I got this idea from Riley Marie, a YouTube book channel that I follow. She created a Book Series Tracker where she tracks which series she’s currently reading and how many books she has left. I thought this was such a great idea! I have been trying to finish more book series as I tend to read many first books in a series and then never read the rest. I recently reviewed all 805 books I have logged as read on Goodreads. My tracker is nothing fancy; I’m using a Google Sheet and created three different sheets: Series I’m Working Through, Series I’m Not Finishing, and Fully Completed Book Series.

I’m trying to read and finish eight book series. This may feel like a lot; however, two books I plan on reading by the end of the year will finish that series. This will leave me with six book series going into 2026. I think that’s doable. The second sheet I created, Series I’m Not Finishing, is exactly what it sounds like. I read the first book in a series, and either I felt that book could have been a standalone, I couldn’t get into reading the second book, or the first book didn’t generate enough interest for me to read the others. I created this sheet to be organized and remind myself why I discontinued that series. It’s not that these were books I didn’t like, not at all! I enjoyed reading these books, but I’m not feeling a pull to go back and continue with the rest of the series. The last sheet I created is Fully Completed Book Series. This sheet is again exactly what it sounds like. I went through all my books and listed which series I had read all the books in. In total, I have finished fourteen different book series. I thought this number would be lower, so I was surprised when this number was above ten. I don’t have a set goal for this, but I’d like to see more series added to this list.

This was a little time-consuming to put together, but I’m so happy that I took the time. This is going to help keep me organized with my reading goals. If I’m really feeling ambitious, I’d like to extend this to the graphic novels that I’m reading, as I want to finish more comic series, too.