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2017 Challenge Summary
Goodreads Annual Challenge: 226/225

Yearly
Around the World Through Language - 12/10 languages - Complete 04/03/17
Serial Reader Challenge - 103/100 books - Complete 10/09/17
A to Z Challenge - Location Edition - 26 letters - Complete 02/10/17

Quarterly
2Q17: Clear the Shelves Challenge - 25 ebooks - Complete 06/14/17

Monthly
August: LGBTQIA Reading Challenge - 3 books - Complete 08/28/17
December: December Long Challenge - 4 books - Complete 12/22/17



Link to 2016 Challenge Summary

Edited: 12/22/17

Around the World Through Language
January 1 - December 31, 2017~~~Progress/Goal: 12/10 Languages COMPLETE

✔Japanese - The Graveyard Apartment: A Novel -- 01/07/17
✔Spanish - The Japanese Lover -- 01/24/17
✔Swedish - Detective Inspector Huss -- 01/29/17
✔Korean - The Vegetarian -- 01/30/17
✔Norwegian - The Drowned Boy -- 02/14/17
✔Icelandic - Snowblind -- 02/18/17
✔Russian - Roadside Picnic -- 02/20/17
✔Danish - The Marco Effect -- 03/01/17
✔Italian - My Brilliant Friend -- 03/13/17
✔Polish - This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen -- 03/26/17
✔French - A Climate of Fear -- 03/29/17
✔Dutch - Summer House with Swimming Pool -- 04/03/17



Edited: 04/03/17

Serial Reader Challenge
January 1 - December 31, 2017 . . . Status: 103/100 -- Complete

I will finish 2 series I have started before this year. (11 books) ✔
I will start 15 series this year. (15 books) ✔
I will read 2 series from start to finish this year. (10 books) ✔
I will read 64 books that are part of a series. (64 books) ✔

Total number of books = 100
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Finish Series - 2/2 -- (11/11 books) Complete
Parker Series by Richard Stark -- (YE 2016: 14 of 24)
✔15. Plunder Squad -- 01/14/17
✔16. Butcher's Moon -- 01/25/16
✔17. Comeback -- 02/18/17
✔18. Backflash -- 03/10/17
✔19. Flashfire -- 04/04/17
✔20. Firebreak -- 04/24/17
✔21. Breakout -- 05/14/17
✔22. Nobody Runs Forever -- 06/03/17
✔23. Ask The Parrot -- 06/20/17
✔24. Dirty Money -- 07/12/17
Bill Hodge Trilogy by Stephen King -- (YE 2016: 2 of 3)
✔End of Watch -- 02/12/17

Start Series - 17/15 -- (15 books (+2)) Complete
✔The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax -- 01/02/17
✔Forty Words for Sorrow -- 01/13/17
✔Detective Inspector Huss -- 01/29/17
✔The Chemistry of Death -- 02/08/17
✔Cold Shot to the Heart -- 02/23/17
✔My Brilliant Friend -- 03/13/17
✔Cop Hater -- 03/27/17
✔Slow Horses - 04/20/17
✔Parable of the Sower -- 04/21/17
✔Desert Places -- 05/05/17
✔The Second Life of Nick Mason -- 05/19/17
✔Blood Red Road -- 06/06/17
✔The Three-Body Problem -- 06/27/17
✔Consider Phlebas -- 07/04/17
✔The Name of the Game Is Death -- 08/21/17
✔A Darker Shade of Magic -- 08/23/17
✔Where Monsters Dwell -- 09/20/17

Start to Finish - 2/2 -- (10 books (+1)) Complete
Dark Tower Series by Stephen King (7 books (+1))
✔The Gunslinger -- 01/05/17
✔The Drawing of the Three -- 02/06/17
✔The Waste Lands -- 03/17/17
✔Wizard and Glass -- 04/18/17
✔Wolves of the Calla -- 05/18/17
✔Song of Susannah -- 06/10/17
✔The Dark Tower -- 07/18/17
✔The Wind Through the Keyhole -- 09/10/17
Plainsong Trilogy by Kent Haruf (3 books)
✔Plainsong -- 02/09/17
✔Eventide -- 03/24/17
✔Benediction -- 04/10/17

