[Survey] Best Series: Trilogies [UPDATED on Oct 21, 2020]

Hey there, people! Back in April 20, 2016, I created a Listopia list on Goodreads, titled "Best Series: Trilogies," inspired by the existing and very popular list, Best Series, but self-explanatorily, this time limiting to trilogies.

Previously I've been using the comment area to somewhat promote the rest of the books from the nominated trilogies (for only the first books represent their entire series on the list), but GR only allows minimal html formatting, so it became tiresome to reorganize the post. Hence the creation of this blog post.

As of October 21, 2020; the list consists of 380+ trilogies, though in reality, there's actually only 330+ nominees, for the remaining 50 are PLACEHOLDERS I VOTED, hoping to attract their actual fans to come supporting. (The + is because the number is larger on the list, but recently, some of them do not seem to be actual trilogies, and I don't have time to verify.) What I'm going to do, is to promote the ones that have more than 10 votes, arranging in the alphabetical order of the trilogy's title.


You are very welcome to leave comments to support your beloved trilogies, and you can even suggest some if you feel like it! Though I do suggest, if you have a Goodreads account, please consider directly voting on the list? xP In case you've missed it, here it is again, big and bold:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/98890

Before we start, here are the first books of the trilogies that ALMOST made the cut; just a few more votes and you'd be seeing them fully listed here:

And here are the ones I personally vouched for, but have not yet come close:

And here we go!

The 5th Wave Rick Yancey	All Souls Deborah Harkness
Daughter of Smoke & Bone Laini Taylor	Delirium Lauren Oliver
Divergent Veronica Roth	Firebird Claudia Gray
Graceling Realm Kristin Cashore	The Grisha Leigh Bardugo
His Dark Materials Philip Pullman	The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
The Illuminae Files Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff	The Infernal Devices Cassandra Clare
Inkworld Cornelia Funke	The Kane Chronicles Rick Riordan
Legend Marie Lu	Leviathan Scott Westerfeld
Mara Dyer Michelle Hodkin	Matched Ally Condie
The Maze Runner James Dashner	Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs
Mistborn Brandon Sanderson	Penryn & the End of Days Susan Ee
Red Rising Pierce Brown	Ruby Red Kerstin Gier
Shades of Magic V.E. Schwab	Shatter Me Tahereh Mafi
Study Maria V. Snyder	Uglies Scott Westerfeld
The Winner's Marie Rutkoski	The Young Elites Marie Lu

Whelp, that's it for now. Not exactly getting a lot of participation, sadly. Moving on! Since I am bilingual, I'll also be further promoting the above trilogies in my other native language, Chinese, specifically the ones published in Taiwan, should they have matching covers as sets and have pages on Goodreads. Should they be the editions you've actually read, I urge you to shelve them correctly, in order to make the statistics on GR more accurate. There's no shame in reading translated editions! Plus, some of the book covers really are to be proud of. ♥︎

千年之願	愛是一種病	恩典王域
格里莎	黑暗元素	飢餓遊戲
星謎檔案	墨水世界	埃及守護神
傳奇	雙面瑪拉	完美世界
移動迷宮	怪奇孤兒院	迷霧之子
滅世天使	紅色覺醒	時空戀人
茱麗葉三部曲	試毒師	覺醒之路

Lastly, here are the first books from trilogies that got at least 3 votes on the list:

• A
• Across the Universe
• The Foxhole Court
• The False Prince
• B
• Bad Girls Don't Die
• Terrier
• The Magicians' Guild
• The Immortal Rules
• C
• The Knife of Never Letting Go
• Wither
• Skinned
• Croak
• D
• Lady Midnight
• The Darkest Minds
• Blood Red Road
• E
• All Fall Down
• The Circle
• Everneath
• F
• Assassin's Apprentice
• The Girl of Fire and Thorns
• The Blade Itself
• Fool's Assassin
• G
• Storm Glass
• H
• Half Bad
• Halo
• Hex Hall
• The Hollow
• I
• Immortal Beloved
• L
• Ship of Magic
• The Looking Glass Wars
• M
• Oryx and Crake
• The Madman’s Daughter
• Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
• Monument 14
• The Mysterious Benedict Society
• P
• The Paper Magician
• Paranormalcy
• Partials
• Princess Academy
• Princess of the Midnight Ball
• Q
• The Queen of the Tearling
• R
• Rebel of the Sands
• S
• Scarlet
• The School for Good and Evil
• Dream a Little Dream
• Siren
• Half a King
• Splintered
• Of Poseidon
• T
• Fool's Errand
• U
• Under the Never Sky
• Unearthly

Previous statistic (I used to just update the data; now keeping track)

• As of October 15, 2017: 295 trilogies (238 nominees + 57 placeholders I voted)
• As of August 2, 2019: 327 trilogies (270 nominees + 57 placeholders I voted)
• As of February 1, 2020: 360+ trilogies (330+ nominees + 57 placeholders I voted) (The + is because the number is larger on the list, but recently, some of them do not seem to be actual trilogies, and I don't have time to verify.)