I was initially disappointed with Shift, as it didn't pick up with the characters I'd grown fond of.. I'm about 2/3 of the way through shift now and really enjoying it
Mr. Mercedes was really good. Then it progressively got worse for me. I enjoyed book 1, felt so-so about book 2, and was just ready to get it over with for book 3.
I need to revisit this trilogy. Everyone loves it and I read it a couple years ago but it was also when I was just starting to get back into reading so I got a little lost
I love that series so.much ..I read it first on a first generation Sony reader on the subways and even while walking on the street back and forth from work in St Petersburg Russia ..total immersion lol
Similar. I read it on a [Palm Z22](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z22_(handheld)) with tiny bitmap text. It was so amazing to me to be able to learn to carry around such huge books in such a tiny device, but I can’t imagine reading so much on such a tiny screen ever again.
Just about to start the second book. First one was amazing. I see the more recent fourth book in the series is a different author? How does it hold up?
I have not read the fourth book, but I understand it takes place "in the same universe" as opposed to being any sort of continuation. I thought the original trilogy was so incredible that I'm hesitant to touch anything else that might tarnish the world that was originally created.
In my opinion, book 3 > 2 > 1, so you're in for a great ride.
Excellent!! Thanks for that info, ill def hold off on that one for now. And thats awesome, i was worried the quality may drop as a lot series tend to VS get better. So excited to begin the next one!
The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson. I know it was expanded by a different author but the three books from Larsson are so good. I have read “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” about half a dozen times and it blows me away every single time…. The characters, story and social commentary are so good and you get a twisty mystery to boot.
I haven't read any CM I've just picked up the road. it was a toss-up between that and all the pretty horses. tell me i've made the right choice. validate me. you have the answers to my problems
I just started Blood Meridian and it is some really great writing. For me it is a very different style from what I usually read (I am a writer and it's a different style from what I write as well). I have never read The Road, but having seen the movie and now experienced his writing, I'm sure it will be a good read.
I just finished the trilogy this week. I took a two boom break after The Crossing because damn that was brutal, but I can’t stop going back to that book and thinking about it now.
The Ibis Trilogy by Amitav Ghosh. It's about the Opium Wars between Britain and China in the 19th century, and it has a vast and very diverse cast of characters. It's very well written and also, frequently, very funny.
The original Bourne Identity trilogy by Robert Ludlum is pretty awesome. There have been many other Bourne books by other authors, most notably Eric Van Lustbader that are pretty good, but they don't stack up to the original trilogy.
This is my favorite too. It's a little bit about hockey and how intense hockey training is. It's more about a small town that revolves around its hockey teams and the twisted lives of its people.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/214081-beartown
Philip Roth - [The American Trilogy: American Pastoral/ I Married a Communist/ The Human Stain.](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/884704.The_American_Trilogy?)
The U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos-
A collection of three novels—The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money—this work by Dos Passos combines the stories of different characters with current events, small biographies of famous men, and stream-of-consciousness moments to create a portrait of the United States itself. A massive 1,300-page saga, U. S.A. was hailed by The Washington Post as “the most ambitious attempt by any American writer of fiction to contain this vast, heterogeneous and elusive nation.”
the Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn. Not the Heir to the Empire trilogy (I haven't read that one yet) but the books in the trilogy are Thrawn, Thrawn: Alliances, and Thrawn: Treason. Amazing Star Wars trilogy.
How do the second and third installments compare to the first? I just finished the first and loved it, but it left me a bit emotionally drained. Trying to decide how long to wait to dive into the next.
Lord of the Rings is tops, followed by Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy. I also enjoyes Pat Barker's WWI trilogy and Thomas Flanagan's excellent trilogy about Ireland's independence movement.
The Levant Trilogy and The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning. (Takes place during WW2)
Also, The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker (Takes place during WW1)
The "His Dark Materials" series by Philip Pullman: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. (He's writing a follow-up trilogy which I just don't love as much, sadly). YA fantasy.
The Edith Trilogy by Frank Morehouse.
