What are you reading in 2016?

[Kiersten, Mod]

What are you in the new year? Are you planning to try some out some of the group challenges? Are you branching out to new genres? Sticking with a series or picking up old favorites?

[Whitney]

Magic Rises

[Krysta]

I know I'm way behind, but I finished A Game of Thrones today, and have A Clash of Kings waiting for me at the library.

As far as the group challenges, as much as I adore them, I'm going to have to not take on as many this year, as I'm in my practicum/internship semester and will be graduating this May. So I need to be wary of how much I take on, as I'll already have a full schedule!

[MadameZelda]

I am also reading a Kate Daniels, which I borrowed from the library.

[Lindsey]

Starting on

[Carolyn F.]

I'm reading

[Samantha]

Hey all its been a very long time since I've been on here. But being it's a new year it's time for me to get back on track with my reading. So starting off the new year I'm currently reading...

[CassieCruel]

Re-reading at work

And reading at home

[Brittany]

Finished The Last Orphans (5 STARS) last night and started A Kindled Winter on my Kindle
At work When I get a chance I am reading A Curious Beginning which is awesome!
And my library book I am reading at home is The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing IdentitiesThe Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities which is intriguing to look at extreme legal cases

[Brittany]

I love Touch the Dark!
Cassie Cruel wrote: "Re-reading at work

And reading at home"

[CassieCruel]

I've gone onto now

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

I'm reading Harry Potter and the prisoner from Azkaban

[Samantha]

It's great to be reading again. I'm now 76% through . And will probably be done with it before i go to bed.

[Brittany]

Finished A Kindled Winter and A Curious Beginning which were both spectacular!

Reading a library book at home still The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing IdentitiesThe Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities which is intriguing to look at extreme legal cases, also reading Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things which is hilariously eye opening and at work I am now reading The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency which is very interesting, highly recommend already!

[Elle]

Erin (Paperbackstash) *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "I'm reading Harry Potter and the prisoner from Azkaban"

Me too! I've been re-reading this series in the last few months along side my 'normal' books so that is my first book of 2016!

[Shelby]

I've just finished . I loved it! It's the third book in the Shapes of Autumn series.
I'm also impatiently waiting for the fifth book in the Pyte/Sentinel series.

[Brittany]

Finished The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities which I award 3 stars, got very dry in some sections, also finished The Dogs of Christmas which was very adorable, 4 stars.

Still Reading Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things which is hilariously eye opening and at work I am now reading The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency which is very interesting, highly recommend already and on Kindle just started Hell On Heels which is the 3rd book in a great trilogy that I have immensely enjoyed, and this one started off great as well!

[Lindsey]

Finished and now working on

[Whitney]

What I've read this month:
Alanna: The First Adventure
Magic Rises
The Seeing Stone
Mastered
Fighting Destiny
The Maze Runner

What I hope to also finish:
On Basilisk Station
Leviathan Wakes
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
The Thousand Names

[Dale]

The list of books I've read/listen (1st 4 read) to plus what I plan on reading.With 56 additional books to date.

*1.)* I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls #1)
by Ally Carter
*2.)* Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls #2)
by Ally Carter
*3.)* Black Wings (Black Wings #1)
by Christina Henry
*4.)* Blue Bloods (Blue Bloods #1)
by Melissa de la Cruz

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

Elle wrote: "Me too! I've been re-reading this series in the last few months along side my 'normal' books so that is my first book of 2016! "

It's actually my first time reading books 2 and beyond - loving it. Just finished the fifth book and waiting for the others in the mail.

Meanwhile, I am halfway through The Nightingale

I'm still supposed to be starting these buddy reads: Lolita, Rosemary and Rue, and the first Wheel of Time Book. (sigh, eventually!)

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

Cassie Cruel wrote: "I've gone onto now"

Cassie, I'm also into that series. It has its highs and lows but I love it overall.

[Amyiw]

Erin (Paperbackstash) *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Cassie Cruel wrote: "I've gone onto now"

Cassie, I'm also into that series. It has its highs and lows but I love it overall."
I started Cassandra Palmer and really like it too, along with Dorina. They are quite different but both are very good. My only issue is her drawn out confusing battle scenes. I have a couple of Cassie books and a Dorina book to catch up, along with a bunch of shorts/novellas.
Currently reading though maybe should be read first.

[CassieCruel]

Erin (Paperbackstash) *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Cassie Cruel wrote: "I've gone onto now"

Cassie, I'm also into that series. It has its highs and lows but I love it overall."

