Book series that are just a fun read.

[Stopsignhank]

So I really like series of books that are just a fun read; such as Robert Asprin and his MYTH Inc series and also his Phule series. Donna Andrews and her Meg Langslow series are also fun to read.

Does anyone know of any others that I am missing?

 

[BladeVenom]

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series (first is The Eyre Affair)

Douglas Adams - HHGttG series

 

[UglyCasanova]

Good choice DaveSimmons, definitely Hitchhiker's Guide

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Terry Pratchett's Discworld books.

David Eddings earlier series, the Belgariad and Mallorean are fairly light-hearted as epic fantasy goes.

 

[Babbles]

I've been reading Alex Berenson's 'John Wells' series. It's a thriller a la Tom Clancy, but Mr. Berenson was a former New York Times reporter and can actually create character-driven plots. Fun, easy, page-turners.

 

[Howard]

Xanth. Extremely light though.

 

[mistercrabby]

Depends on the age...

Xanth by Piers Anthony, then everything else he's written for older.

ERB- Tarzan, the Mars series

Asimov's empire & foundation books require a lot of the reader, and are awesome. The Robot ones are very good too.

The first two Ender books by Card.

Pern is cool, by Le Guin.

The first two Dune books, maybe 3, by Herbert.

Outside of scifi/fantasy

The Millenium series by Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. Def 18+

 

[Spydermag68]

I liked the first 4 books of Dune. After God Emperor of Dune it just got boring.

 

[Stopsignhank]

Cool, It is going to be great looking up all these books. I was definitely looking for the light hearted books. Just into that right now.

I definitely like series of books. I like when an author has a good set of characters and can develop them in different situations. Maybe I am just too lazy to have to remember new characters.

 

[nickbits]

Hunger games

 

[Stopsignhank]

Yeah, I like the first couple of Dune books. I think I stopped after the third.

Funny about the pern books. I borrowed one from the library and lost it. I called up the library to talk to them about it, the lady said "of yeah Moreta: the dragon lady of porn." Then she started laughing because she knew she said it wrong.

 

[bbhaag]

If you're into fantasy take a look at J.V. Jones' The Book of Words series. They're a little cliché but her writing style makes up for it.

 

[BladeVenom]

A Song of Ice and Fire

 

[akahoovy]

Here are a few book series I read when I was younger.

Magic Kingdom for Sale: Sold! by Terry Brooks
Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz - not light at all, but a really interesting thriller on the supernatural, I liked it up to book 3, Brother Odd. Book 4 was very hard to get into.

 

[Schmide]

I would say Rick Riordan's books. Especially the Kane Chronicles would fit that style. Percy Jackson as well.

Also Michael Scott - The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (The Alchemyst, The Magician, The Sorceress etc)

 

[Markbnj]

I guess its almost impossible for the recommendations not to tend toward various standard "ilogies" in the fantasy and SF genres. I mean, when Dune is on the list all bets are off. But it's funny, because when I read the title of the OP the first thing I thought of was "MYTH Inc." That was obviously a pretty unique set of stories, in terms of their brevity, irreverent self-deprecation and atmosphere, and I have a hard time coming up with other examples. Hitchhiker's Guide is one of the few obviously suitable candidates, but Dave already nabbed that one. I don't think "short" is enough by itself. There's something about them not making you work too hard; about being entertaining for entertainment's sake. Ok, here's one I can recall, but you might have a hard time finding it: "The Complete Venus Equilateral." A series of stores about a crew on a space station, and their various adventures on the inner planets.

 

[Fenixgoon]

I really enjoyed Vince Flint's spy thriller series. Can't remember the name of the main character though.

 

[angminas]

Pern is cool, by Le Guin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonriders_of_Pern

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthsea

 

[drnickriviera]

The wife and I like the Mrs Pollifax series by Dorothy Gilman

 

[Kaido]

HHGTTG
Harry Potter
Percy Jackson (the Lightning Thief series, ignore the terrible movie adaptation)
Word & Void series (precursor to the Shannara series)
Magic Kingdom for Sale

 

[pontifex]

Discworld series by Terry Pratchett (actually anything he writes is pretty damn good)

Dune series by Frank Herbert

Any of Robert E. Howard's series (Conan, El Borak, Solomon Kane, Red Sonja, Bran Mak Morn)

Edgar Rice Burroughs - John Carter of Mars, Tarzan

Lensman and Skylark series by E. E. "Doc" Smith

Wolf of the Steppes series by Harold Lamb

read anything by Lord Dunsany - he influenced a ton of writers - Robert E. Howard, HP Lovecraft, Tolkien, Neil Gaiman, Arthur C Clarke, etc.

 

[Legios]

I liked Rift War Cycle by Raymond E Fiest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Riftwar_Cycle

And Legend by Gemmell

 

[Schmide]

How to Train Your Dragon series Cressida Cowell.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Wheel of Time. Books 1-5 are a blast. 6-11 drag some (Author got increasingly sick). Books 12-14 are excellent (Original author died and was replaced by a Brandon Sanderson).

Not to say books 6-11 were bad. Its just that they did not rise to the level of 1-5 IMO.