Suggestions for a series of books for me to read?

[TiredMule]

I've just finished reading a series of books and really enjoyed the excitement of starting the next one to find out what happens. Please can I have some suggestions of any good ones I could try next? I think this is going to be the year I can really get back into reading again

What sort of thing do you read? Hard copy or kindle?

No 1 Ladies Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
The Wideacre Trilogy - Philippa Gregory
The Milennium Trilogy - Stieg Larsson

MrsSnaplegs-Hard copy at the moment but i'm seriously thinking about a kindle! I read almost anything as long as it's good!
Thank you Bunbaker-off to look now!

The Charlie Parker books by John Connolly. There are ten in the series, eleven if you count the novella. Start at the beginning with Every Dead Thing and go on from there. They're bloody addictive.

Janet Evanovich - crime thriller series with lots of humour. Starts with One For The Money. There's eighteen in the series so far.

The reason I asked about kindle is the Sherlock Holmes books are free download and very good reading them as an adult again
DH and I read a lot so by genre:
Action/adventure
Patrick Robinson
Clive cussler
Matthew Reilly
Fantasy
Terry pratchett
Anne mccafferey
Kids books for grown ups
The Percy Jackson series
Thrillers
Jonathan kellerman
Faye kellerman

Just a few ideas

Karin slaughter writes a brilliant series, every book different but with core characters running through with their own story too.

Agree with bun on the No1 Ladies Detective Agency and the Wideacre trilogy, both are very enjoyable reads. Haven't read any of the others mentioned so far.

Alexander McCall Smiths Corduroy Mansions Series is lovely too, and again it's very easy to read or how about the Wallander books?

Ooh yes Karin slaughter v good

I've enjoyed:

Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta books (Post Mortem is the first I think)
Steig Larssen's Millenium Trilogy
Lee Child's Jack Reacher books

On a more chick lit tone you could try the Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella.

Teen fiction I've thoroughly enjoyed as an adult:
The Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody
Tomorrow When The War Began by John Marsden
The Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer

James Patterson
Karen rose
Conn iggulden

Will add more as I remember

If you like Celtic mythology, the Deverry series by Katharine Kerr is wonderful and now they're all published so you won't have to wait 25 years to find out what happens like I did!
Or Discworld by Terry Pratchett - they are laugh out loud funny, but have a "bite" to them too (you know like Only Fools and Horses could make you laugh and cry at the same time? almost like that)
I second Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series, and the Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) is good too.

If you like Stieg Larsson you might enjoy Jo Nesbo. His protagonist Harry Hole is a great character.

Henning Mankell is another excellent Scandinavian crime writer. Recently read The Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare and loved that!

China Mieville's New Crobuzon series if you like SF/Wierd

Charmaine Harris
Janet Evanovich
Michael Connelly
John Connolly
John Sandford
Dennis Lehane
Lee Child
Harlan Coben

All write excellent series

i just downloaded the Neal Stephenson Baroque Cycle on an amazon recommendation. thanks for all the other tips in this thread, hate it when i dont have the next 5 books lined up.

I am addicted to the Roy Grace series by Peter James. Roy Grace is a police detective based in Brighton; I'm not normally into crime novels, but this series had me hooked from the start. They are real page-turners - i would highly recommend.

Loads of great crime recommendations above.

If you enjoy "family saga" type books - less chick-lit, more literary - try The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard. The first one is called The Light Years. Follows a large upper-middle-class family between WW1 and WW2. Really good characterisation and very involving.

Also the Shardlake Chronicles by CJ Sansom - Tudor mystery novels, mostly set in London, a mixture of historical fiction and crime.

Wow thatnk you so much for all the suggestions-I wasn't expecting so many!
I have now become obsessed by the idea of a kindle, which once I've finally got my mitts on one, I can see being very dangerous indeed!
I remembered I'd been given the first of the Game of Thrones a while ago so I should really start that first, but i'm going to get started on some of these ideas asap. I can't believe I've read so little while the dd's were tiny-i'm back to being obsessed, much to dh's horror!!!!

whoops sorry for the typos!

Kate Atkinson's books about her detective Jackson Brodie are great. Series begins with Case Histories and the most recent one is called Started Early, Took My Dog.

Second all recommendations of Jo Nesbo/Steig Larsson/C J Sansom. Very gripping. If you like C J Sansom then Rory Clement's books are set a bit later with Shakespeare's brother as the lead character.

Also just discovered Ben Aaronovitch - there are now 2 out and a third on the way - rather wacky police novels set in modern day London. Had me laughing out loud on daily commute which worried other commuters.

Ooh I was going to recommend the Game of Thrones series - brilliant - I couldn't stop with these until I'd got up to date, now I have to wait for the next one - argh!

Sue Grafton (writes about female private detective, v good)
Jim Butcher - Dresden series (supernatural series set in modern day Chicago)
Mark Billingham (London detective fiction)

Second the recommendation for Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie books - I love them!

Also - Sherlock Holmes if you haven't ever read him, good page turner stuff, although not all the stories are equally good...