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Shannara - Terry Brooks
High Druid of Shannara - completed 6/29/16
Dark Legacy of Shannara
The Defenders of Shannara
First Law (stand-alones) - Joe Abercrombie
The Shattered Sea - Joe Abercrombie
completed 5/8/16
Demon Cycle - Peter V. Brett
Realms of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb
Fitz & Fool
Malazan - Steven Erikson & Ian Esslemont
The Malazan Book of the Fallen
The Malazan Empire
Tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach
Kharkanas Trilogy
Saxon Stories - Bernard Cornwell
Cosmere - Brandon Sanderson
The Stormlight Archive
Mistborn
Elantris
Reckoners - Brandon Sanderson
Discworld - Terry Pratchett
Too many to list them all, so I'll just add the ones I hope to get to this year.
Top row are the ones I own in dead-tree editions.
InCryptid - Seanan McGuire
InCryptid main series
Ghost Stories (Rose Marshall)
InCryptid prequel short stories (Jonathan Healy/Frances Brown)
Other short stories
"Stingers and Strangers"
"Swamp Bromeliad"
"Jammed"
"Survival Horror"
"Red as Snow"
Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
Codex Alera - Jim Butcher
Kitty Norville - Carrie Vaughn
Felix Castor - Mike Carey
The Expanse - James S.A. Corey
The Dagger & The Coin - Daniel Abraham
The Black Sun's Daughter - M.L.N. Hanover
completed: September 2016
Old Man's War - John Scalzi
10 graphic novels in The Walking Dead series complete, earning credit for 1st book in goal. (Really read 12 so far, but first 2 were rereads).
First series book completed: Vicious Circle. That's pathetic. Halfway through February and I'm just now finishing my first real series book. Lots of comics, but still. I need a kick in the ass.
Chris wrote: "First series book completed: Vicious Circle. That's pathetic. Halfway through February and I'm just now finishing my first real series book. Lots of comics, but still. I need a kic..."
Don't feel bad. At least you've been reading. I'm still trying to get through my 2nd book of the year!
I know I set my GR 2016 Reading Challenge Widget to 12, but I was expecting to read more than that.
Thanks, Nyssa! This was actually my second real book that I started in this year. The others were carryovers from 2015 or comics.But it's something, and I'll take it. I set my goal to 100, knowing that I was going to be tackling the entire Walking Dead series. Otherwise it would be closer to 80.
More than 3 years after starting The Fionavar Tapestry, I finally finished book 3: The Darkest Road.
^I've been reading Discworld for the last fifteen years. :)
My returns to series are usually:The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever
Otherland
You really set the bar high for the rest of us. :D
Finished Jarka Ruus and The Walking Dead, Vol. 23: Whispers Into Screams. That last one completes my second set of graphic novels (10 counts as 1 series book). That brings my total for the year to 7 of my goal of 30. Just a touch behind pace, but not by much.
Been a while since I read any Terry Brooks. I swore off him for a while.I am going to have to resurrect my series challenge thread at some point and get a couple of series finished.
Wow, this is such a cool challenge! If I wasn't doing the A-Z challenge in Fantasy Book Club, I would join, but perhaps I will wait until next year to make a challenge for myself here. :)
The trick is to read books that fit in multiple groups/challenges.
Chris wrote: "The trick is to read books that fit in multiple groups/challenges."That's true, and if anything I would make a series goal to finish all the series I started and liked in the A-Z challenge.
I see you're already kinda doing that with Erikson and Sullivan ;)
Chris wrote: "I see you're already kinda doing that with Erikson and Sullivan ;)"I just couldn't wait! :)
Finished A Gathering of Shadows last night. It took me awhile to get through, but it was distractions and other stuff that kept me from listening to audio. I can't even blame it on reading slump.But it's a good one. Left hanging quite a bit at the end, but it happens.
Wow, Chris. I'm jealous, lol.
Chris wrote: "Finished Straken tonight, and with it The High Druid of Shannara Trilogy."Congratulations on completing a series!!!
Okay, today I finished Death Without Company, which is #2 in the Longmire series. I also finished Age of Myth, but it's a re-read and I counted it last year.With my re-read and first-in-series restrictions, I did fall short of my goal of 30. I got 20, with graphic novels and short stories factored in at 10 = 1 full book. I won't likely finish anything else by New Year's, except a stand-alone I'm working on.
I felt I did pretty good though. I did knock out an entire Shannara trilogy, as well as the entire Black Sun's Daughter series. A few others here and there. I did start a lot of new series though. Ah well.
I also hadn't counted on finishing a coding certification in the summer and starting back to college full time, when I set that initial goal. So with all that, I feel I did pretty good.
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2016 goal = 30 series books.
My series books completed = 19
Short stories/Graphic Novels completed = 1st: 10/10; 2nd: 10/10; 3rd: 7/10
Total = 21/30
First book in a series doesn't count (sub-series ok)
Graphic novels and short stories count, with 10 GNs/stories = 1 book.
Books completed:
Short stories:
Graphic Novels:
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No Credits Earned (#1's and/or re-reads and/or abandoned):