Can you believe that March is here already? Thinking of the third month of the year brings trilogies to my mind. I think 3 book series are the best of all worlds- if you fall in love with the first book, there’s still more to enjoy, but it’s not so overwhelming as taking on a series with double digit titles. Below is a list of some great trilogies in a variety of genres that could keep you happily reading throughout the month!
The Grisha trilogy by Leigh Bardugo (fantasy, 7th&up)
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#1: Shadow and Bone
Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken to become the protégé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
#2: Siege and Storm, #3: Ruin and Rising
The Maze Runner trilogy by James Dashner (science fiction, 7th&up)
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#1: The Maze Runner
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
#2: The Scorch Trials, #3: The Death Cure
The Alex & Eliza trilogy by Melissa de la Cruz (historical fiction, 7th&up)
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#1: Alex & Eliza: a Love Story
Before the world knew them as Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, young Alex and Eliza fell in love amidst the turmoil of the American Revolution.
#2: Love & War, #3: All For One
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before series by Jenny Han (romance, 7th&up)
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#1: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them…all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control.
#2: P.S. I Still Love You, #3 Always and Forever, Lara Jean
One Of Us Is Lying series by Karen M. McManus (mystery, 8th&up)
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#1: One of Us is Lying
When one of five students in detention is found dead, his high-profile classmates—including a brainy intellectual, a popular beauty, a drug dealer on probation, and an all-star athlete—are investigated and revealed to be the subjects of the victim's latest gossip postings.
#2: One of Us is Next, #3: One of Us is Back
Dimpleverse series by Sandhya Menon (romantic comedy, 7th&up)
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#1: When Dimple Met Rishi
A heartfelt romantic comedy told from the alternating perspectives of two Indian-American teens whose parents have arranged their marriage follows the efforts of one to distance herself from the agreement and the other to woo his intended during a summer program they are attending together.
#2: There’s Something About Sweetie, #3: 10 Things I Hate About Sweetie
Shadowshaper Cypher series by Daniel Jose Older (fantasy, 7th&up)
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#1: Shadowshaper
When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends.
#2: Shadowhouse Fall, 3#: Shadowshaper Legacy
Simon Snow series by Rainbow Rowell (fantasy, 8th&up)
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#1: Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow
During his last year at Watford School of Magicks, Simon Snow, the Chosen One, faces a magic-eating monster wearing his face, a break-up, and a missing nemesis.
#2: Wayward Son, #3: Any Way the Wind Blows
The Arc of a Scythe series by Neal Shusterman (science fiction, 8th&up)
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#1: Scythe
In a world in which the only way to die is to be killed by a scythe, Citra and Rowan compete to earn a position as a scythe's apprentice--a competition that will see the loser die by the hand of the winner.
#2: Thunderhead, #3: The Toll (Bonus: Gleanings: Stories from The Arc of the Scythe)