2025 Finishing the Series Challenge! #FinishingTheSeries2025

It’s back for another year! This challenge is focused on finally finishing those series that you’ve started but not yet completed. It was previously hosted by Bea’s Book Nook, then by Celebrity Readers since 2018. Now we, Carla Loves to Read & Blue Mood Café, are the new host for this year and excited to keep the challenge going! I’m signing up for Primetime Series because, you know…I’m a series loving reader!

I haven’t finalized a list but here’s what I have initially targeted:

1. Will Trent
2. Bree Taggert
3. DI Kim Stone
4. Tracy Crosswhite
5. Quinn & Costa
6. In Death
7. The Lost Bride Trilogy
8. Orphan X
9. Cyrus Haven
10. Joseph O’Loughlin
11. Fatal
12. First Family
13. Sebastian St. Cyr
14. The 6:20 Man
15. Angelheart Investigations
16. Part of Your World
17. Kate Page
18. Steinbeck and Reed
19. Porter Beck

Guidelines

1. The challenge will run from January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025. Books must be read during this time frame to count. Sign up is open from now until December 1, 2025 so you may join even just for the last month of the year.
2. 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 by the end of 2025.
3. It doesn’t matter 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 (i.e., read at least one book in the series), it counts. Rereads are not required.
4. Any format and length of book counts (print, ebook, audio, etc.)
   Series can be any length (even if it’s just a duology).
5. Crossovers from other challenges are totally acceptable!
6. Reviews are not required, but highly encouraged.

How to Play

1. Post your intentions to participate in this challenge (blog, Goodreads, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc.).
2. You do not need to be a blogger to participate but do need to create a challenge record/page (blog post, Goodreads shelf or topic, etc.) with the series you hope to finish or get up to date listed and tracking your progress.
3. Post your progress on social media (Facebook, BlueSky, X, Mastodon, Instagram, etc.). Include the hashtag #FinishingTheSeries2025 on your posts.
4. Include a link to the sign up  page so that others may find the challenge and join the fun as well (feel free to download the graphic to use in your posts.
5. Feel free to be creative in developing your series lists and posts! Don’t forget to include the level you’re targeting.
6. Sign up for the challenge by leaving a comment with your link to your challenge page/post. They will update the challenge page to include all participants.
7. Have fun and start reading those series!

The Levels

1. Limited Series: 1 – 4
2. Mini Series: 5 – 8
3. Recurring Series: 9 – 12
4. Syndication Series: 13 – 16
5. Primetime Series: 17+

Tracking

1. Quinn & Costa by Allison Brennan
2. In Death by J. D. Robb
3. Detective Sami Kierce by Harlan Coben
4. Scoundrels of Mayfair by Anna Campbell
5. Sebastian St. Cyr by C. S. Harris
6. Perfect by Jeneva Rose
7. The Darlings by Ilsa Madden-Mills
8. Love on the Line by Brenda Rothert
9. Theo & Cynthie by Laura Wood
10. Lo Blacklock by Ruth Ware
11. Peachtree Pass by S. L. Scott
12. Alibis Collection by Various Writers 
13. In Death by J. D. Robb
14. DI Kim Stone by Angela Marsons
15. Bree Taggert by Melinda Leigh
16. Bishop Security by Debbie Baldwin
17. Dalton, Maine by Shannon Bowring
18. Ask for Andrea by Noelle Ihli
19. The Lost Bride Trilogy by Nora Roberts
20. The Kings by Karla Sorensen
21. Scared Sexy Collection by Various Authors