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Some works in a series can stand alone—they can be read in any order, as each book makes few, if any, reference to past events, and the characters seldom, if ever, change. Many of these series books may be published in a numbered series. Examples of such series are works like The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and Nick Carter.
A sequence is a series of books that are otherwise related—which are a set or series of novels which have their own title and free-standing storyline, and can thus be read independently or out of sequence or in sequence regardless of sharing a particular milieu or timeline.
Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide, [14] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [15] making it one of the best-selling books of all time.
1. The MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood. Genre: Science Fiction Books in series: Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam While Atwood is best known for her feminist masterpiece, The ...
Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series [33], [3] A Court of Thorns and Roses series [34] R. A. MacAvoy's Tea with the Black Dragon [4] George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series [32] Svetlana Martynchik's Labyrinths of Echo series (under the pseudonym Max Frei) Aleksandr Mazin's Fargal, the World of Ashshur series and The Dragon of ...
Examples include: TOS- "The City on the Edge of Forever" (alternate World War II outcome); Enterprise- "Storm Front" where Nazis seized East Coast of America. 1978 An Englishman's Castle: A 3-part BBC mini-series focusing on television writer Peter Ingram, who lives in a present-day Britain in which Nazi Germany won World War II. 1983 Blackadder
Note: This is for articles on novel series—which are a set or series of novels or books that should be read in order as is often the case in speculative fiction and all its subgenres. Can be thought of as one over-riding storyline, and is often without plot re-introduction, reiteration or reminder, save for cursory mention of past events.
Certain books in the series allow readers choice of whom to take the role of, for example, in an adventure book, readers may be prompted to choose between a climber, a hiker, or a traveler. Stories are generally gender- and race-neutral, though in some cases, particularly in illustrations, there is the presumption of a male reader (the target ...