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I want to read at least 80 books this year.
-135 read as of November 14th


I would like to read the following books to either finish, or at least make a dent in, ongoing series that I'm reading:

Multiple books in a series:

Seasonal story collections by Agatha Christie:
- Sinister Spring: Murder and Mystery from the Queen of Crime
- Midsummer Mysteries: Tales from the Queen of Mystery
- Autumn Chills: Tales of Intrigue from the Queen of Crime

Meg Langslow series by Donna Andrews:
- Birder, She Wrote
- Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow!

Secret projects series by Brandon Sanderson:
- Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
- The Sunlit Man

Walt Longmire series by Craig Johnson:
- The Dark Horse
- Junkyard Dogs
- Hell Is Empty

Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths:
- The Lantern Men
- The Man in Black
- The Night Hawks
- The Locked Room
- The Last Remains

Temperance Brennan series by Kathy Reichs:
- Break No Bones
- Bones to Ashes
- Devil Bones
- 206 Bones


A Chorus of Dragons series by Jenn Lyons:
- The Name of All Things


Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder:
- On the Banks of Plum Creek
- By the Shores of Silver Lake
- The Long Winter

Lady Astronaut Universe series by Mary Robinette Kowal:
- The Calculating Stars
- The Fated Sky
- The Lady Astronaut of Mars
- The Relentless Moon

Will Trent series by Karin Slaughter:
- Broken
- Fallen

Kay Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell:
- Body of Evidence
- All That Remains
- Cruel & Unusual

Mrs Pollifax series by Dorothy Gilman:
- Mrs. Pollifax on Safari
- Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station
- Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha

Crown Colony series by Ovidia Yu:
- The Mimosa Tree Mystery
- The Cannonball Tree Mystery
- The Mushroom Tree Mystery

The Inheritance Games series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes:
- The Hawthorne Legacy
- The Final Gambit

The New Hercule Poirot Mysteries by Sophie Hannah:
- Closed Casket
- The Mystery of Three Quarters
- The Killings at Kingfisher Hill
- Hercule Poirot's Silent Night

Ernest Cunningham series by Benjamin Stevenson:
- Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
- Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret


Single books from ongoing series:

- What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
- A Lesson In Dying
- Wild Fire
- The Dark Wives
- Close to Death
- The Hedge Witch: A Threadneedle Novella
- The Black Bird Oracle
- Bleeding Heart Yard
- Lightning Strikes the Silence: A Lane Winslow Mystery
- The Twyford Code
- The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
- The Christmas Appeal
- Killing Time
- Spirit of the Wood
- The Lantern's Dance
- The Grey Wolf: A Novel
- City of Bones
- Blackmail and Bibingka
- The Island
- The Tainted Cup
- The Last Murder at the End of the World
- The Hunter
- The Surgeon

At least 15 new authors, or books I own, taken from this list:

1. The Fourth Monkey
2. Death Under a Little Sky
3. The Priory of the Orange Tree
4. Fablehaven
5. The 22 Murders of Madison May
6. Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
7. The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
8. Malice
9. The Cruel Prince
10. Snow Falling on Cedars
11. Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
12. A Rising Man
13. One of Us Is Lying
14. A Spindle Splintered
15. Gilded
16. The Twyford Code



