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That said, I consider this challenge a success, because it did motivate me to make progress on some of the series I'd started reading books I already own. I may or may not manage one more in December. Which one will it be??
Here's my list:
✅✅Debut Author - Arkady Martin
✅A Memory Called Empire🕵️♂️
✅A Desolation Called Peace💕
Fantasy - Tornor Trilogy
✅Watchtower (read prior to 2021)
✅Dancers of Arun💃
The Northern Girl
Science Fiction - Lock In
✅Lock In🕵️♂️
✅Unlocked
Head On
✅✅Science Fiction - Semiosis
✅Semiosis (read prior to 2021)
✅Interference
SF - Oxford Time Travel
✅Doomsday Book (read prior to 2021)
To Say Nothing of the Dog🐕
✅Black Out (read prior to 2021)
✅All Clear (read prior to 2021)
Genre Bender - Broken Earth
✅The Fifth Season (already read)
✅The Obelisk Gate🐞
The Stone Sky (in progress)
Quartet - Starfarers Quartet
Longer series - Murder Bot
✅Compulsory
✅All Systems red (read prior to 2021)
✅Artificial Condition
Rogue Protocol
Exit Strategy
Home
Network Effect
Fugitive Telemetry
✅✅Favorite Author - Ursula K. LeGuin
✅Earthsea - Daughter of Odren🌺
✅All other Earthsea books/stories (read prior to 2021)
New to me author - Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children Series)
✅Every Heart a Doorway
All the rest
✅✅Trilogy - The Imperial Raadch
✅Ancillary Justice (read prior to 2021)
✅Ancillary Sword🛸
✅Ancillary Mercy


Favorite Author: Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Fantasy: Beth Cato, Clockwork Dagger
Trilogy: Kate Elliott, Court of Fives

I think that it doesn't matter if we did many squares or not, what matters is that we managed to complete some series. That is in itself a great achievement!
I also see that you didn't pick The Starfarers Quartet. I want to do this too and didn't pick it this year. Perhaps we can br it in 2022?

Finished Series:
✔️Fantasy
Between Two Thorns Great 5 stars series!
✔️Between Two Thorns (read before 2021),
✔️Any Other Name,
✔️All is Fair,
✔️A Little Knowledge,
✔️All Good Things
Trilogy
I managed to complete two trilogies!
✔️The Deathless (read before 2021)
✔️The Ruthless
✔️The Boundless
✔️Mistborn: The Final Empire (read before 2021)
✔️The Well of Ascension,
✔️The Hero of Ages
✔️Longer Series
I managed to complete 2 Longer series!
The Invisible Library An entertaining fantasy of manners, 4 stars series
✔️The Invisible Library (read before 2021)
✔️The Masked City (read before 2021)
✔️The Burning Page
✔️The Lost Plot
✔️The Mortal Word
✔️The Secret Chapter
✔️The Dark Archive
And a cozy mystery/paranormal fantasy/romance series, I read this whole series this year, and it was an entertaining 4 stars series too.
✔️The Vampire Knitting Club
✔️Stitches and Witches
✔️Crochet and Cauldrons
✔️Stockings and Spells
✔️Purls and Potions
✔️Fair Isle and Fortunes
✔️Lace and Lies
✔️Bobbles and Broomsticks
✔️Cat's Paws and Curses
✔️Popcorn and Poltergeists
✔️Garters and Gargoyles
✔️Diamonds and Daggers
✔️Herringbones and Hexes
✔️Ribbing and Runes
I also read a lot of sequels in other series that I decided to finish next year. Therefore:
B) Bonus challenges
2) has a weapon (or the name of a weapon) on the cover: you collect the knife 🔪
✔️Oathbringer
✔️Shards of Honor &
✔️Barrayar,
3) has a person on the cover: you collect the dancer 💃
✔️Words of Radiance
✔️The Ruthless
✔️The Boundless,
✔️War of the Cards
✔️Borders of Infinity
5) has stars or planets on the cover: you collect the star ✨
✔️ A Desolation Called Peace
✔️The Warrior's Apprentice
6) has an fantastical/not real creature or the name of one on the cover: you collect the unicorn 🦄
✔️Magic Stars
7) has a real animal/name of one on the cover: you collect that animal's emoji 🐰🐒🐅🦅🦚🐟 etc. (repeatable)
✔️Prime Deceptions
10) features a love story/couple/some romantic elements: you collect the hearts 💕
✔️Sapphire Flames
✔️Emerald Blaze
11) features space travel: you collect the UFO 🛸
✔️The Ghost Brigades
12) features a very cold, icy environment or a very hot one: you collect ice ❄ or fire 🔥 (repeatable)
Icy Europa Moon❄✔️The Life Below


