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38/50 Books
One book to finish
The Amber Spyglass - Phillip Pullman
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The Given - Vicki Pettersson
Days of Blood & Starlight - Laini Taylor
One book to catch up
Reap the Wind - Karen Chance
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Revenant - Larissa Ione
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Drakon - Shana Abe
Queen of Dragons
The Treasure Keeper
The Time Weaver
The Dark Tower - Stephen King
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Wizard and Glass
Wolves of the Calla
Song of Susannah
The Dark Tower
The Spellmason Chronicles - Anton Strout
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Stonecast
Incarnate
Alpha & Omega - Patricia Briggs
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Hunting Ground
Fair Game
Dead Heat
Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson
Riley Jenson Guardian - Keri Arthur
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Deadly Desire
Bound to Shadows
Moon Sworn
Elemental Assassin - Jennifer Estep
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The Spider
Poison Promise
Black Widow
Spider's Trap
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter - Laurell K. Hamilton
Jason
Dead Ice
Unicorn Chronicles - Bruce Coville
Dark Whispers
The Last Hunt
The Iron Fey - Julie Kagawa
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The Iron Legends
The Lost Prince
The Iron Traitor
The Forgotten Crown
Mara Dyer- Michelle Hodkin
The Retribution of Mara Dyer
Charley Davidson- Darynda Jones
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Kitty Norville - Carrie Vaughn
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Kitty Raises Hell
Kitty's House of Horrors
White Rabbit Chronicles - Gena Showalter
Alice in Zombieland
Through the Zombie Glass
The Queen of Zombie Hearts
A Mad Zombie Party
World of the Lupi - Eileen Wilks
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Eternal Guardians - Elisabeth Naughten
Entwined
Tempted
Enraptured
The Assassins Curse - Cassandra Rose Clarke
The Assassin's Curse
The Pirate's Wish
The infernal Devices Trilogy - Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince
Clockwork Princess
The Bane Chronicles
The Guardians of the Realms - Setta Jay
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Denying Ecstasy
Tempting Ecstasy
Piercing Ecstasy
Binding Ecstasy
Falling Kingdoms - Morgan Rhodes
Falling Kingdoms
Rebel Spring
Gathering Darkness
The Lotus War - Jay Kristoff
Stormdancer
Kinslayer
Endsinger
Kate Daniels - Ilona Andrews
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Dorina Basarab - Karen Chance
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Death's Mistress
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Duration: 1 Jan - 31 Dec 2016
Goal: Read 12 books found on one of the following BEST OF 2015 lists. Lists culled for those books fitting SOS' PNR/UF/Fantasy theme. To see the full list, click on the links provided for each. List your book choices and the BEST OF list where it was found now or as you read. Be sure to include your 1-5 ✮ rating.
Books:
Goodreads Choice Awards 2015:
Maybe:
1/11/17 ★★★☆☆Amazon's Best Books of 2015:
Maybe:
Amazon's Best Books of 2015:
2/18/16 ★★★★★
4/24/17 ★★★★★
2/9/16 ★★★★★2015 RT Book Reviewers' Choice Award Nominees Science Fiction/Fantasy/Paranormal:
7/03/16 ★★★★★Maybe:
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Take a bite out of your TBR stacks
Duration: 1/1/16 - 6/30/17 Done!
