Question: What are some of the long running series that you would like to try?
I’m going to stick with series that I have on my bookshelves already for a few reasons.
1) I gave up on most series a few years ago when I realized I was forgetting most of what happened in the previous books or they had anti-climactic or disappointing endings so I’m not really looking for new series to try.
2) I keep saying this (and failing) but I REALLY want to clear out at least half of my physical TBR pile. Several of these series have been on the shelves for years! A few from back when Borders closed – I think that was 2011?? And some came from past BEA’s or unsolicited from publishers.
3) Dragging my books out for lists and photos helps me remember they exist and increases the odds (but sadly – only slightly) that I will actually read them. lol
So without further ado – here are a few of the series that I want to try. They aren’t all necassirily *long running* – a few are duologies or trilogies but still…
The October Daye Series by Seanan McGuire ~ Goodreads (13 books total)
From Goodreads:
Faeri has always been with us. The fairy tales, ballads, and folklore of the mortal world are only shadows of the true, sometimes terrible reality of the fae. They survive in secrecy, keeping their Courts in the places where the light doesn't fall, existing in parallel to the world we know. They aren't human. They don't want to be. But sometimes they take human lovers, and sometimes, those unions are fertile ones. Changelings aren't stolen children; they're mortal halfbreeds born where the fae and human worlds collide, never able to fully belong to either, outsiders from birth.
October Daye knows how cruel Faerie can be to its changeling children. Born in San Francisco and carried to the Summerlands by her pureblood mother when she was just a child, she was raised in a world that never seemed capable of understanding her. She ran away the moment the opportunity presented itself, only to find that the human world wasn't any better.
Things have been going downhill ever since.
The October Daye books follow the adventures of October "Toby" Daye as she tries to find her footing in a world that seems a little more interested in killing her than she'd like.
The Weather Warden Series by Rachel Caine ~ Goodreads (10 books total)
From Goodreads:
Only the Wardens stand between the wrath of Mother Earth and the clueless masses of humanity around the world ... and Joanne Baldwin is one of the best. Pity she’s on the run for her life ...
Urban fantasy series. Followed by the Outcast Season series.
Wolf by Wolf Series by Ryan Graudin ~ Goodreads (2 books, 2 novellas total)
I’ve heard this series is alternate history with paranormal and lots of action invloving mortorcycles??
Penryn & the End of Days Series by Susan Ee ~ Goodreads (trilogy)
Penryn is trying to survive. Because after the angels came to destroy the modern world there are no rules. Streets are ruled by gangs and angels are hunting for humans. When her sister is kidnapped Penryn will do everything she can to find her even if it means working with the enemy. Everything could happen in this new dangerous world.
*I have Angelfall on my Kindle
The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone ~ Goodreads (trilogy)
From Goodreads:
Deep in the jungle of Peru, where so much remains unknown, a black, skittering mass devours an American tourist whole. Thousands of miles away, an FBI agent investigates a fatal plane crash in Minneapolis and makes a gruesome discovery. Unusual seismic patterns register in a Kanpur, India earthquake lab, confounding the scientists there. During the same week, the Chinese government “accidentally” drops a nuclear bomb in an isolated region of its own country. As these incidents begin to sweep the globe, a mysterious package from South America arrives at a Washington, D.C. laboratory. Something wants out.
The world is on the brink of an apocalyptic disaster. An ancient species, long dormant, is now very much awake.
Code Name Verity Series ~ Goodreads (2 companion novels, 1 novella)
From Goodreads: Companion books about young pilots in WWII
Hold Me closer Necromancer ~ Goodreads (duology)
From goodreads:
Sam leads a pretty normal life. He may not have the most exciting job in the world, but he’s doing all right—until a fast food prank brings him to the attention of Douglas, a creepy guy with an intense violent streak.
Turns out Douglas is a necromancer who raises the dead for cash and sees potential in Sam. Then Sam discovers he’s a necromancer too, but with strangely latent powers. And his worst nightmare wants to join forces . . . or else.
Every Day Series by David Levithan ~ Goodreads (trilogy)
From Goodreads:
Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.
There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.
The Queens of Renthia by Sarah Beth Durst ~ Goodreads (trilogy)
From Goodreads: Set in a world "where everything in nature has a spirit—and where those spirits are bloodthirsty killers who seek the death of all humans."
Shattered Realms Series by Cinda Williams Chima ~ Goodreads (trilogy)
From Goodreads:
A burning vengeance.
Adrian sul’Han, known as Ash, is a trained healer with a powerful gift of magic—and a thirst for revenge. The son of the queen of the Fells, Ash is forced into hiding after a series of murders throws the queendom into chaos. Now Ash is closer than he’s ever been to killing the man responsible, the cruel king of Arden. As a healer, can Ash use his powers not to save a life but to take it?
The School of Good and Evil Series by Soman Chainani ~ Goodreads (trilogy)
From Goodreads: The first kidnappings happened two hundred years before. Some years it was two boys taken, some years two girls, sometimes one of each. But if at first the choices seemed random, soon the pattern became clear. One was always beautiful and good, the child every parent wanted as their own. The other was homely and odd, an outcast from birth. An opposing pair, plucked from youth and spirited away.
And finally…
The Conqueror’s Sage by Kiersten White ~ Goodreads (trilogy)
From Goodreads: No one expects a princess to be brutal. And Lada Dragwlya likes it that way. Ever since she and her gentle younger brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their father to be raised in the Ottoman courts, Lada has known that being ruthless is the key to survival. She and Radu are doomed to act as pawns in a vicious game, an unseen sword hovering over their every move. For the lineage that makes them special also makes them targets.
What long running series would you like to try?
