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Series Progress Tracking
2019Started This Year:
- The Long Price Quartet (group read 2019) - A Shadow in Summer, A Betrayal in Winter (2 left)
- Lady Astronaut (group read 2019) - The Calculating Stars (ongoing)
- Riddle-Master - The Riddle-Master of Hed (2 left)
- The Particolored Unicorn - The Particolored Unicorn (1 left )
- Dinotopia - Dinotopia: The World Beneath, Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara (16 left)
- Sandman - Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes - 30th Anniversary Edition, Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House - 30th Anniversary Edition, Dream Country, Season of Mists, Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You, Fables & Reflections, Brief Lives, World's End, The Sandman: Overture, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters (6 left)
- Phoebe and her Unicorn - 10 read, ongoing
- Pip Bartlett - 2 read, 1 left
- My Secret Unicorn - 14 read, 1 left
- Unicorn School - 5 read, 1 left
- Unicorn Academy - 5 read, 6 left
- The Unicorn's Secret - 6 read, 2 left
- Unicorns (Vicky Blum) - 4 read, 1 left
- Les Belles Licornes - 4 read (ongoing?)
- Melowy - 12 read (ongoing?)
- Unnamed unicorn series - 2.5 read, several to go
Progressed This Year:
- Vorkosigan Saga (group read 2017) - The Warrior's Apprentice (14 left)
- Olympians (started long ago) - Hephaistos: God of Fire (ongoing)
- Chronicles of Elantra (started long ago) - Cast in Flight (ongoing)
- Hainish Cycle (group read 2017) - The Left Hand of Darkness (7 left)
Completed This Year:
- The Broken Earth (group read 2018) - The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky, Stone Hunger
- Pern (group read 2018) - Dragon's Code
- Unicorns of the Mist - Wonder Light, The Unicorn Thief
- The Time Quintet (group read 2018 and expanded to include the crossover series about the Austins and the O'Keefes of which I'd read a couple books before) - A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, An Acceptable Time, Meet the Austins, The Arm of the Starfish, The Moon by Night, The Young Unicorns, Dragons in the Waters A House Like a Lotus The Twenty-four Days Before Christmas A Full House: An Austin Family Christmas
- Codex Alera (group read 2019) - Furies of Calderon, Academ's Fury, Cursor's Fury, Captain's Fury, Princeps' Fury, First Lord's Fury
- Unicorn Chronicles - Into the Land of the Unicorns, Song of the Wanderer, Dark Whispers, The Last Hunt
- Unicorn Dancer - The Unicorn Dancer, Daughter of Destiny
- The Unicorn Saga - The Unicorn Quest, Unicorn Dilemma, The Unicorn Solution, The Unicorn Peace, The Unicorn War
- Midnight Crossroads - Night Shift
- Evelyn's Journal, Joe Vampire
- Ariel - Ariel, Elegy Beach
- Acorna (started looong ago) - Acorna's Rebels, Acorna's Triumph, First Warning: Acorna's Children, Second Wave: Acorna's Children, Third Watch: Acorna's Children
- The Secret Country - The Secret Country, The Hidden Land, The Whim of the Dragon
- Xander and the Rainbow Barfing Unicorns (don't ask, but it wasn't as dumb as it sounds) - 4 read
- Fetlocks Hall - 4 read
- Le maître des licornes - 4 read
Series (permanently?) Incomplete by Author/Publisher:
Killer Unicorns - Rampant, Ascendant
Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist - 4 read
Series I've progressed on this year:- The broken Earth: finished
- Mistborn: read The Bands of Mourning (book 6/6) so I'm ready for the next one when it comes out (will probably read some of the short stories/novellas before then)
- The dark tower: read Wizard and Glass (book 4/7)
- Discworld: read Feet of Clay (book 19/40). Not planning to finish this series this year :)
- First law: read Red Country (book 6/7). Now I just need to read Sharp ends and I'll be all set for the new trilogy.
And I'm currently reading Babylon's Ashes (book 6/8). My goal here will be to have read book 8 when the next (final?) one comes out.
Other series I plan to continue:
- Children of Ruin since it is now a series
- Maybe gentleman bastard (I've only read the first book so far)
I definitely need to find more reading time if I want to reach my goals.
Bryan wrote: "Series I've progressed on this year:- The broken Earth: finished
- Mistborn: read The Bands of Mourning (book 6/6) so I'm ready for the next one when it comes out (will probably re..."
I had the second book of the Dark Tower on my list...I've got the movie recorded on my PVR and I understand that it covers more than the first book so want to get further into the books before I watch it but not sure I'll get around to it this year. But still 6 months to go so maybe it will go back on my pile, it's constantly being adjusted.
