Hype your favorite book series

[merithyn]

I've gotten a lot of really good ideas on books to read from the other books thread, but I admit to preferring series over single books. Once I'm in a world, I like to stay there for a while before saying good bye.

So, I thought this would be a good place to share your favorite book series.

I have several, but my absolute favorite series is Jack Whyte's Skystone Chronicles. It's a historical fiction series about how Camulot, King Arthur, and Merlin may have actually been. No magic, nothing fantastical. Straight history using characters already known to us.

[Malthus]

My favorite is Bernard Corwell's Saxon series. Straight historical fiction set in the time of Alfred the Great. Very satisfying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories

[Admiral Yi]

I've already hyped the hell out of Aubrey/Maturin.

My work is done.

[Eddie Teach]

It's probably ASOIAF. Already gets plenty of attention here.

Clavell's Asian Saga books are well worth a read.

[CountDeMoney]

Racking my brain, but I don't think I've read a book series since I was a kid since so much of it is sci-fi/fantasy or historical fiction, and that's just not my thing.

[Capetan Mihali]

Charles Willeford, the "Hoke Moseley" series of dark hilarity crime novels (Miami Blues on to the author's death).  Just awesome, Hoke being a detective with false teeth living in a seedy Miami Beach hotel with huge alimony payments when the action starts (contemporaneously, in the early 80s).  Willeford wrote better books, but this is his only series.  I think the Languish crowd would like it quite a bit.

[garbon]

I really like Kate Elliot's Crossroads series. Actually her Novels of Jaran was fun too though bit harder to locate at this point outside of Amazon.

Former is mostly fantasy in the vein of Game of Thrones though instead of dragons there are giant eagles. I think with that series she's finally got down her copying/translating of real-life historical cultures.

Latter involves a future setting with a space faring earth where the lead character finds her self-stranded on a pre-industrial world among some mongol like types.

[Malthus]

Another great series, perfect for Languishites: the Bernie Gunther "Berlin Noir" series by Philip Kerr. Noir detective fiction meets Nazis. What could be finer? Oh, and well written and historically accurate, too. 

[Eddie Teach]

Racking my brain, but I don't think I've read a book series since I was a kid since so much of it is sci-fi/fantasy or historical fiction, and that's just not my thing.

The Cat Who... ?

[merithyn]

My favorite is Bernard Corwell's Saxon series. Straight historical fiction set in the time of Alfred the Great. Very satisfying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories

I don't, as a rule, care for Cornwell, but this one sounds pretty cool.

[Zanza]

Iain M. Banks Culture novels. Epic science fiction. Not really a series, just a bunch of books playing in the same universe, with no real connections between the various books.

[Malthus]

My favorite is Bernard Corwell's Saxon series. Straight historical fiction set in the time of Alfred the Great. Very satisfying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories

I don't, as a rule, care for Cornwell, but this one sounds pretty cool.

It's much more satisfying than his Sharpe series, which is written to a pretty strict formula.

[CountDeMoney]

Racking my brain, but I don't think I've read a book series since I was a kid since so much of it is sci-fi/fantasy or historical fiction, and that's just not my thing.

The Cat Who... ?

Oh, fuck that gimmicky shit.  Like the one with the bail bonds chick running around solving mysteries that my mother keeps trying to pawn on me.  YOUD LIKE IT

[crazy canuck]

I've already hyped the hell out of Aubrey/Maturin.

My work is done.

You stole my thunder

[Grey Fox]

Fantasy with a lot of tropes.

http://riyria.blogspot.ca/p/books.html

Buy them, it's good fun reading.