The Hunger Games, Divergent, Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy—when you cannot get enough of a character or just don't want the story to end, three is a welcome number. These popular trilogies need no further introduction, but here are some titles you may be surprised to learn, are also part of a trilogy.
Chinua Achebe’s The Africa trilogy: Things Fall Apart / No Longer at Ease / Arrow of God Set in Africa, these are personal tales of emotional and intellectual responses to colonization.
Willa Cather’s Great Plains trilogy: Oh Pioneers! / The Song of the Lark / My Antonia Cather tells the story of the Bergsons, Swedish immigrants living in the Great Plains at the turn of the century with vivid prose to be savored. Give yourself some time with this one.
John le Carre’s Karla trilogy: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy / The Honourable Schoolboy / Smiley’s People Intricately plotted, and morally complex, this trilogy follows master spy George Smiley into international intrigue.
Louisa May Alcott’s March Family trilogy: Little Women / Little Men / Jo’s Boys Set in a small New England town during the Civil War years, the trilogy chronicles the lives of the March sisters, and especially Jo, through childhood, family and career.