I wanted to also get through the rest of the Narnia series and the second half of Amber but not sure I'll manage those, what with the huge pile I already have. Especially given I started 12 series but only finished 3 so far :)
Andrea wrote: "I had the second book of the Dark Tower on my list...I've got the movie recorded on my PVR and I understand that it covers more than the first book so want to get further into the books before I watch it but not sure I'll get around to it this year."I've also been holding off on watching the movie, as I'm not sure how much of the books it covers and don't want to be spoiled if it takes a shortcut to the ending or something.
Started This YearAll Systems Red by Martha Wells (Murderbot Diaries Book 1 of 4)
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch Book 1 of 3)
Progressed This Year
The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi (The Collapsing Empire Book 2 of 3, The Last Emperox to be published on 04-14-20)
The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks (Lightbringer Book 3 of 5, The Burning White to be published on 10-22-19)
The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time Book 2 of 14)
Port of Shadows by Glen Cook (The Black Company Book 1.5 of 9 main books plus others)
Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse Book 7 of 9, An Untitled book is expected to be published in 2020)
Finished This Year
Origin by Dan Brown (Robert Landon Series Book 5 of 5)
What is this? My guilt thread? :pLet's see...
Finished my reread of A Song of Ice and Fire.
Caught up on Avatar the Last Airbender comics.
Read 6, 7, and 8 of the Chronicles of Amber. I don't like it as much as the first five so I've been dragging my feet but I'll finish the rest this year.
I've read seven of the fourteen Young Jedi Knights books. These are light books you can read in a day or two so I should read them all this year.
And I just read the second book of The Expanse.
Book Nerd wrote: "Read 6, 7, and 8 of the Chronicles of Amber. I don't like it as much as the first five so I've been dragging my feet but I'll finish the rest this year."I *was* going to read those this year, I mean there's only 5, they're short, should be easy to squeeze into any reading schedule right? But I manage to keep pushing them down my pile till I figured I'll just hold off till next year. Same with Narnia. That Time Quintet (and spillover) took more time than expected.
========================Series with Progress 2019: (covers completed, text to read next)
Joe Abercrombie: First Law World Series
Best Served ColdKatherine Arden: Small Spaces
Dead VoicesJosiah Bancroft: The Books of Babel
Arm of the SphinxPierce Brown: Red Rising Saga
Morning StarRyan Calejo: Charlie Hernández
Charlie Hernández the Castle of BonesPeter Clines: Threshold
The FoldSeth Dickinson: The Masquerade
The Tyrant Baru CormorantMarina Dyachenko: Метаморфозы
Цифровой, или Brevis estNicholas Eames: The Band
Bloody RoseNeil Gaiman: London Below, The World of Neverwhere
The Seven SistersA.J. Hackwith Hell's Library
Margaret Killjoy Danielle Cain
The Barrow Will Send What it MayRichard A. Knaak: Black City Saint
Black City DemonDean Koontz: Jane Hawk
The Whispering RoomMary Robinette Kowal: Lady Astronaut
The Fated SkyNancy Kress: Yesterday's Kin
Tomorrow's KinWilliam Kent Krueger Cork O'Connor
Boundary Waters Jenn Lyons A Chorus of Dragons
The Name of All ThingsSarah J. Maas A Court of Thorns and Roses
A Court of Mist and FuryStuart MacBride: Logan McRae
Dying LightMalka Ann Older: Centenal Cycle
Null StatesTochi Onyebuchi: Beasts Made of Night
Crown of ThunderLouise Penny: Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
A Fatal GraceC.L. Polk: The Kingston Cycle
StormsongGareth L. Powell: Embers of War
Light of Impossible Stars: An Embers of War NovelAlastair Reynolds: Revelation Space
Redemption ArkRebecca Roanhorse: The Sixth World
UntitledPatrick Rothfuss: The Kingkiller Chronicle
How Old Holly Came to BeJohn Scalzi: Old Man's War
The Last ColonyJodi Taylor The Chronicles of St Mary's
A Symphony of EchoesPeter Watts:
Firefall
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Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale :
N.K. Jemisin The Broken Earth :
Ramez Naam Nexus :
Adrian Tchaikovsky Children of Time :
Tade Thompson The Wormwood Trilogy
Forward Collection Series
Andrea wrote: "I *was* going to read those this year, I mean there's only 5, they're short, should be easy to squeeze into any reading schedule right? But I manage to keep pushing them down my pile till I figured I'll just hold off till next year. Same with Narnia. That Time Quintet (and spillover) took more time than expected."Narnia are nice quick reads.
