Check In: Best of... Reading Challenge

I just wanted to check-in and update how my Best of... challenge is going.  It is something that I've wanted to do for years and I'm still really excited about it.  If you want to know more about what I'm doing, you can find my challenge post here.

Here's my progress:



It doesn't look like much but I'm doing okay.  I've finished a few books (the "X") and I'm currently reading ("CR") My Lady Jane and currently listening ("CL") to A Midnight Star.  In some cases, to get to the books on this list, I've got to read the previous books in the series.  So while it doesn't look like much, I have made a bit of progress.

I've been slowed down by My Lady Jane, which I'm not enjoying.  And I'm intimidated by how many books I have to read in in some of these series. But I'm still super excited. I need to pick it up and I plan to but right now

Any recommendations on what I should read next?  Has anyone else wanted to test out some of these Best of the best lists?