A few years ago, I spent most of my savings on The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer (Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, Winter, and Stars Above; I didn’t get Fairest), read them all, and loved them…though I didn’t reread them and sold them some time later.

And what was the first series you spent most of your savings on?

  • revdon@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Edward Eager’s Tales of Magic (7 books)

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

  • Patch521@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Raymond Feist probably in it’s entirety. Though I remember Redwall being the first books I bought a lot of with my pocket money! Still have them all, I’ll be passing them onto my kids if I ever get around to having any!

  • SimpleNewspaper1256@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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

  • NerdAroAce@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Hunger Games. Paid with my pocket money i saved. Untill that i borrowed from library or bought 1 book at a time. After Hunger Games i spent even more money on the while Harry Potter series.

  • DanTheTerrible@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • mother_of_baggins@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Nancy Drew. I didn’t get all of them, but I would walk to the bookstore near my house and “collect” the vintage ones with my babysitting money.

  • TheLyz@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Tamora Pierce’s Immortals Series. The library only had the first book of the series to borrow and I needed to read it NOW dammit.

  • bingcognito@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Way back in high school I bought The Darksword Trilogy by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman. Loved those books.

  • po-tatertot@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Gallagher Girls by Ally Carter or the Warriors series by Erin Hunter when I was younger, and the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas more recently