Finish More Series in 2022 Project!

[Eva]

Hi everyone!

As promised, here's the thread for your (unofficial, I'm not a mod!) 2022 series challenge, which is all about helping you make progress with and finish more series. Villains will be vanquished, worlds will be saved, and epic finales will be seen. 🐱‍🏍
There is a bingo, bonus challenges, and tiny, imaginary emoji prizes. 🥳

A) The 2022 Series Bingo (referring to whole series)


(Explanations:
*Favorite Author = written by one of your faves
*Fresh off the Press = latest book in this series came out in 2020, 2021, or 2022
*Binge-Read= you read the whole series from start to finish in 2022 - easiest with a duology)

Each filled-in bingo row gives you a fox 🦊
Each filled-in column gives you a wolf 🐺
Each diagonal gives you a racoon 🦝

Fill in the whole bingo board by finishing or catching up with one series for each of the bingo prompts (no doubling up), and you get a golden trophy: 🏆



B) Bonus challenges (referring to individual books)

If one of the books in a series you're reading fulfills one of the following prompts, you can earn more cute emoji rewards! This time, even the first book in a series counts for this, but each book can only count for one bonus.

1) Non-human land creature/animal on the cover or in the title: 🐯 (2022 is the year of the water tiger)
2) Water/any other liquid on the cover or in the title: 🌊
3) A flower/plant on the cover or in title: 🌱
4) Wings/flying creature/cloud on the cover or in title: 🐝

5) Book or cover features a scientist/researcher/scholar: 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬
6) Book or cover features a rogue/thief/pirate/assassin: 🐱‍👤
7) Book or cover features an aristocrat/royalty/emperor/empress: 👸🤴
8) Book or cover features a physician/doctor/healer: 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️

9) Sun/moon/star(s) on cover or in title: 🌞
10) Book has LGBTQ+ representation: 🌈
11) Fire/flame on cover or in title: 🔥
12) Book or cover features ruins, a mask or a statue 🗿

If you collect all 12 bonus emojis, you get a medal: 🏅
(Earn an extra sparkle ✨ if you used only sequels for fulfilling this challenge.)

Participants who complete both the bingo board and all 12 bonus challenges by the end of 2022 get a gold medal: 🥇 and much acclaim and applause!

Please feel free to post your thoughts, the series you plan to read, and how it's going. I hope you'll have a wonderful and successful reading year in 2022 and that many long and short series will see some progress!

[Nicol]

YAY! I was just going to do this years with different books for next year but this is WAY more exciting. Thank you for doing this.

[CBRetriever]

1st Book was 5 stars = my rating or someone else's rating? I can't find any books in my TBR pile that are 5 star

and Goodreads or Amazon rating?

[Leticia]

Yay, amazing! I actually have three series that are only missing one book or two to finish so I'm getting some emoticons this year!

[Eva]

CBRetriever wrote: "1st Book was 5 stars = my rating or someone else's rating? I can't find any books in my TBR pile that are 5 star and Goodreads or Amazon rating?"

Your own rating of the first book in that series. If you then finish or catch up with the series this book belongs to you can fill in that bingo square. :-) (It doesn't matter when you read the first book.)

[Myriel]

Woohoo, the new series challenge is here 🤩

Count me in! 😁

[Meredith]

Yay, I'm looking forward to finishing some more series! I'm currently reading my last book needed to fill the 2021 bingo board.

Thank you so much Eva for setting up the bingo board and bonus emoji quest!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Yay! Thank you for bringing this back!

[Gabi]

Thank you, Eva. I think this is the only challenge I will actually be doing in 2022.

[Eva]

So happy that people are going to join again next year! 🥰

[Gabi]

A question: the bingo card still is for finished series. So fresh off the press must be a series where the final volume was/is released 2020-2022 - correct?

[Marie]

I think I am going to join this challenge. I have lots of series that needs completing. I have a question though - what does BIPOC Author mean? I am new here so this is my first time joining challenges here.

