Entertainment List (books)

=Upcoming reading plans= Reading plans that I have made for books until the end of 2023.

Book-series planned
 * Black-Ocean: Listened to the first Black-Ocean series, Galaxy Outlaws, after the TwinBorn Chronicles series also written by J.S. Morin, I will read the Mercy for Hire and Astral-Prime compilations and I will also do the Mirth and Mayhem series once it is eventually completed
 * The RuneLords: Being a huge fantasy fan, I ran across this classic series on the free-to-listen category on Audible and with 8 books in the series, definitely worth the time

Reread book-series
 * Places of Power: Listened to the first 3 books in October 2020 and the latter 3 books between February 2021-August 2022, I will reread the series as a whole to refresh myself with it
 * Skyward-Flight: Listened to the 3 books and 3 novellas in August 2022, I will reread the series again before the release of the final book in March 2023
 * StormLight Archive: Listened to the 4 current books May 2022-July 2022, I will reread the series again near the end of 2023 before StormLight 5 comes out in early 2024 and ends StormLight Archive Arc 1

Book-series desired

=Books by Brandon Sanderson=

The Cosmere
Written by Brandon Sanderson, the Cosmere is a large-scale shared-universe in which multiple series he has written all take place. Each world is home to one or more of the Shards of Adonalsium, each is one of sixteen fragments of a universe-shaping entity/force and its' presence on each Shard-World gives each planet a number of unique magic-systems, powered with an energy called Investiture.

MistBorn
Set on Scadrial, Shard-World of Harmony, unified-form of the previously separate Ruin and Preservation, home of the Metallic-Arts: Allomancy, Feruchemy, and Hemalurgy.

MistBorn: Era 1 series (complete) Beginning with Kelsier and his crew seeking to overthrow the despotic immortal tyrant known as the Lord-Ruler who has controlled the planet for a millennium under the heel of his Final-Empire. Recruiting Vin, a street urchin bastard-child with incredible potential, they ultimately succeed in their aims after months of careful planning and risky gambits. They then learn about the war between Ruin and Preservation and seek a way to end their conflict and restore the world to the way it was before it is permanently destroyed.
 * MistBorn: The Eleventh Metal [short-story] (finished)
 * MistBorn: The Final Empire (finished)
 * MistBorn: The Well of Ascension (finished)
 * MistBorn: The Hero of Ages (finished)
 * MistBorn: Secret History [novella] (finished)

MistBorn: Wax and Wayne series [Era 2] Set 300 years after the Final-Empire's fall and Harmony's rise in the Catacandre. Waxillium Ladrian, descendant of Breeze from Kelsier's crew, returns to Elendel after spending decades in the Roughs and struggles to find his place again in polite society. He forms an arranged marriage to Steris Harms, an uptight but accommodating woman from a lower status but rich family, to save his House from financial ruin and collapse. He is soon joined by Wayne, his old deputy, and Marasi, Steris's half-sister, in battling the Set, a secret conspiracy lead by Wax's believed-to-be-dead uncle that seeks to overthrow modern Scadrian society. Additionally, Wax becomes embroiled in Harmony's machinations and learns that the old myths are more than mere legend.
 * MistBorn: The Alloy of Law (finished)
 * Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Elantia [short-story] (finished)
 * MistBorn: Shadows of Self (finished)
 * MistBorn: The Bands of Mourning (finished)
 * MistBorn: The Lost Metal

MistBorn: Era 3 series (yet to be released/2025-2027)

MistBorn: Era 4 series (yet to be released)

StormLight Archive (presently finished)
StormLight Archive series
 * Arc 1
 * The Way of Kings (finished)
 * Words of Radiance (finished)
 * OathBringer (finished)
 * Rhythm of War (finished)
 * Rhythm of War sequel (yet to be released/2024)
 * Arc 2 (yet to be released)
 * 5 more books planned (yet to be released/starting around 2028)
 * StormLight Archive novellas
 * EdgeDancer (finished)
 * DawnShard (finished)
 * HornEater (yet to be released)

