Completed Reading Challenges

I did complete a few reading challenges this year.

For the Nonfiction Reader Challenge hosted by Shelleyrae at Book’d Out, I read three books in three different categories. All three were interesting, but Four Hundred Souls was excellent.

• Essay Collection – White Negroes by Lauren Michele Jackson
• Inventions – Strange Frequencies by Peter Bebergal
• Published in 2021 – Four Hundred Souls edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

I completed all twelve months for the Calendar of Crime challenge hosted by Bev at My Reader’s Block.

• January – The Old Fox Deceiv’d by Martha Grimes (takes place in January)
• February – God Rest Ye, Royal Gentleman by Ryhs Bowen (couple on cover)
• March – Premeditated Mortar by Kate Carlisle (title has word starting with “M”)
• April – The Three Locks by Bonnie MacBird (church/minister/religion has major role)
• May – Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz (title has word starting with “M”)
• June – A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie (original publication month)
• July – Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett (takes place in US)
• August – Shucked Apart by Barbara Ross (month related item on cover – beach/water)
• September – The Inspector of Strange and Unexplained Deaths by Olivier Barde-Cabuçon (title has word starting with “S”)
• October – Murder at the Masquerade by Josh Lanyon (costume)
• November – The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny (wild care book)
• December – The Hollow by Agatha Christie (house party/family gathering)

For the Cloak and Dagger Reading Challenge, my goad was 36, which I definitely surpassed. The first 36 are listed below.

1. The Inspector of Strange and Unexplained Deaths by Olivier Barde-Cabuçon
2. Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
3. The Hollow by Agatha Christie
4. Premeditated Mortar by Kate Carlisle
5. A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
6. Fatal Fried Rice by Vivien Chien
7. Shucked Apart by Barbara Ross
8. The Mystery of Three Quarters by Sophie Hannah
9. Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
10. Parker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie
11. Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett
12. Hollywood Ending by Kellye Garrett
13. Broken Places by Tracy Clark
14. Transient Desires by Donna Leon
15. Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie
16. Crossing the Line by Isabella Muir
17. The Monks Hood Murders by Karen Baugh Menuhin
18. The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths
19. The Three Locks by Bonnie MacBird
20. Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
21. Lie of the Needle by Cate Price
22. Deadly Editions by Paige Shelton
23. The Tomb of the Chatelaine by Karen Baugh Menuhin
24. The Reminiscences of Solar Pons by August Derleth
25. Murder Is Easy by Agatha Christie
26. A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
27. After the Storm by Isabella Muir
28. Murder, She Wrote: Killing in a Koi Pond by Jessica Fletcher, Terrie Farley Moran
29. The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie
30. A Racing Murder by Frances Evesham
31. Murder at Pirate’s Cove by Josh Lanyon
32. Secret at Skull House by Josh Lanyon
33. Murder at the Masquerade by Josh Lanyon
34. Nemesis by Agatha Christie
35. Scandal at the Salty Dog by Josh Lanyon
36. The Corfe Castle Murders by Rachel McLean