Serial Addict Challenge - TV Edition

From the Serious Overload of Series Group on Goodreads comes:
TV Series Serial Addict Challenge
Total # of Books: 31 books

Rules: All books listed must be a part of a series (state the name of the series along with your book choice). Re-reads are allowed. All formats are allowed. Anthologies are not allowed.

NOTE: You may choose to participate in the entire challenge or only parts, it’s up to you, but only those that complete the ENTIRE challenge can truly say, “I’m a TV Series Serial Addict!” HAPPY READING

1: TV Dinners, although not always good for ya, are a top selling frozen food (8 BOOKS)

Read a book with a title that begins with each letter (omitting 'The', 'A', 'An') -or- author’s FIRST OR LAST name that begins with each letter: T-V-D-I-N-N-E-R (They do not have to all be a #1. They just have to be a book in a series. They can be any # within any series.)

T Thirteen by Kelley Armstrong
V Visions of Heat by Nalini Singh (Psy-Changling Series)

D Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris
I Inferno's Kiss by Monica Burns
N Night Shifted by Cassie Alexander
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E Every Which Way but Dead by Kim Harrison
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2: 5 Types of TV Series (15 BOOKS)
NOTE: You may choose books from one series or from different series for each of these; it's up to you!
* Drama - read 5 books in a UF series
Women of the Otherworld Series by Kelley Armstrong

• No Humans Involved
• Personal Demon
• Living with the Dead
• Frostbitten
• Waking the Witch

* Soap - read 4 books in a PNR series
Psy/Changlings Series by Nalini Singh

• Slave to Sensation
• Caressed by Ice
• Mine to Possess
• Hostage to Pleasure

* Sci-Fi/Fantasy - read 3 books in a Fantasy series (can be high fantasy, sci-fi, sci-fi romance, etc)
Cat Star Chronicles Series by Cheryl Brooks

• Slave
• Warrior
• Rogue

* Kids - read 2 books in a YA series
Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer

• Cinder
• Scarlet

* Sitcom - read 1 book in a humorous series (Shelly Laurenston's series -and similar- would qualify)
Naked Werewolf Series by Molly Harper

• How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper

3: "True Blood" (1 BOOK)
Read a series book featuring vampires

• Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill

4: "Vampire Diaries" (1 BOOK)
Read a series book featuring vamp brothers -OR- shifters -OR- both vamps & shifters who are enemies

• Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs

5: "Supernatural" (1 BOOK)
Read a series book featuring immortals (of any type: gods, angels, reapers, demons, etc)

• Second Grave on the Left by Darynda Jones

6: "Jericho" (1 BOOK)
Read a post-apocalyptic series book

7: "The Walking Dead" (1 BOOK)
Read a series book featuring zombies (Sorry, I love this show, so I had to include it)

• The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook (reading now)

8: "Buffy" (1 BOOK)
Read a series book with a character who is a vampire slayer

• Skinwalker by Faith Hunter

9: "Charmed" (1 BOOK)
Read a series book featuring magic (of any type: witch, fae, magicians/mages, etc)

• Storm Front by Jim Butcher

10: "Being Human" (1 BOOK)
Read a series book featuring a ghost -OR- vamps and weres who are friendly, instead of enemies

• The Restorer by Amanda Stevens

Wendy the Super Librarian's 2013 TBR Challenge

Another challenge I've done the last couple years:  Wendy the Superlibrarian's TBR Challenge.

January 16 - We Love Short Shorts! (Short stories, Novellas, category romance)

1. The Girl with the Cat Tattoo by Theresa Weir
2. The Ice Princess by Elizabeth Hoyt
3. My True Love Gave to Me by Ava March

February 20 - Recommended Read (something recommended by a fellow reader)

1. Texas Destiny by Lorraine Heath
2. Texas Glory by Lorraine Heath
3. Texas Splendor by Lorraine Heath

March 20 - Series Catch-Up (pick a book from a series you're behind on)

1. Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs

April 17 - New-To-You Author

1. Fatal Affair by Marie Force
2. Hot Head by Damon Suede
3. Storm Front by Jim Butcher
4. The Abandoned by Amanda Stevens

May 15 - More Than One (An author who has more than one book in your TBR pile).

