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I'm after suggestions for some new books please. They can be pretty much any genre but, there has to be a series of them. At the moment I prefer to read series of books that follows the main protagonist(s) throughout.

Any one got any good ones please?
 
Stephen Kings The Dark Tower series, will take you about a year to read, amazing series, amazing characters and some excellent story telling. Best series I have ever read.


Start with the Gunslinger. Oh and the book get bigger and bigger.
 
If your looking at any genre then my recommendation would be The Magician's Guild by Trudi Canavan.

This is the first in a trilogy of books covering the life of a young female magician and her journey from being discovered as a slum dweller to becoming a very powerful mage :)
 
If it has to be a series following just one character then there's any number of crime thrillers that do this:
Inspector Rebus novels by Ian Rankin
The Dr Temperance Brennan series by Kathy Reichs
The Alex Cross series by James Patterson
The Detective Harry Bosch books by Michael Connelly

And that's just from a quick think. If you're willing to choose a series with a common theme but without following the same character all the way through then The Ender's Game Series by Orson Scott Card is well worth your time.
 
AshenShugar1873 said:
Have a look at Stephen Donaldson's 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant'. They follow the main character in most of the narration and are 2 excellent trilogies.
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Started to read this, only got a slight way into the first book, need to give it another go.

torN said:
Stephen Kings The Dark Tower series, will take you about a year to read, amazing series, amazing characters and some excellent story telling. Best series I have ever read.


Start with the Gunslinger. Oh and the book get bigger and bigger.
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Read the first 3 but I never really got on with them.

King85 said:
Lee Childs Jack Reacher series is good as is James Lee Burkes series about Dave Robicheaux.
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Just bought his latest after reading the previous 15, love them.
Sonea Fifer said:
If your looking at any genre then my recommendation would be The Magician's Guild by Trudi Canavan.

This is the first in a trilogy of books covering the life of a young female magician and her journey from being discovered as a slum dweller to becoming a very powerful mage :)
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I think I've read these but can't remember, so will give them a go.

semi-pro waster said:
If it has to be a series following just one character then there's any number of crime thrillers that do this:
Inspector Rebus novels by Ian Rankin
The Dr Temperance Brennan series by Kathy Reichs
The Alex Cross series by James Patterson
The Detective Harry Bosch books by Michael Connelly

And that's just from a quick think. If you're willing to choose a series with a common theme but without following the same character all the way through then The Ender's Game Series by Orson Scott Card is well worth your time.
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Going to look at Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Orson Scott Card, have read the other 2 and loved them.

Sorry, it doesn't have to be 1 person throughout the whole series, I like following how people/worlds are expanded throughout a series.
 
The High Druid of Shannara series by Terry Brooks was fairly entertaining when I read it recently, it's not the most challenging of reads and it's told from the perspective of a few characters but the universe is consistent.

The Jack Parlabane books by Christopher Brookmyre are usually good fun with some fairly biting black humour and it may help if you've got some understanding of Scottish culture. The same author has another couple of characters who reoccur in his other novels such as Angelique De Xavia. The Wikipedia page gives a good idea of which novels to look at in this regard.
 
Michele Giuttari - A Florentine death, A death in Tuscany and another 2 books. Murder mysteries set mainly in Italy.
Quentin Jardine - Bob Skinner books
 
Wossi said:
Going to look at Orson Scott Card
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My recommendation there would be Enders Game - simply the best book I've ever read. To follow you've got Enders Shadow which is the same book telling the same story (with lots of additional background information) but from the perspective of a different protagonist, it's very cleverly done and rightly so, won Mr Card many awards.
 
Erast Fandorin series - Boris Akunin

Great series of detective novels. Marvellously well written, the characterisation is great but the best bit is that no one book is the same style. His goal as an author was to make crime fiction readable in Russia (it's either pulp **** or Tolstoy level high brow) but also to write a book about every single sub genre within crime totalling 15 booksto be written. Read http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Akunin for more info.

It starts with The Winter Queen.

Plenty of other good series I could recomend but for what you want I think you would really enjoy it!
 
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