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Favourite series of books

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  1. Resurgam

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    What are you favourite series of books.

    Mine are the Sven Hassel ones about life in a German Penal battalion during WWII.
    The Spike Milligan war memoirs
    The books about Adam Bolitho, about the life and career of a sailor during Nelson's time by Alexander Kent.
     
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    Elementary.

    All the Sherlock Homes series`
     
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    Last series I read was Shade of Grey .... but probably not my favourite :)
     
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    Random one but Susan Cooper's series, The Dark Is Rising.
    Captivated me as a teenager.

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    The Three Investigators. Jupiter Jones is a legend.
     
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    Murakami IQ 1984 and the Christopher Brookmyre Jack Parlabane books. Oh, and quite obviously the colin Bateman Dan Starkey novels.
     
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    The Rebus novels and Conn Iggulden's Caesar and Genghis series. And the Sharpe books from when I was a lad.
     
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    The Belgariad and The Malloreon by David Eddings
     
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    I'm currently working my through this series of books. I find them absolutely riveting. I can't put them down. And the plots in them have so many twists, you just can't guess what happens next. Brilliant




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    Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy was very good.
     
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    Allan Mallinson series about the 6th Light Dragoons are good. Sort of Sharpe but more intellectual and better written about the rise of an officer cadet to full Colonel. There are 11 in the series so far.

    Also think the Spike Milligan war memoirs are brilliant and obviously Game of Thrones for fantasy style.
     
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    For me Sartre's The Roads to Freedom trilogy.

    A more recent thing I got into was David Peace's Red Riding stuff. The 1977 one is probably one of the bleakest books I have ever read. C4 made three films out of them a couple of years back despite Red Riding thing being a quadrilogy they kind of skipped over 1977.
     
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    The Dark Tower- Stephen King.
    Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy- Douglas Adams.
     
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    The Millenium trilogy.
     
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    To reciprocate based on screen names, Game Of Thrones - George R R Martin.
     
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    Rankin/Rebus and McDermid/Tony Hill books.
     
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    Absolute agreement. Outstanding from start to finish.
    Slightly lighter, tried any Jo Nesbo Harry Hole novels?
     
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    Martin Cruz Smith:
    Gorky Park
    Polar Star
    Red Square
    Havana Bay
    Wolves Eat Dogs
    Chernobyl, Stalin's Ghost
    Three Stations

    Arkady Renko
    Not everyones cup of tea, moi? I love the character.
     
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    [table="width: 500"]
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    [td]Flashman[/td]
    [td]George MacDonald Fraser[/td]
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    [td]Sherlock Holmes[/td]
    [td]Arthur Conan Doyle[/td]
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    [td]Shardlake[/td]
    [td]C.J. Sansom[/td]
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    [td]John Shakespeare[/td]
    [td]Rory Clements[/td]
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    [td]Elvis Cole[/td]
    [td]Robert Crais[/td]
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    [td]Jack Reacher[/td]
    [td]Lee Child[/td]
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    [td]Harry Bosch/Mickey Haller[/td]
    [td]Michael Connelly[/td]
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    [td]John Corey[/td]
    [td]Nelson DeMille[/td]
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    [td]Myron Bolitar[/td]
    [td]Harlan Coben[/td]
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    All of the Conn Iguldenn series based on Caesar, Ghengis Khan and Napoleon

    And Simon Scarrow's "grown up" series involving mainly the adventures of a couple of Roman soldiers. Easier reading than Conn Iguldenn and not maybe as slavishly true to history, but very entertaining nevertheless. (I say grown up because the same author writes a tandem series, aimed more at the young adult.)
     
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