The best series I've ever "read" was Jack Reacher. I actually listened to that one, and what made it so good was the narrator, Dick Hill. His voice was perfect for Reacher, although a male voice is strange when reading female lines if you aren't used to it. He did such a great job that my wife would listen with me after overhearing it. That was the unfortunate part; it became "our" book, and I had to find something else to listen to when commuting and she wasn't present.
Another I recommend is the Zombie Fallout series by Mark Tuffo. It's a slightly humourous, or sarcastic, zombie apocalypse story following a family. It has a darker spin-off that follows from a mutant zombie-clown perspective, and a very good spin-off that follows a teen girl with her baby brother (literally, a baby), the family cat, and the family dog, a pitbull. That one is written from the perspective of the dog. The cat-dog relationship is quite funny.
Reacher, Fallout and LOTR are my top three, in that order.
