10 Satisfying Series

Top Ten Tuesday is currently hosted by Artsy Reader Girl and has weekly topics for bloggers to respond to and share a love of all things books! I love thinking up my responses and the weekly blog hop to see what everyone else wrote!

I don’t really read series that often and if I do and it takes a downturn I won’t finish it (which is most series I’ve tried!), so this was more difficult than anticipated and I had to stretch to reach the last few!

1. The Expanse by James S.A. Corey is fantastic science-fiction space opera because it’s a trilogy of trilogies so you could stop at book 3 or book 6 and feel like you’ve got a good ending. 
2. The Silo Trilogy by Hugh Howey was excellent! This is another sci-fi series but dystopic this time, and light on the science,  where each book is part of an arc.
3. The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells is more science-fiction! If somehow you’ve not heard of it, it is a super fun series of novellas and with one novel length. The world builds and Murdbot grows as a character in each installment. 
4. The Enemy by Charlie Higson is a brilliant young adult sci-fi zombie series I read about a decade ago but have fond memories of! Rach books add a new dimension to the world. Normally I am not a fan of reading teenage characters but I think this series has enough depth for adults to enjoy. However, I also didn’t include it because the final ending was anticlimactic. It’s my one review on Goodreads where I get occasional likes! 
5. The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer is another great YA sci-fi series where each book adds something new, with a new sci-fi spin on a classic fairytale to build out the world. The last book is bloated but it’s still fun and it does end in a satisfying way. I reread these recently and they’re still a lot of fun!
6. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman is an ambitious series for one aimed at children. Fantasy this time (if somehow you’ve not heard of it!). Though I was confused by the third book in the original trilogy when I first read it, I appreciate it more as an adult.
7. Alan Partridge memoirs are technically a series, and have so far not failed to make me laugh at out, a lot. Every book, TV series and podcast builds out Alan a little more as he ages. He had a new mental health documentary on iPlayer and it’s bloody brilliant.
8. Alias Omnibus written by Brian Michael Bendis is an absolutely fucking fantastic adult Marvel comics series, though it left me dying for more Jessica Jones! I’ll never get enough Jessica.
9. Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman has not concluded, but so far I’ve found each book better than the one before, … but I’ve not read the latest release yet! 
10. Sweetpea by C.J. Skuse is a dark humour crime series following the diaries of a female series killer. I am currently 4 books in on audio and, so far as I’ve got, I’m finding myself more invested with each book. I believe book 5 concludes the series which feels right for the point I’m at now.

Interesting that so many of these were science-fiction! But I don’t read much fantasy or crime (mostly contemporary lit which are standalone) so I guess not surprising!