My Favorite Series 

Don't worry guys! Mistborn is still one of my favorite series too! I'd probably rank it as number 6 at the moment but it could easily be swapped out to be on the list too 😃

I’m straight trippin over how small those lord of the rings books are💀💀💀

When you watch Merphy regularly and already know what series are going to be there and especially what's on the number 1 spot 😎😏

My top five 1. The King killer Chronicles 2. Harry Potter 3. The Stormlight Archive’s 4. Mistborn 5. Game of Thrones Some other good ones are Six of Crows and Beyond the Shadows.

I adore that you read your husband bedtime stories 💕

"Merry and Pippin, even thought they are brothers" Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took aren't brothers

RE: Strong platonic relationships I've been reading a lot lately about how a lot of classic literature/epic poetry (even the occasional nonfiction historical account/biography) is lost on modern audiences because we no longer have strong, passionate, platonic relationships; in the modern era, passion and devotion is for romance only.

Bench pressing the Stormlight Archive will legitimately build muscle. 😉

Me: Has been trying to save money for an Italy trip. After the video Me: Someone find me my card I need to buy some more books.

Mistborn has fallen, from the list but also literally in the background

FAV SERIES 3: A Series of Unfortunate Events 2: Harry Potter 1: The Hunger Games

I need to reread The Lord of the Rings soon too! I only just yesterday realised how much time has passed since I first (and last) read it. However, if I remember correctly, Merry and Pippin are actually not brothers but cousins 🙂

"I'm a sucker for strong platonic friendships". Me too! In books, movies, TV and especially real life. Awsome video, always so enjoyable and informative.

My TOP5: * Harry Potter * Twilight * The hunger games * The Lunar Chronicles * The Red Queen series Honorable mentions - The Selection, The Mortal instruments, Cat Warriors.

Stormlight Archives has to be my favorite series I've started this year! I'll hopefully start & finish Oathbringer by the end of the year 😊

I never dressed as Hermoine Granger..... but the Harry Potter series is the reason why I became the book worm I am today!

Fine! I’ll move Lies of Locke Lamora up on my TBR lol

I recently picked up a copy of Lies of Lock Lamora because of you! I need to read it soon!

I love, love, love, LOTR, probably my favorite series. Legolas and Gimli is one of my favorite friendships ever. And I love Tom Bombadil in Fellowship.

You know how you said that you used to dress up as Hermione? My brother and I did that too but instead I was Harry Potter (I'm a girl) and he was Hermione lmao 😂😂

LOL, I was just seeing your old "My favorite series" video

It's great that you keep updating your lists! Whenever I find a new booktuber, I always go and search for this type of videos (as well as book tags and year-end videos). It's an easy way to get a general idea of their taste and whether their recommendations will be helpful for you without having to watch 6 years of monthly wrap ups.

My top 5: 1. Wheel of Time 👑 2. Harry Potter 3. ASOIAF 4. Stormlight Archive (still on book 2) 5. Memories of Idhún

The story about you reading to your husband makes me smile. I read to my girlfriend for hours at a time for weeks and, while she still enjoys that, she has picked up many of my suggestions because it rekindled a love of a reading in her.

Did you say Merry and Pippin are brothers? You need to reread. Lol.

Omg, I’d love a buddy read of stormlight archive!😍

is it really a merphy vídeo if she doesn’t start it with “ok...” though?

“He had never seen a movie or watched a book Harry Potter related” lmao just caught that. Didn’t even notice it the first time I saw this video

i love how many people would discourage you from reading good books because of the writing style but your videos encourage me to try out books other people have said they can't into even if the story and characters are amazing

Been trying to get my kids to pay attention long enough to read Harry Potter to them at night, but he just can't shut up and listen ha ha.