Also I have another question - sorry - I actually just started a fantasy series and reading the first book - will that series count toward the bingo challenge if I am in the middle of it now? Or do I need to start reading the books next year?

[Eva]

Gabi wrote: "A question: the bingo card still is for finished series. So fresh off the press must be a series where the final volume was/is released 2020-2022 - correct?"

Correct, it's about the latest release or final volume. :-)

"what does BIPOC Author mean?"

The acronym BIPOC refers to black, indigenous, and other people of color - so if you finish (or catch up with) a series written by a person of color, you can fill in that field.

"will that series count toward the bingo challenge if I am in the middle of it now?"

Yes, of course! This challenge is meant to help people finish the series they've started, so both series you've already started and new ones you start in 2022 both count. :-)

[Amy (Other Amy)]

Oh, fun! I love this idea so, so much! I'm in.

Bingo (full published series completed):
☐A1 Trilogy: Ghost Roads - The Girl in the Green Silk Gown and Angel of the Overpass
☐B1 Science Fiction: Rolling in the Deep - Into the Drowning Deep
✔C1 Fresh Off the Press - Wayward Children - Where the Drowned Girls Go

☐A2 ★★★★★ First Book: Southern Reach -Authority and Acceptance
☐B2 Favorite Author: Middlegame - Middlegame and Seasonal Fears (Pub date May 2022)
☐C2 Fantasy: Singing Hills Cycle - Into the Riverlands (Pub date Oct 2022)

☐A3 BIPOC Author: Broken Earth - The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky
☐B3 Duology: Bourne - Borne and Dead Astronauts
☐C3 Binge Read: Murderbot

(Yes I am trying to clean up my McGuire and VanderMeer backlogs. Why do you ask? LOL.)

Other things to think about: (view spoiler)[
Patternmaster (Octavia Butler): Wild Seed
Marlon James
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Bonus (individual books):
☐Non-human land creature/animal on the cover or in the title: 🐯
✔Water/any other liquid on the cover or in the title: 🌊
☐A flower/plant on the cover or in title: 🌱
☐Wings/flying creature/cloud on the cover or in title: 🐝
☐Book or cover features a scientist/researcher/scholar: 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬
☐Book or cover features a rogue/thief/pirate/assassin: 🐱‍👤
☐Book or cover features an aristocrat/royalty/emperor/empress: 👸🤴
☐Book or cover features a physician/doctor/healer: 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️
☐Sun/moon/star(s) on cover or in title: 🌞
☐Book has LGBTQ+ representation: 🌈
☐Fire/flame on cover or in title: 🔥
☐Book or cover features ruins, a mask or a statue 🗿

☐If you collect all 12 bonus emojis, you get a medal: 🏅
☐Earn an extra sparkle ✨ if you used only sequels for fulfilling the 12 bonuses.
☐Participants who complete both the bingo board and all 12 bonus challenges by the end of 2022 get a gold medal: 🥇 and much acclaim and applause!

Cover Hunt Covers:


All Covers Completed:


My Emojis!:
Bingos:
Bonuses: 🌊

Series Completed in 2022:
Wayward Children

[Marie]

Eva wrote: "The acronym BIPOC refers to black, indigenous, and other people of color - so if you finish (or catch up with) a series written by a person of color, you can fill in that field....
Yes, of course! This challenge is meant to help people finish the series they've started, so both series you've already started and new ones you start in 2022 both count. :-)"

Thank you so much for the explanations!

Very cool! I am in for this one! :)

[Marie]

One more question - lol - do we just pick a spot on this thread to do the challenge or do we need to make a personal thread to keep track of the books?

[Kirsi]

I think I'll join, too. I was just thinking about reading goals for next year and concluded I really need to wrap up at least a few of the gazillion series I've started.

[Gabi]

Eva wrote: "Correct, it's about the latest release or final volume. :-)"

Me again ... (LOL, you are bombarded with questions from everybody now, Eva) - this sounds like I could go with a middle book as well if the final book won't be released until somehwere in the future - do I see this correct?

