1.) Outlander
2.) Dragonfly in Amber
3.) Voyager
4.) Drums of Autumn
5.) The Fiery Cross
6.) A Breath of Snow and Ashes
7.) An Echo in the Bone (Coming out Sept. 22, 2009)
8.) ***The Outlandish Companion*** is a non-fiction book that also goes with the series, to explain characters and their inspirations, I think. I haven't read it yet.
The series starts with a woman, Claire, in the 1940s in Scotland. She randomly walks through a cleft in the standing stone and is transported 200 years into the past. While there she meets Jamie Fraser (every woman's dream man) and marries him, all the while still thinking about the husband she left back in her own time.
The series is chocked full of adventure, sex, love and loss. I have sat up at night and while reading have laughed out loud, sighed in love and sobbed from loss.
The characters come alive from the moment they are introduced and they stick with you even when you're not reading. There are very few characters that you are ambivalent about. You either really love them or hate their guts (ex. Black Jack Randall).
There is also so much comedy and dry humor in here that it makes you wonder how the author could make every character have a great sense of humor. (I'm not that funny even in real life).
The main character, Claire, whose point of view the stories are told, is a nurse in her own time. While in the past she is always on the front lines (of war, childbirth, disease) trying to save everyone. Armed with her knowledge of germs and a very stubborn streak she makes all the tough male Scots do as she commands.
This is my favorite book series of all time and I recommend it to everyone. Even if you are not interested in history there are so many aspects or themes that you are sure to find something you love about these books. And if you do love history as I do, then these books are the best there is.
Click the above link for the author's homepage to learn more about the Outlander Series.
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