books Favourite book series!

[GrooveBroove 680]

I've never read to much but Jurassic Park and The lost world are two great books.

 

Also the Resident Evil books by SD Perry are good.

[cuteycindyhoney 13,307]

I forgot a very good one!

 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great consulting detective Sherlock Holmes.

I don't mean the current movies starring Robert Downey Jr.! Fans of the original short stories and books tend not to like them. They have nothing in common with the original characters except for the names. Watson did not run around kicking and yelling at Holmes!

[Evilshy 5,090]

I forgot a very good one!

 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great consulting detective Sherlock Holmes.

I don't mean the current movies starring Robert Downey Jr.! Fans of the original short stories and books tend not to like them. They have nothing in common with the original characters except for the names. Watson did not run around kicking and yelling at Holmes!

 

 

I like both :/

 

 

Anyway, woo lists!

 

Redwall - will always be my favorite series

 

Artemis Fowl - I've always loved battles of wit, and I like Colfer's sense of humor

 

Hitchhikers Guide - just an amazing comedy series. I have the whole series in a single, leather bound volume

 

Hunger Games - first was amazing, second was good, third was okay, but depressing as all hell

 

Inheritance Cycle (eragon) - Not very original, but enjoyable. Some parts dragged on and made me think "okay, can something please happen now?" (I'm looking at you, first half of brisingr. There's, what, one major and one or two minor plot developments in the whole first half of the book? I could be wrong, I haven't read it in a while).

 

Harry potter - if these dont count as modern classic. A wonderful example of the author planning out and connecting everything with everything else.

 

The Bartimeaus(sp) Trilogy - great mix of humor and fantasy action. Nice stories with (some) unexpected twists, very nicely fleshed out universe.

 

Percy Jackson - I've heard great things about it, and I love Greek mythology, but I read the first book and didn't like it much. Are the others better?

 

 

 

And actually, Redwall mainly holds the title for my favorite series for nostalgic reasons. My REAL favorite series is the Hungry City Chronicles. It's a steampunk universe involving... Wait for it... Cities on giant tank treads that "eat" each other to get parts, fuel, and slave labor. It's set in the far future, after a huge war with futuristic weapons pretty wiped the earth clean. Humanity began to slowly rebuild when an engineer decided to solve the problem of not having enough resources near the city; make a nomadic city. Others followed suit until the whole of Europe and eastern Asia was pretty much stripped bare, leaving a bunch of mobile cities to fight over what was left.

 

That's the background of the series, anyway. Great series, 4 books long, and you should all read it. I mean it. I read it twice in a week because it was so damn good.

[Flow 1,629]

I actually read the S.A.S.S (Students Across the Seven Seas) series, which is aimed at teen girls, but I also like reading the Encyclopedia Brown series.

[kitty chan the brave 8]

warriors all the way! for others that dont know it, try it! theres already 4 seasons!

[RarityLuna 30]

I'll read Hunger Games soon.

I like:

-Harry Potter

-Artemis Fowl (missing the last book)

-Cinnamon Girl ( only read the first two books)

-Molly Moon ( Only read the first two books)

- The Series of Unfortunate Events ( missing the last book)

-Inheritance ( I am ALMOST finished with the first. )

[Pandy_C 30]

Seconding The Discworld series and Skullduggery Pleasant.

 

I also enjoyed:

 

Phillip Reeve's Mortal Engines series

Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter of Mars books

I used to enjoy Laurel K Hamilton's Anita Blake series before they became all-smut all-the-time

[Jokuc 8,174]

Lord Of The Rings.

[Kazuki Fuse 534]

-The Horus Heresy series (I used to be a huge warhammer 40k nerd and to this day I still love the fiction and fluff of the expanded universe)

 

- Bukowski's novels (they arent considered a series really, but since each one is basically the story of different points of his life I think it counts: Ham on Rye is his childhood and reaching adulthood, Factotum is his young adult years, Post Office is his mid-life and Women is his later years)

[Marcusaralius76 150]

Lord of the Rings

Soul Drinkers

Song of Ice and Fire

Legends from Dragonrealm

 

I'd say Hunger Games, but the last book ruined it for me.

[Whiteshade 1,426]

Harry Potter

Redwall

Inheritance

Narnia

 

But note I haven't done any casual reading for like 5 years now... and I was never a big reader to begin with

[Osaka Bomb 39]

Hmm...

I like The Dark Tower series (I still need to read book 7). I'm not too far in it, but I'm really enjoying The Underland Chronicles so far. Oh, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series! That's a good one.

[That Guy 100]

Lord Of The Rings.

Narnia.

DragonLance.

cant get enough of 'em n.n

[Swit Swat 536]

• The Hunger Games
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid
• Daring Do... :3

[StingeMuffin 244]

The Warriors series by Erin Hunter IS my childhood, I still read them every now and then XD

I also love Pretty Little Liars (they are actually pretty addicting books) and of course The Hunger Games series

 

I was pretty much addicted to the series during my latter high school years (I was probably the only one who checked them out from the library XD). I can't really say whether they've aged well, though, since I haven't reread them for a few years.

 

Besides that, I remember liking the Abhorsen Trilogy quite a lot. I think I'll try reading those again sometime.

[LunaShy 168]

The girl with the dragon tattoo series

[Skytrotter 26]

The Vampire Chronicles (Anne Rice)

Mercy Thompson series (Patricia Briggs)

Alpha and Omega series (Patricia Briggs)

The Nightside series (Simon R. Green)

Percy Jackson series (Rick Riordan)

Harry Potter (JK Rowling)

Inheritance series (Christopher Paolini)

 

And I have a bunch of other series' that I love, but they're mostly romance novels, and I highly doubt anyone else here would recognize any...

[LowfatEnvelope 335]

I think my favorites are the Warriors cat series, and the Dragon Keeper Chronicles series.

[willinilly 134]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking glass.

[Four String 28]

I have to go with the Harry Potter series, with Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy coming a close second.

[Everfree 286]

Shaman King

[Coal 26]

I find it hard to really pick a favorite book series because I have so many that I love but just going by the one I've read the most I'd have to say that it's The Morcyth Saga by Brian S. Pratt. I'm not exactly sure why I like it but I tend to read it more than any of my other series. With my second being the Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale.

[PinkamenaPartyPie 65]

Mine are

1. The Dark Tower

2. Harry Potter

3. Anita Blake Vampire Hunter novels

4. The Vampire Chronicles

[Cupcake Ice Cream 436]

Dresden Files - Jim Butcher

[OnTheFence 12]

So many to choose from... but I'm currently enjoying The Codex Alera by Jim Butcher.

 

Favorites include:

• A Song of Ice and Fire - Martin
• The Kingkiller Chronicles - Rothfuss
• The Chathrand Voyage - Reddick
• Acacia - Durham
• Lord of the Ring/The Hobbit - Tolkien
• The Riftwar Saga - Feist
• Dragonlance Trilogy - Weiss & Hickman

And many many more....