My top 5 for this year: 1. The Witcher series 2. The Magicians trilogy 3. Beartown/Us against them 4. Mistborn 5. Foundryside

Interested in hearing your thoughts on 'His Dark Materials'- a favorite of mine (an especially interesting experience if you read the Narnia series right before it, on account of their starkly contrasting views on Christianity). Also the Bartimaeus trilogy (there's a prequel as well, but I don't personally consider that a must-read): a political satire mostly narrated by a 5000 year old Djinni (his footnotes are guaranteed to make you ROFL).

Like platonic friendships? Give Michael J Sullivan's Theft of Swords a try. Hadrian and Royce steal the show.

OKAY I SWEAR I was just wondering when you'd upload an updated favourite series video!!!!!! this was creepy and awesome 😂😂💙💙

My favourite ones so far (i started reading in my freetime only a year ago and im a slow reader ): 1. The Broken Empire world (both trilogies) by Mark Lawrence 2. Lord of the rings 3. The Witcher 4. Harry Potter 5. Six Of Crows duology Honorable mention to The Young Elites by Marie Lu. Next up on my TBR is Mistborn (i want to get into Sanderson), Book Of Ancestors (huge Lawrence fan) and Gentleman bastards series :D

You should try out The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R Donaldson - incredible world building and characters

Stromlight “he is close to finishing the first arc” Me seeing 3 books, small font over 1000 pages long each and a slow reader. “Oh boy”.

Just a 12 year old kid but my top 5 are 1. Harry Potter. By JK Rowling 2. Fablehaven. By Brandon Mull 3. Big Nate. By Lincoln Peirce. (I read these in 2nd grade but they still make me laugh) 4. Middle School, The Worst Years of my Life. By James Patterson 5. The Kicks. By Alex Morgan Honorable Mention is that Wonder by R. J. Palacio is my favorite book of all time but I haven't read book 2 yet so I can't rate it here.

My Top Five Favorite Book Series 1) *Commonwealth* *Saga* (full series, incl: *Void* *Trilogy* & *Chronicles* *of* *the* *Fallers* ) -- Peter F Hamilton 2) *Lord* *of* *the* *Rings* (including *The* *Hobbit* and *The* *Silmarillion* ) -- JRR Tolkien 3) *The* *Wheel* *of* *Time* -- Robert Jordan 4) *The* *Riftwar* *Cycle* (including each and every sub-series) -- Raymond E Feist 5) *A* *Song* *of* *Ice* *and* *Fire* -- George RR Martin

My top 5 1.Harry Potter 2.Harry Potter 3.Harry Potter 4.Harry Potter 5.Harry Potter

1. Harry Potter 2. Lord of the Rings 3. The Inheritance Cycle (vastly underrated)

Hey, just wanted to give some hype to a few authors/books i rarley see on these type of lists/comments that i really like and i hope that people give a chance. Its a mix of old and new and i keep the list to 10 entries for the sake of brevity. 1, Kate Elliot- crown of stars series 2. Tad Williams- Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn triology and into the witchwood crown series 3. R.Scott Bakker -The Second Apocalypse triology and follow up with the The Aspect-Emperor series 4. Katherine kerr- her Deverry series 5. China Miéville- his three Bas-lag books, Perdido Street Station, The Scar and Iron Council 6. J.V. Jones- The Book of Words triology that leads into the A Sword of Shadows series 7. Gene Wolfe- The Book of the New Sun series 8. Roger Zelazny- The Chronicles of Amber seies 9. Stephen R. Donaldson- The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series 10. Barb Hendee, J. C. Hendee - Saga of the Noble Dead series Ive been a fantasy book nerd since the late eighties (yes im getting old) and still love it, i can tell that like me you are in it for life, keep up the good work! Cheers from Andreas from Sweden

2:11 he never had seen a movie or never WATCHED A BOOK Ya who the frick just stares at a book xd ( this is not a hate comment )

