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THE COMPLETE WORKS CHALLENGE - 2015
January 1st - December 31st, 2015

Do you have authors you like but haven't had the chance to explore his or her writing fully? Here's your chance! For this challenge, pick an author (or two or three) that you enjoy. Look him or her up on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ, and read every book he or she has written (not every version, don't worry, just every unique work). You do NOT need to count short stories or books your author has merely contributed to, introduced, edited or translated.

For example, let's say you pick Jonathan Safran Foer. He has 30 unique works on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ, but there are only five books you would need to read to complete this challenge because most of the books are collections or books he's provided a foreword for:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Everything Is Illuminated
Eating Animals
Tree of Codes
New American Haggadah

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This challenge will be lead by Zara

Participants


Adriana
Amanda
Amy
Angelique
Anna
Autumn
Balquis
Beth
Brianna
Caro
Charity
Chelsea
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Courtney
Dana
Delmy
Denise
Dominique
Ed
Erika
Fiona (Titch)
Holli
Izavel
Jacqueline
Jennifer
Jenny *MM*
Jisoo
Joanne♥~Bookworm Extraordinaire
June
Kai
Karena
Karina
Kelsi
Krista
Krystal
Kylie
Laura
Leah
Lilac
Lisa
Lois
Maiko
Mallory
Mary Pat
Megan
Megan (m111)
Melissa
Mirsada
Myles
Nazrin
Nikki
Pawel
Reija
Robin
Sarah
Scott
Sharon
Sherry
Sheryl
Simone
Stefani - SpelingExpirt
Stephanie
Stormie
Susan
Tasha
Tatiana
Tearsa
Theresa~OctoberLace
Traci
Vernice
Victoria
Winter
Zara

Participants completed challenge
Angelique Congratulations on completing this challenge

Is this for books by our chosen author that we haven't read yet, or are we also being encouraged to re-read books we've read by them previously in order to fully complete the challenge?

These lists might be edited depending on what I read in the last weeks of 2014.

I pick Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant (pseudonym) and consider adding Lavie Tidhar or Brandon Sanderson, but trying not to weight myself down with reading challenges this year, so better not. :3


1. A local habitation (OD #2)
2. An artificial night (OD #3)
3. Late eclipses (OD #4)
4. One salt sea (OD #5)
5. Ashes of honor (OD #6)
6. Chimes at midnight (OD #7)
7. The winter long (OD #8)
8. Discount armageddon (IC #1)
9. Midnight blue-light special (IC #2)
10. Half-off ragnarok (IC #3)
11. Pocket apocalypse (IC #4, release mar 2015)
12. Indexing
13. Velveteen vs the Multiverse (VT #2)
14. Chimera (Parasitology #3, expected publishing 2015)
15. A red-rose chain (OD #9)
16. Rolling in the deep (published April 2015, pre-ordered)

+ huge number of anthology contributions and other short stories - which I'll seek out and list eventually.

I choose Ann Patchett

9/9 completed

� 1. Bel Canto read 2/18/2015
� 2. State of Wonder read 8/4/2015
� 3. Run read 1/12/2015
� 4. Truth and Beauty read 10/1/2015
� 5. The Magician's Assistant read 4/8/2015
� 6. Patron Saint of Liars read 2/12/2015
� 7. Taft read 2/9/2015
� 8. What now? read 1/10/2015
� 9. The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life read 4/16/2015

Challenge completed!

Edited 12/7 to delete This is the Story of a Happy Marriage because I just finished reading it last month.

Erika wrote: "Is this for books by our chosen author that we haven't read yet, or are we also being encouraged to re-read books we've read by them previously in order to fully complete the challenge?"

Re-reads are acceptable Erika but you'll need to read them through from cover to cover again. No skipping pages. Erika if you've read some books by your favourite author already and don't want to re-read them then concentrating just on those books you haven't read is also fine.

Oh my, most of the authors I would like to read the complete set of are writing way too much! I'm already planning on reading Stephen King, but I'm doing that over a two year period.

For this challenge I've decided to concentrate on the Bronte Sisters

Anne Brontë 1/2
Agnes Grey 24-01-2015
The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall

Emily Brontë 0/3
The Poems of Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
Gondal's Queen

Charlotte Brontë 0/10
Jane Eyre
The Professor
Villette
Shirley
Sarah Miles
The Search After Happiness
Stancliffe's Hotel
Mina Laury
My Angria And The Angrians
Emma

Provided I can get hold of a copy of them all, this would be 15 books in total.

