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YLTO 2017 Yearly Challenge
YLTO Wall
Book Addicts 2017 Yearly Challenge
Color Profiles

SERIAL KILLER CHALLENGE (continued from 2015)
* - read additional books in this series since January 1, 2017

POTENTIAL HIT LIST: A - K

Cheese Shop Mysteries Aames 1/7
Charmed Pie Shoppe Mysteries Adams 2/5
Memphis BBQ Mysteries Adams 1/4
Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries Alan 1/5
Little Women Series Alcott 1/3
Beth Kennedy Series Alden 2/5
Poppy Markham Culinary Cop Series Allen 1/3
Meg Langslow Series Andrews 3/20
Rose Strickland Mysteries Austin 1/4
Gertie Johnson Mystery Series Baker 1/4
Reckless Series Baker 1/4
Booktown Mysteries Barrett 4/10
Victoria Square Mysteries Bartlett 1/4
Agatha Raisin Mysteries Beaton 2/27
Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mysteries Bebris 5/7 6/7 7/7 KILLED
Classic Diner Mysteries Beck 1/7
Donut Shop Mysteries Beck 12/25
Do It Yourself Mysteries Bentley 1/7
Bonnie Indermill Series Berry 4/8
Mary Crow Series Bissell 1/7
Intervention Series Blackstock 1/3
Sun Coast Chronicles Blackstock 2/4
Granville Island Mysteries Blair 1/3
Louisiana History Collection Blake 3/7
Cooking Class Mysteries Bliss 1/5
A Piece of Cake Mysteries Brady 1/6
Black Cat Bookshop Mysteries Brandon 2/5
*Cat Who...Mysteries Braun 2/29 3/29
Mrs. Murphy Series Brown 3/25
Food Lovers' Village Mysteries Budewitz 1/3
Louisiana Series Busbee 6/8
Quilts of Lancaster County Series Cameron 1/4
*Chocoholic Mysteries Carl 6/15 7/16
Seven Deadly Sins Series Caskie 1/4
Nikki Heat Series Castle 1/7
Pizza Lovers Mysteries Cavender 4/7
Ashton Corners' Book Club Mysteries Chase 1/5
Elm Creek Quilts Series Chiaverini 17/20
*Scrapbooking Mysteries Childs 5/13 6/14
Miss Marple Mysteries Christie 1/13
Key News Series Clark 1/10
Wedding Cake Mysteries Clark 1/4
Hollywood Series Collins 2/5
County Cork Mysteries Connelly 1/5
*Orchard Mystery Series Connolly 1/9 2/9
Jack Stapleton/Laurie Montgomery Series Cook 3/10
Kay Scarpetta Series Cornwell 18/23
Charley Sloan Series Coughlin 1/5
Southern Quilting Mysteries Craig 1/5
Wayward Pines Series Crouch 1/3
Valcour Series Daniels 1/3
Maze Runner Series Dashner 1/3
Domestic Diva Series Davis 1/9
Miss Zukas Series Dereske 1/12
Montgomery/Taggert Series Deveraux 2/16
Lady Trilogy Deveraux 0/3
Hardy Boys Mysteries Dixon 1/190
Midnight Louie Series Douglas 1/27
Savage Secrets Series Edwards 1/12
Pride and Prejudice Chronicles Elliott 1/3
Misty Harbor Series Evanick 1/7
Alex Barnaby Series Evanovich 2/4
Elsie Hawkins Evanovich 1/4
Fox and O'Hare Series Evanovich 1/5
Potluck Catering Club Series Everson 1/3
Carolyn Blue Culinary Mysteries Fairbanks 1/11
Needlecraft Mysteries Ferris 1/19
Missouri Series Garlock 1/3
Crown Spies Series Garwood 1/4
Southern Sisters Mysteries George 2/8
Mountain Trilogy George 1/3
Rizzoli And Isles Gerritsen 1/11
Seaside Knitters Mysteries Goldenbaum 8/11
Dennehy Sisters Series Goodman 1/5
Kinsey Millhone Series Grafton 8/24
Cameron Family Saga Graham 2/6
Missing Series Haddix 7/8 8/8 KILLED
Puzzle Lady Mysteries Hall 1/17
Lara McClintoch Archeological Mysteries Hamilton 1/11
Vintage Kitchen Mysteries Hamilton 1/5
Jocelyn Shore Mysteries Hamrick 2/3 3/3 KILLED
All Souls Trilogy Harkness 1/3 2/3 3/3 KILLED
Death On Demand Series Hart 2/25
Americana Series Hatcher 3/4 4/4 KILLED
Crochet Mysteries Hechtman 3/10
O'Malley Series Henderson 1/6
Hope Springs Series Hinton 1/5
Holmes On The Range Series Hockensmith 1/5
Sandy Reid Mysteries Hoisington 3/6
Hayley Powell Food & Cocktails Mysteries Hollis 1/6
Dotsy Lamb Mysteries Hudgins 1/5
Passport To Peril Mysteries Hunter 6/10
Yada Yada Prayer Group Series Jackson 3/7
Kent Family Chronicles Jakes 4/8
Wind Dancer Series Johansen 1/4
Ruby, The Rabbi's Wife Series Kahn 3/6
Forensic Instincts Kane 2/4
Glass Slipper, Inc Series Kauffman 1/4
*Nancy Drew Mysteries Keene 3/175 4/175 5/175
Kinship & Courage Series Kirkpatrick 1/3
Scruples Series Krantz 1/3