I was looking around my room staring at my books, trying to figure out my top 5 series during this video, and I think they are as follows: 5. The Mirror Visitor quartet by Christelle Dabos (this has, hands down, the COOLEST world I've ever read about) 4. The Diviners series by Libba Bray (weird paranormal/magical things happening in NYC during the roaring 20s) 3. Pivot Point duology by Kasie West (there's a character in these book that I really wish existed in real life) 2. The Mysterious Benedict Society trilogy by Trenton Lee Stewart (I stand by my opinion that it's better than Harry Potter and Percy Jackson) 1. a two way tie between the Renegades trilogy by Marissa Meyer (SUPERHEROES, that's all I need to say) and the Across the Universe trilogy by Beth Revis (has nothing to do with The Beatles song of the same name... it's lies and deception and cliffhangers and trickery in SPACE) Of the ones that are your faves, I've only read Harry Potter and The Fellowship of the Ring, but I do own The Lies of Locke Lamora (because of you!) and I want to read it soon!

The only reason i started reading The Stormlight Archive is you and now i am hooked to it. So thank you so much and keep on pouring out the great content.

Your chlidhood sounds exactly like mine..except it was star wars😂

Merry and Pippin are cousins not brothers. And yes The Silmarillion is amazing!

The Merph at it again with great books to add to my to do list!

Just finished The Lies of Locke Lamora since you’ve been recommending it since forever, and I definitely am continuing with the series. Awesome rec. What I will say though is, the time-jumping didn’t jar me nearly as much as how much profanity was in the book. Yes, it can be (and was) well-placed and effective to the story at times, but it also felt gratuitous more often than not. And maybe that is me just being a sensitive don’t-say-the-f-word-around-me person, but I would have liked to have known beforehand the level of profanity in this book - it is a lot. Still got through it, still loved it, the story and characters were //well// worth it, but that’s the main “caution” tag I’d put on it that I hadn’t seen anywhere else.

My list thus far is... 1. Wheel of Time 2. Harry Potter 3. The Circle Series(Black, Red, and White) 4.Shannara 5. Lord of the Rings

Mine: 1: The Hunger Games 2: Warrior Cats 3: A Series of Unfortunate Events 4: Harry Potter Series 5: I only have four main book series I have gotten into. For the past 13 years of my life I only focused my life on my digital art but your videos have changed my mind. I really want to get into reading and writing as well as digital art.

I wasn't allowed to read Harry Potter as a kid. For some reason at 18 I thought I was "too old", realized at 26 that didn't make sense and I wanted to get into reading so I read HP at 26 years old and fell in love. Learned one is never too old for the magic of Harry Potter. I'm 31 now :) And a Hufflepuff.

I’m 32 and just reading HP for the first time. Lol. 🙃

After reading Tolkien in my own language (Norwegian) in the early 80's, I only found Ursula K LeGuin's Earthsea Trilogy that was also translated. So my English teacher eventually loaned me other fantasy books he owned. Tolkien's Silmarillion and Michael Moorcock's Elric series. After that I tried to buy anything I found in English from my local bookstore, and then I ordered a lot more from their advertisements in the back of the books! I have bought a lot of books over the years, and I really love how this market has seemed to streamline itself into what I now think I love... Did you ever read authors like Jo Clayton and Sheri S Tepper? They wrote series/trilogies/whatever that were so original, I still keep going back to them! Patricia McKillip's stories are also so unique among today's novels. Can you have a read through 70's and 80's fantasy/SF literature and let us all know how those feel to you these many years after they were written? I'm a man, and I've so many times been impressed both by how those female writers thought differently to the (male) standard, and by how much they still resonated with me! Literary archeology, go for it, girl! ;-)

I love this list and all your videos. I guess being at least a generation older I don’t see the difficulty in reading Tolkien. My husband read me the trilogy while we were dating. Definitely one of the ways I knew he was The One. When I was a teacher The Hobbit was always the first book I read out loud to the students. One of my best moments came when a young woman approached me at a convenience store. She said, “You are the lady that read me The Hobbit. I read The Lord of the Rings a few years ago.” I had been a student teacher for her 4th grade class, so was only there for one quarter of the year. And this was several years before the movies came out. I would like to point out that Merry and Pippin are cousins, not brothers. Though it is probably safe to say the Fellowship considered themselves a brotherhood.

how many hours did it take to Finnish the stormlight archive?

