What book series would you recommend?

[Phoenix54862]

I'm trying to find another series to read before finishing the one that I'm on. I've been reading a lot of UF, but I'm open to all genres as long as they're in print (no ebooks).

[Citizenkirk]

If you have an appetite for hard boiled sci-fi that is conceived way outside the box of conventional mainstream normalcy, and a strong stomach for horrific technological terror, I recommend the Company Series, By Author Kage Baker. It is a series that explores the limitless boundaries of human inovation, greed, hope, and evil, and exposes a reality of the human condition that has the capacity to use time travel and cybernetics technology as a Corporate Vehicle to self sustaining evil and pestilences that surpass the horrific imaginings of and religious inspired hell or pergatory existence. Ironically, the creators and owners of these Corporate think tanks are completely unaware of the pestilence their Corporate assets are creating throughout history, as their cybernetic slaves wage a temporal genetic war of unimaginably gruesome finality.

12 volumes for the Company Series, 4 novela based on primary characters, and a number of other related spinoff and supliment stories to that series.

If you have an hour to or two too kill, I estimate about 12 and a half million pages to breeze through, at 400 to 900 pages per book.
I hope you don't mind me trying out some graphic book mark ideas on you for each volume. 🤘

[Slartybartfast]

I just finished re reading Asimov's foundation series, I read Robert aspreys biography of Frederick the great over the weekend and am currently reading "the soul of a new machine" about the creation of the DEC alpha. Which really hit home as I identify closely with the engineers in the project and worked on those systems when I was a kid.

[jennifer_bloom]

This isn’t a book series but might as well be since the writing style is very similar. I like any book by John Fowles or J. D. Salinger. Their books are not series style books but the themes and ideas and style is consistent in their works. You could also read Iliad or the odyssey for free by downloading it online and Shakespeare is also available online for less than $5.00. I will not recommend the site I use because if your device isn’t properly formatted, it could give you a virus.

[Anonymous]

Any of the Jack London books are particularly well written. I'm not sure I would label it a series, rather a collection of short stories that all intertwine.

[MDollarBill]

The very best adult fantasy fiction I've ever read is "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" by Stephen R Donaldson. It will leave you breathless in it's scope, ambition, and realism... I also still love the Ursula LeGuin "Earthsea" Trilogy, and Dragonriders of Pern Series. Piers Anthony is a great writer too and has several worthwhile series (Xanth, Blue Adept is my favorite.)

[Phoenix54862]

Definitely checking out the Chronicles series and adding the other ones on the list to look into. Thanks!

[goaded]

Ooh, yes, the White Gold Wielder! Jack Vance's Lyonesse, and Bernard Cornwall's A Crowning Mercy are multi-generational series (albeit just two books in the latter).

[MarkRet]

The 'Earth's Children' series by Jean Auel. Fiction during the Ice Age, when modern humans and Neanderthals existed at the same time. Warning: Auel gets really detailed describing all the environment and fauna, the sex can be really detailed, and the last book in the series is a phoned-in waste, but overall it's a good story.

[Lionman95]

Jeffrey Archer has written a couple of long book sagas. They´re rather historical books playing in the last hundred years. Another good author writing historical books is Ken Follet. I´ve read "Fall of Giants" and I liked it.

[Dinosaursandanime65]

Mine, but it premieres in maybe like, 4 years. And don’t worry, it’ll last long. Started in late 2020 an PhD am already on the third series. There’s most likely gonna be a fourth. YEAH

[Phoenix54862]

Cool! What's it about?

[Dinosaursandanime65]

…… I don’t even know. But a way I can explain it is I’ve got, Hunter Jesus, his Hunter followers, angels both real and descended, me, a cat girl who’s actually an Angel, Clash Demons (not real ones cuz I don’t want to risk anything), a Bloofhoofur with sharp hair, and a ton of other things.

[OddBeMe]

What’s UF? Series of books are harder for me, since eventually the publishers pass it off to other writers and it gets stale. But my favorites:
1) Foundation (Asimov)
2) Informationist
3) Sandman

[FlowerSeeds]

I recommend Sea Change, in the book the guy is the mermaid this time

[Trainborn35]

A Song of Ice and Fire (all 5 Game of Thrones books)

[ThePolishKnight37]

If you like Harry Potter type stuff, check out Kobe Bryant's series of books. He had it published before he past.

[RACSKC0B]

You could try The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
So far as I know, it's still the only five book trilogy ever written.

[goaded]

Terry Pratchett's Discworld (with the Science of...), or Long Earth series.
Lee Child's Jack Reacher.
Bernard Cornwall's Sharpe, etc., but they do get a bit repetitive.

[Titanic1912]

The Boxcar Children, Junie B. Jones and Matt Christopher.

[Twalli]

Hellequin Chronicles by Steve McHugh. Not a typo. They were originally e books, but there are print copies available now.

[Anonymous]

I like Gotrek and Felix, its a fantasy fiction set in the Warhammer universe.

[Jxrdyn_13]

I dont have a series to recommend but a good book for not sensitive readers is 'The Lovely Bones'

[FoxnEagle]

Redwall or Wheel of Time

[Slartybartfast]

Years ago I started reading wheel of time, I got to winters heart, and then stopped buying them because "Watch him die before wrapping up the series".

And he did..

I know he had already written several more novels that were published posthumously, but I'm unclear if the series was finished with the original author?

[FoxnEagle]

@Slartybartfast Wheel of Time was finished by another author, Brandon Sanderson, who apparently did a pretty good job getting stuff back on track and tying things up (I had this same gripe, friend of mine has read this series as well and let me know about the author change). I'm actually still finishing the series myself, I'm a cheapskate and almost always get them second hand :P

As Robert Jordan was dying, he kinda went the whole "anime protagonist harem" route, if that is going to bug you a lot I'd say just avoid it.

[Slartybartfast]

Ok, good to know. I just found some of them in a box in my basement, I may read them again as it's been years and I would be able to just pick up in the middle.

[Phoenix54862]

I keep forgetting about Wheel of Time, even though it's mentioned often in book-related forums on the internet. Just read the synopsis, and I'm excited already.

[Iron_Man]

I like the Dr. Seuss books read them all

[Phoenix54862]

I'm saving those for the holiday season. lol

[Iron_Man]

Cool...

[Old_Golden]

You could always reach back and grab Asimov or Heinlein. Niven is good too

[goaded]

Asimov (seriously dated, though) and Niven, yes, but Heinlein I'm less convinced about. His Number of the Beast advocated tax evasion, but there's also Stranger in a Strange Land, which, unless I've forgotten undertones from that over the decades since I read it, was excellent.

The upper tax rate at the time was much higher than now, of course.

[potatoooo]

Ik it's like super mainstream but Harry Potter.

[Phoenix54862]

I'll probably add this to the list. I had an interview yesterday, and the manager's phone went off; it was the Harry Potter theme, so it's been on my mind.

[MCheetah]

The Snowpiercer series

[Mia-Wallace]

The Tripods.
Sword of the Spirits.