Now that others have posted more details, I feel like I ought to as well.
First, the
Wall of Shame: 5
Started a series this year. Four of them were SFFBC BOTMs which contributed toward another goal, so I don't feel that bad about these.
The Witcher: The Last Wish
So I'm a Spider, So What?: So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. 1 (and 3 more)
Between Earth and Sky: Black Sun (this is the only volume of this series out so far, so I'm also caught up?)
Steerswoman: The Steerswoman
LotR: The Fellowship of the Ring
The March of Progress: 7
(continued a previously started series)
I'll include the year I read the previous volume, just for fun.
2018 Los Nefilim: Where Oblivion Lives
2020 Discworld: Pyramids
2020 Elantra: Cast in Fury, The Emperor's Wolves
2020 Murderbot: Exit Strategy, Network Effect
2016 Merry Gentry: A Stroke of Midnight
I'll be doing a personal challenge along these lines next year, focusing harder on series I was enjoying but somehow set aside for five years or longer. Among them are Dreamblood Chronicles, Deverry, Dragon Prince, Women of the Otherworld....



Favourite author (Stephen Lawhead, Eirlandia)
Fantasy (Juliet Marillier, Warrior Bards)
Science Fiction (Brandon Sanderson, Skyward - have read both of the 3 books that are out)
I'm almost finished with:
Debut/New-to-you author / Longer series (Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library) - 1 more book to go, which I have in my library stack and will read after 'Ariadne'. Can't decide which category to put it in, though.
I could probably also finish the Trilogy category if I wanted to (Stephen Lawhead, The Dragon King Saga - an old one I had around, re-read), but am not hugely motivated - definitely prefer new stories to old ones.
This will mean getting both astro 🐱🏍 and hipster 🐱🚀
I'd also like to do this again next year, or perhaps just continue.
I also started some new series, because so many nice books around!


My cats tied! So they can share the trophy. (Poor hipster cat gets a participation medal, he tried his best)
🐱👤 ^🏆^ 🐱🚀 (🐱👓😓)
Congrats to everyone for taking part this year, it's been fun!
Debut author - The Kingston Cycle by C. L. Polk
Genre Bender - The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin
Longer Series - The Wayward Children Series by Seanan McGuire
Trilogy - The Market of Monsters Trilogy by Rebecca Schaeffer
Quartet - The Wayfarers Quartet by Becky Chambers
Fantasy - The Simon Snow Series by Rainbow Rowell
Sci-fi - The Binti Series by Nnedi Okorafor
Favorite Author - The Discworld Witches Series by Terry Pratchett
New Author - The Memoirs of Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
❄️

💕

🔪

🐇

💃🏽

🕵️♂️

🧛♂️

✨

🌺

🐉

🛸

🦄

👽

🧟

🔥

And ten ladybugs 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞

Congrats, dear Roo! 🎉✨🎇👏
And also congratulations to everyone who's participated and I'm happy the challenge helped you make progress in your unfinished-series-pile. 🥰
New 2022 challenge coming very soon!


I've finished "White Sand" and needed to make a change between two boxes. My Genere-Bender box was a Polish urban fantasy for kids series written by my high school friend. And she wrote one more book in this series. Unfortunately, I'm not able to get the copy and read it before the end of the year. So I can cross that box with the "The Broken Earth" series.
Now I have to check the emotes.
Fantasy:
"White Sand" - completed by reading "White Sand vol 3."
Sand is a weapon here 🔪. People on the cover 💃, a couple is involved 💕, a hot environment 🔥.
Sci-Fi:
"Murderbot Diaries": I've read the whole series this year.
1) All Systems Red
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2) Artificial Condition
3) Rogue Protocol
4) Exit Strategy
4.5) Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory
5) Network Effect
6) Fugitive Telemetry
I'll sum up icons: 🔪, 💃, 🌺,✨,🕵🏻♂️,💕 and 🛸.
Genre- Bender:
"The Broken Earth" (the whole series).
1) The Fifth Season
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2) The Obelisk Gate
3) The Stone Sky
The only icons I can think of here is 💕
And 🐱👤 for a single bingo row :)
I'm looking forward to joining next year's bingo!

