I’ll second the recommendation for Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe’s series.

If you want some interesting variety, I really enjoy the Harry Dresden novels by Jim Butcher. Harry is a modern-day wizard operating as a PI in Chicago. It’s urban fantasy mixed with noir mystery and some humor.

I can also recommend the Termeraire novels by Naomi Novik. His Majesty’s Dragon is the first one. Imagine the Napoleanic Wars if dragons were real and leveraged on the battlefield by both sides. Lots of political intrigue and class struggle as well.

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Gabriel Allon series by Daniel Silva.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Allon

Well written, good flawed characters.

I was going to mention Silva is no one else did. He is perhaps my favorite author.
 
If you like reading any series in the order they were published, a great site for getting the information is Fantastic Fiction. Just plug in any author's name, and his series (or for some authors, several series) are listed in order, with the year published. Authors with multiple series have each series listed separately.

I second (or third) the Travis Mcgee books if you can find them. I'm a fan of the Florida based authors. James W Hall- the Thorn series, and Randy Wayne White- Doc Ford series, among others. Where are you located, I'm sure some of us are sitting on a bunch of books I'm sure you would love, me included. Most of all- keep up the good fight!

I didn't see it mentioned already, so I'll recommend the Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn.

Good luck with your chemo pedropcola. I will just throw out a few of my favorites that may or may not have already been mentioned, and may or may not be a bit dated.
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
pre death Tom Clancy
Jon Land
Larry Bond
Jack DuBrul
Stephen Coonts.
Clive Cussler
Richard Herman
Patrick Robinson
early Steve Alten
Matthew Reilly
Harold Coyle
and as has been mentioned James Rollins
Dean Koontz ( the Frankenstein series)

Thank you gentleman. This is exactly the list I was hoping for. Some are familiar some aren’t. I’m going through a novel about every 3 days. TV got old quick and it’s too cold to go outside. Lol. Thanks again.

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The absolute best is the Travis McGee series by John D. McDonald.
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My favorite John D. MacDonald book is “The only Girl in the Game”, which isn’t a Travis McGee story.

And I’m surprised that the three-volume “Lord of the Rings”, and its prequel, “The Hobbit”, haven’t been mentioned yet. I’ve read these J. R. R. Tolkien books many times.

also, if you like slow burn spy stuff, hard to go wrong with John Le Carre.

I did not read that many series , I tended to find an author I liked and then read everything I could find they did,

mostly Sci Fi,

Asimov,, the Foundation trilogy is excellent
Niven, his solo and collaborations, are all excellent, esp Ringworld,


Heinlein,,, goes without saying, unless you don't grok


want some quick reads w/ english humor,, Douglas Adams


Herbert's Dune series is good for the first few books, and The White Plague is excellent as well


my wife went thru the Harry Potter series and absolutely loved them,

Tom Clancy's early stuff .. starting with the Hunt for Red October. So much better than the movie.

Robert Ludlum wrote a lot of good books too.

Wishing you well, hope the Chemo does it's job. I've been reading a lot of series, great to fill in between other books.

C.J Box the Joe Pickett Series - Wyoming Game Warden - these are really good

Paul Doiron the Mike Bowditch Series - Maine Game Warden

Craig Johnson - The Longmire Series

Tony Hillerman - a series about the Navajo Nation's police and interesting plots. Certainly different.His daughter Anne has carried on.

Someone mentioned Preston and Child - the Prendergast Series is pretty wild, I like it.

For crime/drama, the Scarpetta series of novels by Patricia Cornwell might interest you. The main character is a Female medical examiner. I have only read the first 2 of the series so far, but I will be reading more. The first book of the series is called "Postmortem".

Wishing you a full recovery!

Anna Pigeon series by Nevada Barr.

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The absolute best is the Travis McGee series by John D. McDonald. They are old now so I don't know how easy to find. There are 20 in the series and each one has a color in the title. The best series I have ever read....

^^^^ These are a blast to read and a real flash back to how the 60's through the 90's were like. Even though Travis lives in Ft Lauderdale, the books move him all around.

If you do end up reading this series, there is a "last book" McDonald wrote with Travis, virtually unknown, its only 26 pages and (possibly) still available at the Broward County main library titled "Reading for Survival"

First, best of luck to you on the treatment.

Many great selections on here, just finished this series for the second time:
Casca the Eternal Mercenary - little bit of historical fiction, fast easy reads and on Kindle Unlimited, so FREE!

Another vote cast for the Longmire series by Craig Johnson. I’m a fan of the former A&E / Netflix series, but the books (as often happens) are better.

Also, saw a reference to early Tom Clancy a’la “The Hunt for Red October.” I’d absolutely second that and add another early Clancy work to the list, “Red Storm Rising.”

Lastly, perhaps a classic like “Alas, Babylon” by Pat Frank and another of his works that I’ve come across, “Forbidden Area,” both Cold War-era stories.

I hope you are well soon - prayers said for you and yours!

So I'm going to second the Honor Harrington series (Dave Weber).

Going to add the Wheel of Time series (a f-ton of books and now that it's complete I don't feel bad about recommending them). Robert Jordan and Brandson Sanderson ending the series after Jordan croaked.

Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series, the First is Storm Front.

And I can't recommend enough the Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. If you need a reason for living, the third book is not out yet with great speculation as the the release date.

I met Tom Clancy when he published his first novel. Still have a signed Hunt for Red October. I definitely could re read those.

I'll second Tom Clancy's early works (Cardinal of the Kremlin, Hunt of Red October, and the like).

Another of my favorites is Clive Cussler's series of escapist adventure novels featuring Dirk Pitt with plots drawn from historical what ifs. Sadly, I just saw that Mr. Cussler passed away earlier this week at 88 and have posted a separate thread about it.

One other series is the Pendergast novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child about a strange FBI agent who gets involved in supernatural-type cases (which often aren't, but sometimes really are). I wasn't sure about that as I read the first one, but it turned out to be a really good read and I think I've now read the first 12 or so (out of 20). They have several other goods ones including Riptide, which was loosely inspired by the Treasure of Oak Island (long before the TV series).

A third in Honor Harrington. Very much inspired by Horatio Hornblower.

Also sci-fi, The Expanse book series plus novellas. I’m sure an internet search will provide good reading order, as the novellas intersperse with the regular books and provide a lot of back story.

Now, this is fantasy, but it’s military fantasy and superbly written: The Black Company from Glen Cook. Fantastic world building, good character studies.

Also, Cook’s Garrett, PI series which is sorta film noir fantasy (private investigators and wizards? Oh my!).

Good Luck!