Please let me know if I've missed one or two.

1/15

THE COMPLETE WORKS CHALLENGE - 2015
January 1st - December 31st, 2015
Completed: 0/20

Please note: I'll only read those books that I can get from either my local libraries or those I own because I can't afford to buy any

Author:
Jodi Picoult (I really enjoy Jodi Picoult's books so I had to include hers as well. I won't be reading My Sister's Keeper as I only recently read this book.)

Books:
Jodi Picoult:
Completed: 0/20
Picture Perfect
Nineteen Minutes
Plain Truth
House Rules
The Tenth Circle
The Storyteller
Handle with Care
Change of Heart
Vanishing Acts
Keeping Faith
Sing You Home
Salem Falls
Perfect Match
Lone Wolf
Mercy
Second Glance
Harvesting the Heart
Between the Lines
Songs of the Humpback Whale
Larger Than Life
Wonder Woman, Vol. 2: Love and Murder

I like this challenge- I choose Anne Rice. I have just had the chance of meeting her recently at a book fair in Toronto.

The Wolf Gift Chronicles
The Wolf Gift
The Wolves of Midwinter

The Vampire Chronicles
Read in 2014:
Interview with the Vampire

To read in 2015:
✓The Vampire Lestat - Apr 2/15
The Queen of the Damned
The Tale of the Body Thief
Memnoch the Devil
The Vampire Armand
Merrick
Blood And Gold
Blackwood Farm
Blood Canticle
Prince Lestat

New Tales of the Vampires
Pandora
Vittorio, The Vampire

The Lives of the Mayfair Witches
The Witching Hour
Lasher
Taltos

Vampire/Mayfair Crossover
As noted on Anne Rice's site, "In these novels the Mayfair Witches become part of the Vampire Chronicles world." Repeated here to remember the sequencing:
Merrick
Blackwood Farm
Blood Canticle

The Life of Christ
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
Christ The Lord: The Road To Cana

Songs of the Seraphim
Angel Time
Of Love and Evil

The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Beauty's Punishment
Beauty's Release

Single Novels
The Feast of All Saints
The Master of Rampling Gate
Cry to Heaven
Exit to Eden
Belinda
The Mummy
Servant of the Bones
Violin

Non-fiction
Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession

Zara, I can lead if you need somebody

ooh! Tasha! I am jealous!
I am also going to do this challenge but I don't know who to pick, I might pick Tolkien but I want to read the hobbit now before "the five armies" comes out...hmmm...idk but I am in.

I am half way through a lot of authors' works, can I pick one who has an extensive body of work even though I'm half through it? or does it have to be basically from scratch?

THE COMPLETE WORKS CHALLENGE - 2015
January 1 - December 31, 2015

Tess Gerritsen
The Rizzoli and Isle series (13 books)

The Surgeon - Tess Gerritsen: 01/25/15
The Apprentice
The Sinner
Body Double
Vanish
The Mephisto Club
The Keepsake
Ice Cold
Freaks
The Silent Girl
John Doe
Last to Die
Die Again

Harry Hole series (10 books)

The bat
Cockroaches
The Redbreast
Nemesis
The Devil's Star
The Redeemer
The Snowman
The Leopard
Phantom
Police: A Harry Hole Novel

Well, I will pick at least one author ... so far the two I thought about have way to many books - so it won't be either of them!

(Michael Connelly and Nicholas Sparks)

Tasha wrote: "Zara, I can lead if you need somebody"


Thanks Tasha. Normally the mods lead the yearly challenges. You could lead a monthly or a quarterly one or both as we're always looking for more people to run these ones. Thanks again.

Sharon wrote: "Well, I will pick at least one author ... so far the two I thought about have way to many books - so it won't be either of them!

(Michael Connelly and Nicholas Sparks)"

Which authors had you thought of originally Sharon?

Tasha wrote: "I like this challenge- I choose Anne Rice. I have just had the chance of meeting her recently at a book fair in Toronto."

Hi again Tasha. I'm glad you like the challenge.

I'm interested. I'm considering Anne Rice or Robert K. Massie, but want to look at some others before deciding.

I may go with John Grisham, or Tolstoy maybe I don't know, reserving till I decide

THE COMPLETE WORKS CHALLENGE 2015 - AUGUST RE-VAMP


HARUKI MURAKAMI
I'll be reading all his works, excluding the short story collections, as the guidelines allow. The list includes 15 books, with 3 read in 2014 and 12 to read in 2015.