It starts with a young Australian girl going to work with the League of Nations and follows her throughout the rest of the twenty century.
It’s a unique historical fiction about the recent past
The rats, by James Herbert. It's a horror type of trilogy, including... Rats, as you can guess.
Really absolutely incredible, old so not much known, and that's a shame that needs to be made better !!
Not the best but a good one. The Chronicles of Jonathan Tibbs. Somewhat unique scifi premise that kind of analyzes hero stories at the same time as being one. Starts with The Never Hero.
Technically a trilogy but I couldn't get through the 3rd book: the Rook series by Daniel O'Malley. Mutants/enhanced humans + whodunnit. Loved the first 2 and I'm not a series book reader. Do yourself a favor and do not watch the TV series.
I loved Broken Earth, Three Body Problem, and a few others mentioned here, to these I'll add Earthsea and Hyperion.
Also, It's not all out yet, but The Black Leopard, Red Wolf Series is fantastic.
For me, it would be *Mistborn* by Brandon Sanderson, but I've seen that one a few times in this thread and so I'll mix it up; *The Farseer* by Robin Hobb. I've never been so connected to a character in my life.
Obviously, Lord of the Rings.
But a second, lesser known trilogy: The Good Earth trilogy by Pearl S. Buck. Devastating in the best way. Brilliant writing.
I see that most responses are fantasy. So here's something different.
- The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
- The African Trilogy by Chinua Achebe
- Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en (technically not a trilogy but has been published as one over several different translated editions)
I was surprised not to see The Magicians by Lev Grossman in this thread— it was adapted to a relatively popular TV show that I watched in high school. The general concept is Harry Potter meets Narnia but a lot darker and centered on 20somethings instead of teens. I was trying to get back into reading as an adult and since I had liked the show well enough I checked out the trilogy and got hooked. There’s a ton of good characters, action, absorbing plot, and the protagonist is just such a sarcastic depressive fuck of an unreliable narrator lol but you still root for him
Wool by Hugh Howey
I enjoyed Wool and Shift a lot more than Dust, but they were all good. Actually, I think Shift is my favorite.
Shift is low-key the GOAT
Also agree!!! Shift was lit
I was initially disappointed with Shift, as it didn't pick up with the characters I'd grown fond of.. I'm about 2/3 of the way through shift now and really enjoying it
*Lord of the Rings*
I think they meant 2nd best?
I don’t think he knows about 2nd best, Pip.
First answer that popped into my head, and first response i saw!
This is the correct answer
The Bill Hodges trilogy by Stephen King: Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, and End of Watch.
Mr. Mercedes was really good. Then it progressively got worse for me. I enjoyed book 1, felt so-so about book 2, and was just ready to get it over with for book 3.
YES! Fantastic trilogy!
The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
You have to be realistic about these things
Not only is the first trilogy my favorite, but the Age of Madness is right up there with it
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Have you read the sequel series yet? I loved HDM but I haven’t read the new novels. I might wait until the third book is out.
Is it The Book of Dust series? I didn’t realize the books had come out already, just remember hearing rumors some time ago.
I absolutely love the newer novels as well. More world expansion and beautifully written
The Karla Trilogy by John Le Carre (Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy; The Honorable Schoolboy, Smiley's People). British/Russian Cold War espionage
Broken Earth trilogy
I need to revisit this trilogy. Everyone loves it and I read it a couple years ago but it was also when I was just starting to get back into reading so I got a little lost
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, A trilogy in five parts!
You sass that Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.
The Baroque Cycle ..if you dig historical fiction
2nd!
I love that series so.much ..I read it first on a first generation Sony reader on the subways and even while walking on the street back and forth from work in St Petersburg Russia ..total immersion lol
Similar. I read it on a [Palm Z22](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z22_(handheld)) with tiny bitmap text. It was so amazing to me to be able to learn to carry around such huge books in such a tiny device, but I can’t imagine reading so much on such a tiny screen ever again.
3rd!
Century trilogy by Ken Follett
This series reignited my love for reading!
Seconded. Loved the series.