SERIAL KILLER CHALLENGE (continued from 2015)
* - read additional books in this series since January 1, 2017

POTENTIAL HIT LIST: L - R

*Tiki Goddess Mysteries Landis 1/4 2/4
Embroidery Mysteries Lee 1/9
Cherry Cola Book Club Series Lee 1/4
Cape Bay Cafe Mysteries Lin 1/4
Ben Hood Thriller Series Lindsay 1/25
Haardrad Viking Family Trilogy Lindsey 2/3 3/3 KILLED
Reid Family Series Lindsey 2/4
Sherring Cross Trilogy Lindsey 2/3 3/3 KILLED
Ly-San-Ter Trilogy Lindsey 1/3
Girls Do Or Don't Series Linz 1/4
Cookie Cutter Shop Mysteries Lowell 2/6
Tomorrow Series Marsden 1/7
Blossom Street Series Macomber 1/10
Local Foods Mysteries Maxwell 1/4
No 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series McCall Smith 1/16
*Savannah Reid Mysteries McKevett 1/20 2/22
Cupcake Bakery Mysteries McKinlay 5/8
Library Lover's Mysteries McKinlay 4/6
Lucy Stone Mysteries Meier 19/22
Captive Series Michaels 2/4
Zamonia Series Moers 1/8 (translated ?)
Anne Of Green Gables Series Montgomery 3/9
Warrior Series Moore 1/15
Ashfall Series Mullin 1/4
*Pennsylvania Dutch Mysteries Myers 12/20 13/20 14/20
Frannie Shoemaker Campground Mysteries Nortman 1/6
Temeraire Series Novik 1/9
Savage Seasons Series O'Banyon 1/4
Texas Heat Wave Trilogy Ortolon 1/3
Rose Trilogy Parker 1/3
Masqueraders Series Parker 1/5
*Alex Cross Series Patterson 17/23 18/23
Private Series Patterson 1/11
Women's Murder Club Series Patterson 11/15
Kingdom Keepers Series Pearson 3/8
Westward Dreams Series Peart 1/6
Angie Amalfi Series Pence 1/16
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series Penny 2/11
Amelia Peabody Mysteries Peters 1/19
Chicago Stars Series Phillips 1/7
Wynette Texas Phillips 2/7
Southern Fried Mysteries Pickens 3/5
Werner Family Series Plain 1/5
Book Of Time Trilogy Prevost 1/3
Vanza Series Quick 1/4
Eugenia Potter Series Rich 3/6
Ministry Is Murder Series Richards 1/5
Dandridge Trilogy Riefe 1/3
Percy Jackson & The Olympians Series Riordan 1/5
Calhoun Women Series Roberts 3/5
Morgan-Challenger Series Rogers 1/6
Mom Zone Mysteries Rosett 5/8

SERIAL KILLER CHALLENGE (continued from 2015)
* - read additional books in this series since January 1, 2017

