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What book series have you read? Or Authors that you have read multiple works by?

What are they about? Would you recommend them?

I've read a lot of Darren Shan books, including his titular series (which I love) and The Thin Executioner (Which is unusually run of the mill and standard shit).

I've also read The first book of the Demonata series, and it was...kind of hokey. Too violent just for violence's sake. I haven't read Zom-B yet.

I read all of Cirque du Freak and the first 4 or 5 Demonata books. Such a good series, but it gets more and more disturbing. o.O;

I don't read series a lot as an adult, but I read them allll the time as a kid. Harry Potter, The Baby-Sitters Club (and the Little Sister and California Diaries spinoff... and a spinoff of the Little Sister books about Karen's classmates), Animorphs, Everworld, Pony Pals, The Magic Tree House, The Royal Diaries (a spinoff of Dear America, though I actually never read those)... I'm probably forgetting some.

Maybe this thread will have some good recommendations for adult series. Most of the ones I've seen in the bookstore seem like romance/paranormal romance which I'm not really into.

Robert Cormier for the author. I love his books so much! And most people haven't even heard of him.

His most famous book is The Chocolate War, though my favorite is probably After the First Death or The Rag and Bone Shop.

I'd recommend him to anyone.

Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series, I'm just waiting on the new comic to come out next month.

The Late Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, I love it and there is still one posthumous book to come next month too then it will be closed.

I've read all five of Brian Lumley's "Necroscope" series. Yeah, I know there are like a dozen other books in the series, but the first five are the series, the rest is him just keeping on finding gaps in which to shove in fresh material in a constant parade of retcons. And don't even talk to me about the sequel trilogy where he pulled a Douglas Adams on the ending.

I also liked Barbara Hambly's Darwath series, or at least I did. I went back and read it again in the first time this century, and I found a disturbing amount of racist and cultural supremacist language in it. *sigh* Why can't my authors have avoided skeevy stuff.

There was also Mercedes Lackey's mashup series of Pern and Ancient Egypt, the Joust-Series. But all I remember is that it is a mash up of Pern and Ancient Egypt.

I read a ton of book series as a kid. Mostly fantasy like Forgotten Realms and Draconlance (they're entertaining, but get a bit boring after a while, especially since they're so fighting-focused). The only fantasy thing that has stayed with me until adulthood is Discworld. Discworld's great.

I also collect Agatha Christie's and Rex Stout's detective novels, because those were my childhood faves. They're still awesome.

This made me realize I've only really read book series as a kid. Huh.

Well, the most recent was the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz. Started reading because favourite authors suddenly started writing fanfic for it, and liked it well enough.

Boy, is that a tough one to answer.

I mean, I've read multiple books by pretty much every author that I even slightly like. That's what you do, when you like an author - you go and read their work.

Pern, Ghu help me. I think that ruined me for epic serials ever after. I also read the entire catalog of Heinlein's adult books, but that's deffo not something to admit unanon. The only non-cringe-inducing -in-hindsight volumes from those are "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" and "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" and even those two have their moments/are dated as woah.

*joins you in the Heinlein Corner of Shame*

To be fair, I quite liked his YA books when I was a kid. But his adult novels were not what I was expecting. Kept on with them though.

I still have about 10 books left in Animorphs, by KA Applegate. They are soul destroying and fun and fuck to read with a friend.

I've read all the Harry Potter book, and all the Narnia books.

I've read four books of the Seafort Saga by David Feintuch (royal British Navy in space, basically, and shit goes VERY wrong every time the main dude is assigned to a ship.) There are more after the fourth one, I think, but they are about the main dude's son? I really enjoyed the first three and I don't really remember the fourth one at all.

