Friday, July 9, 2010

100+ Reading Challenge

Have just discovered & signed up for Home Girl's Book Blog 2010 Challenge: 100+ Reading Challenge. The goal: to read 100 or more books in 2010. For more information and to sign up yourself, please click on the link to the blog.

Here's my list so far (reviews may be found on the clickable titles)....

1. No Honeymoon for Death by Mary Kruger (1/2/10)
2. Murder on a Midsummer Night by Kerry Greenwood (1/4/10)
3. Written Out by David Armstrong (1/12/10)
4. Death & the Lit Chick by G. M. Malliet (1/14/10)
5. Death at the Alma Mater by G.M. Malliet (1/2410)
6. Three Silent Things by Margaret Mayhew (1/25/10)
7. Old Soldiers Never Die by Margaret Mayhew (2/6/10)
8. The September Society by Charles Finch (2/8/10)
9. A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch (2/15/10)
10.
Do Butlers Burgle Banks? by P. G. Wodehouse (2/16/10)
11. The Scandal of the Season by Sophie Gee (2/23/10)
12. Bad Chemistry by Nora Kelly (2/24/10)
13. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (2/25/10)
14. Lord Minimus: The Extraordinary Life of Britain's Smallest Man by Nick Page (3/1/10)
15.
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (3/12/10)
16. Musical Mysteries: From Mozart to John Lennon by Albert Borowitz (3/13/10)
17. Oxford & Cambridge by Christopher Brooke (3/24/10)
18. Woman's World by Graham Rawle (3/29/10)
19. Dave Barry's Money Secrets by Dave Barry (3/30/10)
20. Diary of an Amateur Photographer by Graham Rawle (4/1/10)
21. Belief or Non-Belief? A Dialogue by Umberto Eco & Cardinal Martini (4/5/10)
22. The Inklings of Oxford: C. S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien & Their Friends by Harry Lee Poe (4/6/10)
23. Beginning With a Bash by Phoebe Atwood Taylor (writing as Alice Tilton) (4/24/10)
24. The Cut Direct by Phoebe Atwood Taylor (writing as Alice Tilton) (4/25/10)
25. for one more day by Mitch Albom (4/25/10)
26. Foul Matter by Martha Grimes (4/29/10)
27. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me by Hitchcock (4/30/10)
28. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: More Stories My Mother Never Told Me by Hitchcock (5/1/10)
29. Dead Center by Mary Collins (5/2/10)
30. The Art of Detection by Laurie R. King (5/2/10)
31. London After Midnight edited by Peter Haining (5/6/10)
32. Literary Murder by Batya Gur (5/9/10)
33. Death & the Princess by Robert Barnard (5/12/10)
34. Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie (5/15/10)
35. Murder Duet by Batya Gur (5/18/10)
36. The Inheritance by Simon Tolkien (5/22/10)
37. Kissed a Sad Goodbye by Deborah Crombie (5/27/10)
38. The Knowledge of Water by Sarah Smith (5/31/10)
39. Murder in a Mummy Case by K. K. Beck (6/3/10)
40. Great Tales of Mystery & Adventure by Robert Louis Stevenson (6/4/10)
41. The First Saint Omnibus by Leslie Charteris (6/7/10)
42. Parker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie (6/8/10)
43. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (6/11/10)
44. Death's Old Sweet Song by Jonathan Stagge (6/13/10)
45. The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Veiled Detective by David Stuart Davies (6/13/10)
46. The Dark Stream by June Thomson (6/14/10) book-binge vacation
47. No Flowers, by Request by June Thomson (6/14/10) book-binge vacation
48. The Sonnet Lover by Carol Goodman (6/17/10) book-binge vacation
49. The Casino Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine (6/17/10) book-binge vacation
50. Peril at End House by Agatha Christie (6/18/10) book-binge vacation
51. Gently Floating by Alan Hunter (6/18/10) book-binge vacation
52. The Yom Kippur Murder by Lee Harris (6/18/10) book-binge vacation
53. The New Year's Eve Murder by Lee Harris (6/19/10) book-binge vacation
54. The Happy Birthday Murder by Lee Harris (6/19/10) book-binge vacation
55. The Bar Mitzvah Murder by Lee Harris (6/19/10) book-binge vacation
56. The Lost Gallows by John Dickson Carr (6/20/10)
57. The Truth Machine by Christopher Cerf & Sharon Lerner (6/20/10)
58. A Very Particular Murder by S. T. Haymon (6/25/10)
59. A Masculine Ending by Joan Smith (6/28/10)
60. The Professor's House by Willa Cather (7/2/10)
61. My Sherlock Holmes: Untold Stories of the Great Detective edited by Michael Kurland (7/3/10)
62. A Local Matter: A Murder Case from the Notes of George Howard, Secretary to Lord Alfred Tigraines by John McGrew Bennett (7/4/10)
63. Unhappy Returns by Elizabeth Lemarchand (7/5/10)
64. And Be a Villain by Rex Stout (7/8/10)
65. If Death Ever Slept by Rex Stout (7/8/10)
66. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick (7/9/10)

The following are books I own and have placed in my pile of books that have been read this spring--date not recorded and therefore uncertain. All read before I started my blog in April and definitely after January 1, 2010.

