Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

✨✨✨

BR link
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

2023
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

2024
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

2025 We Have a Serious Problem
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Part of the series books read: 14
Series Completed:
Series Started: 8
- 8
Series Continued: 3
Series Caught up: 3
Series Paused/DNF:
Series Abandoned:

GN: 5
Completed GN:
Started GN: 2
- 1
Continued GN: 3

2025 Series Tracker

Series started this year
Holly Gibney by Stephen King - 1/4
- The Outsider
Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson 1/5
- The Way of Kings
Faebound by Saara El-Arifi 1/2
- Faebound
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas 1/2
- The Hate U Give
My Vampires by Jenna Levine 1/3
- My Roommate Is a Vampire
We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida 1/4 (need translation)
- We'll Prescribe You a Cat
The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki 1/6 (need translation)
- The Full Moon Coffee Shop
Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce 1/2
- Dungeons and Drama

✨✨✨

Series continued this year
Caraval by Stephanie Garber 2/3
- Legendary
A Noodle Shop Mystery by Vivien Chien 5/12
- Egg Drop Dead
Zodiac Academy by Caroline Peckham 2/9
- Ruthless Fae

✨✨✨

Series completed this year



Series caught up/waiting for next sequel
The Empyrean by Rebecca Yarros 3/~
- Onyx Storm
Percy Jackson and the Olympian by Rick Riordan 7/~
- Wrath of the Triple Goddess
Cerulean Chronicles by T.J. Klune 2/~
- Somewhere Beyond the Sea

✨✨✨

Series DNF/paused this year



Series abandoned this year

BR

01/01 The Gunslinger #1 by Stephen King
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

01/04 The Mad Elf #1 by Ned Caratacus
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

01/05 Sparrow Hill Road #1 by Seanan McGuire
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

01/06 Mystery Club: Silenced Girls #1 by Robert Stelljes

01/07 Finder #1 by Suzanne Palmer
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

01/09 Spellbreaker #1 by Charlie N. Holmberg
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