I did all the squares:
New To You: The Expanse - I read all the books and short stories available and completed 👽 🔥🛸 ✨ with that series
Genre Bender: Thursday Next - So sad this series is over
Triology: The Folk of the Air and completed ❄ 🪱
Quartet: Wayfarers, love Becky Chambers
Science Fiction: Murderbot, pretty funny and good shorts
Debut Author: Inheritance Triology, love N.K. Jemisin
Longer Series: Harry Dresden, guilty pleasure and completed 🔪🧛🏾♂️👻🦄 🕵️♂️ 💃
Favorite Author: Wayward Children by Seanan McGuire
Fantasy: Hound Sage and Wizards of Once where I completed 🐉 which was the hardest for me to complete and that's why I did two for that square

- ETA ... now that I started going through my read list I see that I actually have finished a lot more series than I thought I had, so I did manage two columns (the 1st and the 3rd) and the two diagonals
Favourite Author: Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson (read books 1-3)
Debut Author: Shadows of the Apt series by Adrian Tchaikovsky (read books 2 - 10)
Science Fiction: MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood (read books 1 -3)
Commonwealth Saga by Peter Hamilton (read book 2)
Genre Bender: The Gameshouse Trilogy by Claire North (read books 1 - 3)
Fantasy: Annals of the Western Shore by Ursula K LeGuin (read books 1-3)
Longer Series: The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (read books 1-14)
2 columns and 2 diagonals gives me 🐱🚀🐱🚀🐱👓🐱👓
Bonus Challenge:
- Dragon on the cover: The Dragon reborn 🐉
- Weapon on the cover: The Path of Daggers 🔪
- Person on the cover: Lord of Chaos 💃
- Landscape on the cover: The Great Hunt 🌺
- Stars or Planets on the cover: A Crown of Swords ✨
- Fantastical creature on the cover: Seal of the Worm 🦄
- Real Animal name on the cover: Dragonfly falling (can't find a dragonfly emoticon)
- murder investigation: ???? (that's the one I didn't get)
- alien/vampire/zombie/ghost: Cytonic 👽
- love story: Salute the Dark 💕
- space travel: Judas Unchained 🛸
- very cold environment: Heart of Winter ❄
Thanks a lot for hosting this challenge, Eva! It was great fun!

Gabi, A Memory Called Empire is a murder investigation and you read that this year. So is Touch. You got that!

@Ryan: Empire is the first in a series and doesn't count for this challenge and Touch isn't part of a series.
Touch kind of is part of a series as North said that they're all in the same universe and her most recent release has references to all her previous works. So feel free to claim that emoji. Touch would be the second book after First Fifteen Lives.
Turns out I've managed to complete FIFTEEN series this year. I'll do a proper update before the year is out.
Turns out I've managed to complete FIFTEEN series this year. I'll do a proper update before the year is out.

Finished 9/9 (12/29)
1. Favorite author: Seanan McGuire,Across the Green Grass Fields, Wayward Children #6
2. New-to-you Author: Rosemary Kirstein, Steerswoman books (read all 4)
3. Debut Author: DJ Older, Bone Street Rumba trilogy: #2 Midnight Taxi Tango, #3 Battle Hill Bolero (read 2)
4. Fantasy: The Ghost Train to New Orleans, Mur Lafferty, Shambling Guides #2
5. Science Fiction: The Relentless Moon, Mary Robinette Kowal, #3 Lady Astronaut
6. Genre-bender, Justina Ireland, Deathless Divide, Dread Nation #2
7. Trilogy: Jade Legacy, Fonda Lee, Jade Bone Saga #3
8. Quartet: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers, Wayfarers #4
9. Longer series: Calculated Risks, Seanan McGuire, Incryptid #10
I also got all the bonus challenges, but there's a lot to list, so here's the emojis I collected: 🌺💃🔪🐞🛸🕵️♂️🐞🐞💕🧛♂️❄ ❄🦅🧟♀️✨🐉🦋🐅🐞🐞🐞🦄❄🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🧟♀️🐞

