Next Series Read--2019

[Maggie, The Malazan Queen of Chaos]

This thread is to nominate our next series! Completed series only please!

Since we have been losing too many readers deciding on series a year ahead of time, for this nomination we will only be looking at the next series when our current series finish up in December.....

Nominate any series that we have not already read, and that are finished. Everyone has one nomination and one second. We will vote on all seconded series and have a run off of the top two vote getters.

Happy Nominating!

[DylSyl]

I'm not sure if you have read this, since I'm new to this group, but I recommend both:

1.) "Assassin's Apprentice" by Robin Hobb
2.) "Green Rider" by Kristen Britain

Thank you!

[Nyssa]

Welp. I completely failed my reading goals for 2018, but I want to try again.

I'd like to nominate The Hollows by Kim Harrison.

If we include the bonus stories, then the series begins with The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death. If we want to stick to the main novels, then it starts with Dead Witch Walking.

[Maggie, The Malazan Queen of Chaos]

Dylan wrote: "I'm not sure if you have read this, since I'm new to this group, but I recommend both:

1.) "Assassin's Apprentice" by Robin Hobb
2.) "Green Rider" by Kristen Britain

Thank you!"

We read the WHOLE Realm of the Underlings of Hobb's, which includes the assassin's trio

[Maggie, The Malazan Queen of Chaos]

I was thinking we need some Carol Berg! How about the Bridge of D'anarth series starting with Son of Avonar

[Maggie, The Malazan Queen of Chaos]

Nyssa wrote: "Welp. I completely failed my reading goals for 2018, but I want to try again.

I'd like to nominate
The Hollows
by Kim Harrison.

If we include the bonus stories, then the seri..."

Nyssa--I love some Hollows, but we try to stick with Epic Fantasy here in this group....

[Nyssa]

Maggie wrote: "Nyssa wrote: "Welp. I completely failed my reading goals for 2018, but I want to try again.

I'd like to nominate
The Hollows
by Kim Harrison.

If we include the bonus stories, ..."

Oh. Okay. Then I'll have to see what others suggest. You guys have already read my other suggestions.

[Fer]

Hi! I'm new to this group too, but I would like to suggest first Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, but I'm not sure if you already have read the series or if it counts for this group.

The second nominated series is the Septimus saga. I don't know too many fantasy series, unfortunately.

[Kathi, There’s no such thing as too many books!]

Not a nomination, but a reminder that if anyone is reading the Sword of Truth series with me, I will continue the discussion through Book 11, which will go through March of 2019. So it will not be an “official” 2019 series read but I will continue posting the threads and comments in the Sword of Truth folder.

[Timothy]

Good omens by Neil gaiman
The color of magic by Terry Pritchett

[Kathi, There’s no such thing as too many books!]

An easy way to see if the group has read a series is to click on “Discussions” and scroll down past the “Off Topic”, “Roundtable”, and “Suggestions for future series” folders. The folders for the series the group has read in the past start there.

The Dark Tower series has been read.

[Kathi, There’s no such thing as too many books!]

Maggie wrote: "I was thinking we need some Carol Berg! How about the Bridge of D'anarth series starting with Son of Avonar"

I will second this nomination.

[Kathi, There’s no such thing as too many books!]

I will nominate Kate Elliott’s Crossroads Trilogy (Spirit Gate, Shadow Gate, and Traitors' Gate).

[Bill]

I would like to nominate The Cycle of Fire trilogy by Janny Wurts. Starts with Stormwarden

I’ll second the Crossroads trilogy.

[Kathi, There’s no such thing as too many books!]

Bill wrote: "I would like to nominate The Cycle of Fire trilogy by Janny Wurts. Starts with Stormwarden

I’ll second the Crossroads trilogy."

Ooo, if I hadn't already seconded something, I would second this! Fingers crossed that someone else does!

[Annezo]

Kathi wrote: "I will nominate Kate Elliott’s Crossroads Trilogy (Spirit Gate, Shadow Gate, and Traitors' Gate)."


I will second this nomination.

[Kathi, There’s no such thing as too many books!]

Timothy wrote: "Good omens by Neil gaiman
The color of magic by Terry Pritchett"
Timothy, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch is not a series, although it is a wonderful book!
The Color of Magic is the first of the Discworld books. Are you nominating the whole Discworld series or just the Discworld books that are considered Rincewind books?

