Examples of this type include Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn books. For some, it may be minor-characters might get engaged, change jobs, etc., but it does not affect the main storyline. How much these changes matter will vary from series to series (and reader to reader). Typically such series are published in the order of their internal chronology, so that the next book published follows the previous book. Some series do have their characters go through changes, and make references to past events. Examples of such series are works like The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and Nick Carter.Ĭollection of the seven books in the Harry Potter series Many of these series books may be published in a numbered series. Some works in a series can stand alone-they can be read in any order, as each book makes few, if any, reference to past events, and the characters seldom, if ever, change. They are common in genre fiction, particularly crime fiction, adventure fiction, and speculative fiction, as well as in children's literature. A novel sequence contains story arcs or themes that cross over several books, rather than simply sharing one or more characters.įictional series typically share a common setting, story arc, set of characters or timeline. Reprint series were also published in the United States, including the Modern Library ( Boni & Liveright, from 1917), in Germany, including the Universal-Bibliothek ( Reclam, from 1867), and in most other countries of the world.Ī novel sequence is a set or series of novels which share common themes, characters, or settings, but where each novel has its own title and free-standing storyline, and can thus be read independently or out of sequence. Dent, from 1906), the Penguin Classics ( Penguin Books, from 1945) and the Penguin English Library (from 1963). Later British reprint series were to include the Routledge's Railway Library ( George Routledge, 1848–99), the Oxford World's Classics ( Oxford University Press, from 1901), the Everyman's Library ( J. This book series was unique for paying living authors of the works published even though copyright protection did not exist between nations in the 19th century. In 1841 the German Tauchnitz publishing firm launched the Collection of British and American Authors, a reprint series of inexpensive paperbound editions of both public domain and copyrighted fiction and nonfiction works. Reprint series of public domain fiction (and sometimes nonfiction) books appeared as early as the 18th century, with the series The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill (founded by British publisher John Bell in 1777). Collection of the Penguin Books series Little Black Classics
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