Monday, December 23, 2013

Challenge Complete: 52 Books in 52 Weeks

January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2013
I joined Robin over at My Two Blessings for another round of 52 Books in 52 Weeks and just finished my last book for the challenge.  Just a few more challenges to go (I need to read eight more books!) and I'll be completely done with my list for the year.

Here are my books for 2013:
1. A Dark & Stormy Night by Jeanne M. Dams (1/4/13)
2. The Man Who Went up in Smoke by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö  (1/8/13) 
3. The Corpse in St. James's by Jeanne M. Dams (1/13/13)
4. The Web Between the Worlds by Charles Sheffield (1/21/13)
5. India Black & the Shadows of Anarchy by Carol K. Carr (1/29/13)
6. The Cavalier's Cup by Carter Dickson (2/5/13)
7. Unnatural Habits by Kerry Greenwood (2/11/13)
8. Parlor Games by Maryka Biaggio (2/18/13)   
9. The Other Side of Tomorrow by Roger Elwood, ed (2/28/13)
10. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (3/6/13)
11. The Perfect Landscape by Ragna Sigurdardottir (3/12/13)
12. Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams (3/19/13)  
13. Sally's in the Alley by Norbert Davis (3/25/13)
14. A Spoonful of Sugar: A Nanny's Story by Brenda Ashford (4/3/13)  
15. In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff (4/9/13) 
16. The Mountains Have a Secret by Arthur W. Upfield (4/16/13) 
17. Holiday Homicide by Rufus King (4/23/13) 
18. Death Has Green Fingers by Lionel Black (4/30/13) 
19. The Talking Sparrow Murders by Darwin L. Teilhet (5/6/13) 
20. Finding Camlann by Sean Pidgeon (5/18/13)
21. Sleep No More by Margaret Erskine (5/21/13)
22. The Curse of the Bronze Lamp by Carter Dickson (5/27/13)
23. The Secret History by Donna Tartt (6/4/13) 
24. The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (6/12/13)
25. Break Any Woman Down by Dana Johnson (6/17/13) 
26. Death in Zanzibar by M. M. Kaye (6/25/13) 
27. The Mummy Case Mystery by Dermot Morrah (7/3/13) 
28. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (7/8/13)
29. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (7/16/13)
30. London Particular (aka Fog of Doubt) by Christianna Brand (7/22/13)
31. The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers (7/31/13) 
32. The Scarlet Macaw by S. P. Hozy (8/10/13) 
33. The Monster of Florence by Magdalen Nabb (8/17/13) 
34. Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (8/20/13)
35. Poems & Prose by Christina Rosetti (8/27/13) 
36. This New & Poisonous Air by Adam McOmber (9/3/13) 
37. The Yard by Alex Grecian (9/9/13) 
38. The Temple of Death by A. C. & R. H. Benson (9/16/13) 
39. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (9/24/13) 
40. The Yellow Violet by Frances Crane (9/30/13) 
41. The Haunted Dolls' House by M. R. James (10/9/13) 
42. Murder at Cambridge by Q. Patrick (10/15/13)
43. Laddie: A True Blue Story by Gene Stratton-Porter (10/22/13)
44. Once Upon a Crime by M. D. Lake (10/28/13) 
45. Shell Game by Richard Powell (11/4/13) 
46. Evidence of Things Seen by Elizabeth Daly (11/12/13)
47. The Dorothy Parker Murder Case by George Baxt (11/19/13) 
48. The Tragedy of X by Barnaby Ross (Ellery Queen) [11/25/13] 
49. The Tragedy of Z by Barnaby Ross (Ellery Queen) [12/3/13]
50. Maigret's Christmas by Georges Simenon (12/12/13) 
51. A Habit for Death by Chuck Zito (12/17/13)
52. Ransom Game by John Buxton Hilton (12/23/13)

3 comments:

LuAnn @ BackPorchervations said...

Congratulations, Bev. That's quite an accomplishment!

J F Norris said...

Now there's a challnege that I could easily have finished. To be honest 52 books in a year is not at all a challange to me (Oops. Is that gloating?), bu tI know it would be an immense feat for a lto of people. I'm sure you must've doubled the grand total for Books Read in 2013.

My total, BTW, was 103 completely finished out of 125 attempted. I'm afraid I'm one of those who throws in the towel if a book fails to excite me. I abandoned 22 books for one reason or another this year. Some of those 22 were just set aside and I do plan to finish them.

Bev Hankins said...

John, you should join us for the 52 in 52 for 2014! I'm still reading for 2013 (madly trying to cram 7 more books into 4 more days so I can finish my last three challenges). I've got to make 181 books to do that.