TTT: Book Series I've Never Finished

Top Ten Tuesday: Book Series I've Never Finished.

For some reason I just lost interest (or have been thwarted) and never finished these series:

#1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

There are 25 26 books in this series (1998-2025). I stopped after book four or five. I liked the series very much but felt it was time to read something else.

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

This is a trilogy. I read the first book and stopped. It seemed like a stand-alone to me.

The Flavia de Luce Mystery series by Alan Bradley

I loved the first book, Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, liked the second and third books, and didn't like the fourth book, so I stopped reading. The series has ten books and I've been assured that the fourth book is an outlier so I may give the series another try someday.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

There are five books in this series, six if you count the book by Eoin Colfer. I've read four. Honestly I will likely read the fifth book but it may take me several more years to do so. I do love the slapstick humor.

Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

There are 41 books in this series, divided into five main sub-series. The series is so complex one needs a reading map, see above, to navigate through it. I've read seven or eight books in Discworld and will likely read more, but I know I will never complete all 41 books.

The Kopp Sisters series by Amy Stewart

I've read three of the seven books in this series. I like the stories very much but just got tired of them. Time to read something else, so I stopped.

The Book of Dust series by Philip Pullman

I am a huge fan of this series, a prequel/post series to the His Dark Materials series (Golden Compass) by Pullman. I devoured the first two books of the trilogy and then have been waiting for years for the final installment (six years to be precise.) Later this month I will finally have a chance to finish this series when the Rose Field, #3 is finally published.

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

I read the first book and haven't moved on. Now there are five books in the series. I have good intentions but so far I'm just getting further behind.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are five books in this series. I loved The Shadow of the Wind so much but I have never read on, even though I own the second book, The Angel's Game.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

I read the first three books in the original series, then the fourth book, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, but for some reason haven't read the second prequel published this year, Sunrise on the Reaping. I know I will, though, since I bought a copy of it.

Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery

I've read the first book, Anne of Green Gables, several times but never read on. I understand that the second book, Anne of Avonlea, is equally good. There are eight books in the series but I am only committed to reading one more then I will reevaluate if I move forward or not.

The Amgash series by Elizabeth Strout

There are five books in this series. Oddly I read four of them but out-of-order: #1, #4, #5. #3. To finish I will need to go way back and read #2,  Anything is Possible. That seems like a good title for my attitude about finishing this series or not.

-Anne