Started now, but all I have read is Cassie, in the last month

Looking forward to reading something else lol

[Brittany]

Finished Hell On Heels which is the 3rd book in a great trilogy that I have immensely enjoyed, this one ended well with 5 stars!

Still Reading Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things which is so great that I laugh out loud while reading in bed alone and at work I am reading The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency which is very interesting, highly recommend already and today I started Empire of Fear: Inside the Islamic State which I have been wanting to check out!

[Dale]

Brittany wrote: "Finished Hell On Heels which is the 3rd book in a great trilogy that I have immensely enjoyed, this one ended well with 5 stars!

Still Reading [b..."
I just have to add this to my Kindle reading list which means it will be a very long while before I get to it. For I have about 100 series to attend to plus 1.15 TB of audio/ebooks/Kindle I already have on my PC. I'll just add it to my amazon wish to remember. Thanks

[Whitney]

I just finished Taunting Destiny I felt that I liked the author and the main character but there was a lot of things that just didn't go well with me. I've heard the next book just takes it really in the wrong direction so not sure when Ill get to the last four books.

[Dale]

Chakara wrote: "I just finished Taunting Destiny I felt that I liked the author and the main character but there was a lot of things that just didn't go well with me. I've heard the next book just ..."

I hope this help you find a good book read/listen to in the future.
These series are some of my favorite heroine/with a few other series.

01. Jane Yellowrock series by Faith Hunter
02. Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs
03. Elemental Assassin series by Jennifer Estep
04. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton
05. Kitty Norville series by Carrie Vaughn
06. Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews
07. Cassandra Palmer series by Karen Chance
08. Chronicles of Elantra series by Michelle Sagara
09. Merry Gentry series by Laurell K. Hamilton
10. Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead
11. Bloodlines series by Richelle Mead
12. Sabina Kane series by Jaye Wells
13. Shifters series by Rachel Vincent
14. Nikki Glass series by Jenna Black
15. Heist Society series by Ally Carter
16. A Witchcraft Mystery series by Juliet Blackwell
17. Coffeehouse Mystery series by Cleo Coyle
18. Psychic Eye Mystery series by Victoria Laurie
19. Raised by Wolves series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
20. Indigo Court series by Yasmine Galenorn
21. Otherworld/Sisters of the Moon series by Yasmine Galenorn
22. Glass series by Maria V. Snyder
23. Dorina Basarab series by Karen Chance
24. The Iron Druid Chronicles series by Kevin Hearne
25. In Death series by J.D. Robb
26. Riley Jenson Guardian series by Keri Arthur
27. October Daye: Chronological series by Seanan McGuire
28. Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
29. Alpha & Omega series by Patricia Briggs
30. Imp series by Debra Dunbar
31. Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter
32. Black Wings series by Christina Henry
33. The Demonata series by Darren Shan
34. The Black Jewels series by Anne Bishop
35. Argeneau series by Lynsay Sands
36. John Rain series by Barry Eisler
37. Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
38. Pretty Little Liars series by Sara Shepard
39. Chronicles of Nick series by Sherrilyn Kenyon
40. Dark-Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon
41. Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French
42. Jessica McClain series by Amanda Carlson

[Whitney]

Dale wrote: "Chakara wrote: "I just finished Taunting Destiny I felt that I liked the author and the main character but there was a lot of things that just didn't go well with me. I've heard the..."

i've read or have a lot of these on my list. Still, thanks for posting because it might help others.

[Brittany]

Finished Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things which is so great and I award it 5 stars and recommend to it everyone! I also finished The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency which is very interesting, highly recommend and also award 5 stars. For cookbooks I finished 100 Recipes Everyone Should Know How to Make: The Relevant (And Surprising) Essential Recipes for the 21st Century Cook which was very well done, except for some slight weird layout. A great beginning cookbook.

Currently reading Empire of Fear: Inside the Islamic State which has started out very well and kind of scary with the implications of what IS started as and where they are planning on heading. Also just started Last Chance Mustang: The Story of One Horse, One Horseman, and One Final Shot at Redemption and I am excited to get into this one.

[Dale]

I'm about halfway through Barely Bewitched (Southern Witch #2)
by Kimberly Frost

[Brittany]

Finished Last Chance Mustang: The Story of One Horse, One Horseman, and One Final Shot at Redemption and it was extremely painful to read and definitely made me cry, but it also gave hope. 4 stars.
Should be finishing Empire of Fear: Inside the Islamic State today or tomorrow and also started up Psychopath Free (Expanded Edition): Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships With Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other Toxic People and Becoming Beyoncé: The Untold Story

[Dale]

I just finished Born of Night (The League #1) by Sherrilyn Kenyon yesterday.