The best thing about RU-vid: when I watch video game videos, I want to play video games. When I watch writing videos, I want to write. Now, I'm watching your video...and my library books are calling me. XD

Top 5 1. The passage trilogy 2. Harry bosch series 3. Inheritance cycle series 4. Mitch rapp series 5.The expanse series

I quite literally screamed 'Finally, someone agrees' on the bus when you said LOTR is a trilogy! 😂

I just cannot get into the Gentleman's Bastards series. I have read the first two, but reading them was a chore. It wasn't enjoyable I almost listened to them like someone might do homework. I have the third one, but every time I turn it on I just end up not caring and clicking on something else. Oddly enough I do want to know how it ends, but it is so hard for me to listen to it. The story just lacked consequences. The characters that die I don't care about, people get injured and are back to 100% the next time I see them, and there is too much right place right time going on for me.

Here are the series I love: Harry Potter Robert Langdon The Percy Jackson Series and its sequel series: Heroes of Olympus The Maze Runner

I am not reading much lately, so my top 5 haven't changed in a while. But here they are: 1. Discworld (with Terry Pratchett being my favorite author, RIP) 2. Dresden Files (god, when will the next book come out?) 3. The Heroes of Olympus 4. The Witcher 5. The Dark Elf saga

My top five are : Harry Potter Lord of the rings Outlander Six of crows A darker shade of magic ✌🏻

Favourite Series : 1. Harry potter 2. Harry potter 3. Harry potter

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Haha even though I knew what most of these would be based on having watched so many of your videos, this was great! My favorite series at the moment are, in no particular order: The Winternight trilogy by Katherine Arden Penryn and the End of Days by Susan Ee The Guild Hunter series by Nalini Singh The Six of Crows Duology by Leigh Bardugo Honorary mentions: First two books of the Themis Files series by Sylvain Neuvel and the Hunger Games trilogy for the nostalgia and it getting me into reading.

I find that I tend to love the 2nd book in a trilogy. I know a lot of people don’t because it’s usually mostly set-up, but that’s where so much of the character development and the plot and investigation happens. I have such a weakness for the 2nd book ❤️

My favourite is probably Darren Shan/Circue de freak The story is fantastic the characters are all memorable and they all have bits you like about them and especially the ending is something I haven't ever read before.

I can't believe I forgot about Sanderson's Stormlight Archive books. I loved the first two books so I checked the Goodreads website and it confirmed that I had really and truly forgotten about the third book. My local library has all three books available so I'm off to grab them now so I'll have something great to read while waiting for some new releases. Monday's also the Remembrance Day holiday and everything is closed so its a great chance to get some extra reading done.

I think DISCWORLD are the best book series

I don't know if I have a top five, but if I did, The Belgariad series would 100% be at the top spot. If you haven't read it yet I highly recommend it to everyone! It's a brilliant fantasy series and makes me happy every time I read it tbh

This is my absolute FAVORITE type of video! I always get such great recommendations, and I’m so excited to see what your favorites are! Also, I just started Peter Pan, and I’m loving it!!!

Makes me nostalgic for my library before I switched to all ebooks. Pulling one book and having 3 bricks dropping on you.

Yes! I just bought the same set of LotR you have so I can re-read them with you! The set have was my dad's from the 60s, and I just don't think they'll survive another re-read lol. I'm also going to read The Book Thief with you, and I'm so excited! It'll be a Merphy month for me!!

oh my god, you read to him as a 24 yo. that is something i definitely wish to have in my life. that sounds so cute and so peaceful to have at the end of the day.