Progress as of 8/19/15: 3 read, 9 to go

Read in 2014
1. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running 1/25/14
2. Kafka on the Shore 2/1/14
3. 1Q84 7/16/14

To be read for the 2015 challenge:
� 4. The Strange Library 1/12/15
� 5. Hear the Wind Sing 8/8/15
� 6. Pinball, 1973 8/16/15
7. A Wild Sheep Chase
8. Dance Dance Dance
9. Norwegian Wood
10. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
11. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
12. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
13. After Dark
14. Sputnik Sweetheart
15. South of the Border, West of the Sun

This is difficult, I think I'm in but I'll have to decide between Tolstoy, Dostoyevski, Charles Dickens and George Orwell.

I am in and I will read Rachel Caine. No re-reads from either author.

Rachel Caine books:

Morganville Vampires
1. Glass Houses (2006)
2. Dead Girl's Dance (2007)
3. Midnight Alley (2007)
4. Feast of Fools (2008)
5. Lord of Misrule (2008)
6. Carpe Corpus (2009)
7. Fade Out (2009)
8. Kiss of Death (2010)
9. Ghost Town (2010)
10. Bite Club (2011)
11. Last Breath (2011)
12. Black Dawn (2012)
13. Bitter Blood (2012)
14. Fall of Night (2013) Finished 13/1/15
15. Daylighters (2013) Finished 15/1/15

Weather Warden
1. Ill Wind (2003)
2. Heat Stroke (2004)
3. Chill Factor (2005)
4. Windfall (2005)
5. Firestorm (2006)
6. Thin Air (2007)
7. Gale Force (2008)
8. Cape Storm (2009)
9. Total Eclipse (2010)

Red Letter Days
1. Devil's Bargain (2005)
2. Devil's Due (2006)

Outcast Season
1. Undone (2008)
2. Unknown (2010)
3. Unseen (2011)
4. Unbroken (2012)

Revivalist
1. Working Stiff (2011)
2. Two Weeks Notice (2012)
3. Terminated (2013)

Great Library
1. Ink and Bone (2015)

Novels:
Prince of Shadows (2014)

Lilac wrote: "This is difficult, I think I'm in but I'll have to decide between Tolstoy, Dostoyevski, Charles Dickens and George Orwell."

I can see your problem Lilac. These are all great authors. I don't envy you. I'll look forward to seeing what you end up deciding.

updated to here.

Zara, I left off 1 series as I am reading the last 2 this month. Hope that is ok x

But for anyone else who is interested in the series:

Morganville Vampires
1. Glass Houses (2006)
2. Dead Girl's Dance (2007)
3. Midnight Alley (2007)
4. Feast of Fools (2008)
5. Lord of Misrule (2008)
6. Carpe Corpus (2009)
7. Fade Out (2009)
8. Kiss of Death (2010)
9. Ghost Town (2010)
10. Bite Club (2011)
11. Last Breath (2011)
12. Black Dawn (2012)
13. Bitter Blood (2012)
14. Fall of Night (2013)
15. Daylighters (2013)

THE COMPLETE WORKS CHALLENGE - 2015
Duration: January 1st - December 31st, 2015
Completed: 0/13


Author: Sharon Kay Penman
I love what I have read from this author and I really want to read her other books. I have completed the Welsh Dragons Series and a single one off book. And may very well be willing to read them again later in the year.

Books:
Plantagenets: Completed: 0/5
When Christ and His Saints Slept (1994) - Book 1 Re-read
Time and Chance (2002) - Book 2
Devil's Brood (2008) - Book 3
Lionheart (2011) - Book 4
A King's Ransom (2014) - Book 5

Justin de Quincy series Completed: 0/4
The Queen's Man (1996) - Book 1
Cruel as the Grave (1998) - Book 2
Dragon's Lair (2003) - Book 3
Prince of Darkness (2005) - Book 4

Welsh Princes Completed: 0/3
Here be Dragons (1985) - Book 1 Re-read
Falls the Shadow (1988) - Book 2 Re-read
The Reckoning (1991) - Book 3 Re-read

The Sunne in Splendour (1982) Re-read

THE COMPLETE WORKS CHALLENGE - 2015
Duration: January 1st - December 31st, 2015
Completed: 0/17

I am going to go with Anne Rice.