[CBRetriever]

Marie wrote: "One more question - lol - do we just pick a spot on this thread to do the challenge or do we need to make a personal thread to keep track of the books?"

either or use a spread sheet to keep track of them

[Eva]

@Marie: you're welcome to post in this thread throughout the year to keep track if you like. It's best to keep adding new posts so that other people will get notifications that something has changed and can applaud your progress.

@Gabi: yes, if the series is still ongoing and hasn't been released completely yet, catching up with its current state is enough for this challenge.

[Gabi]

Eva wrote: "@Gabi: yes, if the series is still ongoing and hasn't been released completely yet, catching up with its current state is enough for this challenge"

Yipiiiieh! Then I can use Adrian Tchaikovsky for it! A sure read next year.

[Marie]

Eva wrote: "@Marie: you're welcome to post in this thread throughout the year to keep track if you like. It's best to keep adding new posts so that other people will get notifications that something has change..."

Cool - thank you. :)

[Beth]

Looks good, Eva. Thanks for putting season two together for us.

"Binge reading" being over the year is appreciated by me who has a tough time reading two series books one after the other. :)

I have ideas for both BIPOC author and Fresh off the Press, so that would be a good way to get a diagonal going.

[CBRetriever]

Board:

Trilogy: M.R. Carey's Rampart Trilogy

Science Fiction: Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch Series

Fresh Off The Press: Michelle Sagara's The Wolves of Elantra series

1st Book Was 5 stars: waiting to find the 5 star book

Favorite Author: Joe Abercrombie's The Age of Madness series

Fantasy: Garth Nix's Abhorsen series

BIPOC Author: Sabaa Tahir's An Ember in the Ashes series

Duology: Oliver Pötzsch Faust series

Binge-Read: L.M. Modesitt's Saga of Recluce series - this will take a long, long time as it's 18 books

[Gabi]

The series that are on my radar for next year are the Malazan series, the series starting with Senlin Ascends, The Witcher (will be a monthly read in another group) and the accompanying short story series to Shadows of the Apt. Somehow I have to press them into the prompts :D and then have a look if I can fill some other prompts (or if I've already overdone myself with Malazan)

[CBRetriever]

I really enjoyed the Shadows of the Apt short stories. It was nice to get a focus on some of the minor characters.

[Roo]

yay!! so excited that this is back! this is the one challenge that i managed to complete last year!

[Beth]

CB's mentioning Wolves of Elantra makes me wonder how series with subseries, or series of series (i.e. Hobb's Elderlings) are handled for this challenge? "However we want them to" would be a fine answer. :D

[Eva]

Yes, however you want them to. :-)

[CBRetriever]

to me if they have a new series title then they're a new series

[Aga]

Yey! New bingo! I have so many series to finish this year.

[Tamara]

👏

I like 'Fresh off the press'! This will probably be either 'Cytonic' in the 'Skyward' series, or the end of 'The Invisible Library' series. Unless the next book in the 'Scholomance' series comes out this year.

'Duology' is also a nice addition. I'll have to look for one, as I'm not aware of any yet that I'm considering.

'Binge read' is fun. If I'm really committed, this could be 'The Stormlight Archive' - which could also fit into 'Fresh off the press' - although I read the first book in December. But who's counting? 😉

Thanks for your ideas, Eva. I might do a combination of last year's and this year's cards, to make it most relevant to the kind of books I read.

[Leticia]

Cytonic and the 8th Invisible Library book are in my TBR too. One of those will be my choice for 'Fresh off the press' surely.

