2025 Finishing The Series Challenge

This has become my favourite challenge, so I’m doing it again.

Despite rattling through enough series to almost get to the next level last year, I still have a raft of part-read series. Of course, one of the problems is so many books I read are first in series. The new releases that are stand-alones seem to be a rarity.

2025 Finishing the Series Challenge

Celebrity Reader may have put this series reading challenge #Finishingtheseries2025 together (she doesn’t seem to have posted lately), with the following guidelines:

The challenge will run from January 1st, 2025 to December 31st, 2025. Books must be read during this time frame to count. Sign up is open from now until December 1st 2025, so you may join even just for the last month of the year.
Series can be already completed as well as still ongoing. For ongoing series, the goal is to catch up to the most recent book published.
We don’t care if you have only 1 book or 10 books to read in order to finish your series, as long as you’ve started the series before 2025 (ie read at least one book in the series), it counts. Re-reads are not required.
Any format and length of book counts – print, ebook, audio, ARC, etc.
Series can be any length (even if it’s just a Duet).
Crossovers from other challenges are totally acceptable!
Reviews are not required, but highly encouraged.

There are three levels of success, banded into C-List, 1 – 4 series; B-list, 5-8, and A-List, 9+.

Series to choose from

I just have so many series to choose from:

Shadows from the Past by Wendy Leighton-Porter is up to date for now, although I’m watching for the next one to come out.
I don’t want to forget Louise Penny’s Chief Inspector Gamache series… another where I’ve read the first – and one of the latest! There’s fifteen in between. Maybe read one or two and leaving the ‘finishing’ for a few year’s time.
I’m now four into Joseph Lallo’s Free-Wrench series – it’s steampunk/airship sort of fantasy, has six listed in the series. I bought the later ones, and then bought a box set of one of his other series, partly to get my U for the Alphabet Soup last year, so that goes on the list.
Several of my finished series arrived in storybundle sets. I went back to find other titles downloaded at the same times… and that got me into the first books in three other series!
I still have several of Rhonda Parrish’s anthology series to catch up on, too.