The Vampire Chronicles: 0/12
1) Interview with the Vampire
2) The Vampire Lestat
3) The Queen of the Damned
4) The Tale of the Body Thief
5) Memnoch the Devil)
6) The Vampire Armand
7) Merrick
8) Blood And Gold
9) Blackwood Farm
10) Blood Canticle
11) Prince Lestat
12) Blood Paradise

New Tales of the Vampires: 0/2
1) Pandora
2) Vittorio, The Vampire

Lives of the Mayfair Witches: 0/3
1)The Witching Hour
2)Lasher
3)Taltos

This is it for now, i might add more depending on how i progress.

I would like to participate. I would start with Anne Rice and maybe add another

The Vampire Chronicles: 1/12
1) Interview with the Vampire 2/16/15
2) The Vampire Lestat
3) The Queen of the Damned
4) The Tale of the Body Thief
5) Memnoch the Devil)
6) The Vampire Armand
7) Merrick
8) Blood And Gold
9) Blackwood Farm
10) Blood Canticle
11) Prince Lestat
12) Blood Paradise

New Tales of the Vampires: 0/2
1) Pandora
2) Vittorio, The Vampire

Lives of the Mayfair Witches: 0/3
1)The Witching Hour
2)Lasher
3)Taltos

The Life of Christ: 0/2
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
Christ The Lord: The Road To Cana

Songs of the Seraphim: 0/2
Angel Time
Of Love and Evil

The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy: 0/3
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Beauty's Punishment
Beauty's Release

Single Novels
The Feast of All Saints
The Master of Rampling Gate
Cry to Heaven
Exit to Eden
Belinda
The Mummy
Servant of the Bones
Violin

I also like this challenge, the author that I chosen is Patrick Rothfuss,

To finish the series: The Kingkiller Chronicles,
The Wise Man's Fear
Doors of Stone
The Slow Regard of Silent Things

I'm sure that there will other series that I will want to read in 2015. Will it be okay to add them through out the year or do I have to commit now?

I'll join this challenge and upgrade throughout the year.
I am yet to get going on the Barsoom series, so I exchanged that for other series instead.

My picks :
Patrick Rothfuss - The Kingkiller Chronicle

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Patrick Ness - Chaos walking

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Lush Series by S.L Baum 2/2
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The Hunger Games 3/3
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Jane Austen - 2/5
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I'd like to join this challenge. :) I'm going to go with Anne Bishop.

The Black Jewels 0/12
Daughter of the Blood//Heir to the Shadows//Queen of the Darkness//The Invisible Ring//Dreams Made Flesh// Tangled Webs// The Shadow Queen// Shalador's Lady// Twilight's Dawn

The Others 0/3

Written in Red// Murder of Crows// Vision in Silver

Ephemera 4/4

Sebastian completed 1/17/15//
Belladonnacompleted 1/29/15//
The Voice completed 2/8/15//
Bridge of Dreams completed 2/27/15

Tir Alainn 0/3

The Pillars of the World// Shadows and Light// The House of Gaian

Zara wrote: "Sharon wrote: "Well, I will pick at least one author ... so far the two I thought about have way to many books - so it won't be either of them!

(Michael Connelly and Nichola..."</i>)

I listed the two I thought of but they have too many books. I'll probably go with [author:John Grisham he has a lot of books also but I've read & own a lot of them already. I'll have to make a list of those I haven't read yet.

I will go with a classic. I will pick Oscar Wilde He was a genius ahead of his time. I will read:

1 de Profundis
2Intentions Recollection of his essays
3The Picture of Dorian Gray
4The Happy Prince and Other Tales
5An Ideal Husband(Play)
6.A Woman of No Importance, an Ideal Husband(Play)
7.The Importance of Being Earnest(Play)
8.The Canterville Ghost: The Star Child
9.Vera or the Nihilists(Play)
10.The Duchess of Padua(Play)
11.Salome(Play)
12La Sainte Courtisane(Play)
13.The Rise Of Historical Criticism

The rest are letters, so they can't really be consider his works. Letters are something a bit different. The best of this is that is public domain so I can have it for free in my Kindle....

I'd like to join too!
This coming year I'd like to read more of Russian literature so I chose these 3 authors: Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Vladimir Nabokov.

Leo Tolstoy: 0/5
Anna Karenina (re-read)
War and Peace (re-read)
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Kreutzer Sonata
Hadji Murad

(For the challenge I'm not going read his masterpiece Resurrection, since I only read it few months ago.)


Fyodor Dostoyevsky: 0/4
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
The Idiot
Notes from Underground

Vladimir Nabokov: 0/5
Lolita (re-read)
Lectures on Russian literature
Pale Fire
Pnin
Speak, Memory

Hurrah the year of 2015 is a Russian year!

