Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

Sadly the forum software is lacking for adding things beyond images but these are my top 30 series as of now that I'll be looking at. It doesn't include things I've already signed on for buddy reads or series in progress where I know new books are coming out. With the exception of Black Sun's Daughter and Hellequin which Nike and Margret have agreed to schedule since I made this list. Some I still may start this year as well.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Organized people are so fascinating

I'll have to think on it, but I think I'll be starting Drenai Saga for sure next year

Scott wrote: "Sadly the forum software is lacking for adding things beyond images but these are my top 30 series as of now that I'll be looking at. It doesn't include things I've already signed on for buddy read..."

Numbers 1, 2, 3 (need to continue), 4, 5, 7, 19, 21, 23, 24 and 29 are on my imaginary list as well. Number 13, Tales of the Kin was on it too, but I don't think the third book will ever come out because author is dealing with depression and decided to start a new series. I've read that on his website.

Scott, Douglas Hulick said he has no plans to finish the Tales of the Kin series. Think he has some anxiety issues and it was putting too much pressure on him.

So happy to see Inda on your list.

Only series I plan on starting are The Black Magician trilogy by Trudi Canavan and Riftwar Saga by Raymond Feist. I have them in audio so know I will get to them. Have a bunch of Kindle series to start but need to get others done first.

Edit: Looks like Samir beat me to the Hulick news.

Ah, well that sucks but is good to know.

My plans for 2018 are as follows - this is in absolutely no particular order haha. There are a few that are higher priority though, which I may or may not begin before the year is over. Wheel of Time I already started, but that's obviously more than a year long commitment for me haha.


1. Malazan - this is a must, honestly. I plan on doing the BRs with the group, if everything works out.

2. Wheel of Time (Jordan).

3. Riyria Chronicles & Legends of the First Empire (Sullivan).

4. The Draconis Memoria (If I don't get to it by the end of 2017). This one is definitely high priority.

5. Long Price Quartet.

6. Gods of Blood and Powder & Powder Mage Novellas(McClellan).

7. Farseer Trilogy (Hobb). High priority.

8. Codex Alera (Butcher).

9. Books of Babel (Bancroft). High priority.

10. The Raven Cycle (Stiefvater). Gotta get my dose of YA =].

One major one that I have on my own pipeline is The Dagger & the Coin by Daniel Abraham. I've had it on my TBR for so long and on my "about to start" for as long as the first book has been out.

Margret wrote: "Organized people are so fascinating

I'll have to think on it, but I think I'll be starting Drenai Saga for sure next year"

Honestly it's only through necessity. I feel like Jack the Pumpkin King running around yelling What's this? What's this? Every time I see a new book or series. Having the list dilutes my adult ADD.

Margret wrote: "I'll have to think on it, but I think I'll be starting Drenai Saga for sure next year"

Me too! We should Buddy Read it together. I was thinking of starting in the spring.

Scott wrote: "Margret wrote: "Organized people are so fascinating

I'll have to think on it, but I think I'll be starting Drenai Saga for sure next year"

Honestly it's only through necessity. I feel like Jack t..."

Thanks a lot, Scott.
Now not only do I feel like a slacker for being completely unorganized, I have that song stuck in my head as well.

I just started on Inda. All of my GR friends that have read it rated it 5 stars with gloving reviews and praises. That's quite an accomplishment these days.

Next series after that will probably be the A Shadow in Summer. Someone named Scott with a lot similar taste as me have it as #4 on his top 10 of all time series list. Which, of course, means I have to read it too.

So sad I won't have a Daniel Abraham epic fantasy series to do next year.

Luckily for me, I've already made a list for my Overflowing Bookshelf Challenge.

Series I'd like to make a concerted effort to start in 2018 (keeping in mind my Incomplete Series Challenge).

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

The Smoke Thief - Shana Abe
The Emperor's Blades
Menagerie - Rachel Vincent
Twelve Kings in Sharakhai
The Summer Dragon
Scythe - Shusterman
Clean Sweep - Ilona Andrews
The Queen of Blood - Durst
Hope and Red
Dead Iron - Devon Monk

From my collection (in order of GR rating)
The Lost Hero - Rick Riordan
Temeraire: In the Service of the King - Naomi Novik
Sword in the Storm - David Gemmell
Covenants - Freeman
Wolfblade - Jennifer Fallon
On the Edge
Inda
A Matter of Magic
The Tower of Ravens
Song in the Silence
The Wizard Hunters
The Dragonbone Chair
Raised by Wolves
Swords of Haven: The Adventures of Hawk and Fisher
Aurian
Dies the Fire
The Floating Island
Flesh and Spirit
Swords Of Riverside
Priestess of the White
Santa Olivia
A Turn of Light
Stardoc
Devlin's Luck
Son of Avonar
The Smoke Thief
Blood Rights
Path of Fate
Changelings
The Decoy Princess
Bronze Gods
Touched by an Alien
The Sword
Heir of Autumn
Dragonmaster
Orphans of Chaos
Mélusine
Monument
Mistress of Dragons
Dead Iron
The Wizard Lord
Unclean Spirits
The Mirror Prince
The Amber Wizard
Touched By Venom

Any takers? Lol. I'm maybe going to catch up with Temeraire for the group read. Laura and Siobhan and I are reading Dragonmaster in October. Angela and I are starting Menagerie in January. Scott and I are doing Unclean Spirits in May. And Chris M. and I have discussed starting Unhewn Throne in December.