I've only read the first four Wrinkle in Time books. I actually have a book called the Time Quartet. Anyway I really like the first two best. Can't even remember much about the other two so the fifth isn't a priority to me.
As far as SF/F series, I've divided mine into four categories: Series I'm in the middle of reading:
Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Amber by Roger Zelazny - I re-read the first five, now need to read the second series and the short stories
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - I have a couple books left but I've been dragging my feet waiting for the author to get around to publishing Shadows Alive
The Band series by Nicholas Eames - I should be reading the second book soon, then waiting for future installments
Bobiverse by Dennis E. Taylor - I should start the second book next month
Culture series by Iain M. Banks
Old Man's War series by King Snarkster John Scalzi
The Chronic(what?)cles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Books of Babel (Senlin) by Josiah Bancroft
Forever War series by Joe Haldeman
Conan series (original stories and others) by Robert E. Howard and others
Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells - this one is on a short leash
Discworld by Terry Pratchett
Zones of Thought by Vernor Vinge
Oxford Time Travel by Connie Willis
Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden
Vorkosigan saga by Lois McMaster Bujold - also on a short leash
Pern by Anne McCaffrey - I don't see myself making it very deep into this series
Takeshi Kovacs by Richard K. Morgan
Nexus by Ramez Naam
Southern Reach by Jeff VanderMeer
Tales from the Flat Earth by Tanith Lee
Dark Tower by Stephen King
Time Quintet by Madeleine L'Engle
Lock In series by John Scalzi
Ringworld/Known Space by Larry Niven
Heechee saga by Frederik Pohl
Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust
Magics series by Lyndon Hardy
Series I'm waiting on the author to publish a book in order to continue:
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin - finish it already! Come on! (although I do plan to read A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and Fire & Blood soon)
Seventh Son series by Orson Scott Card - why is there always such a long wait for the last book in a series?
American Gods series by Neil Gaiman
Series I started but stopped reading at some point and now need to go back and start again from the beginning:
Riftwar series by Raymond E. Feist - I devoured the first four books when they came out but never read any of the sequels - now that the author claims to have "finished" the series (until he runs out of money) I should go back and start over
Elric by Michael Moorcock
Thomas Covenant series by Stephen R. Donaldson
Green Town series by Ray Bradbury
Ethshar series by Lawrence Watt-Evans
Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser series by Fritz Leiber
And, series where I stopped for one reason or another and will probably not continue, unless I run out of other books to read:
Middle Earth series by J.R.R. Tolkien - I read The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings but probably won't get into any of the other books
Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony - The first one was pretty good, the second one was ok, then they really started going downhill
The Expanse by a couple of hacks writing under a pseudonym
Hitchhiker's Guide series by Douglas Adams
The Giver series by Lois Lowry
Rama series by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee
Myth Adventures by Robert Lynn Asprin - the first couple books were pretty good but the wheels came off in a hurry - the funny books illustrated by Phil Foglio are classics
Phule's Company by Robert Lynn Asprin
Foreigner series by C.J. Cherryh
Wicked series by Gregory Maguire
The Rook series by Daniel O'Malley
Obviously, I'm defining series as anything in the same make-believe universe with the same (or different characters), not just a continuing storyline.
And I'm not including series that haven't actually become series yet, including the rumored or announced sequels to Ready Player One, The Handmaid's Tale, Stardust, The Andromeda Strain or even Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers. I'm also not counting "shared universe" series like Star Trek and Star Wars.
Also I didn't include mystery, thriller or horror series. That would be a very, very long list.
Michael Crichton continues to write from the grave with an Andromeda sequel? That book was perfect on it's own, no sequel required. I feel the same about Handmaid's, and worry that the only reason a sequel is coming out for that one is to cash in on the hype around the TV series, perhaps to even change the book storyline so it matches up with the TV storyline (I haven't watched past the first season)The Myth series does indeed go downhill...and when it starts to go back up again, the books are impossible to find.
Started this year:The History of the Runestaff by Michael Moorcock - 4 books - completed.
No Man's World by Pat Kelleher - 3 books - completed.
Alex Cave series by James M Corkhill - 6 books (so far) - I've read the first 3 and have the 4th.
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson - 10 books - I've read (reread) the first 2 and have the rest.
Andrea wrote: "Michael Crichton continues to write from the grave with an Andromeda sequel?..."Regrettably, he's no J.R.R. Tolkien who continues to publish books at an astonishing rate for a dead guy. In this case, Daniel H. Wilson has been hired by the estate to
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RJ wrote: "A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin - finish it already! Come on! (although I do plan to read A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and Fire & Blood soon)"
This is also technically a series I'm a middle of, but the final season of the tv show left me shell-shocked and I'm not even sure I'll read Winds of winter. I'd been looking forward to it since I've read book 5, sigh.
