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Looking for good book series to read.. I mainly enjoy horror/ suspense and ya.

Looking for good book series to read.. I mainly enjoy horror/ suspense and ya.

Brandi #recommend #horror #suspense #young adult

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Lori

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Christina

Not a series but The Bird Box is one of my favorites.

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Jen

Yesssssss!! That book is the definition of horror/suspense! My heart was pounding the entire time reading it!

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Robin

Its going to be on Netflix in Dec 2018

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Jen

@Robin how?!!! Lol. I was wondering how that would be adapted to film since it’s mostly about what you don’t see.

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Robin

@Jen Not sure, but maybe i should read the book first. Has some good actors in it tho. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2737304/

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Brandi

I started this today based your recommendation! It’s fantastic!!!

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Christina

I hope you enjoy it at much as much as I did. I couldn’t stop thinking about it after I read it.

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Brandi

@Christina I’ll let you know!

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Amy

Louise Penny inspector Gamache series for lighter mystery.

Anything by Michael Koryta for something a little grittier. He’s got a few series (Lincoln Perry and Mark Novak) and several stand alone books. Some of his stuff has a supernatural vibe.

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Heather

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins is awesome but not a lot of horror. Suspense was good enough for me.

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Maya

The lunar chronicles, I really enjoyed it

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Jen

I just started Head full of Ghosts and it seems along these lines. Also, check out the Unwind Series!!

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Karen

Just read “The Rule of Four” – great intriguing read!

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Dean

Stephen king starts with Mr Mercedes

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Denise

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King.

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Michelle

Infected by Scott Sigler

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Becky

Bad Games by Jeff Menapace

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John

Anne Rice

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Aiza

Loved her witch series

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Barefoot

Read Sophie Hannah

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Cara

Jana DeLeon- Ghost in Law series, Fortune Redding series and the Shay Archer series. All very different series, all very worth your read.

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Kristina

Angelfall Series by Susan Ee (3 books) both me and my niece loved this one.

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Sheila

The Passage series is great.

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Debbie

Have you read anything by Scott Sigler? There’s the Infected trilogy. He has a YA trilogy that starts with the book Alive. That one is the Generations trilogy.

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Debbie

Warning…the language can get a little harsh to some. His horror is based on science. I read Infected and then went through anything by him that I could get my hands on. Ancestor is another good book by him. He’s currently working on the sequel to his book Earthcore.

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Sarah

The Passage series!!! Is favorite ever after Harry Potter!

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Ashley

The All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness! One of my favorite series!

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Kate

Joe Hill: not a series but terrific!

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Kate

He’s Stephen King’s son.

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Andrea

N0S4A2 is awesome, and I also loved Horns.

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Denise

Fireman.

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Amanda

@Andrea NOS4A2 gave me …sit up in bed, clutching my chest, nightmares. Read it 4 years ago or so. Still remember the nightmare. ?

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Amanda

It was awesome! ?

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Andrea

@Amanda: I was going to say, “In a good way, right?!” ?

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Kate

“He’s the pre-Bing thing!”

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Leslie

Among the Hidden by M Haddix. ya

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Andrea

“Bloodsucking Fiends” series from Christopher Moore.

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Becky

Rot and Ruin series and Ghost Road Blues series both by Jonathan Maberry

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Cass

The 12 , Brilliance

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Vici

I recently read Marcia Clark’s three piece series “Sarah Brinkman.” I was pleasantly surprised! Main character is a lawyer, and it just gets better from there. Blood Defense, Moral Defense, and Snap Judgment.

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Deborah

The strain by Guillermo del Toro

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Debbie

I read the The Strain trilogy. It was good but scary.

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Michelle

Loved The Strain!

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Irene

Instinct series by Robert W. Walker. Read them in order.

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Karen

Shenandoah Sisters series then the Carolina Cousins series. Both by Michael R Phillips

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Emily

Scythe series. It’s YA and kind of creepy!

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Donna

The Illuminae Files! Intense. Tons of action and suspense.

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Karen

The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen

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Zoe

The MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood. The first book is Oryx and Crake.

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Annette

I’m reading this now. It’s a slow start to get into it. I love Atwood. Hoping it picks up soon.

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Zoe

I thought it was a slow start too, but it ended up being so great! The 2nd book was my favorite.

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Pamela

This is good to know…..because the first one….though it got my attention….kind of fizzled out for me…..I will definitely keep reading the series…..I love Atwood!

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Sue

Frankenstein’s 200 birthday is this year NPR has a list of horror stories to read – it may surprise you.