Levels:
Glutton = all 16 categories
✔1. Serious Series Addiction
Read 20 books from 16 different series
Paramour for the Devil - 1/13/16 ★★☆☆☆
Salt & Stone - 1/17/16 ★★★★☆
Soulless - 8/20/16 ★★★★★
The Last Ever After - 9/23/16 ★★★★☆
Good Counsel - 12/15/16 ★★★★☆
Cyncerely Yours - 12/15/16 ★★★★★
The Wide Window - 1/2/17 ★★★★☆
Saga, Volume 2 - 1/2/17 ★★★★★
Saga, Volume 3 - 1/3/17 ★★★★☆
Saga, Volume 4 - 1/3/17 ★★★★☆
The Miserable Mill - 1/8/17 ★★★★☆
Golden Son - 1/11/17 ★★★☆☆
Paper and Fire - 1/25/17 ★★☆☆☆½
The Diabolic - 2/21/17 ★★★★★
Big Mushy Happy Lump - 2/28/17 ★★★★☆
Gilded Cage - 3/14/17 ★★★☆☆
Naked in Death - 3/18/17 ★★★★☆
The Son of Neptune - 3/26/17 ★★★☆☆½
Club Dead - 3/29/17 ★★★★★
Given to the Sea - 4/2/17 ★★☆☆☆
✔2. How I ❤ Thee
Read 4 books by your favorite author, from your favorite series, in your favorite genre and/or featuring your favorite supernatural being
Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand - 6/21/16 ★★★★☆
An Ill-Advised Rescue - 6/22/16 ★★★☆☆
Saga, Volume 1 - 1/2/17 ★★★★★
Gemina - 1/12/17 ★★★★★
✔3. Supe of the Day
Read 16 books / 2 for each supernatural being ~
- Magically-inclined: any magic user, witch, wizard, mage, druid, sorcerer
Awakening the Fire -3/13/16 ★★★★★
Burning Both Ends - 3/29/16 ★★★★★
- Shifter: wolf, feline, bear, dragon, gargoyle or other
Alpha & Omega - 5/12/16 ★★★★★
Mind Magic - 12/30/16 ★★★★★
- Vampire:
Midnight's Daughter -1/23/16 ★★★★☆
A Quick Bite - 12/27/16 ★★☆☆☆
- Fae: any type, light/dark, seelie/unseelie, ½ human or Changeling
A Court of Thorns and Roses - 2/09/16 ★★★★★
The Iron Knight - 9/5/16 ★★★★☆
- Angel: angel, ½ human or Nephilim, Seraphim
Once Dead, Twice Shy - 1/18/17 ★★★★☆
World After - 3/23/17 ★★★★☆
- Demon: full demon, ½ human or Cambion
Reap the Wind - 2/28/17 ★★★★★
The Turn - 3/17/17 ★★★★★
- Human with Abilities: psychic, telekinetic, empath, etc.
Fracture Me - 2/22/16 ★★☆☆☆
Magic Slays - 4/8/16 ★★★★☆
- Other: elemental, phoenix, unicorn, immortal, god/goddess, etc.
Alchemystic - 5/3/16 ★★☆☆☆
Dragonbane - 8/25/16 ★★★★★
✔4. Genre Relations
Read 4 books within one or all of the following genres: Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Sci-Fi Romance, and/or Fantasy
On the Prowl - 5/25/16 ★★★★☆
Magic Rises - 6/24/16 ★★★★★
The Demon's Deadline - 8/25/16 ★★★☆☆
Soul Finder - 9/26/16 ★★★★★
✔5. Fiction2Film
Read 2 books (stand alone or series) that have been or will be made into a TV series or a movie (examples: Collins' Hunger Games, Martin's Game of Thrones, Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld, Harris' Sookie Stackhouse, Gabaldon's Outlander, Clare's Mortal Instruments, etc. / Ref Lists: Books Becoming Movies in 2016, Popular TV Series Books, Book to Film lists)
The Bad Beginning - 12/26/16 ★★★☆☆
The Reptile Room - 12/31/16 ★★★★☆
✔6. Happy Birthday!
