2023 Finishing the Series Reading Challenge

Posted November 25, 2022 by lenoreo in 2023 Finishing the Series Challenge / 26 Comments

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, but we’ve been hosting it since 2018.

Review Link-Up

Guidelines:

While we’re pretty lax about how you wish to set up this challenge for yourself, we do have a few guidelines to follow.

The challenge will run from January 1st, 2023 to December 31st, 2023. Books must be read during this time frame to count. Sign up is open from now until December 1st, 2023, 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 by the end of 2023.
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 2023 (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.

New this Year:

In the latter half of 2021, I realized I have a couple of anthologies that I have started but not finished, and so they stay on my Goodreads “Currently Reading” list because for some reason I feel like I need to at least *try* every story in an anthology before marking it read. If anyone else is like me, I’d like to add a side Finishing the Anthology challenge! For this side challenge, you must have read at least one story in the anthology prior to 2023, and then obviously finish it this year (I don’t care if you DNF a story, as long as you give them all a try). I know there are a few “read an anthology in a year” type challenges, but what I was really looking for, and thus far hadn’t found, was one where you’d already started the anthology and just want to get it off your TBR once and for all.

How to Play:

Declare your intentions to participate in this challenge somewhere on the internet!! You do not need to be a blogger to participate, there are many ways to declare. You could write a blog post, create a reading challenge page, create a Goodreads shelf containing series you hope to finish, post about it on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
Some things you could include (but that aren’t required):
- A link to this page so that others may find us and join the fun as well (feel free to download the button at the top to use in your posts).
- A list of series you hope to read for this challenge. You could even get fancy and list the length of the series, or the books you’ve already read, etc.
- The level you are aiming for.
Sign up for the challenge using the link up below, and link directly to where you’ve declared your intentions (ie to the specific blog post, the goodreads shelf, the facebook post, etc).
This year only one link up will be posted for the whole year. This is where you can add links to your reviews or any wrap-up/overview posts you wish to share.
Go forth and READ!! And have fun!!
Use the hashtag #FinishingTheSeries2023 on any social media to keep up with other participants!

The Reward:

Uh…your own sense of pride in achieving a goal? Sorry folks, we’re not actually that motivated by prizes ourselves, so we’re just offering bragging rights. But we can offer you some pretty graphics to either declare your goal or to use as a badge once achieved!