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We are having another Series Madness Challenge.

We are reading from 1 January 2015 until 31 December 2015.

All books read during this period will count towards the challenge.

There are no tasks to complete but points will be gathered. You gather points by reading books that are a part of a series. For every book that is first in a series you will get one point, for every book that is second you will get two points etc. If a series like Discworld has 40 books you can get 40 points for the last book in the series.

The catch is that you have to read the books in order. If you first read book 3 and then book 6 and then book 1 you will not get full points. For every book read out of order you will get one point.

You don't have to read all the books during the challenge. So if you have already read books 1-5 in a series last year or before and read book 6 in 2015 you will get 6 points as long as you have read them.

Series filler books also count (e.g. Book 1.5 in a series) as long as they are 150 pages or more. Each series filler book gets points that are the same as its position in the series (e.g. Book 3.5 counts for 3.5 points) However, they need to be read in order of the series. Any filler books that are read out of sequence count for only 1 point. Please note: Reading filler books is optional, they will not affect the main sequence of books in a series, so if you read book 4 but move on to book 5 instead of reading book 4.5, you will still get the 5 points.

Participants:


Jax - 141
Jennifer - 131
Janice - 90
Henri - 35
Zuleka - 34
Lu - 34
Marlese - 28
Crusader - 27
Elzandi - 18
Lauren - 6
Rochelle - 2

My spot, I am aiming to beat my 2014 score of 49.

Score = 28

Breakthrough (Breaktrough #1) - 1pt
A dyeing shame (Myrtle Clover #2) - 1pt
Itsy Bitsy spider (Emma Frost #1) - 1pt
Silent in the grave (Lady Grey #1) - 1pt
That magic touch (Lake Shelbyville #1) -1pt
A death in Vienna (Gabriel Allon #4) - 1pt
Real murders (Aurora Teagarden #1) - 1pt
The elusive wife (Marriage mart mayhem #1) - 1 pt
Spirit bound (Sisters of the heart #2) - 2pt
Viper's defiant mate (Sarafin warriors #2) - 2pt
Moonlight warrior (Midnight Bay #1) - 1pt
Jacob (Nightwalkers #1) - 1pt
Flash & Bones (Temperance Brennan #14) - 1pt
Catching fire (Hunger games #2) - 2pt
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games #1) - Suzanne Collins - 1pt
Rebellious Prince (Captured by a dragon shifter #2) - 2 pt
Risteard's unwilling empress - SE Smith (Lords of Kassis #4) - 1pt
Swamp sniper - Jana Deleon (Miss Fortune #3) - 3 pts
Lethal Bayou beauty - Jana Deleon (Miss Fortune #2) - 2 pts
Karac (Kalder warriors #1) TJ Yelden - 1 pts
Merrick's maiden (Cosmos Gateway #5) - SE Smith -1 pts

Total: 34

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Thessaly by Jo Walton
- The Just City (#1) - 1

The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone
- Three Parts Dead (#1) - 1
- Two Serpents Rise (#2) - 2

Fencer Trilogy by K.J. Parker
- Colours in the Steel (#1) - 1
- The Belly of the Bow (#2) - 2
- The Proof House (#3) - 3

Nexus by Ramez Naam
- Nexus (#1) – 1
- Crux (#2) – 2
- Apex (#3) – 3

Apocalypse Now Now by Charlie Human

Total: 6

Total Points = 90
Total Books = 44
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2014 Challenge
Total Points = 132
Total Books = 72

2013 Challenge
Total Points = 215
Total Books = 73
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1 point: 1x22=22


2 points: 2x12=24


3 points: 3x2=6


4 points: 4x4=16


5 points: 5x2=10


6 points: 6x2=12

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13 Points


Total 141

Trial by Fire (1)


Wicked (1)




Total: (2)

Total:34

The Iron Fey
- ✔The Iron King(1 point)


Gallagher Girls
- ✔Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (2 points)

Anne of Green Gables
- ✔ Anne of Avonlea(2 points)

Tempest
- ✔Vortex(2 points)


Chaos Walking
- ✔The Ask and the Answer(2 points)
- ✔Monsters of Men(3 points)


Dorothy Must Die
- ✔Dorothy Must Die(1 point)

Starbound
- ✔These Broken Stars(1 point)


Vampire Academy
- ✔Vampire Academy(1 point)


Outlander
- ✔ Voyager(3 points)
- ✔Drums of Autumn(4 points)



On the Island
- ✔On the Island(1 point)


Talon
- ✔Talon(1 point)


Prisoner of Night and Fog
- ✔Prisoner of Night and Fog(1 point)

Reckoners
Firefight(2 points)


The Maze Runner
- ✔The Scorch Trials (2point)

The Inheritance Cycle
- ✔Eragon(1 point)

The Remnant Chronicles
- ✔The Kiss of Deception(1 point)


Eve
- ✔Once(2 points)

A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses
- ✔A Court of Thorns and Roses(1 point)

The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

City of Bones (1)
City of Ashes (2)
City of Glass (3)

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

If I Stay (1)
Where She Went (2)

Evernight Series by Claudia Gray

Evernight (1)

Fallen Series by Lauren Kate

Fallen (1)
Torment (2)

Awaken Series by Katie Kacvinsky

Awaken (1)
Middle Ground (2)

A Song of Ice and Fire

A Game of Thrones (1)

Rebekka Franck Series

One Two ... He Is Coming For You (1)

Total = 18

Could one of the moderators please flagged this thread as important so that it stays at the top?