POTENTIAL HIT LIST: S - Z

Knitting Mysteries Sefton 7/13
Mike Daley Mysteries Siegel 1/7
Sky's Legacy Series Small 4/6
Aftershock Series Sorenson 2/4
Thoroughly Southern Mysteries Sprinkle 3/10
Hope Street Church Mysteries Stanley 2/5
Collectible Mysteries Stanley 1/5
Devereaux Dime Store Mysteries Swanson 2/5
Scumble River Mysteries Swanson 3/18
Yellow Rose Mysteries Sweeney 2/5
Enchanted, Inc Series Swendson 1/7
Western Wind Series Taylor 4/5 5/5 KILLED
Saar Series Taylor 1/4
Southern Historical Trilogy Taylor 1/3
Stamping Sisters MysteriesThayer 2/3 3/3 KILLED
Betsy Livingston/Pecan Bayou Mysteries Trent 1/5
Welcome To Tyler Series Varied Authors 4/12
Pirates Trilogy Vayle 2/3 3/3 KILLED
Goldtein & Cruz Trilogy Wallace 1/3
Fresh Baked Mysteries Washburn 4/10
Delilah Dickinson Literary Tour Mysteries Washburn 2/4
Nina Quinn Mysteries Webber 2/7
Ya Yas Series Wells 1/3
Night Trilogy Wiesel 1/3
*Twilight Texas Series Wilde 4/6 5/8
Maisie Dobbs Series Winspear 2/12
Last Policeman Series Winters 1/3
Birmingham Series Woodiwiss 2/5
Chesapeake Shores Series Woods 1/13
Trinity Harbor Trilogy Woods 1/3
Cemetery of Forgotten Books Trilogy Zafon 1/3

SERIAL KILLER CHALLENGE (continued from 2015)


New Series Added Since January 1, 2017

Dublin Murder Squad French 1/6
Dead End Job Mysteries Viets 1/15
Lincoln Rhyme Series Deaver 1/13 2/13
Aspen Valley Inn Series Robbins 1/3
Kisses Series Lakes 1/10
Granite Cove Mysteries Cook 1/3
Verity Long Mysteries Wilcox 1/6
Lucy Kincaid Series Brennan 1/12
Deadly Games Series Diaz 1/4
Franki Amato Series Andrighetti 1/3
Spellshadow Manor Series Forrest 1/6
Chocolate-Centered Mystery Series Bell 1/8
Gentleman Bastard Series Lynch 1/3
Off The Grid FBI Trilogy Freethy 1/3
Sweet Bites Mystery Series Justesen 1/4

Whew! That is a lot of series. I plan to keep listing and killing mine going too. The Serial Killer challenge lives on!

Cherie wrote: "Whew! That is a lot of series. I plan to keep listing and killing mine going too. The Serial Killer challenge lives on!"

Well, I was pretty much reformed this year. Did not kill off one series. However, I added a bunch of potential victims.

I have company! We can be in the endless series loop together.

Janice wrote: "I have company! We can be in the endless series loop together."

Yep, count me in. For some reason the phrase "to infinity and beyond" comes to mind.

It will take me an infinity to finish the series I have on the go.

The new victims are an ever enlarging circle with no end in sight. I think I have 3 or 4 first-in-series books on my 2017 question list and it looks like one will be jumping on from the Jan group read. I am afraid to look at my first-in-series-TBR shelf. Last time I looked it was huge.

Cherie wrote: "The new victims are an ever enlarging circle with no end in sight. I think I have 3 or 4 first-in-series books on my 2017 question list and it looks like one will be jumping on from the Jan group r..."

Hmmm, I never thought about having a first-in-series-tbr shelf, mine are all on my tbr shelf. I might have to do some reorganizing. I do have a shelf for series books once I read a first one I put the rest on that shelf. Of course, its just getting bigger and bigger. I counted up the series I added this year...27!
Anyway, I went through my options for the survey and found 12 are first in series (can hear my tbr series shelf groaning) and 12 are books in series I'm reading, so maybe I'll actually kill off a few this year. Fingers crossed, lol.

I have a "series-to-continue" shelf for the next book to be read in a series but I'm not very diligent in putting books on it. Most of the series that I'm really interested in are on it... I think.

