I've been interested in The Golden Compass, but I didn't read it when I was younger because of the atheistic undertones of the series I'd heard about. That sort of thing wouldn't bother me now, but I just haven't gotten around to it.

The Hunger Games is a weird one for me. I enjoyed it, but I actually think the movies do some interesting things that improve the experience of the story overall for me. It's nothing too spectacular though.

I love Harry Potter. That was the series that got me into reading longer novels, I'm pretty sure. It was also when I first started really dabbling into deeper literary analysis and interpretation, though I was unaware of this fact at the time.

Pendragon by D.J. MacHale is another series I deeply adore. Looking back, it's probably not the best series, but I was hooked when I started reading it. It was a book my mom just bought me on a whim, and it worked out well. It also probably started getting me to look at writing different narrative styles, and it was the initial inspiration for a slew of story ideas that I still return to to this day.

Another series I started on a whim was the Engineer Trilogy by KJ Parker (Devices and Desires, Evil for Evil, The Escapement). I felt the beginning of the first book had a ton of potential, and I was super interested in seeing where they took everything. I was very disappointed by the end of it all, though. All of the characters were pretty despicable, and each new book would just find ways for me to dislike even the few characters I found likable at first. The world was interesting, and the plot was fairly interesting if I remember correctly, but the characters ruined it all.