Read 4 books published in 2016
The Smaller Evil - 7/27/16 ★★★☆☆
Ripple - 8/11/16 ★★★★★
The Merciless II: The Exorcism of Sofia Flores - 8/22/16 ★★★★☆
How to Hang a Witch - 9/6/16 ★★★★★
✔7. Climbing Mt. TBR
Read 8 books: 4 books you added to your TBR list in 2015; 2 books added in 2014; 1 book added in 2013 and 1 book added prior to 2013 (If you joined Goodreads 2014 or after, read 2 books you added to your TBR list the year you joined)
2015:
Magic Strikes - 5/14/16 ★★★★★
When Smiles Fade - 10/14/16 ★★★☆☆
The Lost Hero - 3/6/17 ★★★★☆
Witchlock - 3/9/17 ★★★★☆
2014:
The Waste Lands - 1/27/16 ★★★★☆
Calamity - 5/12/16 ★★★☆☆
2013:
The Darkest Kiss -4/12/16 ★★★★☆
Living Dead in Dallas - 2/1/17 ★★★★☆
✔8. Job Related
Read 4 books featuring a character who has a job in any of the following categories:
Mortal Sins - 6/15/16 ★★★★☆
Transcendent - 9/13/16 ★★★☆☆
Ghost Witching - 12/10/16 ★★★★☆
Icebound - 12/31/16 ★★★★☆
✔9. Color Coded
Read 4 books featuring any of the following colors
- Primary Colors: Red, Blue and Yellow
- Secondary Colors: Purple, Orange or Green
Inhuman - 5/12/16 ★★★☆☆
The New Kid - 5/26/16 ★★★★☆
Under Her Skin - 6/17/16 ★★★★☆
Feverborn - 7/21/16 ★★★☆☆
✔10. iSpy
Read 4 books featuring any of the following items in the TITLE
- Weapon: knife, sword, arrow, dart, poison, blade, razor
- Five Senses: sight, sound, touch, scent, taste
- Things that Grow: flower, tree, rose, orchid, garden, lily, forest, seed, thorn, ivy
- Time of Day: morning, noon, night, evening, midnight, twilight, dusk, dawn
- Emotion/Feeling: love, hate, pride, passion, desire, fear, envy.
Sword of Darkness - 8/27/16 ★★★★★
Eighth Grave After Dark - 7/3/16 ★★★★★
Fire Touched - 1/25/17 ★★★★★
Nightshifted - 3/28/17 ★★★★☆
✔11. Best of ...
Read 4 books from either/both of the following lists: SOS' Best of UF Series Listopia and/or SOS' Best of PNR Series Listopia (Both lists contain the first-in-series book only, however you may read any book within any series listed on either list)
Night Season - 5/31/16 ★★★★☆
Blood Magic - 8/2/16 ★★★★☆
Death Magic - 10/9/16 ★★★★★
Unbinding - 12/26/16 ★★★★★
✔12. Seasons of Love
Read 4 books, 1 for each season
WINTER ~ Read 1 book in either category
❉ Blue cover or white cover
Mortal Danger - 4/20/16 ★★★★☆
❉ Title, series or author name (first or last) begins with 'W':
Tempting Danger (World of the Lupi) - 1/6/16 ★★★★★
❉ Series # correlates to one of your region's "winter months"
Blood Lines - 4/28/16 ★★★★☆
SPRING ~ Read 1 book in either category
❀ Green cover
Cry Wolf - 5/20/16 ★★★★☆
❀ First book in a new-to-you series
Born of Night - 4/2/16 ★★★★☆
❀ Series # correlates to one of your region's "spring months"
Magic Bleeds - 5/26/16 ★★★★★
SUMMER ~ Read 1 book in either category
❂ Red cover