Elantris (presently finished)
Elantris series
 * Elantris trilogy
 * Elantris [book] (finished)
 * Elantris sequel (yet to be released)
 * Elantris finale (yet to be released)
 * Other Elantris stories
 * Hope of Elantris [short-story] (finished)
 * Opening/ending of story takes place after Elantris
 * Main part of story occurs parallel to the end of Elantris
 * The Emperor's Soul [novella] (finished)
 * Occurs in a separate region from Elantris

Other Cosmere books

 * WarBreaker (finished)

White-Sand graphic-novels (complete)
 * White-Sand Vol. 1 (finished)
 * White-Sand Vol. 2 (finished)
 * White-Sand Vol. 3 (finished)

The Reckoners [Reckonerverse] (presently finished)
The Reckoners trilogy, and a novelette and spin-off, written by Brandon Sanderson. Over a decade ago, the arrival of Calamity, a mysterious celestial object, threw the world into chaos, superhumans called Epics have arose after gaining immense power but were afflicted with bloodlust and insanity. In this world, the Reckoners seek to overthrow the most powerful Epics and inspire humankind to rise up and reclaim their world.

The Reckoners series
 * The Reckoners trilogy (finished)
 * SteelHeart [Reckoners] (finished)
 * FireFight [Reckoners] (finished)
 * Calamity [Reckoners] (finished)
 * Other Reckoners books (finished)
 * Mitosis [Reckoners] (finished)
 * Takes place after SteelHeart
 * Lux: A Texas Reckoners Novel (finished)
 * Takes place parallel to the events of the main series

Skyward-Flight [Cytoverse] (presently finished)
Skyward-Flight series
 * Skyward [Skyward-Flight] (finished)
 * StarSight (finished)
 * SunReach [novella] (finished)
 * ReDawn [novella] (finished)
 * Cytonic (finished)
 * EverShore [novella] (finished)
 * Defiant [Skyward-Flight] (yet to be released/2023)

=Books by J.S. Morin=

Black-Ocean
Black-Ocean: Mirth and Mayhem series
 * Mission 1: Know When to Run [Black-Ocean]
 * Mission 2: Low Flyer
 * Mission 3: The Good Die Young [Black-Ocean]
 * Mission 4: Lyin' Guys
 * Mission 5: Viva, Las Vegas IX
 * Mission 6: Ventura Starway
 * Mission 7: Fly Like an Ego
 * Mission 8: Sixteen Tomes

Black-Ocean: Galaxy Outlaws series (complete)
 * Mission 1: Salvage Trouble (finished)
 * Mission 2: A Smuggler's Conscience (finished)
 * Mission 3: Poets and Piracy (finished)
 * Mission 4: To Err is Azrin (finished)
 * Mission 4.5: Guardian of the Plundered-Tomes (finished)
 * Mission 4.6: The Rodek Less Traveled (finished)
 * Mission 4.7: Technically Flawed (finished)
 * Mission 5: Alien Racer [Black-Ocean] (finished)
 * Mission 6: Retro-Version (finished)
 * Mission 7: Siege of Mortania (finished)
 * Mission 8: Moon of Odysseus (finished)
 * Mission 8.5: Pinball Wizardry [Black-Ocean] (finished)
 * Mission 9: Adventure Capital (finished)
 * Mission 10: Collusion Course (finished)
 * Mission 11: You, Robot [Black-Ocean] (finished)
 * Mission 12: Stowaway to Heaven (finished)
 * Mission 12.5: Voice of Reason [Black-Ocean] (finished)
 * Mission 13: Mission Inadvisable (finished)
 * Mission 14: Orbital and Moral Decay (finished)
 * Mission 15: Planet-Hustlers (finished)
 * Mission 16: Eternity or Bust (finished)
 * Mission 16.5: Old Time's Sake [Black-Ocean] (finished)

