Foundation: A nonfiction series! This one is about the history of England, and I liked the first well enough to keep going through the five volumes.
Shatter Me: I am not usually a YA fantasy-type person, but this one hooked me enough that I'm interested in reading at least the next two to see how I feel about continuing through all...six, I think?
Oryx and Crake: Margaret Atwood + post-apocolyptic series = something I am into. Only read the first, but have the other two already!
In The Woods: Lots of people have told me that this series about Irish police detectives doesn't necessarily have to be read in order but I am a traditionalist and will only read them that way. Only read the first so far but have heard the second is the best so I'm looking forward to that one!
The Tudor and Plantangent Novels: I've read several of these books about the Wars of the Roses and the Tudor dynasty but not all of them! They're not actually like high-quality literature but they're cheesy reading fun.
The Talented Mr. Ripley: The movie version is enjoyable so I don't know why my expectations were so low for the original book. Turns out the book is great too and I want to read more about Ripley!
Wolf Hall: I found the first one a little sloggy but the second excellent and have heard rave reviews on the third (which just came out and I have not yet read).
Sloppy Firsts: I'm definitely too old for these books, but loved this diary of a cynical New Jersey teenager and am very much interested in the four following books!
Sabriel: I've read the original trilogy repeatedly, but I haven't yet read the two new books!
Gilead: I was spellbound by this lovely book, which has three sequels that I'm eager to read.
Great list! I need to read the two newer Abhorsen books, too, and I need to cross Wolf Hall off my TBR now that the trilogy is finally finished.
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering if there are going to be any other new books in the Old Kingdom set? For some reason I'd thought it was going to be a trilogy as well
DeleteMay you find time to finish all of these series soon!
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Fingers crossed!
DeleteThe Sloppy Firsts was a fun series, and I loved all the Gilead books (I hear there is a new one coming out this fall.)
ReplyDeleteYes, I think the fourth book in the Gilead series is coming out in the fall. I was really pleasantly surprised by how well I responded to the first one!
DeleteI thought the same with Wolf Hall - first one was very hard work, second one was great! I hope the Mirror and the Light lives up to it.
ReplyDeleteI've heard great things about it, so I hope so!
DeleteI recently re-read the first 3 Jessica Darling books (starting with Sloppy Firsts) and it just didn't really hold up. I was going to read books 4 and 5 (which I hadn't read originally) but gave up partway into 4 because it had seemed like maybe she was growing up but quickly became apparent that wasn't the case. She was pretty homophobic even for the time in which this was written. ALSO I thought Marcus Flutie was so dreamy the first time I read these, and now I think he's just useless, lazy, and won't make even the minimal amount of effort in their relationship. Not that I have strong feelings here or anything, LOL.
ReplyDeleteInteresting! I did not notice a ton of homophobia in the first one, if I recall correctly, but I'll be more on the lookout for it in the second when I get to it. It's hard to think about how much more prevalent it was back then...as someone who graduated from high school in 2003, people in my small town constantly used "gay" to mean "stupid" in a way that feels shocking today!
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