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Teresa

The Winter Witch series by Katherine Arden.

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Jane

Great series cant wait for the third book!

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Teresa

Yes, I’m looking forward to it too.

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Annette

Alex Delaware by Jonathan Kellerman

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Lisa

The Dark Intercept,
A Secret History by Donna Tart. Neither are series but great reads.
Patricia Cornwell’s Scarpetta series is both horror and suspense. Scarpetta is the medical examiner, other characters continue through the series of nearly a dozen books

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Rachel

The Testing trilogy from Joelle Charbonneau. It is a suspenseful YA series.

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Bill

Yrsa Sigurdardottir’s Thora G…. Series pretty much fills the suspense/horror request. YA, go for Carl Hiaasen’s stuff, Chomp was hysterical.

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Maureen

Discover of witches

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Debbie

The Discovery of Witches series was great.

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Mary
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Mary

First of the series.

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Dayna

Dr. Gemasch series about a Canadian detective who solves murder mysteries surrounding the village of Three Pines. My favorite and first read was The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny.

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Debbie

I read Stilllife by Louise Penney and was totally hooked.

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Tammy

Harry Hole Series by Jo Nesbo

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Cass

Love Nesbo

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Gwenette

I have read several YA novels by Ashley Hope Perez.

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Jane

Ember in the ashes, loved it!

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Rory

Small As An Elephant…YA

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Vicki

The Oracle of the Delphi Keep by Laurie or Lauren something. YA fantasy with dark tones and suspense.

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Kim

K. R. Conway Undertow series. YA and great stories!!

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Kim

Jim Butcher’s Dresden files. I usually describe it as “if Stephen King wrote Harry Potter but mixed him with Sam Spade”. You’ve got blood and guts (especially in the first 2 books), but also faeries, gods, werewolves, vampires, warlocks, ghosts, Demons, ogres, trolls, angels, etc, can its currently winding down to what Butcher is referring to as the big apocalyptic Trilogy to end the series. (He’s doing 20 books and is currently finishing book 16).

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Kris

Neal Shusterman’s Unwind series. The man is good by psychologicaly disturbing!

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Janett

The discovery of witches (trilogy) last book in the series is the book of life. Could NOT put them down

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Laura

The Pendergast series by Preston and Child.

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Laura

I also liked Lincoln Child’s series Jeremy Logan.

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Kelly

My adult daughter likes the John Cleaver series by Dan Wells.

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Susan

Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods,” although it’s not a series.

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Mari

Theres at least a second book and a couple short stories

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Susan

What’s the second book?

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Mari

American Gods and Anansi Boys are “stand-alone novels in the same universe” though so I guess that might not count…

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Mari

https://www.goodreads.com/series/114135-american-gods

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Tolley

@Andrew Burke series

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Karina

Have you tried the Dreseden files? Not horror per se but theres a lot of blood and death.
As for suspense… my husband likes Preston and Childs books.
My brother likes Clive cussler books.
You could read the original novels of Jurrasic Park. And Cricton also did the classic Andromeda Strain.

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Lori

Anne Rice Vampire series

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Beth

YESSSSSSS!!!! loved those books! Queen of the Damned… Love!!

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Karina

Anne Bishop has some very dark themes in her others series.

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Rachel

I love Anne Bishop. Yes, she deals with some pretty heavy themes, but there is so much humor and tenderness in her books. I love them.

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Robin

@Rachel her jewal series is great also, i read it once a year

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Karina

@Robin I’ve debated starting them cause I’ve heard she gets darker. Have you tried Keri Arthur, Ilona Andrews, Meljean Brook or Seanan McGuire?

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Robin

@Karina none of those authors, going to check them out right now. The jewel series does have some dark areas but there is also so much love from many of her friends that stay with her for years.

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Rachel

The Jewels books regularly make me laugh hysterically, especially once the Kindred show up.

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Karina

@Rachel I’ll try them then

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Carol

Anything Shirley Jackson, but her best is The Haunting of Hill House. Try Thomas Tryon he wrote several horror books in the 1980s, all worth a read.

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Lori

The Haunting was a great read, scared the crap oit of me too

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Marcia

Dana Stabenow has written a series with Kate Shugak as main character, living in Alaska. Should be read in order

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Connie

Chloe Neill Chicagoland series

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Connie

Beverly Barton, Lisa Unger

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Sue

I just read: I Am Still Alive. It fits the categories of suspense and YA.

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Kim

The Passage trilogy By Justin Cronin. It is excellent!

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Laura

Tara French’s murder squad series

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Heather

The Passage by Justin Cronin… great book, and the first in a trilogy!

