Not sure how many years I’ve done this challenge, but it’s been quite a few. Thanks to Carolina Book Nook for hosting. I like the fun of finding the books for the categories, & also that it’s a small challenge. It’s always fun to spice up my reading a little. The rules are simple: read a book with a title that fits the category. In 2022 the categories are:
Looking forward to searching my shelves for the necessary books. Or maybe some library audio books.
This is my favorite challenge and Thanks to Bev at My Reader’s Block for continuing to host. This was my tenth year of hiking up my mountains of books. My goal for the year was to read 48 books from my To Be Read pile and reach the top of Mt. Ararat. I managed to climb up the next peak, Mt. Kilimanjaro, by reading 60 books on my TBR pile with half of December left to read books acquired in 2021, before they turn over to TBR’s. 🙂
The D.A. Calls it Murder, Erle Stanley Gardner
The Huckleberry Murders (Sheriff Bo Tully #4), Patrick F. McManus
Shots Fired: Stories from Joe Pickett Country (Joe Pickett #14.5), C.J. Box
The Tamarack Murders (Sheriff Bo Tully #5), Patrick F. McManus
A Turn for the Bad (County Cork #4), Sheila Connolly
Cruel Winter (County Cork #5), Sheila Connolly
Lady Clementine, Marie Benedict
Lord of the Wings (Meg Langslow #19), Donna Andrews
The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway #8), Elly Griffiths
A False Mirror (Inspector Ian Rutledge #9), Charles Todd
Many a Twist (County Cork #6), Sheila Connolly
The Lost Traveller (County Cork #7), Sheila Connolly
12 for Pike’s Peak
Half Moon Street (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt #20), Anne Perry
The Other Windsor Girl: A Novel of Love, Royalty, Whiskey, & Cigarettes, Georgie Blalock
What Angels Fear (Sebastian St. Cyr, #1), C.S. Harris
The Peppermint Tea Chronicles (44 Scotland Street #13), Alexander McCall Smith
The Language of Bees (Mary Russell #9), Laurie R. King
The God of the Hive (Mary Russell #10), Laurie R. King
TBH, This Is So Awkward (TBH, #1), Lisa Greenwald
One Bad Apple (Orchard, #1), Sheila Connolly
King of Scars (King of Scars #1), Leigh Bardugo
The Final Storm (World War II: 1939-1945, #4), Jeff Shaara
Pirate King (Mary Russell, #11), Laurie R. King
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, Timothy Egan
24 for Mount Blanc
A Moveable Feast of Murder: A Dorothy Parker Mystery, Agata Stanford
The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War, H.W. Brands
The Frozen Hours, Jeff Shaara
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
Uncommon Type, Tom Hanks
The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9), Elly Griffiths
The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway, #10), Elly Griffiths
Gone Gull (Meg Langslow #21), Donna Andrews
A Distant View of Everything (Isabel Dalhousie #11), Alexander McCall Smith
Mourning Gloria (China Bayles, #19) by Susan Wittig Albert
Under the Wide and Starry Sky, Nancy Horan
Widow’s Tears (China Bayles #21), Susan Wittig Albert
36 for Mt. Vancouver
Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History, Eric Larson
Penny for Your Secrets (Verity Kent, #3), Anna Lee Huber
A Pretty Deceit (Verity Kent, #4), Anna Lee Huber
The Whitechapel Conspiracy (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #21), Anne Perry
The September Society (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #2), Charles Finch
All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriott (#1)
A Just Clause (Booktown #11), Lorna Barrett
Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding (Royal Spyness #12), Rhys Bowen
Love and Death Among the Cheetahs (Royal Spyness #13), Rhys Bowen
Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1), Louise Penny
American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt, Stephanie Marie Thornton
Bittersweet (China Bayles, #23), Susan Wittig Albert
48 for Mt. Ararat (my goal)
Shadow of a Bull, Maia Wojciechowska
The Last Mrs. Summers (Her Royal Spyness, #14), Rhys Bowen
A Burial at Sea (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #5), Charles Finch
Poisoned Pages (Booktown Mystery #12), Lorna Barrett
A Death in the Small Hours (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #6), Charles Finch
My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century, Rachel Harris
Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland #1), Anthony Horowitz
The Staircase, Ann Rinaldi
Back Of Beyond (Highway #1), C.J. Box
Victoria, Daisy Goodwin
Gmorning, Gnight! Little Pep Talks for Me & You, Lin-Manual Miranda
The Afterlife of Holly Chase, Cynthia Hand
60 for Mt. Kilimanjaro
Additional challenge mountains not reached:
El Toro: Read 75 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Everest: Read 100 books from your TBR pile/s
Mount Olympus (Mars): Read 150+ books from your TBR pile/s
I’ve done this challenge off & on over the years and decided this was the year to do it again & spice up my reading choices. Here’s how it works:
~ Eight “key words” are given for each month. Your task is to read 1 book that includes one or more of the key words in the title. ~ Synonyms and different suffixes are allowed. For example, if the keyword is ‘Lake’ you may also use the words ‘Lakes’, ‘Water’, ‘Sea’, ‘Ocean’.