I'm not sure if I'm ready to commit to this yet! I will have to do some research first and see if there's an author that I could manage...

updated to here

Dominique wrote: "THE COMPLETE WORKS CHALLENGE - 2015
January 1 - December 31, 2015

Tess Gerritsen
The Rizzoli and Isle series (13 books)

The Surgeon
The Apprentice
[book:..."

You'll love the Rizzoli series!

I've added you Robin. Welcome.

Jannene wrote: "Dominique wrote: "THE COMPLETE WORKS CHALLENGE - 2015
January 1 - December 31, 2015

Tess Gerritsen
The Rizzoli and Isle series (13 books)

The Surgeon
[book:The Apprent..."

I watch the show and I love it. Is it a little bit like the books?

I'm in. I think I'm going to read Jane Austen. I actually haven't read any of her books (maybe S&S in high school, but I don't remember it well).

1. Sense and Sensibility - 2/17
2. Pride and Prejudice - 5/29
3. Mansfield Park - 9/12
4. Emma - 11/16
5. Northanger Abbey
6. Persuasion

I know at least most of her books are available for free on Kindle.

If I finish her books early enough in the year, I might move onto the Brontë sisters.

Megan I've added you. Welcome

Theresa~OctoberLace wrote: "THE COMPLETE WORKS CHALLENGE 2015
I'll be reading the complete works of Anne Rice, Haruki Murakami, and Robert K. Massie.

ANNE RICE: Using the complete b..."

Theresa, I borrowed your list of Anne Rice books :). I am reading her as well

THE COMPLETE WORKS CHALLENGE - 2015
January 1 - December 31, 2015

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Translated by: Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky


The Brothers Karamazov
Demons
The Idiot
The Adolescent

I would like to read everything bybTerry Pratchett

updated to here.

Can you sign my up? This will be a fun challenge. I am picking Raymond E. Feist. I will post a list of his books later.

Tasha, you're welcome to copy my list(s), as is anyone else. I wonder how far I'll get on the 3 authors I've selected!

Ed wrote: "I would like to read everything bybTerry Pratchett"

Oh, that's a good goal. I have already, but I've been planning a full Discworld re-read for aaages now...!

COMPLETE WORKS CHALLENGE.
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2015
Goal: To read all 33 books

2/33

Raymond E. Feist

The Riftwar Saga
1.Magician: Apprentice DONE 08/12/2014
2.Magician: Master DONE 20/12/2014
3.Silverthorn (1985)
4.A Darkness at Sethanon (1986)

The Empire Trilogy
1. Daughter of the Empire (1987) with Janny Wurts
2. Servant of the Empire (1990) with Janny Wurts
3. Mistress of the Empire (1992) with Janny Wurts

Krondor's Sons
1. Prince of the Blood (1989)
2. The King's Buccaneer (1992)

The Serpentwar Saga
1. Shadow of a Dark Queen (1994)
2. Rise of a Merchant Prince (1995)
3. Rage of a Demon King (1997)
4. Shards of a Broken Crown (1998)

The Riftwar Legacy
1. Krondor: The Betrayal (1998) � A novelization of the 1993 PC game Betrayal at Krondor
2. Krondor: The Assassins (1999)
3. Krondor: Tear of the Gods (2000) � A novelization of the 1998 PC game Return to Krondor
4. Jimmy and the Crawler (2013) � a novella replacing the cancelled novels Krondor: The Crawler and Krondor: The Dark Mage

Legends of the Riftwar
1. Honoured Enemy (2001) with William R. Forstchen, aka Honored Enemy
2. Murder in LaMut (2002) with Joel Rosenberg
3. Jimmy the Hand (2003) with S. M. Stirling

Conclave of Shadows
1. Talon of the Silver Hawk (2002)
2. King of Foxes (2003)
3. Exile's Return (2004)

The Darkwar Saga
1. Flight of the Nighthawks (2005)
2. Into a Dark Realm (2006)
3. Wrath of a Mad God (2008)

The Demonwar Saga
1. Rides a Dread Legion (2009)
2. At the Gates of Darkness (2010)

The Chaoswar Saga
1. A Kingdom Besieged (2011)
2. A Crown Imperiled (2012)
3. Magician's End (2013)

Companion works
� Midkemia: The Chronicles of Pug (2013) with Stephen Abrams � "coffee table book" with maps and illustrations,
Other novels
� Faerie Tale (1988)

I've added you Lois. Welcome to the challenge.