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Best series you read.

I can't help but go that far back. I don't read series of books. The nearest thing this year has been the first two books in Edward St. Aubyn's Patrick Melrose trilogy, Some Hope. Over the last ten years, I can't remember.

Although, even though Casino Royale wasn't up to much, I'm going to continue working my way through the James Bond books. Just because of their covers.
 
If we are going back really far I would say the Anne Of Green Gables books. I read them all as a child and just loved them.
 
I've never read a series as an adult, either, I don't think. The only series I've read have been Enid Blyton's Secret Seven and Famous Five, Point Horror series, Sweet Valley High etc, but these were all under the age of eleven or twelve. I know that because I left primary school at eleven, having used our village library to obtain them, and travelling five miles each way a day to comprehensive school meant the library was closed when I got home. My parents refused to buy those kinds of books, so I was forced to move onto classics... not that I read anywhere near as many of those, maybe I just stopped reading for a while.

Having said that, I read Flowers in the Attic (Virginia Andrews) when I was fourteen, and my mum subsequently bought me that series, but I think hers is the only one. People criticise her, but I thought that series was fantastic.
 
I would have to say the Harry Potter series, as it is the only series that I have pretty much read during the last while. While I have read other series during the years, most of them were cheesy Christian historical romance books, although The O'Malley series was a good one.
 
Forgot to mention Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. The plots can get formulaic but the dialogue and send-up of fantasy conventions make up for that. A great read if you're looking for something different in the fantasy genre.
 
I don't know if these are considered series, but I loved Patricia Highsmith's Ripley books and am always entertained by Lawrence Block's Hit Man Keller. Both very charming sociopaths.
 
For childhood books, I read and re-read The Worst Witch books by Jill Murphy, alongside all the ones already mentiones and the Greene Knowe books by Lucy Boston.

More recently, I tend not to read series per se, just dip in and out as and when I need something reassuring and familiar. I'm not sure any of them rate that highly, with the possible exception of Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. I would NOT inlcude the Jack Spratt series in that though, as I have found them both hugely disappointing!
 
My favorites/best are Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum, and of course J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter! :cool:

As for childhood favorites, my absolute favorite was Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, and also Chronicles of Narnia.
 
I love to read books in series. I love that you get to know the characters even better, I love the inside jokes as you get further into the series and I love getting find out what happens to the characters after the story we first meet them in. I enjoy fantasy novels, and it seems like almost anything I pick up in that genre is part of a series or trilogy.

I forgot about the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. I stopped reading after Memnoch the Devil. I listened to The Vampire Armand on tape, but thought it was kind of boring. Interview and Vampire Lestat I think are the best of the series.

I am currently rereading the X-Wing series in the Star Wars books.
 
I like the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich too. Total escapism at it's best.

And the Tales of the City series by Armistead Maupin is good, but I read some out of order which was a little confusing.
 
1. Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind
I agree with Anamesis that his writing may not be great but they are still quite enjoyable.
2. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
Only the best fantasy saga since Lord of the Rings...;)
3. His Dark Materials
Very fun reads with interesting ideas.
I like Harry Potter, but was so dissapointed with the last book that I'm not putting it up here. The older ones are great though. I still love to go back and pick them up for some light reading. The first book of Incarnations of Immortality is amazing! I read the second one and was not impressed, but will continue reading. I just finised the first of the DT series last night and it was good, but not great. I found it hard to follow at points but I'm hoping the series improves.
 
drmjwdvm said:
Kristo, I'm with you on the Harry Potter series. It seems silly, as you say, to pick something so obvious, but honestly it's brilliant and I have just loved it so far.
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I third that! I'm glad I'm not the only adult to feel this way. I'm an HP nerd! I actually found this forum searching for something about one of the books and came upon a thread on the HP forum. lol

I am probably going to be made fun of for admitting this, BUT I started The Inheritance series by Paolini (have just read the first) and although it isn't brilliant writing, it is a quick read and easy escape, but it is one book where I think the movie will way out-do the book, which is unusual, but considering the director and the cast I think it will be good and fun to watch and kind of make up for some of the patchiness of the novels (but as the author matures I believe he'll improve, too). However, I like fantasy and the escape of it.

Of coures the LOTR series is tops for me, too (except for a few parts of it where it drags).

I just bought a first edition copy of The Amber Spy Glass and am trying to locate the others before i start His Dark Materials.

As a child, I liked the series by Madeleine L'Engle about time travel (can't remember the name of the series, but one of the books was A Wrinkle in Timeand fantasy and am starting that with my kids this year. I also loved Anne of Green Gables (obviously), as well as Laura Ingles Wilder. I think I read some of Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys, but don't remember just loving those. By the time I found them, I was already reading way above that level and it was just boring me to pieces, if I recall, although they were quick reads.

Oh, and I like the Kinsey Millhone Series.

Oh, and another childhood series favorite would be Chronicles of Narnia. And I loved reading those with my kids.

I know there are probably others, but those are some just off the top of my head.
 
jaynebosco said:
I would have to say the Harry Potter series, as it is the only series that I have pretty much read during the last while. While I have read other series during the years, most of them were cheesy Christian historical romance books, although The O'Malley series was a good one.
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I have read a cheesy Christian series, too, but won't admit which one. I actually didn't read the last two books of it. It was just like eating a porcelain plate.
 
Nero Wolf

If you've never read Rex Stout Nero Wolfe, you'rein for a treat. Stout's books are as funny as they are suspenseful...

Another great series are the Jeeves and Wooster books by P.G. Wodehouse...
 
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