Serial Offender: Guilty As Charged

I find comfort in reading books that are a part of a series. It can be like visiting old friends, returning to the familiarity of the characters and setting. I enjoy seeing the growth of characters over time, however subtle it may be sometimes. Besides, the series books look nice lined up on a shelf.

At the beginning of 2006, I set a goal to catch up on the many series and trilogy books I had begun reading. By this time last year, I knew I was in over my head, and I simplified my goal to catch up with as many as I could. I had hoped to continue with the goal this year, however, with my enthusiasm to participate in the various reading challenges that have popped up, that idea went out the window fairly quickly. Kailana at Kailana's Written World and Marg from Reading Adventures posted lists of the series they are reading, ones they are caught up in as well as those they are still working their way through.

I created two series' lists as a way to help me track my progress in catching up with my series reading, which I update periodically (it's the list lover in me, what can I say?). I decided to go ahead and post the lists to my blog although I can't imagine they will be very interesting to anyone but me.

I keep two lists: one is of the series/trilogies in which I have already started reading; and the second is a list of the series/trilogies I own at least one or two books in (or have on loan from my parents in the case of the Rollins' books) but have yet to begin reading. Some of the series' books can be read as stand alones, however I count them as series because they have continuing characters and often personal story lines that carry over from one book to the other. I have not included the series that I no longer read. I am sure too that there are some I have forgotten to include. I will add them as I discover them. Because the lists are rather long, I will be posting them in two parts.

Series I Have Already Begun (the series listed in purple are ones I am caught up with)

• Acevedo, Mario- Felix Gomez, Vampire P.I. Mystery Series (up to X-Rated Blood Suckers)
  
  
• Armstrong, Kelley – Women of the Otherworld Series (up to No Humans Involved)
  
  
• Barr, Nevada - Anna Pigeon, a park ranger at various national parks in the USA (up to A Superior Death)
  
  
• Billingham, Mark - Tom Thorne, detective inspector series, London, England (have read Lifeless)
  
  
• Bishop, Anne – Black Jewels Trilogy (fantasy)
  
  
• Boldin, Brenda M – Alex Masters Mystery Series (up to Jailbird)
  
  
• Bradley, Marion Zimmer – Avalon Series (up to The Fall of Atlantis)
  
  
• Brown, Dan – Robert Langdon (Religious Symbolist) Supsense/Thriller Series (up to The Solomon Key)
  
  
• Butcher, Jim – Harry Dresden, the only wizard listed in yellow pages in Chicago, Illinois (up to White Night)
  
  
• Canavan, Trudi – The Black Magician Trilogy
  
  
• Clark, Carol Higgins – Regan Reilly (P.I.) Mystery Series (up to Fleeced)
  
  
• Clemmons, James – Banned and the Banished Fantasy Series (up to Wit'ch Storm)
  
  
• Crais, Robert – Elvis Cole Mystery Series (up to Stalking the Angel)
  
  
• Connelly, Michael – Harry Bosch (LAPD Detective) Suspense/Thriller Series (up to The Concrete Blonde)
  
  
• Davidson, Mary Janice – The Undead Series (up to Undead and Uneasy)
  
  
• Donaldson, Stephen R. – The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever (up to The Illearth War)
  
  
• Doyle, Arthur Conan – Sherlock Holmes (read The Hound of the Baskervilles)
  
  
• Dublin, D.H. - Madison Cross, a former star medical student with the Crime Scenes Unit, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (have read Blood Poison)
  
  
• Evanovich, Janet – Stephanie Plum (Bounty Hunter) Mystery Series (up to Book 14)
  
  
• Fairstein, Linda – Alexandra Cooper (Prosecutor) Mystery/Suspense Series (up through Killer Heat)
  
  
• Fforde, Jasper – Thursday Next Mystery Series (up to Lost in a Good Book)
  
  
• Gleason, Colleen – Gardella Vampire Chronicles (up to Rises The Night)
  
  
• Grafton, Sue – Kinsey Milhoune (P.I.) Mystery Series (Up to T is for Trespass)
  
  
• Grippando, James – Jack Swyteck (Miami Defense Attorney) Suspense/Thriller Series (have read Got the Look)
  
  
• Hamilton, Laurell K. – Anita Blake Vampire Slayer Mystery Series (up to The Harlequin)
  
  
• Harris, Charlaine – Southern Vampire Series (up to All Together Dead)
  
  
• Harris, Charlaine – Lily Bard, Housecleaner in Arkansas, Mystery Series (up to Shakespeare's Champion)
  
  
• Holdstock, Robert - Mythago Wood Cycle (up to Lavondyss)
  
  
• Indridason, Arnaldur - Erlendur Sveinsson, a detective inspector, and his colleagues Sigurdur Oli and Elinborg, in Reykjavik, Iceland (up to Voices)
  
  
• Jance, J.A. – J.P. Beaumont (Seattle Homicide Detective) Mystery Series(up to Justice Denied)
  
  
• Jance, J.A. – Joanna Brady (Sheriff) Mystery Series (up to Dead Wrong)
  
