Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

Sign up here to join the 2024 Team Reading Challenge!

Please comment if you want to join Year 7 of the competition!

Format your comment with the following:

Name:
Year 6 Team:
Year 6 Individual Points:
Favourite read of 2023:

If you participated in any previous years of the competition, feel free also to mention your points from those years if you think it will help us get a better idea of the average number of points you will have. You can also note if you expect to read more or less than the previous year.

OR if you are new to the competition:

Name:
2023 number of books read:
2023 number of buddy reads read with the group:
Favorite read of 2023:

Please be aware you need at least 100 comments in the group to sign up for the challenge. This is to ensure that you won't suddenly disappear from the challenge. If you are not at 100 comments yet, you can always join the challenge late.

If you start spam commenting in order to make it to 100 comments, this will be taken into consideration, and we will hold out on adding you to the competition.

Please only put the sign-up comment in the thread. We want to avoid clutter so it is easy to compile a list. Any chatter comments will be deleted without notice. If you have any questions or suggestions about the competition, please visit the Year 7 rules thread here.

Also, a friendly reminder:

This competition is just for fun! It's a way to track books and motivate us to read. There's no pressure to read as many books or get as many points as the year before. Providing points from prior years just gives me an idea of how to sort the teams. :)

Name: Jenna
Year 6 Team: Jaghut Guardians
Year 6 Individual Points: 409
Favourite read of 2023: Speaking Bones and The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

Name: Iain
Year 6 Team: Horns of Hammerad
Year 6 Points: 2321 (Not sure if I'll manage the same, again)
Year 5 Points: 1294 (Should definitely manage somewhere between these 2 numbers, tho)
Favourite Read of 2023: hard to pick just one:

The Wandering Inn: Book 9 - Tears of Liscor
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Starter Villain
Defiant
One Last Kill

Happened to pick all new releases... tried to pick one from a variety of genres...

Name: Hailee
Year 6 Team: Tome Raiders
Year 6 Individual Points: 237.7
Year 5 Individual Points: 175.1
Year 4 Individual Points: 345.8

I think my points next year will be somewhere between my Year 6 and Year 4 score.

Favourite read of 2023:
Children of Time
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Mysteries of Thorn Manor

Name: Saar the Book Owl
Year 6 Team: Horns of Hammerad
Year 6 Individual Points: 170,7
Favourite read of 2023: Starter Villain

Name: Monika
Year 6 team: Horns of Hammered
Year 6 points: 849.3
Year 5 points: 664.4
Face read of 2023: too hard to choose :)

Name: Chris H
Year 6 Team: Silver Swords
Year 6 Individual Points: 230.0
Favourite read of 2023: Age of Madness trilogy by Joe Abercrombie

Name: Diana
Year 6 Team: Jaghut Guardians
Year 6 Individual Points: 313
Favorite read of 2023: Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Special mention on favorite books of 2023:
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
The True Love Experiment
Love, Theoretically

I had a really good reading year in terms of 5 star books. So many to choose from :-)

Name: Tammie
Year 6 Team: Silver Swords
Year 6 Individual Points: 734.3
Favourite read of 2023: The Will of the Many, Super Powereds: Year 4, The Surprise, Cards on the Table

I'm so excited to participate for next year!! I was going to join this year but chickened out. 😂 Mel's been encouraging as well, haha!

Name: Mei
2023 number of books read: 283+
2023 number of buddy reads read with the group: 24 -- not including the books I DNFed nor the ones I'm currently reading/late on 🙈
Favorite read of 2023: The Jasad Heir, Belladonna, The House in the Cerulean Sea, Fourth Wing, a buuuunch more 🤣

Happy to join up again :)

2023 Team: Silver Swords
2023 books read: to date- 38 during the challenge months (272.5 points)
2023 buddy reads - 26?
Favorite 2023 reads Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City Llightbring series by Weeks, In the Shadow of Lightning, Murderbot stuff, Tide Child.

Name: Narilka
Year 6 Team: Horns of Hammerad
Year 6 Individual Points: 352.3
Favourite Top 3 reads of 2023: Starter Villain, Tress of the Emerald Sea, Battle Ground

Name: Gaea
Year 6 Team: Silver Swords
Year 6 Individual Points: 169.4
Favourite read of 2023: Not entirely sure to be honest, but I remember liking Echo Mountain, The Blue Castle and a few graphic novels/manga a lot.

2023 number of books read: 222 as of today
2023 number of buddy reads read with the group: I did not keep track the whole year, around 90 or so?
Favorite read of 2023: anything by T.J. Klune, the First Law World books, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, Nettle & Bone

I will update GR tonight, the total books here doesn't match what I have in my book tracking.

Name: Felina
2023 book count: 71 so far
2023 BR: I think 32 but I only joined the group mid year so I think that’s pretty good.
Favorite: dang, The Expanse books or Good Omens.