Bryan wrote: "This is also technically a series I'm a middle of, but the final season of the tv show left me shell-shocked and I'm not even sure I'll read Winds of winter. I'd been looking forward to it since I've read book 5, sigh. "The books are obviously much better than the series and the ending was awful because they just wanted to get it over with. I doubt it will have much in common with the books.
Unfortunately, I don't think it will be an issue. I reckon GRRM is at least 3 books away from finishing the story, and given the length of time between books is currently around 6-7 years, I don't expect he's likely to be around long enough to finish it.
Tony wrote: "Unfortunately, I don't think it will be an issue. I reckon GRRM is at least 3 books away from finishing the story, and given the length of time between books is currently around 6-7 years, I don't ..."Agreed. The 4th & 5th books were a big disappointment to me. They didn't seem to go anywhere, just added a lot more to the world, not to the story or the characters. They were also supposed to be just one book & I think he said he'd finish in 2 more. At that rate of bloat, even 3 books may be light. It's a shame. The first 3 were so good.
The HBO series was great, too. Like the rest of the world, I thought the last season was pretty bad. I wonder if they'll ever lighten up the black episode. It would be nice to actually see what they spent so much money filming.
Well, I liked book 5 but book 4 was a mess. As for the series, I've never watched even one episode completely.
If helps to read AFFC and ADWD together. There are some reading orders online.On my first read I was annoyed by all the new characters he focused on is AFFC but on the second read I enjoyed it a lot more and I really think he's going to pull it all together well in the end.
The show was decent in the early seasons but it's been going downhill for years as it got further and further from the books. I watched the last season but there's a lot in the middle I missed and I don't really care.
Book Nerd wrote: "If helps to read AFFC and ADWD together. There are some reading orders online. ..."Nope, that's the author's job in a series of this nature. He's just doing it poorly. It's a shame. I liked his earlier work.
Book Nerd wrote: "If helps to read AFFC and ADWD together. There are some reading orders online...."I'm going to try that if I ever re-read them. I suspect the story would be more coherent that way, and he probably could have tightened things up and fit everything into one book. (He originally planned to fit it all into a 2-3 page prologue to Winds of Winter.)
Finished the Amber. As everybody says, it was unimpressive. Also read the third book of the Expanse.
Currently finished 5 books in my rereading of the Thomas Covenant series. I expect I will read book 6 this year, but most likely won't start the last 4 until next year.I'm a bit over half way through the first book in the Sam Reilly series by Christopher Cartwright. They are thrillers - a reasonable level of suspension of disbelief is required, but not enough to class them as SF. There are currently 18 in the series but, as is usual with this type of story, they seem to be stand alone, so I don't feel any great need to read them all in a row.
Updated the thread title so can be reused for more years. In 2019 I completed 16 series and started 15. The fact I didn't finish a few of them wasn't my fault, the books were impossible to find or the series wasn't finished yet.Here's my 2020 progress:
Started This Year:
New Corbuzon (2 left)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (1 left)
Greene and Kennicott Series (4 left)
Outlander (14 left)
Unwind Dystology (5 left)
Wake (3 left)
Light as a Feather (2 left)
Continued This Year:
Sigma Force (8 left)
La Fille Dragon (2 left)
Temperence Brennan (1 left)
Stinz
The Vorkosigan Saga (16 left)
Chronicles of Elantra (3 left)
Clockwork Twist (7 left)
Dinotopia (14 left)
Oz Continued (29 left)
Dragonlands (2 left)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (??? left)
No idea how to count how many are left, what with crossovers, and subseries, comics, etc
Women of the Otherworld (11 left)
Simon Kirby-Jones Mystery (1 left)
Middle-Earth (? left)
The Dresden Files (2 left)
Completed This Year:
Bleach
...too lazy to add all 73 others!The Water Dragon's Bride
Fruits Basket Another
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Divergent
The Long Price Quartet
Oz - Original Series
Powder Mage
The Mortal Instruments
Scholarly Magics
The Giver
Heroes of Olympus
The Dark Tower
Riddle Master of Hed
Jonathan Barrett, Gentleman Vampire
Narnia
Series still being written (next book not out yet):
Fées et Licornes
Order of Darkness
Series Started in 2020:
(covers completed, text to read)Mishell Baker: The Arcadia Project
Phantom PainsDavid Baldacci: Archer
tbdLeigh Bardugo: Alex Stern
L.X. Beckett: The Bounceback
DealbreakerPatricia Briggs: Mercy Thompson
Blood BoundSue Burke: Semiosis Duology
Interference: A NovelRichard Chizmar, Stephen King: The Button Box
Gwendy's Magic FeatherRoshani Chokshi: The Gilded Wolves
The Silvered SerpentsTheodora Goss: ... Athena Club
European Travel for the Monstrous GentlewomanSara Holland: Havenfall
UntitledJordan Ifueko: Raybearer
untitledStephen King: The Dark Tower
The Drawing of the ThreeJoe R. Lansdale: Hap and Leonard
Mucho MojoLinden A. Lewis: First Sister
next tbdNaomi Novik: The Scholomance
The Last GraduateKaren Osborne: The Memory War
Engines of Oblivion K.J. Parker: The Siege
How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with ItVeronica Roth: Chosen Ones
untitledKarin Slaughter: Will Trent
FracturedElizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge
Olive, AgainAdrian Tchaikovsky: Echoes of the Fall
The Bear and the SerpentDjango Wexler: Burningblade & Silvereye
tbd
Happy new year!From the other side (clue the dark music), it is also difficult for the writer. For example, I loved the first book of Thomas Covenant. Started the second, didn't read it anymore. Things like that. A lot of series books started fine and then went downhill. It irritated me no end as a reader.