Fantasy = Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children Series
Trilogy = Pamela Sargent's Watchstar Trilogy
Favorite Author = Django Wexler's Wells of Sorcery
Science Fiction = Mark Lawrence's Impossible Times
Quartet = J. V. Jones' Sword of Shadows
Debut Author = Nancy Springer's Complete Book of Isles
Longer Series = Elizabeth Moon's Paladins Legacy
and didn't make it to these:
New to you = Becky Chambers's Wayfarer's series (I own four)
Genre Bender = Simon Green's Swords of Haven
I made one row, one column and one diagonal
I will be reading the Becky Chambers books next year

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Finished thirteen series this year. Came close to finishing a few others but stalled out on the penultimate book too often.
The Expanse Leviathan Falls
Yesterday's Kin trilogy Terran Tomorrow
The Quantum Evolution The Quantum War
Mass Effect Andromeda Annihilation
Dreadnought Sovereign
Beast Player The Beast Warrior
Dragon Jousters Aerie
The Winternight Trilogy The Winter of the Witch
Semiosis Interference
Shattered Sea trilogy Half a War
The Steerswoman The Language of Power
The Magician Magician
Remembrance of Earth's Past The Redemption of Time
Might come back and update for the bonus challenges :)
The Expanse Leviathan Falls
Yesterday's Kin trilogy Terran Tomorrow
The Quantum Evolution The Quantum War
Mass Effect Andromeda Annihilation
Dreadnought Sovereign
Beast Player The Beast Warrior
Dragon Jousters Aerie
The Winternight Trilogy The Winter of the Witch
Semiosis Interference
Shattered Sea trilogy Half a War
The Steerswoman The Language of Power
The Magician Magician
Remembrance of Earth's Past The Redemption of Time
Might come back and update for the bonus challenges :)


And with this I have completed the bingo as well as all the bonus challenges 🎉
My bingo:
Favorite author: Lois McMaster Bujold - Penric and Desdemona
New-to-You Author: C.L. Polk - The Kingston Cylce
Debut Author: Emily Tesh - The Greenhollow Duology
Fantasy: Jordan Ifueko - Raybearer
Science Fiction: Martha Wells - The Murderbot Diaries
Genre-Bender: Seanan McGuire - Wayward Children
Trilogy: Mary Robinette Kowal - Lady Astronaut
Quartet: Becky Chambers - Wayfarers
Longer Series: Kevin Hearne - Die Chroniken des eisernen Druiden (The Iron Druid Chronicles)
My bonus challenges:
🐉 Kuang, R.F. - The Poppy War (2) - The Dragon Republic
🔪 Hearne, Kevin - Die Chroniken des eisernen Druiden (6) - Gejagt
💃 Hearne, Kevin - Die Chroniken des eisernen Druiden (9) - Zerschmettert
🌺 McGuire, Seanan - Wayward Children (6) - Across the Green Grass Fields
✨ Polk, C.L. - The Kingston Cycle (3) - Soulstar
🦄 Arden, Katherine - Winternight Trilogy (3) - The Winter of the Witch
🐶🐶 Hearne, Kevin - Die Chroniken des eisernen Druiden (8,5) - Oberons blutige Fälle
🐑🐑🐑 Bujold, Lois McMaster - Penric and Desdemona (2) - Penric and the Shaman
🦊 Bujold, Lois McMaster - Penric and Desdemona (5) - Penric's Fox
🐴🐴 Polk, C.L. - The Kingston Cycle (2) - Stormsong
🐊 🦏 Ifueko, Jordan - Raybearer (2) - Redemptor
🐅🐅🐅 Vo, Nghi - Singing Hills Cycle (2) - When the Tiger came down the Mountain
🐍 Bujold, Lois McMaster - Penric and Desdemona (10) - The Assassins of Thasalon
🐁 Bujold, Lois McMaster - Penric and Desdemona (11) - Knot of Shadows
🐺🐆 Bujold, Lois McMaster - World of the Five Gods (3) - The Hallowed Hunt
🐴 Arden, Katherine - Winternight Trilogy (2) - The Girl in the Tower
🕵️♂️ Hearne, Kevin - Überfallen
🧛 McGuire, Seanan - Wayward Children (2) - Down among the sticks and bones
👽 Chambers, Becky - Wayfarers (4) - The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
👻 Hearne, Kevin - Die Chroniken des eisernen Druiden (8) - Aufgespießt
👻👻 Bujold, Lois McMaster - World of the Five Gods (2) - Paladin of Souls
💕 McGuire, Seanan - Wayward Children (5) - Come Tumbling Down
🛸 Wells, Martha - Murderbot Diaries (2) - Artificial Condition
❄️ Hearne, Kevin - Die Chroniken des eisernen Druiden (7) - Erschüttert
🐞 Bujold, Lois McMaster - Penric and Desdemona (9) - Masquerade in Lodi
🐞 Bujold, Lois McMaster - Penric and Desdemona (3) - Penric's Mission
🐞 Bujold, Lois McMaster - Penric and Desdemona (4) - Mira's Last Dance
🐞 Bujold, Lois McMaster - Penric and Desdemona (6) - The Prisoner of Limnos
🐞 Bujold, Lois McMaster - Penric and Desdemona (7) - The Orphans of Raspay
🐞 Bujold, Lois McMaster - Penric and Desdemona (8) - The Physicians of Vilnoc
🐞 Tesh, Emily - The Greenhollow Duology (2) - The Drowned Country
🐞 Wells, Martha - Murderbot Diaries (3) - Rogue Protocol
🐞 Wells, Martha - Murderbot Diaries (4) - Exit Strategy
🐞 Wells, Martha - Murderbot Diaries (6) - Fugitive Telemetry
🐞 Wells, Martha - Murderbot Diaries (5) - Network effect
🐞 Stålenhag, Simon - Tales from the Loop (2) - Things from the Flood
🐞 Speck, Daniel - Piccola Sicilia (2) - Jaffa Road
🐞 Kowal, Mary Robinette - Lady Astronaut (2) - The Fated Sky
🐞 Kowal, Mary Robinette - Lady Astronaut (3) - The Relentless Moon
🐞 Scalzi, John - The Interdependency (2) - The Consuming Fire
🐞 Scalzi, John - The Interdependency (3) - The Last Emperox
🐞 Kuang, R.F. - The Poppy War (3) - The Burning God
In total I've completed (or read up-to-date) 17 series. That's a huge achievement for me and I'm already looking forward to next year's series challenge 😃

