Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

Want to read:


2025:


2026:

Up to date or waiting for new release (and hope there are more in the future)

Wayward Children: 10/11
Gunnie Rose: 5/6
Beaufort Scales: 9/10
DI Adams 2/3
Incryptid: 13/15
Miss Fortune: 28/28
Dinner Lady Detectives: 6/6
Meg Lanslow (Donna Andrews) 36/38
Sophie Kimball: 13/13
Merry Wrath: 31/34
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: 7/7
Grilled Cheese: 5/5
Yarn Retreat: 10/10
Cranberry Cove: 8/9
High Society Lady Detective: 8/8
Lady Hardcastle: 12/12
Five ingredient: 9/9
Amish Matchmaker: 5/5
Amish Seamstress: 1/1
Amish Candy Shop: 9/9
Southern Homebrew: 3/3
Mountain Lodge: 3/3
A Dinner and a Murder: 2/2
Golden Motel 1/2
Knit and Nibble 12/12
Halloween Bookshop 1/2
Ghost Hunter: 10/11
Shake Shop: 3/3
The Time Police: 5/6
Vintage Cookbook: 3/4
Mrs. Claus: 5/6
SPI Files: 8/8
Ghost Finders: 6/6
Innkeeper Chronicles: 4.5/5
Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear: 11/12
Fafnir the Recluse: 3/4
Kana's Daily Life: 11/13
Mrs. Jeffries: 41/41
Noodle Shop: 10/11
Gobbelino London: 7/7
Weary Dragon Inn: 10/10
Alice Pepper Lonely Hearts & Puzzle Club 1/1

Series I am done reading:

Stephanie Plum

Series Priority

Battle Mage Farmer:

Myrtle Clover:
Beryl and Edwina:

Cranberry Cove:

He Who Fights with Monsters:

In progress or WTR

Spy x Family:

Chronicles of St. Mary:

Nightside:

Ishmael Jones:

Beryl and Edwina:

Discworld:

Haunted Home Renovation:

Nun of Your Business:

Innkeeper:

Cinnamon Bun (on Royal Road):

Wits' End:

The Saga of Recluce:

January 2025-
Books read towards challenge:

New series started:
1. Earl Grey And New Rules In Play 1/1
2. The Royal Ranger: A New Beginning 1/1
3. Sparrow Hill Road 1/4
4. Finder 1/7
5. Brimstone Bound 1/7
6. Spellbreaker 1/9
7. Murder with Peacocks 1/9
8. The Screaming Staircase 1/10
9. Hell for Hire 1/12
10. The Tournament at Gorlan 1/14
11. The Ruins of Gorlan 1/16
12. The Wandering Inn 1/17
13. The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant 1/20
14. The Second Generation 1/22
15. A Magical Alliance 1/25
16. Mind over Magic 1/26
17. I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level, Vol. 1 1/26
18. The Oregon Trail Trailblazer 4-Book Collection 1/27
Series progressed:
1. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Fafnir the Recluse, Vol. 2 1/1
2. Gobbelino London & a Worry of Weres 1/2
3. The Dagger in the Desk 1/10
4. Outdoors, Oars, & Oaths 1/10
5. A Ticket to Oblivion 1/11
6. Death on Tap 1/12
7. Mrs. Jeffries and the Alms of the Angel 1/12
8. The Fear Institute 1/12
9. Mrs. Jeffries and the Midwinter Murders 1/13
10. Mrs. Jeffries Delivers the Goods 1/13
11. Murder With Puffins 1/14
12. The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure 1/15
13. Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos 1/17
14. Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon 1/18
15. Magic Bites 1/19
16. Interesting Times 1/23
17. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid Vol. 12 1/25
18. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid Vol. 13 1/25
19. A Murder Is Announced 1/25
20. The Oregon Trail: Hit the Trail! (Two Books in One): The Race to Chimney Rock and Danger at the Haunted Gate 1/27
Brought up to date:
1. Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear 1/16
2. You Feta Watch Out 1/18
3. Mrs. Jeffries Aims to Win 1/20
4. Spy x Family, Vol. 13 1/27
5. Peking Duck and Cover 1/30
Finished series:
1. Oregon City or Bust!: The Search for Snake River / The Road to Oregon City 1/27
Abandoned:

