Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

Year Four of the challenge: 2024
(2018 | 2019 | 2020)

2024 Overview:
Series started: 12
Series brought UTD: 3
Series brought back UTD: 0
Series completed: 4
Series abandoned: 1

Books read toward challenge this month:


30. I Ran Away to Evil #2
31. So I’m a Spider, So What? #1
32. So I’m a Spider, So What? #2
33. A Charm of Magpies #1

Incomplete:

The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [4/7] [add: 1/1] {?}


Green Creek - T.J. Klune [2/4] [add: 1/3]


Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman [1/6] {?}


So I’m a Spider, So What? - Okina Baba [2/16]


A Charm of Magpies - K.J. Charles [1/3]

New releases/To bring back UTD:

Roverpowered - Drew Hayes [1/2] {?}


Previously completed/Got a release I didn't expect:
The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker [1/2] (view spoiler)[
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The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini [4/5] [add: 0/1] (view spoiler)[
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Reckoners - Brandon Sanderson [3/4] [add: 1/1] (view spoiler)[
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The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison [1/3] [add: 0/2] {4} (view spoiler)[
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Sea of Rust - C. Robert Cargill [1/2] (view spoiler)[
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Thousand Worlds - Yoon Ha Lee [1/3] (view spoiler)[
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Finder Chronicles - Suzanne Palmer [1/3] {4} (view spoiler)[
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Our Lady of Endless Worlds - Lina Rather [1/2] (view spoiler)[
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Additional content:

Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb [add: 2/3]
The Broken Empire - Mark Lawrence [add: 0/1]
The Legend of Eli Monpress - Rachel Aaron [add: 0/1]

Re-read & Finish:

Cosmere
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The Stormlight Archives - Brandon Sanderson [3/4] {10} [ext.]
Mistborn: Era II - Brandon Sanderson [3/4] [ext.]

Extended worlds
too lazy to search covers, figure out reading orders, etc; sticking everything in there for the time being
The Riyria Chronicles - Michael J. Sullivan [4/4] {8}
The Legends of the First Empire - Michael J. Sullivan [3/6] [add: 0/2] (view spoiler)[
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The Iron Covenant - Ilona Andrews [1/1] {3}
The Book of the Ice - Mark Lawrence [1/3]
DFZ - Rachel Aaron [2/3]

Finished
Shattered Sigil - Courtney Schafer [2/3] (view spoiler)[
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Less Valued Knights - Liam Perrin [1/2] (view spoiler)[
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The Licanius Trilogy - James Islington [1/3] (view spoiler)[
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The Memoirs of Lady Trent - Marie Brennan [1/6] [add: 0/2] (view spoiler)[
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The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner [1/6] (view spoiler)[
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Johannes Cabal - Jonathan L. Howard [1/5] [add: 0/1] (view spoiler)[
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The Poppy War - R.F. Kuang [1/3] [add: 0/1] (view spoiler)[
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Dread Nation - Justina Ireland [1/2] [add: 0/1] (view spoiler)[
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Hell's Library - A.J. Hackwith [1/3] (view spoiler)[
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Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Brandon Sanderson [5/6] (view spoiler)[
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The Illuminae Files - Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff [2/3] (view spoiler)[
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The Books of Ambha - Tasha Suri [1/2] (view spoiler)[
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Skyward - Brandon Sanderson [2/4] [add: 0/2] (view spoiler)[
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The Draconis Memoria - Anthony Ryan [1/3] (view spoiler)[
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The House in the Cerulean Sea [1/2] (view spoiler)[
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Semiosis - Sue Burke [2/3] (view spoiler)[
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Ongoing
The Locked Tomb - Tamsyn Muir [1/3] [add: 0/2] {4} (view spoiler)[
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Spells, Swords, & Stealth - Drew Hayes [4/5] {?} (view spoiler)[
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Skulduggery Pleasant: Era I & II - Derek Landy [4/9 + 0/6 + {1]] (view spoiler)[
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Planetside - Michael Mammay [2/4] {?} (view spoiler)[
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Wayward Children - Seanan McGuire [5/9] [+shorts] {10+} (view spoiler)[
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Up to date:

Scheduled

2025/11/11 Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree [1/1] [add: 1/1] {4?}

Author WIP
2024/07 The Band - Nicholas Eames [2/2] {3}
2025/?? I Ran Away to Evil - Mystic Neptune [2/2] {3}
2028/06 Elantris - Brandon Sanderson [1/1] {3} [ext.]

Pending...
The Sixth World - Rebecca Roanhorse [2/2] {4}

Completed:

Heartstrikers - Rachel Aaron [5/5] [add: 1/1] [ext.]
The Legend of Eli Monpress - Rachel Aaron [5/5]
The First Law - Joe Abercrombie [3/3] [ext.]
Shattered Sea - Joe Abercrombie [3/3]
Kate Daniels - Ilona Andrews [10/10] [add: 10/10]
Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo [2/2]
La Quête d'Ewilan - Pierre Bottero [3/3]
Les Mondes d'Ewilan - Pierre Bottero [3/3]
L'Autre - Pierre Bottero [3/3]
Le Pacte des MarchOmbres - Pierre Bottero [3/3]
Red Rising: Era I - Pierce Brown [3/3] [ext.]
Ender's Saga - Orson Scott Card [4/4] [add: 6/6]
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins [3/3]
American Hippo - Sarah Gailey [2/2]
Super Powereds - Drew Hayes [4/4] [add: 1/1]
Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb [3/3] [ext.]
Liveship Traders - Robin Hobb [3/3] [ext.]
Tawny Man - Robin Hobb [3/3] [ext.]
Rain Wild Chronicles - Robin Hobb [4/4] [ext.]
The Fitz and the Fool - Robin Hobb [3/3] [ext.]
Andrea Vernon - Alexander C. Kane [3/3]
The Broken Empire - Mark Lawrence [3/3] [ext.]
The Red Queen's War - Mark Lawrence [3/3] [ext.]
Book of the Ancestor - Mark Lawrence [3/3] [add: 1/1] [ext.]
La trilogie des Abîmes - Danielle Martinigol [3/3]
Georgina Kincaid - Richelle Mead [6/6] [add: 1/1]
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù [4/4]
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation - Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù [5/5]
Temeraire - Naomi Novik [9/9] [add: 1/1]
Binti - Nnedi Okorafor [3/3]
Captive Prince - C.S. Pacat [3/3] [add: 4/4]
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [3/3]
Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling [7/7]
Mistborn: Era I - Brandon Sanderson [3/3] [ext.]
Legion - Brandon Sanderson [3/3]
The Witcher - Andrzej Sapkowski [8/8]
Threadbare - Andrew Seiple [3/3] [ext.]
Small Medium - Andrew Seiple [3/3] [ext.]
Little Mushroom - Shisi [2/2]
Poison Study - Maria V. Snyder [3/3]
The Edge Chronicles: The Quint Saga - Paul Stewart [3/3] [ext.]
The Riyria Revelations - Michael J. Sullivan [6/6] [ext.]
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien [3/3]
Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny [10/10]

Abandoned:

The Twenty-Sided Sorceress - Annie Bellet [8]
The Dresden Files - Jim Butcher [11]
Graceling Realm - Kristin Cashore [2]
Remembrance of Earth's Past - Liu Cixin [2/3]
Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer [4]
Blue Blood - Melissa de la Cruz [3]
Night Huntress - Jeaniene Frost [6]
Anita Blake - Laurell K. Hamilton [15]
Millenium - Stieg Larsson [2]
A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin [2]
Rebecca Kean - Cassandra O'Donnell [5]
The Shadow Saga - Orson Scott Card [5]

Lost interest after first book:

Legacy of Orïsha - Tomi Adeyemi [1]
Earth's Children - Jean M. Auel [1]
Books of Babel - Josiah Bancroft [1]
Gods of the Night - Nina Bangs [1]
Darkest London - Kristen Callihan [1]
The Black Company - Glen Cook [1]
Night Prince - Jeaniene Frost [1]
The Drenai Saga - David Gemmell [1]
Poison Wars - Sam Hawke [1]
Dune Chronicles - Frank Herbert [1]
The Violet Wars - Rich Larson [1]
The Book of Dust - Philip Pullman [1]
Raven's Shadow - Anthony Ryan [1]
Shades of Magic - V.E. Schwab [1]
Unwind Dystology - Neal Shusterman [1]
The Once and Future King - T.H. White [1]

Monthly tallies: January to March

January 2024: 1 book read (01)


Series started:
Remembrance of Earth's Past #1

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February 2024: 0 book read

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March 2024: 11 books read (02 to 12)


Series started:
The Murderbot Diaries #1
Andrea Vernon #1

Series binged:
Legends & Lattes #1-prequel
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System #1-4

Re-read for completion:
Green Creek #1-2 + 2.5

Monthly tallies: April to June

April 2024: 12 books read (13 to 24)


Series started:
Dungeon Crawler Carl #1
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation #1-4

Series completed:
Andrea Vernon #2-3

Series progressed:
Remembrance of Earth's Past #2
The Murderbot Diaries #2-4

Additional content:
The Murderbot Diaries #4.5

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May 2024: 1 book read (25)


Series completed:
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation #5

Monthly tallies: July to September

Monthly tallies: October to December

October 2024: ? books read (26 to 27)


Series started:
Little Mushroom #1

Series brought UTD:
Roverpowered #1

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November 2024: 2 books read (28 to 29)


Series started:
I Ran Away to Evil #1

Series completed:
Little Mushroom #2

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December 2024: ? books read (30 to ?)

Series started:
Series brought UTD:
Series brought back UTD:
Series completed:
Series binged:
Series progressed:
Re-read for completion:
Additional content:

Books read toward challenge: 1-50


01. Remembrance of Earth's Past #1
02. Legends & Lattes #1
03. Legends & Lattes #0
04. The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System #1
05. The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System #2
06. The Murderbot Diaries #1
07. The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System #3
08. Andrea Vernon #1
09. The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System #4
10. Green Creek #1 *re-read*


11. Green Creek #2 *re-read*
12. Green Creek #2.5 *re-read*
13. Remembrance of Earth's Past #2
14. Andrea Vernon #2
15. The Murderbot Diaries #2
16. The Murderbot Diaries #3
17. The Murderbot Diaries #4
18. The Murderbot Diaries #4.5
19. Andrea Vernon #3
20. Dungeon Crawler Carl #1


21. Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation #1
22. Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation #2
23. Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation #3
24. Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation #4
25. Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation #5
26. Little Mushroom #1
27. Roverpowered #1
28. Little Mushroom #2
29. I Ran Away to Evil #1

Books read toward challenge: 51-100

Extended world: Cosmere by Brandon Sanderson

Reading orders & links
https://17thshard.github.io/reading-o...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cosmere/wiki...

Elantris (view spoiler)[
World: Sel
Shards: Dominion (Skai, splintered to form the Dor), Devotion (Aona, splintered to form the Dor)
Magic: AonDor (usable only by Elantrians), others
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#1 Elantris
#2 Summer 2029
#3 Summer 2030
+ The Hope of Elantris (#1.5, takes place directly after #1) (in Arcanum Unbounded)
+ The Emperor's Soul (in a different part of the same world) (in Arcanum Unbounded)

Warbreaker (view spoiler)[
World: Nalthis
Shard: Endowment
Magic: Awakening
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#1 Warbreaker
#2 Nightblood (tentative, not mentioned in writing schedule as of 2023)

Mistborn Era 1: Original trilogy (view spoiler)[
World: Scadrial
Shards: Preservation (can't remember, Kelsier, Vin, Sazed), Ruin (Ati, Sazed)
Magic: Metallurgy
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#1 The Final Empire
#2 The Well of Ascension
#3 The Hero of Ages
+ The Eleventh Metal (#0.5) (in Arcanum Unbounded)
+ Secret History (#3.5, should not be read before The Bands of Mourning) (in Arcanum Unbounded)

Mistborn Era 2: Wax and Wayne series (view spoiler)[
World: Scadrial
Shards: Harmony (Sazed)
Magic: Metallurgy
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#1 The Alloy of Law
#2 Shadows of Self
#3 The Bands of Mourning
+ Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania (#1.5) (in Arcanum Unbounded)
#4 The Lost Metal

Mistborn Era 3: Ghostbloods
#1 December 2028
#2 December 2029
#3 December 2030

Mistborn Era 4

Stormlight Archive (view spoiler)[
World: Roshar, Braize
Shard: Cultivation (can't remember), Honor (can't remember, splintered), Odium (can't remember)
Magic: Surgebinding
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#1 The Way of Kings
#2 Words of Radiance
+ Edgedancer (#2.5) (in Arcanum Unbounded)
#3 Oathbringer
+ Dawnshard (#4.5)
#4 Rhythm of War
#5 Wind and Truth

White Sand (view spoiler)[
World:
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Magic:
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#1-3 White Sand Omnibus

Other works

Tress of the Emerald Sea
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
The Sunlit Man

Arcanum unbounded

Extended world: Elan by Michael J. Sullivan


https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/727...

Extended world: World of Kate Daniels by Ilona Andrews

Extended world: World of the DFZ by Rachel Aaron

Extended world: Generica Verse by Andrew Seiple

Extended worlds by Mark Lawrence

Extended world: Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb

Extended world: Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Extended world: World of the First Law by Joe Abercrombie

Extended world: The Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart
https://www.edgechronicles.co.uk/

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