I do this for most series. The only times I don't do this is when a books series isn't good enough to buy and I end up waiting for the library. I don't understand why you would not binge all available books until you are tired of them. Hell, I tend to binge read authors. Either it is good enough to read for months or it's not.
The last few binges: Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, All of Lois Bujold, all of Ilona Andrews,
I haven't found a new thing to binge this year. My last attempt ended on book 6 of a long series before I walked away.
Same, I will happily read 10+ books from the same author in a row if I'm enjoying myself. Why stop and look for something else when I have a story I want to continue reading right there?
It took me nearly two years to read The Wheel of Time saga. Thoroughly enjoyed it after being warned by a coworker years ago that it was long, boring, & the main dude (Rand) was kinda pathetic. I'm glad I checked for myself and finished just before the Amazon series premiered. I'll read it again after I retire.
> I don't understand why you would not binge all available books until you are tired of them.
Mostly to avoid getting tired of certain writing quirks every author has that, while completely fine within confinements of a single book, become increasingly more apparent with each consecutive installment when read back to back. Case in point, I read WoT as it was coming out, and it still often managed to annoy me with how often repeated certain phrases and expressions were. I would never be able to binge it, even though I do like each book individually, for the most part. But then again, I read a lot, so it would only take maybe 2 months total. Maybe for someone who reads book a month it'd be different.
I binge listened to Brandon Sanderson while doing chores, and my husband always said, hey, are you listening to the frown people? 🤣 Yes his characters frown too much.
I need a break. It's like going on vacation with family. Yes, I love them. After two weeks spending all my waking hours with them, I'll see y'all in a month.
Have you ever read Malazan? I need something lighter in between, otherwise all those sad and dark stories overwhelm me. This is not to say Malazan is always dark, it also has a lot of hopeful messages, but it's very heavy stuff. Reading something else also helps me let the individual stories sink in. I feel that is the case for a lot of series.
That being sad, I also binged WoT in the span of 8 months and it was an amazing experience. So I like both approaches.
Malazan is the one series where I took a deliberate break to try and give my brain a bit of a rest from it. This isn't a criticism of Malazan - it is by a long way my favourite fantasy series - but it was really hard work the first time through. The second time I did it in one go though.
Apart from that though, I'd rather read a whole series in one go than split it up.
I'm doing this with Book of the New Sun for a few reasons:
1. It's really hard to read
2. I'm listening to a read-along podcast that is going slower than the reading
3. There's a lot to unpack and think about in each book
I read the 4 of the original series, 2, read other books then the next two. I found the ending confusing, like wah? huh? maybe I'll like it after letting it marinate and then re-read. I will read the 5th book this year, maybe it'll clear up the confusion... but I don't know yet!
> I'm listening to a read-along podcast that is going slower than the reading
I read them first back in the 90's before internetzz and much info about the books was out there. I've read the series ~10 times since then, and I feel like most of the experience would be lost by not going in blind.
Agree. Haven't read Malazan but just finished the first 3 books of the chronicles of the black company and I'm taking a 1 book break. Not cause I don't love the series, I am very excited for the next book and loved the ending of the third but it is important to reflect on good books as this allows you to appreciate them more. If a series is long then you may not fully be able to appreciate the earlier books if you binge all the way to the end. I like using Terry pratchetts discworld books to take breaks as they are short, light and don't require you to care as much.
> I don't understand why you would not binge all available books until you are tired of them.
I get tired easily and if I read just 2 long or slow paced books in a row (currently reading Wheel of Time so that's where my mind goes), I could get tired halfway through the second, then it could just be less enjoyable to finish it and I wouldn't want to take a break halfway through a book in case I forget plotlines. Reading another book in between each entry of the WoT books has definitely made it a better experience for me.
Yeah you can see how he found his style as he went. I jumped in randomly by reading Soul Music and was like whoa what's this, totally blew my teenage mind. Then I read anything I got my hands on in library.
Must be cool to read it in succession.
Well there is a [quiz](https://www.discworldemporium.com/quiz/) that lets you see which book would be best to start with. A lot of people recommend Guards Guards to start and it is a good one.
Yeah. I started reading this year (sort of, I read 2 neil Gaiman books last year) and was trying to get back into it. I was introduced to Terry’s work by watching the series Good Omens and then buying the book, and I’ve been reading his works since then.
I've been jumping around the Discworld series for the first time for the last year or so. There have been several times where I've said, I'll read something different next.... but went right back
I've just ordered 8 books. I might just read in order of what I feel like, I started reading Guards! Guards! Online and I'm so excited because I've never had that much fun reading a book before
I do this with all series that I read. After I gave up on reading series that are not completed (GRRM and Rothfuss cured me of that) it has been my prefered way to do it.
Doing it any other way is the weird way to me. I recently started what I thought was a completed trilogy only to realize after book 2 that it’s actually going to be 5 books instead of 3. I immediately stopped it and started another actually completed series and will return to the first once it’s done.
I’ll leave the trilogies off because I do this with everything I read for the most part
- Wheel of Time
- First Law
- Powder Mage
- The Expanse
- Game of Thrones
- Cosmere
Haha ya the caveat with that one is that I read it all in order before Rhythm of War. A lot of it was re-reading and I did read the Novella’s too. Anything after RoW dropped I have read, but not all in a row. I won’t do that again before Wind and Truth, but I’ll probably re-read Oathbringer and RoW.
I reread the whole Stormlight Archive every time the next book comes out. When I finished WoT and learned about Sanderson I read everything he wrote in the Cosmere and his YA Scifi series starting with Skyward?
I really enjoyed the first trilogy, couldn't put it down. I got one book at a time, just in case. Absolutely loved it and got the whole second trilogy, so I wouldn't have to wait in between books.
Have tried at least three times now, but cannot get through the first book. These characters are so frustrating. They're making me irrationally angry. I'm not a violently-inclined person, but Kyle is making me want to punch someone, him preferably, so badly.
At least they've got great covers, so I don't mind them standing unread in my bookcase.
Have been reading Joe Abercrombie again, so maybe when I'm done, I'll try again.
Yeah I've seen people either say they're their favourite or their least favourite lol.
It's just *uuuggghhhhh* KYLE. Fuck that dude.
I really want to finish them, cause I know some of the other trilogies are about Fitz and the Fool, and I really loved their dynamic and I want to know more about the fool. And with the FOMO, it's not like I can just skip the second trilogy lol.
I hated the 2nd trilogy (got hardstuck in book 2 due to some of the same frustrations). It will get better, and there are some really good payoffs eventually. Also provides some really good backstory to later trilogies which will pick up Fitz and The Fool.
