Back in November I tallied all my started series and set myself a challenge to actually … finish some of them. A new concept, I know. It’s been a while and I thought it might be fun to see how I’ve done.

To start off I went through all my Goodreads read books and made a list of all my series. I ended up with 23 complete series, 25 up to date, 48 won’t continue, 65 to be decided. Then I went and checked for which of these series I own some sequels and I’ll prioritize them. The plan is to give each a try and decide if I want to continue or not. I’m only counting main books in series, not novellas and such, with one exception. Since counting in November I read 14 more first in series (which is fewer than I was expecting to be honest), of those 7 I’m up to date with since there’s only one book out (or two novellas for the Dispatcher by John Scalzi).

The list I made in November:

• Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson – read: 4/4 – done!
• Sandman by Neil Gaiman – read 2/11 – no progress
• Saga by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples – read 1/9 – no progress
• Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin – read 1/6 – progress! read 3/6 now and I loved The Farthest Shore and The Tombs of Atuan.
• Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey- read 6/16 – progress 8/16! I didn’t like Oathbound but Oathbreakers was great!
• Klondaeg by Steve Thomas – read 1/3 – no progress
• Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold – 3/16  – progress! 4/16 – I love Miles
• Lady Astronaut by Mary Robinette Kowal – 2/3 – no progress, but planning to read Relenteless Moon for the Hugos
• Jaques McKeown by Yahtzee Croshaw – 1/2 – progress! 2/2 done!
• The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco -1/3 – progress! 3/3 done!
• The Old Kingdom by Garth Nix read 1/3 or 4 – progress! 2/3 read, and currently reading the 3rd!
• Fire Eye by Samuel Gately 1/2 – no progress
• Red Rising by Pierce Brown – no progress
• Yarnsworld by Benedict Patrick 3/5 – no progress
• Winternight by Katherine Arden 1/3 – progress! 2/3
• Tarot Sequence by KD Edwards (novella) 2/2 – done!
• Dread Nation by Justina Ireland 1/2 – progress! 2/2 done!
• Broken Earth by NK Jemisin – 1/3 – no progress, but I’m participating in a readathon for it hosted  by Thistle and Verse this month, so I need to get started

That was 18 series all in all, one down 17 to go if I aim for 1 book per series. I was hoping to read them all, but plans only work so much for me. I made progress on 9 series, which I’m still pretty happy with! 

Beside the ones on my original list, I also made progress on a few other series:

• Reborn Empire by Devin Madson – 2/2  – up to date!
• Wayfarers by Becky Chambers – 2/4
• InCryptid by Seanan McGuire – 2/12
• The Dispatcher by John Scalzi – 2/2 – up to date!
• Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden – 2/2 – up to date!
• Murderbot by Martha Wells 6/6 – up to date!
• Kingston Cycle by C.L. Polk – 3/3 – completed!

Bringing up my series read in to 16, and total books read in series to 22!

That’s about it from me, feeling pretty good with the progress, I read in more series than I started (even if only by a little). I initially meant this to be only a challenge between Bingos, but I think I will try and keep it going