[Jamie]

Series TBR for 2022: Revelation Space: Revelation Space, Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap
Liveship Traders: Ship of Magic, The Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny
The Academy: The Engines of God, Deepsix DONE, Chindi DONE, Omega, Odyssey, Cauldron, Starhawk, The Long Sunset


Bingo (full published series completed):
☐A1 Trilogy:
☐B1 Science Fiction: Revelation Space series, in progress, started 6/1/2022
☐C1 Fresh Off the Press -

☐A2 ★★★★★ First Book:
☐B2 Favorite Author:
☐C2 Fantasy: Stormlight Archive, by Brandon Sanderson, finished book #4 January 2022, might still finish the 2 extra-serial books before considering this one done (till book #5 comes out anyway)

☐A3 BIPOC Author:
☐B3 Duology:
☐C3 Binge Read:

Bonus (individual books):
☐Non-human land creature/animal on the cover or in the title: 🐯
☐Water/any other liquid on the cover or in the title: 🌊
☐A flower/plant on the cover or in title: 🌱
☐Wings/flying creature/cloud on the cover or in title: 🐝
☐Book or cover features a scientist/researcher/scholar: 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬
☐Book or cover features a rogue/thief/pirate/assassin: 🐱‍👤
☐Book or cover features an aristocrat/royalty/emperor/empress: 👸🤴
☐Book or cover features a physician/doctor/healer: 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️
☐Sun/moon/star(s) on cover or in title: 🌞
☐Book has LGBTQ+ representation: 🌈
☐Fire/flame on cover or in title: 🔥
☐Book or cover features ruins, a mask or a statue 🗿

☐If you collect all 12 bonus emojis, you get a medal: 🏅
☐Earn an extra sparkle ✨ if you used only sequels for fulfilling the 12 bonuses.
☐Participants who complete both the bingo board and all 12 bonus challenges by the end of 2022 get a gold medal: 🥇 and much acclaim and applause!

Cover Hunt Covers:

All Covers Completed:

My Emojis!:
Bingos:
Bonuses:

Series Completed in 2022:

[DivaDiane]

I’m sure I’m going to do this challenge again, but I’ve been too busy to think about it!

Jamie, do you mind if I steal your checklist? That’s brilliant!

[Leticia]

It's a cool checklist indeed! I would steal it too.

[Cronache di Betelgeuse]

Cronache di Betelgeuse - Finish More Series in 2022 Project

Bingo
☐ A1 Trilogy
☐ B1 Science Fiction
☐ C1 Fresh Off the Press
☐ A2 First Book was 5 stars
☐ B2 Favorite Author
☐ C2 Fantasy
☐ A3 BIPOC Author
☐ B3 Duology
☐ C3 Binge Read

Bonus
☐ Non-human land creature/animal on the cover or in the title: 🐯
☐ Water/any other liquid on the cover or in the title: 🌊
☐ A flower/plant on the cover or in title: 🌱
☐ Wings/flying creature/cloud on the cover or in title: 🐝
☐ Book or cover features a scientist/researcher/scholar: 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬
☐ Book or cover features a rogue/thief/pirate/assassin: 🐱‍👤
☐ Book or cover features an aristocrat/royalty/emperor/empress: 👸🤴
☐ Book or cover features a physician/doctor/healer: 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️
☐ Sun/moon/star(s) on cover or in title: 🌞
☐ Book has LGBTQ+ representation: 🌈
☐ Fire/flame on cover or in title: 🔥
☐ Book or cover features ruins, a mask or a statue 🗿

General rules
☐ If you collect all 12 bonus emojis, you get a medal: 🏅
☐ Earn an extra sparkle ✨ if you used only sequels for fulfilling the 12 bonuses.
☐ Participants who complete both the bingo board and all 12 bonus challenges by the end of 2022 get a gold medal: 🥇 and much acclaim and applause!

