This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is Top 10 Finished Series I Have Yet to Finish.
If a whole series is out, I have a tendency to marathon through the whole thing. The problem with this is that I’m stuck in the same world for too long and since I’m also a writer, it’s really important for me to continually be exposed to all kinds of writing, not just within my genre but outside of it also (though I need to get better about the latter part here because I read so much YA fantasy/sci-fi I know I really am missing out on the other genres). So lately, my goal has been to slow down the rate at which I power through series. In order to do this, I’ve picked up several series which has forced me to read book 1 of each series first, then book 2 and so on. It does kill me though sometimes because when I finish a really good book I think to myself that I could just jump in my car, run to the library and pick up the sequel, it’s only with a ton of willpower that I manage to stop myself.
In no real order, these are the series that I haven’t finished yet. With my TBR constantly piling up with other finished series, I’m not sure when I’ll actually finish some of these…I’m working on it.
10. Percy Jackson & The Olympians
9. The Hollows Series
There’s like 13 novels and several novellas so I’m not going to picture them all, but these are the first three.
8. The Otherworld Series
There is also 13 books in this series plus several novellas. Here are the first three titles.
7. The Princess Academy Series
6. The Paper Magician Series
5. A Song of Ice and Fire Series
I know this one isn’t finished yet, so it doesn’t technically count, but with just two more books forthcoming I’m going to include it anyway.
4. The Leviathan Series
3. The Legend Series
2. His Fair Assassin Series
1. The Shatter Me Series
So that’s my Top 10 Finished Series I Have Yet to Finish. I’m always expanding my TBR, though it is truly endless, but if you have any suggestions for series that I might enjoy, please let me know!
Nicolette Elzie 
The Paper Magician Series looks interesting – are they any good? 🙂
I really enjoyed the first two! I’m not huge into world building, so the fact that the setting is in pre-automobile England and that the main character’s language is modern didn’t bother me. I tend to connect more to characterization and the story being told that other details that some people need. I’d definitely recommend them. I enjoyed the story, the steampunk nature of the world the author built was explained enough for me to be satisfied and overall I thought the pacing make it a super fast read. Let me know if you do end up picking it up and your thought! I love talking about books I’ve read! 🙂
Will do! They sound like interesting books. 🙂
Ah The Song of Ice and Fire. I’m currently rereading that one. I’m trying to pace myself so that I complete the last published book around the time the next one will be published, whenever that is.
I’ve started and stopped the first book so many times. I have no real reason for this madness either, I think at the time I was caught up in school so I just neglected pleasure reading entirely and then never went back, but I seriously intend to!
Oh yea. It’s hard to read for pleasure sometimes when you’re drowned in required reading.
Yes! And I was a creative writing major in college so the required reading was practically endless. I think it was sort of an inside joke among the professors that we’d never ever actually read everything they assigned, and I have a feeling they enjoyed watching us flounder. Lol 🙂
Lol hahaha! I agree with you there. Some of the books I didn’t entirely read or enjoy until after college. I was an English major and I found it hard to read for pleasure during those years sometimes.
Yes, you totally get me! I would read in spurts, like during the winter break and the summer, but come fall and spring, nope. One of those books that I didn’t get to fully appreciate until after college was The Great Gastby. I love that book though so much and wish I had that appreciation for it back then, would’ve been a little helpful 🙂
Me too! I read it in high school though and hated it then. I reread it before watching the movie and loved it. Some of the required books surprised me though like Junot Diaz’s Oscar Wao and Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills. I was surprised I liked them.
OMG, that’s the same time I reread Gatsby too! Lol!! 🙂
Haha.