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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,728,611 ratings — published 1997
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,206,933 ratings — published 2008
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,059,975 ratings — published 2006
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.66 — 715,138 ratings — published 2010
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.11 — 402,220 ratings — published 2017
Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1)
by (shelved 12 times as series-first)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,978,017 ratings — published 2002
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,799,124 ratings — published 1996
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.20 — 434,602 ratings — published 1995
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.17 — 194,728 ratings — published 2019
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,512,550 ratings — published 2015
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.56 — 3,878,463 ratings — published 2023
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,498,015 ratings — published 1985
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,511,283 ratings — published 2005
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as series-first)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,144,200 ratings — published 2012
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.30 — 356,171 ratings — published 2006
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.02 — 568,054 ratings — published 2011
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,201,927 ratings — published 2015
Leviathan Wakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.31 — 335,116 ratings — published 2011
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as series-first)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,376,536 ratings — published 2011
Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as series-first)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,212,811 ratings — published 2015
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,179,884 ratings — published 1991
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as series-first)
avg rating 3.99 — 387,906 ratings — published 2011
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,468,209 ratings — published 2011
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,207,037 ratings — published 2007
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,064,363 ratings — published 1979
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,112,194 ratings — published 2007
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 3.90 — 677,858 ratings — published 1982
The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.29 — 102,268 ratings — published 2024
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 3.85 — 848,309 ratings — published 2020
Ninth House (Ninth House Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.00 — 418,263 ratings — published 2019
Pestilence (The Four Horsemen, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 3.86 — 134,430 ratings — published 2018
Beartown (Beartown, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.28 — 647,307 ratings — published 2016
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.10 — 256,684 ratings — published 2018
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.14 — 164,085 ratings — published 2017
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.08 — 243,683 ratings — published 2017
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.22 — 331,502 ratings — published 2006
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.27 — 937,099 ratings — published 2014
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,240 ratings — published 2014
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.23 — 360,728 ratings — published 2015
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 3.97 — 565,082 ratings — published 2001
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 3.99 — 431,072 ratings — published 1983
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.03 — 443,849 ratings — published 2015
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,838,501 ratings — published 2012
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,634,163 ratings — published 2012
Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.06 — 483,879 ratings — published 2008
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,222,064 ratings — published 1954
The Bone Season (The Bone Season, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 3.85 — 107,374 ratings — published 2013
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,736,272 ratings — published 2009
We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as series-first)
avg rating 4.05 — 201,199 ratings — published 2024
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as series-first)
avg rating 3.75 — 252,098 ratings — published 2022