62. Do Evil in Return by Margaret Millar
63. C. B. Greenfield: The Piano Bird by Lucille Kallen
64. C. B. Greenfield: No Lady in the House by Lucille Kallen
65. C. B. Greenfield: The Tanglewood Murder by Lucille Kallen
66. Death Cap by June Thomson
67. Murder in the Title by Simon Brett
68. Wycliffe & the Schoolgirls by W. J. Burley
69. The Birthday Murder by Lange Lewis
70. Some Things Fierce & Fatal edited by Joan Kahn
71. Gently Through the Woods by Alan Hunter
72. Puzzle for Fools by Patrick Quentin
73. Dead Men Don't Ski by Patricia Moyes
74. Season of Snows & Sins by Patricia Moyes
75. The Cinco De Mayo Murder by Lee Harris
76. Missing Susan by Sharon McCrumb
77. The Sunken Treasure by Marian J. A. Jackson
78. Justice Hall by Laurie R. King
79. Much Ado About Murder edited by Anne Perry
80. While the Patient Slept by Mignon G. Eberhart
81. Suddenly While Gardening by Elizabeth Lemarchand
82. The Bassington Murder by Charlotte Hough
83. Three Women in Black by Helen Reilly
84. Spence at the Blue Bazaar by Michael Allen
85. Murder in the Title by Simon Brett
86. Latter End by Patricia Wentworth
87. Whodunit by Norma Seely
88. Patently Murder by Ray Harrison
89. The Fourth Side of the Triangle by Ellery Queen
90. The Fox by D. H. Lawrence
91. The Body in the Volvo by K. K. Beck
92. Death's Head by Jonathan Ross
93. Cabin 3033 by Anna Clarke
94. An Amateur Corpse by Simon Brett
95. Frog in the Throat by Elizabeth Ferrars
96. The Window at the White Cat by Mary Roberts Rinehart

And back on track...
97. Mrs. Malory Death Among Friends by Hazel Holt (7/9/10)
98. Classical Women Poets translated by Josephine Balmer (7/10/10)
99. In Praise of Older Women by Stephen Vizinczey (7/11/10)
100. The Crooked Hinge by John Dickson Carr (7/12/10) Made It!!
101. What Men Say by Joan Smith (7/13/10)
102. Mrs. Malory & the Fatal Legacy by Hazel Holt (7/13/10)
103. Mrs. Malory & Death in Practice by Hazel Holt (7/14/10)
104. Grave Choices by M. D. Lake (7/15/10)
105. Hive of Suspects by Sheila Pim (7/18/10)
106. Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene (7/18/10)
107. I Sing the Body Electric by Ray Bradbury (7/19/10)

108. Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie (7/20/10)
109. A Risky Way to Kill by Richard Lockridge (7/20/10)
110. Die Laughing by Richard Lockridge (7/21/10)
111. The Green Man by Kingsley Amis (8/5/10)
112. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (8/8/10)
113. The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton (8/1010)

114. Cop Out by Ellery Queen (8/10/10)
115. Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock (8/11/10)
116. Monkey Puzzle by Paula Gosling (8/11/10)
117. Gideon's Power by J J Marric (8/13/10)
118. Death of a Dude by Rex Stout (8/13/10)
119. The Big Bounce by Elmore Leonard (8/15/10)
120. Dress Her in Indigo by John D MacDonald (8/17/10)

121. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (8/19/10)
122. Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny (8/25/10)
123. Death Is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury (8/26/10)
124. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (8/28/10)
125. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (8/30/10)
126. Robert F Kennedy: A Memoir by Jack Newfield (9/2/10)
127. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (9/5/10)
128. The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton (9/6/10)
129. The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld (9/6/10)
130. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (9/7/10)
131. Katherine by Anya Seton (9/9/10)
132. The Bohemian Girl by Kenneth Cameron (9/11/10)
133. The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier (9/12/10)
134. The Thanksgiving Day Murder by Lee Harris (9/13/10)
135. The Deathday Letter by Shaun David Hutchinson (9/13/10)
136. Lady Fortescue Steps Out by Marion Chesney (9/14/10)
137. The Divine Comedy 1: Hell by Dante Alighieri (trans by Dorothy L Sayers) (9/19/10)
138. Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers (9/20/10)
139. Soulless by Gail Carriger (9/22/10)
140. The Divine Comedy II: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri (trans by Sayers) (9/26/10)
141. Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie (9/26/10)
142. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (9/28/10)
143. Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (9/30/10)
144. Nine Rules to Break When Romancin
g a Rake by Sarah MacLean (10/1/10)
145. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (10/2/10)
146. The Essential Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: The Definitive Annotated Edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's Classic Novel by Leonard Wolf (ed) (10/3/10)
147. Changeless by Gail Carriger (10/4/10)
148. Miss Tonks Turns to Crime (10/4/10)
149 Castle Dor by Daphne du Maurier & Arthur Quiller Couch(10/5/10)
150. Prescription for Murder by Alan Hynd (10/6/10)
151. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (10/6/10)

152. Target of Suspicion John Buxton Hilton (10/8/10)
153. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (10/8/10)
154. Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman (10/9/10)
155. Death of a Charming Man by M. C. Beaton (10/10/10)
156. The Divine Comedy III: Paradise by Dante Alighieri (trans by Sayers & Barbara Reynolds) (10/13/10)
157. The Chocolate Cobweb by Charlotte Armstrong (10/13/10)
158. The Art of the Sonnet by Stephen Burt & David Mikics (10/16/10)
159. Blameless by Gail Carriger (10/17/10)
160. Lay On, Mac Duff! by Charlotte Armstrong (10/18/10)
161. The Conference of the Birds by Jean-Claude Carriere & Peter Brook [based on the poem by Farid Uddi Attar] (10/19/10)
162. The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The War of the Worlds by Manly W Wellman & Wade Wellman (10/20/10)
163. The Woman in the Woods by (Charity) Lee Blackstock (10/22/10)
164. Hanged for a Sheep by Frances & Richard Lockridge (10/23/10)
165. Killing the Goose by Frances & Richard Lockridge (10/23/10)
166. Dark Road to Darjeeling by Deanna Raybourn (10/24/10)
167. Gilgamesh trans by Herbert Mason (10/25/10)
168. Death of a Tall Man by Frances & Richard Lockridge (10/26/10)
169. Death in Clairvoyance by Josephine Bell (10/28/10)
170. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin (10/29/10)
171. A Comedy of Terrors by Michael Innes (10/31/10)
172. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (11/2/10)

173. Our Lady of the Lost & Found by Diane Schoemperlen (11/6/10)
174. The Agency: The Body at the Tower by Y. S. Lee (11/6/10)
175. One Step Behind by Henning Mankell (11/9/10)

176. Death by Water by Kerry Greenwood (11/12/10)
177. The Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell (11/13/10)

178. Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin (11/14/10)
179. The Strange Return of Sherlock Holmes by Barry Grant (11/15/10)
180. Penhallow by Georgette Heyer (11/20/10)
181. Footsteps in the Dark by Georgette Heyer (11/22/10)
182. A Blunt Instrument by Georgette Heyer (11/25/10)
183. A Christmas Carol & Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens (11/28/10)
184. A Christmas Grace by Anne Perry (11/29/10)
185. Miss Hildreth Wore Brown by Olivia de Belle Byrd (11/30/10)
186. A Foreign Affair by Caro Peacock (12/2/10)
187. Behold, a Mystery! by Joan Smith (12/3/10)
188. Dead Man's Chest by Kerry Greenwood (12/4/10)
189. India Black: A Madam of Espionage Mystery by Carol K Carr (12/7/10)
190. Mistletoe Mysteries collected by Charlotte MacLeod (12/8/10)
191. Christmas Stalkings collected by Charlotte MacLeod (12/11/10)
192. Death in Hellfire by Deryn Lake (12/12/10)
193. Envious Casca by Georgette Heyer (12/13/10)
194. Death in the Stocks by Georgette Heyer (12/14/10)

195. The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman (12/15/10)
196. The Long Skeleton by Frances & Richard Lockridge (12/19/10)
197. Mrs. Hudson & the Malabar Rose by Martin Davies (12/21/10)
198. Murder Is Suggested by Frances & Richard Lockridge (12/23/10)
199. Murder Has Its Points by Frances & Richard Lockridge (12/24/10)
200. Murder by the Book by Frances & Richard Lockridge (12/25/10)
201. Angel With Two Faces by Nicola Upson (12/28/10)

202. The Agency: A Spy in the House by Y. S. Lee (12/30/10)

203. They Call Me Naughty Lola by David Rose (ed) (12/30/10)
204. Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham (12/31/10)


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