I haven't done the competition for a few years now (baby break) but I'm back! I'll probably read about 100 books next year with about 80=90% of them being audiobooks.

Name: Charlie
2023 number of books read: 122
2023 number of buddy reads read with the group: 43
Favorite read of 2023: The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson

Hi All, I have been in all the Team Competitions, can't stop now, even though work is stressing me out I still try to keep up with myself. LOL.

Name: Frank
Year 6 Team: Tome Raiders
Year 6 Individual Points: 854.5
Favourite read of 2023: The Ember Blade, The Dragonbone Chair, To Green Angel Tower, Blood Over Bright Haven, The Grace of Kings. Ruocchio's books

I range between 750 and 950 points per year.

Choko G

I am always with the Jaghut Guardians

Over 1000 points in 2023, but will not be as prolific in the coming year for sure

Favorite reads - all the LitRPGs, Children of Time, and the In Death series

Choko wrote: "Choko G

I am always with the Jaghut Guardians"

Hahah it's hard to move the big point earners around a lot. I'll try to make sure you're on a different team this year! <3

Jenna's new profile picture is giving me serious Craig Schaefer book cover vibes:



Just the profusion of green, bright spot in the middle, and a smaller dark spot for a person in the middle that I barely notice :D

Timelord Iain wrote: "Jenna's new profile picture is giving me serious Craig Schaefer book cover vibes:



Just the profusion of green, bright spot in the middle, and a smaller dark spot for a person in the middle tha..."

Hahaha I love it. I'll consider my life complete now that I resemble a random book cover shadow person :)

Name: Emily
Year 6 Team: Silver Swords
Year 6 Individual Points: 1377
Favourite read of 2023: Too many! I'll list a few :D
The First Law trilogy, standalones and Age of Madness trilogy
Children of Memory
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
Translation State
and The Wandering Inn of course

Meiiiiii ☽︎ ~! So excited you'll be joining this year! *glomps* Jenna, I'm stealing her! (j/k but only kinda)
And Anne-Marie! You are already a formidable Buddy Reader, and can't wait to have more together! Welcome to the Challenge! Huzzah!

Name: Mel
Year 6 Team: Silver Swords
Year 6 Individual Points: 261.3
Favourite read of 2023: Children of Time, Penric’s Demon, If Found, Return to Hell

Name: Julian
2023 Team: Jaghut Guardians
2023 Individual Points: 516
Favorite read: either the Wandering Inn or First Law trilogy

I definitely slowed down the second half of the year.

Mel wrote: "Meiiiiii ☽︎ ~! So excited you'll be joining this year! *glomps* Jenna, I'm stealing her! (j/k but only kinda)
And Anne-Marie! You are already a formidable Buddy Reader, and can't wait to have more ..."

thanks :)

Oh my, I need to pay attention to new threads that get made that aren't buddy reads more often... totally came across this by accident...

Name:
Year 6 Team: Tome Raiders
Year 6 Individual Points: 2443.9
Buddy Reads Year 6: mmm over 400? Tracker says I've read 482 books so far--but a lot of those are short stories...
Points'll probably be about the same, I think... year 5 I had about half of this year, but I think I'm evening out...

Favourite read(s) of 2023:
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
An Inheritance of Magic
The Wandering Inn: Book 9 - Tears of Liscor and #8
Warrior Girl Unearthed
Ice & Ivy
Children of Time series
A Deadly Education series
The Bone Ships series
Penric’s Demon series
October Daye Series
Tarot Sequence
Bridge of D'Arnath & Collegia Magica series
Wheel of Time finale

Honorable Mentions: Codex Alera, First Law, Age of the Andinna, In Death, Murderbot, Skyward, Lazy Girl's Guide to Magic, Skyward series, Dragonback Adventures, Godkiller...

The problem is, once I start listing, where do I draw the line?

Janna, no, I like being on the Jaghut Guardians! It's kind of who I am:)))

Nirkatze wrote: "Oh my, I need to pay attention to new threads that get made that aren't buddy reads more often... totally came across this by accident...

Name:
Year 6 Team: Tome Raiders
Year 6 Individual Points: ..."

Iain was hoping you would miss this lol

Ann-Marie wrote: "Nirkatze wrote: "Oh my, I need to pay attention to new threads that get made that aren't buddy reads more often... totally came across this by accident...

Name:
Year 6 Team: Tome Raiders
Year 6 In..."

Don't say that... now I'm reminded I have delete comment powers... so close to the reply button, it could be an accident...

Timelord Iain wrote: "Ann-Marie wrote: "Nirkatze wrote: "Oh my, I need to pay attention to new threads that get made that aren't buddy reads more often... totally came across this by accident...

