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Just a list of the series we've started as a group. As the previous books have been a group choice, the next book in each series is eligible for nomination for Book of the Month - even if not every member has read the first.

FANTASY
- Abhorsen/The Old Kingdom (book #2 onwards: Lirael)
- The Band (book #2 onwards: Bloody Rose)
- Book of the Ancester (book #2 onwards: Grey Sister)
- The Broken Earth (book #2 onwards: The Obelisk Gate)
- The Broken Empire (book #2 onwards: King of Thorns)
- The Checquy Files (book #2 onwards: Stiletto)
- The Chronicles of St. Mary's (book #2 onwards: A Symphony of Echoes)
- Codex Alera (book #2 onwards: Academ's Fury)
- The Dagger and the Coin (book #2 onwards: The King's Blood)
- Demon Cycle (book #2 onwards: The Desert Spear)
- The Divine Cities (book #2 onwards: City of Blades)
- The Dresden Files (book #2 onwards: Fool Moon)
- Farseer Trilogy (book #2 onwards: Royal Assassin)
- The First Law (book #2 onwards: Before They Are Hanged)
- Gentleman Bastards (book #2 onwards: Red Seas Under Red Skies)
- The Golem and the Jinni (book #2 onwards: The Iron Season, published 2018)
- Golgotha (book #2 onwards: The Shotgun Arcana)
- Greatcoats (book #2 onwards: Knight's Shadow)
- His Dark Materials (book #2 onwards: The Subtle Knife)
- The Invisible Library (book #2 onwards: The Masked City)
- The Iron Druid Chronicles (book #2 onwards: Hexed)
- The Kingkiller Chronicles (book #3 onwards: Doors of Stone, published 2017)
- The Legends of the First Empire (book #2 onwards: Age of Swords, published 2017)
- The Licanius Trilogy (book #2 onwards: An Echo of Things to Come)
- Lightbringer (book #2 onwards: The Blinding Knife)
- The Magicians (book #2 onwards: The Magician King)
- The Malazan Book of the Fallen (book #2 onwards: Deadhouse Gates)
- Memoir by Lady Trent (book #2 onwards: The Tropic of Serpents)
- Mistborn (book #3 onwards: The Hero of Ages)
- Nevernight (book #2 onwards: Godsgrave)
- Night Angels (book #2: Shadow's Edge)
- Paradox (book #2 onwards: Honor's Knight)
- The Powder Mage (book #2 onwards: The Crimson Campaign)
- The Riftwar Saga (book #3 onwards: Silverthorn)
- The Riyria Revelations (book #2 onwards: Rise of Empire)
- Shades of Magic (book #3 onwards: A Conjuring of Light), published 2017)
- Shattered Sea (book #2 onwards: Half the World)
- Six of Crows (book #2 onwards: Crooked Kingdom)
- The Stormlight Archive (book #3 onwards: Oathbringer)
- Temeraire (book #2 onwards: Throne of Jade)
- The Traitor Son Cycle (book #2 onwards: The Fell Sword)
- Warbreaker (book #2 onwards: Nightblood)
- The Wheel of Time (book #2 onwards: The Great Hunt)
- Winternight (book #2 onwards: The Girl in the Tower)

SCIENCE FICTION
- Barsoom (book #2 onwards: The Gods of Mars)
- Bas-Lag (book #2 onwards: The Scar)
- Bobiverse (book #2 onwards: For We Are Many)
- Cinder (book #2 onwards: Scarlet)
- The Cinder Spires (book #2 onwards: The Olympian Affair)
- Culture (book #2 onwards: The Player of Games)
- Divergent (book #2 onwards: Insurgent)
- Dune Chronicles (book #2 onwards: Dune Messiah)
- Ender Quintet (book #2 onwards: Speaker for the Dead)
- Expanse (book #2 onwards: Caliban's War)
- The Forever War (book #2 onwards: Forever Peace)
- Foundation (book #2 onwards: Foundation and Empire)
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book #2 onwards: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)
- The Hungry Plague (book #2 onwards: The Boy on the Bridge)
- Hyperion Cantos (book #2 onwards: The Fall of Hyperion)
- Ilium (book #2 onwards: Olympos)
- Illuminae (book #2 onwards: Gemina)
- Imperial Radch (book #3 onwards: Ancillary Mercy)
- Jurassic Park (book #2 onwards: The Lost World)
- Lock In (book #2 onwards: Head On, published 2017)
- MaddAddam Trilogy (book #2 onwards: The Year of the Flood)
- Mars Trilogy (book #2 onwards: Green Mars)
- The Murderbot Diaries (book #2 onwards: Artificial Condition)
- Old Man's War (book #2 onwards: The Ghost Brigades)
- Rama (book #2 onwards: Rama II)
- Red Rising (COMPLETED)
- Southern Reach (book #2 onwards: Authority)
- Sprawl (book #2 onwards: Count Zero)
- Tales of the Ketty Jay (book #2 onwards: The Black Lung Captain)
- Themis Files (book #2 onwards: Waking Gods)
- Wayfarers (book #3 onwards: Record of a Spaceborn Few)

last updated 16 February 2018

Rinn wrote: "Just a list of the series we've started as a group. As the previous books have been a group choice, the next book in each series is eligible for nomination for Book of the Month - even if not every..."

