1st in a Series Challenge 2011

***Challenge Completed. See my wrap-up post here.***

Dates: 1 January - 31 December 2011
Host: Katy @ A Few More Pages

Guidelines:

• Anyone can join. You don't need a blog to participate. You can sign up anytime before December 31, 2011.
• You don't need to make a list of books, but if you do, the list can be changed at any time.
• Any genre is allowed.
• Choose from one of four reading levels:
  1) Series Novice: Read 3 books that are the first in any series.
  2) Series Lover: Read 6 books that are the first in any series.
  3) Series Expert: Read 12 books that are the first in any series.
  4) Series Fanatic: Read 20 books that are the first in any series.
  

✸ I'm signing up at the "Series Novice" level, but hope to read more than three books.

See my original post about the challenge here.
See my challenge wrap-up post here.
See the challenge announcement page here.

MY READING LIST (Books Read):

1. Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross mystery series). James Patterson
   
2. Quiet As a Nun (Jemima Shore mystery series). Antonia Fraser
   
3. The Killings at Badger's Drift (Inspector Barnaby mystery series). Caroline Graham
   

LIST OF POSSIBILITIES:

A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley series). Elizabeth George
Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross series). James Patterson
A Man Lay Dead (Inspector Alleyn series). Ngaio Marsh
At Home in Mitford (Mitford Years series). Jan Karon
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe novels). Raymond Chandler
Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth mysteries). M.C. Beaton
The Deep Blue Good-by (Travis McGee series). John D. MacDonald
Dolled Up for Murder (Dolls to Die For series). Deb Baker
Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe series). Rex Stout
Fortune Like the Moon (Hawkenlye Mysteries). Alys Clare
The Ghost and Mrs. McClure (Haunted Bookshop series). Alice Kimberly
The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser series). Robert B. Parker
Grey Mask (Miss Silver series). Patricia Wentworth
The Inimitable Jeeves (first Jeeves/Wooster novel). P.G. Wodehouse
In the Last Analysis (Kate Fansler series). Amanda Cross
The Killings at Badger's Drift. (Inspector Barnaby series). Caroline Graham
Last Bus to Woodstock (Inspector Morse series). Colin Dexter
Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs series). Jacqueline Winspear
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind (Miss Julia series). Ann B. Ross
Miss Zukas and the Library Murders (Miss Zukas series). Jo Dereske
The Moving Target (Lew Archer series). Ross Macdonald
Murder Is Binding (Booktown series). Lorna Barrett
The Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin series). M.C. Beaton
Quiet As a Nun (Jemima Shore series). Antonia Fraser
The Quilter's Apprentice (Elm Creek Quilts series). Jennifer Chiaverini
Relic (Pendergast series). Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Say It With Poison (Mitchell & Markby series). Ann Granger
The Secret Adversary (Tommy & Tuppence series). Agatha Christie
The Sunday Philosophy Club (Sunday Philosophy Club series). Alexander McCall Smith
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley novels). Patricia Highsmith
The Warden (Barsetshire novels). Anthony Trollope