1st in a Series Challenge 2012

Hosted by: Katy (A Few More Pages)
Dates: 1 January through 31 December, 2012

Guidelines (quoted from the announcement/sign-up page):

• Anyone can join. You don’t need a blog to participate.
• You can list your books in advance or just put them in a wrap up post. If you list them, feel free to change them as the mood takes you. Any genre counts. Any book format counts.
• A post will be created here where you can link-up your reviews and visit the reviews of other participants.

There are four levels for this challenge:

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, and will be reading 3 books.

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

MY READING LIST (books read, with links to reviews):

1. A Man Lay Dead. Ngaio Marsh (Inspector Alleyn series)
2. The Warden. Anthony Trollope (Chronicles of Barsetshire)
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POSSIBLE CHOICES:

The Big Sleep. Raymond Chandler (first Philip Marlowe novel)
Fer-de-Lance. Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe)
Last Bus to Woodstock. Colin Dexter (Inspector Morse series)
A Man Lay Dead. Ngaio Marsh (Inspector Alleyn series)
Relic. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Pendergast series)
The Warden. Anthony Trollope (Chronicles of Barsetshire)