Need a good book series

[Stilettoprefer]

Hey, I'm a 16 year old male and need a good series of books to read. Any suggestions??? No vampires or werewolves of any kind.

[MJ5150]

At your age, I read several of the "Adventure" series of books from Willard Price.

-Mike

[mid_life_crisis]

Why limit yourself to series? The first really good book I read as a youngster (13) was "The Godfather" by Mario Puzzo.
Too bad you eliminated the supernatural. There is an excellent series by Jim Butcher about a private eye in Chicago who is a wizard that advertises in the Yellow Pages. Well written, often amusing, sometimes thought provoking, plenty of action, suspense, and as a PI, you know he is solving mysteries. Read them in order if you decide to give them a try. "The Dresden Files".

I've just started reading Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone Mysteries, otherwise known as the Alphabet Mysteries.

[Stilettoprefer]

Thanks guys! Heading in to barns and nobles sometime soon and I'll check those out and By "no vampires or werewolves" I meent no twilight-ish crap. Classic supernatural are good.

[Bett]

I second "The Dresden Files"
The series they had of it on Sci-Fi was great, but they ended it after a season... I'd like to read the books some day too, but I haven't found them yet.

[Sonic_Death]

Kurt Vonnegut books feel like a series because of recurring themes and characters. I recommend them for people around your age.

Also, if you've ever seen the movie K-Pax, it is actually a trilogy of books which are very good.

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King is very entertaining as well if that's your kind of thing.

[UncleFluffy]

Not quite a series, but set in the same universe with many common characters: Iain M Bank's Culture novels:

Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
The State of the Art
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail

His "regular" fiction (written as Iain Banks, without the 'M') is also excellent.

[Simo98]

Anything by David Gemmell. He wrote several different series, but most of his books can be read as a single book quite easily. Probably my favourite author.

[DwaynieAD]

lord of the clans by christie golden

[MakiSupaStar]

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

[bwv1013]

vince flynn. cia/action/thriller kind of vibe.

[rockstarbassist]

The Dark Tower is tough to beat.
After Wizard and Glass it gets kinda drawn out but the ending is worth it.
I really want a movie series but it could never live up to the novels so it's fine just being King's lifes work.

[UncleFluffy]

Originally Posted by rockstarbassist

The Dark Tower is tough to beat.
After Wizard and Glass it gets kinda drawn out but the ending is worth it.
I really want a movie series but it could never live up to the novels so it's fine just being King's lifes work.

Dark Tower is very, very good, but if you're going to read it I'd strongly recommend reading a good pile of his other work first. The Dark Tower stuff is like a unifying thread that slips through the back of all his other stuff and if you read it first you may miss most of the references.

[UncleFluffy]

Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series

A Wizard of Earthsea
The Tombs of Atuan
The Farthest Shore
Tehanu
The Other Wind

Don't watch any of the TV adaptations, they completely miss the point.

[Basshappi]

I second the "Dresden Files" fantstic series, but it is filled with vampires and werewolves just not the pathetic "Twilight" kind.

The "Dune" series by Frank Herbert is fantastic.

also try;

The Thomas Covenant series by Stephen R. Donaldson

"Monster Hunter International" and "MHI: Vendetta" by Larry Corriea - again lots of vampires and werewolves but these books are so awesome you just have to read them!

The "Dream Park" trilogy by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steve Barnes (read everything by Niven & Pournelle)

The "Belgariad" & "Mallorian" trilogies by David Eddings

The "Foundation" series by Isaac Asimov

The "Wheel Of Time" series by Robert Jordan

The "Conan" series by Robert E. Howard

"The Hobbit" and "The Lord Of The Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien (the movies are great but are significantly diffent in many ways)

"The Space Trilogy" by C.S. Lewis

The "Myth" series by Robert Lynn Asprin

The "Empire Of Man" series by John Ringo

Everything written by H.P. Lovecraft

That should keep you busy for awhile.

[cheezewiz]

I love Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Series and his Arthur series.

[sbass traveller]

+1 for the Belgariad. I just finished it myself, but now I have to work my way through the Mallorean.

And another +1 for Bernard Cornwell books. The Sharpe series can keep you busy for a while.

[elgecko]

Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

That...you'll love it! It's a way of life!

[Bard2dbone]

How has no one here suggested Terry Pratchett's Discworld books?

These are the funniest writing in the English language. Pratchett took the cliches that you keep seeing in Fantasy fiction and played them for a laugh the way Douglas Adams did with the Hitchhikers Guide.

He also co-wrote a comedic re-telling of the Omen with Neil Gaiman, back before either of them were famous.

If you can read all the way through any of them without laughing out loud, then you should have your meds adjusted.

[Mark Latimour]

Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" universe is pretty cool. Start with The Hunt for Red October.