December List

 November went by too quickly. While the amount of my reading was about average, my enjoyment was up. I need 25 books in December to meet my goal and I don't really think that I will make it, however, there's no use giving up so I'm going to plow on forward with a continuation of last month. I managed to finish off 5 series last month and finished 5 off of my urgent list. This month's list is primarily the same. I'm only adding in two series. The first is a graphic novel series that has been lingering for a while which I'm adding with an eye to getting my numbers up. The second is really just a continuation of one from last month. I'm putting on the next three Pern books by Ann McCaffrey. Ultimately, there are 16 of the books to read, but the beginning of the series falls into two neat little trilogies. 

1. Shadow and Bone Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo (Series YA)
1. Ruin and Rising (Finished 12/3/2022)
2. The Inheritance Games Series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (YA)
1. The Inheritance Games 
2. The Hawthorne Legacy
3. The Final Gambit
3. Flavia de Luce Series by Alan Bradley
1. A Red Herring Without Mustard
2. I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
3. Speaking from Among the Bones
4. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
5. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
6. Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mew'd
7. The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
8. The Golden Tresses of the Dead
4. The Bone Witch Series by Rin Chupeco (YA)
1. The Heart Forger (Finished 12/20/2022)
2. The Shadowglass (Finished 12/27/2022)
5. Remembrance of Earth's Past Series by Liu Cixin
1. The Dark Forest
2. Death's End
6. The Expanse Series by James S.A. Corey
1. Abaddon's Gate
2. Cibola Burn
3. Nemesis Games
4. Babylon's Ashes
5. Persepolis Rising
6. Tiamat's Wrath
7. Leviathan Falls
7. The Ropemaker Series by Peter Dickinson (YA)
1. The Rope Maker
2. Angel Isle
8. Planetary by Warren Ellis 
1. All Over the World and Other Stories (Finished 12/3/2022)
2. The Fourth Man (Finished 12/3/2022)
3. Leaving the 20th Century (Finished 12/4/2022)
4. Spacetime Archaeology (Finished 12/4/2022)
5. Crossing Worlds (Finished 12/5/2022)
9. Kingsbridge by Ken Follett
1. The Pillars of the Earth
2. World Without End
3. A Column of Fire
10. The Silver Arrow Series by Lev Grossman (YA)
1. The Silver Arrow 
2. The Golden Swift
11. Doctor Dolittle Vol 1 by Hugh Lofting
1. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
2. The Story of Doctor Dolittle
3. Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
12. Harpers of Pern by Ann McCaffery
1. Dragonsong (Finished 12/6/2022)
2. Dragonsinger (Finished 12/7/2022)
3. Dragondrums (Finished 12/11/2022)
13. Ghost Roads by Seanan McGuire (YA)
1. Sparrow Hill Road
2. The Girl in the Green Silk Gown
3. Angel of the Overpass
14. Dragonwatch Series by Brandon Mull (YA)
1. Dragonwatch
2. Wrath of the Dragon King
3. Master of the Phantom Isle
4. Champion of the Titan Games
5. Return of the Dragon Slayers
15. The Borrowers by Mary Norton (series YA)
1. The Borrowers (Finished 12/16/2022)
2. The Borrowers Afield (Dropped - Keeping books for Thomas)
3. The Borrowers Afloat (Dropped - Keeping books for Thomas)
4. The Borrowers Aloft (Dropped - Keeping books for Thomas)
5. The Borrowers Avenged (Dropped - Keeping books for Thomas)
16. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series by Louise Penny
1. The Cruelest Month
2. A Rule Against Murder
3. The Brutal Telling
4. Bury Your Dead
5. A Trick of the Light
6. The Beautiful Mystery
7. How the Light Gets In
8. The Long Way Home
17. Villians by V.E. Schwab
1. Vicious 
2. Vengeful 
18. What Goes Around by Courtney Summers (Series YA)
1. Cracked Up to Be
2. Some Girls Are

The Urgent List:

1. Kill All Happies by Rachel Cohn (YA, Library)
2. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (borrowed from Dad)
3. Circuit of Heaven by Dennis Danvers (Ryan Pick, because he really wants me to read it)
4. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (Classic, finishing up)
5. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu (Finished 12/12/2022)
6. Monstrous Devices by Damien Love (Finished 12/15/2022)
7. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna (Finished 12/9/2022)
8. Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri (Finished 12/31/2022))
9. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (YA, borrowed from Amanda)
10. Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (YA, Library)
11. The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade (old TBR)
12. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (borrowed from Stephanie)
13. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami (Because I am insanely curious)
14. Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventure's Guide by Cecily Wong and Dylan Thuras (NF, finishing it up)