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What saga with at least 5 books is absolutely worth the read?
What saga with at least 5 books is absolutely worth the read?
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Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy counts. And yes the books put the movie to shame.
Stephen King… The Dark Tower series!
Discworld.
First law series from Joe Abercrombie if grimdark fantasy clicks for you, all the books not just the first trilogy.
The Expanse
The berenstein bears
Not sure what you mean by “saga”, but I’m finishing up my third time through The Expanse series and it holds up.
For maybe a more “saga” series, Malazan Book of the Fallen is absolutely epic. World building to the nth degree. Plus there are a bunch of related books that add on to the story once you are done with the primary series. You can get lost in those worlds for a LONG time.
David Eddings the belgarion novels. Some say it too similar to Tolkien, but I loved the series.
The Black Company Chronicles
Nancy Drew
A series of unfortunate events
I liked Cirque du Freak. I think it was 12 books. Read it as a kid but there is a chance it sucked(vampire series) and I’m remembering it wrong.
Horatio Hornblower – by C.S. Forester
If you’re into Fantasy, The Wheel of Time is my favourite series of all time. I’m currently on my 5th reread and it just keeps getting better.
Stormlight Archives (if I get to count the novellas)
Anything by Sanderson tbh.
Red Rising, by Pierce Brown
Animorphs
Raymond Feist’s Riftwar Saga
Edit: screwed the name up
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi.
If you like fantasy, The Incarnations of Immortality, Dragonriders of Pern, and Dragonlance Chronicles are all amazing
Dresden Files by Jim Butcher.
I also heard good things about his Codex series, but I haven’t read them myself.
The Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull was one of my favorites growing up. I got the first book at a scholastic book fair and read the rest as they got published. The worldbuilding skills that Mull has (if my memory serves me right) was wonderful.
I really love the girl with the dragon tattoo, even though the last two were written by someone attempting to continue the original author’s work.
The Death Gate Cycle by Weis & Hickman
Depends on your age really
Repairman jack was cool.
Valdemar. Arrows trilogy, Winds trilogy, By the Sword, and then Storm trilogy, in that order. There are a lot more but honestly, the quality is all over the map (and mostly downhill after the author married a guy who thinks he can write but absolutely cannot). But those ten books are amazing.
I liked a series of unfortunate events , as a kid.
The Malazan Book of the Fallen is the only series I have enjoyed enough to read more than 10 books of, I love the memorable characters. It also has a very deep and detailed world, magic system, and god pantheon, if that’s your sort of thing
One fantasy series I like a lot that I don’t hear mentioned often is the Deverry novels by Katherine Kerr. The stories kind of jump around but there’s a thread of reincarnation that connects them, and the various magic elements are pretty interesting.
James Clavell’s asian saga, which starts with Shogun (set ca. 1600 Japan) and ends with Whirlwind (set ca. 1979 in Iran). They weren’t written chronologically but I recommend reading them that way. I’ve reread all of the books at least twice, some a half dozen times.
Mission earth. (No, I’m not a scientologist.)
The Bartimaeus Cycle, but there are only four books, I think.
Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy.