Thursday, December 16, 2010

100+ Reading Challenge

Amy at My Overstuffed Bookshelf has taken on the 100+ Reading Challenge for 2011. And, of course, I just had to sign up. But...this should be no problem for me...crossovers totally count and I've already taken up another challenge to outdo myself in 2011. So far, I have read 194 books in 2010...if I outdo myself, well then that's definitely 100 plus. Shoot, that's 200 plus! I will plan to list my books below the details info. If you'd like to participate and want the full scoop, click on the challenge link above.

A FEW DETAILS: Read 100 or more books this year. Anything with an ISBN or equivalent or can be purchased as a book counts. What doesn't count: Individual short stories or individual books in the Bible. No need to list your books in advance. You may select books as you go. Crossovers from other reading challenges count. Books started before January 1st do not count. You can join any time. Sign up using the Mr. Linky on her site. My List:
1. The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers (1/3/11)
2. Emma by Jane Austen (1/9/11)

3. Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie (1/9/11)
4. 5 Bullets by Lee Thayer (1/12/11)

5. The Chinese Orange Mystery by Ellery Queen (1/13/11)

6. Time to Be in Earnest: a fragment of biography
by P. D. James (1/18/11)

7. Publish & Be Murdered by Ruth Dudley Edwards (1/19/11
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8. The X in Sex: How the X Chromosome Controls Our Lives by David Bainbridge (1/21/11)
9. Live or Die by Anne Sexton (1/21/11)
10. Black Orchids by Rex Stout (1/21/11)

11. Cordially Invited to Meet Death by Rex Stout (1/22/11)
12. Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis (1/22/11)
13. The Ampersand Papers by Michael Innes (1/23/11)
14. The Fashion in Shrouds by Margery Allingham (1/25/11)
15. Rope's End, Rogue's End by E. C. R. Lorac (1/26/11)
16. The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys (1/28/11)
17. Use Trouble: Poems by Michael S Harper (1/29/11)
18. Flying Finish by Dick Francis (1/29/11)
19. A Flaw in the Blood by Stephanie Barron (1/30/11)
20. A Graveyard to Let by Carter Dickson (1/31/11)
21. The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope (2/1/11) [770 pages]
22. Why Shoot a Butler? by Georgette Heyer (2/2/11) [248 pages]

23. Death in the Garden by Elizabeth Ironside (2/4/11) [294 pages]
24. All Booked Up by Terrie Curran (2/5/11) [219 pages]
25. The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green (2/8/11) [331 pages]
26. Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (2/11/11) [294 pages]
27. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: An American Woman's Life by Linda Wagner-Martin (2/14/11) [211 pages]
28. The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Laura Lippmann (2/15/11) [158 pages]
29.
Something New by P. G. Wodehouse (2/17/11) [191 pages]
30. The Silk Stocking Murders by Anthony Berkeley (2/19/11) [253 pages]

31. Zubin Mehta: The Score of My Life by Zubin Mehta (2/21/11) [197 pages]
32. The Thornthwaite Inheritance by Gareth P Jones (2/22/11) [262 pages]
33. McKee of Centre Street by Helen Reilly (2/23/11) [299 pages]
34. You Can Die Laughing by A. A. Fair, aka Erle Stanley Gardner (2/24/11) [165 pages]

35.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (2/26/11) [214 pages]
36.
Dividend on Death by Brett Halliday (2/27/11) [192 pages]
37. Colour Scheme by Ngaio Marsh (2/28/11) [314 pages]

38. Leave It to Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse (3/1/11) [245 pages]
39. The Rim of the Pit by Hake Talbot (3/4/11) [278 pages]

40. Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro (3/5/11) [319 pages]
41. The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee (3/7/11) [216 pages]
42. Shroud of Darkness by E. C. R. Lorac (3/10/11) [221 pages]

43. The Trail of the Red Diamonds by L. Ron Hubbard (3/11/11) [100 pages]
44. The Girl in Blue by P. G. Wodehouse (3/12/11) [190 pages]
45. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (3/15/11) [160 pages]

46. Blood Upon the Snow by Hilda Lawrence (3/16/11) [271 pages]

47. The Last Defender of Camelot by Roger Zelazny (3/19/11) [308 pages]

48. The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie (3/20/11) [277 pages]

49. Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker (3/23/11) [117 pages]

50. Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers (3/25/11) [192 pages]

51. The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (3/29/11) [403 pages]

52. Jerusalem Inn by Martha Grimes (4/2/11) [ 295 pages]
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53. Ten Little Herrings by L. C. Tyler (4/6/11) [240 pages]

54. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (4/10/11) [240 pages]

55. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (4/11/11) [246 pages]
56. Burial Deferred by Jonathan Ross (4/11/11) [187 pages]
57. The Innocent Bottle by Anthony Gilbert (4/13/11) [244 pages]
58. The New Adventures of Ellery Queen by Ellery Queen (4/15/11) [264 pages]
59. The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl (4/16/11) [63 pages]
60. My Foe Outstretch'd Beneath the Tree by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley (4/16/11) [223 pages]
61. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (4/17/11) [126 pages]
62. Third Girl by Agatha Christie (4/18/11) [264 pages]
63. The Porcupine by Julian Barnes (4/20/11) [138 pages]
64. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes (4/23/11) [216 pages]
65. Behold, Here's Poison by Georgette Heyer (4/24/11) [255 pages]
66. Victorian Tales of Mystery & Detection by Michael Cox (ed) (4/26/11) [578 pages]
67. Death of a Doxy by Rex Stout (4/26/11) [174 pages]
68. An Author Bites the Dust by Arthur W. Upfield (4/27/11) [224 pages]
69. Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer (4/28/11) [279 pages]
70. The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope (4/29/11) [168 pages]
71. Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov (4/30/11) [186 pages]
72. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman (5/2/11) [269 pages]
73. The Wyndham Case by Jill Paton Walsh (5/3/11) [223 pages]
74. Heavy Weather by P. G. Wodehouse (5/4/11) [4 discs = 321 pages according to Amazon)
75. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (5/5/11) [307 pages]
76. No Wind of Blame by Georgette Heyer (5/5/11) [246 pages]
77. The Giant Rat of Sumatra by Richard L Boyer (5/7/11) [223 pages]
78. Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner (5/9/11) [241 pages]
79. Queen of the Flowers by Kerry Greenwood (5/9/11) [244]
80. The Man on the Balcony by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (5/10/11) [180 pages]
81. Dancers in Morning by Margery Allingham (5/11/11) [262 pages]
82. A Piece of Justice by Jill Paton Walsh (5/12/11) [182 pages]
83. Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes (5/13/11) [288 pages]
84. Killer Dolphin by Ngaio Marsh (5/14/11) [284 pages]
85. What Alice Knew by Paula Marantz Cohen (5/15/11) [341 pages]
86. Past Tense by Catherine Aird (5/16/11) [286 pages]
87. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (5/24/11) [458 pages]
88. Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L Sayers (5/25/11) [224 pages]
89. The Bloody Wood by Michael Innes (5/27/11) [217 pages]
90. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (5/28/11) [406 pages]
91. Howards End Is on the Landing by Susan Hill (5/30/11) [234 pages]
92. The Religious Body by Catherine Aird (5/30/11) [158 pages]
93. The After House by Mary Roberts Rinehart (5/31/11) [223 pages]
94. The Caravaggio Books by Bernard Peterson (6/2/11) [251 pages]
95. The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time by David L. Ulin (6/7/11) [151 pages]
96. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell (6/8/11) [245 pages]
97. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (6/11/11) [221 pages]
98. Oscar Wilde & the Vampire Murders by Gyles Brandreth (6/13/11) [366 pages]
99. The House of Paper by Carlos María Domínguez (6/15/11) [103 pages]
100. The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay (6/18/11) [342 pages]

CHALLENGE COMPLETE! But still reading!
101. The Detections of Dr. Sam: Johnson by Lillian de la Torre (6/19/11) [190 pages]
102. Panic in Box C by John Dickson Carr (6/21/11) [223 pages]
103. The Savage Garden by Mark Mills (6/25/11) [324 pages]
104. A Pair of Jade Frogs by Ye Xin (6/26/11) [188 pages]
105. Vane Pursuit by Charlotte MacLeod (6/27/11) [208 pages]
106. Who Needs Donuts? by Mark Alan Stamaty (6/27/11) [40 pages]
107. Death of a Chimney Sweep by M. C. Beaton (6/28/11) [247 pages]
108. Scorpions: The Battles & Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices by Noah Feldman (7/1/11) [513 pages]
109. The Last Matryoshka by Joyce Yarrow (7/2/11) [272 pages]
110. Therapy by David Lodge (7/3/11) [321 pages]
111. The Herring in the Library by L. C. Tyler (7/4/11) [225 pages]
112. The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer (7/5/11) [336 pages]
113. The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (7/6/11) [544 pages]
114. The Best of Mystery selected by Alfred Hitchcock (7/9/11) [636 pages]
115. Hot & Bothered by Jane Isenberg (7/9/11) [325 pages]
116. Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (7/11/11) [212 pages]
117. The Case of the Deceiving Don by Carl Brookins (7/13/11) [235 pages]
118. Unnatural Death by Dorothy L Sayers (7/15/11) [240 pages]
119. The Mystery of the Third Lucretia by Susan Runholt (7/16/11) [278 pages]
120. Bone Harvest by Mary Logue (7/17/11) [239 pages]
121. Robert Kennedy: In His Own Words by Edwin O. Guthman & Jeffrey Shulman, eds. (7/19/11) [493 pages]
122. Heartless by Gail Carriger (7/21/11) [385 pages]
123. The Prop by Pete Hautman (7/23/11) [303 pages]
124. No Body by Nancy Pickard (7/24/11) [227 pages]
125. Random Walk by Lawrence Block (7/26/11) [368 pages]
126. Tom Fleck: A Novel of Cleveland & Flodden by Harry Nicholson (7/31/11) [261 pages]
127. Evvie by Vera Caspary (8/1/11) [317 pages]
128. The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes by Loren D Estleman (8/2/11) [223 pages]
129. The Affair of the 39 Cufflinks by James Anderson (8/3/11) [330 pages]
130. That Day in September by Artie Van Why (8/4/11) [84 pages]
131. The Yellow Dog by Georges Simenon (8/7/11) [150 pages]
132. The Fencing Master by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (8/11/11) [256 pages]
133. No Case for the Police by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley (8/14/11) [224 pages]
134. The Elberg Collection by Anthony Oliver (8/15/11) [265 pages]
135. Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen (8/15/11) [420 pages]
136. The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson (8/17/11) [168 pages]
137. Kathleen by Christopher Morley (8/17/11) [174 pages]
138. Three Victorian Detective Novels by E. F. Bleiler [ed.] (8/20/11) [302 pages]
139. Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (8/21/11) [272 pages]
140. Shatterday by Harlan Ellison (8/23/11) [318 pages)
141. Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (8/24/11) [286 pages]
142. The Arrow by Christopher Morley (8/25/11) [85 pages]
143. The Name on the Bracelet by Margaret Sutton (8/27/11) [216 pages]
144. Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L Sayers (8/28/11) [253 pages]
145. DeKok & Murder on Blood Mountain by A C Baantjer (8/28/11) [189 pages]
146. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers (8/29/11) [192 pages]
147. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (8/30/11) [554 pages]
148. Perelandra by C. S. Lewis (9/2/11) [222 pages]
149. The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (9/5/11) [145 pages]
150. Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley (9/5/11) [190 pages]
151. Beast in View by Margaret Millar (9/6/11) [120 pages]
152. The Future Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Scroll of the Dead by David Stuart Davies (9/7/11) [202 pages]
153. The Blood Detective by Dan Waddell (9/8/11) [416 pages]
154. Starring Sherlock Holmes by David Stuart Davies (9/8/11) [208 pages]
155. Great British Detectives edited by Martin H Greenberg & Edward D Hoch (9/9/11) [220 pages]
156. Deadly Reunion by Geraldine Evans (9/9/11) [188 pages]
157. India Black & the Widow of Windsor by Carol K Carr (9/10/11) [309 pages]
158. The Quality of Mercy by David Roberts (9/12/11) [229 pages]
159. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (9/13/11) [340 pages]
160. Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers (9/15/11) [252 pages]
161. Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L Sayers (9/17/11) [286 pages]
162. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K LeGuin (9/18/11) [184 pages]
163. The Final Solution by Michael Chabon (9/18/11) [131 pages]
164. Detection Unlimited by Georgette Heyer (9/21/11) [378 pages]
165. March Violets by Philip Kerr (9/23/11) [246 pages]
166. Death of an Englishman by Magdalen Nabb (9/25/11) [172 pages]
167. Middlemarch by George Eliot (9/27/11) [848 pages]
168. A Chapbook for Burned-Out Priests, Rabbis & Ministers by Ray Bradbury (9/28/11) [192 pages]
169. Have His Carcase by Dorothy L Sayers (10/2/11) [351 pages]
170. Olga: A Daughter's Tale by Marie-Therese Brown (10/4/11) [266 pages]
171. The Shortest Way to Hades by Sarah Caudwell (10/12/11) [207 pages]
172. Haunted Ground by Erin Hart (10/15/11) [471 pages]
173. A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler (10/17/11) [304 pages]
174. The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft (10/19/11)
175. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells (10/22/11) [189 pages]
176. A Question of Proof by Nicholas Blake (10/23/11) [232 pages]
177. To Join the Lost by Seth Steinzor (10/26/11) [213 pages] review coming soon
178. Let's All Kill Constance by Ray Bradbury (10/28/11) [210 pages]
179. Hangman's Holiday by Dorothy L Sayers (10/29/11) [191 pages]
180. Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L Sayers (11/1/11) [288 pages]
181. Hide & Seek by Wilkie Collins (11/2/11) [430 pages]
182. Blood Atonement by Dan Waddell (11/3/11) [344 pages]
183. Duplicate Death by Georgette Heyer (11/7/11) [271 pages]
184. They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer (11/9/11) [312 pages]
185. The Yellow Room Conspiracy by Peter Dickinson (11/12/11) [261 pages]
186. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford (11/19/11) [608 pages]
187. The Word for Everything by Roger Mitchell (11/19/11) [54 pages]
188. Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers (11/23/11) [383 pages]
189. The Pianist in the Dark by Michéle Halberstadt (11/23/11) [140 pages]
190. Dragons of Light by Orson Scott Care [ed] (11/24/11) [317 pages]
191. Corpus Christmas by Margaret Maron (11/25/11) [214 pages]
192. The High Crusade by Poul Anderson (11/25/11) [181 pages]
193. Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L Sayers (11/27/11) [318 pages]
194. Striding Folly by Dorothy L Sayers (11/27/11) [128 pages]
195. The Prince Lost to Time by Ann Dukthas (11/29/11) [229 pages]
196. A Family Affair by Rex Stout (12/1/11) [167 pages]
197. Donald Duck: The Lost Jungle City (12/3/11) [248 pages]
198. Batman: The Cheetah Caper (12/3/11) [248 pages]
199. In the Teeth of the Evidence by Dorothy L Sayers (12/4/11) [359 pages]
200. The Habit of Widowhood by Robert Barnard (12/4/11) [223 pages]201. The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (12/5/11) [362 pages]
202. Electric City by K. K. Beck (12/6/11) [292 pages]
203. More Holmes for the Holidays by Greenberg, Lellenberg & Waugh, eds (12/7/11) [262 pages]
204. The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum (12/10/11) [136 pages]
205. An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear (12/12/11) [303 pages]
206. A Christmas Guest by Anne Perry (12/13/11) [193 pages]
207. That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis (12/17/11) [382 pages]
208. The Praise Singer by Mary Renault (12/20/11) [256 pages]
209. Corduroy Lost & Found by Don Freeman (12/23/11) [32 pages]
210. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (12/23/11) [38 pages]
211. The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett (12/23/11) [32 pages]212. The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (12/23/11) [24 pages]
213. The Spy-Catcher Gang by John Kelly (12/24/11) [54 pages]
214. Goodnight iPad by Ann Droid (12/24/11) [25 pages]
215. Murder on Theatre Row by Michael Jahn (12/24/11) [266 pages]
216. The Hat by Jan Brett (12/25/11) [35 pages]
217. C. B. Greenfield: A Little Madness by Lucille Kallen (12/26/11) [150 pages]
218. Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women by Autumn Stephens (12/28/11) [224 pages]
219. The Chinese Bell Murders by Robert Van Gulik (12/30/11) [288 pages]220. Beware of Trains by Edmund Crispin (12/31/11) [158 pages]
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3 comments:

CMash said...

Another challenge????? How many are you up to now?? lol Knowing you, you will fly right thru 100 + books. GL I'll be cheering you on.

Bev Hankins said...

I'm a challenge-a-holic. I admit it. That's the first step right? But like I said...this isn't exactly adding any books...I'm already committed to the "Outdo Yourself Challenge" which will make me top 200 if I make it.

Birdie said...

Oh dear, I might have to do this one. I'll just also have to count books read for the diss. LOL