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A literary series is any series of written works (books, plays, stories, poems, essays, articles, etc.). Examples of things that could use this type...
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| x The Book of the New Sun | The Solar Cycle | Gene Wolfe |
The Book of the New Sun is a novel in four parts written (1980–83) by science fiction and fantasy author Gene Wolfe. It chronicles the journey and ascent to power of Severian, a disgraced journeyman torturer who rises to the position of Autarch, the...
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| x The Book of the Long Sun |
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The Solar Cycle | Gene Wolfe |
The Book of the Long Sun is a tetralogy by Gene Wolfe, comprising Nightside the Long Sun, Lake of the Long Sun, Calde of the Long Sun, and Exodus from the Long Sun. The first two volumes are published together as Litany of the Long Sun and the last...
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| x The Book of the Short Sun | The Solar Cycle |
The Book of the Short Sun is a trilogy by Gene Wolfe, comprising On Blue's Waters, In Green's Jungles, and Return to the Whorl. It is the sequel to Wolfe's tetralogy The Book of the Long Sun, and has connections to The Book of the New Sun....
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| x The Wizard Knight |
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Gene Wolfe |
The Wizard Knight is a series of epistolary novels written by fantasy and science fiction author Gene Wolfe. It chronicles the journey of Able of the High Heart, an American boy transported to a magical world and supernaturally aged to adulthood....
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| x His Dark Materials |
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Philip Pullman |
His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman comprising Northern Lights (1995, published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997) and The Amber Spyglass (2000). It follows the coming-of-age of two...
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| x Recent Researches in American music | Music of the United States of America |
Critical editions of musical scores by composers active in the United States.
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| x Bible |
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The Holy Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity.
Modern Judaism generally recognizes a single set of canonical books known as the Tanakh, or Hebrew or Jewish Bible. It comprises three parts: the Torah ("Teaching", also known...
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The term "Torah" (Hebrew: תּוֹרָה, "learning" or "instruction," sometimes translated as "Law"), refers either to the Five Books of Moses (or Pentateuch) or to the entirety of Judaism's founding legal and ethical religious texts. When used with an...
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| x Nevi'im |
Nevi'im (Hebrew: נְבִיאִים, "Prophets") is the second of the three major sections in the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh, between the Torah {teachings) and Ketuvim (writings).
Nevi'im is traditionally divided into two parts:
In the Jewish tradition,...
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The Tanakh (Hebrew: תַּנַ"ךְ) (IPA: [taˈnax] or [təˈnax]; also Tenakh or Tenak) is a name for the Bible used in Rabbinic Judaism, also known as the Masoretic Text. The name "Tanakh" is a Hebrew acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the...
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| x Ketuvim |
Ketuvim (Hebrew: כְּתוּבִים, "writings") is the third and final section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), after Torah (teachings) and Nevi'im (prophets). In English translations of the Hebrew Bible, this section is usually entitled "Writings" or ...
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| x James Bond |
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James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. The character has also been used in the longest running and most financially successful English...
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| x The Hand of Thrawn duology |
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The Hand of Thrawn duology is a duology of novels set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe galaxy, which were written by famed Star Wars author Timothy Zahn. The duology continues Zahn's eight-book series which chronologically began with the Outbound...
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| x The Sprawl trilogy |
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William Gibson |
The Sprawl trilogy (also known as the Neuromancer, Cyberspace or Matrix trilogy) is William Gibson's first set of novels, composed of Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988).
The novels are all set in the same fictional...
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| x Jason Bourne Series | Robert Ludlum |
The Jason Bourne Series is a series of spy fiction thriller novels about Jason Bourne, created by Robert Ludlum in 1980 and continued by Eric Van Lustbader.
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| x Nancy Drew |
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Nancy Drew is a fictional young amateur detective in various mystery series for children and teens. Created by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate book packaging firm, the character first appeared in 1930. The books have been...
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| x Chalet School |
The Chalet School is a fictional girls' boarding school, the setting of around sixty school story novels by Elinor Brent-Dyer, initially published between 1925 and 1970. The school was initially located in Austria, moved to Guernsey in 1939,...
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| x Spy Gear Adventures |
Spy Gear Adventures is a series of children's book by Rick Barba. The series was published by Aladdin Paperbacks, and was based on the line of Spy Gear toys manufactured by Wild Planet Entertainment. There are six titles in the series about a group...
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| x The Animals of Farthing Wood | Colin Dann |
The Animals of Farthing Wood is a series of eight books written by British author Colin Dann. The books tell the story of a group of woodland animals whose home has been paved over by developers. They learn of a nature reserve, White Deer Park,...
