All My Completed Series

[@theworldwhispers]

Man, did I hardcore feel you when you were talking about the teen book section being limiting and underwhelming back in the day. It seemed like it was basically all contemporary teen fling romances back then, didn't it? And as a big fantasy/sci-fi/thriller reader, I was so uninspired. I'm so glad that young adult books are SO much more diverse and interesting now!

[@MerrilyKristin]

RIGHT?!? We barely had anything to work with back in the day! I'm glad YA books have expanded so much since then!

[@BeautifullyBookishBethany]

Oh my goodness the throwbacks!!! It would be so interesting to go back and read Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley books.

[@TheHannieCorner]

Twilight was something I enjoyed immensely because I was 13 when I read it. Had I been older, I doubt it would have worked its magic on me to the same degree. Also, so glad I’m not the only one who read SVH! My library was severely underfunded as a kid, so those were a good chunk of the children’s section of the library.

[@MerrilyKristin]

SVH was one of my favorites! I would basically DEVOUR those books!

[@alexalovesbooks]

I honestly have been loving your series about series videos! And it totally has me wanting to catalog just how many series I’ve managed to read since I was a kid too. We have quite a number of series in common, which obviously means we have good taste 😉 If you intend to reread LOTR and The Chronicles of Narnia in 2020, I am going to join you for sure! And obviously, I am so down for any SJM series rereads.

[@booluther]

I loved The Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley when I was younger!

[@MerrilyKristin]

Sameee! They were my favorites!

[@bts_vinyl]

so many of the series you were talking about reading as a teen brought back memories for me especially the au pairs. i remember really loving that series... but i feel like i'd hate it now 😂

[@MerrilyKristin]

SAME haha

[@Bibliofilth]

All the books you were talking about you read when you were a kid/teen made me so nostalgic. The Clique series was THE original bad bitch series.

[@noelnovels6511]

Little House on the Prairie and The Box Car Kids!!!

[@noelnovels6511]

Omg and the Clique series lol

[@danielleholmberg270]

Heck yes to both!!

[@nerdygeekgamer5528]

my childhood book series that I still have and read today is Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys mystery series I was four when I started those books but I remember reading the babysitters club and Wishbone I also read the gossip girl series but it didn't keep my interest I read them once and then they just collected dust on my shelf so I donated them to goodwill or salvation army

[@LadyMcCrystal]

I loved this! Thank you for taking the time to make your lists come to life. As a lister myself I deeply appreciated the categories. Good job Kristen!

[@MerrilyKristin]

I do so love lists

[@LadyMcCrystal]

@@MerrilyKristin my Hufflepuff is showing by valuing hardworking. Hahah!

[@TheSoundOfGeorgia]

So exciting to hear that Shades of Magic is getting a spin-off. Also, Montague Siblings is getting a third book next year. Can't wait for both of them.

[@magicfaithdestiny]

Surprised to know that you haven't read the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series by Laini Taylor. It's my favorite ever.

[@MerrilyKristin]

I have read the first two books but I never read the last one! I'm planning on re-reading them so I can finally finish it soon!

[@abigail-melindabonares2286]

Oh my goodness when you mentioned Babysitters Club, I SCREAMED lol. That series along with the Little House on the Prairie and Junie B. Jones were definitely my favorites growing up!

[@MerrilyKristin]

Ahhh I never read the Little House on the Prairie books but I have a feeling I would've loved them!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

I didn't love the first book in the Magicians trilogy so I never continued reading. However, both you & Sam (thoughts on tomes) have said that the series gets so much better so I'm tempted to finish up the trilogy at some point.

[@bluemoon5766]

I have read a few goosebumps books as an adult and they are completely ridiculous but so fun to read

[@MerrilyKristin]

Ahaha I can't even imagine! I need to see if my library has them!

[@stephaniesbookverse1098]

Ok, scrolling down to the comments I saw like 3 more of your videos I want to watch 😂 I need to read the Mistborn trilogy! I've never heard anyone say they didn't like it.

[@JenKayna]

Great video! I read many of the same series as you as a child. Thanks for the ideas of next series to tackle!

[@shanagray7544]

I read most of the series that you mentioned in your tweens years. Oh the memories! I loved those books back in the day but I doubt I would feel the same way now if i re-read them. 😬

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

Yay lunar chronicles 🥰

[@MerrilyKristin]

Such a great series!

[@loren0531]

I'm reading the Grisha trilogy rn too! I'm halfway through Ruin and Rising and then I plan to re-read Six of Crows and then start King of Scars. And I read the Hunger Game series in middle school and did not enjoy it at all.

[@JennFaeAge]

Yay for Chaos Walking getting a name drop, that movie version needs to hurry up though. Or, at least, release a trailer so I can be reassured it still exists lol

[@MerrilyKristin]

Yes! It's been so long since I've heard about it.

