I’ve taken the liberty of compiling a list of some of my favorite books. I would highly recommend any and all of them to anyone looking for a new story.
- The “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series by Rick Riordan
- The Lightning Thief
- The Sea of Monsters
- The Titan’s Curse
- The Battle of the Labyrinth
- The Last Olympian
- The “Septimus Heap” series by Angie Sage
- Magyk
- Flyte
- Physik
- Queste
- Syren
- Darke
- Fyre
- The “Lord of the Rings” series by J. R. R. Tolkien (technically not a series, but that’s a discussion for another day)
- The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Two Towers
- The Return of the King
- The “Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel” series by Michael Scott
- The Alchemyst
- The Magician
- The Sorceress
- The Necromancer
- The Warlock
- The Enchantress
- The “Ranger’s Apprentice” series by John Flanagan
- The Ruins of Gorlan
- The Burning Bridge
- The Icebound Land
- The Battle for Skandia
- The Sorcerer in the North
- The Siege of Macindaw
- Erak’s Ransom
- The Kings of Clonmel
- Halt’s Peril
- The Emperor of Nihon-Ja
- The Lost Stories
- The Royal Ranger
- The “Harry Potter” Series by J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- The “Unwanteds” series by Lisa McMann
- The Unwanteds
- Island of Silence
- Island of Fire
- Island of Legends
- Island of Shipwrecks
- Island of Graves
- The “Inheritance Cycle” by Christopher Paolini
- Eragon
- Eldest
- Brisingr
- Inheritance
- The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tokien
- The Lay of Sigurd and Gudrun by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Elder Edda (The Norse equivalent of the Oddysey. Speaking of which…)
- The Oddysey by Homer
- The Illiad by Homer
- Beowulf
- Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (I especially love the quote at the beginning of each chapter.)