Absolutely the Foundation series, but you need to read 'em in the correct order. In the forward of Prelude, Issac defined the order thusly:
1. The Complete Robot (1982) and/or I, Robot (1950) 2. Caves of Steel (1954) 3. The Naked Sun (1957) 4. The Robots of Dawn (1983) 5. Robots and Empire (1985) 6. The Currents of Space (1952) 7. The Stars, Like Dust (1951) 8. Pebble in the Sky (1950) 9. Prelude to Foundation (1988) *10. Forward the Foundation (1993) 11. Foundation (1951) 12. Foundation and Empire 5 (1952) 13. Second Foundation 5 (1953) 14. Foundation's Edge (1982) 15. Foundation and Earth (1986)
# 10 gets an asterisk because it was not on Asimov's original list, having not been written yet; from the content, this is the order in which it belongs.
Having previously read all of them in published order, I spent one glorious summer a couple of years ago re-reading them all in this order. I recommend it highly. -JW
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