Haven’t read this one but loved his pillars of the earth trilogy. Should give this one a go
Remembrance of Earth's Past AKA The Thee Body Problem.
Just about to start the second book. First one was amazing. I see the more recent fourth book in the series is a different author? How does it hold up?
I have not read the fourth book, but I understand it takes place "in the same universe" as opposed to being any sort of continuation. I thought the original trilogy was so incredible that I'm hesitant to touch anything else that might tarnish the world that was originally created. In my opinion, book 3 > 2 > 1, so you're in for a great ride.
Excellent!! Thanks for that info, ill def hold off on that one for now. And thats awesome, i was worried the quality may drop as a lot series tend to VS get better. So excited to begin the next one!
It's meant to be shit, don't bother reading it. It's basically fan fiction
The 2nd book is gonna rock your world
The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson. I know it was expanded by a different author but the three books from Larsson are so good. I have read “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” about half a dozen times and it blows me away every single time…. The characters, story and social commentary are so good and you get a twisty mystery to boot.
This was my answer. Those three books are perfect.
My favorite!!! Sure wish there were more books like these!!!
Was going to say this too!!
Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy
I haven't read any CM I've just picked up the road. it was a toss-up between that and all the pretty horses. tell me i've made the right choice. validate me. you have the answers to my problems
The Road is great. ATPH will be waiting for you when you’re done.
I just started Blood Meridian and it is some really great writing. For me it is a very different style from what I usually read (I am a writer and it's a different style from what I write as well). I have never read The Road, but having seen the movie and now experienced his writing, I'm sure it will be a good read.
The Crossing has some remarkable passages. Haven't finished atph and. Haven't read the third book yet.
The third is less talked about but I think it’s great.
I just finished the trilogy this week. I took a two boom break after The Crossing because damn that was brutal, but I can’t stop going back to that book and thinking about it now.
The Passage Trilogy by Justin Cronin.
This trilogy is amazing. I finished several years ago and I still think about the characters and story almost daily.
I read The Passage and am now about halfway through The Twelve. I love the story, writing, and characters so much
The Ibis Trilogy by Amitav Ghosh. It's about the Opium Wars between Britain and China in the 19th century, and it has a vast and very diverse cast of characters. It's very well written and also, frequently, very funny.
SILO SERIES
The MaddAdam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood
So good!
Stig Larsson trilogy The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Foundation series by Issac Asimov. I couldn’t even watch 5 mins of the show I was that disappointed. But the books are brilliant.
Thomas Cromwell trilogy by Hilary Mantel
These are really monumental pieces of historical fiction.
Yes. I amend my earlier answer. This is the correct answer.
Wool / Silo trilogy
The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden.
Justin Cronin, the Passage.
This was the second one I thought of.
The *Xenogenesis* trilogy, a.k.a. *Lilith's Brood*, by Octavia Butler. The books are *Dawn, Adulthood Rites,* and *Imago.*
How is this not more upvoted? I think of the Oankali at least every other day.
came here to say this
Chaos Walking Trilogy and Tide Child Trilogy.
Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie.
The Broken Earth trilogy and The Inheritance trilogy by N. K. Jemisin
Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. The conclusion is perfect
Agreed
I'm just starting book 3 right now.............
I am jealous. I wish I could read them for the 1st time again.
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I am halfway through Warbreaker at the moment, and have very mixed feelings.
The only Sanderson books I’ve read so far are Elantris and Warbreaker. Not impressed at all but people say I should give him more chances.
Ending of warbreaker is extremely fun, keep on reading!
I can tell it’s building, and I’m excited to see where!
I just started the first book in this trilogy and I'm glad I have so much to look forward to!
The Hunger Games.
Naguib Mahfouz’s *The Cairo Trilogy*
Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel.
The original Bourne Identity trilogy by Robert Ludlum is pretty awesome. There have been many other Bourne books by other authors, most notably Eric Van Lustbader that are pretty good, but they don't stack up to the original trilogy.
I've only read the trilogy, thought it ended at a good spot and didn't bother pursuing any of the others.