01/11 Black Company #1 by Glen Cook

01/13 Mystery Club: The Maid's Diary by Loreth Anne White

01/15 Red Rising #1 by Pierce Brown

01/18 The Name of the Wind #1 by Patrick Rothfuss

(view spoiler)[
Jan 1, 2025 Stone of Farewell (Osten Ard: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn #2) by Tad Williams
Jan 1, 2025 The Gungslinger (The Dark Tower #1) by Stephen King
Jan 1, 2025 The Diversion / The Ultimate / The Absolute / The Sacrifice (Animorphs #49-52) by K.A. Applegate
Jan 1, 2025 The Rogue (Traitor Spy #2) by Trudi Canavan
Jan 2, 2025 Dead Witch Walking (Hollows #1) by Kim Harrison
Jan 3, 2025 Gobbelino London & a Worry of Weres (Gobbelino London, PI #5) by Kim M. Watt
Jan 3, 2025 Angels' Blood (Guild Hunter #1) + Angels' Flight (#0) by Nalini Singh
Jan 3, 2025 Casket of Souls (Nightrunner #6) by Lynn Flewelling
Jan 3, 2025 Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass #2) by Sarah J. Maas
Jan 4, 2025 The Mad Elf (Neverstone #1) by Ned Caratacus
Jan 5, 2025 Clariel (The Old Kingdom #4) by Garth Nix
Jan 5, 2025 Sparrow Hill Road (Ghost Roads #1) by Seanan McGuire
Jan 5, 2025 The Oleander Sword (Burning Kingdoms #2) by Tasha Suri
Jan 6, 2025 Soulstar (Kingston Cycle #3) by C.L. Polk
Jan 7, 2025 Into the Fire (Orphan X #5) by Gregg Hurwitz
Jan 7, 2025 Finder (Chronicles #1) by Suzanne Palmer
Jan 8, 2025 The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co. #1) by Jonathan Stroud
Jan 9, 2025 Spellbreaker (Spellbreaker Duology #1) by Charlie N Holmberg
Jan 10, 2025 The Battle of Corrin (Legends of Dune #3) by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Jan 10, 2025 Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga #13) by Lois McMaster Bujold
Jan 11, 2025 The Black Company (Black Company #1) by Glen Cook
Jan 11, 2025 Brimstone Bound (Firebrand #1) (Supernatural London) by Helen Harper
Jan 12, 2025 Destroyer (Foreigner #7 Arc 3 #1) by C.J. Cherryh
Jan 13, 2025 Hell For Hire (Tear Down Heaven #1) by Rachel Aaron
Jan 13, 2025 The Gorgon Incident and Other Stores (Mage Errant) by John Bierce
Jan 14, 2025 Adrift in Currents Clean & Clear (Wayward Children #10) by Seanan McGuire
Jan 15, 2025 Heavenly Tyrant (Iron Widow #2) Xiran Jay Zhao
Jan 15, 2025 The Fear Institute (Johannes Cabal #3) Jonathan L. Howard
Jan 15, 2025 Winter's Reach (Revanche Cycle #1) (First Story Universe) by Craig Schaefer
Jan 15, 2025 Red Rising (Red Rising Saga #1) by Pierce Brown
Jan 15, 2025 Farilane (The Rise and Fall #2) by Michael J. Sullivan
Jan 15, 2025 The Sun and the Star (Percy Jackson Universe) by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro
Jan 16, 2025 Blood of the Mantis (Shadows of the Apt #3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Jan 16, 2025 Ashes of Victory (Honor Harrington #9) by David Weber
Jan 17, 2025 Kingdom of Bones (Echoes Saga #5) by Philip C. Quaintrell
Jan 18, 2025 The Queen's Weapons (Black Jewels #11 Queen Saga #2) by Anne Bishop
Jan 18, 2025 Steamborn (#1) by Eric R. Asher
Jan 18, 2025 BioShifter: Volume 2 by Natalie "Thundamoo" Maher
Jan 19, 2025 Horus Rising (Warhammer 40k: Horus Heresy #1) by Dan Abnett
Jan 20, 2025 Protector (Known Space) by Larry Niven
Jan 20, 2025 The Second Generation (Dragonlance: TSG #1) by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
Jan 21, 2025 Tongue of Serpents (Temeraire #6) by Naomi Novik
Jan 22, 2025 Interesting Times (Discworld #17) by Terry Pratchett
Jan 23, 2025 The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant (#1) by Drew Hayes
Jan 24, 2025 Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash (Jacques McKeown #2) by Yahtzee Croshaw
Jan 25, 2025 BuyMort: Closing Time: How I Crashed the Multiversal Market (Shopocalypse Saga #6) by Damien Hanson & Joseph Phelps
Jan 27, 2025 Way of the Argosi (Spellslinger: Argosi Saga #1) by Sebastien de Castell
Jan 27, 2025 He Who Fights With Monsters 3 (HWFWM #3) by Shirtaloon
Jan 28, 2025 And Then She Vanished (Joseph Bridgeman #1) by Nick Jones
Jan 28, 2025 Royal Tea Service (Tea Princess #3) by Casey Blair
Jan 28, 2025 Wolfsong (Green Creek #1) by TJ Klune (hide spoiler)]

✨✨✨

Round 1 (Books) - 3 part of the series books to start another series

1. Legendary #2 Caraval
2. Egg Drop Dead #5 A Noodle Shop Mystery
3. Onyx Storm #3 The Empyrean

✅ Started - The Way of Kings #1 The Stormlight Archives

Round 1 (Manga/GN) - 5 part of the series books to start another series

1. Saga, Volume 2
2. Saga, Volume 3
3. The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil A Rún, Volume 4
4. Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom
5. Death Note, Vol. 2: Confluence

Started - SAKAMOTO DAYS 1

✨✨✨

Round 2 (Books) - 3 part of the series books to start another series

1. Wrath of the Triple Goddess #7 Percy Jackson
2. Somewhere Beyond the Sea #2 Cerulean Chronicles
3. Ruthless Fae #2 Zodiac Academy
4. Dark Restraint #7 Dark Olympus

✅ Started - We'll Prescribe You a Cat #1 We'll Prescribe You a Cat

Round 2 (Manga/GN) - 5 part of the series books to start another series

1. Death Note, Vol. 3: Hard Run
2.
3.
4.
5.

Started -

✨✨✨

Round 3 (Books) - 3 part of the series books to start another series

1. Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave #5 Finlay Donovan
2. Cursebound #2 Faebound
3. Oathbound #3 The Legendborn Cycle
4. The Golden Frog Games #2 Witchlings
5. Down Among the Sticks and Bones #2 Wayward Children

✅ Started - Witchlings #1 Witchlings

✨✨✨

Round 4 (Books) - 3 part of the series books to start another series

1. The Dragon Republic #2 The Poppy War
2. Give Up the Night #2 Moonstruck
3. Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping On a Dead Man #2 Vera Wong
4. Sunrise on the Reaping #0.5 The Hunger Games
5. A Curse Carved in Bone #2 Saga of the Unfated
6. Faithbreaker #3 Fallen Gods

Started -