Books

The Twilight Saga. I was gifted the first book for my birthday and then immediately spent all my birthday money on the rest of the series.

Edward Eager’s Tales of Magic (7 books)

I’ve loved them ever since I got Half Magic from the public library one summer

I was gifted the whole Percy Jackson Series for my birthday one year. It helped me get back into reading. Shortly after that, I was hooked on the New covers for the Lunar Chronicles and ended up buying the whole box set. Loved it. Though I never got through Stars Above before selling it.

The first series I ever bought in its entirety: Alanna: Song of the Lioness quartet by Tamora Pierce.

My mom was deep in the Satanic panic surrounding Harry Potter and forbade me from reading it. I didn't have any close friends who would've kept my secret if I had elected to read it. She knew my love of reading so she beseeched me not to read anything that would violate her standards. Borders was our bookshop so we visited one evening. I ventured into the YA section and I noticed Tamora Pierce. I hadn't been aware of her until then.

This was the 6th grade. Those books held me in their grip until 8th grade. The magic didn't spook me. Alanna fought for the side of good.

I still haven't told my mother what Alanna was about.

The Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch and the I Am Number Four Series + sidestories (stopped buying after the main books)

Got the chronicles of Narnia in grade school.

Sword of Truth :(

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The Vampire Kisses books by Ellen Schreiber . I discovered the series when browsing in BAM and saw the 2nd book , which was new to me . I liked the cover and after reading a little of it , thought it interesting enough to buy . After that , each year and every few months I'd purchase another from the same bookstore until I had all of them , including the manga art -style books . ( I got the second book first and the first and third books second because that was how BAM had them in stock and out on the shelves when I went there , which is kind of funny )

Not as a bundle but I bought and read A Series of Unfortunate Events and Harry Potter as they came out. It was so exciting to wait for the next book to be written and then translated and published.

Harry Potter

Hard to remember. It may be the whole of Sherlock Holmes when I was a kid of 8 or 9. Foundation also at 9, Dune may have been a little while later.

Percy Jackson and then Heroes of Olympus. It was frustrating to end the latest book and then have to wait a year for Rick to release the next one but they were undoubtedly worth the wait

divergent was the first i bought with my own money about a week ago, the first i bought with my parents money was the hunger games about 10 years ago

The witcher series

The first would be Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy, which I read when I was a teenager. I don't count the later prequels, since they are inferior works, and not worth bothering with. The longest would be C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers series (11 books), which I read when I was in my 30's.

I was too young to get the whole thing myself, but the first series I actively waited for new releases in was the Inheritance Cycle. Need to revisit them now that I mention it

Vampire Academy. I was sort of bad at finishing book series in the past. But VA was the first series I actually read in it’s entirety, starting at 14. This is not including the spin off, by the way.

The Harry Potter series, never got to finish them because my father threw them in the trash saying I was too old to read those childish books, I was 7.

Red dragon, silence of the lambs, Hannibal and Hannibal rising.

Absolutely no regrets Thomas Harris made my imagination run wild as a kid. :)

Well here’s a strange one. The Walking Dead novels, not one of the greatest series you’ll see 😂

Hardy Boys, blue hardbacks. Stopped (outgrew them) right before the paperback versions took over.

With my own money? Idk actually, maybe none if you wanna think about it. The first I collected entirely was possibly His Dark Materials, then Harry Potter, but those were bought for me. I also had The Icewind Dale Trilogy and LoTR as presents around the same age.

Took me from teens till I was in my late 20s to get all The Dark Tower and early 30s to finish Hitchhikers Guide, but the first few of both those were presents. Same with the Landover books. Hunger Games and Twilight (now donated) were left by an ex. I'm still looking for lots in Discworld, Bones, Rebus, Alex Cross, ASOIAF, and even Inheritance.

When younger I never had all the Narnia books either. There was one missing, and I don't think it was the last one either somehow. By the time of Amazon, I no longer bothered. Was 32 when I finally bought the last as I handed them down to my daughter. She has all of A Series Of Unfortunate Events and her own Harry Potters. ((and shes getting Percy Jackson for xmas but ssshhh!))

The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold. What a kickass sci-fi epic, it doesn’t get any better

The earliest one I can remember going out and getting as they released was the Wheel of Time series.

Though I definitely completed more series before I completed that one.

The Chronicles of Narnia in the 12th grade. Yes, it took me that long to get around to it.

The Naughtiest Girl by Enid Blyton <3

Foundation

Ron Hubbard's mission earth, bought the series of 10 for 4 bucks at a thrift store.. great read.

Game of Thrones. I did not realise the enormity until those seven books came to my house and I had to plough through the series, one after the other. I still love it but I can't believe I bought it knowing it's a tough series to get into, blew a big hole through my pocket and might have been left to sit in the dust if I had hated it.

Probably cherub or the edge chronicles (fantastic fantasy series with lovely omnibus editions for the 2nd/3rd trilogies) curse of the gloamgozer etc

Personally: The Pendragon series of YA novels. I poured my spending money into that series and even skipped school of the day Soldiers of Halla was released. My English teacher at the time was also really plugged in to YA literature at the time, so she knew exactly why I wasn't in school and the first thing she asked me the next day was for my thoughts on the book.

Nancy Drew

The warriors series had me when I was growing up, bought all 42 books and then all the extras. Must’ve read that series four of five times through

i grew up with percy jackson so i have all the original books, the roman series, and the Egyptian series! and then i grew out of percy jackson so i stopped there :/

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Best trilogy in five parts.

X-Wing series. That kicked off my love for paperback sci-fi.

Tough one for me to answer, and depends on how you define “series.” LotR plus the Hobbit might be it, but only if you don’t count the Simarillion, which I bought but never finished. I didn’t finish the HP series - I was in college when the last one came out and I kinda stopped caring by then? Can’t believe I’ve never gone back to it.

So many of my favorite series never really finished. I’d say the RA Salvatore Drizzt books - I read all that were out at the time, but they just kept coming. Ditto with Terry Brooks Shannara series and Redwall at the time.

Since all those in my middle and high school days, I haven’t read a lot of series. Went way more into one-off books, but have come back to the concept recently - now I’m into the third Expanse book and I am eagerly awaiting the end to Marlon James’s Black Leopard, Red Wolf trilogy.

Child 44 Series

First were likely The belgariad by Eddings. It would be the dragonlance books, but there's like a dozen or so I am missing.

Most lately, planescape. I have all the books except one that is a limited run 50 years ago lol.

Witcher. Harry Potter, too, but it was more because I thought I had to have it, still haven't finished reading.

Wheel of Time

The First Law, currently on book 2

Dune and Foundation

E.E. Smith, I am not sure if I completed the Lensman or the Skylark series first. These were much more popular in the early 1970s, when I was a tween, than they are today. Also understand that in those days series sci-fi wasn't all that common, most sci-fi novels were standalones.

Mistborn

Hyperion Dan Simmons

kingsbridge series by Ken Follett

Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. One book in and I was hooked.