JAN – Last, Kingdom, Girl, Dark, When, Winter, Light, Window
FEB – Midnight, Never, Into, Sun, Love, Good, Spell, Search
MAR – End, Fall, Loud, Queen, Woods, Nine, Beautiful, Crown
APR – Race, Now, Chose, While, Stop, Burn, Red, One
MAY – Thorn, Catch, Black, Under, City, Cloud, Sing, Legacy
JUN – Sea, You, Hate, Perfect, Shade, Until, Beach, Little
JUL – Star, Next, Infinity, Iron, Word, People, Rise, Clear
AUG – Breath, Case, Hundred, Day, Happy, Language, Stay, Lie
SEP – Bright, Here, Out, Life, Strange, Rule, Story, Salt
OCT – House, Bone, Haunt, Body, Blood, Witch, Murder, Mystery
NOV – Many, Boy, River, Fever, Down, Gold, Jade, Hill
DEC – Still, Cabin, Cafe, Night, Lake, By, Holiday, Fire
This is my favorite reading challenge and will be my eleventh year to join. I usually sign up for 48 books from my To Be Read pile which means summitting Mt. Ararat. I love focusing on reading my shelves then setting the books free.
Thanks to Bev at My Reader’s Block for continuing to host.
The Historical Fiction Reading Challenge is hosted by The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader. Any sub-genre of historical fiction is accepted (Historical Romance, Historical Mystery, Historical Fantasy, Young Adult, History/Non-Fiction, etc.
I concentrated this challenge on non-mystery historical fiction as I had several mystery challenges going and many of the mystery series I read are historical fiction. So my goal for the year was Renaissance Reader: 10 books.
20th Century Reader – 2 books
Victorian Reader – 5 books
Renaissance Reader – 10 books
Medieval – 15 books
Ancient History – 25 books
Prehistoric – 50+ books
But I just hit Ancient History: 25 books, which is great & means lots of books cleaned off the shelves, so I’m calling the challenge for the year & feeling good. Here are the books I read for the challenge:
The Lost Queen (The Lost Queen Trilogy #1), Signe Pike
Lady Clementine, Marie Benedict
The Queen’s Gambit, Walter Tevis
Kim, Rudyard Kipling
The Other Windsor Girl: A Novel of Love, Royalty, Whiskey, & Cigarettes, Georgie Blalock
The Gown, Jennifer Robson
We Are Not Free, Traci Chee
The Final Storm (World War II: 1939-1945, #4), Jeff Shaara
The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah
Carnegie’s Maid, Marie Benedict
The Frozen Hours, Jeff Shaara
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
To Wake the Giant: A Novel of Pearl Harbor, Jeff Shaara
Under the Wide and Starry Sky, Nancy Horan
The Eagle’s Claw: A Novel of the Battle of Midway, Jeff Shaara
Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
Finding Dorothy, Elizabeth Letts
Child of the River, Irma Joubert
All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriott (#1)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt, Karen Harper
American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt, Stephanie Marie Thornton
The Vanished Days, Susanna Kearsley
Shadow of a Bull, Maia Wojciechowska
