 I am so excited because we are going to be chatting about my top 10 series of all time ranked. I have ranked them from number 10 to number 1 and we're going to be going through them. So many will know a theme of this year for me is to finish series, is to like finally finish of it. Let me tell you, I didn't have a lot to pick from to make this list because I often just read first books in series. It's sad, it's sad, you know? It's a shame. Yeah, that's a big goal for me this year but I thought it would be fun to do this video now before I've kind of done that and then maybe in like two years time do this again and refresh it and see what's changed. I would love to be able to compare the two. So I wanted to have this now as kind of like a beginning point almost. So a lot of these series I have finished or I've read all that's out. So if it's not a completed series, that kind of does like put it a little bit lower down the list because it's not, you know, finished or I haven't finished it all myself. But before we get into this, I would love to know what your predictions are going to be. Like please comment down below, like pause the video, comment maybe what you think my top three are going to be. I'm really intrigued. I really don't know what to expect from you and like what I think you're going to say. Yeah, I don't know if there'll be a few unexpected things in there and this could change, you know? It's all dependent on how I'm feeling like on the day I read the list. But let's just go straight into it and talk about my top 10. So number 10 was a difficult one. Number nine and 10 I would say are not a series I've given all the books five stars. They're kind of, I think I've given both of these four stars this one. It's one of those series where like the series as a whole is greater than individual parts. So number 10 is The Singing Hill Cycle by Neve Vo. We have Empress Assault and Fortune and When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain. The third one is coming out this year. Can't believe what it's called. I think it's got pigs on the cover. So this is like this really short novellas. They're these kind of like epic stories but very contained where main character Chi is meeting people and finding out stories and their job is kind of to record stories. And what I love about these books is they're kind of like a love letter to storytelling. I feel like the way that they honour storytelling as a craft is really beautiful and unusual and I've loved the experience of reading both of these so I'm so excited for the third one to come out. I think it's going to be at least like five and I love a good novella as well. I love a short book and like for me this is some of the best novellas I've read in terms of telling a really vivid, detailed, believable, nuanced story in a short space of time. That was beautiful. You did such a good job of expressing yourself. Number nine is The Girls of Paper and Fire series. So this one is a bit funny like I said Girls of Paper and Fire is an all-time favourite YA fantasy for me. It was five stars and I have like I feel like I owe this book a lot in terms of getting me back into reading. Like it found me when I was like a young duckling like not reading and it just found me the perfect time and I feel like I owe a lot to it. This one was like a 3.5 I think the second one was on my favourite and I am yet to read the final one. I don't know when I'm going to get around to it but I haven't read it yet. I need, I know I need to, I know I need to, I know I need to but like I'm scared because I feel like everyone's going to die. So this series is on here because I look on it so fondly even if like numerically there may be series I've like read two books from and rated higher because this one wasn't my favourite. I just love it. I just love the ethos behind this series. I love the ideas. I love what it's examining particularly for YA so if you don't know we are following Leigh who is becomes a paper girl. She's forced to be a paper girl at the palace who are these girls who are forced to sleep with the king. The second and third one I'm guessing are much more like war. They kind of veer away from this theme but the first one in particular is looking at the different ways that trauma manifests for each of these girls and I just think it was so beautifully done with so much respect and it's sapphic and the series is sapphic as well and I'm hoping I'm going to love the third one because I'm pretty sure I heard this was supposed to be a geology but then the publisher turned it into a trilogy and I felt like you could really tell that in the second book so I'm hoping the third one will like get back on track with everything. Then we have a crowd favourite. A crowd favourite coming in at number eight is the Six of Crow astrology by Leigh Bardugo. Don't be shocked. You're shocked? You're shocked? I have a soft spot for Leigh Bardugo. I feel like if I was like ever to become an author like I have this fantasy like the fantasy in my brain is me and Leigh Bardugo like she mentors me like I feel like we would just vibe. I feel like we would get along. It's a lot of fantasies and when I feel