  
• James, P.D. – Adam Dalgliesh (Chief Inspector) Mystery Series (up to Unnatural Causes)
  
  
• Kalian, Cady – Maggie Mars, a struggling screenwriter and former investigative journalist, in Los Angeles, California (read up through A Few Good Murders)
  
  
• Karon, Jan – Mitford Series (up to These High, Green Hills)
  
  
• Kellerman, Faye – Rina Lazarus and Peter Decker Mystery Series (up to Milk and Honey
  
  
• Kellerman, Jonathan – Alex Delaware (psychologist) Suspense/Thriller Series (up to Obsession)
  
  
• Kerley, Jack – Detectives Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus in Mobile, Alabama (read through A Garden of Vipers)
  
  
• Kinsella, Sophie - Shopaholic Series (up to Shopaholic and Sister)
  
  
• Lackey, Mercedes – Valdemar Series (Fantasy)
  
  
• Lindsay, Jeff - Dexter Morgan is a blood spatter technician for Miami PD.(up to Dexter in the Dark)
  
  
• LeGuin, Ursula K. - Earthsea Series (up to The Tombs of Atuan)
  
  
• Lippman, Laura - Tess Monaghan, private investigator in Baltimore, Maryland (have read By A Spider's Thread)
  
  
• Martinez, Michele – Melanie Vargas Supsense/Thriller Series (up to Cover-Up)
  
  
• Matturro, Claire – Lillian Belle Rose Cleary, eco-conscious lawyer in Sarasota, Florida (have read Bone Valley)
  
  
• Montanari, Richard – Kevin Byrne, a detective, and his new partner, Jessica Balzano, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (up through Merciless)
  
  
• Olson, Karen E. - Annie Seymour, a police reporter in New Haven, Connecticut (up to Shot Girl)
  
  
• Paolini, Christopher – Inheritance Trilogy (up to Eldest)
  
  
• Paretsky, Sara – V.I. Warshawski (P.I.) Mystery Series (up to Deadlock)
  
  
• Patterson, James – Alex Cross (Homicide Detective) Suspense/Thriller Series (up to Pop Goes the Weasel)
  
  
• Perry, Anne –- Inspector Thomas Pitt and Charlotte Pitt Mystery Series (up to Traitor’s Gate)
  
  
• Preston, Douglas & Lincoln Child – Suspense/Thriller Series (have read Relic, Reliquary, The Cabinet of Curiosities)
  
  
• Rand, E.J. - A Reluctant Sleuth Mystery (up to Perfect Cover)
  
  
• Rees, Matt Beynon - Omar Yussef, schoolteacher in a Palestinian refugee camp, Mystery Series (have read A Grave in Gaza)
  
  
• Rice, Anne – The Vampire Chronicles (up to The Queen of the Damned)
  
  
• Robinson, Peter – Dan Banks, Eastvale detective chief inspector, in Yorkshire, England (read Friend of the Devil)
  
  
• Rose, M.J. – Dr. Snow, a Sex Therapist in the Butterfield Institute in New Your City (up to The Venus Fix)
  
  
• Rowling, J.K. – Harry Potter Fantasy Series
  
  
• Rucka, Greg - Atticus Kodiak, a bodyguard in New York City (up through Patriot Acts)
  
  
• Rucka, Greg – Queen and Country Series
  
  
• Sansom, Ian – A Mobile Library Mystery (up to Mr. Dixon Disappears)
  
  
• Santlofer, Jonathan – Kate McKinnon, a former NYPD cop who now has a PH.D in Art History (have read Color Blind)
  
  
• Santlofer, Jonathan – Nate Rodriguez, a sketch artist for the NYPD (have read The Murder Notebook)
  
  
• Sayer, Dorothy L. – Lord Peter Wimsey, a pianist, book collector, and criminologist, in London, England (have read Clouds of Witness)
  
  
• Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann – Godmother Fantasy Series (up to The Godmother's Web)
  
  
• Silva, Daniel – Gabriel Allon Suspense/Thriller Series (have read The Messenger)
  
  
• Simon, Clea – Theda Krakow, a cat-loving, freelance writer in Cambridge, Massachusetts Mystery Series (up through Cries and Whiskers)
  
  
• Slater, Susan – Ben Pecos Mystery Series (up to Yellow Lies)
  
  
• Smith, Alexander McCall – Mma Romotswe (P.I.) (up to The Good Husband of Zebra Drive)
  
  
• Tracy, P.J. – Grace MacBride, founder of a game software company in Minneapolis
  
  
• Vaughn, Carrie – Kitty the Werewolf Paranormal Series (up to Kitty Takes a Holiday)
  
  
• Willems, RG - Shelby James, Veterinarian Assistant in Saskatoon, Mystery Series (have read 1st book in series)
  
  
• Wright, Edward - John Ray Horn, a former B-movie cowboy star and ex-con turned debt-collector, in 1940s Los Angeles, California Mystery Series (have read Red Sky Lament)

(updated 05/01/2008)