Black-Ocean: Mercy for Hire series
 * Mission 0.5: Mercenary Intentions
 * Mission 1: Wayward Saint [Black-Ocean]
 * Mission 2: Behind Blue Skies [Black-Ocean]
 * Mission 3: House of the Orion Sun
 * Mission 4: Break the Chain [Black-Ocean]
 * Mission 4.5: The Least Dangerous Game [Black-Ocean]
 * Mission 5: Sunshine of Your Cult
 * Mission 6: Walk Like a Magician
 * Mission 7: Hotel Caledonia
 * Mission 8: Eye of the Pharaoh [Black-Ocean]
 * Mission 8.5: Curriculum Vitae [Black-Ocean]
 * Mission 9: Ship With No Name [Black-Ocean]
 * Mission 10: No More Mr. Nice Girl [Black-Ocean]
 * Mission 11: Magic's Little Helper
 * Mission 12: Mortanian Rhapsody
 * Mission 12.5: Our Little Secret [Black-Ocean]
 * Mission 13: The Girls are Back in Town [Black-Ocean]
 * Mission 14: Stuck in the Astral with You
 * Mission 15: Lair of the Dog
 * Mission 16: Empathy for the Devil [Black-Ocean]
 * Mission 16.5: Kubu's First Date
 * Mission 16.8: Achieving Harmony [Black-Ocean]

Black-Ocean: Astral-Prime series
 * Mission 1: Shadow-Planet [Black-Ocean]
 * Mission 2: Wizard-Zero
 * Mission 3: Shielded-Sun
 * Mission 4: Prime-Guardian
 * Mission 4.5: Tour of Darkness [Black-Ocean]
 * Mission 5: Systemic Treachery
 * Mission 6: Astral-Messiah
 * Mission 7: Parallel Enforcers
 * Mission 8: Multiversal Truth
 * Mission 8.5: What Kane Did
 * Mission 9: Void-Kraken
 * Mission 10: Stellar Rampage
 * Mission 11: Core Threat
 * Mission 12: Terminal Gambit
 * Mission 12.3: Four Fists, No Deal
 * Mission 12.4: The Good Human [Black-Ocean]
 * Mission 12.5: Two Roads Diverge [Black-Ocean]

The TwinBorn Chronicles
The TwinBorn Chronicles series
 * TwinBorn Chronicles: Awakening (finished)
 * FireHurler (Knight in the Nighttime) (finished)
 * AetherSmith (Sorcerer in the Mirror) (finished)
 * SourceThief (Demon in the Bloodline) (finished)
 * TwinBorn Chronicles: War of 3 Wolds (finished)
 * Mad Tinker's Daughter (finished)
 * Rebel SkyForce (finished)
 * World-Ripper War (finished)
 * Tinker's Justice (finished)
 * Other TwinBorn books
 * Between the Worlds [TwinBorn]
 * Murder in Marker's Point

=Books by Piers Anthony=

Apprentice-Adept
Apprentice-Adept series
 * Split Infinity
 * Blue-Adept
 * Juxtaposition [Apprentice-Adept]
 * Out of Phaze
 * Robot-Adept
 * Unicorn Point
 * Phaze Doubt

Incarnations of Immortality
=Classics= Baroness Orczy
 * The Scarlet-Pimpernel (finished)
 * I Will Repay [novel] (finished)

C.S. Lewis
 * The Chronicles of Narnia (finished)
 * The Magician's Nephew (finished)
 * The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (finished)
 * The Horse and His Boy (finished)
 * Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia (finished)
 * The Voyage of the Dawn-Treader (finished)
 * The Silver-Chair (finished)
 * The Last-Battle [Narnia] (finished)
 * The Space Trilogy (finished)
 * Out of the Silent-Planet (finished)
 * Perelandra (finished)
 * That Hideous Strength (finished)

