I'm linking up with The Broke and the Bookish for another Top Ten Tuesday.
This week's topic, new series I want to start, defines "new" as published within the last year or two. However, I read series so rarely that it was difficult to come up with ten series total I want to read that would be new to me, so we're going to run with that. (I'm leaving out books that are technically part of a series but are generally recommended as stand-alone books.)
1. Discworld by Terry Pratchett
I have actually read two books in this series, first Going Postal (which I remember fairly well) and then The Color of Magic (about which I remember nothing). So many of the different books in this series have been recommended to me at one time or another that I figure I might as well commit to eventually reading them all through in order.
2. Famous Five by Enid Blyton
My friend from New Zealand mentioned these books and was amazed that I wasn't familiar with them. They're a well-known series of children's books in the British Commonwealth and were mentioned frequently in Family Matters, a book set in India I read recently. I probably won't read all 21 of them, but I can get a compilation of the first three books from our library.
3. The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
I'm not much of a fan of epic fantasy, but Eragon has had staying power and the whole series has good ratings, so I'll give it a try.
4. The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare
References to both of Clare's series have been popping up more and more recently, so I plan to get caught up... eventually.
5. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Nope, I've never read them. I read The Hobbit in middle school and found it so terrifically boring that I never had any interest in picking up this series. But I don't feel like I can call myself a true book buff until I've tackled them.
6. Mark of the Lion by Francine Rivers
Rivers' Redeeming Love is one of my favorite books, so when I saw that this series had incredibly high ratings on Goodreads, I decided to put it on my to-read list.
7. The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare
Again, this is my attempt to get caught up on at least one series that's been popular recently.
8. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
I came across this in my quest to branch out from all the white American authors I typically read. It's a four-volume autobiographical graphic novel of Satrapi's life growing up in Iran. I have a few Iranian-American friends but have not read much set in this country, and I have yet to read a graphic novel, though I want to, so I'm looking forward to this series.
9. Outlander by Diane Gabaldon
Anne Bogel has been gushing about this series a lot lately, and I've seen references to it all over with the TV series starting up. It's been recommended I read it as an audiobook to experience the Scottish brogue, so that's probably what I'll do.
10. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
Nothing I've heard about this series (e.g., high fantasy, violence) makes it sound like my kind of books, but like with Lord of the Rings, I might as well tackle it eventually. I think I'll wait until Martin's finished writing it, though.
Reading a series is a commitment, which is one reason I read so few of them. Which series do you consider worth tackling?
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