Then I started writing. One reason was because I realized I didn't like the black-and-white dichotomy of one great series.
And I found out how difficult it is to write and maintain an epic fantasy. Every time you want to paint on the canvas, you hesitate. That hand of yours might end up ruining everything with an errant thought.
I am now on the 8th book of an on-going epic fantasy and I'd be lying if I say I know where the story is going or I am confident I could maintain what was there before.
Happy new year to all.
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S.A. Chakraborty: The Daevabad Trilogy
Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games
Ken Follett: Kingsbridge
Sarah Gailey: River of Teeth
Hank Green: The Carls
Jane Harper Aaron Falk
Kate Heartfield: Alice Payne
Dean Koontz: Nameless
Derek Künsken: The Quantum Evolution
Yoon Ha Lee: Machineries of Empire
S.J. Morden: Frank Kittridge
Nora Roberts: Chronicles of The One
John Scalzi: The Interdependency
Emily Tesh: Greenhollow Duology
Tade Thompson: Molly Southbourne
Jesmyn Ward: Bois Sauvage
Peter Watts: Sunflower Cycle
RJ from the LBC wrote: "As far as SF/F series, I've divided mine into four categories...... Riftwar series by Raymond E. Feist - I devoured the first four books when they came out but never read any of the sequels - now that the author claims to have "finished" the series (until he runs out of money) I should go back and start over"
Wow; that is a lot of series/books! I read the Riftwar Saga back as a young adult/older teenager, after the Daughter of the Empire trilogy that he wrote with Janny Wurts. I also read the connected series that take place afterwards - Krondor's Sons (Prince of the Blood and The King's Buccaneer), and the Serpentwar Saga, which takes place 20 years later. Both were really good, and similar to the original Riftwar Saga. But I later tried reading the ensuing series, beginning with Talon of the Silver Hawk, and found them so different that I didn't want to continue. It had a whole different feel to it; the pace was slower, the action very different, the setting of course different, and everything kind of sad and serious. Part of the reason I like the earlier ones was because of the camaraderie, humour, and heart. I didn't feel any of that in the newer one I tried, and since the rest of them follow on from there, I've never gone back to complete them. It feels like they really are a whole new cycle, rather than being connected to the originals - except by being on the same world and having Pug as the connecting figure. But the originals I loved, back at the time. I'd recommend those two following series (and the Empire one, if you're interested - again, its flavour's different, but in a good way, I thought).
I posted on this post last year. Let’s see what I have read since 07-19-19.Started In The Past Year
A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham (The Long Price Quartet Book 1 of 4)
Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga Book 2 of 16)
and The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski (The Witcher Book 1 of 8)
Progressed In The Past Year
The Blood Mirrorby Brent Weeks (Lightbringer Book 4 of 5, Book 5, The Burning White was published on 10-22-19)
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch Book 2 of 3)
The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time Book 4 of 14)
Tiamat's Wrath by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse Book 8 of 9, An Untitled book is expected to be published in 2020???)
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (Old Man’s War Book 2 of 6)
Finished In The Past Year
The Last Emperox by John Scalzi (The Collapsing Empire Book 3 of 3, The Last Emperox was published on 04-14-20)
Network Effect by Martha Wells (Murderbot Diaries Book 5 of 6) (Fugitive Telemetry is scheduled to be published in 2021.)
