When I was a kid, I read lots of book series: The Bobbsey Twins, The Hardy Boys, Boxcar Children, Little House on the Prairie, etc. I didn’t start by reading the first book in the series. I just picked a book from the library and read it.
As an adult, I still read a lot of series. One of my favorites is The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. One day while I was browsing in a book store, another shopper recommended Outlander (the first book in the time travel/mainstream/romance cross-genre series) to me. I bought it, read it, and went on to read the other books in order, primarily because I was buying them as soon as they came out in the stores.
I’ve also read many mystery/suspense novel series as an adult. One of my favorites is the Inspector Lynley mystery series by Elizabeth George…
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