Ten Finished Series I NEED to Finish (or Start!)
Top Ten Tuesdays are hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review.
I’m actually not TOO bad at finishing series once I start them. If the books are published and I started the series, there’s a good chance I finished it too. I could only think of five published series that I still need to finish… so, I decided to also show five finished series that I want to read but haven’t yet!
Boomerang trilogy by Noelle August
Read: Boomerang | To Read: Rebound, Bounce
I actually loved the first book, which could be why I’m so nervous to read the next two! I’ve heard some mixed things about both of them. I know they’ll be super quick reads but I just haven’t gotten around to it yet. New Adult has been on the back burner!
Private series by Kate Brian
Read: Books #1-11 | To Read: Book of Spells, Vanished, Ominous, Vengeance
I absolutely loved this series and remember buying and reading each book immediately when it came out. It was really the first series (aside from Harry Potter, obviously) that I tracked when each book was coming out and bought them. Once I finished the 11th book and knew I had to read the prequel, I lost some steam. The series took a weird turn but I’ll finish eventually!
Maze Runner series by James Dashner
Read: The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, The Death Cure | To Read: The Kill Order, novellas
I loved the first book and didn’t like the second two, so my motivation to read the rest has been very nonexistent. Chris read some of the prequel and was pretty bored, so that didn’t help either. Someday I might finish it off and read all of the novellas too, but that day probably won’t come for a while. Just over it.
Privilege series by Kate Brian
Read: Privilege, Beautiful Disaster, Perfect Mistake (?) | To Read: Sweet Deceit, Pure Sin, Cruel Love
Looking back, this is actually a really cool concept. It’s a spin-off series of Private (discussed above) that is from the perspective of the serial killer. I read these a while ago and honestly don’t know if I ever finished the third book. Reading during the summers between college years was always interrupted when I went back to school. I’ll reread and finish this one off at some point!
Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter
Read: I’d Tell You I Love You But then I’d Have to Kill You, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy, Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover, Only the Good Spy Young, Classified Material (novella) | To Read: Out of Sight Out of Time, United We Spy, other novellas
I really love this series. I read it so long ago that I decided to reread all of the books before finishing the final two books in the series that I never got around to reading back in the day. I finished my reread and am now ready to finish it off. Part of me isn’t ready to see how it ends, but the other part of me wants to cross the series off my list. I haven’t read her Heist Society series yet, so maybe I can read that to tide myself over between Embassy Row novels!
Lumatere Chronicles by Melina Marchetta | Graceling Realm by Kristin Cashore
Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins | Precious Stone by Kerstin Gier | She’s So/He’s So by Kieran Scott
So many of those series are so long! No wonder you still have a few to finish! I also want to start the Lumatere Chronicles.
I know! So many are very old too, that I read back in HS. I can’t even remember half of what happened in them but I’m determined to finish at some point haha
I haven’t finished The Maze Runner trilogy either—I only read the first one and I really enjoyed it, but I just can’t convince myself to even try the other two. I think I’ll just watch the movies, even if it is a major reader sin. I really want to start the Ruby Red trilogy too!
Haha the movie was totally different from the first book, so I’m interested to see what happens with the second movie!
I actually just gave up on Fire (Graceling #2). I didn’t love the first book, and Fire has completely different characters and some different world stuff. I just couldn’t get into it. I hope it works better for you.
Thanks! We’ll see!!
I haven’t read any of these books, but I do see a few of them that I want to read. I’ve seen Graceling and heard some good things about it. I feel like I might have started reading The Maze Runner a while ago, but I can’t remember if I got very far into it.
Haha Maze Runner was certainly interesting! The books got progressively worse for me, so I don’t know exactly how to (or if I should) rec them!
I loved the Graceling series! Hex Hall was fun but I liked the first book best, and I only read the first book of Ruby Red. I have a couple series to finish: the Elemental trilogy and Prep School Confidential especially. I also want to start These Broken Stars, I own the first two books!
OH I forgot about These Broken Stars. I own the first one and am waiting for #2 in paperback haha
Thank you for reminding me of the Private and Privilege series! I started reading the Private series and really liked it, but never got around to finishing it, or starting Privilege. I’m adding those back to my TBR lists right now!
Great 😀
The Gallagher Girls series is on my list as well. The books are so fun, but I’ve only read the first three. I might just binge-read this one. As for The Maze Runner, I haven’t read the final book yet. Not sure why I’m putting it off, except that I haven’t loved the series. I need to finish the Hex Hall books, too. Good luck to us both 🙂
Happy TTT!
It’s a great binge-read!
Great list. I read The Maze Runner series and it was just okay. But if you loved it, I would really recommend that you finish it. 🙂
I didn’t love it. The first book was good and the second two were not good at all, in my opinion haha. Just the one prequel left!
Yay! Another good review of the Gallagher Girls series. It’s on my TBR list. I want to start now 🙂
My TTT
Yay!!
I need to finish Boomerang too! I’ve only got one book left in it, so I really have no excuse 😉 Also, I definitely think you should finish Gallagher Girls – it’s such a fun series 🙂
I’m so excited to read them! I just need to make the time.
I forgot to add Boomerang to my list! Thanks for reminding me I need to read the last two books. I loved the first one. Super cute! 😀
I know me too!
I have not read any of these series apart from The Maze Runner, or even started it! But I do have a few of them on my TBR list to try! I hope you can finish all these series in due time and like the Maze Runner books when you do 😀
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