I’m looking to get into some fun and exciting book series, but I want collections that are *finished*. I don’t exactly have Rothfuss PTSD or whatever, but I strongly prefer stories that have clear endings. Here are some book series I really loved:
* Joe Abercrombie – First Law, Age of Madness, Shattered Sea
* CS Forester – Horatio Hornblower
* ED Brubaker – Fatale, The Fade Out (graphic novels)
* Larry McMurtry – Lonesome Dove
* Conn Iggulden – Emperor series, Conqueror series
* Peter F Hamilton – Commonwealth saga, Void series
* Larry Correia – Hard Magic
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*(I’ve tried many of the most popular fantasy/sci-fi series in recent times but they’re often either unfinished, or they just don’t hit the top level of quality for me. Some examples: Lies of Locke Lamora trilogy, The Bear and the Nightingale trilogy, Saga (graphic novel), Dresden Files, Ancillary Justice trilogy, Red Rising trilogy, The Warded Man trilogy, Altered Carbon…)*
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The Legends of the First Empire Series
Some series I’ve finished, and really enjoyed:
*The Greenbone Saga* (trilogy + novellas) by Fonda Lee
*The Dandelion Dynasty* (quartet) by Ken Liu
*The Broken Earth* (trilogy) by N. K. Jemisin
*The Faithful and the Fallen* (quartet) by John Gwynne
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Other’s I’ve read and not liked (as much), but you might:
*Farseer* (trilogy) by Robin Hobb
*The Poppy War* (trilogy) by R. F. Kuang
*Daevabad* (trilogy + novella collection) by S. A. Chakraborty / Shannon Chakraborty
{{Discworld by Terry Pratchett}}
Edit : forgot one
The **Abhorsen** trilogy by Garth Nix. Necromancer stuff.
**The Company** series by Kage Baker. Time traveling immortal cyborgs.
**Xenogenesis** trilogy by Octavia Butler. After humans wipe themselves out in nuclear war, aliens come to save the few remaining survivors.
**The Queen of the Tearling** trilogy by Erika Johansen. A queen raised in hiding travels to the capital to claim her throne. Story goes places you never could have imagined.
**Patternmaster** series by Octavia Butler. Immortal telepath embarks on millennia-long superpower breeding project. I read in the recommended internal chronological order. 4 books.
The authors **Tad Williams** and **C. J. Cherryh** have both written sci fi and fantasy series that are complete. These authors have slower paced writing styles.
[Series by C. J. Cherryh.](https://www.goodreads.com/series/list?id=989968.C_J_Cherryh) Out of these, I believe only the Foreigner series which I have not read is ongoing. I have read the Fortress and Chanur series.
[Series by Tad Williams](https://www.goodreads.com/series/list?id=6587.Tad_Williams). I found some of the character archetypes in the Otherland and Shadowmarch series to be too similar, so you may want to only pick one of those to read and not the other. I’ve heard good things about the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series but have not finished it myself.
The Pliocene Exile/Galactic Milieu series by Julian May
Note that the chronological order is confusing, because there’s both time travel and flashbacks involved. I would read in the publication order:
Pliocene Exile:
_The Many-Colored Land_
_The Golden Torc_
_The Nonborn King_
_The Adversary_
Intervention:
_The Surveillance_
_The Metaconcert_
Galactic Milieu:
_Jack the Bodiless_
_Diamond Mask_
_Magnificat_
* Kingsbridge series by Ken Follett
* The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett
The Expanse.
The Blackwater series by Michael McDowell.
The Expanse
The Prince of Nothing trilogy
The LA Quartet
The Wheel of Time, Jordan
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.
Dark Tower by Stephen King
Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series, 20 books about the Royal Navy during and around the time of the Napoleonic wars. So good you’ll wish there were many more.
Bernard Cornwell has many good historical fiction series covering many periods from mostly a British point of view.
I don’t see Priory of the Orange Tree and it’s prequel Day of Fallen Night mentioned here so I will highly recommend them. Not a series but one of those rare big fat thoroughly fleshes out stories that gets told in one satisfying book.
Also you might like the Scholomance series, and it’s complete
Look up Feist. There’s like 30 books in the series and it’s done. Should keep you occupied for a while 🙂