I am currently reading so many series that I've officially lost track. Even though they are listed on LibraryThing, it's not in a format that works in my brain and they include a lot of books that aren't really what I think of as in a series. Consequently, I'm composing this list of Series in Progress and I think I'll make it a tab on the top of the blog so that I can keep it current. I'm including any series that I'm not finished with (or haven't started yet) and any that I'm caught up with but should be continuing in the future.
(Warning: Prepare to be shocked. There are 36 (!) series listed, only six of which I am caught up with. I even left off a couple that I own one book of but am not sure I will ever start.)
Erast Fandorin by Boris Akunin
Books in series: 11
Books owned: 5
Books read: 5
Remaining books: 6 (The State Counsellor, The Coronation, She Lover of Death, He Lover of Death, The Diamond Chariot, The Jade Rosary)
Sister Pelagia Mysteries by Boris Akunin
Books in series: 3
Books owned: 3
Books read: 2
Remaining books: 1 (Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel)
Flavia de Luce Mysteries by Alan Bradley
Books in series: 5
Books owned: 5 (1 ARC to replace with hardcover)
Books read: 5
Remaining books: 0
The Montmaray Journals by Michelle Cooper
Books in series: 3
Books owned: 1
Books read: 1
Remaining books: 2 (The FitzOsbornes in Exile, The FitzOsbornes at War)
The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
Books in series: 5
Books owned: 5
Books read: 2
Remaining books: 3 (Greenwitch, The Grey King, Silver on the Tree)
Mollisan Town Quartet by Tim Davys
Books in series: 4
Books owned: 4
Books read: 3
Remaining books: 1 (Yok)
Swann Family Saga by R.F. Delderfield
Books in series: 3
Books owned: 2
Books read: 1
Remaining books: 2 (Theirs Was the Kingdom, Give Us This Day)
Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
Books in series: 3
Books owned: 3
Books read: 0
Remaining books: 3 (The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, The Wild Rose)
Chronicles of Kazam by Jasper Fforde
Books in series: 2
Books owned: 2
Books read: 1
Remaining books: 1 (The Song of the Quarkbeast)
Nursery Crimes by Jasper Fforde
Books in series: 2
Books owned: 2
Books read: 2
Remaining books: 0
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
Books in series: 1
Books owned: 1
Books read: 1
Remaining books: 0
Thursday Next by Jasper Fforde
Books in series: 7
Books owned: 7
Books read: 7
Remaining books: 0
Charles Lenox Mysteries by Charles Finch
Books in series: 6
Books owned: 5
Books read: 5
Remaining books: 1 (A Death in the Small Hours)
Bryant and May by Christopher Fowler
Books in series: 10
Books owned: 5
Books read: 0
Remaining books: 10 (Full Dark House, The Water Room, Seventy-Seven Clocks, Ten-Second Staircase, White Corridor, The Victoria Vanishes, Bryant & May on the Loose, Bryant & May Off the Rails, The Memory of Blood, Bryant & May and the Invisible Code)
Believer Columns by Nick Hornby
Books in series: 4
Books owned: 2
Books read: 0
Remaining books: 4 (The Polysyllabic Spree, Housekeeping vs. the Dirt, Shakespeare Wrote for Money, More Baths Less Talking)
Jackelian by Stephen Hunt
Books in series: 6
Books owned: 1
Books read: 0
Remaining books: 6 (The Court of the Air, The Kingdom Beyond the Waves, The Rise of the Iron Moon, Secrets of the Fire Sea, Jack Cloudie, From the Deep of the Dark)
Shades of London by Maureen Johnson
Books in series: 2
Books owned: 1
Books read: 0
Remaining books: 2 (The Name of the Star, The Madness Underneath)
Mary Russell by Laurie R. King
Books in series: 12
Books owned: 2
Books read: 0
Remaining books: 12 (The Beekeeper's Apprentice, A Monstrous Regiment of Women, A Letter of Mary, The Moor, O Jerusalem, Justice Hall, The Game, Locked Rooms, The Language of Bees, The God of the Hive, Pirate King, Garment of Shadows)
The Agency by Y.S. Lee
Books in series: 3 (4th is scheduled)
Books owned: 2
Books read: 2
Remaining books: 1 (The Traitor and the Tunnel)
The Wicked Years by Gregory Maguire
Books in series: 4
Books owned: 4
Books read: 2
Remaining books: 2 (A Lion Among Men, Out of Oz)
Newbury and Hobbes by George Mann
Books in series: 3
Books owned: 3
Books read: 0
Remaining books: 3 (The Affinity Bridge, The Osiris Ritual, The Immortality Engine)
Mary Finch by Rose Melikan
Books in series: 3
Books owned: 3
Books read: 1
Remaining books: 2 (The Counterfeit Guest, The Mistaken Wife)
Bas-Lag by China Miéville
Books in series: 3
Books owned: 2
Books read: 0
Remaining books: 3 (Perdido Street Station, The Scar, Iron Council)
Zamonia by Walter Moers
Books in series: 5
Books owned: 3
Books read: 1
Remaining books: 4 (Rumo and His Miraculous Adventures, The City of Dreaming Books, The Alchemaster's Apprentice, The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books)
Porfiry Petrovich by R.N. Morris
Books in series: 4
Books owned: 4
Books read: 3
Remaining books: 1 (The Cleansing Flames)
The Adventures of Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Books in series: 6 (in English)
Books owned: 6
Books read: 3
Remaining books: 3 (The King's Gold, The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet, Pirates of the Levant)
Amelia Peabody by Elizabeth Peters
Books in series: 19
Books owned: 19
Books read: 19
Remaining books: 0
Mobile Library Mysteries by Ian Sansom
Books in series: 4
Books owned: 3
Books read: 1
Remaining books: 3 (Mr. Dixon Disappears, The Book Stops Here, The Bad Book Affair)
Books of Beginning by John Stephens
Books in series: 2
Books owned: 2
Books read: 1
