You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

Some many series, so little time!

Currently reading:
Currently listening to:

I have no idea how I am going to remember all my series, but I will add them as I come across them. ;)

Current Series:
Crime Series:
Wesley Peterson 2/27 read
Samuel Tay 5/7 read
The Brighton Mysteries 4/7 read
Chet and Bernie Mysteries, 9/14 read

Fantasy Series:
Gentleman Bastard 1/3 read

Other Series:
Space Team 1/13 read


Series killed in 2023:
Ruth Galloway Mysteries 14/14 finished 5 January
DCI Craig Gillard 11/11 finished 20 June
Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James 19/19 finished 28 July
The Emmy Lake Chronicles 3/3 finished 17 August
DCI Ryan 20/20 finished 3 October
DCI Logan 18/18 finished 4 December

Series abandoned in 2023:
Susan Ryeland (book #1 read)
Penny Brannigan Mysteries (book #1 read)
Kit Marlowe (book #1 read)
Inspector Barnaby (book #3 DNFed)
Fethering Mysteries(books #1-4 and 6 read)

Orphans:
The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway #15) - finished 5 March
The Enigma of Garlic (44 Scotland Street #16) - finished 30 April
Maxwell's Summer (Peter Maxwell #20) - finished 3 May
Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks #28) - finished 7 May
The Collector (Gabriel Allon #23) - finished 21 August
Stop Them Dead (orphan, Roy Grace #19) - finished 10 October
No Sweet Sorrow (orphan, DCI Daley #11) - finished 14 October
The Body in Nightingale Park (orphan, DCI Craig Gillard #12) - finished 15 October


Orphans yet to be released [release date]:
Maxwell's Zoom (Peter Maxwell #21) - [14 June 2022, audiobook not released yet]
Where The Pieces Lie (DCI Logan #19) - [16 April 2024]

To be read soonish:

The Sweet Remnants of Summer (orphan, Isabel Dalhousie #14) (HC)
Mongkok Station (Samuel Tay #6) (ebook)
Traitors Gate (William Warwick #6) (audiobook)
The Running Grave (orphan, Cormoran Strike #7) (audiobook)

I had to come and see your Series thread to see what we had in common. :O).

Oh, I will be looking forward to Traitors Gate - William Warwick, also!

I bought the next 4 or 5 books in the 44 Scotland Street series when there were only 8 books written. Still haven't read the 2nd book yet. I was fascinated by the first story though.

I love 44 Scotland Street! I have all the books in hardcover editions, whereas I mostly read everything else in ebook form or listen to audiobooks.
Re seeing what we have in common: I am not sure about listing series I am not currently "working" on - it feels too much like a "should read" list and I seem to work badly with those. A couple of days ago I stumbled upon a blog post from 2014 that listed all the books I was going to read "soonish" (mostly because I owned physical copies of them) - 9 years later I managed about 10 out of the 200 books listed.

I am bad about keeping up with plot lines, so I usually gobble up a series in one setting - which of course means I can only read it once it is finished. I do remember re-reading the first four books of Jeffrey Archer's Clifton Chronicles. I had read the first three shortly before book 4 came out, only to realise that there would be more. Years later, I did not remember anything about those four books and had to start over... (it was worth it, though).

With crime series (I usually read British police procedurals), it is a bit easier, as you can read newly-released books without the backstory of the earlier ones. I do prefer to read them one after the other, however. I feel closer to the main characters (= the investigation team and their immediate circle) that way.

I keep a paper list of all of the physical books and ebooks that I own and track series other than the list I have in my thread. There are series that I can gobble up in a sitting, and others that I just pick up when I am in the mood.

I agree that having a list sometimes feels like "I must read" at times, but I started it to be able to find books for challenges, here on YLTO. It is true, that I do put off reading my physical books. I think it is just because I know that they are always going to be there, so why hurry?

Characters in series become like family members to me. I think that is why I like some more than others. I do not have a genre I like more than others, but romance series are what I like least. I like sci-fy (Star Trek) and police/detective series (Sherlock Holmes), especially set in England too.

Have you tried Barker & Llewelyn by Will Thomas? You might like them. There are cueetnely 13 books and #14 is due this year, but not sure when. Some Danger Involved is the first one.

Enjoy your reading!

I have so far failed at getting into historical crime books - no idea why! I do read historical novels and I do read crime, but put them together and suddenly they do nothing for me.
I love Star Trek and have read a number of novels set in that universe.

One fine day, I am going to read all 31 books in Raymond Feist's Midkemia series. I already read some parts (books 1-7 and 21-23), but my goal is to (re-)read them all in order.

Now starting on Death In Disguise, which is #3 in Caroline Graham's Inspector Barnaby series.
I haven't read the first two books, but I am quite sure I watched all of the Midsomer Murders episodes and thus should be able to follow the proceedings. ;)

I could not get into Death In Disguise; the writing appeared long-winded and the audio narration did not appeal to me.

I'll move the series out of my list and instead start a new one: the DCI Ryan Mysteries by L.J. Ross. I started the audio version of the first book last night and really liked the narration.

Also new to me: DCI Logan - another Scottish series.
I just love listening to audiobooks of stories set in Scotland!

The DCI Ryan mysteries feel like one long story - I cannot imagine reading them individually. I just finished book four.

Onwards!

I may have to check out those last 2 series, DCI Ryan, DCI Logan.
Luckily just all the copies are available (at least for now) through Kindle Unlimited. Makes it easy to get them without waiting.

I am on a killing spree - currently listening to book 13 (of 20) of the DCI Ryan series.

And that's another notch on my bookshelf.
I spent exactly five weeks with the 20 (audio)books in the DCI Ryan series.

Now it is time go and chase some orphans and/or some books for the yearly challenge.

I read The Witness at the Wedding which is #6 in the Fethering series by Simon Brett.
After reading books 1-4 a few years ago I needed a break from the series as it was overly formulaic, with the same sequence of events in nearly every book.

Having now given the series another chance, I have decided to not bother any further with it.

I am (almost) six books into the DCI Logan series and absolutely loving it!
I am listening to the audiobooks read by Angus King, who does a splendid job with all the Scottish accents (as far as I can tell, anyway).

I checked to see if my library had the DCI Logan series books but none are found. I think I am relieved! Lol.

Uh oh, the entire DCI Logan series is available on Kindle Unlimited. Don't let me look at it.

Look! You know you want to...

Mwahahahaaaaaa!

I just finished the tenth DCI Logan book, Ahead of the Game and am now getting started on #11 An Isolated Incident.

And that is one more series killed - I finished the 18th and (currently) last book of the DCI Logan series on 4th December.
The last two books were a bit of a letdown, though. I had come to expect better from the series.
I'll give #19 a try when it comes out, though.