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 😎😏

I adore that you read your husband bedtime stories 💕

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.

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.

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

"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.

Bench pressing the Stormlight Archive will legitimately build muscle. 😉

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.

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.

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 🙂

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

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 😊

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

i went through a very tough summer and i ended up reading mistborn series and lies of locke lamora based off your recommendations and they were amazing. some of the brightest spots in that dark time was reading those books. thank u so much for the amazing recommendations and great content!

I love watching videos like this. It's always different from KZfaqr to KZfaqr, their taste gives you huge hints of their personality, and you get a lot of good book recommendations! It's like a triple win!

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!

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!

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

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

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.

KZfaq randomly recommended one of your videos (tropes you hate) and then I found this one and it's so cool to see someone else who loves the Gentleman Bastard series so much! I've recommended it to so many people!

You've finally convinced me to try Gentleman Bastards series. I've read and heard so many reviews and ummed and ahhhed over picking it up, put I think I'll be taking the plunge!

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!!!

Started reading Lies of Locke Lamora because of you and I love it so far!!! Thank you! Fantasy has never been a genre I'd pick up to read, so I was hesitant, but it's so good.

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!!

Ended up buying the Gentleman Bastard's box set due to you and Daniel recommending and gushing about it so much. Best book purchase of mine in the past 5 years.

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.

Been watching your videos for a few months now and was very intrigued about the Gentlemen Bastards series. Just bought the first three and started reading a bit, but wanted to come back here to refresh what I was getting myself into😂 Im very excited though!

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!

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

Can’t wait for you to reread Stormlight! My favorite series of all time!

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!

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

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)

I finally read The Gentleman Bastards thanks to you AND GODS IT WAS INCREDIBLE! I just loved everything about this world and I loved the storytelling! Thank you again for making me discover that serie

I have read the Bear Town and The gentlemen bastard series because of your recommendation and I loved it so muchhh!!! They are currently in my top 5 favorite series too, but Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter have a special place in my heart too❤️❤️ Get well soon!!!

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! ;-)

When you get to this every year, it just reminds me that I still haven't started your top two series. Someday...

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

Just finished book 2 of gentlemen bastard series because of you and I'm loving it can't wait to read book 3 :)

I read GB for the first time a few years ago and reread the first one a lot over the last few years and all three once this year. I am so exited about finally seeing that book 4 is develloping and hope that it gets published in 2020. I‘m sure it will blow our minds. Can‘t wait to get my hands on a copy.

AGREED! I love the gentleman bastard series! Started reading it because of you and I was not dissapointed. Jean and Locke's friendship is absolutely amazing!!!

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

Hey. I wanted to start reading series because I've only read the Harry Potter so thank you for making these videos as it has really good recommendations as I tend to like most books that you liked

00:39 "I hope that will forever be true". I loved that comment. My sentiments exactly with my reading list, and life to be honest! I'm open to learning and evolving and changing my mind always.

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

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 just finished reading The Lies of Locke Lamora last night at 3 am (very much because of you talking about Locke and Jean's friendship and boy, I wasn't disappointed) and I am still shaken from the emotional depth that book held. I literally couldn't start reading Book 2 because I was still hung up on so much that happened in the first book but I'm quite convinced that once I get to reading Book 2 I'll love it just as much! Thanks so much for the recommendation!

I really need to read Bear Town! I loved A Man Called Ove so I’m hoping to get to more of his books in the future.

Great choices! I loved The lies of Locke...... waiting on Amazon to deliver the 2nd! Excited AF. Love this channel by the way. Keep it up! Love from me in the UK xxx

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 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.

Just read Beartown due to your recommendation. I’m SO glad I did, it’s now one of my all time favorites. I lived in a small town in Sweden (not a hockey town, admittedly), and the culture and people are SPOT on. Ours was hunting and fishing, and the ENTIRE town was drawn like flies to the culture that it created. Definitely less centralized than a sports team which is an us vs you competitive culture but it really hit home nonetheless. Thank you again 😊

Love the narrator for Gentlemen Bastards. The series that revitalised my book-love after ASOIAF. Can't wait for book 4 this fall!!!

Yaaass, I can’t wait for Gentlemen Bastards’ book 4 😍 It’s easily one of my favorite series

Just got the Gentlema Bastard series and am about to get into it. very excited!

I struggled to get into the writing of Locke Lamora, so I appreciate you mentioning that you also initially struggled with the unique style. I think I'll have to give the series another try.

