2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Update msg 18

29/60 part of series books
1/10 completed series

1. 🎧📖 Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs 01/06 ★★★★☆
2. 🎧📖 The Becoming by Nora Roberts 1/7 ★★★★☆
3. 🎧 Crime on the Fens by Joy Ellis 1/10 ★★★★☆
4. 🎧 Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien 1/11 ★★★★☆
5. 🎧📖 Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke 1/12 ★★★★☆
6. 🎧 Powerless by Lauren Roberts 1/13 ★★★★★
7. 🎧 Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews 1/14 ★★★★★
8. 🎧 Dim Sum of All Fears by Vivien Chien 1/17 ★★★★☆
9. 🎧📖 Never a Hero by Vanessa Len 1/22 ★★★★☆
10. 🎧📖 What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli 1/23 ★★★☆☆
11. 🎧📖 1st to Die by James Patterson 1/27 ★★★★☆
12. 🎧📖 Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon 1/27 ★★★☆☆
13. 🎧📖 Barbarian Alien by Ruby Dixon 1/28 ★★★☆☆
14. 🎧📖 Radiant Sin by Katee Robert 1/28 ★★★☆☆

15. 🎧📖 Cruel Seduction by Katee Robert 2/1 ★★★★☆
16. 🎧 The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes 2/2 ★★★★☆
17. 🎧📖 Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs 2/4 ★★★★☆
18. 🎧📖 Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews 2/5 ★★★★☆
19. 🎧📖 Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews 2/6 ★★★★☆
20. 🎧📖 Magic Bleeds by Ilona Andrews 2/7 ★★★★☆
21. 🎧📖 Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead by Elle Cosimano 2/8 ★★★★☆
22. 🎧📖 A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin 2/9 ★★★★☆
23. 🎧📖 Twisted Love by Ana Huang 2/11 ★★★★☆
24. 🎧📖 Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas 2/11 ★★★★☆
25. 🎧📖 Again the Magic by Lisa Kleypas 2/14 ★★★★☆
26. 🎧📖 It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas 2/16 ★★★★☆
27. 🎧📖 Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas 2/16 ★★★★☆
28. 🎧📖 How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper 2/19 ★★☆☆☆
29. 🎧📖 The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose 2/24 ★★★★☆

Update to message 5

2/12

update message 48

7/44

Update to message 93, 9/25 books.
Completed/caught up series so far: 4.

✔ The Hammer of Thor
✔ Evil Under the Sun
✔ Divine Rivals

Rebel Skies: COMPLETE
✔ Rebel Fire

Crescent City: COMPLETE
✔ House of Flame and Shadow

Update February msg 12: 7/31
Tier: 01-10: Serial Dabbler 📖 - no change… yet! 😊

Update to message #51 - 12 books read!

Please increase my goal to 50! Thanks!

Update to msg #61 please! Progress: 3/4 series' & 8/12 books

Update to message 87: 3/53 books read

I'm now a Series Dabbler

February update: message #42
Goal: 4/25, 16.00%

Continuing - 1/10
 01. Jeeves [7/15]
     #6: Right Ho, Jeeves - 26 Feb 2024, 3/5

Starting - 2/5
 02. Mrs. Pollifax [1/14]
     #1: The Unexpected Mrs Pollifax - 02 Feb 2024, 4/5

Updated message 6: 10/30

Updated message #32

7/36

Updating msg #40

22/35 completed

Update to message #21

PROGRESS: 55/150

Updated msg 22

28/100

Update message 52

7/50

Message 72 updated: 4 of 35 completed!

Updated till here, and we have our first Seasoned Serial Reader! :D

Update Message #11

6/20 books

I'll be going for 51+: Seasoned Serial Reader 🍃

Current completed count - 10 series, 53/52 Books

One of my goals this year was to finish some series, or at least read the second book, so this is the perfect challenge for me!

