Wow, so, um, I read a lot. Surprise? Who knew?

I love a good series, where I can keep coming back to characters like old friends, or revisiting the world or plots or ideas. But sometimes series are long, yeah? And then you get to the end and jolt back into the real world and wonder what you’ve been doing with your life, because there are no pirates, dragons, or assassins. What’s up with that?!

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is dedicated to the longest books you’ve read. But since I don’t actually tend to pay attention to the length of books I read, I’m going with series.

Animorphs

Total books: 54 + 10 companion
Page Count: ~9,000

This is not the first time I’ve mentioned this series nor will it be the last. You’ve been warned! This was, by far, my favorite series growing up. I related so much to Cassie, who was the first brown girl I ever remember reading about? At which point I realized, oh my gosh, characters can look like me. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost most of my collection over time and moves and such. So, okay, secret nerdy goal time? I’m hoping to be able to get the whole collection

Harry Potter

Total books: 7
Page count: ~ 4,300

Let’s be honest, we aaaall knew this was going to be here. Real shocker, right? My aunt bought me the first Harry Potter book, after reading it and liking it herself. Thereafter, every time a new book came out, she’d buy it at the midnight release, go to her third-shift job, read it overnight, and I’d have it the next morning (with the exception of the last few that were really long, so I got them a couple days later). It’s still one of my favorite traditions from childhood.

Discworld

Total books: Uhhhhhh …
Page count: I don’t even know. All of them?

Oh wow, ha, look, this list is just chock full of surprises, right? (She says sarcastically, obviously). This is a little bit of a cheat, because I haven’t read all the Discworld books? But considering that I’m several thousand pages in at this point, I’m going to count it.

Pendragon

Total books: 10
Page Count: ~4,500

I devoured these books in my mid-teens … and it seems I’ve promptly forgotten them all? So that’s convenient. I still have the series, so I’ll probably re-read them at some point in the future.

Goosebumps

Total books: 62 (plus … too many spinoffs)
Page count: *mumbles a mildly impressive figure*

Remember when I said Animorphs was everything during my childhood? I lied. Goosebumps AND Animorphs were everything. Just in opposite ways. Creepy slug aliens that take people over and are trying to invade Earth? BRING IT ON. Something vaguely creepyish in the basement? AW HELL NO. I’m ridiculously excited that my daughter is into Goosebumps, because I can dust off my collection now.

The Chronicles of St. Mary’s

Total books: 9 (plus 15 novellas)
Page count: ~3,500

This one is a teensy bit of a cheat, because I haven’t actually read the last three books in the series yet. I’m working on it, okay?! It’s a guilty read for me, because the plot is … well, nonexistent. But it’s frigging funny and it makes me laugh. So I read it when I need that. I also haven’t read all the novellas … and probably won’t because there’s a lot of them and they’re cute, but ehhhh.

Left Behind

Total books: 13
Page count: ~5,000

I read this whole series, and still own part of it, yet somehow, I remember very little about it. Because I’m clearly great at this whole retention thing. What I do remember is thinking, even at my young tender age of mid-to-late teens, that Nicolae Carpathia sounded kinda hot. Okay, yeah, sure, he’s the antichrist out to destroy the world and doom humanity, but that’s his job, and it’s important to take pride in what you do. I’m preeeetty sure that’s not the takeaway I should’ve gotten from the series, and I’m sure that was meant to be a red flag, which everyone clearly missed and now it’s too late and you’re stuck with me like this so yaaaay!

The Chronicles of Narnia

Total books: 7
Page count: ~1,600

*insert awkward laughter here* Wow, I’m doing great today. I’m not even sure I read this whole series, now that I look at it on Goodreads? I definitely read through The Horse and His Boy, but after that? Ehhh. I mean, not that it matters, because I remember NONE OF THIS after Prince Caspian. Gosh, what the heck was I even doing during my childhood?! Also, this wasn’t even that long? Really?! I remember it feeling like forever, at least …

The Wicked Years

Total books: 4
Page count: ~1,700

I HAD TO WAIT FOREVER FOR THESE BOOKS, OKAY, SO YOU BET YOUR BUTT I REMEMBER THEM. Which is a lovely first for this list. Surprise! *throws confetti* I loved (and still do) Wicked and Son of a Witch and all the nuances and complexities it lent to a movie that I actually sort of hate. I was less enamored with the last two books, and I didn’t like how the series ended, but let’s face it, I’ll probably re-read it, and I’m not giving up my copies any time soon.

The Unicorn Chronicles

Total books: 4
Page count: ~1,600

I begged my mother for the first two books of this … and by the time the last two out, I was old enough to be thoroughly over it. Go figure. I did read them anyway, because I was so enamoured with the series as a little girl and sometimes nostalgia just feels nice, all right? But I don’t remember any of them, now that I think about it. I was pretty little for the first two books, though, so that doesn’t really surprise me.

What’s one of the longest series you’ve read, either book-wise or page count-wise? Do you actually remember it?! TEACH ME YOUR WAYS!