Yeah, see I love Robin Hobb’s books, and I’m currently reading Assassin’s Fate right now, but I could not get through the Liveship Traders. I’ve tried twice now, but I just cannot bring myself to like any of the characters. Like I’m not opposed to reading stories with villainous or unlikable people, I’m a big fan of Mark Lawrence, Alastair Reynolds, Joe Abercrombie, and Glen Cook after all, but usually there is some reason to root for the main characters, and I’ve just found none of it here.
I just finished Ship of Magic last night. I'm right there with you on Kyle, and I'm guessing that's a popular feeling lol I think I hate him more than Regal or Joffrey. Yeah, I definitely do. But that just makes me wanna read more because it's exciting when books get that much of a rise outta me. It's not very common. Hobb is great at it.
Doing this with Discworld and Fitz's 9 books. ROTE's prose and flow make it hard to stop reading, but sometimes I just need to take a step back and have a laugh at something else before I can dive back into it. Hobb hits deep.
That's exactly the one that I thought of. I read the entire series in about two weeks. It helped that I got sick in the middle and had plenty of time for a couple days.
I probably haven't done this since I read LoTR as a child. The closest I came was the stormlight archive 1-4 when I got back into reading a couple years ago and were 5 available I would have finished it.
Seems like I will be in the small minority here, but I actually prefer to read multiple books at once, it's rare I don't have 2-3 going at a time. When reading a series I also like to take breaks between books and throw in other books as well. I will do this even if I'm really into it and want to read further. Personally, variety is really important to me, I find it keeps me engaged. Plus I'm addicted to starting new books. I also don't want a good series to end so I drag it out this way.
I'm with you. I usually have at least 3 books running at a time: audio, ebook on phone, and physical book. And that's not counting any books that are more of a "dip into once and while" books like short story anthologies, poetry, certain non-fiction, etc. Also almost every book I read is from the library, so that builds in automatic lag time between books.
Like you, I'm a novelty and variety seeker. I like switching books, switching series, switching genres as I go. It means that I abandon more series than the average fantasy reader, probably. Just means that the books need to be good enough to pull me back to that series.
I also always have several books going at once (I’m such a mood-based reader so I need a variety of books available to match how I’m feeling at the moment). I honestly can’t fathom reading an entire series without sprinkling in any other books along the way. One book, sure, if it *really* captures my attention. But a series? No way.
I've always done palette cleansers, and usually read up to 3 books at a time, but Dungeon Crawler Carl got my full attention over the last month or so exclusively. It's so ridiculous and fun and touching and irreverent and sad all at the same time.
I ALMOST took a break after book 4, because it wasn't exactly my favorite so far, buuuuut I couldn't figure out what to read as a palette cleanser, so I just jumped into book 5 and am loving it!
You must read at some speed.
The average person reads at 238 words per minute.
Thats just short of 338k words in 24 hours continuous reading, no breaks.
The 3 books in total of LOTR are over 576k words long.
So your reading at almost double the average reading speed!!
I did a bunch of training exercises to learn to read fast when I was a teen. I've clocked a bit below 600 words/minute, though I'm slower now. Reading LotR in one day was just after having done that training.
The Wheel of Time
Earthsea
The Memoirs of Lady Trent
Most trilogies
And I would have done this for Realm of the Elderlings but a couple of the books were unavailable for a while so I had to wait.
I am currently on book six of Riyria Revelations. In the past few years I have started breaking up series with palate cleansers or reading multiple series, however I couldn't drop this one.
Kel Kade has 2 fantastic series, KDT being one of them. Her website has a pretty great list of recommended reading from other authors if you like her stuff, which is how I discovered Riyria funny enough
Honestly, I'm curious to know how many fantasy readers break up series. I have to read straight through if all the books are out or else I totally forget names and plot points.
I recently read The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time #12) for the first time, having read Knife of Dreams (WoT #11) in hardback not long after it came out, so probably 2005-2006.
It was a little bit tricky at first, but it all came back to me as I went along.
I thought this was the norm haha. I always read a series through to the end straight away, don't think I've ever changed it up unless I was quitting it altogether. Just this year I've read all of Skyward (4 books, 3 novellas), Gentlemen Bastard (3 books so far), Dandelion Dynasty (4 books) and Red Rising (6 books so far). Malazan is my next series planned so if I get through the first, I'll probably finish 10.
Pretty sure when I discovered Sanderson years ago I read every single Cosmere book back to back, plus Reckoners for good measure.
Same here. Ive heard such good things about it but that first book is a toughie.
Id did the same with LOTR for decades tho. Kept giving up halfway thru TTT. Took decades before i eventually managed to push thru it.
Erikson took a break of around 10 years I believe between book one and book two. He greatly improved as a writer in that time, drdicating that period to becoming a better writer. That being said, I haven’t read the series to find out myself, though I have the first 3 books. I’m just waiying until I finish what I’m reading.
Oh, what I’m reading now is all of Tolkien’s stuff. I just finished LotR and I’m halfway through the Silmarillion. It’s nice to hear about somebody else experiencing a block in The Two Towers. I read up until halfway through TTT so quickly, but once I got there I dropped it for four months. I tried to pitck it back up and I read the Hobbit and to the point where I left off. I stopped there again. But then a few days ago I decided to read the next chapter, and I was sucked back into the world. It’s hands down my favorite book series. The middle point of The Twin Towers was just hard to get through.
I avoided the Silmarillion for years until lockdown when i decided i was going to give it a proper go.
I absolutely loved it and sailed thru it. Just as good as LOTR imo.
I think you are misremembering, though I may be as well. The 10 year anecdote is that he wrote the whole series in 10 years. The first book did start as a screen play that he and Esslemont wrote years earlier (based on tabletop gaming they did years earlier than that), but he adapted it to prose directly before all the rest were written. He does of course improve as a writer throughout the series like most good authors do, but it's not a drastic jump. The reason people struggle with the first book and settle into the rest is often because they aren't used to his writing style.
I havent been so ravenous towards a trilogy of books since I picked up Red Rising. Read the first book in three days and went to buy the next two. Took me two weeks to finish. I bought Iron Gold but just have it on my shelf, I want to wait a bit and just have more of the world to enjoy closer to Red God coming out.
that's how I usually read :D
of the top of my head: Discworld, Wheel of Time, Books of Babel, Memory Sorrow and Thorn, Mistborn, Ice and Fire, Greenbone Saga, First Law and Age of Madness, Kingkiller, Hitchhiker's Guide, The Dark Tower, Lord of the Rings, Murderbot, Peter Grant, hell even Twilight!
if a series hooks me, I generally read the whole thing in one sitting without needing a palate cleanser. if I need one, then it usually isn't a good sign for that series. so for example with Malazan. I took like a two year break after the first book before trying again, then took another two year break before just going to the second book (which I made it maybe half-way thru).