[@JennFaeAge]

@@MerrilyKristin I feel like the people who worked on it should hit it out of the park easily, but...I thought the same about Golden Compass before it came out, so reassurance is required lol

[@devonmunn5728]

@@JennFaeAge have you read any other of his books? I have read 3 other books of his (A Monster Calls that he finished for Siobhan Dowd), More Than This and The Rest Of Us Just Live Here

[@JennFaeAge]

@@devonmunn5728 I've read...if not all of them, then certainly the vast majority. Somehow even reading AMC didn't prepare me for how broken emotionally I'd be after watching the film

[@MeSimoneI]

I love The Babysitters Club too 😙

[@georgiefarr1094]

The series I've completed so far this year are Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, Throne of Glass, Young Bond, Hush Hush, Infernal Devices, Dark Artifices, Anna Dressed in Blood, Hunger Games, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, Grant County, The Selection. I should be finished with the Grisha trilogy by the end of this month. I know some of them are duologys and trilogys but I have got quite a lot to go through sometime this year and 2020 ❤❤❤. Have u finished the Stalking Jack the Ripper series? It's one of the series I really want to read but as I live in the UK I can only order them online but it's a series I'm definitely going to read next October because Jack the Ripper - evil person. Very creepy too 😦

[@MerrilyKristin]

That is so impressive! I've been such a failure at finishing series this year but I'm planning on trying to get better about it in November!

[@georgiefarr1094]

@@MerrilyKristin I don't blame you. You'll do amazing. Are you going to another finished series at the end of the year? 😘😘😘

[@MerrilyKristin]

@@georgiefarr1094 Aw thanks! I'm likely going to film another finished series video at the end of next year so I have enough to talk about!

[@lilacchocolate]

Have you tried Waterstones for the Kerri Maniscalco books? I know I tried a couple of years back and they had no idea what I was talking about, but since the growth of the books popularity they are on the Waterstones website and I'm sure they could get them in store for you at no extra cost than the price of the book themselves! 😜

[@JashanaC]

Did you know that there is a fifth Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants book?! I did not, until I randomly came across it at a library book store... ! I haven't read it just yet!

[@MerrilyKristin]

Yes!!! I think it came out a few years ago? I didn't hear the best things about it though lol!

[@elizabethcoleman5464]

SVH ❤️

[@user-uv6if1jb4f]

Omygosh over the garden wall characters at the back!

[@MerrilyKristin]

They're always there

[@user-uv6if1jb4f]

@@MerrilyKristin I am a new subscriber and this is the first video of yours that I've watched haha!

[@WildeBookGarden]

I read all the Clique books too and to this day I am not 100% sure why 😂 I think at least part of the reason is that one of my close friends had read them and liked them? but I don't remember really enjoying the books themselves but I just kept going for some reason! I remember really enjoying the first couple Peter and the Starcatcher books but not continuing for some reason! random sidenote but I LOVE your moon earrings! do you remember where you got them? I actually bought The Storyspinner because of you! :D really excited to get to that one

[@ceraholland8605]

The Disney movie Pan was an adaptation of Peter and the Starcatchers

[@MerrilyKristin]

WHAT. I did not realize that and I need to watch it immediately.

[@oliviabergin99]

Correct me if I’m wrong but the upside of unrequited is not part of the creekwood series. It has nothing to do with the characters/story in Simon and I checked goodreads and it said it was a stand-alone

[@oliviabergin99]

I’m not trying to be rude!!!

[@MerrilyKristin]

No worries! I always assumed it was part of Creekwood since two of the characters are related to a character in Simon and there are cameos from the Creekwood gang in Upside!

[@lilacchocolate]

Hold up, you pre-ordered the 1st Harry Potter before it came out?!!! Does that mean you own a really rare first edition or had the Harry Potter books already gained notoriaty from the UK by then? 😱✨⚡️👏☺️ I was a big fan of Meg Cabot as a young teenagers, so her Princess Diaries series and Missing series were a must read for me. Also really liked the series Mates, Dates by Cathy Hopkins (UK author). Now the one that had me in fits of laughter throughout reading them had to be the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series by Louise Rennison (again UK author). The movie "Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging" didn't do the hilarity of them justice. Wonder if I would still find them as funny today, but I'm not much of a re-reader though, so will probably never know 😜

[@MerrilyKristin]

I did! I preordered an American version so I'm not sure of the edition!

[@lilacchocolate]

@@MerrilyKristin Not sure either how the US version factors in with the UK. But in any case, I'm sure it's a relatively rare one seeing how early you were that it was a preorder! 😜👏☺️

[@oana-mariauliu5828]

How many times have you said "in its entirety"?!

[@oliviaocasain9980]

It seems like Sara Holland plagiarized the whole time is currency world directly from the movie In Time...