Series with Progress in 2020:
(covers completed, text to read)Katherine Arden: Winternight Trilogy
The Winter of the WitchRobert Jackson Bennett: Founders
LocklandsHolly Black: Folk of the Air
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate StoriesLiu Cixin: Remembrance of Earth's Past
Death's EndN.K. Jemisin: Great Cities
tbdJay Kristoff: The Nevernight Chronicle
DarkdawnR.F. Kuang: The Poppy War
The Burning GodMark Lawrence: Impossible Times
Dispel IllusionAnn Leckie: Imperial Radch
Ancillary MercyFonda Lee: Green Bone Saga
Jade LegacySeanan McGuire: Wayward Children
In an Absent DreamDervla McTiernan: Cormac Reilly
The Good TurnV.E. Schwab: Villains
VengefulSamantha Shannon: The Bone Season
The Mime OrderNeal Shusterman Arc of a Scythe
The TollMichael J. Sullivan Legends of the First Empire
Age of WarAdrian Tchaikovsky: Made Things
tdbBrent Weeks: Lightbringer
The Broken EyeJ.Y. Yang: Tensorate
The Ascent to Godhood
I have read (or re-read) 7 of the 10 Thomas Covenant books and I'm on the 3rd novel (there are a couple of short story collections that precede the novels) in Asimov's Robot series.
Tony wrote: "I have read (or re-read) 7 of the 10 Thomas Covenant books and I'm on the 3rd novel (there are a couple of short story collections that precede the novels) in Asimov's Robot series."At least as you get towards the end of the Covenant series the characters become less offensive :) I seem to recall them kind of taking turns being annoying and depressing but if you made it that far you'll have to finish!
Andrea wrote: "At least as you get towards the end of the Covenant series the characters become less offensive :) I seem to recall them kind of taking turns being annoying and depressing but if you made it that far you'll have to finish!"I noticed in the 7th book that they were more pleasant and that Donaldson seemed to no longer need to search his Thesaurus for every second sentence. However, he does seem to have discovered word bloat, and the books have just blown out in size. But I certainly will finish :)
Started this year:-Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency by Douglas Adams.
Progressed this year:
-Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince, 5th book of Harry Potter series.
-Perelandra, 2nd book of C. S. Lewis' Space Trilogy (ongoing).
Started this year:First Law: The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged
Greatcoats: Traitor's Blade, Knight's Shadow
Band: Kings of the Wyld
Dagger and the Coin: The Dragon's Path
The Long Price Quartet: A Shadow in Summer
The Expanse: Leviathan Wakes, The Butcher of Anderson Station
Wake the Dragon: Spine of the Dragon
Bone Season: The Pale Dreamer
Shadow and Bone: The Demon in the Wood, The Witch of Duva
Series I started, but haven't finished the first book yet:
Green Bone Saga: Jade City
Grave of Empires: Seven Blades in Black
Wayward Children: Every Heart a Doorway
Vickery and Castine: Alternate Routes
Lightbringer: The Black Prism
No further progress in the Thomas Covenant series (finished book 7). I have finished Asimov's Robot series and his Galactic Empire series and started on the Foundation series - read Prelude to Foundation, next up is Forward the Foundation but that will be next year most likely.
Assuming I finish The trouble with peace this year, which I fully intend to do, my progress on series for this year will be:- 2 Dark tower books. 1 book remaining to be read next year to complete the series.
- 2 Discworld books. About *cough*20*cough* remaining
- 1 novel and 2 novellas of the Expanse. Series complete until next year.
- 2 First law books. Series complete until next year.
So not remotely as much progress as I wanted but I did also progress on my other theme and read a book from each of these authors:
Dexter Palmer
Claire North
Tim Powers
Ray Bradbury
James Smythe
Emily St John Mandel
Christopher Priest
I'm inclined to keep the same themes for next year as I really enjoyed most of what I've read and I still have unfinished series anyway, but I think I'll need to make it a challenge and set up a numbered goal as otherwise I get distracted.
As I've just started on my last book of the year, good time to summarize what I managed to accomplish.> Started new series but not finished - 7
> Progressed but not finished - 15 (some of the series are huge so I've over 100 books still to read to complete all these guys)
> Completed - 17
> Pending more books being written - 2
So overall, not too bad. Since my goal was just "progress" and not complete that's 34 different series!! They ranged from reading just 1 more book, all the way up to 74 for the Bleach manga, 17 for Oz, and 8 Dark Towers.
And only started 7 with 6 of those being a case of "if I don't read it now I won't be able to read it for free" kind of thing, so had to grab those while I could :)
I may make a little progress next year too, but I'll mainly be starting+finishing short series of books (2-5) within the same year. I don't have too many where I can progress in something I already started.
