Examples
- Douglas Adams's "increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's trilogy" started as a BBC radio series and was adapted to a trilogy which eventually grew to five novels.
- Louis Aragon's Cycle du Monde Réel
- Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series was first a series of magazine stories; then a book publication as edited into a trilogy; and then, by the later addition of volumes, a longer sequence that encompassed his Robot and Empire short stories and novels. Finally other authors have added books.
- Jonathan Bayliss's Gloucesterman series was initially conceived as a trilogy comprising Gloucesterbook, Gloucestertide, and the projected Gloucestermas. When Bayliss's decades-in-the-works Prologos was published in 1999, it shared enough characters and themes in common with the Gloucester novels that the Gloucesterman series is now considered a tetralogy, with Prologos the introductory volume to the original trilogy.
- David Brin's Uplift series is a set of two trilogies, not (initially) sharing characters.
- A. S. Byatt's "Frederica Potter" quartet
- Jacques Chardonne's Les Destinées sentimentales
- James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales
- the novels of Amanda Craig
- Clive Cussler's "Dirk Pitt" series
- Georges Duhamel's Chronique des Pasquier
- Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet and other sequences
- C. S. Forester's "Horatio Hornblower" series
- Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series
- John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga
- Susan Howatch's Starbridge sequence
- John le Carré's numerous books featuring George Smiley are more novelistic in their technique than most genre fiction, but, apart from the "Karla Trilogy", the organisation is too lax to consider them a sequence, in intent or execution.
- John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee novels
- Roger Martin du Gard's Les Thibault
- Yukio Mishima's The Sea of Fertility tetralogy.
- Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series of police procedural crime novels
- Ferdinand Mount's Chronicles of Modern Twilight
- Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin series
- James Patterson's "Alex Cross" series
- Benito Pérez Galdós's Episodios nacionales
- Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time
- Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
- Simon Raven's Alms for Oblivion and The First Born of Egypt
- Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage
- Romain Rolland's Jean-Christophe
- Paul Scott's Raj Quartet
- C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers
- Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire and Palliser novels
- Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory Series
- John Updike's "Rabbit Angstrom" books
- Henry Williamson's Chronicles of Ancient Sunlight
- A. N. Wilson's Lampitt Papers
- Richard Zimler's Sephardic Cycle, a series of four historical novels that includes The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
- Naguib Mahfouz's The Cairo Trilogy
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