hiii everyone!
i was wondering what everyone's favorite book series was. (if you don't have a favorite series, then what's your favorite singular book?)
also, what is your favorite book from that series?
if there are multiple arcs in that series, what's your favorite arc?
personally, i really love Warriors, by Erin Hunter. (peep my signature lmao)
if you didn't know, Erin Hunter is actually a pen name, and is made up of 6 different people.
if you don't know what Warriors is, please just look it up if you're interested- it's too much to explain.
It's hard to decide! I normally don't read books in a series, but my ultimate favorite book would have to be And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. She wrote it during a period in time when she was creating a certain type of 'mystery', so I guess it was part of a series in her writing.
It was such a closed-in, maddening story with so many directions in the paths of the characters. The arc development of each character realized they were all getting picked off was excellently written. I mean, come on. It was genius! 12 people go to one island, and all of them are murdered? It was a brilliant story. The arc development of each character realized they were all getting picked off was excellently
When I first read them, I just loved the beautiful prose and imaginative worldbuilding - it was truly captivating and I felt like I'd been transported into her worlds.
As I revisited them many times as I got older (and able to dig deeper), I realised so many of my fundamental views of the world had come through these texts. Beyond being an author, Le Guin was an incredible essayist with well-considered and convincing views on gender, race, and humanity - these were subtly woven into her stories as well, and it was only when I got to University level I was able to realise I'd been introduced to some pretty foundational feminist thought.
Because I'd been raised to view people of different genders and races equally, it never fully occured to me that patriachy and white-supremacy were still a modern problem. While it took much further reading and listening over the years, I absolutely credit Le Guin's work for beginning the process of opening my eyes to the ongoing injustices in the world by helping me be open to considering the problems in the first place.
All that while telling some pretty cool stories about wizards and dragons, m8.
I used to love Kay Scarpetta series (by Patricia Cornwell). But it got kinda clogged and I found a lot of contradictions here and there like after vol 15 or so. And I dropped it disappointingly.
My all time favorite that I read again and again is The Stand and Dark Tower series (by Stephen King). I love how human they are and it always touches my heart when I read certain scenes.
There are more Japanese novel series that I cherish, but I guess they're not so known in other regions perhaps?
My favorite book of all time is Gone with the Wind.
My favorite book series is Lord of the Rings. I don't know that I have a favorite book in the series, though. I just love it as a whole, including not just the trilogy but also the other books from the same world such as The Hobbit and The Silmarillion.
I love Warriors! I've read the first series and Firestar's quest, I just love Yellowfang I also really like the Infernal devices and the Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare, The selection by Kiera Cass is also a very cute series and The Demonata by Darren Shan is one of my all time favorites too!
Mine is the Earthsea Cycle! Anyone here read it? My favorite aspect is the stellar worldbuilding: the stories take place in a medieval high fantasy archipelago which doesn't have one bit unexplored by the author, she took great care in envisioning its geography, economy, languages, politics, arts, beliefs, sciences, myths, religions, peoples, ethnicities, a fantastic hard magic system and even constellations, flora and fauna. also it is to be noted that it was written in the 50s but the main protagonist is dark skinned.
aaa and the magic system is the best i've ever seen in fantasy. ok, tied with avatar's. the magic users draw power from knowledge of something's, or someone's name. each person has a name they use daily and their true, visceral name, which they guard from everyone. so the series has themes of the power of language and knowledge. aaaa so good. no one asked this much information about earthsea but alas writing about it is too much fun
i don?t really have a favourite book series, but my favourite book rn is probably IT by stephen king; it?s so much more detailed than the movies and i honestly think i prefer the book to the movies aha
I also really like the Infernal devices and the Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare, The selection by Kiera Cass is also a very cute series and The Demonata by Darren Shan is one of my all time favorites too!