Read From Active Series - 64/64 Complete
✔False Allegations (Burke #9) -- 01/02/17
✔Night School (Jack Reacher #21) -- 01/07/17
✔Safe House (Burke #10) -- 01/09/17
✔As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia de Luce #7) -- 01/11/17
✔Mercy Falls (Cork O'Connor #5) -- 01/17/17
✔Honky Tonk Samurai (Hap & Leonard #11) -- 01/20/17
✔Black Powder War (Temeraire #3) -- 01/26/17
✔Copper River (Cork O'Connor #6) -- 01/31/17
✔A Dance At The Slaughterhouse (Matt Scudder #9) -- 02/06/17
✔Journey to Munich (Maisie Dobbs #13) -- 02/07/17
✔One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie #2) -- 02/13/17
✔The Drowned Boy (Insp. Sejer #11) -- 02/14/17
✔Echoes in Death (Eve Dallas #44) -- 02/16/17
✔Snowblind (Dark Iceland #2) -- 02/18/17
✔The Burning Room (Harry Bosch #19) -- 02/21/17
✔An Obvious Fact (Walt Longmire #12) -- 02/25/17
✔Woman with Birthmark (Insp. Van Veeteren #4) -- 02/26/17
✔The Marco Effect (Dept. Q #5) -- 03/01/17
✔Choice of Evil (Burke #11) -- 03/03/17
✔Out of Bounds (Karen Pirie #4) -- 03/07/17
✔Rusty Puppy (Hap & Leonard #12) -- 03/08/17
✔Herbie's Game (Junior Bender #4) -- 03/18/17
✔The Delicate Storm (Cardinal & Delorme #2) -- 03/21/17
✔Night Rounds (Insp. Irene Huss #2) -- 03/22/17
✔The Grave Soul (Jane Lawless #23) -- 03/27/17
✔A Climate of Fear (Com. Adamsberg #10) -- 03/29/17
✔A Walk Among the Tombstones (Matt Scudder #10) -- 03/31/17
✔When Will There Be Good News? (Jackson Brodie #3) -- 04/06/17
✔The Face-Changers (Jane Whitefield #4) -- 04/09/17
✔Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade (Hap & Leonard #13) -- 04/09/17
✔Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce #8) -- 04/13/17
✔Spook (Nameless Detective #28) -- 04/13/17
✔The Inspector and Silence (Insp. Van Veeteren #5) -- 04/26/17
✔The Crossing (Harry Bosch #20/Mickey Haller #7) -- 04/30/17
✔The Devil Knows You're Dead (Matt Scudder #11) -- 05/01/17
✔Hell Fire (Insp. Sejer #12) -- 05/04/17
✔The Murder of Mary Russell (Mary Russell #14) -- 05/06/17
✔Written in Bone (David Hunter #2) -- 05/08/17
✔Dead and Gone (Burke #12) -- 05/16/17
✔The Old Deep and Dark (Jane Lawless #22) -- 05/22/17
✔Close Your Eyes (Joe O'Loughlin #8) -- 05/24/17
✔In This Grave Hour (Maisie Dobbs #13) -- 06/11/17
✔In the Company of Others (Father Tim #2) -- 06/13/17
✔Thunder Bay (Cork O'Connor #7) -- 06/23/17
✔Pain Management (Burke #13) -- 06/24/17
✔Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie #4) -- 07/01/17
✔The Trespasser (Dublin Murder Squad #6) -- 07/06/17
✔Blood Money (Jane Whitefield #5) -- 07/08/17
✔The Torso (Insp. Irene Huss #3) -- 07/10/17
✔Blackfly Season (Cardinal & Delorme #3) -- 07/15/17
✔A Long Line of Dead Men (Matt Scudder #12) -- 07/16/17
✔The Thirst: A Harry Hole Novel (Harry Hole #11) -- 07/21/17
✔Munster's Case (Insp. Van Veeteren #6) -- 07/29/17
✔Nightcrawlers (Nameless Detective #29) -- 07/31/17
✔I Shot the Buddha (Dr. Siri #11) -- 08/26/17
✔Love Like Blood (Tom Thorne #14) -- 08/28/17
✔The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9) -- 09/12/17
✔Runner (Jane Whitefield #6) -- 09/15/17
✔Knife Creek (Mike Bowditch #8) -- 09/27/17
✔Secrets in Death (Eve Dallas #45) -- 09/28/17
✔The Glass Devil (Insp. Irene Huss #4) -- 10/01/17
✔Even the Wicked (Matt Scudder #13) -- 10/03/17
✔By the Time You Read This (Cardinal & Delorme #4) -- 10/05/17
✔Hour of the Wolf (Insp. Van Veeteren #7) -- 10/07/17
✔Nothing Stays Buried (Monkeewrench #8) -- 10/09/17

Edited: 10/09/17

A to Z Challenge -- Location Edition
January 1 - December 31, 2017 -- 26/26 COMPLETE!

