Know of any special series books?

The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon is unusual and I adore the main characters. It is romance, time travel, wars, a little bit of everything.

I love the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evonavich. They are funny, quirky… I guess you would call them mysteries; she works for her uncle as a bounty hunter after losing her job as a lingerie buyer at a department store.

There are the three who write about Italy: Donna Leon, Michael Dibdon and David Hewson; See this site for dozens of other suggestions: http://italian-mysteries.com/index.html

Elizabeth George, Martha Grimes, Ngiao Marsh, Josephine Tey, Agatha Christie, Reginald Hall, Robert Barnard all have English detectives, except for Hercule Poirot, who is Belgian.
Dozens more here

Google: Mysteries <country> detective; ie. mysteries Swedish detective

Don’t be afraid of Old School stuff. Sherlock Holmes has been famous for 100 years for a reason!

Christopher Pike’s The Last Vampire series. It has a very interesting plotline of this vampire who is being hunted down in the modern day, knowing that she’s probably the last one. Filled with fantasy, action and sex, it’s quite unique. It’s like an high-budget movie done in a B Movie style.

I read this book when I was around 15… Perhaps I shouldn’t have mentioned the sex part..

Harry Potter and twilight are deffinitely favorites!

Sherlock Holmes is truly one for all time. Lurve for that, @filmfann. All 56 short stories and 4 novels are as wonderful as ever.

In fact, there are numerous great detective series, if you like that sort of thing. Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe is as original a character as Sherlock Holmes, albeit of a different sort. Agatha Christie had several, including Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple (both successfully adapted for BBC productions). I liked the Gervase Fen books and also the Dr. Gideon Fell series. All of these are British detective stories.

Mustn’t forget G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown mysteries, either. Like the Holmes tales, these are short stories. Father Brown is another original character.

And there is Dorothy L. Sayers’ marvelous Lord Peter Wimsey. The foursome that make up the Harriet Vane stories are forever popular, but there were several others, such as The Nine Tailors.

You might like The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, which is current and engaging even though very lightweight.

The Fletch books are great, as are the Mrs. Polifax books.

@Supacase- I will adore you forever. I love the Outlander books. (Excited for An Echo in the Bone?) To add to that though, Outlander really has a little bit of everything… romance, history, mystery, action, time travel… They are all healthy sized book so they’ll entertain you to no end.

Another suggestion, the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. Wiki describes it as “a comedic fantasy book series… set on the Discworld, a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the back of a giant turtle…. frequently parody, or at least take inspiration from, J. R. R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft and William Shakespeare, as well as mythology, folklore and fairy tales, often using them for satirical parallels with current cultural, political and scientific issues.”
And… I’ve never actually read the books, but I’ve been meaning to!

Almost everything by P. G. Wodehouse has been favourites of mine since high school.

I strongly second the Terry Pratchett and Dorothy Sayers reccos.

The Dirk Gently-series by Douglas N. Adams (The same guy that wrote The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)

Try the Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. Excellent stuff.