A Beautiful Poison
A Fine Balance
A Natural History of Dragons
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
A Spy in the House
Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
All the Beautiful Lies
Anything Goes
Babel
Black Sun
Blood Song
Children of Time
City of Lies
Carved in Bone
Cocaine Blues
Daughter of Redwinter
Dead Simple
Death of a Red Heroine
Death Deserved
Dragon Springs Road
Dregs
Early Riser
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Every Heart a Doorway
Fatherland
Fireborne
Fortress in the Eye of Time
Fragile
Gallows Court
Gideon the Ninth
Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse
Heresy
Hidden Pictures
I Found You
I Remember You
I Will Miss You Tomorrow
Illborn
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
Keeper of the Lost Cities
Killers of a Certain Age
Kisscut
Little Eve
Little Secrets
Magyk
Malibu Rising
Malice
Mariana
Murder on Astor Place
Murder on Cape Cod
Natural Causes
Never Coming Home
Nettle & Bone
Olive Kitteridge
Only the Innocent
Open and Shut
Ordinary Grace
Pretty Little Wife
Raven's Gate
Recipe for a Good Life
Remarkably Bright Creatures
River of Darkness
Six Stories
Six Wakes
Senlin Ascends
Servant of the Underworld
Shadowmarch
Sleeping Giants
Slow Horses
Some Danger Involved
Sometimes I Lie
Spring Tide
Summer Frost
Swordheart
Tales from Watership Down
The Ashes of London
The Bangalore Detectives Club
The Barrister and the Letter of Marque
The Beach
The Black Coast
The Blacktongue Thief
The Bone Orchard
The Book of Accidents
The Book of Lost Friends
The Burning
The Chalk Man
The Creak on the Stairs
The Eight
The Engine House
The Glass House
The Hand of the Sun King
House of Salt and Sorrows
The Housemaid
The Jasad Heir
The Justice of Kings
The Last House on Needless Street
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
The Life We Bury
The Lighthouse Witches
The Magnolia Palace
The Missing Ones
The Next Accident
The Ninth Rain
The Perfect Escape
The Poppy War
The Quiet People
The Rage of Dragons
The Raven Boys
The Screaming Staircase
The Secret Dead
The Secret of Crickley Hall
The Skull Mantra
The Silent Sister
The Soulmate
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
The Stardust Thief
The Stone Angel
The Sword of Kaigen
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Time Machine
The Unquiet Dead
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
The Watchman
The White Hare
The Writing Retreat
Titus Groan
Tragedy at Law
Trouble in Nuala
Under Lock & Skeleton Key
Unwanted
Upon the Sands
Victim Without a Face
Voices in the Snow
What the Wind Knows
Witches Steeped in Gold

Some great series there but now I have to order The Calculating Stars to try that series... That's two now from you!

Lots of series I'm not familiar with...I'll watch your progress, one can never have enough series, right? Happy reading!

I loved the Kay Scarpetta series, until I didn't. I think I stopped with book 7. A situation happened that made no sense with the trajectory of the characters and I had to stop; but the series was excellent for the first 5 books. IMO

I have at least 5 of these series first books, but have yet to start. I will probably wait until I complete 3 series (at least), before starting a new one.

Good Luck and happy reading, Linette!

I have several of these books included in my challenges or have already read them.

Like Alondra, I gave up on the Scarpetta books at some point. I don't remember what the final deal breaker was, though, because it was many years ago. I remember liking the earlier books.

The book on your list I am most excited for is the new Rothfuss.

Anne wrote: "I have several of these books included in my challenges or have already read them.

Hmmm...two of you gave up on Kay Scarpetta, doesn't bode well, lol.
I am always happy for new Rothfuss!

Like Alondra, I gave up on the Scarpetta books at some point. I don't remember what the final deal breaker was, ..."

Alondra wrote: "I loved the Kay Scarpetta series, until I didn't. I think I stopped with book 7. A situation happened that made no sense with the trajectory of the characters and I had to stop; but the series was ..."

Oh, thanks for the heads up - I've only read the first book, I will see how it goes with the next few.

Bill wrote: "Some great series there but now I have to order The Calculating Stars to try that series... That's two now from you!"

I read her book The Spare Man this year, and really enjoyed it - a bit like a space Agatha Christie. :)

Linette wrote: "Oh, thanks for the heads up - I've only read the first book, I will see how it goes with the next few...."

Yes, the detail of forensics is sooo good. She doesn't "jargon" you to death to prove how smart she is, and it is quite dark. I loved that.

Linette wrote: "Anne wrote: "I have several of these books included in my challenges or have already read them.

Hmmm...two of you gave up on Kay Scarpetta, doesn't bode well, lol.
I am always happy for new Roth..."

You can't go wrong with Agatha Christie and Space..

You've given me some ideas for 2024. Good luck.

All of these challenges are complete!
I will free roam willy-nilly through my tbr for the rest of the the year!

Congratulations, Linette. Enjoy your end year willy-nillyness.

Congratulations, Linette! Two months of freedom!! :-)

Linette wrote: "All of these challenges are complete!
I will free roam willy-nilly through my tbr for the rest of the the year!"

That's fabulous, congratulations! Can't wait to see what you discover.

Congrats!

Thanks everyone!

Way to go, Linette!

Karol wrote: "Way to go, Linette!"

Thank you Karol :)