Jason - 1/16/17 ★☆☆☆☆
❂ ½ nekked dude/tte on the cover
The Darkest Fire - 5/10/16 ★★★☆☆
❂ Series # correlates to one of your region's "summer months"
Invision - 5/17/16 ★★★☆☆
FALL ~ Read 1 book in either category
✣ Orange cover:
Illuminae - 2/18/16 ★★★★★
✣ New release (any month)
The Obsession - 4/7/16 ★★★★☆
✣ Series # correlates to one of your region's "fall months"
Seventh Grave and No Body - 6/30/16 ★★★☆☆
✔13. Orderly
Read 2 series books one for each of the following:
- SIX: Read book #6 in a series
Sixth Grave on the Edge - 6/6/16 ★★★★★
- TEEN: Read book #TEEN (13-19) in a series
Dragon Spawn - 2/12/17 ★★★★★
✔14. Double Decker
#10 PNR - Ritual Magic - 12/15/16 ★★★★☆
#9PNR - Mortal Ties - 10/26/16 ★★★☆☆
#1PNR - The Darkest Night - 5/6/16 ★★★★★
#1UF - The Ghost and the Graveyard - 4/7/16 ★★★☆☆
#10PNR - The Spider - 4/23/17 ★★★☆☆
#9UF - Heart of Venom - 6/10/16 ★★★★☆
#2PNR -Fire Within - 3/22/16 ★★★★★
#2PNR - The Darkest Kiss - 6/2/16 ★★★★★
✔15. Bad Boys and Bad-Ass Girls
- Heads: Read 4 books featuring a bad-ass heroine
Bright Blaze of Magic - 4/15/16 ★★★★★
Ghost Walking - 5/10/16 ★★★★☆
Buying Trouble - 5/24/16 ★★★★★
Brighter Than the Sun - 1/3/17 ★★★★☆
✔16. Year of the Monkey (Source)
Read 1 book (6 total) with title, author's first or last name, or series beginning with each the following letters:
M:Mercury Striking 1/8/16 ★★★★☆
O:Vampire Shift - Tim O'Rourke - 8/23/16 ★★★★☆
N:Gamescape: Overworld (Nora Project #1) - 9/8/16 ★★★★☆
K:Zombie's Bite - Karen Chance - 1/24/16 ★★★★★
E:Ecstasy Claimed - 5/3/16 ★★★☆☆
Y:On Dublin Street - Samantha Young 3/3/17 ★★★☆☆
✔Read 2 books that fit any of the following:
- Lucky Numbers: 1, 7, 8 (series number)
Greyworld 1: The Anomaly - 7/22/16 ★★★★☆
Blood Challenge - 8/18/16 ★★★★☆
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"The New Kid" Only available here, on eileenwilks.com
"Only Human"
I recommend you start the series with TEMPTING DANGER, then come back to "The New Kid" after you've gotten to know Rule a bit. "Only Human" is a short story version of TEMPTING DANGER with slightly different characters and plot elements, so it's not necessary to read unless you want to.
✔1: TEMPTING DANGER
2: "Originally Human"
✔3: MORTAL DANGER
✔4: "Brownies" Only available here, on eileenwilks.com
✔5: BLOOD LINES
✔6: "Inhuman"
✔7: NIGHT SEASON
✔8 "Good Counsel" Only available here, on eileenwilks.com
✔9: "Cyncerely Yours" Only available here, on eileenwilks.com
✔10: MORTAL SINS
11: "Human Nature"
✔12: BLOOD MAGIC
✔13: BLOOD CHALLENGE
✔14: DEATH MAGIC
15: "Human Error"
✔16: MORTAL TIES
✔17: RITUAL MAGIC
✔18: UNBINDING
✔19: MIND MAGIC
20: DRAGON SPAWN (no release date set yet)
Titles in all caps are full length novels.
Titles in quotes are short stories.