February 2025-
Books read towards challenge:

New series started:
1. The Holy Terrors 2/6
2. All These Worlds 2/14
3. Summon the Keeper 2/15
4. Hercule Poirot's Silent Night 2/18
5. Bantam of the Opera 2/22

Series progressed:
1. Nemesis: A Miss Marple Mystery 2/1
2. We'll Always Have Parrots 2/2
3. Owls Well That Ends Well 2/2
4. The Girl in the Green Silk Gown 2/3
5. Gobbelino London and a Menace of Mermaids 2/4
6. No Nest for the Wicket 2/4
7. Reborn as a Demonic Tree 2 2/6
8. The Whispering Skull 2/6
9. Driving the Deep 2/7
10. Infernal Enchantment 2/8
11. At Bertram's Hotel 2/9
12. If Walls Could Talk 2/9
13. Veils and Villains 2/9
14. Zealots and Zeniths 2/10
15. The Brothers Cabal 2/12
16. The Chalice of the Gods 2/14
17. A Caribbean Mystery 2/14
18. The Penguin Who Knew Too Much 2/15
19. Cockatiels at Seven 2/15
20. Magic and Molemen 2/16
21. The ABC Murders 2/16
22. Heaven's River 2/18
23. Undeath and Taxes 2/19
24. Dragons of Summer Flame 2/21
25. Mirror Lake 2/24/25
26. Maskerade 2/24/25
27. Campaigns and Curses 2/26

Brought up to date:
1. Revved Up 4 Murder 2/21

Finished series:
1. Spellmaker 2/11

Abandoned:
1. The Last Dragonslayer 2/14
2. To Slip the Bonds of Earth 2/25
3. Weaving Virtue 2/27

March 2025-
Books read towards challenge:

New Series Started:
1. Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder 3/2
2. The Tainted Cup 3/10
3. Eureka: Brain Box Blues 3/13
4. Dead Tired 1 3/16
5. Demon World Boba Shop: Vol. 1 3/18
6. The Crystal Shard 3/19
7. Heretical Fishing 3/24

Series Progressed:
1. Sleeping Murder 3/1
2. Perils and Potions 3/3
3. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe 3/4
4. Sugar Cookie Murder 3/5
5. Six Geese A-Slaying 3/8
6. Peach Cobbler Murder 3/9
7. Swan for the Money 3/10
8. Stork Raving Mad 3/10
9. The Hollow Boy 3/10
10. Midnight Smoke 3/11
11. The Real Macaw 3/13
12. Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day: And Other Tales of the Necromancer 3/14
13. The Scavenger Door 3/15
14. Eureka: Substitution Method 3/15
15. For We Are Many 3/15
16. The Second Summoning 3/17
17. The Folklore of Discworld: Legends, Myths, and Customs from the Discworld with Helpful Hints from Planet Earth 3/19
18. Feet of Clay 3/20
19. Now You See It 3/21
20. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Elma's Office Lady Diary Vol. 7 3/22
21. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Elma's Office Lady Diary Vol. 8 3/23
22. Twilight Falls 3/24
23. Bloody Acquisitions 3/24
24. Menacing Manor 3/27
25. Hen of the Baskervilles 3/31

Brought up to Date:
1. A Parfait Crime 3/6
2. Wrath of the Triple Goddess 3/12
3. Summers End 3/24
4. Puzzled 4 Murder 3/25

Finished series:
1. Gobbelino London & a Collision of Catastrophes 3/3
2. Italian Iced 3/19

Abandoned:
1. Nothing Serious 3/2
2. Death in the Dark Woods 3/25
3. Meddling and Murder 3/29
4. Fields' Guide to Abduction 3/29