January 2017 Reads


YLTO January Theme Read:
Theme: Moon
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Moon Called

YLTO January Challenge Options:
Drop Dead on Recall
Drop Dead Diva
✔Shop Till You Drop 1/15/17
Pride, Prejudice, and Cheese Grits
Pride and Precipitation
YLTO January Challenge: COMPLETED

YLTO 2017 Yearly Challenge Reads:
Task #45 In the Woods 1/8/17
Task #1 Christmas at Twilight 1/13/17
Task #3 A Spool of Blue Thread 1/18/17
Task #4 The Bone Collector 1/23/17
Task #7 Bitter Sweets 1/27/17

February 2017 Reads

YLTO February Theme Read:
Theme: Plus sized authors or main characters
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

YLTO February Challenge Options:
✔Death Swatch 2/17/17
YLTO February Challenge: COMPLETED

YLTO 2017 Yearly Challenge Reads:
Task #20 The Coffin Dancer 2/3/17
Task #2 Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game 2/11/17
Task #43 Caddie Woodlawn 2/19/17
Task #5 Nothing Lasts Forever 2/20/17
Task #24 Two to Mango 2/25/17

YLTO February 2017 Toppler Options:
Heart - A Tiger's Bounty (yearly challenge #34)
✔Children's Dental - Caddie Woodlawn (yearly challenge # 43) 2/19/17
✔Ground Hog Day - Two to Mango (yearly challenge #24) 2/25/17
Pizza Day - Killer Crust (yearly challenge #25)
Hoodie Hoo Day - Murder Packs a Suitcase (yearly challenge #47)
Pet Day - The Cat Who Turned On and Off (yearly challenge #12)
✔Oscar Night - Nothing Lasts Forever (yearly challenge #5) 2/20/17

March 2017 Reads


YLTO March Theme Read:
Theme: Lost in the title
The Book of Lost Things
The Lost Girls

YLTO March Challenge Options:
Good but never finished shelf

YLTO 2017 Yearly Challenge Reads:
Task #10 The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir 3/5/17
Task #12 The Cat Who Turned On And Off 3/14/17
Task #30 The Deception at Lyme: Or, The Peril of Persuasion 3/20/17
Task #9 Waking Up Married 3/25/17
Task #6 Unbroken 3/26/17

April 2017 Reads


YLTO April Theme Read:
Theme: Ocean
Murder on the Lusitania
Treasure Island
✔Shadow Divers 4/28/17
YLTO April Theme Read: COMPLETED

YLTO 2017 Yearly Challenge Reads:
Task #41 Teaching Matters: Stories from Inside City Schools 4/1/17
Task #19 Snow Mountain Passage 4/6/17
Task #31 The Morning Show Murders 4/7/17
Task #28 Turbo Twenty-Three 4/9/17
Task #37 Kill Alex Cross 4/12/17
Task #18 The Summer Cottage 4/17/17
Task #17 A Nose for Hanky Panky 4/23/17
Task #42 Shadow Divers 4/28/17
Task #16 The Chocolate Jewel Case 4/30/17

YLTO April Toppler Options:
Did You Ever Have a Family
✔A Nose for Hanky Panky 4/23/17
Shadow Divers

May 2017 Reads


YLTO May Theme Read:
Theme: Gothic
Options:
Slade House
We Have Always Lived in the Castle

YLTO May Challenge Options:
The Apprentice
✔The Astronaut Wives Club 5/20/17
YLTO May Challenge: COMPLETED

YLTO 2017 Yearly Challenge Reads:
Task #27 The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend 5/7/17
Task #25 Gruel and Unusual Punishment 5/13/17
Task #39 The Moonstone Castle Mystery 5/14/17
Task #40 Grape Expectations 5/27/17
Task #48 My Mother's Secret 5/29/17

June 2017 Reads


YLTO June Theme Read:
Theme: Psychological Thrillers
Options:
✔The Butterfly Garden 6/25/17
The Night Sister
YLTO June Theme Read: COMPLETED

YLTO June Challenge Options:
✔Rotten to the Core 6/3/17
YLTO June Challenge: COMPLETED