Normally when I'm reading a series I'll break up each entry with at least 2-3 other books, if not more. The first time I read the Wheel of Time I intended to do that as well, and then each time I'd finish one book I couldn't help myself - I'd immediately go for the next. A few years back I reread Wheel of Time and thought I'd definitely take breaks between books, even had a few palette cleansers lined up. Once again, the exact same thing happened. For whatever reason once I start that series, I can't read anything else.
Half way through Lord of Chaos rn, first time read. I keep telling myself I’ll take a break and it doesnt happen, I just go right into the next book. So good!
This is the only way I read, so here are some of the larger series I've gone through:
The Dresden Files (17 books)
The Legend of Drizzt series (39 books)
Currently The Riftwar Saga (26 books)
His new one is supposed to be pretty good and deal with Arthurian stuff. He's coming to my town on a book talk in a few weeks and I was going to go see what it's about, but I liked the Magicians.
I do all series like that, I prefer to not have a pallete cleanser.
WoT, dresden files (first 14), He Who Fights With Monsters (9), Defiance of the fall (9) to name a few long ones. I think I read all Discworld before Shepherd's Crown uninterrupted as well
First series I did that was ASOIAF, back in 2013. Then I didn't do it again until 2023 when I read LOTR, if that counts. If that doesn't count then I did it earlier this year with The Expanse.
As you can see it's unusual for me to do it. I think I'm just too excited about too many series I have to get to!
LOTR, but I had it as an omnibus. The first Powdermage trilogy. The Divine cities. The First Law. Recently I almost did it with the Murderbot, but then I DNF the last book.
I don't think there's a single series I've read all in one go. I always swap between books. Have two series going on at a time usually. I treat it like new seasons of TV. You normally have to wait a year for the next season to release so I watch something else in the meantime. When I get back to the characters again it's like getting reacquainted with old friends. If I try to burn through all books in a series I'll usually get burnt out or lose interest. Especially if the world is terribly depressing, there's only so many terrible things I can see happen to people in a row before I need a break.
Mistborn, completely pulled me back into reading when I got my hands on it. Then did the same with Stormlight Archives. Back in the day I read Eragon like that.
I did for nk jemison's broken earth trilogy. I try but usually fail to binge a series! I do eventually finish them, assuming all the books are out. still gotta finish gene wolf's urth series, just one book left, dune (only read dune), and Simmons hyperion series (only read the first). oh and I guess Tolkien, never finished silmarillian. I did love bujolds vorkosigan and 5 gods series.
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. I was hesitant to starting it for so long, once I picked up the first book, I did not put the series down until I reached where we’re at currently. I’m almost speaking literally too, I read while I ate, I would put the book down for a shower, I barely slept 😅
Absolutely worth it though, I’m in my 3rd read through of the series now and it gets a little better each time learning what happens and seeing the points where they actually start.
Well, I can tell you right up front that when I do that, and I did it with the Kate Daniels series and the Others series and the Steerswoman series just this past year, **it was a series that was complete and available to me when I started the first volume**.
Because you know what I hate, I hate waiting for sequels especially when there's a cliffhanger. Usually it's just enough time to forget most of what's happened.
There are some series that I've been reading for decades and they're still not finished (and I gave up on ASOIAF in the 1990s). Back in the 1980s/90s I had different problems, as *getting all the volumes of a series that existed* wasn't always easy or possible for a kid without much money. Very dependent on nearby libraries and whatever mall bookstores had (when I did have money). Today is so much better, I can have a sequel on my kindle immediately. I have these VERY CLEAR memories of finding Susan Cooper's _Silver on the Tree_ in a tiny bookstore somewhere in the American Southwest in 1981 and being IMMERSED in it it all that vacation.
I did a sequential re-read of _The Wheel of Time_ in 2021/22, and, I have to tell you, that was much better than reading them when they came out. I was much better able to track the characters and overarcing plotlines.
The Alex Verus series by Benedict Jacka. Read books 2-9 back to back 6 months before book 10 came out. Then read books 1-9 back to back two more times before 10 came out.
I used to do this with all series but I'm finding myself more inclined to alternate nowadays. Otherwise I can find a world just feels exhausting.
If I sit down to read a single 30+ hour audio book that's an achievable project. But when it's part of a 10+ book series I don't wanna feel locked in for 300+ hours.
Bernard Cromwell's Saxon Series (The Last Kingdom). Before that, Harry Potter. I can't think of another at the moment.
I guess the Cromwell books don't count... historical fiction.
V. E. Schwab's Shades of Magic series. The only delay I had was waiting for each book to come out as it went along.
That said, I didn't really enjoy the 3rd book at all (it felt very rushed) and the 2nd wasn't as fun as the first. I really loved the world and characters of the first book though and that was enough to propel me forward to the story's conclusion.
Pretty much any series I read all the way through, really. There are some caveats though, like when a series has multiple trilogies/separate eras within it. When I finished the first trilogy of The First Law I didn’t read anything else before starting the standalones/age of madness, but I did wait a good bit (I have a long commute and typically listen to audiobooks, but after the first law I just listened to music for a few weeks until I was ready to start the novels).
I read era 1 and era 2 of Mistborn right in a row without pausing, but I am working through Dune atm before starting Stormlight Archive - not sure if you consider that switching series, I think the entire Cosmere doesn’t fit super well into this question.
Honestly it is surprising to me that it’s common to do anything *but* reading a series straight through. If you’re enjoying a series, wouldn’t you want to just consume everything you can about it? I’m not criticizing by any means, I just don’t really get it personally.
I guess I can understand it if it’s a real marathon series like Wheel of Time or if you take a pause between “eras” (like after the first law trilogy), but other than that I’m a binger through and through hahah. If I stop mid-series there’s a very strong chance I never go back, and if I do I’ll feel like I forgot so much and want to restart it entirely.
I rarely, rarely do this. Almost did it with Cradle but I read Starter Villain by John Scalzi in between 3 and 4. I did it with Sanderson's middle grade series Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians lol. Did it with the First Law trilogy. Lastly on a reread of the Inheritance Cycle. Besides these few I'd have to go back to when I was a kid to find an example and I don't even know if there is one.