My Emojis!
Bingos:
Bonuses:

Series Completed in 2022:

[Manda]

Definitely joining this. Need motivation to actually finish series rather than skip around all the time. 😛

Now to decide where to put Joe Abercrombie’s Age of Madness trilogy in the checklist…

[Llyren]

Of course I'm in. Last year the challenge was a really good motivator to finally get some series finished or at least continued.
Unfortunately, I won't be able to use Wheel of Time as binge-read because I started that one in December (insert slightly hysterical laughter)

Bingo
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Bonus
✔ Non-human land creature/animal on the cover or in the title: 🐯
-> Jordan Ifueko - Raybearer (2) - Redemptor
✔ Water/any other liquid on the cover or in the title: 🌊
-> Seanan McGuire - Where the Drowned Girls Go
✔ A flower/plant on the cover or in title: 🌱
-> Robert Jordan - WoT(3) - The Dragon Reborn
✔ Wings/flying creature/cloud on the cover or in title: 🐝
-> Crowbones

✔ Book or cover features a scientist/researcher/scholar: 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬
-> The Last Graduate
✔ Book or cover features a rogue/thief/pirate/assassin: 🐱‍👤
-> The Theft of Sunlight
✔ Book or cover features an aristocrat/royalty/emperor/empress: 👸🤴
-> Arkady Martine - A Desolation Called Peace
✔ Book or cover features a physician/doctor/healer: 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️
-> T. Kingfisher - Paladin's Hope

✔ Sun/moon/star(s) on cover or in title: 🌞
-> Becky Chambers - The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
✔ Book has LGBTQ+ representation: 🌈
-> Sisters of the Forsaken Stars
✔ Fire/flame on cover or in title: 🔥
-> T. Kingfisher - Paladin's Strength
✔ Book or cover features ruins, a mask or a statue 🗿
-> Robert Jordan - WoT(4) - The Shadow Rising

General
✔ All 12 bonus emojis: 🏅
✔ Extra sparkle for sequel-only bonuses: ✨
✔ Bingo board + all 12 bonus challenges: 🥇

My Emojis
Bingo:🦊
Bonus:🌊🔥👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️🌱🐝🌞🌈🐱‍👤👸🤴🗿🐯
Completions:🏅✨🥇

Series Completed/Caught up in 2022:
Wayward Children, The Saint of Steel, World of the Others, Our Lady of the Endless Worlds, Wayfarers, Teixcalaan, Monstress, The Green Bone Saga, Raybearer, The Aurora Cycle

[Gabi]

@Llyren: if you get through the whole WoT series this year I would DEFINITELY count it as binge-read (or as self-chastisement - but I think we don't have that prompt XD)

[Beth]

Put self-chastisement on the list for 2023? :D (I'm kidding, please don't add this!)

[Eva]

Hahaha! Wonderful idea, I'll just add a column for masochists! 😂

☐ Binge-read WoT, Malazan, and the Dresden Files in the same year
☐ All books in series were 1 star reads for you
☐ Series is in a language you don't understand

(Just kidding!)

[CBRetriever]

Eva wrote: "Hahaha! Wonderful idea, I'll just add a column for masochists! 😂

☐ Binge-read WoT, Malazan, and the Dresden Files in the same year
☐ All books in series were 1 star reads for you
☐ Series is in a ..."

I read Wheel of Time Feb to Jul of 2018
Malazan series from May to Oct 2020
Dresden series in two spurts: May to June 2019 (Books 1-8) and Oct 2021 for the rest of them

[Llyren]

@CBRetriever:
Woah, seriously impressive!
I'm just in general bad at binge-reading series and I think I barely ever manage more than three or four books in sequence. Kudos to everyone who can do so!

[Eva]

Reading a duology or trilogy counts for the binge square, so no worries! :-)

CB: wow!!

[CBRetriever]

I'm trying for another binge this year: I own 18 of L.M. Modesitt's Saga of Recluce books, so I'm going to attack them.

If I make it through them by June, I might try the Drizzt books (number unknown) that I picked up via the Humble bundles

I guess I'm a glutton for punishment (hopefully it's a pleasure instead)

[Leticia]

I have the Drizzt books too.

[Gabi]

@Eva: I adore the "read a series in a language you don't understand" prompt more than I should XD!

[Gabi]

Wow! CBRetriever, you are a binge champion!

[Leticia]

Gabi wrote: "@Eva: I adore the "read a series in a language you don't understand" prompt more than I should XD!"

It would be like this song then:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=103bx...

:-)