworld series?! How many books is that. I love that world but sometime after the one with movies I dropped off.

[DCCougar]

Originally Posted by RP

Lee Child - Jack Reacher

Yeah, those are great. Also:

Preston and Child - especially the Pendergast series. Also really fun:

The Warded Man (the Demon Cycle) - Peter Brett. After the first couple, I had to wait for him to finish the others in the 5 book series. Very imaginative!

[fazool]

Originally Posted by static111

You read the whole discworld series?! How many books is that. I love that world but sometime after the one with movies I dropped off.

This is the entire list in order. The (X) are the ones I read (to the best of my recollection). I've been reading them for 15 years or so

1. The Colour of Magic(X)
2. The Light Fantastic(X)
3. Equal Rites(X)
4. Mort(X)
5. Sourcery(X)
6. Wyrd Sisters(X)
7. Pyramids(X)
8. Guards! Guards!(X)
9. Faust Eric(X)
10. Moving Pictures(X)
11. Reaper Man(X)
12. Witches Abroad(X)
13. Small Gods(X)
14. Lords and Ladies(X)
15. Men at Arms(X)
16. Soul Music(X)
17. Interesting times(X)
18. Maskerade(X)
19. Feet of Clay(X)
20. Hogfather(X)
21. Jingo(X)
22. The Last Continent(X)
23. Carpe Jugulum(X)
24. The Fifth Elephant(X)
25. The Truth
26. Thief of Time(X)
27. The Last Hero
28. The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents
29. Night Watch(X)
30. The Wee Free Men
31. Monstrous Regiment(X)
32. A Hat Full of Sky
33. Going Postal(X)
34. Thud!(X)
35. Wintersmith(X)
36. Making Money(X)
37. Unseen Academicals
38. I Shall Wear Midnight
39. Snuff
40. Raising Steam
41. The Shepherd's Crown

[boombox]

Hey Fazool, I missed you'd mentioned the Discworld: good to find another fan. Though I see you read Wintersmith, I do recommend you read all the Tiffany Aching books in order: The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight and The Shepherd's Crown. They are far too good to be destined just for teenagers!

The Tiffany series s a nice film franchise there if they can get the team who dramatised Good Omens (TP written with Neil Gaiman). Good Omens is, to date, the only decent TV adaptation of a Pratchett book, and I do hope Neil Gaiman considers writing a follow-up, just to watch Scotsman David Tennant hamming it up as the demon Crowley, and Welshman Michael Sheen playing the very uptight English angel Aziraphale. Another fine piece of non-Discworld Pratchett is 'Nation', which actually gets studied in schools in the UK.

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by H165

Most of the above.

I've read, for social-avoidance, all my life. If you are at a music festival or concert you will recognize me...I'm the guy reading a book in the middle of the headliner act (and all other performances, and during the breaksl).

Right now I've gone temporarily lame-brain...just at middle of the 6th book of Kloos ("Fields of Fire").

Related trivia: I spent a huge part of my childhood trying to avoid my family, and as a result I've actually read the Book of Knowledge (the 20 volume set - 1923).

I'll bet I'm similar to many heavy readers in that I managed to make it through the Bible. It's hard to get through the vast majority of English-language fiction written up to the year 1980 without seeing a reference to the The Book. I've also made it through most of "the series" (The Seven Valleys and The Four Valleys, The Tipitaka, The Vedas and The Upanishads, The Quran and The Hadiths, The Agamas, The Tanakh, The Talmud, The Kojiki). Bhagavad Gita is sitting on my night stand right now.

Like most of my peers (I'm 70, with some education), I'm partway thrugh the "college list": Plato, Hobbes, Machiavelli, Aristotle, etc: The Elements of Style, The Republic, Leviathan, The Prince, The Clash of Civilizations, Democracy in America, A Theory of Justice, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, On Liberty, The Evolution of Cooperation, Canterbury Tales, Paradise Lost, Hamlet, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Yellow Wallpaper, Young Goodman Brown, Persuasion, The Faerie Queene, The Spanish Tragedy.

All of Dick Francis, Jules Verne, Clive Cussler, Albert Payson Terhune, August Derleth, HP Lovecraft.

Hey, I'll fess up now....I've also read all the Nancy Drew series.

I'm a big H.P. Lovecraft fan. He had an imaginative imagination.

Originally Posted by fazool

This is the entire list in order. The (X) are the ones I read (to the best of my recollection). I've been reading them for 15 years or so

1. The Colour of Magic(X)
2. The Light Fantastic(X)
3. Equal Rites(X)
4. Mort(X)
5. Sourcery(X)
6. Wyrd Sisters(X)
7. Pyramids(X)
8. Guards! Guards!(X)
9. Faust Eric(X)
10. Moving Pictures(X)
11. Reaper Man(X)
12. Witches Abroad(X)
13. Small Gods(X)
14. Lords and Ladies(X)
15. Men at Arms(X)
16. Soul Music(X)
17. Interesting times(X)
18. Maskerade(X)
19. Feet of Clay(X)
20. Hogfather(X)
21. Jingo(X)
22. The Last Continent(X)
23. Carpe Jugulum(X)
24. The Fifth Elephant(X)
25. The Truth
26. Thief of Time(X)
27. The Last Hero
28. The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents
29. Night Watch(X)
30. The Wee Free Men
31. Monstrous Regiment(X)
32. A Hat Full of Sky
33. Going Postal(X)
34. Thud!(X)
35. Wintersmith(X)
36. Making Money(X)
37. Unseen Academicals
38. I Shall Wear Midnight
39. Snuff
40. Raising Steam
41. The Shepherd's Crown

Now that I look at the list I see I made it to small gods...Terry Pratchett really created an amazing world.