H.G. Wells
 * The First Men in the Moon (finished)
 * The Invisible-Man (finished)
 * The Island of Dr. Moreau (finished)
 * The Time-Machine (finished)
 * War of the Worlds (finished)

Jules Verne
 * Journey to the Center of the Earth (finished)
 * Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (finished)
 * The Mysterious Island (finished)
 * From the Earth to the Moon (finished)
 * Around the Moon

Lewis Carroll
 * Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (finished)
 * Through the Looking-Glass (finished)

Adventure
 * Gulliver's Travels
 * Moby-Dick (finished)
 * Robinson Crusoe (finished)
 * The Swiss Family Robinson (finished)

Dystopian
 * Fahrenheit 451 (finished)
 * Nineteen Eighty-Four (finished)

Supernatural/Sci-Fi
 * Dracula (finished)
 * Frankenstein (finished)

Other
 * The Secret Garden (finished)

=Large series by other authors=

A Series of Unfortunate Events
All the Wrong Questions series

A Series of Unfortunate Events series (complete)
 * The Bad Beginning (finished)
 * The Reptile Room (finished)
 * The Wide Window (finished)
 * The Miserable Mill (finished)
 * The Austere Academy (finished)
 * The Ersatz Elevator (finished)
 * The Vile Village (finished)
 * The Hostile Hospital (finished)
 * The Carnivorous Carnival (finished)
 * The Slippery Slope (finished)
 * The Grim Grotto (finished)
 * The Penultimate Peril (finished)
 * The End [A Series of Unfortunate Events] (finished)

Bloody Jack Adventures (finished)
Orphaned in her youth and after spending many years scrounging to survive as a street urchin in London at the turn of the 19th century, Mary Faber passes herself off as a boy named Jacky Faber and joins the British Royal Navy as a ship's boy onboard the H.M.S. Dolphin. This leads to a series of events where Jacky becomes a notable figure in the Napoleonic Wars, raising her station in life, gaining a proper education, making many friends (and many enemies too) of many stripes from one end of the globe to the other, becoming one of the first female spies of the modern age, romancing many handsome and dashing men, and becoming involved with many major historical figures and in numerous world-shaping events. Written by L.A. Meyer.

Bloody Jack Adventures series (complete)
 * Bloody Jack [book] (finished)
 * Curse of the Blue Tattoo (finished)
 * Under the Jolly Roger [Bloody Jack Adventures] (finished)
 * In the Belly of the Bloodhound (finished)
 * Mississippi Jack (finished)
 * My Bonny Light Horseman (finished)
 * Rapture of the Deep [Bloody Jack Adventures] (finished)
 * The Wake of the Lorelei Lee (finished)
 * The Mark of the Golden-Dragon (finished)
 * Viva Jacquelina! (finished)
 * Boston Jacky (finished)
 * Wild Rover No More (finished)

The Merlin Saga
The Merlin Saga book-series written by T.A. Barron.

The Lost Years of Merlin series (complete)
 * The Lost Years [Merlin Saga] (finished)
 * The Seven Songs (finished)
 * The Raging Fires (finished)
 * The Mirror of Fate [Merlin Saga] (finished)
 * A Wizard's Wings (finished)

Merlin's Dragon trilogy
 * The Dragon of Avalon
 * Doomraga's Revenge
 * Ultimate Magic [Merlin Saga]

Great Tree of Avalon trilogy
 * The Great Tree of Avalon [book]
 * Shadow on the Stars
 * The Eternal Flame [Merlin Saga]

Other Merlin Saga books
 * Giant [Merlin Saga] (finished)
 * Takes place before the Lost Years of Merlin
 * Merlin: The Book of Magic

