Legend trilogy by Marie Lu. It's my favorite dystopian trilogy. The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey is also good. It's the first in a trilogy but book 2 doesn't come out til September.
The Banned and the Banished by James Clemens (it's not YA).
It's like a cross between Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings with a dash of Game of Thrones.
I'm rereading it for like the 3rd or 4th time. I love it.
I haven't met anyone else who's heard of this series! /swoon I enjoyed it a great deal, but the scene in the first book with the owl haunted me for a while. Gah.
Another favorite series with more books is the Guido Brunetti books by Donna Leon. They are murder mysteries set in Venice and they have a little more depth than a lot of detective type books.
Second the Guido Brunetti series. And if you like those, I'd suggest the Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri (I actually enjoy these a bit more the Leon series, they have more a dark, sarcastic humor to them).
I'm reading the first Maise Dobbs book and am enjoying it so far. (I like light-ish and/or funny mystery's for reading while walking on the treadmill, started this one Tues and have walked an hour every day since because I want to read more of it and I only let myself read my "treadmill" books while walking.)
If you really want a series that neeeevvvvveeeerrrrrr ends--The Wheel of Time?
"The riveting first-person narrative of a young man who grows to be the most notorious magician his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime- ridden city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that transports readers into the body and mind of a wizard. It is a high-action novel written with a poet's hand, a powerful coming-of-age story of a magically gifted young man, told through his eyes: to read this book is to be the hero."
There's a second book called The Wise Man's Fear, and a third book forthcoming. It's easy to fall into and is pretty fast paced. The series centers around these evil people called the Chandrian and his life goal, of sorts, to bring them to justice. Meanwhile there's love and music and a magic school.
Yes, this book is great, but if you're looking for closure you will not get it. The 3rd book has been forthcoming for almost 3 years now and Rothfuss has not even hinted at when that might be released. If I were you, I wouldn't start it until the 3rd book has been released because you will be sorely disappointed in the wait, like I am.
"The riveting first-person narrative of a young man who grows to be the most notorious magician his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime- ridden city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that transports readers into the body and mind of a wizard. It is a high-action novel written with a poet's hand, a powerful coming-of-age story of a magically gifted young man, told through his eyes: to read this book is to be the hero."
There's a second book called The Wise Man's Fear, and a third book forthcoming. It's easy to fall into and is pretty fast paced. The series centers around these evil people called the Chandrian and his life goal, of sorts, to bring them to justice. Meanwhile there's love and music and a magic school.
Yes, this book is great, but if you're looking for closure you will not get it. The 3rd book has been forthcoming for almost 3 years now and Rothfuss has not even hinted at when that might be released. If I were you, I wouldn't start it until the 3rd book has been released because you will be sorely disappointed in the wait, like I am.
BHWAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAA at three years being a "long wait"
[says a GoT reader who started the series when the day the second book came out]
This is YA adjacent, but some of my favorite books of all time are the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman.
Another favorite series with more books is the Guido Brunetti books by Donna Leon. They are murder mysteries set in Venice and they have a little more depth than a lot of detective type books.
This is what I get for not reading all of the replies. I LOVE the His Dark Materials trilogy (I seriously cried every other chapter during book 3). Have you checked out his website? He seems like such a super nice guy.
Not recently. I will now though.
I cry SO much whenever I read the Amber Spyglass. I reread it shortly after moving in with my H and my overly emotional response really freaked him out. Whenever I cry over a book now he asks me if I'm reading "that Golden Compass" stuff again.
I am starting the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon after seeing her panel for the mini series based on her 1st book in the series at Comic Con. One if my sisters favorite series so I decided to dig in.
I can't read this series. I've only finished the first one, tried the second one. It's just dumb
I am starting the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon after seeing her panel for the mini series based on her 1st book in the series at Comic Con. One if my sisters favorite series so I decided to dig in.
I can't read this series. I've only finished the first one, tried the second one. It's just dumb
It's five books, fairly easy read, about the pharaoh Ramses along with it being interwoven with the story of Moses and the plagues. Definitely fictionalized, but the author is an Egyptologist to it feels very real and believable. I've read it a couple of times, but it's been a few years.
I've also read his Stone of Light Series, which is shorted and not as interesting, but still enjoyable.
He's written some other books as well, but the last time I looked (again quite a few years ago) they didn't have English translations (the author is French).