The Great Series Read Project

I have a problem.

And be honest with me…you have this problem too.

We see a new book series that looks awesome as hell, read the first book, and then get distracted by some new series that comes out (like a dog chasing a squirrel) and we never get around to finishing the series. Or maybe we don’t finish due to financial issues or some other reason. But we all do it. Don’t pretend you don’t. Yeah I know some of you wait until a series is finished and binge the whole thing, but not all of you. Not most of you.

And I don’t know about you, but I ALWAYS intend to go back and finish these series that I’ve neglected. Sometimes I do. Many times I don’t.

You know what I’ve been missing? Something to motivate me other than guilt. That is until Caitlin G. launched The Great Series Read Project over on her blog Realms of My Mind. Caitlin compiled a list of the series she’s started but not finished, then added series she’s completed or is up to date on, and then added some “candidate” series for the future. Her plan is to read one book a month back-to-back until she completes a series. Once she posted about it on her blog I told her I was stealing the idea. Since then Imyril over at There’s Always Room For One More, Lisa from Dear Geek Place, and Susy over at Susy’s Cozy World have joined the project. Below are links to their lists…

Imyrl (There’s Always Room For One More): Introducing The Great Series Read Project
Lisa (Dear Geek Place): The Great Series Read Project
Susy (Susy’s Cozy World): The Great Series Read Project!

I’ve been working on compiling my list for a couple weeks now. I’m slow I guess. But I’m finally done. Well…er…um…I’m done with two parts of it at least. What follows is my list of Series In Progress, and Up To Date Series. The series are underlined (sorted by series title) and books I’ve read are in bold without underlining.

The Series In Progress are series I’ve started but not finished where there are one or more books remaining to be read that have already been published. The Up To Date Series are series that I’m up to date on where there are additional books remaining to be published. At a later date I’ll be adding a list of Completed Series, DNF’d Series, and Candidate Series I want to start. Whew.

I’ll be adding a page to my blog in the coming days where I’ll maintain this list on an ongoing basis. Once that page is up I’ll add links to each of the books I’ve reviewed. So, here’s the list as it stands today. Let me know if you join The Great Series Read and let’s see what our lists have in common.

Series In Progress

Anno Dracula by Kim Newman

Anno Dracula
The Bloody Red Baron
Dracula Cha Cha Cha
Johnny Alucard
Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories (4.5)
One Thousand Monsters
Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju

Book of The Ancestor by Mark Lawrence

Red Sister
Grey Sister
Bound (2.5)
Holy Sister

Cassidy Blake by Victoria Schwab

City of Ghosts
Tunnel of Bones
Bridge of Souls (not yet published)

Chilling Aventures of Sabrina

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Vol 1: The Crucible
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Vol 2

Dark Renaissance by Toby Frost

Up To The Throne
Blood Under Water

Imperial Radch

Ancillary Justice
Ancillary Sword
Ancillary Mercy

Old Man’s War by John Scalzi

Old Man’s War
The Ghost Brigades
The Last Colony
Zoe’s Tale
The Human Division
The End of All Things

Powder Mage by Brian McClellan

Promise of Blood
The Crimson Campaign
The Autumn Republic

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey

River of Teeth
Taste of Marrow

Ravens Mark by Ed McDonald

Blackwing
Ravencry
Crowfall
To See A Mosnter (0.1)
The Breaking of the Sky (0.2)

Shades of Magic by V.E. Schwab

A Darker Shade of Magic
A Gathering of Shadows
A Conjuring of Light

Smoke Eaters by Sean Grigsby

Smoke Eaters
Ash Kickers

Tales of The Verin Empire by William Ray

Gedlund
The Great Restoration
A Case of Eager Heirs (2.5)
Book 3 (not yet published)

The Black Iron Legacy by Gareth Hanrahan

The Gutter Prayer
The Shadow Saint
Untitled Book 3

The Books of Babel by Josiah Bancroft

Senlin Ascends
Arm of The Sphinx
The Hod King
Untitled (book 4)
The Stars Behind the Stars (short story)

The Chasing Graves Trilogy by Ben Galley

Chasing Graves
Grim Solace
Breaking Chaos

The Coraidic Sagas by Alicia Wanstall-Burke

Blood of Heirs
Legacy of Ghosts

The Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty

The City of Brass
The Kingdom of Copper
The Empire of Gold

The Grave of Empires by Sam Sykes

The Gallows Black (0.5)
Seven Blades In Black
Ten Arrows of Iron (not yet published)

The Heretic Gods by Carol A. Park

Sweatblade (stand-alone)
Banebringer
Cursebreaker

The Interdependency by John Scalzi

The Collapsing Empire
The Consuming Fire
The Last Emperox

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

The Poppy War
The Dragon Republic
The Burning God (not yet published)

The Riven Realm by Deck Matthews

The First of Shadows
Dust of Darkness
A Shattering of Glass

The Sacred Throne by Myke Cole

The Armored Saint
The Queen of Crows
The Killing Light

The Shadow by Lila Bowen

Wake of Vultures
Conspiracy of Ravens
Malice of Crows
Treason of Hawks

The Sixth World by Rebecca Roanhorse

Trail of Lightning
Storm of Lucusts

The Wildfire Cycle by D.P. Woolliscroft

Kingshold
Tales of Kingshold
Ioth, City of Lights

The Winnowing Flame Trilogy by Jen Williams

The Ninth Rain
The Bitter Twins
The Poison Song

The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden

The Bear and The Nightingale
The Girl In The Tower
The Winter of the Witch

The Wounded Kingdom by R.J. Barker

Age of Assassins
Blood of Assassins
King of Assassins

Villains by V.E. Schwab

Warm Up (0.5)
Vicious
Vengeful

Up-to-Date Series

Chronicles of The Bitch Queen

The Wolf of Oren-Yaro
The Ikessar Falcon (not yet published by Orbit)

Eterean Empire by Angela Boord

Fortune’s Fool

Legacy Trilogy by Matthew Ward

Legacy of Ash

The Band by Nicholas Eames

Kings of The Wyld
Bloody Rose
Outlaw Empire (not yet published)

The Burning by Evan Winter

The Rage of Dragons
The Fires of Vengeance (not yet published)

The Fetch Phillips Archives by Luke Arnold

The Last Smile In Sunder City

The Protectorate by Megan E. O’Keefe

Velocity Weapon
Chaos Vector (not yet published)

The Tide Child by R.J. Barker

The Boneships
Call of The Boneships (not yet published)