Great idea! If I like the 1st book, I always want to finish the whole series!

thanks Rinn, handy to keep track :)

Sorry, can i clarify (might have missed the discussion) - will this be as a third nomination? So as not to alienate new members or people who do not wish to continue with the series? Or are we going with it as one of the normal nominations?

From what I read this won't be in place of a BOTM and it also won't be monthly, I think I read that it was going to be a new book every two months.

Oh, there are no real plans! This is just a list so we can keep track of the series we've started, in case anyone wants to do a read-along with the group =)

I thought I could just post the book links so people can find them faster if interested. Please tell me if I made a mistake. Here they are:

Bas-Lag book #2: The Scar by China Miéville
Hyperion Cantos book #2: The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Gentleman Bastards book #2: Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
Dune Chronicles book #2: Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Demon Cycle book #2: The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett
Ender Quintet book #2: Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
The Broken Empire book #2: King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
The Kingkiller Chronicles book #2: The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

Some of those are series/trilogies that read as a huge novel and must be read in order and some are series of books in a common universe that are more stand-alone-ish and usually self-contained. Not all of those are finished yet (i.e. Gentleman Bastards, Demon Cycle, The Kingkiller Chronicles)

As for the Elantris, is this really an ongoing series?

Oops... I was thinking of Mistborn ;) Nope, it's a standalone. Thanks Antonis!

Thanks Antonis, there are quite a few I wish to finish, even the unfinished ones. Think I'll start with the fall of Hyperion as that's the freshest in my mind. I have soooo many to read I think I'll need a time travel machine. Such a pity the Gentleman Bastards series isn't finished :(

Just to pop it in here too...

The Wise Man's Fearis 3.99 in the Kindle store at the moment - next in the series of The Kingkiller Chronicles.

Wise Man's Fear on the Kindle Store

Also, in general here are February's Sci-Fi and Fantasy book deals on Kindle

Updated this list! :)

I'll really have to catch up on the first part of some of them. I've read a lot of them thankfully.

I've missed quite a few of them in the last part of this year too :(

Allowed with college and stuff

Haha, even before uni!

Don't worry, I was very good.. and then I got a job courses too! :) Hopefully 2015 will be a better year for me to catch up :)

Not sure if this is the best place for it (in fact I know it isn't) but I didn't want to make a thread for it, is someone going to make the polls for the February BOTM? Or is a certain date that they are started?

That was Nic's job for this month, but if the polls aren't up in the next day or two I'll make them :)

Where's Fablehaven?

Books are only there if we have read the first part or more as a BOTM . If its not there part 1 can be nominated

Just a heads-up that Divergent is mentioned twice in the top list :) .

I've finally updated this, it had been a while! Should be complete now.

I've also included series where the next book has not yet been published (several coming out next year), for reference and so they can be more easily updated when they do come out.

Rinn, do you think it might be worth splitting in to sci fi and fantasy? Just a thought!

Hmmm probably a good idea as it's getting long... but a job for another day :P

There we go, sorted by genre.

So organised!

I'll take it... even though last time this list was updated before yesterday was in 2014, apparently ;P

Good work Rinn haha

When are the polls usually posted for BOM voting?

Randy wrote: "When are the polls usually posted for BOM voting?"

Usually as soon as nominations close.

I keep clicking on polls randomly sometimes I don't miss out on the votes like I did once before.

Audrey wrote: "Randy wrote: "When are the polls usually posted for BOM voting?"

Usually as soon as nominations close."

OK that's what I thought. I was wondering if I missed something. Another group moved their voting off-site one month and I somehow missed out on that.

I think a lot of it Randy is the majority of the mods are super busy right now so it's taking a little longer than usual. It will get up there soon!

sir Lancer wrote: "I think a lot of it Randy is the majority of the mods are super busy right now so it's taking a little longer than usual. It will get up there soon!"

OK no worries. There were a couple nominations I liked so I wanted to make sure I didn't miss out on voting. Thanks!

sir Lancer wrote: "I think a lot of it Randy is the majority of the mods are super busy right now so it's taking a little longer than usual. It will get up there soon!"

Super gaming playing video games 24/7 HALP

(Overwatch placement matches right now)

RIDICULOUSLY HUGE LIST UPDATED!

On a side note, we need to finish more series...

Thanks Rinn

this is very true!

Just thought, we'll also need to add The Bear and The Nightingale to this (it's part of a trilogy)

Thanks Freya - updated!

Let me know if I've missed anything else...

No worries!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

William Gibson's Count Zero, (Sprawl Trilogy #2)

I'm amused that the top review for July's Fantasy Book of the Month, The Grey Bastards, is by the author of July's Sci-fi Book of the Month.

I'm a huge Mark Lawrence fan, so I'm excited to read both even though he calls Grey Bastards the "filthiest" fantasy book he's ever read and basically Sons of Anarchy with Orcs.

Mark wrote: "he calls Grey Bastards the "filthiest" fantasy book he's ever read and basically Sons of Anarchy with Orcs."

Sounds great :). Can't wait.

Oops, probably need to update this list soon!

It amazes me how rarely people want to read the next book in a series! Has this group finished any series yet?

Red Rising can't be completed right? Dark Age just came out and I don't think it's the final book.

The next books are often nominated but don't always win, particularly if there's a new release nominated. By the time it comes around again people have often read onwards. But, people are free to nominate the next book in a series :)

Also, nominating new series, can help members find new reading material and series