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Robert Langdon series

tanxinrongsteffi@gmail.com (Steffi Tan) — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:44:52 +0100

Title: Robert Langdon
Author: Dan Brown
If you like mystery, action and thriller, you'll love this series. The Robert Langdon series is about a Harvard professor of history and symbology (named Robert Langdon, obviously) who has been contacted to help investigate a few cases about ancient symbols and cults. This series is fantastic and kept me up for many nights to read!

Books in the series:
Angel and Demons
The Da Vinci Code
The Lost Symbol
Inferno

The Chaos Walking

tanxinrongsteffi@gmail.com (Steffi Tan) — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:02:00 +0100

Title: the Chaos Walking
Author: Patrick Ness
This sci-fi, action series sucked me in immediately. In the New World, a planet where people have settled and where streams of thoughts can be seen as images or words known as Noise, Todd Hewitt finds a place where there seems to be no Noise, and is immediately made to leave his town. Finding the source of the silence, he journeys away from Prentisstown to warn others about the Mayor’s treacherous plans.

Books in the series:
The Knife of Never Letting Go
The Ask and the Answer
Monsters of Men

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Harry Potter

tanxinrongsteffi@gmail.com (Steffi Tan) — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:01:00 +0100

Title: Harry Potter
Author: J.K. Rowling
If you haven't read this series yet, then you absolutely must! It's the most famous and most amazing book series in the world!!
Harry Potter is not just a famous book series. It has so many cunning and genius subplots, it makes you wonder how J.K. Rowling planned all this in the beginning or if she even made them up on the spot. It is written for readers of all ages.
This fantasy adventure series is set in Britain, following a young boy named Harry Potter who lives with his horrible cousin's family as his parents had died. When he turned 11, he learned that he was really a wizard, and should attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There, he meets many new friends and learns things about his past and his family which he never knew. However, the dark lord Lord Voldemort is after him: seeking to kill him to prevent a prophecy from coming true.

Books in the series:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (A.K.A Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the U.S.)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Divergent

tanxinrongsteffi@gmail.com (Steffi Tan) — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:01:00 +0100

Title: Divergent
Author: Veronica Roth
This series is similar to the Hunger Games: action, survival, war and adventure. As Tris struggles to survive in the warring factions of dystopic Chicago, she learns the price of being Divergent and loses many dear to her. My 3rd favourite book series!!

Books in the series:
Divergent
Insurgent
Allegiant (upcoming in October)

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Ranger’s Apprentice

tanxinrongsteffi@gmail.com (Steffi Tan) — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:00:00 +0100

Title: Ranger’s Apprentice
Author: John Flanagan
If you love history, with tales of knights and mysterious sorcerers, you’ll love this series. Ranger’s Apprentice doesn’t have anything to do with magic, though, but plenty of adventures!
In a world similar to ours, set in a period similar to the Middle Ages, Will, an orphan, has trouble on Choosing Day as none of the Craftsmasters wish to accept him for an apprentice… Except for a man shrouded in mystery with his dark, mottled cloak named Halt. Will finds himself drilled to join the mysterious society of the King’s Rangers, of which not many people know about…
Personally, this is my MOST FAVOURITE BOOK SERIES EVER (besides Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and Divergent)!! Its wording seems simpler, but the adventures are gripping and exciting!

Books in the series:
The Ruins of Gorlan
The Burning Bridge
The Icebound Land
Oakleaf Bearers (A.K.A. The Battle for Skandia in the U.S.)
The Sorcerer in the North
The Siege of Macindaw
Erak’s Ransom
The Kings of Clonmel
Halt’s Peril
The Emperor of Nihon-Ja
The Lost Stories
The Royal Ranger (upcoming in November)

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Mortal Engines

tanxinrongsteffi@gmail.com (Steffi Tan) — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:59:00 +0100

Title: Mortal Engines
Author: Philip Reeve
Another gripping, action and sci-fi series! Slightly similar to the Chaos Walking, Mortal Engines take place in the post-apocalyptic Earth, where cities have become huge vehicles that hunt each other for survival. Tom Natsworthy, working as an apprentice historian aboard London, was pushed off when he accidentally stumbles upon the Mayor’s plans: to make London the dominating predator. Setting out on a dangerous journey with a mysterious girl he met in the lowlands, he seeks to stop the Mayor from destroying all Traction Cities.

Books in the series:
Mortal Engines
Predator’s Gold
Infernal Devices
A Darkling Plain

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Heroes of Olympus

tanxinrongsteffi@gmail.com (Steffi Tan) — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:58:00 +0100

Title: Heroes of Olympus
Author: Rick Riordan
Rick Riordan has installed a new series to follow up Percy Jackson and the Olympians!
A few months after the events of the Last Olympian, things have started to become strange once more. There has been a new Great Prophecy: the Prophecy of Seven. A few new demigods have arrived at Camp Half-blood, and Percy is missing! In this new series, Hera attempts to unify the Greek and Roman camps to prepare for their greatest battle against the earth itself.

Books in the series:
The Lost Hero
Son of Neptune
Mark of Athena
House of Hades (upcoming in October)
[unknown title of the last book in the series]

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians

tanxinrongsteffi@gmail.com (Steffi Tan) — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:55:00 +0100

Title: Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Author: Rick Riordan
This is yet another thrilling fantasy adventure series, based on Greek Mythology in modern times!
The story follows Percy Jackson, who is a demigod (half god, half mortal) and finds out that the Greek gods are still very much alive. However, he is a very special demigod: a demigod who was subject to the Great Prophecy. He sets out on quests with his friends to prevent Kronos from taking over Olympus.

Books in the series:
The Lightning Thief
The Sea of Monsters
The Titan’s Curse
Battle of the Labyrinth
The Last Olympian

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