Name:
Year 6 Team: Tome..."

*gulp*

Admit it though, Iain... you would've been bored without proper competition...

Choko wrote: "Janna, no, I like being on the Jaghut Guardians! It's kind of who I am:)))"

Hahaha well, I guess I'll see what I can do ;)

Name: Christene Paula
2023 number of books read: 136
2023 number of buddy reads read with the group: 2
Favorite read of 2023:
Fourth Wing, The Scholomance, Cassandra in Reverse, Bloodmarked

Christene Paula✨ wrote: "Name: Christene Paula
2023 number of books read: 136
2023 number of buddy reads read with the group: 2"

Hi Christene! So happy to have you sign up, but just to let you know, there is a 100-comment minimum to join the competition. This is just so that people don't join only to leave shortly after joining the competition. If you reach 100 comments (without spamming) before the last week of December, I'll add you to the competition, and if you don't reach 100 comments by then, you can always join the competition a little bit later!

(Also, a friendly reminder to everyone that once I start making the teams, I will be deleting comments in this thread that are not sign-up entries. Feel free to make a competition-related random chatter if you want.)

Name: Elizabeth
Year 6 Team: Horns of Hammerad

Year 6 Individual Points: 265.0
Year 5 Individual Points: 350.1
Year 4 Individual Points: 405.2
Year 3 Individual Points: 734.6
Year 2 Individual Points: 304.1
Year 1 Individual Points: 266.4

Favorite read of 2023: Hmm... hard one. I'll just say the rest of the October Daye series I caught up on.

Decided to post all my years of points out of curiosity. Man, I can't believe this has been going on for so long.

Also looking back it seems I'm on Niki's team every other year. Since I was not this year I predict I will be in 2024 haha. Also point predictions probably between this year and last year.

Name: Paula
Year 5 Team: Tome Raiders
Year 5 Individual Points: 168.2
Favourite read of 2023: October Daye series, Scholomance trilogy, First Law, Nevermoor, Skyward, Hunger Games, City of nightmares, The grace of kings, Tress...and i am sure i forgot some

I didnt participate this year but i want to participate next year again. One difference from last year is that i am reading a lot more manga now. That counts towards points too?

Paula wrote: "Name: Paula
Year 5 Team: Tome Raiders
Year 5 Individual Points: 168.2
Favourite read of 2023: October Daye series, Scholomance trilogy, First Law, Nevermoor, Skyward, Hunger Games, City of nightmar..."

Graphic Novels count at 25% page value... there's a column to mention it's a graphic novel for the formula to adjust... then you just list the page count as indicated in the book/Goodreads...

Thanks Iain! its good to know

Oh go on then...

Name: Siobhan
Year 6 Team: Jaghut Guardians (I'm always a Jaghut too Choko :D)
Year 6 Individual Points: 339.2
Favourite read of 2023: Legends & Lattes or Her Majesty's Royal Coven

Name: Yanique
Year 6 Team: Silver Swords
Year 6 Individual Points: 1,233.0
Favourite read of 2023: Apart from all the amazing re-reads...

Name: Brian
Year 6 team: Jaghut Guardians
Year 6 individual points: 660

Total books read 2023- 160



Fav reads: Of Blood and Fire, Of Darkness and LightThe Bonehunters

Name:
Year 6 Team: Tome Raiders
Year 6 Individual Points: 576
Total books read Jan-Oct: 194

Name: Erin
2023 number of books read: 208 through 12/22
2023 number of buddy reads read with the group: 6 since November
Favorite read of 2023: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

*Announcement: I'll be making the teams somewhere around December 26 or 27 so I can give Iain enough time with the spreadsheet before the new year starts. Make sure to sign up if you haven't already! :)

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Everyone (over the 100 comment minimum) up to this point has been added to the competition.

Name: Nyssa
2023 number of books read: 190 (so far)
2023 number of buddy reads read with the group: Umm... 10 series (or did you want a number of books?)
Favorite read of 2023: Don't know yet.

Name: Katie K.
Year 6 Team: Tome Raiders
Year 6 Individual Points: 42.1 (it was a rough year ^^;)
Favourite read of 2023: Under the Whispering Door

Year 5 (2022) Individual Points: 143.1
Year 4 (2021) Individual Points: 192.9
Year 3 (2020) Individual Points: 355.4

Katie wrote: "Name: Katie K.
Year 6 Team: Tome Raiders
Year 6 Individual Points: 42.1 (it was a rough year ^^;)
Favourite read of 2023: Under the Whispering Door

Year 5 (2022) Individual Points: 143.1
Year 4 (..."

Too late... I already deleted your 2023 tab from the 2024 sheet ;)

I mean... that's not untrue... but I can easily re-add, with high tech Google Sheet skills, copying your tab from one sheet to another by name...