the fantasy it is my reality. But I really loved this. I gave Six of Crows I think four stars in Crooked Kingdom five and maybe even like a four point and five for this. I think it is a great, great fantasy series. We're getting into the big guns now like we're really getting into like the top series. I just love the world, the characters. I mean it's popular for a reason. I generally think this series like deserves to be popular. Crooked Kingdom like bro I cry. This one is set very much in Ketterdam which is like the place that they live like this one they kind of go out of it but this one you stay in Ketterdam and I just love the setting. I feel like it's so vivid. I actually understood the magic systems in this series versus Incheon and Byron it did not understand a single thing did not understand a single thing. I also think this is just a masterclass of like a good ensemble cast for YA fantasy and like it being done well. I do love a good ensemble cast and I just love it. Yeah I just love the fantasy world. I love Leigh Bardugo's writing and I can't actually reread these. I think it will be really fun to reread this series at some point. Next we have a series we've gone from a super popular series to a series like no one else has read on Book of June. That is the Lady Hard Castle Mysteries coming in at number 7. So this probably will be higher maybe one day when I've read more. I've only read the first three which are A Quiet Life in the Country, In the Market for Murder and Death Around the Bend. Now are these literary masterpieces? Perhaps not. They are cozy mysteries with Lady Hard Castle and her maid Flo who are best friends and they have this part of like they've worked for the government like they've been like spies like killing bitches. They're like we're retiring, we're a lady and a maid, we're like gonna be classy, we're gonna retire to this lovely village. Turns out they moved to the murder capital of England. I just wasn't expecting that. It's kind of them just like figuring out these murder mysteries in each of these books or other kinds of mysteries and it's like cozy, it's fun, they have a great banter between them and it's just just definitely a very much a comfort series for me. I definitely need to read the fourth one soon because I do own it. This is generally just some of the best like cozy mystery books I have ever read. I think the characters are amazing, I think the plotting of like the stories is great. It's a great like evocative point in history you know it's like that classic quaint English village that Agatha Christie kind of was known for and I don't know I just really really love it. They're kind of great escapism. I think they're really well done. So I love you Lady Hardcastle. Okay, number six is The Green Run Saga by Fonda Lee. So I read this very recently, this was like the first series that I finished, did a whole vlog for as part of series Wipeout which I'm doing this year. And listen, the first book was like a 3.5. Second one 4.5, last one 5, one of like the greatest expanses of fantasy I've ever read. Fonda Lee, I refuse to believe it. I don't understand how a brain can come up with this story. It feels like Miss Fonda Lee is like, I don't know, God. So I was not the biggest fan of Jayce Zutieck. I was a bit disappointed. I felt like I was reading something different than everyone else. But when I read Jade Warren, Jade Legacy, I just felt like I fell into the story immediately and really saw how amazing it was. And at the further you get into the series, like this big long series, I think the more you appreciate like what Fonda Lee is doing and all the seeds that have been laid and like you get so attached to the characters. So this, if you don't know, is like following a mafia family as there's like this kind of like cold war between them and other mafia families where they live. And there's this substance called Jade, which gives them like magical powers. And I just love political maneuverings in books. And this is done so well. And like the sneakiness, like some of Hilo's strategizing and plotting reminds me of Kaz in Six of Crows and Crick Kingdom, like how the characters will be plotting stuff behind the scenes that you're not necessarily aware of. And it gets revealed to you. Oh, my God, it's so much fun. I love it. I love it. And this was a series. I just felt like I ate my, you know, ate my words. Is that the right saying? Like I really, you know, turned a corner with this series. And I just love it and appreciate it so much now. And I'm trying to make my dad read it, but he's taking ages to read and he says, it's angering me. It's angering me. Okay, so we're into the top five. Number five is The Way We're Children series by Seanan McGuire. Another like novella series. Maybe it's not that I love them more, but I read them. Like I'm more likely to read them. So I only own three physically. I do need to like get them or I want to get them all physically. When I've read these three physically, they've all been five stars. And I'm pretty sure like all of the other ones were like four, 4.5. But I think as great as the audiobooks are for this series, I think you read them