Remaining books: 1 (The Fire Chronicle)
Barker & Llewellyn by Will Thomas
Books in series: 5
Books owned: 1
Books read: 0
Remaining books: 5 (Some Danger Involved, To Kingdom Come, The Limehouse Text, The Hellfire Conspiracy, The Black Hand)
Bess Crawford by Charles Todd
Books in series: 4
Books owned: 2
Books read: 0
Remaining books: 4 (A Duty to the Dead, An Impartial Witness, A Bitter Truth, An Unmarked Grave)
The Girl Who by Catherynne M. Valente
Books in series: 2
Books owned: 2
Books read: 1
Remaining books: 1 (The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There)
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Books in series: 3
Books owned: 3
Books read: 0
Remaining books: 3 (Leviathan, Behemoth, Goliath)
Oxford Time Travel by Connie Willis
Books in series: 4
Books owned: 4
Books read: 3
Remaining books: 1 (The Doomsday Book)
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Books in series: 10
Books owned: 7
Books read: 6
Remaining books: 4 (The Mapping of Love and Death, A Lesson in Secrets, Elegy for Eddie, Leaving Everything Most Loved)
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Books in series: 3
Books owned: 3
Books read: 3
Remaining books: 0
Now I all of a sudden want to make a list of authors that I'm working through. My TBR is going to explode! In the meantime, I think I might have found a goal to add for this year -- catch up with more of these series.
Organize, read, repeat,
K
Ohmigosh, I completely know what you mean! I hope not to even look at my series in progress because it would be so intimidating! Also, sometimes I read one book in a series and don't want to read the rest of the series, so does that REALLY count as being in the middle of a series?
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that LibraryThing had that function - how cool!
I have a couple on here that I haven't started yet but I will remove them if I read the first book (or two) and decide I don't want to continue. I don't think it counts if you don't intend to read any more of the series. I'm definitely moving some of those first books (and final ones) up in my reading queue too so that I can clear up this list a bit!
DeleteHa, that is just a few. :) The only series on that list that I would consider myself officially reading is the Flavia de Luce series. In addition I'm reading the Ellie Quin series, Old Man's War series (which I guess is continuing giving the new episodes that are coming out), The Gamache series by Louise Penny, Sanderson's Stormlight Archive, the Star Trek Vanguard series, Cherie Priest's Clockwork Century. That's what I can think of off the top of the head.
ReplyDeleteMy husband has the Cherie Priest books and I might decide to read them at some point but I decided not to include it here since it's not technically on my shelves. Kind of cheating but I just couldn't make this list any longer! :)
DeleteWow … you aren't kidding! You are reading a lot of series.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know it was this many until I made this list. I'm not sure it was the best idea. ;)
DeleteI understand, believe me.
ReplyDeleteWow! What a great idea!! I know that I'm in the middle of sooooo many series, but I have no idea where or how much I have left. I may have to consider doing this myself!
ReplyDeleteIt's actually pretty helpful. Some of these series, I didn't even know what book they were currently on. And luckily a few of these are trilogies and finished series so once I catch up, they can go off the list. Although I like saving books to have one left, I also like things being a bit neater than this. :)
DeleteI absolutely love series--those that build over time and show evolution of character and story, and those that simply have characters who have become old friends that I like to visit.
ReplyDeleteI love your way of organizing your authors/books/series.
We don't have too many in common, though I need to revisit the Amelia Peabody series. I was reading them at a good clip, and then got side-tracked and haven't read one in awhile. Amelia is definitely an old friend!
I've heard great things about Maisie Dobbs, and hope to start on that series this year.
I obviously love series too. :) There are more that I would love to start too but I need to close some of these out first!
Deleteyou really really weren't kidding about "a few."
ReplyDeletebefore i got to the super long list i thought to myself that this would be a good idea to do on my own blog - but damn, i don't have nearly as many to keep track of!
You're lucky! I'm just glad that I can finish off some of these with a single read. It'll feel good to make this list shorter. :)
DeleteHahaha - love this! People who read series books are my kind of people.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed Donnelly's Rose series - they were just romance-y enough without feeling skeezy, if you know what I mean.
I've ready Wicked and loved it, and then was really disappointed in Son of a Witch, so pretty much abandoned that one.
Amelia Peabody did not work for me - it took me forever to get through the first one.
You have a LOT on here that I want to start reading!
I can't imagine what it would be like to avoid series. I love that feeling of stepping back into a world I already know.
DeleteI'm planning on starting the Rose series soon and Tif and I will be doing a group read of the Wicked books in the fall. I'm hoping that helps me get past Son of a Witch which I also had trouble with.
And hopefully nobody else makes one of these posts or my list will grow too!