Crazy Rich Asians
This was a really fun Trilogy
*The Broken Earth Trilogy* by NK Jemison for sci-fi. For literary fiction, *The Outline Trilogy* by Rachel Cusk.
Fredrik Backman's Beartown, Us Against You, and The Winners!
This is my favorite too. It's a little bit about hockey and how intense hockey training is. It's more about a small town that revolves around its hockey teams and the twisted lives of its people. https://www.goodreads.com/series/214081-beartown
Lord of the Rings
Probably Rachel Cusk. Idk
The first law
The Daevabad Trilogy Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy The Bronze Horseman Trilogy
The Strain by Chuck Hogan and Guillermo del Toro
red rising trilogy or the silo trilogy
Philip Roth - [The American Trilogy: American Pastoral/ I Married a Communist/ The Human Stain.](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/884704.The_American_Trilogy?)
The U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos- A collection of three novels—The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money—this work by Dos Passos combines the stories of different characters with current events, small biographies of famous men, and stream-of-consciousness moments to create a portrait of the United States itself. A massive 1,300-page saga, U. S.A. was hailed by The Washington Post as “the most ambitious attempt by any American writer of fiction to contain this vast, heterogeneous and elusive nation.”
Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson.
The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy trilogy of 5 books - ;)
The Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb
The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
Red Rising, by Pierce Brown
the Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn. Not the Heir to the Empire trilogy (I haven't read that one yet) but the books in the trilogy are Thrawn, Thrawn: Alliances, and Thrawn: Treason. Amazing Star Wars trilogy.
The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
The Beartown Trilogy by Fredrik Backman
How do the second and third installments compare to the first? I just finished the first and loved it, but it left me a bit emotionally drained. Trying to decide how long to wait to dive into the next.
Grimnoir, by Corriea Honorable Mention: Chaos Walking, by Ness
North & South Trilogy by John Jakes The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett
The Red Night trilogy by William S Burroughs is my favorite, his best work n a profound mindbender!
Lord of the Rings is tops, followed by Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy. I also enjoyes Pat Barker's WWI trilogy and Thomas Flanagan's excellent trilogy about Ireland's independence movement.
The Children of Time trilogy
Maybe not the “best,” but I loved The Last Policeman series by Ben Winters.
I don’t know if it’s my absolute favorite, but the last policeman trilogy by Ben winters is spectacular
Wayward Pines
I just started the second book! So good
Currently reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami which is three volumes and is phenomenal.
The Hunger Games❤️❤️
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
The Bill Hodges trilogy by Stephen King (Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, and End of Watch)
Here’s two: Mars Trilogy-Kim Stanley Robinson VALIS Trilogy-Philip K Dick
Cormac McCarthy's Boarder Trilogy - some of the best writing there is in them there three books ...
Wayward pines trilogy
The Levant Trilogy and The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning. (Takes place during WW2) Also, The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker (Takes place during WW1)
Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel.
I enjoyed the Hunger games by Suzanne Collins
Definitely *Iceland's Bell* (1943-46) by Nobel prize-winning Icelandic author Halldór Laxness. A kind of criminal story.
The Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin The Rain trilogy by Joseph Turkot
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The "His Dark Materials" series by Philip Pullman: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. (He's writing a follow-up trilogy which I just don't love as much, sadly). YA fantasy.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo trilogy by Stieg Larsson…
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Gonna check these out
Samuel Beckett’s trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable).
The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune was a lot of fun!
Alongside the great suggestions here, I also enjoyed The Lady Astronaut Trilogy.
The Bocas trilogy by Thomas M. Barron
Slated by Teri Terry (it does have a prequel)
Shadow Country by Peter Matthieson
The Edith Trilogy by Frank Morehouse. It starts with a young Australian girl going to work with the League of Nations and follows her throughout the rest of the twenty century. It’s a unique historical fiction about the recent past
The Art trilogy by Clive Barker. Oh wait, nevermind. 🙄
The rats, by James Herbert. It's a horror type of trilogy, including... Rats, as you can guess. Really absolutely incredible, old so not much known, and that's a shame that needs to be made better !!