The Pantheon Saga
Hugo Malalou is a 15-year-old Somoan-American superhero fanatic in high school dealing with the loss of his father, jock bullies, and stuckup mean-girl squads in San Miguel, California. Grayson Hirsch is an investment banker hiding the fact that he gained superpowers in the same incident that empowered Titan, the most famous hero alive, and also robbed his father of his health, leaving him an embittered hero-hating shell of a man, in Saint Louis, Illinois. Quinn Bauer is a young food critic and up-and-coming reporter working to make her mark on the world, also in San Miguel, California. Each struggles to find their place in the world in the wake of the murder of the world's greatest hero: Hugo wrestles with what to do with the powers he received from his now-deceased idol, Grayson works to master and control the powers that have tormented him for so many years, and Quinn digs deep into a major conspiracy surrounding the death of the beloved icon.

The Pantheon Saga series
 * Two Strikes [Pantheon Saga/short-story] (finished)
 * Age of Heroes [Pantheon Saga] (finished)
 * Monsters Among Men [Pantheon Saga] (finished)
 * Friday Night Frights [Pantheon Saga/novella]
 * New Year's Evil [Pantheon Saga/novella]
 * Generation Next [Pantheon Saga] (finished)
 * Gods of Wrath [Pantheon Saga] (finished)
 * Absolute Power [Pantheon Saga] (finished)
 * United We Stand [Pantheon Saga] (finished)
 * Age of Villains [Pantheon Saga] (finished)
 * Extinction-Level Event [Pantheon Saga]

The RuneLords
=Smaller book-series= Book-series by various authors that I have only read a small amount of, primarily single and double books and trilogies, but I'm including all book-series up to eight books in size.

Places of Power (finished)
The Places of Power book-series, and a novella, written by Leonard Petracci. In a world where superhumans known as Specials are born with powers related to their birth location, Star-Child and his friends become embroiled in a battle for the future of the world involving several powerful factions, including Arachne, a long-dead oracle of transcendent, and his servants, the Instructors, a shadowy organization that seeks to dominate the world by gathering the supremely-powerful Titans, Specials of almost divine power, and the Litious, a cult that seeks to throw down the current society who they claim worship the Specials as false idols.

Places of Power series (complete)
 * Forgotten Pages [novelette] (finished)
 * Star-Child (finished)
 * Negative Film (finished)
 * Titan Song (finished)
 * Storm-Bound (finished)
 * Broken Walls (finished)
 * Gravity Trap (finished)

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (finished)
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel book-series written by Michael Scott (an Irish guy, not Steve Carell). Teenage twins Sophie and Josh Newman become involved with the immortal Alchemyst, Nicholas Flamel, and his wife, Perenelle the Sorceress, and are embroiled in an ancient conflict involving immortal humans and humanity's precursors seeking to either preserve or overthrow the modern world of humankind.

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series (complete)
 * The Alchemyst (finished)
 * The Magician (finished)
 * The Sorceress (finished)
 * The Necromancer (finished)
 * The Warlock (finished)
 * The Enchantress (finished)

Trilogies
The Origin Mystery trilogy (complete) The Origin Mystery trilogy written by A.G. Riddle. Kate Warner and David Vale race to uncover an ancient alien ship underneath the Antarctic ice before the Imari can use it to dominate the planet and at the same time they must discover the connection between humanity and the ancient aliens in order to cure a terrible plague.
 * The Atlantis-Gene (finished)
 * The Atlantis-Plague (finished)
 * The Atlantis-World (finished)

Raptors trilogy (complete)
 * Sidekick [Raptors] (finished)
 * Baron Steele [short-story] (finished)
 * SuperTeam [Raptors] (finished)
 * Scions [Raptors] (finished)

Villains' Code (complete for now)
 * Forging Hephaestus (finished)
 * Bones of the Past (finished)
 * Villains' Code book 3 (not yet released)

2 book series
The History of the American Vampire (complete)
 * Abraham Lincoln, Vampire-Hunter (finished)
 * The Last American Vampire (finished)

Ilium/Olympos (complete)
 * Ilium [book] (finished)
 * Olympos [book] (finished)