Thanks! :)

Will do :)

Total: 27
Spatterjay: 3
The Skinner - 1
The Voyage of the Sable Keech - 2
Spin + Axis - 3
Bitter Seeds - 1
Dark Intelligence - 1
The Long Mars + The Long Utopia - 7
The Expanse 1 - 3 : 6
Legion 1 +2 = 3

Total: 131

1/2 points
Dazzled by silver (Layers trilogy #0.5)
A Christmas gone perfectly wrong (Blackshear Family #0.5)

1x Points
Out of time (Out of time #1)
A fair of the heart (Welcome to Redemption #1)
Waiting (PAVAD prequel issued after book 8)
Redeeming (PAVAD #7)
Revealing (PAVAD #8)
Heart of the dragon (Atlantis #1)
Her vampire husband (Wicked games #3)
The daybreakers (The Sacketts #6)
Naked in death (#1)
Shadows (Lux #0.5)
The rancher takes a bride (The Burnett brides #1)
No greater love (Pascal trilogy #1)
Melt with you (Fire and icing #1)
Will to love (Lifestyle by design #1)
Marblestone mansion (Scandalous duchess #1)
The darkest whisper (Lords of the underworld #4)
The guardian (O'Malley #2)
Midnight marriage (Roxton series #2)
The geek girl and the scandalous earl (Geek girls #1)
Few are angels (Few are angels #1)
Blood faerie (Caledonian Fae #1)
Inquest (Rogue hunter #1)
The hostage bargain (Taken hostage by hunky bank robbers #1)
Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl #1)
His Forgotten Forever (Bewitch the dark #3)
A Moment (Moments #1)
When Love Came to Town (In the Garden Series #1)
Runaway Heart (Hearts of Three Rivers #1)
House of Many Ways (Howl's moving castle #3)
The Charmer (Assassins guild #1)
A Heartless Design (Secrets of the Zodiac #1)
An Unexpected Widow (The Colorado brides #1)
Rocky Mountain Heat (Six pack ranch #1)
The way of the shadows (Night Angel #1)
Too close to home (Women of justice #1)
Ready to fall (Modern love story #2)
Immortal blood (Immortal heart #1)
Call of the dragon (Return to Avalore #1)
Captured & Seduced (House of the Cat #1)
Twin Curse (Twin gems #1)
The Case of the Flashing Fashion Queen (Dix Dodd #1)
The Littlest Cowboy (The Texas Brands #1)
My Wish (Guardians of time #1)
The Seduction of Sophie Seacrest (An unlikely husband #1)
Maggie for Hire (Maggie MacKay, magical tracker #1)
Unquiet Slumber (Blue fire #1)
Bran's Story (The slave breakers #1)
Love in a small town (Pine Harbour #1)
The Emperor's Edge (The Emperor's edge #1)
Forever sheltered (The forever series #3)
An undeniable rogue (Rogues Club #1)
Xoe (Xoe Meyers #1)
The Duke of Ambra (Mercenaries of Fortune #3)
Uncharted (Serendipity Adventure Romance #1)
The guardian (SEALS beyond battlefields #1)
Fractured moon (Aurelia Fridell #1)
From Russia with love (Heirs of Anton #1)
Veer (Clayton Falls #2)
If the shoe fits (Once upon a romance #1)
Around the word in eighty days (Extraordinary journeys #11)
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea (Extraordinary voyages #6)
The cryptographer (Second sons #1)
The warrior's woman (Dardanos #4)
Marcus (Hell squad #1)
Around the world in eighty days (Extraordinary voyages #11)
The dragon and the vampire (Supernatural Enforcement Bureau #1)
Blood Lines (NCIS #3)
Yours truly, Taddy (The Undergrad years #2)
A Quest of Heroes (The sorcerer's ring #1)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Extraordinary voyages #3)
Eternal Breath of Darkness (Breath of darkness #1)


2x Points
Diggers (Bromeliad book 2)
Something Beautiful (In the garden #2)
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson & the Olympians #2)
Jesse's Story (The slave breakers #2)

3x Points
The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson & the Olympians #3)
Wings (Bromeliad trilogy #3)
Lee's Story (The slave breakers #3)

4x Points
The battle of the labyrinth (Percy Jackson & the Olympians #4)
Fall deep (SEALS undone #4)

5x Points
Blood of Olympus (Heroes of Olympus #5)
The last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians #5)

10x Points
Luther's Return (Scanguards series #10)
Ghosting (PAVAD series #10)

11x Points
Burning (PAVAD series #11)

My Spot, better late than never:

Total Points: 35

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12 Points

Lu, can we do this challenge again for 2016?

Janice wrote: "Lu, can we do this challenge again for 2016?"

It's been a standing challenge for the last couple of years. If you get the post up I'll pin it.

Thanks Crusader, I've set up the thread.

Of course :) Love this challenge!

Well done to all who participated. The points are as follows:

Jax - 141
Jennifer - 131
Janice - 90
Henri - 35
Zuleka - 34
Lu - 34
Marlese - 28
Crusader - 27
Elzandi - 18
Lauren - 6
Rochelle - 2

Well done Jax!

This challenge is available again for 2016 at:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Hope to see you all there!

Well done everyone! Especially Jax :D

Congratulations everyone

Yay!
Congrats to all! :)