April 2025-
Books read towards challenge:

New Series Started:
1. Puzzle Me a Murder 4/1
2. The Magic of Recluce 4/2
3. House Atreides 4/5
4. The Vacuum of Space 4/7
5. Sisterhood of Dune 4/7
6. The Case of the Elusive Bombay Duck 4/8
7. Unclean 4/9
8. The Missing Maid 4/11
9. The Noose of a New Moon 4/12
10. Panic in the Panhandle 4/17
11. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands 4/21
12. The Marlow Murder Club 4/28

Series Progressed:
1. Dead Bolt 4/1
2. Duck the Halls 4/4
3. Legends & Lattes 4/5
4. The Good, the Bad, and the Emus 4/8
5. Undead 4/10
6. Deathstalker 4/10
7. The Nightingale Before Christmas 4/12
8. Lord of the Wings 4/13
9. The Creeping Shadow 4/14
10. Berried Grievances 4/14
11. Dead Tired 2 4/15
12. Die Like an Eagle 4/16
13. We Are Legion (We Are Bob) 4/17
14. The Fall of the House of Cabal 4/18
15. Hogfather 4/21
16. Gone Gull 4/21
17. Mentats of Dune 4/23
18. Reborn as a Demonic Tree 3 4/23
19. Semper Fidelis 4/24
20. The Fangs of Freelance 4/24
21. Heretical Fishing 2 4/27
22. Demon World Boba Shop: Vol. 2 4/27
23. How the Finch Stole Christmas! 4/27
24. Toucan Keep a Secret 4/28

Brought up to Date:
1. An Extremely Unlikely Death: 'At the top of the tree of modern whodunnits' Ian Moore 4/3
2. Something in the Waters 4/7
3. A Fellowship of Librarians & Dragons 4/23

Finished series:
1. The Secret Service of Tea and Treason 4/1
2. Angel of the Overpass 4/1
3. Ghostdrift 4/9
4. Long Hot Summoning 4/15

Abandoned:
1. Heir to the Empire 4/16
2. Cooking Up Trouble 4/19
3. Newt and Demon 4/30

May 2025-
Books read towards challenge:

New Series Started:
1. What Happened in London 5/3
2. The Victoria Vanishes 5/3
3. Beware of Chicken 5/11
4. A Disguise to Die For 5/12
5. Crystal Genocide 5/13
6. Murder by Cheesecake 5/14
7. I Picked Up This World's Strategy Guide, Vol. 1 5/15
8. Essence of Foul Play 5/16
9. Gardens of the Moon 5/19
10. The Kamogawa Food Detectives 5/21
11. Trials of the Nekomancer: A LitRPG Isekai Adventure 5/26
12. Hermitage, Wat and Some Druids 5/27
13. An Adventure Brewing 5/30

Series Progressed:
1. Lark! The Herald Angels Sing 5/2
2. Baking Bad 5/4
3. Demon World Boba Shop: Vol. 3 5/4
4. Yule Be Sorry 5/6
5. Death in a Strange Country 5/6
6. Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear (Manga) Vol. 11 5/7
7. Terns of Endearment 5/7
8. Scorched Heart 5/8
9. Demon World Boba Shop: Vol. 4 5/10
10. A Glimmer of a Clue 5/16
11. Dragons of the Highlord Skies 5/20
12. Fae and Fare 5/21
13. Jingo 5/21
14. Flowers of Esthelm 5/24
15. Deadly Assessments 5/24
16. A Manor of Life & Death 5/31

Brought up to Date:
1. Heretical Fishing 3 5/9
2. Dead Tired III 5/13
3. The Beast of Littleton Woods 5/29

Finished series:
1. The Icarus Coda 5/5
2. The Empty Grave 5/9
3. Demon World Boba Shop: Vol. 5 5/11