[Vera]

What I've read so far this year:
Naked in Death - J.D. Robb
The Dream Thieves - Maggie Stiefvater
Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
Whispers - Lisa Jackson
The Unsung Hero - Suzanne Brockmann
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
The Dragon's Path - Daniel Abraham
Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard

[Nicole]

Just finished and loved it!

Kind of on the fence about what to start next. It's a tie between the Fever series and the Hollows.

[Caroline Cairn]

I am going to go through all of Simone St James books this year. I already read , which I truly adored, next on my list is
Can't wait!

[Brittany]

Finished
Empire of Fear: Inside the Islamic State which is a good overall history of how the Islamic State came to be and how different world events affected them, pretty interesting and exceeding scary, definitely worth a read 4 stars.

Psychopath Free (Expanded Edition): Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships With Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other Toxic People Wow, this was eye opening in light of my most recent relationship, I definitely recommend that anyone who has been dubbed sensitive or an empathy at the very least read the intro and the 30 red flags of toxic people. 4 stars.

Still reading.
Becoming Beyoncé: The Untold Story Which is a Biography about Beyonce', has definitely picked up, and is a good read thus far.

Last night I started Confessions of a Deathmaiden which was recommended to me and is a definitely different kind of mystery. I'm into it so far.

[Whitney]

Almost done with Daughter of Smoke & Bone its part of my TBR challenge as I brought it when it first came out and failed to read it. Love: writing style hate: the instalove.


Plan to finish:
Leviathan Wakes
Hardwired
A is for Alibi
Buddy reads this month:
Pushing Ice
Nefertiti's Heart
Audiobooks I hope to get to:
The Final Empire
The Fifth Season

[Dale]

I just finished Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles #8) by Kevin Hearne the other day.

[Dale]

I just finished Already Freakn' Mated (Freakn' Shifters #3) by Eve Langlais.

[Lindsey]

I just finished which I really liked, and now I'm working on which is fun so far.

[Dale]

I just finished Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover (Gallagher Girls #3) by Ally Carter

[Bonita]

Feverborn

[Vera]

FInished:

a "futuristic" romantic suspense, book 2. My favorite of the series. Great characters.

- YA Fantasy, Book 2. Needs to be read in order. Action, Romance, Magic, Politics. Reveals are predictable, but impacting.

[Dale]

Vera wrote: "FInished:

a "futuristic" romantic suspense, book 2. My favorite of the series. Great characters.

- YA Fantasy, Book 2. Nee..."

I started the In Death series in 2013 and I'm loving it; to date I have gone the first 19 books (plus the in between books) in the series. There are 54 book when one includes the in between books.

[Vera]

Dale,
Yes such a huge series!

[Lindsey]

Finished which was fun. Currently reading , I still really like this series.

[Dale]

I just finished The Spook's Revenge (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles #13) by Joseph Delaney.

[Leigh-Ayn]

I'm currently reading Tempting Danger by Eileen Wilks.
I'm going to give Karen Chance a go based on a lot of comments on here.
I'm keen to find another series that I can inhale like I did the Kate Daniels books lol

[Brittany]

Finished
Geisha, a Life which I was intrigued by due to my fascination with geishas and the fact that this was Mineko Iwasaki's response to Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha and is VASTLY different in the background information of the two stories. This book was really good and VERY different from memoirs of a Geisha. It actually makes me wonder how he got that story from the same woman haha. I give it a solid 4 stars.

A Natural History of Dragons which started out delightfully well and unfortunately slowed WAAAY down. I loved the parts of the story with action, but it was almost painful to get to those points, I felt like the drab events in between just drug on for far too long. The drawings were superb, but I actually struggled to finish this one, and can't award it more than 3 stars.

Still reading. The English Patient with the group read, which has finally shown us Katharine, but is still interesting in the jumping around of point of views.

also reading Awoken as a group read (You can still join in: Awoken Buddy Read and we even have author Sarah Noffke available in the discussion area with us) which is very intriguing. I love this concept of the Lucidites, picking up nicely and shrouded in mystery.

I had to forfeit The Saint as my Buddy Pick for Me read when I realized it was book 4 in the series and it did not read well as a stand alone, this has since been replaced with Token Huntress which is exciting!

Last night I started The House at the End of Hope Street which I picked up as a "blind date" with a library book and I am LOVING it, so wonderful, I want to live in this house FOREVER!