Cassandra's Challenges

[Cassandra]

I really need to read more in 2017.

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[Cassandra]

I've Started So I'll Finish - 2017 - 55/100 Books Read + 36/? Short Stories/Novellas

Newest Book/Quit Series
✓Underworld Detection Agency - #1 Under Wraps (New/Quit Series) - 1/8
✓The Peri Reed Chronicles - #1.5 Waylaid (Quit) - 1/19
✓Brothers in Arms - #13 For Love and Country - 1/28
✓Elfhome - #4.5 Project Elfhome - 3/27
✓Kate Daniels - #9 Magic Binds - 4/17
✓Demonica Underworld- #4 Razr - 5/24
✓KGI #11 - Brighter Than the Sun - 9/10
✓Outlander - Seven Stones to Stand or Fall - 9/16
✓The League - #10 Born of Vengeance - 9/19


Caught Up/Complete Series
Jane Jameson - 3/3 Read - (view spoiler)[
✓#2 Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men - 1/7
✓#3 Nice Girls Don't Live Forever - 1/11
✓#4 Nice Girls Don't Bite Their Neighbors - 1/26 - (hide spoiler)]

Walker Papers - 6/6 Read + 1/1 Short Stories/Novellas - (view spoiler)[
✓#1.5 Banshee Cries (from Winter Moon) - 1/3
✓#4 Walking Dead - 1/6
✓#5 Demon Hunts - 1/14
✓#6 Spirit Dances - 1/17
✓#7 Raven Calls - 1/20
✓#8 Mountain Echoes - 1/24
✓#9 Shaman Rises - 1/27 - (hide spoiler)]

Nadia Stafford - 3/3 Read (view spoiler)[
✓#1 Exit Strategy - 4/16
✓#2 Made to Be Broken - 4/20
✓#3 Wild Justice - 5/13 - (hide spoiler)]

Highlander - 4/4 Read (Quit) - (view spoiler)[
✓#1 Beyond the Highland Mist - 2/6
✓#2 To Tame a Highland Warrior -2/7
✓#3 The Highlander's Touch - 2/8
✓#4 Kiss of the Highlander - 2/17 - (hide spoiler)]

Sullivan's Crossing - 2/2 Read - (view spoiler)[
✓#1 What We Find - 6/7
✓#2 Any Day Now - 6/18 - (hide spoiler)]

Scandal & Scoundrel - 3/3 Read - (view spoiler)[
✓#1 The Rogue Not Taken - 5/29
✓#2 A Scot in the Dark - 7/8
✓#3 The Day of the Duchess -9/12 - (hide spoiler)]

In Death -2/2 Read - (view spoiler)[
✓#44 Echoes in Death - 3/26
✓#45 Secrets in Death - 9/14- (hide spoiler)]

Lords of the Underworld - 2/2 Read - (view spoiler)[
✓#12 The Darkest Torment - 1/18
✓#13 The Darkest Promise - 9/19 - (hide spoiler)]

Chesapeake Bay Saga - 4/4 Read - (view spoiler)[
✓#1 Sea Swept - 9/20
✓#2 Rising Tides - 9/21
✓#3 Inner Harbor - 9/22
✓#4 Chesapeake Blue - 10/4 - (hide spoiler)]

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The Original Heartbreakers - 1/3 Read - (view spoiler)[
✓#4 Can't Hardly Breathe - 9/13 - (hide spoiler)]
#5 Can't Let Go (Oct 31)
#6 Can't Get Enough (Dec 5)

Stephanie Plum - 1/2 Read - (view spoiler)[
✓#23 Turbo Twenty Three - 1/9 - (hide spoiler)]
#24 Hardcore Twenty-Four (November 21)


Krewe of Hunters - 3/4 Read + 0/1 Novella/Short Story - (view spoiler)[
✓#20 Darkest Journey - 1/10
✓#21 Dying Breath - 9/9
✓#22 Dark Rites - 9/24 - (hide spoiler)]
#22.5 Hallow Be the Haunt (Oct 24)
#23 Wicked Deeds (Sept 19)


Iron Druid Chronicles - 3/5 Short Stories/Novellas - (view spoiler)[
✓#0.4 Grimoire of the Lamb - 1/5
✓#4.5 Two Ravens and One Crow - 1/3
✓#4.6 The Chapel Perilous - 1/22 - (hide spoiler)]
#8.5 Oberon's Meaty Mysteries: The Purloined Poodle
#8.6 Besieged (July 11) - Also includes 0.3 & 4.7


Half-Moon Hollow - 3/4 Read + 4/4 Novellas/Short Stories - (view spoiler)[
✓#2.6 Special Valentine's Day Half-Moon Hollow Story 1/3
✓#2.7 I'm Dreaming of an Undead Christmas - 1/3
✓#3 The Dangers of Dating a Rebound Vampire 1/4
✓#4 The Single Undead Moms Club - 1/21
✓#4.5 Fangs for the Memories - 1/22
✓#5 Where the Wild Things Bite - 1/23
✓#5.5 Big Vamp on Campus - 3/26 - (hide spoiler)]
#6 The Accidental Sire

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Unread New Books
Desperate Duchesses - #9 Seven Minutes in Heaven
Night Prince - #4 Into the Fire
Mercy Thompson - #10 Silence Fallen
Sisters of the Moon - #19 Moon Shimmers
Black Dagger Legacy - #2 Blood Vow
White Trash Zombie - #6 White Trash Zombie Unchained
Eternal Guardians - #8.75 Hunted
Razorland - #4 Vanguard

Charley Davidson - 1/2 Read
✓#11 Eleventh Grave in Moonlight - 7/3
#12 The Trouble with Twelfth Grave (Oct 31)


