User:Anon e Mouse Jr./Books/Sandbox

Books and authors I keep track of
And don't laugh. I have my reasons, however varied they may be, for following of all of these. The table that follows includes both books I have, and some that I don't, but would like to get. It is not a complete list of either category (I have to keep SOME things to myself), though I will most likely add more authors into it at some point. For now, it has been divided into seven tables, each sorted alphabetically by author's last name, or by series name if multiple authors are involved: "Adult's fiction/nonfiction" (23 authors), "Cozy Mysteries" (23 series), "Cozy Mysteries (Kensington)" (10 series), "Kid's fiction" (16 sections), "Kid's spooky series" (6 sections), Media Tie-ins (6 sections), and "Manga" (30 sections, alphabetically by series title).

For the record, back in the summer of 2014, I integrated multiple lists into a single, cohesive unit, with between 2100 and 2200 regular books (and 800+ manga volumes, which have their own table). About a year (and at least four or five shopping trips) later, I did a major revamp, cutting about 34 authors/sections (and about two to three hundred books) from the main list for assorted reasons, leaving it with approximately 180 authors/franchises (and between 1800 and 1900 books; it's since gone up to between 2500 and 2600 with the addition of multiple new series). My hope is to find as many of these works as possible and, with time, reduce the "What I Don't Own" sections below to completely empty. I also maintain a "Gap Box" (or boxes) for series where I own later volumes but am missing some earlier ones, and am holding off on reading these later volumes until I fill in the earlier gaps and thus can read the books in their proper order.

My main genres are horror, science fiction/fantasy, teen/young adult, mystery (I especially enjoy cozy mysteries), media tie-ins, manga (yes, I know it's not technically a genre, but it's a major category), and "kids". Minor genres include the "travel" section (because of the "Weird U.S." series - see below), and a few more.

Cozy Mysteries
While Cozies as a genre generally falls under the "Adult's fiction" category, I've read so many that I'm giving them their own section. I haven't read every series in here, but I intend to. And there's at least another dozen series on my "to read" list besides.

Cozy Mysteries (Kensington)
The Kensington Publishing Corp. publishes the "Kensington Cozies" line of mystery fiction. As of 2023, they have published (or will publish) a total of fourteen anthologies, with a fifteenth announced for 2024, featuring novellas from fourteen book series by twelve authors; as of this section's creation (June 2023), ten out of the fourteen series are listed here. (Also as of June 2023, the anthologies containing stories from the other four have yet to be released, and I don't own any books from those four series - Lynn Cahoon's Kitchen Witch Mysteries, Maddie Day's Cece Barton Mysteries, Liz Ireland's Mrs Claus Mysteries and Carol J. Perry's Witch City Mysteries - yet anyway.)

Kid's fiction
Despite my age, I still enjoy these books.

Kid's spooky series
In the 1990s, R.L. Stine began releasing his Goosebumps series of spooky books for middle-grade readers. A number of similar series followed suit; while my interest in horror has dwindled over the years, I have many of these, and am looking for more to complete the collection.

Media tie-ins
Novelizations and tie-in novels to go with various movies, TV shows and comic books. I have a lot more series than are listed from here.

Manga
The list that follows includes all ten series (Bleach, Haruhi Suzumiya, Kingdom Hearts, Maison Ikkoku, Naruto, Neon Genesis Evangelion, One Piece, Ranma ½, Rin-ne and Trigun) I own material from, and twenty others I don't (but would like to). Twenty-one of these series are either complete or on hiatus but have had all extant material released; nine are still releasing new material.

Not included are two other series I count among my favorites, both of which were originally released as anime and have no print editions, or at least none that I'm interested in: Nightwalker has no corresponding print material (but I do own the complete series on DVD); Tenchi Muyo! has three primary anime versions and two manga series, but I only follow the original Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki anime (and to a lesser extent, its two in-continuity follow-ups).