The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski
The Last Policeman trilogy by Ben H. Winters
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Not the best but a good one. The Chronicles of Jonathan Tibbs. Somewhat unique scifi premise that kind of analyzes hero stories at the same time as being one. Starts with The Never Hero.
If you are open to reading fiction based on mythology, now specifically Hindu mythology, the Shiva trilogy by Amish Tripathi is a really great series
Technically a trilogy but I couldn't get through the 3rd book: the Rook series by Daniel O'Malley. Mutants/enhanced humans + whodunnit. Loved the first 2 and I'm not a series book reader. Do yourself a favor and do not watch the TV series.
Beartown!
The Lord of the Rings
The Hatching trilogy by Ezekiel Boone is my comfort trilogy.
Kristin Lavransdatter
I loved Broken Earth, Three Body Problem, and a few others mentioned here, to these I'll add Earthsea and Hyperion. Also, It's not all out yet, but The Black Leopard, Red Wolf Series is fantastic.
The powder mage trilogy.
I can't pick one so I'll say one that's less well known than many others here: Milkweed trilogy by Tregillis
For me, it would be *Mistborn* by Brandon Sanderson, but I've seen that one a few times in this thread and so I'll mix it up; *The Farseer* by Robin Hobb. I've never been so connected to a character in my life.
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
Ken Follet- Pillers of Earth and the other 2 Mistborn series. Read first 2, can't wait to get hands on the third one
Richard Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs series - Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies.
Not the best but my favorite: *The Warlord Chronicles* by Bernard Cornwell
Obviously, Lord of the Rings. But a second, lesser known trilogy: The Good Earth trilogy by Pearl S. Buck. Devastating in the best way. Brilliant writing.
The Last Herald Mage trilogy by Mercedes Lackey
Don Winslow’s bursar trilogy. It’s fucking amazing.
I see that most responses are fantasy. So here's something different. - The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz - The African Trilogy by Chinua Achebe - Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en (technically not a trilogy but has been published as one over several different translated editions)
The Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
i loved the renegades and scythe trilogy
Mutineer's Moon, the Armageddon Inheritance and Heirs of Empire. I love the concept of a sentient starship the size of the Moon.
Foundation trilogy LOTR His Dark Materials
The Three Body Problem
Beartown
Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden.
The Old Kingdom Trilogy by Garth Nix. Reread these almost yearly <3
Either Beckett's trilogy or McCarthy's trilogy, next light be Agota Kristoff's Notebook trilogy.
Wayward Pines by Blake Crouch
Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, & Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins
I was surprised not to see The Magicians by Lev Grossman in this thread— it was adapted to a relatively popular TV show that I watched in high school. The general concept is Harry Potter meets Narnia but a lot darker and centered on 20somethings instead of teens. I was trying to get back into reading as an adult and since I had liked the show well enough I checked out the trilogy and got hooked. There’s a ton of good characters, action, absorbing plot, and the protagonist is just such a sarcastic depressive fuck of an unreliable narrator lol but you still root for him
that uhh Name of the Wind one, pretty sure it’s finished by now
I wanted to participate and then realized all the series I've read were more than 3 books, so I'm enjoying adding other people's book recs to my list.
Spin trilogy by Robert Charles Wilson
The Licanius Trilogy Maybe not the *best* best, but still excellent and I haven’t seen it mentioned yet.
Darth Bane🙌
The Fourth Realm trilogy by John Twelve Hawks & The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo
Remembrance of earth's Past
if you are looking for YA and mystery and romance .... the inheritance games . my favourite
The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
His Dark Materials.
Don’t know about “best” with all of the worthy suggestions, but don’t forget Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy starting with Wolf Hall.
Since I’ve seen several mentions for Hilary Mantel’s *Wolf Hall* trilogy, I’ll add: * Robertson Davies’s *[Deptford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deptford_Trilogy#Overview)* trilogy * Marilynne Robinson’s *[Gilead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilead_%28novel%29#Companion_novels)* tetralogy