so much better physically. Like when you're the one reading the words and it's going through your brain because there's this like magicalness for the writing. Writing, I said that really weird. Oh my God. Writing. Yeah, there's this magic and there's this like whimsy and there's this fairy tale like nurse. And I think reading it in your own voice in your head really like enhances how great the story is. I don't even know which of these three would be my favorite. Maybe across the green gas fields. There's something about the friendships in this and the found family that I really, really loved. But I also loved the latest one where the Dragon Girls go. I think the series is incredible. This is a series about wayward children who go through these doors and discover these worlds are perfect for them. And some of the books are like across green gas fields is a child like discovering their door in their world. Whereas these two are kind of when the it kind of alternates between books. When the child is back in our world and it's them like either trying to get back to their world or like negotiating the feelings that come from being back here. And I just love it. I just absolutely love it. I feel like this series is just absolutely incredible and so clever. And I'm really excited for the next one because I'm like I know what it is going to be. And I'm just so excited. Number four, this one, it was hard between number four and number three to really we're even like four, three and two to like order them. But I have done it, I've done it. You are so strong. This is just how I was feeling on the day. I mean, in terms of rating, I've given all of this series five stars whereas I gave number three, a five, a four and a five. So like mathematically, this is better than that. But just how I was feeling on the day, okay? We have the Bear and the Nightingale series in number four. So Bear and the Nightingale, Girl in the Tower and The Wincher of the Witch. I have these gorgeous, oh my God, these Fairly auditions, I love them so much. I'm so glad I got them. I cannot wait to reread the series one day to be using these auditions. I just think they're absolutely gorgeous. So this is like a Russian inspired fantasy where we follow Vasya from birth into like womanhood by the end of the last book. And it's kind of her discovering her powers. And in particularly in this first one, we're uncovering the myth or is it a myth of the Winter King? I absolutely love this series. I cannot wait, Catherine Under the Moment is like publishing middle grade horror, which I have been reading and enjoying but I really want like another like adult fantasy series from her. I just want it so bad. Like this is another series that really got me into reading. I read this before I had my channel and just like the beautiful prose in these. Vasya's story as she grows, it's absolutely beautiful. I love again, like an historical fantasy. I love historical settings and I love like when an author really manages to capture them but like infuse magic in them. I think it's so much fun. And each book like does such a good job. This is one of my favorite things about this series of expanding its remit. Like in the first book, we're very much just focused on Vasya, trying to save the town she grew up in. And then it becomes the city, like the kind of country that she grew up in and then it becomes the world. And I just think there's a marked growth not only in Vasya's age, but in like the remit and like the expanse of the series as each book goes on. And there's some great villains in this series. I think just like the topics and the themes that it covers are absolutely amazing. Okay, top three. Oh my God, this is intimidating. So number three is the Good Girls Guide to Murder series. I love it. Maybe this is on here because it is more fresh and I feel like as good as dead, which I read at the start of this year is like one of the best final books in a series I've ever read. This is a reason to celebrate. Oh my God. The growth in this series from first book to last book is absolutely insane. So we're following Pip who is like this high school student and she wants to investigate this cold case from her town where this girl was killed by her boyfriend. He admitted to killing her, but Pip doesn't believe that's actually what happened. So she's kind of investigating it. These books are Mixmedia, which is my shit. Oh my God, I love Mixmedia books. If a book has Mixmedia, I'm like, oh my God, let me like eat it up, let me eat it up. The middle one was a bit weaker for me, but this is like beyond the five star. I felt like the direction. I mean, the first book was incredible, like amazing, like a real solid mystery. But this one, like, oh, the root that the series goes down is so unpredictable. It was just amazing. It was such a shock to me. I could never have predicted we would go from here to here. And I just think it was done so well. Like Holly Jackson's mind, I could not wait for whatever Holly Jackson puts out next. We don't have any news, but I'm just like hoping and waiting. I'm like, just like, oh my God, I can't wait. I generally can't wait. But the whole series is just