Nominated and seconded:
Bridge of D’anarth series by Carol Berg starting with Son of Avonar
Crossroads series by Kate Elliott starting with Spirit Gate
The Books of the Raksura series by Martha Wells starting with The Cloud Roads
Cycle of Fire series by Janny Wurts starting with Stormwarden
Belgariad series by David Eddings starting with Pawn of Prophecy
Green Rider series by Kristen Britain starting with Green Rider

Nominated but not yet seconded:
Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage starting with Magyk
The Acts of Caine series by Matthew Woodring Stover starting with Heroes Die
Shadowleague series by Maggie Furey starting with The Heart of Myrial

Keep ‘em coming!

[Marcin]

I'd like to nominate something not that fresh, but a whole cycle nonetheless - I know it's been translated to some languages (most central- and east-european languages, I believe Chinese or Japanese was in the works years back) and as far as I know there were plans for even further translations/adaptations in the works (last I checked, so about 20 years ago ;) english, french, german, spanish and portugese to name a few, but this is still fairly unknown outside the centr-eastern area of Europe), so here goes my suggestion of 'Скитальцы Series' by Marina Dyachenko and Sergey Dyachenko - just 4 books in total, with omnibus versions also found in some languages, with the 1st book of the series being: Привратник

[Kathi, There’s no such thing as too many books!]

Marcin wrote: "I'd like to nominate something not that fresh, but a whole cycle nonetheless - I know it's been translated to some languages (most central- and east-european languages, I believe Chinese or Japanes..."

Is this series available in English?

[Helen]

I'm shocked that we haven't read the amazing series by Martha Wells, who is currently being people attention with Murderbot, that starts with The Cloud Roads.

Initially this seemed to be a trilogy but there are now five books. There are also two collections of short stories.

The stories are quite different to most fantasy series', I've read the first three but want to reread them to read the other two.

[Janny]

Helen wrote: "I'm shocked that we haven't read the amazing series by Martha Wells, who is currently being people attention with Murderbot, that starts with The Cloud Roads.

Initial..."

I will second The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells. Excellent read!!

[Vera]

I will second Cycle of Fire by Janny Wurts and I nominate David Eddings Belgariad starting with Pawn of Prophecy as I have not seen this in the bookshelf as read by the group already. If i missed it I am sorry.

[Maggie, The Malazan Queen of Chaos]

Marcin wrote: "I'd like to nominate something not that fresh, but a whole cycle nonetheless - I know it's been translated to some languages (most central- and east-european languages, I believe Chinese or Japanes..."

Marcin, we need the English link if we are going to consider this....it sounds interesting!

[Maggie, The Malazan Queen of Chaos]

We have a few really great nominations! I will leave this up a few more days to see if we get any more, but need to make the poll soon!

[Helen]

I'll second Pawn of Prophecy series. Hate to waste my second :)

[Kevin]

I nominate The Acts of Caine by Matthew Woodring Stover starting with Heroes Die https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

[Kathi, There’s no such thing as too many books!]

Timothy wrote: "Good omens by Neil gaiman
The color of magic by Terry Pritchett"

Timothy, could you take a look at Message #17 and see if you want to clarify your nomination?

[Laura]

Since both Cycle of Fire and Crossroads have already been selected, I'd like to nominate Shadowleague by Maggie Furrey starting with The Heart of Myrial
and I'll second Green Rider

[Marcin]

Kathi wrote: "Marcin wrote: "I'd like to nominate something not that fresh, but a whole cycle nonetheless - I know it's been translated to some languages (most central- and east-european languages, I believe Chi..."

I'm pretty sure TorBooks worked on and published in English - I was given such book (#2 in cycle) bought by a friend at Amazon (it's here as well - titled The Scar, though I've traded it soon as I had Polish version of the whole cycle already... I do remember that the Russian publisher AST also worked on the cycle under the working title of "The Wanderers" in cooperation with Barnes&Noble for international support but I couldn't find the links here... There only vague notes of the cycle at such sites as https://dyachenkowriters.com/wanderers/ that I could locate with the #2 book being touted as a success, though for the other 3 - I've tried Amazon, B&N and Kobo to no avail... unfortunately. Perhaps some Russian or Ukrainian members can shed some more light on the matter.

[Kathi, There’s no such thing as too many books!]

Marcin wrote: "I’m pretty sure TorBooks worked on and published in English - I was given such book (#2 in cycle) bought by a friend at Amazon (it's here as well - titled The Scar, though... "

From my research, only The Scar by Marina Dyachenko from that series is available in English, and yes, it was published by Tor. As far as I can tell, the other books in the series were not published in English by Tor or anyone else. There are a couple other books by Dyachenko available in English, but they are not part of this series. So I don’t think this series is eligible.

[Maggie, The Malazan Queen of Chaos]

ok-I am going to set up a poll for what we have seconded. Go vote!