Liam wrote: "My plans for 2018 are as follows - this is in absolutely no particular order haha. There are a few that are higher priority though, which I may or may not begin before the year is over. Wheel of Ti..."

Holy cow - yes to all the things 4, 5, 7, & 8!!!

Scott wrote: "Sadly the forum software is lacking for adding things beyond images but these are my top 30 series as of now that I'll be looking at. It doesn't include things I've already signed on for buddy read..."

I'm also interested in:

Twelve Kings in Sharakhai
The Mirror Empire
Stormdancer
Nevernight
Leviathan
The Red Knight
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms etc.

In that order. :D

Bill wrote: "So sad I won't have a Daniel Abraham epic fantasy series to do next year."

You should totally do the Unclean Spirits read with us. I'll be setting it up today.

I might as well tear up my Incomplete Series Challenge now.

Yea... I'm no good at planning reads that far out if you ignore Buddy Reads I sign up for... I'm more likely to try and get to whatever I'm interested in sooner...

The ones on my radar right now are:

Buddy Reads: Malazan, Temeraire, Gentleman Bastards, and Menagerie

Other Series: Riyria, Codex Alera, 1st Farseer trilogy #2-3, Powder Mage, Honey Badgers, Emperor's Edge

Can I just say that I'm feeling an odd mix of elation and depression at all of these unstarted series. Too many damn books to read. It's an awesome problem but at the same time a daunting one.

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Bill wrote: "So sad I won't have a Daniel Abraham epic fantasy series to do next year."

You should totally do the Unclean Spirits read with us. I'll be setting it up today."

I was thinking about it but it would go poorly for my Incomplete series and Overflow challenges.

Bill wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "Bill wrote: "So sad I won't have a Daniel Abraham epic fantasy series to do next year."

You should totally do the Unclean Spirits read with us. I'll be setting i..."

preach.

Sarah wrote: "Thanks a lot, Scott.
Now not only do I feel like a slacker for being completely unorganized, I have that song stuck in my head as well.."

Mission accomplished! :)

Lundos wrote: "A Shadow in Summer."

I hope you love it like many of us do.

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Luckily for me, I've already made a list for my Overflowing Bookshelf Challenge.

Series I'd like to make a concerted effort to start in 2018 (keeping in mind my Incomplete Series Challenge).

http..."

Looking at your list I should have mentioned I also didn't include first in series books I know I'm starting like

Scythe
Blackwing (already a BR)
The Guns Above
Age of Assassins (already a BR)
Faithless
The Court of Broken Knives

That's a lot of series... I've been hearing a lot about Long Price Quartet and Draconis Memoria recently... I might try those as well... I try not to click every book I see listed in lists like this... I don't need 1000 more books to read when you add all the books in each series...

Iain wrote: "I don't need 1000 more books to read when you add all the books in each series... ."

What's a thousand extra books between friends? :)

Scott wrote: "Iain wrote: "I don't need 1000 more books to read when you add all the books in each series... ."

What's a thousand extra books between friends? :)"

4-5 years of reading? Did I get it?

In no particular order:

The Dagger & the Coin - (even bought the first book recently - BEFORE starting Niki's book buying ban challenge)


The Farseer trilogy - (really all of Robin' Hobbs' books)

Malazan series - (doing the BR here starting in Jan.)

Draconis Memoria

Raven's Shadow

Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne

Codex Alera

The Dark Tower - (I've read the first two but need to get back to it)

Worldbreaker Saga

Vampire Empire

Rot and Ruin

The Sanctuary Duet

Trade Pack Universe

Paladin's Legacy

The Chronicles of St. Mary's

@Bill: Sounds about right... the problem is that a lot of series aren't over, and also add more new releases you need to read to keep up each year...

I'm seeing a lot of potential for more Buddy Reads on these overlapping lists...

Happy to see people reading The Chronicles of St. Mary's... such a fun series...

Iain wrote: "@Bill: Sounds about right... the problem is that a lot of series aren't over, and also add more new releases you need to read to keep up each year..."

I'm pretty much done with new releases. It was the easiest thing to cut away to keep my incomplete series challenge from getting even more absurd.

Bill wrote: "4-5 years of reading? Did I get it? ?"

