novel-cycle · complete
Voyages extraordinaires
by Jules Verne
Jules Verne's principal cycle of adventure and science-fiction novels and associated story collections, published during his lifetime and posthumously.
61 books · View reading order →
Series by book count
Longest book series
bibliography · completed
Seamus Heaney poetry and poetic booklets
Original poetry collections, chapbooks, broadsides, and limited poetic publications by Seamus Heaney.
60 books · View reading order →
shared-universe · ongoing
Forgotten Realms
A shared fantasy setting containing Salvatore's Drizzt novels, related novels, graphic works, and short-fiction collection.
52 books · View reading order →
graphic-fiction series · ongoing
Hellboy
by Mike Mignola
The supernatural adventures of Hellboy, an investigator for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense.
52 books · View reading order →
character series · complete
Hercule Poirot
Mysteries featuring Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.
47 books · View reading order →
shared universe · ongoing
Honorverse
by David Weber
The shared fictional universe encompassing Honor Harrington, Manticore, Haven, and related series and anthologies.
45 books · View reading order →
series · ongoing
The Legend of Drizzt
The long-running Forgotten Realms sequence centered on Drizzt Do'Urden and his companions.
44 books · View reading order →
shared-world · ongoing
Dragonlance
A shared-world fantasy saga set on Krynn, including novels, anthologies, illustrated works, and game-related books.
43 books · View reading order →
scholarly-edition-series · completed
Folger Shakespeare
A series of Shakespeare editions prepared for the Folger Shakespeare Library and edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine.
42 books · View reading order →
series · completed
Discworld
A completed sequence of comic fantasy novels set on a flat world carried through space by four elephants on the shell of the Great A'Tuin.
41 books · View reading order →
fiction series · ongoing
Jack Reacher
by Lee Child
A thriller series featuring Jack Reacher, a former military police major who travels without a fixed home and becomes involved in dangerous investigations.
40 books · View reading order →
critical-edition-series · completed
Folger Shakespeare Library Editions
Critical and annotated editions of Shakespeare's plays and poems edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine for the Folger Shakespeare Library.
39 books · View reading order →
fiction-series · ongoing
The Dresden Files
by Jim Butcher
An ongoing urban-fantasy detective series following wizard and private investigator Harry Dresden in modern Chicago, accompanied by novellas, short fiction, and graphic works.
39 books · View reading order →
universe · ongoing
Shannara
by Terry Brooks
A multigenerational fantasy saga set in the Four Lands and spanning the world's transition from the modern era into a magical future.
38 books · View reading order →
universe · ongoing
Alliance-Union Universe
A far-future science-fiction future history encompassing the Company Wars, merchanter societies, alien civilizations, and related historical eras.
35 books · View reading order →
novel · ongoing
Alex Cross
Crime-thriller series featuring Washington, D.C., detective and psychologist Alex Cross.
34 books · View reading order →
shared-world-series · ongoing
Darkover
Bradley's science-fantasy shared-world series about the lost Terran colony of Darkover and its descendants.
33 books · View reading order →
novel-series · completed
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt
by Anne Perry
Historical mystery novels following Thomas Pitt, his wife Charlotte, and their family and associates in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
32 books · View reading order →
corpus · complete
Corpus Aristotelicum
by Aristotle
The surviving body of works traditionally transmitted under Aristotle’s name, including the logical, theoretical, practical, and productive sciences.
32 books · View reading order →
children's-nonfiction-series · complete
How Did We Find Out?
by Isaac Asimov
Asimov's children's science-explanation series published by Walker.
32 books · View reading order →
cycle · complete
The Riftwar Cycle
An interconnected Midkemia fantasy cycle spanning the Riftwar, Empire, Krondor, Serpentwar, Riftwar Legacy, Legends, Conclave, Darkwar, Demonwar, and Chaoswar story arcs, with an illustrated companion volume.
31 books · View reading order →
fiction · complete
Culpepper Adventures
by Gary Paulsen
Comic adventures of Dunc Culpepper and Amos Binder.
30 books · View reading order →
picture-book-series · ongoing
How Do Dinosaurs...?
by Jane Yolen
A picture-book and board-book series about dinosaur behavior and everyday childhood situations, illustrated by Mark Teague.
30 books · View reading order →
graphic-fiction series · completed
B.P.R.D.
by Mike Mignola
The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense confronts occult and apocalyptic threats.
28 books · View reading order →
paranormal-fantasy-series · completed
Otherworld
A paranormal fantasy universe featuring werewolves, witches, ghosts, necromancers, demons, vampires, and other supernatural beings.
28 books · View reading order →
historical-fiction-series · ongoing
Sharpe
Historical military novels and separately published short fiction following Richard Sharpe from the wars in India through the Napoleonic Wars and beyond.
27 books · View reading order →
graphic-fiction series · completed
Abe Sapien
by Mike Mignola
Occult adventures of Abe Sapien within the Hellboy universe.
26 books · View reading order →
novel series · ongoing
Agent Pendergast
A thriller series featuring FBI Special Agent Aloysius X. L. Pendergast.
26 books · View reading order →
graphic-fiction series · completed
B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth
by Mike Mignola
The B.P.R.D. responds to a worldwide supernatural catastrophe.
26 books · View reading order →
novel-series · ongoing
Dragonriders of Pern
Anne McCaffrey's Pern fiction, including the main Pern novels, Harper Hall books, novellas, collections, and later collaborations with Todd McCaffrey.
