There are a lot of really good book series out there and they all start with their first book. Sometimes the first book isn’t always the best but if it can set up the various characters and the world then we’re really cooking.
(1) Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time #1)
- Written by Robert Jordan
- Release Date: 1990
When The Two Rivers is attacked by Trollocs-a savage tribe of half-men, half-beasts- five villagers flee that night into a world they barely imagined, with new dangers waiting in the shadows and in the light.
(2) The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1)
- Written by Suzanne Collins
- Release Date: 2008
Set in a dystopian post-apocalyptic future, the story follows Katniss Everdeen who volunteers to take her younger sister’s place when her sister was initially selected as tribute. With her district’s male tribute, Peeta Mellark, Katniss travels to the Capitol to train and compete in the Hunger Games, an elaborate televised fight to the death where a boy and a girl from each of the nation’s 12 Districts are chosen annually as “tributes” and forced to compete.
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(3) The Last Wish (The Witcher #1)
- Written by Andrzej Sapkowski
- Release Date: 1993
Geralt of Rivia, after having been injured in battle, rests in a temple. During that time, he has flashbacks to recent events in his life, with each flashback forming a short story.
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- Written by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
- Release Date: 1995
In the film, a NYPD Lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta, FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast, and Margo Green, a graduate student, try to defeat a South American lizard-like monster who is on a killing spree in a Chicago Museum.
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(5) The Umbrella Conspiracy (Resident Evil #1)
- Written by S. D. Perry
- Release Date: 1998
The story follows Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine, members of an elite task force known as S.T.A.R.S., who must escape a mansion infested with zombies and other monsters.
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(6) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millenium #1)
- Written by Stieg Larsson
- Release Date: 2005
Tells the story of Mikael Blomkvist’s investigation to find out what happened to a girl from a wealthy family who disappeared 40 years prior. He recruits the help of Lisbeth Salander, a computer hacker.
(7) 100 Days in Deadland (The Deadland Saga #1)
- Written by Rachel Aukes
- Release Date: 2013
Still in her twenties, Cash is an office worker who gets caught up in an epidemic where the dead rise and hunger for human flesh. She joins up with Clutch, a grizzled Army veteran with PTSD as they flee the city and struggle through the nine circles of hell, with nothing but Clutch’s military experience and Cash’s determination to live. As they fight to survive in the zombie inferno, they quickly discover that nowhere is safe from the undead… or the living.
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(8) The Strain (The Strain #1)
- Written by Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan
- Release Date: 2009
A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Ephraim “Eph” Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. Soon begins a battle as a vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by a crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city – a city that includes his wife and son – before it is too late.
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(9) Hatchet (Brian’s Saga #1)
- Written by Gary Paulsen
- Release Date: 1987
Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his estranged father distraught over his parents’ impending divorce when the pilot of his small prop plane suffers a heart attack. Brian is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake–and finds himself stranded in the remote Canadian wilderness with only his clothing and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present before his departure. Brian struggles to find food and make a shelter for himself. Slowly, Brian learns to turn adversity to his advantage leaving behind the self-pity he has felt about his predicament as he summons the courage to stay alive.
(10) Breeds (Breeds #1)
- Written by Keith C. Blackmore
- Release Date: 2014
In a near deserted coastal village, odd things are happening. Strangers are asking questions about the town’s recluse. A local hunter discovers naked footprints in the snow. The stray dog population has ceased to exist. And with winter’s most powerful weapon bearing down, things are about to become much, much worse.
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