Probably, unless you won an Audible free for life subscription. :)

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Liam wrote: "My plans for 2018 are as follows - this is in absolutely no particular order haha. There are a few that are higher priority though, which I may or may not begin before the year is over..."

Yeah I'm looking forward to it ^_^. I feel like this past year I did a whole lot of catching up on series I hadn't finished, along with just trying to find new material to read, and so I feel really good about my plans for this upcoming year.

Liam wrote: "My plans for 2018 are as follows - this is in absolutely no particular order haha. There are a few that are higher priority though, which I may or may not begin before the year is over. Wheel of Ti..."

I have one book left of Codex Alera and I'm reading the second Draconis Memoria right now. Both amazing, you have some nice stuff in your future. :D

Derpa wrote: "Liam wrote: "My plans for 2018 are as follows - this is in absolutely no particular order haha. There are a few that are higher priority though, which I may or may not begin before the year is over..."

I've heard many good things so I'm very excited =]

So, Scott... when in 2018 might Inda work for you? I imagine it will take me a couple of months to read each one, realistically.

I now feel the need to figure this out. But I have no idea where to start.

So if no one has heard from me in a month or two, please send a search party....

Liam wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "Liam wrote: "My plans for 2018 are as follows - this is in absolutely no particular order haha. There are a few that are higher priority though, which I may or may not begin bef..."

You've certainly set yourself up for success. Can't wait to see you start those. :)

Derpa wrote: "Liam wrote: "My plans for 2018 are as follows - this is in absolutely no particular order haha. There are a few that are higher priority though, which I may or may not begin before the year is over..."

You're speaking my language! :D

Sarah wrote: "I now feel the need to figure this out. But I have no idea where to start.

So if no one has heard from me in a month or two, please send a search party...."

lol. Sarah? SAAAARRRAAHH??

She must be lost in the stacks.

Generally, if I like a series and a new book comes out, I WANT to read it... going forward I think most romance/PNR is going to end up Abandoned if/when a new release comes along, but for most UF series and the like, I'm invested and still enjoying them...

35/136 reads this year have been new releases... with 7 more planned... I have 30 shelved already for next year...

Niki Hawkes wrote: "So, Scott... when in 2018 might Inda work for you? I imagine it will take me a couple of months to read each one, realistically."

Why a couple of months for each? I don't really care I'm just curious. I'm trying to not commit to more than 3 buddy reads per month so I could do one of these combos which complies not doing back to back months.

Jan, May, July and Sep
May, July, Sep and Nov
June, Aug, Oct and Dec

I like the 1st one. It will allow me to start Malazan and Inda, but not feel rushed. What day of the month will work for you? It seems like the 20th is open currently.

Why a couple of months for each? I don't reall..."

This one isn't available in audio and I'm struggling to find time to read physical copies lately. I imagine I'll have a couple of ARCs in the mix then too. You're going to fly through it, I'm sure.

Niki Hawkes wrote: "I like the 1st one. It will allow me to start Malazan and Inda, but not feel rushed. What day of the month will work for you? It seems like the 20th is open currently."

For January the 17th.

May I can do anything starting between the 1st-10th

July and Sept anything 5 days before or after the 15th.

There's nothing saying we have to start them all the same day of the month so I'm trying to be as flexible as I can.

Actually if you like the 20th every month I can work with that.

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Why a couple of months for each? I don't reall..."

This one isn't available in audio and I'm struggling to find time to read physical copies lately. I imagine I'll have a couple of ARCs in the mix..."

I'm probably going to slow my roll after October 5th. I can sense a little bit of burnout. I'm not going to commit to as much and I'm going to go into my other preferred genres more.

Scott wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "I like the 1st one. It will allow me to start Malazan and Inda, but not feel rushed. What day of the month will work for you? It seems like the 20th is open currently."

For Jan..."

1 - 1/17
2 - 5/5
3 - 7/20
4 - 9/20

Works for me. We'll have hanover on the 10th in may, so I picked the 5th.

I agree with slowing the roll. I'm feeling fully committed atm too lol.

Scott wrote: "Niki Hawkes wrote: "Why a couple of months for each? I don't reall..."

This one isn't available in audio and I'm struggling to find time to read physical copies lately. I imagine I'll have a coupl..."

Will these be our first BRs? I think we've been doing the same books lately, just not at the same time haha.

Niki Hawkes wrote: "Will these be our first BRs? I think we've been doing the same books lately, just not at the same time haha. ."

It certainly seems that way. I'm not sure if you're doing Age of Assassins, Blackwing or Oathbringer. It does seem like many of your series (Wot) are ones I've finished and vice versa (Expanse).

Yes I'm joining Age of Assassins. I don't think I'll make it to the Oathbringer party, though. Either way I'm looking forward to the ones we have scheduled. :)