YLTO 2017 Yearly Challenge Reads:
Task #8 Chicken Soup for the Soul: Merry Christmas!: 101 Joyous Holiday Stories 6/2/17
Task #50 The Neverending Story 6/15/17
Task #13 The Flight of the Falcon 6/22/17
Task #26 Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society 6/28/17

YLTO 2017 Toppler Reads:
The Queen of Minor Disasters 6/4/17
Strictly Murder 6/6/17
Limoncello Yellow 6/8/17
January Exposure 6/10/17

July 2017 Reads


YLTO July Theme Read:
Theme: Weird fiction
Options:
A Monster Calls
Anansi Boys

YLTO July Challenge Options:

YLTO 2017 Yearly Challenge Reads:
Task #32 Love Me to Death 7/3/17
Task #21 Evidence of Life 7/6/17
Task #33 Shadow of Night 7/22/17
Task #22 Accident 7/24/17
Task #29 He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not 7/27/17

August 2017 Reads:


YLTO August Theme Read:
Theme: "hot" in title/hot things on cover
Options:
Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House
Hunter's Run

YLTO August 2017 Toppler:
Options:
Murder Packs a Suitcase 288 pages
The Sweet Smell of Murder 254 pages
A Dad for Her Twins 219 pages
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun 224 pages

YTLO 2017 Yearly Challenge Reads:
Task #38 Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania 8/6/17
Task #23 Shower of Stars 8/9/17
Task #35 Chalk Lines on the Beach 8/15/17

YLTO August Challenge Options:
✔ The Secret of Spellshadow Manor 8/26/17
YLTO August Challenge: COMPLETED

September 2017 Reads:


YLTO September Theme Read:
Theme: Historical fiction with real people
Options:
The Witchfinder's Sister
The Paris Wife

YLTO 2017 Yearly Challenge Reads:
Task #34 Tiger Prince 9/1/17
Task #15 Mr. Darcy Presents His Bride: A Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice 9/4/17
Task #36 The Sweet Smell of Murder 9/8/17
Task #11 That Day in June 9/16/17

YLTO September Challenge Options:
✔Perilous Trust 9/23/17
YLTO September Challenge: COMPLETED

October 2017 Reads:

YLTO October Theme Read:
Theme: Grimdark subgenre of Fantasy
Options:
The Painted Man
The Vagrant

YLTO October Challenge Options:
✔Bread vs Butter: The Children's Blizzard 10/10/17
Fruit vs Vegetable: Town in a Blueberry Jam
YLTO October Challenge: COMPLETED

YLTO October Toppler Options:
Captain America: Murder Packs a Suitcase
✔Cyclops: The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun 10/13/17 (YLTO Yearly Challenge Task#14)
✔Storm: The Children's Blizzard 10/10/17
Iron Man: The Accidental Time Machine
Rogue: Cowboy Dad
Flash: Texas Lullaby
Killer Croc: Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea

Book Addicts 2017 Yearly Challenge Reads:
✔Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War 10/3/17
Book Addicts 2017 Yearly Challenge: COMPLETED

YLTO 2017 Yearly Challenge:
Task #47 Murder Packs a Suitcase
YLTO 2017 Yearly Challenge: COMPLETED

YLTO Serial Killer Challenge (2015)
Death Rides Again 10/23/17
Redeemed 10/31/17

November 2017 Reads:

YLTO November Theme Read:
Theme: Short stories
Options:
Vampires in the Lemon Grove
The Shell Collector

YLTO November Challenge:
The Christmas Train 11/22/17
YLTO November Challenge: COMPLETED

YLTO Serial Killer Challenge (2015)
The Suspicion at Sanditon 11/11/17
The Book of Life 11/21/17
Surrender My Love 11/26/17

December 2017 Reads:


YLTO December Theme Read: COMPLETED
Theme: Winter
Options:
The Bear and the Nightingale
Hogfather
✔False Impressions 12/8/17

YLTO December Challenge: COMPLETED
✔The Mystery of the Fire Dragon 12/24/17

YLTO December Toppler: COMPLETED
✔Brownies & Betrayal 12/10/17

YLTO Serial Killer Challenge (2015):
Kiss Me, Katie 12/3/17
False Impressions 12/8/17
Wild Winds 12/17/17
Love Me Forever 12/23/17
Lady of Fire 12/31/17