I've read pretty much all of Margaret Atwood's books (lots of sci-fi and women-centric, feminist works). I've also read almost all of Robert J. Sawyer's books (weird mix of hard and soft sci-fi? dinosaurs, interesting aliens, neanderthals, dolphins driving spaceships, lots of religion vs science discussions)

I used to love the Dresden files until my girlfriend made me question some of the more misogynistic elements, so now I just can stomach it. Was a shame, I got quite far into the series and I loved the audio books, but now just thinking about it makes me feel nauseous and anxious.

i had the same problem with the discworld series, but it wasn't my bf who persuaded me, it was actually a fandom secrets comment.

Fuck you both. I read Pearce Anthony books and love them.

Fantasy series: Shannara (first through third series plus Knight of the Word), Landover series, Wheel of Time, Wars of Light and Shadow, Discworld, Lord of the Rings, chunks of David Gemmell, chunks of Xanth, bits of Dragonlance

Science Fiction series: Vorkosigan series, Honor Harrington series, chunks of Star Trek and Star Wars EUs, a bunch of stuff by Elizabeth Moon

Crime/Mystery: In Death series (also counts as SF), Charlie Parker series (also counts as horror), Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, a whole bunch of other crime series like the Tony Hill series (became Wire in the Blood on TV), Commissaire Adamsberg, Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache ... Lots and lots

Historical: Hornblower, Aubrey/Maturin, Flashman, lots by Alexandre Dumas

Urban Fantasy: a tonne of trashy vampire romance series (Carpathian novels, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Anne Rice) because they're my guilty pleasure (drew the line at Anite Blake though), Dresden Files up until the last two books, bits and pieces of other fantasy noir style series

Kids series: Famous Five, Secret Seven, Narnia, Goosebumps, Chillers, Point Horror, a whole bunch of kids fantasy/mythology/sci-fi/espionage series

And probably a bunch more than I've forgotten right now. I don't tend to read most series all the way through, but I do tend to go with a series for as long as it interests me, and then when I start getting fatigued I leave it off for another while. Been that way since I was a kid. As for how many I'd recommend ... honestly, it depends on your tastes. Several of them are probably objectively bad, and I enjoy them because guilty pleasure/nostalgia/the mood I'm in on the day. Others are objectively pretty good, and still more so-so. Depends on what you're looking for, really.

Elizabeth Moon! Fuck yeah! Serrano or Vatta?

Do you not find Honor Harrington a little dry?

Also, I've just started on Vorkosigan. It is... dense stuff. Good, just a little... Well built, if that makes sense. Like the world is already formed and fleshed out, and I either have to keep up with the characters who already know the rules of the world or get left behind.

What about the dresden files put you off? I've not got to the last few books, and would like a heads up.

Serrano mostly, I think. It was a while back, so there may have been some others mixed in.

Having read everyone from Mervyn Peake to Victor Hugo, as well as Hornblower, I generally found Honor Harrington quite manageable, though I do favour the later books (and the Saganami subseries). I got very attached to several characters as well (Eloise and Aivars in particular), which helps.

Vorkosigan I'm actually finding a little harder. I've only read five books so far. I very much enjoy Simon Illyan, though, and several of the other characters, so I'll probably keep noodling around it until I get all the way there.

As for Dresden Files, I don't think it was any specific thing so much as I got tired of the series, and the darkening tone overall just wasn't doing me any favours. I've only a limited tolerance for the apocalypse at the best of times, Butcher is on record that that's where we're heading, and it is becoming obvious in the tone and the general slide further into moral ambiguity for several characters. I'm just ... not able for it. Butters, Sanya and Marcone are my main loves left in the series, and they're not really enough on their own to carry it anymore.

I liked the first several books in the Emberverse series by SM Stirling (Dies the Fire is the first one) and it is about a world that suddenly loses power and physics changes. I really loved the first ones but I think around the 10th book in the series I lost interest.

I've read multiple books by both Neil Gaiman and Lauren Oliver. I liked Gaiman's Neverwhere and American Gods best and Oliver's Before I Fall and Rooms.

I love the Tolkien, Harry Potter, and Temeraire books.

Wheel of Time is best series! <3

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