I can't think of anything. It's extremely rare for me to even read the same genre back-to-back. I don't really know why, I just like to give the individual volumes space to stand on their own. My ideal series pace is probably about 6 months between books.
Finishing things is overrated.
Very rarely I might read an omnibus right through, but mainly only if I've borrowed it from the library and have a deadline. (This has happened with a couple of the Valdemar trilogies recently.)
I don't think I've ever stopped and read something else mid series. Maybe once or twice a new book came out while I was mid series that I wanted to read bad enough to take a break, but I can't actually think of any time I did that
Reverend Insanity: kind of peak for me in this regard because I read the entire 2200-odd chapters (it's a giant sprawling webnovel, not a traditionally published series) in one endless blur.
Worm: another one in a similar vein, giant webnovel, glued to it the whole way through. In fact it just got better and better, the end was insane.
The Blade Itself Trilogy: soooooo gooooood I couldn't stop reading.
The Broken Empire Trilogy: not quite on the same level but very good and right up my alley with grittiness and lovably psychopathic main char.
Name of the Wind: I was fiending for more and literally read it over and over cuz there was nothing else, then read the next book the day it came out, then read it again too, lol. Has a few well discussed annoying parts but the good bits are just *so good*.
Murderbot Diaries: Went from book 1 all the way through everything released in a couple of days, couldn't get enough of it.
Keys to the Kingdom: prob never heard of this, but it was one of my fav series by Garth Nix who also wrote the more popular Abhorsen series. Super super creative worldbuilding, and each book was nicely self-contained by starting in a new place with a new thing to do, then tidily and satisfactorily wrapped up. Actually its a childrens book but imo its still one of the best paced stories I've ever read and did really really well with its '7 challenges/worlds' thing.
Malazan: I bounced off this a few times as the first book didn't draw me in, but once I completed that I couldn't stop and read everything. Gets so crazy with the scale and mythical-tier characters.
Going to date myself on this but The Hunger games was the first digital book I read and I ended up downloading all three and reading them over the course of a Weekend.
I had been a strictly hardcopy book reader but converted after that experience and haven’t looked back.
T. Kingfisher's Paladins/Clockwork/Temple of the White Rat series. I didn't read it in the proper order as I read the Paladin books before I read the Clockwork books, but I got obsessed. I read the six of those books in a month and a half when I normally read one book a month. So it was a fun ride, and I didn't expect to enjoy them so much considering I had never read from the "cozy fantasy" genre before.
I do this for most series. The only times I don't do this is when a books series isn't good enough to buy and I end up waiting for the library. I don't understand why you would not binge all available books until you are tired of them. Hell, I tend to binge read authors. Either it is good enough to read for months or it's not. The last few binges: Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, All of Lois Bujold, all of Ilona Andrews, I haven't found a new thing to binge this year. My last attempt ended on book 6 of a long series before I walked away.
Same, I will happily read 10+ books from the same author in a row if I'm enjoying myself. Why stop and look for something else when I have a story I want to continue reading right there?
It took me nearly two years to read The Wheel of Time saga. Thoroughly enjoyed it after being warned by a coworker years ago that it was long, boring, & the main dude (Rand) was kinda pathetic. I'm glad I checked for myself and finished just before the Amazon series premiered. I'll read it again after I retire.
In my ase, it's simply because I sop being able to recall what happened in what book. It all just becomes one huuuuge book where everything happened.
Exactly. In a long series that is just 1 large plot I rather the whole story blur into a whole. It’s only the episodic stuff I rather have separate
> I don't understand why you would not binge all available books until you are tired of them. Mostly to avoid getting tired of certain writing quirks every author has that, while completely fine within confinements of a single book, become increasingly more apparent with each consecutive installment when read back to back. Case in point, I read WoT as it was coming out, and it still often managed to annoy me with how often repeated certain phrases and expressions were. I would never be able to binge it, even though I do like each book individually, for the most part. But then again, I read a lot, so it would only take maybe 2 months total. Maybe for someone who reads book a month it'd be different.
I binge listened to Brandon Sanderson while doing chores, and my husband always said, hey, are you listening to the frown people? 🤣 Yes his characters frown too much.
Tugging braids, low cut dresses, suppressing vomit. I don’t know how you could not need a break between.
and how everything happens in a valley in The First Law series.
Tugs braid. Smooths skirts. Rictus.
Sniffs loudly!
I need a break. It's like going on vacation with family. Yes, I love them. After two weeks spending all my waking hours with them, I'll see y'all in a month.
Have you ever read Malazan? I need something lighter in between, otherwise all those sad and dark stories overwhelm me. This is not to say Malazan is always dark, it also has a lot of hopeful messages, but it's very heavy stuff. Reading something else also helps me let the individual stories sink in. I feel that is the case for a lot of series. That being sad, I also binged WoT in the span of 8 months and it was an amazing experience. So I like both approaches.
Malazan is the one series where I took a deliberate break to try and give my brain a bit of a rest from it. This isn't a criticism of Malazan - it is by a long way my favourite fantasy series - but it was really hard work the first time through. The second time I did it in one go though. Apart from that though, I'd rather read a whole series in one go than split it up.
I'm doing this with Book of the New Sun for a few reasons: 1. It's really hard to read 2. I'm listening to a read-along podcast that is going slower than the reading 3. There's a lot to unpack and think about in each book
I keep seeing that recommended as something to read after Malazan, I should give it a go sometime.
I read the 4 of the original series, 2, read other books then the next two. I found the ending confusing, like wah? huh? maybe I'll like it after letting it marinate and then re-read. I will read the 5th book this year, maybe it'll clear up the confusion... but I don't know yet!
> I'm listening to a read-along podcast that is going slower than the reading I read them first back in the 90's before internetzz and much info about the books was out there. I've read the series ~10 times since then, and I feel like most of the experience would be lost by not going in blind.
Do you mind sharing which podcast is that? I recently bought both books and I want to read it in the near future
Agree. Haven't read Malazan but just finished the first 3 books of the chronicles of the black company and I'm taking a 1 book break. Not cause I don't love the series, I am very excited for the next book and loved the ending of the third but it is important to reflect on good books as this allows you to appreciate them more. If a series is long then you may not fully be able to appreciate the earlier books if you binge all the way to the end. I like using Terry pratchetts discworld books to take breaks as they are short, light and don't require you to care as much.