Great taste 😘 thank you so much for your videos. Love from Portugal 🇵🇹

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.

I recently finished The Way of Kings and absolutely loved it cannot wait to read the rest of them. The gentleman Bastard is on my TBR looking forward to it, i only like the back and forward style if it is done well and from what you have said it sounds like it is. I wish i had more time to read and more money to buy books.

I picked up the Lies of Locke Lamora and Lord of the rings because of you so I’m excited to dive into them!!

I LOVE The Gentleman Bastard Sequence! The characters and the bonds! ❤️

Love your channel...and that is a fantastic sweater, awesome color.

Just found your channel through your Harry Potter reviews (I need to watch them all ;) ). I found the fact that you took the time to made videos only on the incoherences very interesting and you wore once a Ravenclaw sweater (you made me feel proud of my house ❤). I've not read most of these books. I have heard of Lies of Locke Lamora, started LOTR twice, but didn't commit (I know, what a shame), and I've been reading for the second time the HP series (I've started the 7th recently) in English (the british version, love learning new expressions and Hagrid's scottish accent!) instead of in French, my native language. I'm amazed by what's popular from one country to another. Here in Québec, a fantasy series called Les chevaliers d'émeraude have been a big hit for years and I was obsessed with it and I know someday I'll reread them for the third (or fourth?) times (nostalgia, when you hold us ❤). 5 have already been translated out of 12: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knights_of_Emerald They don't take too much time to read and the story is really engaging and original (in my opinion, but I haven't read many fantasy series, so... ^^")

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 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.

Just found your channel. So if the platonic friendships where one would die for their friends is high on your list of loves, I highly recommend the Keeper of the Lost Cities series. Yes, it's middle grade fiction, but I am in my late 30s and fell in LOVE with it. My daughter had begged me to read it for years and I finally gave in this year...and read it twice. Now both my younger boys and I all have it as our fav, along with my daughter.

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!

I’m 100% a movie/ tv person, But I still really enjoy this channel and find your opinions very engaging. My favourite series is dear authors as many of the themes that are discussed can be found in film too. Thanks for opening the world of books to me :D

Wow that leather lotr set looks amazing. I want it.

Bear Town reminds me of one of the only Sarah Dessen novels I've ever read, Just Listen. I really loved that one, so Bear Town and the sequel are going onto my list for sure!

I just bought Book 1 of The Gentleman Bastards upon your recommendation! My sister got to it first though, and is loving it, but it’ll take her quite a while to get through it.

I clicked here to hear someone else gush about The Gentlemen Bastards! I am listening to the second one (I also like the narrator) but had to stop for school. The first one blew my mind! I can normally guess how stories end and this one kept me on my toes and I was so shocked by some of the twists. And watching Locke grow as a person was so gratifying! I also loved the friendships so much! The way of kings is also sitting on my bedside waiting for the semester to end :-) looking forward to that even more now.

I loved the flashbacks in the Gentleman Bastards, just gives these characters so much more substance and then you understand why they have such a deep love for each other.

You've got a great bookshelf! 😃

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

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 love the audiobook narrator for The Gentlemen Bastards as well!

I just want to take a moment to leave a comment and thank you for being a breath of fresh air. It's really hard to find a channel that reviews books that isn't by someone who is hopelessly obnoxious and revolting. You're so easy to watch, I can't wait to get home from work so that I can binge your content.

I absolutely love the stormlight archive

Fun video, as always!

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 ❤️

I really need to read Stormlight. I loved both Mistborn series and am really having fun with the Skyward series. Sanderson is such an amazing writer.

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

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

Your description of Stormlight seems to be right up my alley. I'm currently reading the Mistborn series but I think I will read Stormlight afterwards. I've read the Hobbit and liked it so I do want to read The Lord of The Rings.

I am reading The Two Towers right now! I have wanted to tackle the Lord of the Rings series ever since I read and really enjoyed The Hobbit in grade nine. Comradery in those books is fantastic, I agree.

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 😂😂

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

I'm so glad I'm not the only one that found The Lord of the Rings a bit difficult to read as I also wasn't used to his writing style. I didn't really enjoy it when I read the first book, but I think I'll try it again!

I started reading The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter in Brazilian Portuguese, but found them MUCH more enjoyable in English. One series I recommend is the Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell. Another are the two recent Shelock Holmes novels which were commissioned by the SH Estate. Hope you keep getting better