really fun YA mysteries. I just loved it. I just, oh my God, this last one was so good. Okay. Top two, everyone. We're into the top two. Number two is the Heartstopper graphic novel series. Ah! So I'm addicted to this, not in a literal medical sense, but I don't think I can live without it. This is Heartstopper by Alice Oseman. You'll have seen me doing a lot of reactions to the trailers that have been coming out. I am, I apologize to who I'm about to become on April 22nd. I genuinely apologize because I cannot wait. I cannot wait. I'm so excited. This is the love story of two boys, Nick and Charlie in graphic novel format. And it's just the most joyous series to ever exist. I love it so, so much. I love them so much. It's incredible. Like it's the best thing to ever exist. I love them so much. I don't read enough graphic novels. Like genuinely I feel like I should read more because I love these so much. Like how can I not be reading more graphic novels? Like I love them. I love them. I love them. These are some of my favorite characters. My favorite probably relationship in books. And I just also love like the way that Alice Oseman has illustrated it. Like the facial expressions in these graphic novels are amazing. Like the way they look at each other, it kills me. And they're just a joyous, fun read. And I just love them. And I very rarely get attached to characters in this way, but like I'm so attached to them. I love them so much. Okay, my top series. My top series of all time. Are we surprised is the Athena Club Mysteries, which is the strange case of the Arkham's daughter. Oh my God, I can't hold these books. European travel for the monstrous gentle woman and the sinister mystery of the mesmerizing girl. Listen, it's perfect. These, oh, these books are perfect. You cannot tell me anything. Perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect. Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show-stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before. My babies, like generally my favorite books of all time. Nothing, I don't, I can't imagine like anything comparing to them. In this with following daughters or female versions of men from classic Victorian literature as they solve mysteries together and grow their found family. Listen, I said I don't get attached to characters, but these girls are above anyone else. My love for them, my love for their friendship and their sisterhood is beyond, like it's beyond. It also has like Sherlock or Watson in here, like lots of other like Dorian Gray appears at one point, like lots of other characters from classic Victorian media and literature. And I just love this series. I think the second one's my favorite. I've reread this one the end of last year. I need to reread the second one at some point. It's just like, it's intimidating because it's long. Like it won't take me long to read, but like I need to fit it around all the other reading I need to do. The wit in this book, the historical setting, the uncovering of the mysteries, the sisterhood. I love it. One of my favorite things I would say about this series is Catherine, one of the characters, Catherine Moreau, is writing the books. She's writing them about their lives. And often the girls, other girls will cut in and it will be like a script format with them saying, oh, it didn't happen like that or Catherine, you're annoying or whatever. And I think the characters are amazing. I think like Diana, an iconic character. Diana Hyde, a queen, a legend. She's an icon. She's a legend. And she is the moment. Now come on now. I love the journey that this series goes on. I can't actually explain to you in words how much I love it. It is my perfect, perfect series, a mix of mystery, historical and fantasy. I just love it. I just think Theodore Goss is like the best writer I've ever read. I can't even explain to you how amazing these books are and how much I love them. And I like wish we had more. Like one day, if I get rich, I'm gonna make a publishing house and I'm only gonna commission Theodore Goss to write more of these books. Like that's my sole purpose. I just need more. And I know she would write more if like someone bought them. And I just need to make that. I need to actually work. My whole life's purpose in working is so that I can pay her to write her books. I just love them. I just love the characters. I love their relationships, their journey. I just think it's perfect, a perfect series. And I love them. I love them very much. So there we have it everyone. That is my top 10 series of All Time Ranked. Were any of them surprises? Like any of the placings surprises? I don't know if they would be. I'm intrigued to know what you would think as people who watch my videos. Cause obviously I don't talk about, like I've been thinking about this stuff a lot but I didn't necessarily talk about it all the time. Like I expect you to read my mind. But thank you for watching. If you've gotten to the end, comment the bear or a bird emoji. Comment one of them down below for Bear and the Nightingale, one of my favorites. And thank you so much for watching. And I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye.