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Box Set #1 Here There Be Dragons
Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!
The Dragon Who Loved Me - G.A. Aiken 3/6
Dragon Unmasked - Kathleen Nance 6/30
Winter Kiss - Deborah Cooke 8/14
Firewalker - Allyson James 10/27
Box Set #2 Highland Hotties
If he's wearing a kilt, he's in here.
Highlander's Challenge - Jo Barrett 1/21
The Highlander's Fury - Maeve Greyson 2/15
The Return of Black Douglas - Elaine Coffman 4/7
Healing the Highlander - Melissa Mayhue 10/7
Box Set #3 Young Adult
Youth is wasted on the young.
The Calling - Kelley Armstrong 1/11
Magic Lessons - Justine Larbalestier 1/24
The Siren Song - Anne Ursu 1/30
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones 3/17
Reason to Breathe - Rebecca Donovan 5/5
Forever - Maggie Stiefvater 5/11
Everneath - Brodi Ashton 6/18
With All My Soul - Rachel Vincent 12/4
Box Set #4 Just One Bite
Books about Vampires
Unnatural - Michael Griffo 2/28
Dark Predator - Christine Feehan 3/16
Born to Bite - Lindsay Sands 4/13
Lover At Last - J.R. Ward 6/4
Black Dawn - Rachel Caine 7/2
Box Set #5 Urban Fantasy
Hey it could happen!
Tricks of the Trade - Laura Ann Gilman 3/30
Raven Cursed - Faith Hunter 10/12
Gunmetal Magic - Ilona Andrews 10/25
Box Set #6 Rainbow Bright
All books with a color in the title
Deep Black: Death Wave - Stephen Coonts 1/11
In Golden Blood - Stephen Woodworth 2/6
Legend of the Jade Dragon - Yasmine Galenorn 2/17
Blue Latitudes - Tony Horwitz 2/25
White Tiger - Kylie Chan 5/23
The Red Heart of Jade - Marjorie Liu 8/31
Box Set #7 Wild Kingdom
Types of animals in the title
Monkeewrench - P.J. Tracy 1/19
White Elephant Dead - Carolyn Hart 2/3
The Frog Prince - Jane Porter 2/18
Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer - Dorothy Gilman 3/21
A Falcon Flies - Wilbur Smith 3/31
Crocodile on the Sandbank - Elizabeth Peters 4/4
Voice Of Crow - Jeri Smith-Ready 4/8
Phoenix Rising - Philippa Ballantine 5/2
Tiger's Quest - Colleen Houck 5/4
Coyote's Mate - Lora Leigh 7/14
When Is A Pig A Hog?: A Guide To Confoundingly Related English Words - Bernice Randall 9/6
Raven Calls - C.E. Murphy 10/6
The Hippopotamus Pool - Elizabeth Peters 10/17
Box Set #8 Back to the Future
Time Travel
Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness 2/11
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde 3/9
Dark Mirror - M.J. Putney 6/25
Enchantment - Orson Scott Card 7/29
Playboy's Challenge - Jo Barrett 7/30
Highlander's Curse - Melissa Mayhue 10/16
Box Set #9 Crime and Punishment
Mysteries involving cops, PIs and the FBI
Killer Instinct - Zoë Sharp 2/9
F is for Fugitive - Sue Grafton 2/21
The Rosary Girls - Richard Montanari 5/26
Unwanted - Kristina Ohlsson 8/21
Guilty as Sin - Tami Hoag 10/13
Sleight of Hand - Phillip Margolin 12/27
Box Set #10 Werewolves
Werewolf shifters only
Frost Burned - Patricia Briggs 4/16
The Ylem - Tatiana Vila 4/29
The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf - Molly Harper 8/3
Mortal Ties - Eileen Wilks 10/15
Box Set #11 Possessed by Demons
Books with demons
Demon from the Dark - Kresley Cole 1/6
Can't Teach an Old Demon New Tricks - Cara Lockwood 2/14
Immortal Rider - Larissa Ione 2/22
Box Set #12 Angels Among Us?
Lethal Rider - Larissa Ione 3/22
Unearthly - Cynthia Hand 4/4
Angelopolis - Danielle Trussoni 4/18
Snow Angels - James Thompson 5/7
Starfire Angels - Melanie Nilles 12/15
Box Set #13 Getting Steamy
Steampunk
Behemoth - Scott Westerfield 2/8
Stormdancer - Jay Kristoff 2/13
Tin Swift - Devon Monk 5/31
The Friday Society - Adrienne Kress 7/4
Clockwork Princess - Cassandra Clare 8/2
Box Set #14 The Neck Bone is Connected to the...
Books with body parts in the title
Toehold: A Novel - Stephen Foreman 2/8
Through Violet Eyes - Stephen Woodworth 3/20
The Skull Mantra - Eliot Pattison 6/14
Hot Head - Damon Suede 7/11
Eyes Wide Open - Andrew Gross 8/26
Capture My Heart - Bobbi Smith 8/30
The Bone Bed - Patricia Cornwell 10/28
Head Over Heels - Jill Shalvis 11/7
Box Set #15 Reading by Numbers
Books with numbers in the title
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan 2/9
The Fifth Witness - Michael Connelly 3/22
The Girl Who Disappeared Twice - Andrea Kane 5/3
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith 5/18
Six Seconds - Rick Mofina 6/29
NOS4A2 - Joe Hill 7/18
Deep Six - Clive Cussler 8/23
The Seventh Sinner - Elizabeth Peters 8/28
Split Second - Catherine Coulter 10/25
Fifth Quarter - Tanya Huff 12/11
Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes - Denise Grover Swank 12/14
Box Set #16 Death Valley
Books with death, dying, grave etc in the title
Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet - Darynda Jones 2/2
Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card 2/13
Mortal Coil - Derek Landy 3/29
Dare to Die - Carolyn Hart 4/6
Calculated in Death - J.D. Robb 4/22
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman 7/26
A Brisket, a Casket - Delia Rosen 8/13
Aunt Dimity's Death - Nancy Atherton 9/8
Grave Secrets - Kathy Reichs 10/8
What Doesn't Kill You - Iris Johansen 10/17
Little Shop of Homicide - Denise Swanson 10/22
Grave Surprise - Charlaine Harris 10/30
Grimm End - S.T. Cameron 12/9
Death Bringer - Derek Landy 12/12
Box Set #17 Bloody Good Books
Books with blood, vein etc in the title
Blood Challenge - Eileen Wilks 1/6
Blood Ties - Pamela Freeman 5/26
A Cold-Blooded Business - Dana Stabenow 7/8
Blood Lies - Daniel Kalla 10/3
Blood Rites - Jim Butcher 10/29
Box Set #18 The Dark Ages
Books with dark in the title
Dark of Night - Suzanne Brockmann 1/23
Dark Mirror - Mary Jo Putney 6/25
This Dark Endeavour - Kenneth Oppel 6/26
The Darkest Edge of Dawn - Kelly Gay 7/5
Master of Darkness - Angela Knight 9/5
Box Set #19 What's In A Name?
Books with a person's name in the title
Calamity Jayne - Kathleen Bacus 2/17
The Trouble with J.J. - Tami Hoag 2/20
Defending Jacob - William Landay 5/11
Florence of Arabia - Christopher Buckley 5/15
Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye - Victoria Laurie 5/24
Taking Eve - Iris Johansen 8/10
Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled - Dorothy Gilman 9/2
Z for Zachariah - Robert O'Brien 9/9
Box Set #20 Waterlogged
Books with a body of water in the title - ocean, lake, sea etc
Hungry As The Sea - Wilbur Smith 1/27
Sea Hunter - Paul Garrison 2/16
The Sea of Tranquility - Katha Millay 2/25
On Stranger Tides - Tim Powers 4/5
U is for Undertow - Sue Grafton 4/13
Dawn in Eclipse Bay - Jayne Ann Krentz 7/3
River of Eden - Glenna McReynolds 8/29
Seaborne - Katherine Irons 12/31
Box Set #21 Nighty Night, Sleep Tight
Books with sleep, dream, wake etc in title
Girl of Nightmares - Kendare Blake 5/8
Sleeping Arrangements - Madeleine Wickham 5/29
Before I Wake - Rachel Vincent 6/9
Hannah's Dream - Diane Hammond 6/15
Silk Dreams - Diana Groe 6/17
Sleep No More - Iris Johansen 7/21
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler 8/16
Box Set #22 Burn Baby, Burn
Books with fire, flame, hot etc in the title
Branded by Fire - Nalini Singh 4/27
Crown of Crystal Flame - C.L. Wilson 5/17
Inferno - Sherrilyn Kenyon 5/27
The Immortal Fire - Anne Ursu 7/20
Chasing Fire - Nora Roberts 8/21
Hearts of Smoke and Steam - Andrew Mayer 10/18
White Heat - Cherry Adair 11/2
Box Set #23 Practical Magic
Books with magic, witches, wizards etc
Now or Never - Michele Bardsley 2/11
Magic's Child - Justine Larbalestier 6/27
Under Your Spell - Lois Greiman 7/3
Unspoken - Sarah Rees Brennan 8/8
Box Set #24 Ghostly Shadows
Books with shadow in the title or ghosts
Master of Shadows - Angela Knight 3/7
In the Shadow of Gotham - Stefanie Pintoff 3/19
Shadows in the Starlight - Elaine Cunningham 4/2
Shadow Woman - Linda Howard 6/4
Shades of Midnight - Lara Adrian 7/17
The Well of Shades - Juliet Marillier 8/7
Secondhand Spirits - Juliet Blackwell 10/10
Wraith - Phaedra Weldon 12/27
Box Set #25 The Crazy in My Head
Books with psychology terms in the title - chaos, madness etc
Guilty Wives - James Patterson 2/25
Delusion in Death - J.D. Robb 3/6
The Miserable Mill - Lemony Snicket 3/10
Delirium - Lauren Oliver 7/13
The Deeds of the Disturber - Elizabeth Peters 7/25
Box Set #26 Weapons of Mass Destruction?
Books with weapons in the title
A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin 4/25
N is for Noose - Sue Grafton 5/8
Gunmetal Magic - Ilona Andrews 10/25
Box Set #27 The Year of Living Dangerously
Books with dangerous, deadly, peril etc in the title
Deadly Fear - Cynthia Eden 5/29
Fatal Voyage - Kathy Reichs 7/15
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey - Trenton Lee Stewart 7/26
P is for Peril - Sue Grafton 8/2
Box Set #28 Chompers
Books with teeth, biting, bitten in title
Born to Bite - Lynsay Sands 4/13
Biting Cold - Chloe Neill 4/23
Bitten to Death - Jennifer Rardin 4/27
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1. Do not use the same author twice in one set.
2. Category can be word in title or subject of book.
3. On colors or beasts, each must be different. For example: no 2 books with red in the title or two books about werelions. Variety is the name of the game.
4. To qualify, Box Set must have 3 entries.
Angels Among Us?
Anthologies
Back To The Future
Beastie Boys
Bloody Good Books
Burn Baby, Burn
Chompers
The Crazy in My Head
Crime & Punishment
The Dark Ages
Death Valley
The Devil, You Say!
Getting Steamy
Ghostly Shadows
Here Be Dragons
Highland Hotties
Just One Bite
The Neck Bone is Connected
Nighty Night, Sleep Tight
Possessed by Demons
Practical Magic
Rainbow Bright
Reading by Numbers
Urban Fantasy
Waterlogged
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Werewolves
What's In A Name?
Wild Kingdom
The Year of Living Dangerously
Young Adult