# What are your favorite series novels? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [January 26, 2024, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-series-novels/996646 "2024-01-26T02:18:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-series-novels/996646/1 "2024-01-26T02:18:00Z")
Mine are Donald Hamilton’s Matt Helm, very different from the films, and Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-series-novels/996646/2 "2024-01-26T02:22:02Z")
Modesty Blaise, followed by The Destroyer. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-series-novels/996646/3 "2024-01-26T02:22:08Z")
The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. ---
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Philip Kerr’s [14 Bernie Gunther novels](https://berniegunther.com/thebooks/). Alas, Kerr died in 2018 so there won’t be any more. ---
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Donald E. Westlake’s Dortmunder books are a treasure to be treasuredly treasured. Also, Sue Grafton’s alphabet series. Don’t tell mrs. dirtball, but I might just be in love with Kinsey Millhone. ---
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Tarzan and Pellucidar once upon a time. In recent years Discworld. ---
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This is completely different from a novel series… > [@Favorite novel series](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-novel-series/994191): > > I have read several book series that have the same central character in each novel the following are some of my favorites. I’m sure that this has been done previously, but a refresh is always fun. Donald Westlake (aka Richard Stark) Parker series, there are 24 novels included in this series spanning 1962 - 2008. Parker (one of the original anti-heroes) is a career criminal heist man, who is willing to murder but lives by an ethical code, that he will not double cross another criminal he is wo… ---
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I recall the name Modesty Blaise, but I have no idea about the books. ---
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P. G. Wodehouse: the Blandings Castle books, then [ƒanƒare, please] the Wooster and Jeeves series. ---
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_Outlander_, Diana Gabaldon. ---
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_The Sea of Fertility_ set and the Aubrey/Maturin collection (esp. the one from Norton). ---
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There are thirteen books in the series, not to mention decades of comic strips and comic books. ---
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_Discworld_ by Terry Pratchett. _Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn_ by Tad Williams. ---
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The _Middle Fork time travel_ series by Shawn Inmon. ---
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> [@GuanoLad](#): > > _Discworld_ by Terry Pratchett. Yep. LotR. _Rivers of London_ Ben Aaronovitch Nero Wolfe by Rex Stout. ---
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> [@AHunter3](#): > > The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. Do you watch the show? Big fans in our household, been watching since the first episode. It will air its final season in 2025. ---
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> [@GuanoLad](#): > > _Discworld_ by Terry Pratchett. I’m not a big series reader, but this was the best one that had a lot of books to it. I think the Harry Potter series was perfection, but has been over for 16 year…if you can believe it. ---
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> [@DrDeth](#): > > Nero Wolfe by Rex Stout. Excellent stuff. What do think of Robert Goldsborough? I recently read “Archie Goes Home” wherein Archie visits his Mother in the Mid West. It is ridiculous, of course. Archie has no Mother, he sprang fully grown from Wolfe’s forhead. ---
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The Bosch series by Michael Connelly. The Longmire series by Craig Johnson, although his last offering was poor. The Prey series by John Sandford. Way back in the day I was a Hardy Boys fan. And I really liked the H. Ryder Haggard books about Alan Quatermain, although I’m not sure if you could call that a series. I think I read all 14 of the Oz books. ---
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Another _Bosch_ vote. Walter Mosely’s _Easy Rawlins_ The Ian Rankin _Rebus_ series. Val McDermid’s _Carol Jordan/Tony Hill_ books. Stuart MacBrides’s _Logan McCrae_. Westlake’s _Dortmunder_ and _Parker._ Lawrence Bloch’s _Scudder_ and _Keller_ . Louise Penny: _Inspector Gamache._ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-series-novels/996646.md?page=2)