Laure's 2023 Challenge Thread

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Challenges!

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2023 Read All the Books Challenge
I will be reading 20 books from the shelf.

1 Legends & Lattes by Travis Baltree
2 Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
3 The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
4 Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
5 Caliban's War by James SA Corey
6 American Gods by Neil Gaiman
7 The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
8 The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K Le Guin
9 Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
10 Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

11 The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
12 The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
13 Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
14 The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
15 City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Benett
16 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
17 The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
18 Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
19 The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
20 Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

EXTRA!
21

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TBR Clean Up - 2023

Total: 2/20
I pledge to finish off series I have started in the last five years.

1. Only one
Only one left from this series to finish it off (for now)
Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch

2. Binary
Number #2 in the series
Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Ademeyi

3. Three's company
Finishing off the trilogy ...
The Empire of Gold by SA Chakraborty

4. Four corners of the earth
It says so in the title (and I've just bought the book!)
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

5. Five Finger Discount
MC picks locks and is up to no good!
The Silver Skull by Anne Renwick

6. At sixes and sevens (view spoiler)
Again, finishing off the series, and that means two books instead of one for the prompt - I know confusing!
#6 The Bands of Mourning
#7 The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson

7. Showstopper
The series has been fun to watch, but now, I want to read the books.Abaddon's Gate by James SA Corey

8. Book page total ends in an 8
#11Storm Cursed by Patricia Briggs - pages 368
but I need to read first:
#9 Fire Touched
#10 Silence Fallen

9. Nine-to-five
Ordinary life ... in space.
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

10. Top 10
Definitely in my top 10 series.
Chimes at Midnight by Seanan McGuire
Read: 05/02/23

11. From the library
Going to libraries spells disaster for me - loads of fines etc. - but in my own library, I've got this:
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

12. Let's try this again
I started this last year, now it is time to finish up as book 2 is coming out in January:
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo - Read: 15/01/23

13. Sweet Revenge
Revenge is ...
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie

14. Technical Challenge
Infernal Devices by Philip Reeve
(and if I can A Darkling Plain)

15. My old friend
Yes, this series is an old friend ...
Peace Talks by Jim Butcher
(and if I can Battle Ground)

16. Scrumptious
Being a DnD aficionado, I don't think I am going to be able to resist this one:
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baltree

17. Cover with text only, no images
Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich


18. Around the Shelf
This has been on my TBR for a long time ...
Iron Gold by Pierce Brown

19. Bingeworthy
So many series, I could binge, but I have heard too many recommendations for this one.
Malice by John Gwynne - Read: 05/03/23

20. Zero to hero
There is definitely some growing up going on in that series:
Academ's Fury by Jim Butcher