Abandoned:
1. Fat Cat At Large 5/1
2. Murder in the Queen's Garden 5/13
3. The Blackout Murders 5/13
4. Murder in the Greenhouse: A Tall Pines Cozy Mystery 5/15
5. The First Wave 5/17
6. What the River Knows 5/23
7. A Murder in Malta: An Elspeth Duff Mystery 5/27
8. The Nethergrim 5/31

June 2025-
Books read towards challenge:

New Series Started:
1. Dungeon Crawler Carl 6/5
2. Amulets & Alibis in Archangel: A Witchy & Witty Paranormal Cozy Mystery 6/7
3. White Silence 6/15
4. Isekai Farming 6/17
5. Garment of Shadows 6/18
6. Outlaw: Champions of Kamigawa 6/30

Series Progressed:
1. All Out of Leeds 6/1
2. Owl Be Home for Christmas 6/3
3. Dragons of the Dwarven Depths 6/6
4. Licence To Howl 6/8
5. Last Wool and Testament 6/8
6. Offstage in Nuala 6/8
7. Making Money 6/9
8. Deathstalker War 6/14
9. The Falcon Always Wings Twice 6/16
10. Murder in Mesopotamia 6/17
11. Slice of Life 6/18
12. Winter Solstice 6/19
13. Dragons of the Hourglass Mage 6/21
14. Undeading Bells 6/21
15. Game of Scones 6/28
16. Love and Death Among the Cheetahs 6/30

Brought up to Date:

Finished series:
1. A Killer Kebab 6/1
2. Royals and Ruses 6/10
3. Strange New World 6/23
4. Village Building 6/25
5. The Vanishing Girl 6/25

Abandoned:
1. Empire of Shadows 6/2
2. The Drop of a Hat: A Humorous High Fantasy 6/6
3. Calamity Jayne in the Wild, Wild West 6/9
4. The Whispering Oven: A light magical adventure filled with quests, friendship, mystery, and baking 6/11
5. Nightmare in Shining Armor 6/21
6. The Order of Architects #1 6/27

July 2025-
Books read towards challenge:

New series started:
1. Domestication 7/1
2. He Who Fights with Monsters 7/4
3. Cheddar Off Dead 7/7
4. Warping Minds & Other Misdemeanors 7/12
5. Dagashi-ya Yahagi: Setting Up a Sweets Shop in Another World Volume 1 7/20
6. Dragons of a Fallen Sun 7/20
7. Murder by Memory 7/24

Series progressed:
1. Germination 7/5
2. Beware of Chicken 2 7/6
3. Carl's Doomsday Scenario 7/9
4. Trouble Brewing in Harrogate 7/11
5. Medal for Murder 7/11
6. Dark Whispers 7/12
7. Dark Light 7/15
8. Reborn as a Demonic Tree 4 7/18
9. Out of House and Home 7/20
10. Carpe Jugulum 7/24
11. Norway to Hide 7/26
12. Dutch Me Deadly 7/28
13. He Who Fights with Monsters 2 7/29

Brought up to date:
1. Media Made Murder 7/16

Finished series:

Abandoned:
1. Battered and Buried 7/7
2. Sagewood: Restore the Farm: 7/13
3. Broom With a View 7/15
4. Leo 7/30

August 2025-
Books read towards challenge:

New series started:
1. Bronze Rank Brewer 8/1
2. RVing My Way into Exile with My Beloved Cat: This Villainess Is Trippin' Volume 1 8/3
3. The Blessing Way 8/13

Series progressed:
1. Murder Most Fowl 8/1
2. Bookshops & Bonedust 8/3
3. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook 8/6
4. What If... Loki Was Worthy? 8/7
5. The Twelve Jays of Christmas 8/7
6. Murder in a Mayfair Flat: A 1920s Murder Mystery 8/9
7. A Killer's Kiss 8/10
8. He Who Fights with Monsters 3 8/10

Brought up to date:
1. A Right Shambles in York 8/2

Finished series:

Abandoned:
1. Solid Gold Murder 8/7

The rest of the series books for the year I tracked only on the spreadsheet.