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| x Lord Darcy |
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Lord Darcy is a detective in an alternate history, created by Randall Garrett. The first stories were asserted to take place in the same year as they were published, but in a world very different from our own.
Magic is a codified scientific...
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| x Penny Parker |
Penny Parker was a series of 17 books written by Mildred A. Wirt Benson and published from 1939 through 1947. Penny was a high school sleuth who also occasionally moonlighted as a reporter for her father's newspaper.
Benson favored Penny Parker over...
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| x Tomorrow series |
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The Tomorrow Series is a series of invasion novels written by Australian writer John Marsden, detailing a high-intensity invasion and occupation of Australia by a foreign power. The novels are told in first person perspective by the main character,...
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| x Walt Disney's Fun-to-Read Library |
Walt Disney's Fun-to-Read Library is a 19-volume children's book series, published by Bantam Books and Walt Disney Productions, and released in 1986.
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| x The Five Find-Outers |
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The Five Find-Outers and Dog (not to be confused with The Famous Five), also known as the Enid Blyton Mystery Series, is a series of children's mystery books written by Enid Blyton and first published between 1943 and 1961. Set in the fictitious...
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| x Obernewtyn Chronicles | Isobelle Carmody |
The Obernewtyn Chronicles are a series of science fiction/fantasy novels by Australian author Isobelle Carmody. They have a post apocalyptic setting, and depict a world struggling to come to terms with the destruction caused by global nuclear...
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| x Gor |
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John Norman |
Gor, the Counter-Earth, is the alternate-world setting for John Norman's Chronicles of Gor, a series of twenty seven novels that combine philosophy, erotica and science fiction.
The customs, terminology and imagery depicted in these books has...
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| x Patternist series | Octavia E. Butler |
The Patternist series (also known as the Patternmaster series) is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing into from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future, involving telepathic mind...
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| x The Domination |
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The Domination of Draka is a dystopian alternate history series by S. M. Stirling. It comprises a main trilogy of novels as well as one crossover novel set after the original and a book of short stories. This series is also called the Draka series...
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| x Dig Allen |
The "Dig" Allen, Space Explorer series consisted of six juvenile science fiction books written in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Joseph Greene, the originator of the Tom Corbett, Space Cadet television show.
Like Green's earlier creation, the ...
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| x The Adventure Series |
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The Adventure Series by Enid Blyton, a prolific English children's author, is a series of eight children's novels. These books feature the same child characters: Philip, Jack, Dinah, and Lucy-Ann, along with several adult characters. Jack's pet...
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| x Junior Jedi Knights Series |
Junior Jedi Knights is a series of science fiction novels started by Nancy Richardson and completed by Rebecca Moesta, based in the fictional Star Wars universe.
Anakin Solo, the youngest son of Han Solo and Princess Leia, is eleven-- and headed for...
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| x Hungry City Chronicles |
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Philip Reeve |
The Mortal Engines Quartet is the UK and original title of a series of four novels, Mortal Engines (2001), Predator's Gold, Infernal Devices, and A Darkling Plain, written by the British author Philip Reeve. It is known in the US as the Hungry City...
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| x Great War |
Great War is an alternate history trilogy by Harry Turtledove, which follows How Few Remain. It is part of Turtledove's Timeline-191 series of novels.
Smarting from two defeats at the hands of the Confederate States of America, which was allied with...
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| x Chung Kuo |
Chung Kuo is a series of science fiction novels written by David Wingrove. The novels are set in a future world.
The Chung Kuo novels describe a Chinese-dominated, worldwide system of enormous city states (named after the continents which they span...
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| x Beacon Street Girls |
The Beacon Street Girls is a series of young adult books written by Annie Bryant. Based in Brookline, Massachusetts, the stories focus around five girls who live in Brookline and are in the same middle school class. The girls come from varied...
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| x The Pit Dragon Trilogy |
The Pit Dragon Chronicles is a series of science fiction and fantasy novels by Jane Yolen. The anthology is simply all of the first three books in one. The books are set in the far future, on a desert planet called Austar IV, which has a history and...
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| x Sweet Valley High |
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Sweet Valley High is a book series created by Francine Pascal, who presided over a team of ghostwriters for the duration of the series' creation in 1983. The series ended twenty years later with over 152 books to its name. Over the years, the books...
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| x Ware Tetralogy | Rudy Rucker |
The Ware Tetralogy is a series of four science fiction novels by author Rudy Rucker: Software (1982), Wetware (1988), Freeware (1997) and Realware (2000). The first two books both received the Philip K. Dick Award for best novel. The closest to the...
