10 TRILOGIES YOU CAN’T MISS
Beginning. Protagonist. First-sight. Love. Lover. Romance. Drama. Antagonist. Murder. Grim. Suspense. Suspects. Victim. Witness. Handcuffed. Happy. Peace. End.
A novel takes us on a journey with itself — we become a new spectator in the plot — the one who wanders everywhere with all the characters in the play. We develop an intimate relationship with it. We laugh with the characters and we weep with them; we mull over issues with the characters and we suspect ill-fates with them. While reading a book we’re all loathed in the lake of the plot, wearing the skin of the characters.
However, when this excursion ends, we are left with nothing but just feeling blue — not ready to overcome this unhappiness. Stranded. But, what if you’ve another book waiting for you with the continuation of the story in the queue? Well, that’s the magic of series books.
We bring to you the perfect new date to move on from your break-up with the conclusion of a book: Trilogies! A trilogy novel is a group of 3 novels, interconnected to each other.
Let’s take a look:
- THE HUNGER GAMES BY SUZANNE COLLINS
When it’s about trilogies, the first name which spitballs out of our head is the majestic and sublime Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins. This trilogy has Hunger Games (2008), Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2010). The books accentuate the genre of young-adult dystopian with the Hunger Games Universal background. The books follow the life of young Katniss Everdeen. It doesn’t come to readers as a surprise that directors and screenwriters have deployed this into the movie The Hunger Games with Jennifer Lawerence as Katniss Everdeen. The trilogy was an international bestseller, selling more than 25 million copies.
2. MILLENNIUM BY STIEG LARSSON
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl who Played with Fire and The Girl who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest is the 3 books of this trilogy by Stieg Larsson. The two primary characters in the saga are Lisbeth Salander, a woman in her 20s with a photographic memory and poor social skills, and Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and publisher of a magazine called Millennium. These award-winning Swedish crime novels have topped the New York Times bestselling list several times. The Millennium series has been adapted into many American and Swedish films, and some graphic novels as well.
3. DIVERGENT BY VERONICA ROTH
Every school kid who loved science-fiction had Veronica Roth as her favourite author. And Veronica has never disappointed her fans. The debutante book of this American novelist was the Divergent Trilogy, made up of Divergent(2011), Insurgent(2012) and Allegiant(2013). No wonder Tris Prior, Tobias “Four” Eaton, Caleb Prior, Marcus Eaton, Jeanine Matthews, Christina, and the other characters had left a deep impression on the young-adult minds of every person who reads them, let alone those school kids. The society of the trilogy defines its citizens by their social and personality-related affiliation with five different factions, which removes the threat of anyone exercising independent will and threatening the population’s safety.
4. HIS DARK MATERIALS BY PHILIP PULLMAN
Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry wander through a series of parallel universes, and Philip Pullman has skillfully employed his genius into this series with the books Northern Light(1995), The Subtle Knife(1997) and The Amber Spyglass(2000). It is a fantasy trilogy, often marketed as young-adult fiction series. The novels have won several awards, including the Carnegie Medal in 1995 for Northern Lights and the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year for The Amber Spyglass. In 2003, the trilogy was ranked third on the BBC’s The Big Read poll.
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5. BROKEN EARTH BY N.K. JEMISIN
Jemisin released the first volume of the Broken Earth Trilogy series in 2015 with The Fifth Season. It was followed by The Obelisk Gate(2016) and The Stone Sky(2017). All the 3 books of this series were awarded the Hugo Award for the Best Novel in their respective years. The setting of all the 3 novels is a planet with one supercontinent called ‘Stillness’, in a far-future Earth wracked with periodic disasters known as ‘Seasons’. These Seasons aren’t just bad storms: they’re massive, apocalyptic events that last for generations, reshaping the world and its inhabitants.
6. THE ORPHAN TRILOGY BY JAMES AND LANCE MORCAN
The trilogy follows the life of an orphan named Nine and the conspiracy series that follow him in his life. He is one of twenty-three genetically superior orphans being raised and groomed by Chicago’s Piedmont Project to start a new world order. The trilogy consists of The Ninth Orphan, The Orphan Factory and The Orphan Uprising. The series follows Nine as he comes of age within the orphanage, then escapes and goes on the run across America and overseas, all the while using espionage skills from his upbringing to try to outrun his former father-figure. The trilogy was a bestseller.
7. BILL HODGES TRILOGY BY STEPHEN KING
Horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction and fantasy novels’ American novelist Stephen King’s Bill Hodges Trilogy focuses on Brady Hartfield, a mass-murderer. The trilogy novels are Mr Mercedes, Finders Keepers and End of Watch. In 2009, at the height of the Great Recession, a crowd of unemployed adults waited in line outside a job fair. Brady drives a stolen Mercedes into the group, killing many, but manages to avoid arrest. Calling himself “Mr Mercedes,” Brady writes to a retired police detective named Bill Hodges, intent on driving him to suicide.
8. THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY BY ISSAC ASIMOV
The Foundation series is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov. First collected in 1951, for thirty years the series was a trilogy: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation. It won the one-time Hugo Award for “Best All-Time Series” in 1966. However, now the series is no more a trilogy, with 4 more books added to it — 2 prequels and 2 sequels. The premise of the stories is that, in the waning days of a future Galactic Empire, the mathematician Hari Seldon spends his life developing a theory of psychohistory, a new and effective mathematical sociology. Using statistical laws of mass action, it can predict the future of large populations.
9. SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY BY JEFF VANDERMEER
Annihilation, Authority and Acceptance are the three books of this prolific work by Jeff VanderMeer, all of them being published in the year 2014. The trilogy takes its name from the secret agency that is central to the plot. The story begins in Annihilation, when a team of four unnamed women, identified only by their professions, are sent in to investigate Area X. Annihilation won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards and was adapted into a Hollywood film by director Alex Garland.
10. THE INFERNAL DEVICES BY CASSANDRA CLARE
The series follows Tessa Gray, an orphaned teenage girl who discovers she has the power to shape-shift but doesn’t bear a mark that shows she is a warlock. She is forced to learn how to control this newly established power and navigate the new world she was forcefully introduced into. The series follows Tessa’s life as she lives in the London Institute with the Shadowhunters. The trilogy consists of Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince and Clockwork Princess. The trilogy is a prequel series to The Mortal Instruments series and contains some of the character’s ancestors.
From Hunger Games to The Infernal Devices, all these trilogies have been written by legendary writers. With meticulous filtration and choice of the characters and story-line, the writers take us on a three-stage pioneering journey, never to forget!
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