The Finishing the Series Reading Challenge is back for another year. This challenge is focused on finally finishing those series that you’ve started but not yet completed. It was previously hosted by Bea’s Book Nook, but the Celebrity Readers Blog been hosting it since 2018. This challenge is an easy one for me because I read quite a few series. As my favorite authors write and publish their annual novels, I link them to this challenge. There are some situations where I read several installments of a series in one year. Each of those books is also linked to the challenge. I am signing up the challenge as an A Lister. This requires that I read 9 or more series in 2024.
The Challenge Rules
1) The challenge will run from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024. Books must be read during this time frame to count. Sign up is open from now until December 1, 2024, so you may join even just for the last month of the year.
2) Series can be already completed as well as still ongoing. For ongoing series, the goal is to catch up to the most recent book published by the end of 2024.
3) It is OK if you have only 1 book or 10 books to read in order to finish your series, as long as you’ve started the series before 2024 (ie read at least one book in the series), it counts. Re-reads are not required.
4) Any format and length of book counts – print, ebook, audio, ARC, etc.
5) Series can be any length (even if it’s just a duology).
6) Crossovers from other challenges are OK.
7) Reviews are not required, but highly encouraged.
8) To participate, declare your intentions somewhere on the internet!! You do not need to be a blogger to participate, there are many ways to declare. You could write a blog post, create a reading challenge page, create a Goodreads shelf containing series you hope to finish, post about it on Facebook, X, Mastodon, Instagram, etc. Some things you could include (but that aren’t required): A link to the challenge post so that others may find us and join the fun as well (feel free to download the button at the top to use in your posts).
9) Make a list of series you hope to read for this challenge.
10) Select the challenge level you are aiming for.
11) Sign up at the challenge post, and link directly to where you’ve declared your intentions (ie to the specific blog post, the goodreads shelf, the facebook post, etc).
12) Only one link up will be posted for the whole year. This is where you can add links to your reviews or any wrap-up/overview posts you wish to share.
13) Use the hashtag #FinishingTheSeries2024 on any social media to keep up with other participants!
14) There are 3 different “Celebrity” levels of achievement for this reading challenge:
C-LIST SERIES FINISHER: Complete 1-4 Series
B-LIST SERIES FINISHER: Complete 5-8 Series
A-LIST SERIES FINISHER: Complete 9+ Series
Some of the series that I read are:
- Cleo Coyle's Coffeehouse Mystery Series
- Laura Childs' Indigo Teashop Series
- Charles Finch's Charles Lenox Mystery Series
- Gary McAvoy's Vatican Secret Archives series
- Sujata Massey's Perveen Mistry series
- S. D. Sykes's Oswald de Lacy Somershill Manor
- Ellen Crosby's Wine Country series
- Nathan Dylan Goodwin's Forensic Genealogist Morton Farrier series
- Heather Atkinson's Alardyce House series
A few series I have enjoyed over the years are no longer being written and I am sad about this.
- Alka Joshi's Jaipur trilogy
- Susan Wittig Albert's China Bayles series
- A. M. Stuart's Harriet Gordon Mysteries
- C. J. Sansom's Matthew Shardlake series
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