I've just in time finished my quartet and therefore succesfully completed the bingo as well - final wrap-up:
A) Bingo
🐱👤🐱👤🐱👤 🐱🚀🐱🚀🐱🚀 🐱👓🐱👓🏆









B) Bonus challenges (referring to individual sequel books)
1) has a dragon (or the word dragon) on the cover: you get the dragon
🐉 Night of the Dragon
2) has a weapon (or the name of a weapon) on the cover: you collect the knife
🔪 Soul of the Sword
3) has a person on the cover
💃Rogue Protocol
4) has a landscape on the cover
🌺Seanan McGuire - Across the Green Grass Fields
5) has stars or planets on the cover
✨ Exit Strategy
6) has a fantastical/not real creature or the name of one on the cover
🦄The Dragon Republic
7) has a real animal/name of one on the cover
🐯🐯🐯Nghi Vo - When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
🐈Chaos on CatNet
🐆Lightning in the Blood
🦎 Lustlocked
🐺🐆The Hallowed Hunt
🐍 The Assassins of Thasalon
🐁 Knot of Shadows
🐈 Tunnel of Bones
8) features a murder investigation: you collect the detective
🕵️♂️ Martha Wells - Fugitive Telemetry
9) features an alien/vampire/zombie/ghost (repeatable)
👻 C.L. Polk - Soulstar
🧟♀️ The Witness for the Dead
🧟♀️ Immunity
10) features a love story/couple/some romantic elements
💕 The Empire of Gold
11) features space travel
🛸 Artificial Condition
12) features a very cold, icy environment or a very hot one
❄ C.L. Polk - Stormsong
🔥The Kingdom of Copper
All 12 Bonus-Challenges: 🏅
Lady-Bugs: 🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞🐞
The Consuming Fire
The Last Emperox
The Fated Sky
The Relentless Moon
The Burning God
The Prisoner of Limnos
The Orphans of Raspay
The Physicians of Vilnoc
Pride's Spell
A Local Habitation
Now, on to the 2022 challenge...
Books mentioned in this topic
Rogue Protocol (other topics)Soul of the Sword (other topics)
Exit Strategy (other topics)
Lightning in the Blood (other topics)
A Local Habitation (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Seanan McGuire (other topics)Becky Chambers (other topics)
N.K. Jemisin (other topics)
Beth Cato (other topics)
Kate Elliott (other topics)
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So, what I'm saying is I would probably join in again next year. :)