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Top Ten Book Series I Want to Catch Up On

I'm trying to get back in my blogging habits, and a good way to do that is to continue doing Top Ten Tuesday posts. I had almost forgotten about them until I saw someone else's post on my RSS feed.

This week, the The Atsy Reader Girl's Top Ten Tuesday prompt is all about series'. This particular prompt is the easiest for me so far, because I'm always behind on series I enjoy reading. I can't read fast enough to stay ahead of the curve with some writers (cough Sanderson cough).

  1. Alex Verus, by Benedict Jacka - An urban fantasy series about a magic user who can see the future. 8/12 read.
  2. Cradle, by Will Wight1 - An indie-published cultivation fantasy series that is also often listed as LitRPG. 4/12 read.
  3. The Stormlight Archives, by Brandon Sanderson - An epic fantasy doorstopper series. Each book takes me upwards of a year to read because they are so big and I'm so slow. 3/5 read.
  4. The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan (and finished by Brandon Sanderson) - An epic fantasy series (also made up of doorstoppers). I love reading these, but they are also year-long reads. 3/14 read.
  5. Iron Druid, by Kevin Hearne - Another urban fantasy series, this time about an almost immortal Irish druid and his Irish wolfhound. 8/10 read.
  6. October Daye, by Seanan McGuire - And another urban fantasy series, about a changeling (fae/human, percentage variable). 10/20(!) read.
  7. Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, by various - Extended Universe (now called Legends because Disney chucked everything out of canon) novels set in the Star Wars universe. I have no idea where I am in the series because I read them out of order and randomly when I was a teenager, since I was getting them at the library.
  8. Heartstrikers, by Rachel Aaron - An urban fantasy about dragons in human form. 1/5 read.
  9. Keeper of the Lost Cities, by Shannon Messenger - A middle grade fantasy series about a secret, hidden world of magic. 3/10 read.
  10. Southern Reach, by Jeff VanderMeer - A new weird series that is very, very hard to explain coherently. 3/4 read.

All told, I have... between 50 and 61 books to read in order to finish these 10 series. That's a lot! That's at least three years at my current reading pace, if I can read the doorstoppers faster than I have in the past. (Insert "I'm in danger" gif)

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  1. I just learned today that he is less than a month younger than I am, and learning that felt like being stuck with a hot needle, because he's published and I'm not. I apparently don't want it enough. Another blow to my dream.↩

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