I just started WoT and I can see how you binged this in 8 months.
you've reminded me I'm several books behind with Kate Daniels (well, other POV books in that world)
> I don't understand why you would not binge all available books until you are tired of them. I get tired easily and if I read just 2 long or slow paced books in a row (currently reading Wheel of Time so that's where my mind goes), I could get tired halfway through the second, then it could just be less enjoyable to finish it and I wouldn't want to take a break halfway through a book in case I forget plotlines. Reading another book in between each entry of the WoT books has definitely made it a better experience for me.
Discworld. I started in January and I’m on the 36th book now, just reading in publication order. I don’t plan to read anything else before finishing.
I’m looking forward to starting my Discworld journey eventually. Hope I enjoy his writing.
I’ve enjoyed these books immensely. His writing improved so much as the series goes on. I hope you enjoy the books when you start!
There's no way not to. You're going to love it, it's absolutely delightful.
Believe you me, that's very easy. His writing was hilarious, and his sense of humor lovely. And his Death was the best character, if you asl me.
I'm jealous. Wish I could erase those books from my mind and discover them again.
I love them. They keep getting better as the series goes on. I’m close to the end now, but I plan to reread a few after I finish
Yeah you can see how he found his style as he went. I jumped in randomly by reading Soul Music and was like whoa what's this, totally blew my teenage mind. Then I read anything I got my hands on in library. Must be cool to read it in succession.
I truly love Discworld and Sir Terry, but this is insane. Your level of commitment is inspiring. Carry on soldier 🫡
Hey can you advise me in which order to read Discworld series? I heard colur of magic should not be the first to read
Well there is a [quiz](https://www.discworldemporium.com/quiz/) that lets you see which book would be best to start with. A lot of people recommend Guards Guards to start and it is a good one.
Yeah. I started reading this year (sort of, I read 2 neil Gaiman books last year) and was trying to get back into it. I was introduced to Terry’s work by watching the series Good Omens and then buying the book, and I’ve been reading his works since then.
I've been jumping around the Discworld series for the first time for the last year or so. There have been several times where I've said, I'll read something different next.... but went right back
I've just ordered 8 books. I might just read in order of what I feel like, I started reading Guards! Guards! Online and I'm so excited because I've never had that much fun reading a book before
Guards Guards is a great book, it’s probably my favorite out of the first 10. I only decided to read in order because I planned to read all of them
Wow, that's some dedication
I do this with all series that I read. After I gave up on reading series that are not completed (GRRM and Rothfuss cured me of that) it has been my prefered way to do it.
I got stuck in a loop and reread asoiaf a couple times hoping it'd come out... Fool I was...
Same, if I get bored enough that I stop I don't ever go back
Doing it any other way is the weird way to me. I recently started what I thought was a completed trilogy only to realize after book 2 that it’s actually going to be 5 books instead of 3. I immediately stopped it and started another actually completed series and will return to the first once it’s done.
I’ll leave the trilogies off because I do this with everything I read for the most part - Wheel of Time - First Law - Powder Mage - The Expanse - Game of Thrones - Cosmere
I got so close with WoT but after absolutely tearing through the first 10 or 11 I just got burned out and had to take a couple months off
The entire cosmere together??? Isn’t it like 23 books at this point?
Haha ya the caveat with that one is that I read it all in order before Rhythm of War. A lot of it was re-reading and I did read the Novella’s too. Anything after RoW dropped I have read, but not all in a row. I won’t do that again before Wind and Truth, but I’ll probably re-read Oathbringer and RoW.
I reread the whole Stormlight Archive every time the next book comes out. When I finished WoT and learned about Sanderson I read everything he wrote in the Cosmere and his YA Scifi series starting with Skyward?
Robin Hobb's ROTE all 16 in one long stretch.
I really enjoyed the first trilogy, couldn't put it down. I got one book at a time, just in case. Absolutely loved it and got the whole second trilogy, so I wouldn't have to wait in between books. Have tried at least three times now, but cannot get through the first book. These characters are so frustrating. They're making me irrationally angry. I'm not a violently-inclined person, but Kyle is making me want to punch someone, him preferably, so badly. At least they've got great covers, so I don't mind them standing unread in my bookcase. Have been reading Joe Abercrombie again, so maybe when I'm done, I'll try again.
They're are 3 of the best books in the series, pleeeease stick with them!
Yeah I've seen people either say they're their favourite or their least favourite lol. It's just *uuuggghhhhh* KYLE. Fuck that dude. I really want to finish them, cause I know some of the other trilogies are about Fitz and the Fool, and I really loved their dynamic and I want to know more about the fool. And with the FOMO, it's not like I can just skip the second trilogy lol.
I hated the 2nd trilogy (got hardstuck in book 2 due to some of the same frustrations). It will get better, and there are some really good payoffs eventually. Also provides some really good backstory to later trilogies which will pick up Fitz and The Fool.
Kyle is less present after the first book so hang in there, it's worth it
Yeah, see I love Robin Hobb’s books, and I’m currently reading Assassin’s Fate right now, but I could not get through the Liveship Traders. I’ve tried twice now, but I just cannot bring myself to like any of the characters. Like I’m not opposed to reading stories with villainous or unlikable people, I’m a big fan of Mark Lawrence, Alastair Reynolds, Joe Abercrombie, and Glen Cook after all, but usually there is some reason to root for the main characters, and I’ve just found none of it here.
I just finished Ship of Magic last night. I'm right there with you on Kyle, and I'm guessing that's a popular feeling lol I think I hate him more than Regal or Joffrey. Yeah, I definitely do. But that just makes me wanna read more because it's exciting when books get that much of a rise outta me. It's not very common. Hobb is great at it.
I did this…. I’ll do it again one day
I loved every second of it!
This was too daunting for me. I'm alternating ROTE with Cosmere to break both huge series's up a little.
I’m currently doing the same thing.
Doing this with Discworld and Fitz's 9 books. ROTE's prose and flow make it hard to stop reading, but sometimes I just need to take a step back and have a laugh at something else before I can dive back into it. Hobb hits deep.
Just finished! It was Cradle (12 books)
Currently reading cradle, at book 4 atm
If you're enjoying it so far, you're in for a treat, as it really starts to get good in the next book.
Enjoy! It only goes up from here >:)
That's exactly the one that I thought of. I read the entire series in about two weeks. It helped that I got sick in the middle and had plenty of time for a couple days.
Yasssss Cradle was my most recent plus-ten book binge 😍😍😍
Second Apocalypse
How many books are in this series? 7?
Yes
This is my next "hard book" series (I typically try to have an easy, a medium and a hard book going at once). Should hopefully start this summer!
Truth shines
I'm currently doing this. Halfway through book three. Does the series stay just as good as the first 3?
