need a new book series to read

Boxcar children FTW

Kingkiller Chronicles or Mistborm Trilogy

(All links are to amazon's kindle edition)

Wool

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This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.

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Old Man's War (the first in a trilogy)

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John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.

The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and aliens willing to fight for them are common. The universe, it turns out, is a hostile place.

So: we fight. To defend Earth (a target for our new enemies, should we let them get close enough) and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has gone on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.

Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force, which shields the home planet from too much knowledge of the situation. What's known to everybody is that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You'll serve your time at the front. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.

John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine-and what he will become is far stranger.

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Boneshaker (the first in the Clockwork Century Series)

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In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.



But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.



Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue’s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.



His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.

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<--this starts a massive, alternative history story in which the Civil War is still going on in the 1880s, among other things...

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Not terribly heavy on witches and wizards and dragons and crap, if you don't like high fantasy.

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sounds right up my alley.

thanks for the suggestions.

I also recommend George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman series. Additionally, I would suggest the six volume Saxon Tales by Bernard Cornwell and the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian.

Have you read The Bourne Trilogy by Ludlum yet?

Kay scarpetta series (Patricia Cornwell) is very good.

The Bible

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The Bible

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very underrated fiction title

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the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian.

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Excellent series although not much like the one he just finished.

The Kay Scarpetta series is one I started off liking but wanted to violently kill the main character and author by the time I gave up on it. Same for the Dave Robicheaux series. The quality of both fell off horribly.

A series to consider that is similar in a lot of ways to Game of Thrones is the Amber series by Zelazny. Very different writing style but similar theme.