26 books · View reading order →
novel · ongoing
Women's Murder Club
Crime series centered on four women who investigate murders in San Francisco.
26 books · View reading order →
series · completed
Discworld and related stage adaptations
Published stage adaptations of Pratchett's Discworld and other novels, principally adapted by Stephen Briggs.
25 books · View reading order →
novel-series · ongoing
Harry Bosch Series
Novels featuring retired or active LAPD detective Hieronymus Harry Bosch.
25 books · View reading order →
series · complete
The Iron Druid Chronicles
by Kevin Hearne
An urban-fantasy series about the two-thousand-year-old druid Atticus O'Sullivan and his allies, gods, monsters, and very good dogs.
25 books · View reading order →
novel-series · ongoing
Charlie Parker
An ongoing series of supernatural crime thrillers following private investigator Charlie Parker and his investigations into violent and occasionally otherworldly crimes.
24 books · View reading order →
novel-series · completed
William Monk
by Anne Perry
Historical mysteries featuring the amnesiac Victorian detective William Monk and nurse Hester Latterly.
24 books · View reading order →
series · ongoing
Sigma Force
A techno-thriller series about a covert DARPA-linked special operations team confronting scientific breakthroughs, historical secrets, and threats to global civilization.
23 books · View reading order →
shared-universe · ongoing
The Tortall Universe
A shared fantasy universe encompassing linked series about Tortall, its allies, and its history.
23 books · View reading order →
series · ongoing
Vorkosigan Saga
A character-driven science-fiction saga centered on the Vorkosigan family, Barrayar, and the wider interstellar society of the future.
23 books · View reading order →
mystery-series · ongoing
Chief Inspector Gamache
by Louise Penny
A continuing mystery series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and the community of Three Pines in Quebec.
22 books · View reading order →
series · ongoing
Foreigner
A long-running science-fiction series following Bren Cameron as interpreter and intermediary between humans and the atevi.
22 books · View reading order →
book series · active
Great Illustrated Classics
An illustrated series of abridged and adapted classic works for young readers, published by Waldman Publishing under its Baronet Books imprint.
22 books · View reading order →
novel series · complete
Redwall
A completed series of 22 children's fantasy novels set around Redwall Abbey and the woodland communities of Mossflower.
22 books · View reading order →
novel series · completed with an unfinished posthumous continuation
Aubrey-Maturin
Twenty completed naval novels about Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr Stephen Maturin, followed by a posthumously published unfinished continuation.
21 books · View reading order →
novella-series · completed
Christmas Novellas
by Anne Perry
Standalone Christmas mystery novellas featuring characters connected with Perry's Victorian series.
21 books · View reading order →
historical fantasy series · ongoing
Elemental Masters
Historical fantasy retellings involving elemental magicians in an alternate Earth.
21 books · View reading order →
series · ongoing
Elric of Melniboné
The saga of Elric, the albino emperor and sorcerer of Melniboné.
21 books · View reading order →
universe · ongoing
Kate Daniels World
An interconnected urban-fantasy universe centered on post-Shift Atlanta and its magical factions, with related stories following Kate, Hugh, Julie, Blood Heir, Wilmington, and Roman.
21 books · View reading order →
educational-edition-series · ongoing
Oxford School Shakespeare
by Roma Gill
Student editions of Shakespeare's plays with introductions, notes, commentary, and classroom materials; Roma Gill served as series editor and edited the listed volumes.
21 books · View reading order →
mixed-series · ongoing
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
by Rick Riordan
A modern fantasy series about Percy Jackson and other demigods confronting the gods, monsters, and prophecies of Greek mythology.
21 books · View reading order →
novel series · ongoing
The Lincoln Rhyme Series
Forensic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and detective Amelia Sachs investigate complex crimes, principally in New York City.
21 books · View reading order →
novel-series · ongoing
The Princess Diaries
by Meg Cabot
A young-adult series about Mia Thermopolis, a New York teenager who discovers she is the princess of Genovia.
21 books · View reading order →
novel · ongoing
Private
International private-investigation thrillers featuring the Private agency and its investigators.
20 books · View reading order →
edited series · complete
The Complete Works of George Orwell
Peter Davison's twenty-volume scholarly edition of George Orwell's novels, nonfiction, journalism, essays, letters, diaries, and other writings, prepared with Ian Angus and Sheila Davison.
20 books · View reading order →
graphic-art series · completed
The QB Papers
A completed series of twenty independently published large-format drawing sequences exploring recurring themes, characters, and visual ideas.
20 books · View reading order →
franchise · complete
A Series of Unfortunate Events
A thirteen-volume gothic children's novel sequence about the Baudelaire orphans, accompanied by related autobiographical, epistolary, activity, and promotional works.
19 books · View reading order →
shared-world · ongoing
Chronicles of Ixia and Sitia
An interconnected fantasy world encompassing the Study, Glass, Soulfinders, and Valek's Adventures books and companion fiction.
19 books · View reading order →
novel-series · ongoing
October Daye
An urban-fantasy series following October "Toby" Daye, a changeling knight navigating the fae world of the San Francisco Bay Area.
19 books · View reading order →
universe · ongoing
Powder Mage Universe
A shared flintlock-fantasy universe containing the Powder Mage and Gods of Blood and Powder trilogies, related short fiction, and a roleplaying-game supplement.
19 books · View reading order →
nonfiction-book-series · ongoing
Rich Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki's personal-finance and financial-education book series.
19 books · View reading order →