Twice this year (so far), I’ve come home from the library with a new book in a series, eager to dive in. Only to find I’d skipped one — thankfully, before I started either novel (my son, alas, made some decent headway in one of these books before he convinced himself that something was wrong). Reading at the volume I do — and with some series books being so meaningless/interchangeable — it’s really hard to keep track of all of them. For example, I can remember exactly 1 title in Faith Hunter’s Jane Yellowrock series — Mercy Blade — and I had to look it up to know that it was the third in series. (this was not one of the series I mentioned)

For the last 5 or so years, I’ve been neurotically logging my reading, and using Goodreads for most of that time. You’d think given that, I’d at least be able to know what book is next in a series. Right? Guess that 12 Step slogan has some merit here, too: it works if you work it.

Anyone else have this problem? Other than becoming more obsessive with lists, what have you tried to help?