Was a fun goal for the year though, will have to do it again some time.
Starting a new thread for 2021Started This Year:
Shatter The Sky (1 left)
Effigies (2 left)
Want (1 left)
Riders (1 left)
Barnabas Tew (4 left)
Prisoner's Peace (1 left)
Gold Coast (1 left)
The Chemical Garden (2 left)
Oh. My. Gods. (4 left)
Fear Street (50 left)
The Songs of the Seraphim (1 left)
Modern Faerie Tales (2 left)
Danielle Cain (1 left)
Continued This Year:
Here There Be... (2 left)
This Mortal Coil (2 left)
Clockwork Twist (7 left)
The Cat Who (8 left)
Chronicles of Elantra (3 left)
Sigma Force (15 left)
The Dresden Files (? left)
Completed This Year:
The Shadow Campaigns
Northworld Trilogy
Dante Valentine
Secrets of Valhalla
Fallen
The Darkangel Trilogy
System Divine
Young Lovecraft
The Sandman
The Women of Troy
The Dreaming
Hush, Hush
The Blackwell Pages
Troy
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
Deepgate Codex
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard
Series still being written (next book not out yet):
Redemption's Heir
Series Started in 2021:
(covers completed, text to read)M.R. Carey: The Girl With All the Gifts
The Boy on the BridgeLee Child: Jack Reacher
Die TryingC.L. Clark: Magic of the Lost
tbdSteven Erikson: Malazan Book of the Fallen
Deadhouse GatesMatthew FitzSimmons: Constance
ChanceRobert Galbraith: Cormoran Strike
The SilkwormEssa Hansen The Graven
, Azura GhostKevin Hearne: Ink & Sigil
Paper & BloodAmie Kaufman, : Aurora Cycle
, Aurora BurningR.B. Lemberg: Birdverse
Marginalia to Stone BirdKen Liu: The Dandelion Dynasty
The Wall of StormsThomas Olde Heuvelt: Robert Grim
OrakelRobert V.S. Redick: The Fire Sacraments
SidewindersCadwell Turnbull: Convergence Saga
tbd
Series with Progress in 2021:
(covers completed, text to read)Melissa Albert: The Hazel Wood
The Boy Who Didn't Come HomeM.R. Carey: Rampart Trilogy
The Fall of KoliBecky Chambers: Wayfarers
A Good HereticP. Djèlí Clark: Dead Djinn Universe
The Angel of Khan el-KhaliliMichael Connelly: Harry Bosch
Angels FlightHafsah Faizal: Sands of Arawiya
tbdA.J. Hackwith: Hell's Library
tbdRobin Hobb: Realm of the Elderlings
Assassin's QuestIntisar Khanani: Dauntless Path
Arkady Martine: Teixcalaan
tbdTamsyn Muir: The Ninth House
Alecto the NinthBarbara Nickless: Sydney Rose Parnell
tbdAnthony Ryan: Raven's Shadow
Tower LordBrandon Sanderson: Stormlight Archive
EdgedancerAdrian Tchaikovsky: Expert System
tbdMartha Wells: The Murderbot Diaries
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory
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Dean Koontz: Nameless: Season Two
Lisa Unger: House of Crows
I'm still cramming in the last few books but I think I can do my recap for the year now.I started 13 new series this year, 8 of which were because they were free for a short time and I couldn't save them for later :)
I continued 7 series, I knew I wasn't in the middle of very many that matched my year's theme so I predicted this count would be low.