Black Dagger Brotherhood - 1/2 Read
✓#14 The Beast - 1/13
#15 The Chosen


Psychic Visions - 0/3 Read
#9 Shattered
#10 Into the Abyss
#11 Seeds of Malice (July 18)


Guild Hunter - 0/1 Read + 4/5 Short Stories/Novellas - (view spoiler)[
✓#7.1 A Walk on the Cliffs - 1/21
✓#7.2 A Small Fairy Tale - 1/21
✓#7.3 Fairy Balloons - 1/21
✓#8.1 One Night at the Refuge - 1/21 - (hide spoiler)]
#9 Archangel's Heart
#9.1 An Unexpected Guest
#10 Archangel's Viper (Sept 26)


Dark-Hunter - 1/2 Read - (view spoiler)[
✓#26 Dragonmark - 9/25 - (hide spoiler)]
#27 Dragonsworn


Elemental Assassin - 0/3 Read + 0/3 Short Stories/Novellas
#8.1 Parlor Tricks
#14 Bitter Bite
#14.5 Unwanted
#15 Unraveled
#15.5 Nice Guys Bite
#16 Snared (April 25)


October Daye - 0/2 Read + 0/10 Short Stories/Novellas
#6.1 Rat-Catcher (in A Fantasy Medley 2)
#7.1 Never Shines the Sun (in Chimes at Midnight)
#8.1 The Fixed Stars (in Shattered Shields)
#9.1 Heaps of Pearl
#9.2 Stage of Fools
#9.3 Full of Briars
#9.4 In Little Stars
#10 Once Broken Faith
#10.1 Dreams and Slumbers
#11 The Brightest Fell


InCryptid - 3/3 Read + 29/30 Short Stories/Novellas - (view spoiler)[
✓#0.01 The Flower of Arizona (in Westward Weird) - 1/20
✓#0.02 One Hell of a Ride - 1/20
✓#0.03 No Place Like Home - 1/20
✓#0.04 Stingers and Strangers (in Dead Man's Hand) - 1/20
✓#0.05 Married in Green - 1/20
✓#0.06 Sweet Poison Wine - 1/20
✓#0.07 The First Fall - 1/20
✓#0.08 Loch and Key - 1/20
✓#0.09 We Both Go Down Together - 1/21
✓#0.10 Oh Pretty Bird - 1/21
✓#0.11 Bury Me In Satin - 1/21
✓#0.12 Snakes and Ladders - 1/21
✓#0.13 Broken Paper Hearts - 1/21
✓#0.14 The Star of New Mexico - 1/21
✓#0.2 The Way Home - 1/21
✓#0.9 Tailed (in Urban Allies) - 1/21
✓#2.1 Blocked - 1/21
✓#2.2 Bad Dream Girl (in Glitter and Mayhem) - 1/21
✓#2.3 Jammed (in Games Creatures Play) - 9/10
✓#2.4 Survival Horror (in Press Start to Play) - 1/21
✓#2.5 Red as Snow (in Hex in the City) - 1/21
✓#2.6 Black as Blood - 1/21
✓#2.7 White as a Raven's Wing - 1/21
✓#3.1 The Ghosts of Bourbon Street - 1/22
✓#3.2 IM - 1/22
✓#3.3 Snake in the Glass - 1/22
✓#3.4 Swamp Bromeliad - 1/22
✓#3.5 Waking Up In Vegas - 1/22
✓#3.6 My Last Name - 1/22
✓#4 Pocket Apocalypse - 3/29
✓#5 Chaos Choreography - 7/2 - (hide spoiler)]
#5.1 Sleepover (in Shadowed Souls) - (view spoiler)[
✓#6 Magic For Nothing - 9/9 - (hide spoiler)]


Family Blood Ties - 0/2 Read
#10 Vampire in Control
#11 Vampire in Charge


Love by Numbers - 2/3 Read - (view spoiler)[
✓#1 Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake - 3/19
✓#2 Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord - 8/30 - (hide spoiler)]
#3 Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart

[Cassandra]

Self Challenge
Finish My Kindle Freebies - 0/12 Read
Turns out I have 12 of these left, completely unplanned but that works out really well - read one a month!
Asking for Trouble by Millie Criswell
The Prince Next Door by Sue Civil-Brown
Forbidden by Helen Kirkman
Hurricane Hannah by Sue Civil-Brown
Blame It on Chocolate by Jennifer Greene
Romance: Broken by Paige Powers
Remember This by Shae Buggs
Lake Dreams by Sontheimer Murphy
Angels to Ashes by Drew Foote
Cinderella and the Werewolf Prince by Mandy Monroe
Hunger by Max Allan
The Infidel's Garden by Ingrid Banwell

[Cassandra]

A Non Fiction Adventure
I just want to read one non fiction book each month in 2017. I've read 34/50 books for this challenge so far and I'd like to finish it early (it ends in 2019)
Library Books - Overdrive
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney
Life of Elizabeth I, The by Alison Weir
Henry VIII: The King and His Court by Alison Weir
Cosmos by Carl Sagan


Dead Tree Library
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond


+ Bonus Owned Dead Tree NonFiction
Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War by Sam R. Watkinds
Charlemagne by Harold Lamb
Silent Knights: Blowing the Whistle on Military Accidents and Their Cover-Ups by Alan E. Diehl
The Knight's Templar by Stephen Howarth
How The Pro-choice Movement Saved America : Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex by Cristina Page
Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman by Nancy Marie Brown
Economies in Transition: Comparing Asia and Europe by Wing Thye Woo
Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000 1300 by John France
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen E. Ambrose
A Brief History of Cleopatra by M.J. Trow


Read in 2017