Finished/Caught up? Series - Installment:

x Six of Crows - Crooked Kingdom (1/1)
x Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers, Return of the King (2/2)
x Heartstopper - Volume 5 (1/1)
x The Empyrean - Fourth Wing, Iron Flame (2/2)
x Stream Raideres - These Divided Shores (1/1)
x Chaos Walking - The New World (1/?)
Discworld - The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade, Carpe Jugulum, Mort, Sourcery, Reaper Man, Eric, Guards! Guards!, Pyramids (11/?)
x The Raven Cycle - The Raven Boys, The Dream Thieves, Blue Lily, Lily Blue, The Raven King (4/?)
x The Book of Dust - La Belle Sauvage, The Secret Commonwealth (2/2)
His Dark Materials - Lyra's Oxford, Serpentine, Once Upon a Time in the North (3/?)
Noumena - Axiom's End (1/3)
x A Series of Unfortunate Events (13/13)
x Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children (7/7)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians - The Lightning Thief, Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Kingdom (3/?)
x Bookshops & Bonedust (1/1)
The Luminaries - The Hunting Moon (1/1)
Regency Faerie Tales - Half a Soul, The Lord Sorcier, The Latch Key (3/?)

Update to Message # 99

Progress 8/41

📕 Innkeeper Chronicles by Ilona Andrews
✅ #2 - Sweep in Peace
✅ #3 -One Fell Sweep

📕 Leveling Up by K.F. Breene
✅ #8 - Magical Midlife Awakening

Update to message #28:
🙇‍♂️ Progress: 10/21 🙇‍♂️

Update message #27 - 15/46

Update msg 22

32/100

Sheila from NC, 2 more books for 12/50. A completed new series, although I think there may be a new book due out later this year.

1. Supernatural investigations ,#1, Amari and the Night Brothers, /book/show/5...
2. Supernatural investigations, #2, Amari and the Great Game, /book/show/5...

Sheila wrote: "Sheila from NC with first update- 10/50 and a new series that is also completed. Delightful -Peter Shandy.

Peter Shandy-#1,Rest You Merry, /book/show/4......"

Love that series

Update to 8, 11/30 read.

Update message 52

8/50

Update #75

18/35 books read

The Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel - Completed
📚 #2 Dawn
📚 #3 Day

Cormoran Strike by Robert Galbraith
#7 The Running Grave

All Day Breakfast Cafe by Lena Gregory
📚 #2 Murder Made to Order
📚 #3 A Cold Brew Killing
#4 A Waffle Lot of Murder

The Inheritance Games
📚 #2 The Hawthorne Legacy
#3 The Final Gambit
#4 The Brothers Hawthorne

Ruth Galloway Series
#2 The Janus Stone

Wednesday Series by Meg Waite Clayton
#2 The Wednesday Daughters

Winter Black by Mary Stone
📚 #1 Winter's Mourn
📚 #2 Winter's Curse
📚 #3 Winter's Redemption
📚 #4 Winter's Rise
📚 #5 Winter's Ghost
#6 Winter's Secret
#7 Winter's Web
#8 Winter's Storm
#9 Winter's End
#0.5 Winter's Origin

Bill Hodges Trilogy by Stephen King
📚 #1 Mr. Mercedes
#2 Finders Keepers
#3 End of Watch

Alaska Series by Wendy Meadows
📚 #1 The Snowman Killer

Paradise Series by Elin Hilderbrand
📚 #1 Winter in Paradise
#2 What Happens in Paradise
#3 Troubles in Paradise

Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
📚 #1 Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
#2 Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus

The Scottish Series by Susanna Kearsley
📚 #1 The Winter Sea
📚 #2 The Firebird
#3 The Vanished Days

Miss Marple by Agatha Christie
📚 #1 The Thirteen Problems
#2 Murder at the Vicarage
#3 The Body in the Library

Moon of the . . . Series by Waubgeshig Rice
📚 #1 Moon of the Crusted Snow
#2 Moon of the Turning Leaves

Shadow's Island Series by Mary Stone
#1 Shadow's Secret
#2 Shadow's Captive
#3 Shadow's Deadline

Oliver Kitterage by Elizabeth Strout
#1 Olive Kitteridge
#2 Olive, Again

Earthseed by Octavia E. Butler
#1 Parable of the Sower
#2 Parable of the Talents

The Empyrean by Rebecca Yarros
#1 Fourth Wing
Iron Flame

Updated message #32

8/36

Update to Message 38: 6/12.