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Christine

Dresden Files!

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Lisa

Have you read Dean Koontz Frankenstein series or the odd series.

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Peggy

@Lisa , I have to agree. These are both so good I couldn’t put them down!

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Debbie

I just read Watchers by Dean Koontz and loved it.

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Lisa

I like almost everything he has written.

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Robin

The Descent and Deeper by Jeff Long. I have read this at least 6 or 7 times and still get nightmares when i read it.

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Jeneane

Joe Hill’s The Fireman. I still think about it.

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May

Karen Slaughter…sorry if it’s been said…I’m too lazy to go through the posts…but she is amazing and my absolute favorite!

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Susie

Have you read Game of Thrones?

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Donna

Thirst by Christopher Pike

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Donna

Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry

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Teresa

Have you read “The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo” series? Very good!!

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Tracy

The Merry Gentry series by Laurel K Hamilton

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Julie

Longmire series by Craig Johnson.

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Lori

The Hunger Games

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Rachel

Swan song

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Kelli

I have been loving Children of Blood and Bone. Pretty new, first in a series.

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J.a.

Suspense/Mystery: Sharp Objects (Gillian Flynn); The Girl on the Train; most any of John Hart’s books; The Woman at the Window; some of Tana French’s books; also Nicci French’s Freida Klein series. Will think of others later.

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Paula

Sharp Objects – Gillian@Flynn

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Kate

And I love Dark Places even more.

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Heather

Have you read the Dark Tower series? I loved it

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Sue

Octavia Butler has a great series

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Lisa

Iris Johansen Eve Duncan series .

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Cate

A discovery of witches

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Andrea

I loved this series!

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Cate

The Red Queen

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Erin

Following

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Robin

Louise Penny inspector Gamache series

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Paula

Lord of the Rings

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Donna

what is YA?

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Jen

“Young adult” but it’s kind of a misnomer.

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Donna

hmmm, meaning what? What’s the misnomer part?

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Jen

@Donna it’s meant “for” young adults but people of all ages (that I know of) read this genre…The Hunger Games for example, was considered YA.

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Donna

ok, gotcha

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Becky

Department Q series by Jussi Adler Olsen

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Tifini

The Mr. Mercedes trilogy by Stephen King is great!

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Sarah

The Lunar Chronicles, Marissa Meyer

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Shannon

Suspense: Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon’s books, though I don’t really count them as a series. YA – Harry Potter (duh) and The Hunger Games

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Cheryl

Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly.

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Dan

“The Wheel of Time.” I thank the list for making me aware. I’m hooked.

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Kathlyn

You may want to check out the Shades of London series by Maureen Johnson and The Diviners trilogy by Libby Bray.

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Jeneane

Jo Nesbo. Henning Menkell. I love Scandinavian authors.

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Karen

Level 26 is a digital horror novel series by Anthony E. Zuiker and Duane Swierczynski. The novels include online content, with video elements and an interactive web community. Creeped me right out!!

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Andrea

One of my YA guilty pleasures was the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead, and its follow-up series VA: Bloodlines. Not exactly “serious” fiction, but fun reads.

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Stephanie

Outlander

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Anna

Game of sunken places quartet is a YA grim/mystery series I really enjoyed

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Carol

Reading “The woman in the Window” thought provoking

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Kelley

The girl with a dragon tattoo!

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Ronni

Jo Nesbo

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Gretchen

Lunar chronicles!

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Naomi

Vitals series is a good YA that is a good mix of sci-fi, adventure, and suspense

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Cassie

Eeny meeny:A Helen Grace thriller. By M.J. Arlidge. They’re super graphic though

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Diane

The crow girl

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Amy

The Stand. Odessa File.

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Kathryn

Red queen

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Shanta

Children of Blood and Bone. It is a YA novel that will be a trilogy. Really good

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Sara

The raven cycle.

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Sarah

Department Q books

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Cassy

The Monstrumologist series by Rick Yancy.

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Melissa

The Forest of Hands and Teeth Series. I’m not a zombie fan but I did enjoy these.

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Adina

Anything by @Josh! A movie based on his first published novel, Bird Box, starring Sandra Bullock, is coming to Netflix in December.

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Kathy

I hope they do justice to the book. I can’t wait for the sequel to Bird Box!

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Pam

Robert McCammon’s A Boy’s Life

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Merrie

Be careful with that series as a read aloud.

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Annie

Lillian Jackson Braun.

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Kathy

Divergent series. Twilight series. Cinder series. Magician series. Nora Roberts witch series. Pretty recent.