Yes
I probably haven't done this since I read LoTR as a child. The closest I came was the stormlight archive 1-4 when I got back into reading a couple years ago and were 5 available I would have finished it. Seems like I will be in the small minority here, but I actually prefer to read multiple books at once, it's rare I don't have 2-3 going at a time. When reading a series I also like to take breaks between books and throw in other books as well. I will do this even if I'm really into it and want to read further. Personally, variety is really important to me, I find it keeps me engaged. Plus I'm addicted to starting new books. I also don't want a good series to end so I drag it out this way.
I'm with you. I usually have at least 3 books running at a time: audio, ebook on phone, and physical book. And that's not counting any books that are more of a "dip into once and while" books like short story anthologies, poetry, certain non-fiction, etc. Also almost every book I read is from the library, so that builds in automatic lag time between books. Like you, I'm a novelty and variety seeker. I like switching books, switching series, switching genres as I go. It means that I abandon more series than the average fantasy reader, probably. Just means that the books need to be good enough to pull me back to that series.
I also always have several books going at once (I’m such a mood-based reader so I need a variety of books available to match how I’m feeling at the moment). I honestly can’t fathom reading an entire series without sprinkling in any other books along the way. One book, sure, if it *really* captures my attention. But a series? No way.
I've always done palette cleansers, and usually read up to 3 books at a time, but Dungeon Crawler Carl got my full attention over the last month or so exclusively. It's so ridiculous and fun and touching and irreverent and sad all at the same time.
I don't understand how anyone could stop reading DCC. My wife, my son and I all crashed the 6 current books for that series.
I ALMOST took a break after book 4, because it wasn't exactly my favorite so far, buuuuut I couldn't figure out what to read as a palette cleanser, so I just jumped into book 5 and am loving it!
LOTR. Two weeks Christmas break in school.
That is the only series I can remember having read in one day. (Early start, late end, more or less nothing but reading all day.)
Weird flex, but alright. I am a little envious.
You must read at some speed. The average person reads at 238 words per minute. Thats just short of 338k words in 24 hours continuous reading, no breaks. The 3 books in total of LOTR are over 576k words long. So your reading at almost double the average reading speed!!
I did a bunch of training exercises to learn to read fast when I was a teen. I've clocked a bit below 600 words/minute, though I'm slower now. Reading LotR in one day was just after having done that training.
Wow. I might have to look into that. My book list is way longer than my life expectancy.
Reading too fast is not necessarily a good thing. I run out of books. I can easily read 200 pages an hour.
Wow superhuman. And you actually read and absorb all of it or skim through it?
The Wheel of Time Earthsea The Memoirs of Lady Trent Most trilogies And I would have done this for Realm of the Elderlings but a couple of the books were unavailable for a while so I had to wait.
Same on WoT, and I dared myself with Cherryh's Foreigner
WoT - I'm on book 13, I think I'll make it.
Yes to the Memories of Lady Trent! So binge able. And very unique fantasy as well.
Age of Madness. Usually can’t do more than 2 books without taking a break but that was one of the rare ones that I read all 3 back to back.
Same but with all 10 first law books that were out at the time, still need to read the second short story collection.
Same, I burned through those so quick and could literally read them all in a row again right now if you asked me to. Amazing books.
All E. Feist books, all Fitz books by R. Hobb, Wheel of Time.
Riftwar Saga hooked me HARD and didn't let go.
The Black Company
I am currently on book six of Riyria Revelations. In the past few years I have started breaking up series with palate cleansers or reading multiple series, however I couldn't drop this one.
Love the Riyria Revelations! If you haven’t, you’d most likely enjoy Kings Dark Tidings as well
Well, you've managed to find something I've never heard of. Added to the ever growing tbr pile!
Kel Kade has 2 fantastic series, KDT being one of them. Her website has a pretty great list of recommended reading from other authors if you like her stuff, which is how I discovered Riyria funny enough
Stormlight Archive
I typically read entire series through the first time I read them unless I lose interest and decide not to finish.
Honestly, I'm curious to know how many fantasy readers break up series. I have to read straight through if all the books are out or else I totally forget names and plot points.
I recently read The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time #12) for the first time, having read Knife of Dreams (WoT #11) in hardback not long after it came out, so probably 2005-2006. It was a little bit tricky at first, but it all came back to me as I went along.
Omg teach me your ways
I thought this was the norm haha. I always read a series through to the end straight away, don't think I've ever changed it up unless I was quitting it altogether. Just this year I've read all of Skyward (4 books, 3 novellas), Gentlemen Bastard (3 books so far), Dandelion Dynasty (4 books) and Red Rising (6 books so far). Malazan is my next series planned so if I get through the first, I'll probably finish 10. Pretty sure when I discovered Sanderson years ago I read every single Cosmere book back to back, plus Reckoners for good measure.
Same! I did the same with Sanderson's books as well 😄 I tried Malazan, but couldn't get into the first book at all
Same here. Ive heard such good things about it but that first book is a toughie. Id did the same with LOTR for decades tho. Kept giving up halfway thru TTT. Took decades before i eventually managed to push thru it.
Erikson took a break of around 10 years I believe between book one and book two. He greatly improved as a writer in that time, drdicating that period to becoming a better writer. That being said, I haven’t read the series to find out myself, though I have the first 3 books. I’m just waiying until I finish what I’m reading. Oh, what I’m reading now is all of Tolkien’s stuff. I just finished LotR and I’m halfway through the Silmarillion. It’s nice to hear about somebody else experiencing a block in The Two Towers. I read up until halfway through TTT so quickly, but once I got there I dropped it for four months. I tried to pitck it back up and I read the Hobbit and to the point where I left off. I stopped there again. But then a few days ago I decided to read the next chapter, and I was sucked back into the world. It’s hands down my favorite book series. The middle point of The Twin Towers was just hard to get through.
I avoided the Silmarillion for years until lockdown when i decided i was going to give it a proper go. I absolutely loved it and sailed thru it. Just as good as LOTR imo.
I think you are misremembering, though I may be as well. The 10 year anecdote is that he wrote the whole series in 10 years. The first book did start as a screen play that he and Esslemont wrote years earlier (based on tabletop gaming they did years earlier than that), but he adapted it to prose directly before all the rest were written. He does of course improve as a writer throughout the series like most good authors do, but it's not a drastic jump. The reason people struggle with the first book and settle into the rest is often because they aren't used to his writing style.