June 19 - Lovely RITA (RWA RITA nominees OR winners.  Past winners can be found here.  Googling "past rita nominees" turns up several options from previous years).

July 17 - The Classics (Something classic within the romance genre - an author, a specific book, a trope/theme - I'm open to wide interpretations here!)

August 21 - Steamy reads (Erotic romance, erotica, something spicy!)

September 18 - Western (Contemporary or historical)

October 16 - Paranormal or romantic suspense

November 20 - All About The Hype (a book that created such chatter that it was inescapable).

December 18 - Holiday themes (Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, it's all good!)

Books to Read in February (Preliminary List)

I'm already agreeing to read books in February so I thought I'd better keep track somewhere.  This will eventually turn into my official Feb reading plan post, but for now it'll just serve as a place to keep track.

Hounded by Kevin Hearne (BR w/ Kris)
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Ranger or The Viper by Monica McCarty
Confession of an Improper Bride by  Jennifer Haymore
Mark of the Witch by Maggie Shayne (BR w/ Kris)
Slave by Cheryl Brooks
Texas Destiny by Lorraine Heath (if I don't get to it in January)

Back to the Future Challenge 2013

I did this one last year and completed it, so I've got to try again this year.  I'm not sure if anyone is officially hosting it or not, but it doesn't really matter since I never post any reviews. :)

Duration: 1/1/13 - 12/31/13
Rules: Read 13-91 books. For each year 2001-2013, read the number of books published in each year that corresponds to the last digit(s) of each year. Read 13 books from 2013, 12 books from 2012, 11 books from 2011, 10 books from 2010, 9 books from 2009, and so on.

2013
1. Dream Eyes by Jayne Ann Krentz
2. Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs
3. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
4. Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris
5. Head for Trouble by Suzanne Brockmann
6. The Mystery Woman by Amanda Quick
7. Sky Runners by Fae Sutherland
8. Sky Hunter by Fae Sutherland
9. The Laird's Forbidden Lover by Amelia C. Gormley
10. First Watch by Peter Hansen
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2012
1. The Girl with the Cat Tattoo by Theresa Weir
2. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
3. About Last Night by Ruthie Knox
4. My Regelence Rake by J. L. Langley
5. Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
6. Nightshifted by Cassie Alexander
7. Girl Walks into a Bar... by Rachel Dratch
8. The Lady Most Willing... by Julia Quinn, Eloisa James and Connie Brockway
9. Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris
10. Small, Medium and Large by Cheryl Brooks
11. The Prophet by Amanda Stevens
12. How to Dance with a Duke by Manda Collins

2011
1. How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper
2. The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper
3. Hounded by Kevin Hearne
4. Second Grave on the Left by Darynda Jones
5. Animal Magnetism by Jill Shalvis
6. Confession of an Improper Bride by Jennifer Haymore
7. The Harlot by Saskia Walker
8. Hot Head by Damon Suede
9. The Restorer by Amanda Stevens
10. On the Island by Tracey Garvis Graves
11. Far Too Human by Anitra Lynne McLeod

2010
1. All She Wrote by Josh Lanyon
2. The Dark Farewell by Josh Lanyon
3. Fatal Affair by Marie Force
4. The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook
5. Fair Game by Josh Lanyon
6. One Dance with a Duke by Tessa Dare
7. The Trap by Indigo Wren
8. Twice Tempted by a Rogue by Tessa Dare
9. Three Nights with a Scoundrel by Tessa Dare
10. Sticks & Stones by Abigail Roux and Madeleine Urban

2009
1. An Improper Holiday by K. A. Mitchell
2. Chasing Smoke by K. A. Mitchell
3. Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill 
4. Somebody Killed His Editor by Josh Lanyon
5. Warrior's Cross by Abigail Roux and Madeleine Urban
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2008
1. The Perils of Pleasure by Julie Ann Long
2. The Englor Affair by J. L. Langley
3. Just One of the Guys by Kristan Higgins
4. Slave by Cheryl Brooks
5. Cut & Run by Abigail Roux and Madeleine Urban
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2007
1. My Fair Captain by J. L. Langley
2. No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong
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2006
1. Broken by Kelley Armstrong
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2005
1. The Good, the Bad and the Undead by Kim Harrison
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2002
1. Bloody Jack by L. A. Meyer
2. Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth

2001
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