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Well my favorite book series, the Sword of Truth series, fits into this category, so I'd have to say those.

Sword of Truth series

Some other good ones are the Bartimaeus Trilogy the Ender's game series (Although I think Ender's game, the first book, came out in the 80's...)

If you are A Halo fan at all, the books are amazing. Start with Halo: Fall of Reach, action packed and just one of the better books I have read.
By the Way i have read all of the series so far and that is definitely one of the better ones.

Not sure when it was published, but Life of Pi is a fantastic book.

Skulduggery Pleasant, and the Guild Trilogy are great.

Not sure when it was published, but Life of Pi is a fantastic book.

Rangers Apprentice is a awesome series.

best series is cirq du freak or the hunger gamnes

All of these books sound really good, and some of them are even on my list to read. Although I can't say I'm a fan of Halo, as I've only ever played it a few times at a friends house, I'll be sure to reccomend that to him.
I personally love the Ranger's Apprentice series, and the Artemis Fowl series, too. (Is anyone else pumped about the next one coming out this summer? I know I am!)
I do have to add that if anyone is interested in the Vietnam War, the book A Million Shades of Gray by Cynthia Kadohata is a really good read. It's about a boy who trains an elephant in his village, and how him and his village was affected when the U.S. pulled out of the war. It is a great book.

I would definitely recommend Disgrace by Coetzee if any of you want an extremely slim volume that is jam packed with thought provoking paragraphs. That Nobel Laureate doesn't waste a word in there. If you guys are tired of just reading endless thriller and adventure books, give it a go.

Warning, it's not PG.

A song of Ice and Fire. It is a series of books by G. R. R. Martin. The first book A Game of Thrones is watchable on tv as a tv serie and is nice to watch after reading the book.

Here are my fave series':

The Monstrumologist................Rick Yancey
Chaos Walking......................Patrick Ness
Cirque du Freak....................Darren Shan
The Demonata.......................Darren Shan
The Saga of Larten Crepsley........Darren Shan
Harry Potter.......................J.K. Rowling
The Hunger Games...................Suzanne Collins??

*Some of these are definitely for teens and up*

Percy Jackson and The Olympians is an amazing series, but don't compare it to the movie which was terrible in my mind. Maximum Ride is an amazing series with action and drama at every corner, all the books are masterpieces except for the very last book that I found lacking of what made me hooked to the series.

I love the Maximum Ride series! It's awesome!Same with the Percy Jackson, and I agree that the movie was terrible compared to the books.

The Pit Dragon series looks good, too.

A song of Ice and Fire. It is a series of books by G. R. R. Martin

I don't read books very often, but i love Michael Morpurgo's books. He has loads of books and they are really interesting and the story's are amazing. I suggest for some of you to read some.

Private Peaceful:



I read that one with my class in English over a period of about 1 month.

Alone on a wide wide sea:



I have read this individually in Primary school and really enjoyed it.

The butterfly lion:



I haven't actually read this one but one of my friends said it was really good.

My fav author is Darren Shan and my favourite book by him is Probably The Lake of Souls in the sage of Darren Shan