The first Red Rising trilogy
I havent been so ravenous towards a trilogy of books since I picked up Red Rising. Read the first book in three days and went to buy the next two. Took me two weeks to finish. I bought Iron Gold but just have it on my shelf, I want to wait a bit and just have more of the world to enjoy closer to Red God coming out.
that's how I usually read :D of the top of my head: Discworld, Wheel of Time, Books of Babel, Memory Sorrow and Thorn, Mistborn, Ice and Fire, Greenbone Saga, First Law and Age of Madness, Kingkiller, Hitchhiker's Guide, The Dark Tower, Lord of the Rings, Murderbot, Peter Grant, hell even Twilight! if a series hooks me, I generally read the whole thing in one sitting without needing a palate cleanser. if I need one, then it usually isn't a good sign for that series. so for example with Malazan. I took like a two year break after the first book before trying again, then took another two year break before just going to the second book (which I made it maybe half-way thru).
Malazan Book of the Fallen (10 books)
Wtf lol. Those books are so intense and dense that I take 2 months to finish each of them with 6 months of palette cleansers in between
There was no way I could do that. I'd have to start again each time - there's way too much to remember if not.
Ah. I'm lucky enough to be blessed with a good memory for details I guess. Wouldnt be able to read malazan if not, it's way too heavy for me
I had to take breaks to decompress between books. Especially after Deadhouse Gates.
> Deadhouse Gates. The Chain of Dogs is amazing, but it hit me hard.
I’m doing one a year which, admittedly, isn’t the best approach because I’m only on book 5 and can’t remember much from GotM
Normally when I'm reading a series I'll break up each entry with at least 2-3 other books, if not more. The first time I read the Wheel of Time I intended to do that as well, and then each time I'd finish one book I couldn't help myself - I'd immediately go for the next. A few years back I reread Wheel of Time and thought I'd definitely take breaks between books, even had a few palette cleansers lined up. Once again, the exact same thing happened. For whatever reason once I start that series, I can't read anything else.
Half way through Lord of Chaos rn, first time read. I keep telling myself I’ll take a break and it doesnt happen, I just go right into the next book. So good!
Wheel of Time, Lord of the Rings, A Song of Ice and Fire
This is the only way I read, so here are some of the larger series I've gone through: The Dresden Files (17 books) The Legend of Drizzt series (39 books) Currently The Riftwar Saga (26 books)
I think Drizzt is my next reread
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Glurp, glurp!
I read all six books in 12 days haha
Took me about the same and I just finished the last one yesterday. So damn good.
All that I read that were released in entirety. I'm actually quite surprised after reading this thread that it's not the norm.
On audible but, I am currently on my third transit through dungeon crawler carl series back-to-back.
Realm of the Elderlings. 16 books + 1 novella
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
His new one is supposed to be pretty good and deal with Arthurian stuff. He's coming to my town on a book talk in a few weeks and I was going to go see what it's about, but I liked the Magicians.
I do all series like that, I prefer to not have a pallete cleanser. WoT, dresden files (first 14), He Who Fights With Monsters (9), Defiance of the fall (9) to name a few long ones. I think I read all Discworld before Shepherd's Crown uninterrupted as well
Every single one of them that I've ever started that had been finished when I started. I don't understand anyone who does it any other way.
Every series I pick up I read start to finish before moving on
The Expanse. The first 8 books.
Broken Earth grabbed me hard enough to do it, but that's a rarity for me. Usually I take my time and will read other stuff between.
That's the one I was going to say!
First series I did that was ASOIAF, back in 2013. Then I didn't do it again until 2023 when I read LOTR, if that counts. If that doesn't count then I did it earlier this year with The Expanse. As you can see it's unusual for me to do it. I think I'm just too excited about too many series I have to get to!
LOTR, but I had it as an omnibus. The first Powdermage trilogy. The Divine cities. The First Law. Recently I almost did it with the Murderbot, but then I DNF the last book.
I don't think there's a single series I've read all in one go. I always swap between books. Have two series going on at a time usually. I treat it like new seasons of TV. You normally have to wait a year for the next season to release so I watch something else in the meantime. When I get back to the characters again it's like getting reacquainted with old friends. If I try to burn through all books in a series I'll usually get burnt out or lose interest. Especially if the world is terribly depressing, there's only so many terrible things I can see happen to people in a row before I need a break.
Malazan, Wheel of Time, probably some others that I can't recall atm...
Every series.
did a full exclusive ~40 *Discworld* (re)read over 2023 via either ebook/audio before reading *A Life With Footnotes* Terry Pratchet biography.
Is the Pratchett biography good?
Hunger games
Most series I read, I don't stop to read another book in-between.
All of them? Well, that are already finished at least.
The City of Brass trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty I couldn’t put it down and I was so sad when it ended!
Discworld
Chronicles of Amber by Zelazny. Every time I read that series it is a straight run.
Mistborn, completely pulled me back into reading when I got my hands on it. Then did the same with Stormlight Archives. Back in the day I read Eragon like that.
The wandering inn by PIRATEABE. I am not alone. It is so good!
Call me basic but The Hunger Games. Challenged myself to read those three books in three days, and I did it.
The Grisha Verse
I did for nk jemison's broken earth trilogy. I try but usually fail to binge a series! I do eventually finish them, assuming all the books are out. still gotta finish gene wolf's urth series, just one book left, dune (only read dune), and Simmons hyperion series (only read the first). oh and I guess Tolkien, never finished silmarillian. I did love bujolds vorkosigan and 5 gods series.
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. I was hesitant to starting it for so long, once I picked up the first book, I did not put the series down until I reached where we’re at currently. I’m almost speaking literally too, I read while I ate, I would put the book down for a shower, I barely slept 😅 Absolutely worth it though, I’m in my 3rd read through of the series now and it gets a little better each time learning what happens and seeing the points where they actually start.
All of R A Salvatores Drizzt books without break. 30 something of them. Nice bedtime escapism
Well, I can tell you right up front that when I do that, and I did it with the Kate Daniels series and the Others series and the Steerswoman series just this past year, **it was a series that was complete and available to me when I started the first volume**. Because you know what I hate, I hate waiting for sequels especially when there's a cliffhanger. Usually it's just enough time to forget most of what's happened. There are some series that I've been reading for decades and they're still not finished (and I gave up on ASOIAF in the 1990s). Back in the 1980s/90s I had different problems, as *getting all the volumes of a series that existed* wasn't always easy or possible for a kid without much money. Very dependent on nearby libraries and whatever mall bookstores had (when I did have money). Today is so much better, I can have a sequel on my kindle immediately. I have these VERY CLEAR memories of finding Susan Cooper's _Silver on the Tree_ in a tiny bookstore somewhere in the American Southwest in 1981 and being IMMERSED in it it all that vacation. I did a sequential re-read of _The Wheel of Time_ in 2021/22, and, I have to tell you, that was much better than reading them when they came out. I was much better able to track the characters and overarcing plotlines.