Updated message 47

6/35

Please sign me up, Ilona, for 24. I can't believe that I had forgotten about this! I've done this every year since joining the group.



My Goal: 24

Reality:

Tally to Date 4/24

1 Entire Series -->2

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo
1. King of Scars #1
2. Rule of Wolves #2





Parts of a Series


Starting a New Series



Finishing Up 2 Series --> 2


Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
1. The Last Devil to Die #4


Blake & Byron by Zoë Sharp
1. The Girl in the Dark #2

Updated msg 22

38/100

Update to Message 38: 7/12.

Updated message 86-- 5/45

Updated message #32

9/36

Updated message #32

10/36

Update to message #162:

Progress: 1/10.

Update msg 22

41/100

Update to message #43: 24/32

I hope I will finished 1 series and then make a dent of couple of series. Total book I plan to read is 82

Brac Pack by Lynn Hagen 20 out 248

1. Maverick's Mate 03/14
2. Hawk's Pretty Baby 03/14
3. Sunshine's Savior 03/15
4. Remi's Pup 03/17
5. Stormy Eyes 03/17
6. Oliver's Heart 03/18
7. Keata's Promise 03/18
8. George's Turn 03/19
9. Loco's Love 03/19
10. Lewis's Dream 03/20
11. Mark's Not Gay 03/20
12. Nutter Nero 03/21
13. Heaven's Hell 03/22
14. Nicholas's Wolf 03/22
15. Murphy's Madness 03/24
16. Montana's Vamp 04/03
17. Carter's Tryck 04/05
18. Joshua's Law 04/07
19. Dagon's Ride 04/22
20. Jasper-04/23


Prey Series by John Sandford 10 out 17 to finish series

1. Wicked Prey 01/07
2. Storm Prey 02/21
3. Buried Prey 03/07
4. Stolen Prey 03/20
5. Silken Prey 04/04
6. Field of Prey 05/22
7. Gathering Prey 10/23
8. Extreme Prey
9. Golden Prey
10. Twisted Prey

Alex Cross by James Patterson 5 out of 32

1. Pop Goes the Weasel 04/12
2. Roses Are Red 05/09
3. Violets Are Blue 06/08
4. Four Blind Mice 09/30
5. The Big Bad Wolf 11/18

In Death series By J.D Robb 10 out 46

1. Reunion In Death 04/21
2. Purity in Death 05/01
3. Portrait in Death 06/21
4. Imitation in Death 07/10
5. Remember When 08/01
6. Big Jack 09/25
7. Divided in Death 10/07
8. Visions in Death 11/25
9. Survivor in Death
10. Origin in Death

progress 39/44 books to read.

message 244 update
16/66

Updated message 86-- 7/45

Message 72 updated: 5 of 35 completed!

Update to Message 38: 8/12.

13/52 now complete :)

Message #63 ---updated 59/108

Update Message #11

14/20 books

Update to message #10:

8/25
🌟 Read: 4 / 16 books from series I started before this year.
🌸 Started: 4 / 7 series this year.
✔️ Finished: 0 / 2 series I started before this year.

Update to message #83
Progress 8/20

Necessary Evils - Onley James (8 books)

Moonstruck (book 3)
Damaged (novella book 3.5)
Headcase (book 4)
Mad Man (book 5)
Lunatic (book 6)
Maniac (book 7)

Elite Protection Services- Onley James

Exasperating (book 3)

Saint View High-Elle Thorpe

Deviant Little Liars (book 1)