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Duration: July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016
✔July - Eeny Meeny - M.J. Arlidge 07/13/15 ★★★✩☆½
✔August - Cross Keys - Ally Shields 08/20/15 ★★★★✩
✔September - The Drafter - Kim Harrison 09/08/15 ★★★★★
✔October - Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs 10/15/15 ★★★★✩
✔November - Talon - Julie Kagawa 11/10/15 ★★★✩☆½
✔December - Dark Witch - Nora Roberts 11/29/15 ★★★✩☆
✔January - Midnight's Daughter - Karen Chance 1/23/16 ★★★★✩
✔February - A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas 2/9/16 ★★★★★
✔March - Awakening the Fire - Ally Shields 3/13/16 ★★★★★
✔April - Born of Night - Sherrilyn Kenyon 4/2/16 ★★★★✩
✔May - The Darkest Night - Gena Showalter 5/6/16 ★★★★★
✔June - Under Her Skin - Margo Bond Collins 7/17/16 ★★★★✩
Raquel's Reading Lists
Books mentioned in this topic
Given to the Sea (other topics)Club Dead (other topics)
Nightshifted (other topics)
The Son of Neptune (other topics)
Naked in Death (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Margo Bond Collins (other topics)Sherrilyn Kenyon (other topics)
Gena Showalter (other topics)
Sarah J. Maas (other topics)
Karen Chance (other topics)
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Duration: 1/1/16 - 12/31/16 12 months
READ: 28/28
Gluttony
✔1: Punishment: Book you have been "forced" to read: Fracture Me 2/22/16 ★★☆☆☆
✔2: Book in a series you "just can't get enough of" Dragonbane 8/25/16 ★★★★★
✔3:Orange - book with an orange cover: Illuminae 2/18/16 ★★★★★
✔4: Book in a series you put off until you had every book in the series before starting: The Waste Lands 1/27/16 ★★★★☆
Lust
✔1: Book with "fire" in the title or on the cover: Awakening the Fire 3/13/16 ★★★★★
✔2: Book with a character or cover dude/ette you "lust" after: Ecstasy Claimed 5/3/16 ★★★☆☆
✔3: Blue - book with a blue cover: The Ghost and the Graveyard 4/7/16 ★★★☆☆
✔4: YA book with G-level romance: Salt & Stone 1/17/16 ★★★★☆
Greed
✔1: Book with a cauldron on the cover or a story about witches: Burning Both Ends 3/29/16 ★★★★★
✔2: Book with a wealthy character: Alchemystic 5/3/16 ★★☆☆☆
✔3: Yellow - book with a yellow cover: Mercury Striking 1/8/16 ★★★★☆
✔4: Book with a character who helps others (ie: cop, military, doctor, teacher, etc): Fire Within 3/22/16 ★★★★★
Wrath
✔1: Book with body "parts" on the cover : Tempting Danger 1/6/16 ★★★★★
✔2: Book with hero/ine who's "angry" and fights enemies of his/her kind: Paramour for the Devil 1/13/16 ★★☆☆☆
✔3: Red - book with a red cover - Drink Deep A Court of Thorns and Roses 2/09/16 ★★★★★
✔4: Book with a "savior" hero/ine: The Darkest Kiss 4/12/16 ★★★★☆
Envy
✔1: Book with "ice" in the title - Caressed by Ice Icebound 12/31/16 ★★★★☆
✔2: Book you saw a friend reading and wished you had read it first: The Darkest Night 5/6/16 ★★★★★
✔3: Green - book with a green cover Mortal Sins 6/15/16 ★★★★☆
✔4: Book you received as a gift, from the library or otherwise loaned to you: Born of Night 4/2/16 ★★★★☆
Pride
1: Book with a wheel on the cover or "broken" in the title
✔2: Book with a dominant male character: Blood Lines 4/28/16 ★★★★☆
✔3: Violet - book with a purple cover: Bright Blaze of Magic 4/15/16 ★★★★★
✔4: Book with a struggling character: Ghost Walking
Under Her Skin
Sloth
✔1: Book with a reptile on the cover Under Her Skin 6/17/16 ★★★★☆
✔2: Book that was recommended, but you've been putting off reading "just because": Mortal Danger 4/20/16 ★★★★☆
✔3: Light Blue - light blue cover: The Darkest Kiss 4/12/16 ★★★★☆
✔4: Book with a strong human heroine: The Obsession 4/7/16 ★★★★☆
✔+1 Bonus Option: Read one book from any of the following: (1) a book that has one of the following in the title: SEVEN, DEADLY or SIN or any variation (ie: dead, death, sinfully, etc); (2) "Deadly Sins" or "Sins" in the series name; (3) Gena Showalter's "Lords of the Underworld" are all Keepers of a specific demon. Read any book in this series whose main character is the keeper of one of these demons; (4) a book from J.R. Ward's "The Fallen Angels" series, which is based on the seven sins.
The Darkest Kiss 6/2/16 ★★★★★