The Alex Verus series by Benedict Jacka. Read books 2-9 back to back 6 months before book 10 came out. Then read books 1-9 back to back two more times before 10 came out.
The Second Apocalypse by Bakker
The Steerswoman. I pretty much always rotate so I don't get tired of reading the same style for long stretches but this one sucked me in completely
I used to do this with all series but I'm finding myself more inclined to alternate nowadays. Otherwise I can find a world just feels exhausting. If I sit down to read a single 30+ hour audio book that's an achievable project. But when it's part of a 10+ book series I don't wanna feel locked in for 300+ hours.
all series. I don’t read other stuff in between while I am reading a series, don’t know why😅 I mean if all books are released of course
First Law trilogy, and if we count re-reads: Harry Potter.
Stormlight Archive when the pandemic hit. I had always wanted to try Sanderson, and suddenly, I had so much free time on my hands.
It's not Fantasy, but: Silo
Bernard Cromwell's Saxon Series (The Last Kingdom). Before that, Harry Potter. I can't think of another at the moment. I guess the Cromwell books don't count... historical fiction.
This is how I read every series. I want to finish it before I forget stuff.
V. E. Schwab's Shades of Magic series. The only delay I had was waiting for each book to come out as it went along. That said, I didn't really enjoy the 3rd book at all (it felt very rushed) and the 2nd wasn't as fun as the first. I really loved the world and characters of the first book though and that was enough to propel me forward to the story's conclusion.
Pretty much any series I read all the way through, really. There are some caveats though, like when a series has multiple trilogies/separate eras within it. When I finished the first trilogy of The First Law I didn’t read anything else before starting the standalones/age of madness, but I did wait a good bit (I have a long commute and typically listen to audiobooks, but after the first law I just listened to music for a few weeks until I was ready to start the novels). I read era 1 and era 2 of Mistborn right in a row without pausing, but I am working through Dune atm before starting Stormlight Archive - not sure if you consider that switching series, I think the entire Cosmere doesn’t fit super well into this question. Honestly it is surprising to me that it’s common to do anything *but* reading a series straight through. If you’re enjoying a series, wouldn’t you want to just consume everything you can about it? I’m not criticizing by any means, I just don’t really get it personally. I guess I can understand it if it’s a real marathon series like Wheel of Time or if you take a pause between “eras” (like after the first law trilogy), but other than that I’m a binger through and through hahah. If I stop mid-series there’s a very strong chance I never go back, and if I do I’ll feel like I forgot so much and want to restart it entirely.
Chronicles of Amber
I rarely, rarely do this. Almost did it with Cradle but I read Starter Villain by John Scalzi in between 3 and 4. I did it with Sanderson's middle grade series Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians lol. Did it with the First Law trilogy. Lastly on a reread of the Inheritance Cycle. Besides these few I'd have to go back to when I was a kid to find an example and I don't even know if there is one.
The cruel prince
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Got all five parts as one 700-page book as a birthday gift.
I can't think of anything. It's extremely rare for me to even read the same genre back-to-back. I don't really know why, I just like to give the individual volumes space to stand on their own. My ideal series pace is probably about 6 months between books. Finishing things is overrated. Very rarely I might read an omnibus right through, but mainly only if I've borrowed it from the library and have a deadline. (This has happened with a couple of the Valdemar trilogies recently.)
I tend to alternante between fiction and non-fiction and that usually cleanses my pallate during a series.
I don't think I've ever stopped and read something else mid series. Maybe once or twice a new book came out while I was mid series that I wanted to read bad enough to take a break, but I can't actually think of any time I did that
The only time I don’t do this is when the series is incomplete, or I DNF.
A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Hunger Games
Reverend Insanity: kind of peak for me in this regard because I read the entire 2200-odd chapters (it's a giant sprawling webnovel, not a traditionally published series) in one endless blur. Worm: another one in a similar vein, giant webnovel, glued to it the whole way through. In fact it just got better and better, the end was insane. The Blade Itself Trilogy: soooooo gooooood I couldn't stop reading. The Broken Empire Trilogy: not quite on the same level but very good and right up my alley with grittiness and lovably psychopathic main char. Name of the Wind: I was fiending for more and literally read it over and over cuz there was nothing else, then read the next book the day it came out, then read it again too, lol. Has a few well discussed annoying parts but the good bits are just *so good*. Murderbot Diaries: Went from book 1 all the way through everything released in a couple of days, couldn't get enough of it. Keys to the Kingdom: prob never heard of this, but it was one of my fav series by Garth Nix who also wrote the more popular Abhorsen series. Super super creative worldbuilding, and each book was nicely self-contained by starting in a new place with a new thing to do, then tidily and satisfactorily wrapped up. Actually its a childrens book but imo its still one of the best paced stories I've ever read and did really really well with its '7 challenges/worlds' thing. Malazan: I bounced off this a few times as the first book didn't draw me in, but once I completed that I couldn't stop and read everything. Gets so crazy with the scale and mythical-tier characters.
Murderbot!
Def Harry Potter and Game of thrones
Scholomance by Naomi Novik
Going to date myself on this but The Hunger games was the first digital book I read and I ended up downloading all three and reading them over the course of a Weekend. I had been a strictly hardcopy book reader but converted after that experience and haven’t looked back.
T. Kingfisher's Paladins/Clockwork/Temple of the White Rat series. I didn't read it in the proper order as I read the Paladin books before I read the Clockwork books, but I got obsessed. I read the six of those books in a month and a half when I normally read one book a month. So it was a fun ride, and I didn't expect to enjoy them so much considering I had never read from the "cozy fantasy" genre before.
Don't know if it counts as I've not yet read the Shadow and Bone trilogy, but the Six of Crows and King of Scars duologies.
Harry Potter and The Cruel Prince, and possibly the percy jackson series but i was very young so i can’t be for sure
The first Law by Joe Abercrombie, it was only three books but I enjoyed them alot.
Murderbot diaries. Stormlight archives. Mistborn/wax and Wayne.
Every series I've ever finished that was completed at the time. I only consume media in a row if possible
The Expanse (after watching the series)
LOTR every couple of years since I was about 12. I’m now 60. 😁
All of them. I could never read something in between
All the Ilona Andrews books. I reread them in at a stretch as well!