✔A: Algonquin Bay, Ontario - Forty Words for Sorrow - 01/13/17
✔B: Bishop's Lacey - As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust - 01/11/17
✔C: Chiba City, Japan - The Graveyard Apartment - 01/07/17
✔D: Dachau, Germany - Journey to Munich - 02/07/17
✔E: Evanston, IL - Mercy Falls - 01/17/17
✔F: Franklin Mills, OH - The Man from Primrose Lane - 01/22/17
✔G: Gothenburg, Sweden - Detective Inspector Huss - 01/29/17
✔H: Holt, CO - Plainsong - 02/09/17
✔I: Indianapolis, IN - Plunder Squad - 01/14/17
✔J: Jersey City, NJ - Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal - 01/14/17
✔K: Korea - The Vegetarian - 01/30/17
✔L: Laborde, TX - Honky Tonk Samurai - 01/20/17
✔M: Mohaine Desert - The Gunslinger - 01/05/17
✔N: New York City - The Drawing of the Three - 02/06/17
✔O: Ozone Park, NY - Safe House - 01/09/17
✔P: Port-au-Prince, Haiti - An Untamed State - 01/14/17
✔Q: Queens, NY - False Allegations - 01/02/17
✔R: Russia - The Overcoat - 02/09/17
✔S: San Francisco, CA - The Japanese Lover - 01/24/17
✔T: Tyler, OH - Butcher's Moon - 01/25/17
✔U: Upper Peninsula, MI - Copper River - 01/31/17
✔V: Vermont - Mind of the Raven: Adventures with Wolf-Birds - 01/19/17
✔W: Würzburg, Germany - Black Powder War - 01/26/17
✔X: Xixi City, New China - On Such a Full Sea - 01/01/17
✔Y: Yugoslavia - The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax - 01/03/17
✔Z: Zurich, Switzerland - Night School - 01/07/17

Edited: 02/10/17

Clear the Shelves Challenge
April 1 - June 30, 2017 -- 25/25 ebooks COMPLETE!

✔Summer House with Swimming Pool - 04/03/17
✔Benediction -- 04/10/17
✔Fledgling -- 04/11/17
✔Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd -- 04/13/17
✔Wizard and Glass -- 04/18/17
✔Slow Horses -- 04/20/17
✔Daisy in Chains -- 04/23/17
✔Yes Please -- 04/24/17
✔All the Light We Cannot See -- 04/28/17
✔The Crossing -- 04/30/17
✔The Life We Bury -- 05/02/17
✔Hellfire -- 05/04/17
✔The Murder of Mary Russell -- 05/06/17
✔Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis -- 05/11/17
✔Wolves of the Calla -- 05/18/17
✔The Second Life of Nick Mason -- 05/19/17
✔The Signature of All Things -- 05/21/17
✔Our Souls at Night -- 05/22/17
✔Close Your Eyes -- 05/24/17
✔The One Man -- 05/28/17
✔The Risen -- 06/08/17
✔Song of Susannah -- 06/10/17
✔In This Grave Hour -- 06/11/17
✔In the Company of Others -- 06/13/17
✔Just Kids -- 06/14/17


Edited: 06/14/17

LGBTQIA Reading Challenge
August 1-31, 2017 -- Progress: 3/3 -- COMPLETE

✔Landing by Emma Donoghue -- 08/09/17
✔Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg -- 08/17/17
✔Love Like Blood by Mark Billingham -- 08/28/17

Edited: 08/28/17

December Long Challenge
December 1-31, 2017 -- Progress: 4/4 -- COMPLETE

✔Fourth of July Creek - 12/07/17
✔The Magicians - 12/12/17
✔Career of Evil - 12/17/17
✔Norwegian Wood - 12/22/17

12/22/17