2024 Yuletide Spirit Reading Challenge

The Yuletide Spirit Reading Challenge starts today even if my own Christmas reading started a couple of weeks ago. Thanks to Michelle at Yuletide Spirit and Seasons of Reading for hosting. Head to either place to join in and to check out the rules and prizes.

The challenge will run from today through December 31. These must be Christmas novels, books about Christmas lore, a book of Christmas short stories or poems, books about Christmas crafts, and a children’s Christmas books level! The hashtag is #YuletideSpirit.

I’m aiming for the Christmas Tree level, which is 5 or 6 books. I may also watch a couple of Christmas movies, for the Fa La La La Films level. And I’ll be filling out this year’s bingo card.

It’s also the start of the Yuletide Spirit Readathon. For the readathon, you do not have to read only Christmas books, but she asks that you try to read at least one.

Books/ Novellas Finished:

• A Midwinter Murder by Verity Bright
• Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie
• The Knife Before Christmas by Kate Carlisle
• The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter
• Mistletoe Murders 3 by Ken Cuperus
• The Twelve Saints of Christmas by Karen Baugh Menuhin
• A Holiday Homicide by Ellie Alexander
• The Christmas Eve Murders by Noelle Albright
• Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop edited by Otto Penzler
• Peppermint Barked by Leslie Budewitz
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, performed by Tim Curry
• The Gift of the Magpie by Donna Andrews
• The Christmas Candle Murders by Benedict Brown
• Dramatic Murder by Elizabeth Anthony

Movies Watched:

• A Christmas Story – Okay, it was actually a play but I’m counting it anyway
• A Muppet Family Christmas