I have signed up for the Seriously Series Reading Challenge for 2014. For info please click on the above button and go to Reading the Paranormal.But allow me to give you some of the particulars (These are directly from Reading the Paranormal's Sign Up Post):
Definitions
For this challenge, a series is defined as a collection of two or more books that belong together and where the second book is published before the end of 2014. This is a pretty broad definition of series, and it includes traditional series like the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, less traditional series like Stephanie Perkins's YA contemps (Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door), and shorter series, like Kendare Blake's Anna series (Anna Dressed in Blood, Girl of Nightmares).
A series is considered complete in one of two ways: either as finishing all the books that you own in the series or as obtaining and reading all the books that have been published in the series to date. Because we don't want this challenge to become a financial burden, how you choose to define completion is left to your discretion.
How It Works
To allow for the greatest level of flexibility, we've separated series into three categories: series started before 2014, series started in 2014, and series rereads.
- Series started before 2014 are defined as series that you have started reading before Jan. 2014 and that you still have unread books to get current in (or finish) the series.
- Series started in 2014 are defined as any series that you start reading between Jan. and Dec. 2014, and the second book in the series must be published before December 2014.
- A series reread is defined as books that are part of a series that were read before Jan. 2014 and that are reread between Jan. 2014 and Dec. 2014. A series reread does NOT have to include the full series.
For each category, there are different levels of seriousness about series that you can choose. Semi-serious is reading 1 to 6 series, seriously serious is reading 7 to 12 series, super seriously serious is reading 13 to 18 series, and seriously spectacular series star is reading more than 18 series.
I will be doing series that fall into the categories:
Series Started Before 2014 (12 Series)
Series Started During 2014
I have several in each category. One of the series may actually fall under the Series Re-read, but I'm not 100% sure. I will be re-reading the first book in the series before I continue on and finish the series...hopefully. Now let's go into the details. As I read a book out of the series, I will try to remember to strike out that book listed. I also may end up adding series as I go because for now I am going to do one's that are all released (not waiting new releases) or ones that have several already out and I need to catch up. As I finish those I may add.
You can view the books read for this challenge as the year goes on my shelf here or on my Goodreads Shelf.
Series Started Before 2014:
1. Morganville Vampires by Rachel Caine
Glass Houses
Dead Girls Dance
Midnight Alley
Feast of Fools
Lord of Misrule
Carpe Corpus
Fade Out
Kiss of Death
Ghost Town
Bite Club
Last Breath
Black Dawn
Bitter Blood
Fall of Night
Daylighters
plus a few short stories to finish.
2. Hush, Hush Saga by Becca FitzpatrickHush, HushCrescendoSilence
Finale
plus a short story
3. Chicagoland Vampires by Chloe NeillSome Girls BiteFriday Night BitesTwice BittenHard Bitten
Drink Deep
Biting Cold
House Rules
Biting Bad
Wild Things
Blood Games
Plus a few short stories:High Stakes
Howling for You
4. The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra ClareCity of Bones
City of Ashes
City of Glass
City of Fallen Angels
City of Lost Souls
City of Heaveny Fire
Plus a few short stories!
5. Significance by Shelly CraneSignifincanceAccordanceDefianceReverence(Novella)
Independence
And a Fifth to be named!
6. Cassandra Palmer by Karen ChanceTouch the DarkClaimed by Shadow
Embrace the Night
Curse the Dawn
Shadowland (4.2 Novella)
Masks(4.3 Novella)
Hunt the Moon
Tempt the Stars
Reap the Wind
The Gauntlet (0.5 Novella)
The Queens Witch (0.6 Novella)
7. Charley Davidson Series by Darynda Jones
First Grave on the Right
For I have Sinned (Novella 1.5)
Second Grave on the Left
Third Grave Dead Ahead
Fourth Grave Beneth My Feet
Fifth Grave Past the Light
Sixth Grave on the Edge
8. Anita Blake Series by Laurell K. Hamillton
Strange Candy (Novella 0.5)
Guilty Pleasures
The Laughing Corpse
Circus of the Damned
The Lunatic Cafe
The Killing Dance
Burnt Offerings
Blue Moon
The Girl Who Was Infatuated with Death (Novella 8.5)
Selling Houses (Novella 8.6)
Obsidian Butterfly
Narcissus in Chains
Cerulean Sins
Incubus Dreams
Micah
Danse Macabre
The Harlequin
Blood Noir
Skin Trade
Flirt
Bullet
Hit List
Beauty (Novella 20.5)
Kiss the Dead
Affliction
Dancing (Novella 22.5)
Shutdown (Novella 22.6)
9. Hourglass Trilogy by Myra McEntire
Hourglass
Timepiece
Infinityglass
10. Elementals Series by Brigid Kemmerer
Elemental (Novella 0.5)
Storm
Fearless (Novella 1.5)
Spark
Breathless (Novella 2.5)
Spirit
Secret
Sacrifice
11. Soul Screamers Series by Rachel Vincent
Fearless (0.4)
My Soul to Lose (0.5)
My Soul to Take
My Soul to Save
My Soul to Keep
Reaper (3.5)
My Soul to Steal
A Day in the Afterlife of Tod (4.1)
If I Die
Never to Sleep (5.5)
Before I Wake
With All My Soul
Last Request (7.5)
12. Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin
Masque of the Red Death
Glitter and Doom (Novella)
Dance of the Red Death
13. Sweet Trilogy by Wendy Higgins
Sweet Evil
Sweet Peril
Sweet Reckoning
Extra Scenes: 1.1, 1.2, and 2.1
14. Pretty Series by M. Leighton (Completed- For now)
All the Pretty Lies
All The Pretty Poses (Jan. 26, 2014)
Untitled Book 3
Series Started During 2014
1. Divergent Series by Veronica Roth (Started March 2014)
Divergent (March 17, 2014)
Insurgent
Allegiant
Four Divergent Stories: The Transfer, The Initiate, The Son, and The Traitor