I finished 17 series (mostly started & finished this year, only 3 were started beforehand), and I have 1 series I cannot finish since the rest of it hasn't been written yet (and may never be *sob*)
So I nearly started as many as I finished, ah well, will have a lot to pick from when I next do a "continue series I started" themed year :)
Series with Progress in 2022:
(covers completed, text to read)Becky Chambers: Monk & Robot
tbdHarlan Coben: Wilde
tbdJames S.A. Corey: The Expanse
Tiamat's WrathJ.S. Dewes: The Divide
tbdLindsay Ellis: Noumena
tbdAlix E. Harrow: Fractured Fables
tbdMarlon James: Dark Star Trilogy
The Boy and the Dark StarClaire North: The Gameshouse
The MasterK.J. Parker: Saloninus
tbdRebecca Roanhorse: Between Earth and Sky
tbdAdrian Tchaikovsky: The Final Architecture
tbdNghi Vo: The Singing Hills Cycle
Into the Riverlands=======Completed 2022=======
P.J. Manney: Phoenix Horizon
Sylvain Neuvel: Take Them to the Stars
Kai Ashante Wilson: Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
Series Started in 2022: Chelsea Abdullah: Sandsea Trilogy
UntitledDaniel Abraham: Kithamar
tbdKatherine Addison: The Goblin Emperor
The Witness for the DeadNicole Kornher-Stace: Firebreak
TBDVanessa Len: Monsters
tbdScott Lynch: Gentleman Bastard
Red Seas Under Red SkiesGreer Macallister: Five Queendoms
tbdSunya Mara: The Darkening
tbdJ.M. Miro: The Talents Trilogy
tbdShelley Parker-Chan: The Radiant Emperor
UntitledRebecca Ross: Elements of Cadence
A Fire EndlessAnna Smith Spark: Empires of Dust
The Tower of Living and Dying
Starting a new post for 2022Started This Year:
Wildlore (3 left)
Amos Daragon (11 left)
Tensorate (3 left)
George Sansi Mystery (2 left)
Nora Kelly (4 left)
Barker & Llewelyn (12 left)
Star Trek: Discovery (---)
Unicorn Princesses (9 left)
Rainbow Magic (280+ left)
Metro (2 left)
Jedi Quest (9 left)
Inspector Alan Grant (5 left)
The Lunar Chronicles (11 left)
Continued This Year:
Dune (1 left)
Clockwork Twist (6 left)
Chronicles of Elantra (4 left)
Completed This Year:
Gregg Haljan
The Hunger Games
DS9 YA Series
The Iron Man
Incrementalists
Sal & Gabi
The Olympians
Descender
Les Mondes d'Aldébaran
Les Chats
Ascender
TER
Olympus Mons
Valérian et Laureline
The Strain
Siberia 56
Eternum
On Mars_
Terres Lointaines
Blade Runner Graphic Novels
Robots
Ender's Saga
Series still being written (next book not out yet):
Les Mondes d'Aldébaran - Neptune
We Only Find Them When They're Dead
Cannot get my hands on the missing books:
Starfleet Academy (2 left)
Starfleet Academy - Voyager (1 left)
Starfleet Academy - TOS (1 left)
Series Started this YearAndjrez Sapkowski The Witcher
Brandon Sanderson The Stormlight Archive
Josiah Bancroft The Books of Babel
Sue Lynn Tan The Celestial Kingdom
Last day of the year, here's my results:Started but didn't finish 13 new series
Continued but didn't finish 3 series
Finished 22 series (some started before, some started this year)
Couldn't finish 2 since the rest of the series isn't published yet
Couldn't finish 3 since at least 1 book in the series is out of print and even Open Library didn't have it.
Well, at least I finished more than I started, but I'll be kept busy finishing those other series off some other year.
Starting a new post for 2023Started This Year:
The Hollow Star Saga (3 left)
Merry Gentry (7 left)
Love Berrish! (3 left)
Blood Like Magic (1 left)
Shugo Chara (1 left)
Everyday Angel (2 left)
The Diabolic (2 left)
Star Trek Year Five (3 left)
Fractalverse (1 left)
The Royal Diaries (20 left)
Jeeves (14 left)
Kate Fansler Mysteries (11 left)
Pixie Tricks (3 left)
Bella Sara (11 left)
Powerless (2 left)
Psych (4 left)
Cafferty & Quinn (9 left)
Jedi Apprentice (19 left)
Sabrina the Teenage Witch (55 left)
The Adventure Zone (4 left)
Continued This Year:
The Dresden Files (? left)
Rainbow Magic (over 100 left)
Amos Daragon (3 left)
Clockwork Twist (5 left)
Chronicles of Elantra (? left)
Phoebe and Her Unicorn (7 left)
Series still being written (next book not out yet):
Critical Role Vox Machina Origins & Might Nein
Dungeon Academy
Terres d'Ogon
Guerres d'Arran
Can't get my hands on the missing books:
Whisper the Winged Unicorn(7 left)
Spiderwick (2 left)
Vampirates (1 left)
Cat Massage Therapy (1 left)
Sci-fi and Heroic Fantasy
Books mentioned in this topic
The Bands of Mourning (other topics)Hellblazer, Vol. 9: Critical Mass (other topics)
The Vampire Prince (other topics)
Hunters of the Dusk (other topics)
Wicked: The Graphic Novel, Part 1 (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
James S.A. Corey (other topics)Stephen King (other topics)
David Brin (other topics)
Joe Abercrombie (other topics)
James Smythe (other topics)
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I know there's at least one other person in the group who has been trying to finish up some series so figured maybe other people would like to see how they are doing too, kind of like we track our BINGO plans.