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Laura

Yes to all of these!

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Renee

YA, the Rot and Ruin series, by Jonathan Maberry. The Sandman Slim series, by Richard Kadrey.

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Karen

Have the read the Dead series by Charlaine Harris? Also known as the True Blood or sookie stackhouse series? They are amazing

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Julie

Dean Koontz. The Odd Thomas series is good for the first 3, then it kind of went wandering

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Julie

But his Watchers is on this list, and it’s really really good!

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Kathy

Yes..these are excellent….

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Sheryl

Cinder….The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa. Meyer ln YA. This was really stepping outside of the box for me but I loved this series. Couldn’t wait to read each and every book.

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Rachel

I love that series.

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Kathy

I need to read it, my daughter adored the series!

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Debbie

The Butterfly Garden Series by Dot Hutchinson

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Betty

Preston & Child “Penderghast” series is fun.

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Cheryl

Brunonia Barry

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Lynn

Greg Iles’ books

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Carol

This isn’t a series, but did you read Watchers by Dean Koontz? It is on the GAR. Am loving it. It is horror.

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Lori

Greg Iles Penn Cage Series…Excellent!

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Ashley

This!

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Jamie

Kresley Cole has a YA series called Arcana chronicles that is good.

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Adele

Look up Lara Parker’s “Dark Shadows” books … the first one is “Angelique’s Descent”.

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Vivian

Unwind series , ever lost series

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Cathy

I love the Unwind series!!

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Leigh

Kim Harrison’s Rachel Morgan books and Patricia Brigg’s Mercy Thompson series

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Teresa

The Scarpetta novels by Patrica Cornwell

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Book

Yes! Patricia does her research and weaves a very suspensful story. When I read my first PC novel, Predator, I was hooked! Had no idea at the time that was just one in a long series of Scarpetta Novels.

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Bobbi

If you also like a little humor, try the Agatha Raisin series by M C Beaton.

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Kathy

I just heard Bird Box is thriller\horror and other books by this same author are also.

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Agnes

Anna Dressed in Blood and Girl of Nightmares by K. Blake. It has horror and suspense and belongs in the YA category.

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Christina

Penpal… so creepy

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Lindsey

I suggest the In-Betweener Books! https://www.amazon.com/Betweener-Between-Life-Death/dp/1507814046

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Valerie

Maze Runner series…Divergent series…

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Tim

Watcher by Dean Koontz

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Pamela

Stephen King’s Gunslinger series ?

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Melanie

The Hunger Games, or The Dresden books.

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Sue

I’m currently reading Fantasticland(horror) and Vic James Dark Gifts trilogy(YA)

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Harrison

am currently reading ‘Discovery of Witches’. strange love story(?) of vampires, witches, and demons. so far it is great fun. can’t wait to get to the rest of the series!

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Vivian

I read two of them are there more? Loved them

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Harrison

discovery – shadow of night – book of life – these three she has written many others

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Vivian

@Harrison thank you

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Vicki

I love the whole trilogy! A Discovery of Witches is now a series that will come to USA tv in 2019.

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Sue

@Harrison new one coming soon!

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Jana

Series is great! Not thriller but really enjoyed them

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Ceili

Slasher girls and Monster Boys, April Genevieve Tucholke. YA horror short story collection that is brilliant.

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Jeanne-Marie

Have you tried Anne Rice?

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Kathi

Outlander is amazing!

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Leigh

And doesn’t fit what the person asked for? lol

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Wendy

It’s a series.
She said “mainly”…

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Carrol

New indie author, Liz Long, The Blood King and September release the Golden City.

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Julie

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Pendergast Series! Each one is better then the last

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Liz

Follett’s Pillars of the Earth and World Without End have my vote.

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Joel

Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve

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Chris

Anne Frasier has several suspense series (Elise Sandburg, Pale Immortal) that include horror/supernatural elements – check them out!

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Linda

One of my favorite series is the one by Julia Spenser Fleming – In the Bleak Mid-Winter is the first one. The only series I would go back and re-read.

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Jennifer

The Passage Trilogy by Justin Cronin.

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Penny

Wonderful story creation with turn of the century Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M R James.

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Ann

Jeffery Deaver

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Jule

The Golden Compass series

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Justin

Dark tower series…easy

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Jody

The Broken Girls

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Carol

Anything by Anne Rice – The Mayfair Witches is excellent

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Norma

Yes The Mayfair Witches was great for me

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Robin

The Wolf Gift series is fantastic also. In the same way as the Mayfair Witches.

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