Give the tower of babel series by Josiah Bancroft a go. Cult classics in the making

That is literally how I read harry potter as a kid, my mom and sister read them too me and somewhere is the 4th i couldn't wait and picked it up!

You know... I’ve never heard anyone mention the darkest power series by Kelley Armstrong or Vampire academy. The movie didn’t give it as much justice as the books do.

I read through Harry Potter for the first time when I was 30 I think. It’s in my top five, easily.

In no particupar order: Wheel of time, The witcher series, Harry Potter, Mistborn, Stormlight

Yea I've never watched a Harry Potter book either ;-) But yea, I may have to re-read Oathbringer....frickin amazing series.

I love love love the Gentleman Bastard series. My husband and I proselytize those books all the time; I think we've given away over a dozen copies to our friends/family... You should check out Lynch's short stories, too. "In the Stacks" is super neat and "The Fall and Rise of the House of Malkuril" is hilarious; I saw Lynch read part of it and he did the voices and it was brilliant. "Tea for master??" is now an oft-repeated phrase in our home.

5. Hunger Games 4. Harry Potter 3. Red Rising 2. Game of Thrones 1. Lord of the Rings

My top Five are older, so take that with a grain of salt. Caveat, havent finished WoT or Mistborn yet, so this list may change. 5. Harry Potter 4. Tawny Man Trilogy (Robin Hobb, follow on to Farseer Trilogy) 3. Belgariad/Mallorian (David Eddings...classic fantasy that was my introduction as a teen with a lot of tropes, but you might like it since I remember you mentioned that it would be interesting to read a story where the whole word aint happy about the protagonist's victory, Mallorian touches this a lot. There are other themes that are interesting.) 2. Empire Trilogy (Raymond E Feist & Janny Wurtz - strong believable female lead with some gritty dark elements taking place in a non traditional fantasy setting.) 1. Lord of the Rings

Unpopular opinion tm- Locke was fine, I just read it. Bought books 2 & 3 in the hope they get better but after reading the blurb for book 2 I am scared it's gonna be worseee. Someone who is a big fan please make me feel differently cause I already bought book 3😂

Currently reading Words of Radiance. Gosh I love this series...❤️

Girl you have to read the His Dark Materials series!!

I would really enjoy a video on your note taking process for longer series. I’m trying to get into one myself and feel a video from an avid reader would benefit all of us readers who are intimidated by the larger series.

I'm currently buddyreading Lies of Locke Lamora with a friend and we are enjoying it so much! Thanks for recommending it! We are only 3 chapters in but it's very good so far! I love the banter and the character, and the world Scott Lynch built feels very real. We love that the characters are so smart and when we are already hooked. Thank you!

Anyone else think she’s hot?

I actually haven’t read any of these. I’m looking into all of them. Good recommendations. Thanks. :)

Mistborn got demoted

My favourite Harry potter

I'm re reading LOTR in December too! Can wait to revisit middle Earth again! I have procrastinated on the Simarillion for 15 years, but your video has inspired me to set that book as 2020 goal. Thanks for sharing!

I really need to read Bear Town. Sounds interesting. And I'm living for your Harry Potter vids! I hope you do vids for Lord of the Rings too but no pressure. You make amazing content and I never miss a video! Keep up the fantastic work Merphy!

If you had a paid service where you just read these books and recorded it...I would legitimately pay for it.

I love that you read Harry Potter to your husband! That’s so cute!

I decided to try The Lies of Locke Lamora because of you, and I really enjoyed it! I’ve never read anything like that before! (I’m new to fantasy - was mainly a mystery esp. James Patterson reader, then decided to try new genres)

Now I'm Reading Harry Potter❤.. 1st time.. I'm just love the characters.

Yes about the lord of the rings I’m a new reader I have around twenty something books and this series is my second one and yes it took me the hobbit and fellowship to get use to it but I love them now.