Recommended Trilogies?

Mr E

Has anyone got any favourite book trilogies?

I just finished Patrick Lee's Breach trilogy which was great fun until

it fell apart in a really unsatisfying way

at the end.

I've also enjoyed Feist's original Magician trilogy, Trudi Canavan's Black Magician trilogy, The Hunger Games, the Millennium Trilogy, the Maze Runner trilogy, and probably some others.

Googling for trilogies tends to favour fantasy books - I'm not averse to fantasy, but I'd prefer something along the lines of crime, thrillers, dystopia etc.

Any recommendations?

Aenaes

Len Deighton has a series about a Cold War British spy, Bernard Samson. The series is separated into three trilogies. Berlin Game, Mexico Set, London Match, Spy Hook, Spy Line, Spy Sinker, Faith, Hope and Charity.

I personally found them pretty good and Deighton seemed somewhat knowledgeable about espionage.

There's always Lord Of The Rings also.

Ipso

James Ellroy's Dudley Smith Trilogy; The Big Nowhere, LA Cinfidential and White Jazz.

Decuc500

Daniel Woodrell's The Bayou Trilogy. Crime fiction in the Country Noir style.

Birneybau

Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy, amazing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials

Actually going to re-read them myself soon.

Durr, fantasy of a sort.

biko

The Avalon Series http://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=avalon+series

The Mythago Wood series http://www.goodreads.com/series/51561-mythago-wood

The Night Hunter series http://www.goodreads.com/series/42150-night-hunter

All are fantasy oriented and some longer than 3 books

Ravenholm

The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Angel_Trilogy

edit: Its Fantasy so you may not be interested

Monkeybonkers

How about the Millennium trilogy by Steig Larsson.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played With Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest.

Birneybau

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

How about the Millennium trilogy by Steig Larsson.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played With Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest.

Mr E wrote: »

Has anyone got any favourite book trilogies?

I just finished Patrick Lee's Breach trilogy which was great fun until

it fell apart in a really unsatisfying way

at the end.

I've also enjoyed Feist's original Magician trilogy, Trudi Canavan's Black Magician trilogy, The Hunger Games, the Millennium Trilogy, the Maze Runner trilogy, and probably some others.

Googling for trilogies tends to favour fantasy books - I'm not averse to fantasy, but I'd prefer something along the lines of crime, thrillers, dystopia etc.

Any recommendations?

?

Monkeybonkers

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Washington Irving

Lord Of The Rings, if you haven't already read it is the obvious choice though technically it isn't a trilogy.

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Perhaps not what you're looking for but I'd recommend it to anyone. Again though, technically isn't a trilogy...

coppercat

if you're into a bit of sci-fi Richard Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs trilogy ( Altered Carbon , Broken Angels and Woken Furies ) are excellent .

Axel Lamp

Conn Iggulden's Ghengis Khan books

Edit:Not a Trilogy, apologies.

Jimmy Iovine

My dad swears by The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake. He has given me a very battered copy of the first book, but I have yet to get around to reading it.

nc6000

The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy is very good.

nompere

One of the very best - and for little or nothing, really.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Regeneration-Trilogy-Door-Ghost-ebook/dp/B00C6PRXOS/ref=sr_1_7?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1390208020&sr=1-7&keywords=pat+barker

Carawaystick

Arthur c Clarke's 2001/2010/2061

Azimov's original foundation trilogy

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, resteraunts at the end of the universe, life the universe and everything

Cormac McCarthy's border trilogy

LotR isn't a trilogy, it's in 6 books, for one thing;)

ArPharazon

Memory, Sorrow and Thorn is a trilogy but is a quadrilogy in paperback. It was one of George RR Martins influences.

two wheels good

nompere wrote: »

One of the very best - and for little or nothing, really.

I agree. Regeneration by Pat Barker is excellent.
Sure to be available in the library - no need to give tax-dodging Amazon any money.

Queen-Mise

Tad Williams Otherland is absolutely amazing - albeit four books so also not a trilogy:p I still think it is one of the best series I have ever read.


The other series that is brilliant is the series written by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts - the Empire Trilory, Daughter/Servant/Mistress of the Empire. Think these are some of the best books written by Feist.

losthorizon

The Transylvanian Trilogy by Miklós Bánffy. A Story about the lives and loves of the Hungarian Aristocracy in Romania. Only found out about it when I was going to Hungary and I wanted to read a Hungarian work of fiction. Great set of Books. Actually written by a former foreign Minister in The Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Up The Bare Stairs

John Le Carre's Karla trilogy - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People

Potatoeman

The Malazan book of the fallen. Ten books very good fantasy series.

diddlybit

The Maddadam trilogy by Margaret Atwood, if you are a fan of dystopian literature

Aenaes

Up The Bare Stairs wrote: »

John Le Carre's Karla trilogy - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People

I had forgotten about these. I've read Tinker, Tailor and it was excellent so I just need to get cracking on the other two.