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| x Professor Challenger |
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
George Edward Challenger, better known as Professor Challenger, is a fictional character in a series of science fiction stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Unlike Conan Doyle's laid-back, analytic character, Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger is...
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| x Rats of NIMH | Robert C. O'Brien |
The Rats of NIMH is a series of three children's books, the first one by Robert C. O'Brien, and the second and third by his daughter Jane Leslie Conly.
The books are:
In 1982, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH became the basis for the animated film...
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| x Guardians of Ga'hoole |
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Thomas F. Monteleone |
Guardians of Ga'Hoole is a children's fiction book series written by Kathryn Lasky and illustrated by Richard Chowder. There is also an upcoming movie of the same name, based on the series. Most of the main characters are owls, and the series is a...
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| x Noughts & Crosses series |
The Noughts & Crosses series by Malorie Blackman is a sequence of for young adult, science fiction, novel and a novella set in a fictional, racist, dystopia.
This list is chronological by date of publication which is also the order in which the...
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| x Arabesk trilogy |
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The Arabesk trilogy is a sequence of alternate history novels by the British author Jon Courtenay Grimwood.
Starting with the 2001 novel Pashazade and continuing with Effendi (2002) and Felaheen (2003), the point of divergence is in 1915, with...
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| x The Chronicles of Narnia |
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Clive Staples Lewis |
The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C. S. Lewis. It is considered a classic of children's literature and is the author's best-known work, having sold over 120 million copies in 41 languages. Written...
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| x The Boys Start the War |
The Boys Start the War is the first of many novels in a series of children's books by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. The series is centered on two families, the Hatfords, who have four sons, Jake, Josh, Wally, and Peter, and the Malloys, who have three...
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| x Rowan of the Bukshah |
Rowan of the Bukshah (titled Rowan and the Ice Creepers in some countries) is a children's fantasy novel by Australian author Emily Rodda. It is the fifth and final book in the Rowan of Rin series.
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| x Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy |
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The Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy is a series of award-winning novels written by acclaimed Canadian science fiction author, Robert J. Sawyer. The books depict an Earth-like world on a moon which orbits a gas giant, inhabited by a species of highly...
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| x Space Trilogy | Clive Staples Lewis |
The Space Trilogy, Cosmic Trilogy or Ransom Trilogy is a trilogy of three science fiction novels by C. S. Lewis, famous for his later series The Chronicles of Narnia. A philologist named Elwin Ransom is the hero of the first two novels and an...
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| x Galactic Center Saga | Gregory Benford |
The Galactic Center Saga is a series of books by author Gregory Benford detailing a galactic war between mechanical and biological life.
In 2001, film director Jan De Bont announced that a television series based on the six-book saga was "in the...
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| x The Roman Mysteries |
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The Roman Mysteries is a series of historical novels for children by Caroline Lawrence. The first book, The Thieves of Ostia, was published in 2001, and 17 more novels were planned, plus a number of "mini-mysteries" and companion titles.
The books...
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| x Liaden universe |
The Liaden universe (pronounced "Lee-AY-den") is the setting for an ongoing series of science fiction stories written by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. The series covers a considerable time period, some thousands of years in all, although since it...
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| x Perry Rhodan |
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Perry Rhodan is the name of science fiction series published since 1961 in Germany, as well as the name of the main character.
Perry Rhodan is a space opera, dealing with several themes of science fiction. Having sold over one billion copies (in...
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| x Planetenromane |
The Planetenromane are a series of novels set in the Perry Rhodan universe. Most of the current editions are published only in German.
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| x Raggedy Ann |
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Raggedy Ann is a fictional character created by writer Johnny Gruelle (1880–1938) in a series of books he wrote and illustrated for young children. Raggedy Ann is a rag doll with red yarn for hair. The character was created in 1915 as a doll, and...
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| x The Space Odyssey series | Arthur C. Clarke |
The Space Odyssey series is a science fiction series of four novels and two films created from 1948 to 1997, primarily by the writer Arthur C. Clarke. Two early short stories by Clarke may also be considered part of the series.
The 2001 screenplay...
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| x Outernet |
Outernet is a humorous series of children's science fiction books written by Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore.
On Jack Armstrong's birthday,he received a laptop computer from his parents. United States residents working on a military base in the...
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| x Dragonfall 5 |
Dragonfall 5 was a series of children's sci-fi novels written by Brian Earnshaw in the 1970s. The series was illustrated by Simon Stern.
Dragonfall 5 is about a family (presumably British), living in a nondescript part of the 3rd millennium,...
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