I’m thrilled to be hosting the Cloak and Dagger Reading Challenge again. I love mystery and crime novels!
Challenge Rules:
- You can read any book that is from the mystery/suspense/thriller/crime/true crime genres. Any sub-genres are welcome as long as they incorporate one of these genres.
- You don’t need a blog to participate but you do need a place to post your reviews to link up. (blog, Goodreads, Instagram, etc.)
- Make a goal post and link it back here with your goal for this challenge.
- Books need to be at least 100 pages long. Please no short stories.
- Crossovers with other challenges are fine.
- The Challenge will run from Jan. 1st to Dec. 31st. (Sign up ends March 15.)
We still have our facebook group so if you haven’t joined we would love for you to! Here’s the group’s link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/350512171977943/. It’s a closed group so just ask to join and we’ll let you in.
There will be a monthly link-up so we can see what everyone’s reading – and probably add some to our own tbr lists. At the halfway mark and at the end we will have a giveaway for those participating.
We’ll continue to use the hashtag #CloakDaggerChal.
Levels:
5-15 books – Amateur sleuth
16-25 books – Detective
26-35 books – Inspector
36 – 55 books – Special agent
56+ books – Sherlock Holmes – This is my goal for the year.
I also added the challenge on The StoryGraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/8b801c66-5ff4-4e17-aac5-72744438c318.
Add a link to your sign-up post or Goodreads shelf below or in the comments.
Link to my GR shelf for 2025
Glad you’re joining us!
Yay! Will be linking up soon!
Glad to hear it!
I’m back for another year! Thank you for hosting this. It’s one of my favorite challenges.
Glad you’re joining in again!
Just like Arnold “I’ll be back.”
Yay!
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Thanks so much for hosting! This will be my first year.
I’m glad you’re joining us.
This is a great challenge. I need to think about what my goal would be.
If you start low you can always up it.
Here is my link: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2662412?shelf=2025-cloak-dagger-reading
I’m going for Inspector level.
Glad you’re joining in.
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Looking forward to this one!
Good. We’re happy your joining us.
Added the link for my GR shelf 😀
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Love this challenge. Going for the Sherlock Holmes level again (managed 87 books for 2024).
Awesome!
I am going to try Sherlock Holmes level again. Thank you so much for running this challenge again this year. It is always so much fun!
I always enjoy it too.
It keeps giving me error so i’m going post my link on here. It’s my first year, and i’m excited!
https://storyxray.blogspot.com/p/2025-reading-challenges.html
Glad you’re joining us. Sorry it gave you an error, but this works fine
I plan to participate again this year ! My goal will be Special Agent, which I achieved last year! I use Storygraph, and I will get my link posted when I set it up :).
Glad you’re joining us! I just started using storygraph recently and am still learning the ins and outs.
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First timer and excited about this challenge. I’m going for Inspector. My plan is to read and review those freebie mysteries on Kindle that I can’t resist adding. I’ve added hundreds and read a handful. I couldn’t figure out where else to put it, so here is the link to my Goodreads Cloak & Dagger shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/145594058?shelf=cloak-dagger-2025.
I have a bunch of freebies on my Kindle too.
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