thanks Misfit and TA for adding some interesting book to this list.

You're welcome, and thanks in turn for creating this list! :)

Great list, Laura.

Wolf Hall appears at No. 10 and No. 62.

Yes -- I keep combining them, but the second book is being added over and over again ...

thank you so much dear friends!!

thanks Andrew

This is like every other list. People have already started stuffing it with books that don't fit what the list is.

Trilogies people, trilogies.

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "This is like every other list. People have already started stuffing it with books that don't fit what the list is.

Trilogies people, trilogies."

Examples?

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "This is like every other list. People have already started stuffing it with books that don't fit what the list is.

Trilogies people, trilogies."

That's why this one is called "literary" trilogies in order to list real good titles found in the literature.

thanks Robin

Hey Laura, I'd like to include in the list (and vote for) Eduardo Galeano's MEMORY OF FIRE but I do not know how to go about it. It is a trilogy too: Genesis, Faces and Masks and Century of the Wind.

Please do so Joselito.

thanks Bettie

I've removed the 2nd and 3rd books of Sandra Gulland and Pauline Simmons since only the first book of a trilogy should be listed here.

Laura wrote: "thanks Misfit and TA for adding some interesting book to this list."

Want to add Gamethill by Denise Mina but does not appear in GR search and I don't own a copy to "create" it. It is a recent book, the first book in a trilogy that came to be called the Gamethill trilogy.

I did add Mina's later trilogy by adding The Field of Blood. (This trilogy is based around the sleuthing of journalist Paddy Meehan).

Thom wrote: "Laura wrote: "thanks Misfit and TA for adding some interesting book to this list."

Want to add Gamethill by Denise Mina but does not appear in GR search ..."

That's because the book is called Garnethill. :) I added it.

thanks TA

thanks Thom

thanks Melissa

thanks Joanne

thanks Cecilia

thanks Kara

thanks Rebekah

thanks Mrs.

thanks Kvitkapaporoti

thanks Sarah

Book #61 has been removed since it belongs to a 6-books series.

thanks Carolyne

thanks Frida

The term 'literary' has been applied very loosely here, I noticed...

Booklovinglady wrote: "The term 'literary' has been applied very loosely here, I noticed..."

I know. Do you have another suggestion?

Laura wrote: "Booklovinglady wrote: "The term 'literary' has been applied very loosely here, I noticed..."

I know. Do you have another suggestion?"

No, unfortunately not :-(

thanks Epicalkids

Children of the Arbat (#93) is not the first part of a trilogy but of a tetralogy, as there are four books and not three.

Same goes for These Old Shades (#116): These Old Shades, Devil's Cub, Regency Buck and An Infamous Army together make four books, last time I counted.

Both Children of the Arbat and These Old Shades should be deleted for not meeting the criteria of this list...

Booklovinglady wrote: "Children of the Arbat (#93) is not the first part of a trilogy but of a tetralogy, as there are four books and not three.

Same goes for These Old Shades (#116): [book..."

Deleted and moved to the Tetralogy list:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

thanks!!

:O)

@Laura
I own both tetralogies, which is how I knew ;-)

Booklovinglady wrote: "@Laura
I own both tetralogies, which is how I knew ;-)"

Someone else added these tetralogies, we cannot avoid it, unfortunately. Thanks for your cooperation.

:O)

thanks Carpe librum

thanks Konstantin

thanks Ray

So far Wolf Hall (#5) is part of a duology, not a trilogy. Not sure there ever will be a third book either, as the publication date keeps moving forward (and has done so for a couple of years...).

#143 Lost Illusions is not part of a trilogy, as there are more than three books...

#203 Winnetou is not part of a trilogy either (again, more than three books...)

Booklovinglady wrote: "So far Wolf Hall (#5) is part of a duology, not a trilogy. Not sure there ever will be a third book either, as the publication date keeps moving forward (and has done so for a couple..."

Thanks Booklovinglady! Lost Illusions and Winnetou have been removed. But I'll leave Wolf Hall as it is, since the 3rd book of this series is already planned by the author, even if there is not publication date yet.

Laura wrote: "I'll leave Wolf Hall as it is, since the 3rd book of this series is already planned by the author, even if there is not publication date yet. ..."

Hilary Mantel must be suffering from a writer's block :-) because like I said, the publication date keeps moving forward. I'm one of the many people who is anxiously waiting for The Mirror and the Light, as it has been five years now since Bring Up the Bodies was published.

Booklovinglady wrote: "Laura wrote: "I'll leave Wolf Hall as it is, since the 3rd book of this series is already planned by the author, even if there is not publication date yet. ..."

Hilary Mantel must b..."

Lets wait a little more, I am also looking forward for the 3rd book of this trilogy.

:O)

thanks Karen

thanks Pat

thanks Ederson, Sandy

thanks Laurie

Removed The Jewel in the Crown because it is not part of a trilogy.