You Read How Many Books? Challenge 2015

You Read How Many Books?
Reading Challenge

2015

Once again this year's host is Gina @ Book Dragon's Lair.  She has taken over from Amy at My Overstuffed Bookshelf with changes :-). Challenge begins January 1st, 2015 thru December 31, 2015. Books started before the 1st do not count. You can join at anytime at various levels.  Having sailed along at the 150+ level for a couple of years, I'm going to go ahead and sign up for Level 2.

Review Link

For full details and to join the fun, click on the Challenge link below the picture.

1. Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home by James Tiptree, Jr. (1/2/15)

2. Ride the Pink Horse by Dorothy B. Hughes (1/3/15)

3. The Case of the Painted Girl by Frank King (1/6/15)

4. Police Procedurals by Martin H. Greenberg & Bill Pronzini, eds (1/9/15)

5. Asimov's Choice: Black Holes & Bug-Eyed Monsters by George H. Scithers, ed (1/9/15)

6. Mother Finds a Body by Gypsy Rose Lee (1/12/15)

7. A Dead Man in Istanbul by Michael Pearce (1/14/15)

8. Alpha 2 by Robert Silverberg [ed] (1/18/15)

9. Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Revisited by Walter B. Gibson [adapted by] (1/20/15)
10. Pixie Tricks #2: The Greedy Gremlin by Tracey West (1/21/15) [review coming soon]

11. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (1/22/15)

12. Death of a Dwarf by Harold Kemp (1/25/15)
13. The Golden Slipper & Other Problems for Violet Strange by Anna Katharine Green (1/26/15)
14. A Dead Man in Trieste by Michael Pearce (1/27/15)
15. Death of a Tall Man by Frances & Richard Lockridge (1/31/15)
16. Mystery! A Celebration: Stalking Public Television's Greatest Sleuths by Ron Miller (2/3/15)
17. One Touch of Blood by Samm Sinclair Baker (2/5/15)
18. Death Over Deep Water by Simon Nash (2/8/15)
19. I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top Comics by Ritch Shydner & Mark Schiff (2/10/15)
20. Caught Dead in Philadelphia by Gillian Roberts (2/11/15)
21. Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon (2/13/15)
22. 13 Steps Down by Ruth Rendell (2/15/15)
23. A Stitch in Time by Emma Lathen (2/17/15)
24. Lost Laysen by Margaret Mitchell (2/17/15)
25. Panic by Helen McCloy (2/22/15)
26. The Secret of Magnolia Manor by Helen Wells (2/24/15)
27. The World's Best 100 Detective Stories Vol. 1 by Eugene Thwing, ed (2/26/15)
28. Into the Valley by John Hersey (2/2815)
29. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (3/2/15)
30. Death & Mr. Prettyman by Kenneth Giles (3/6/15)
31. Glenn Ford: A Life by Peter Ford (3/9/15)
32. Top of the Heap by A. A. Fair (3/11/15)
33. Night Train to Paris by Manning Coles (3/14/15)
34. The Underdog & Other Stories by Agatha Christie (3/17/15)
35. Playground of Death by John Buxton Hilton (3/18/15)
36. The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum (3/22/15)
37. Malice Domestic by Sara Woods (3/26/15)
38. Murder Fantastical by Patricia Moyes (3/29/15)
39. Dine & Be Dead by Gwendoline Butler (3/29/15)
40. The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovesey (4/1/15)
41. Poison Jasmine by Clyde B. Clason (4/5/15)
42. The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey by John Dickson Carr (4/8/15)
43. The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle (4/12/15)
44. Murder in the Wind by John D. MacDonald (4/13/15)
45. Flying to Nowhere by John Fuller (4/14/15)
46. RFK His Life & Death by Editors of American Heritage (4/15/15)
47. The Ringmaster's Secret by Carolyn Keene (4/16/15)
48. The Cavalier in White by Marcia Muller (4/18/15)
49. The Wilberforce Legacy by Josephine Bell (4/19/15)
50. The Smiler with the Knife by Nicholas Blake (4/21/15)
51. Safari by Parnell Hall (4/21/15)
52. Call for Michael Shayne by Brett Halliday (4/22/15)
53. The Adventure of the Three Students by Doyle; adapted by Vincent Goodwin (4/23/15)
54. The Case of Colonel Marchand by E. C. R. Lorac (4/27/15)
55. The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards (5/5/15)
56. The Eye in the Museum by J. J. Connington (5/8/15)
57. Spock, Messiah! by Theodore R. Cogswell & Charles A. Spano, Jr. (5/8/15)
58. Dead Lion by John & Emery Bonett (5/13/15)
59. The Great Dinosaur Robbery by David Forrest (5/15/15)
60. The Three Fears by Jonathan Stagge (5/17/15)
61. Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison (5/21/15)
62. Gods of Gold by Chris Nickson (5/23/15)
63. Deep Lake Mystery by Carolyn Wells (5/25/15)
64. Bones in the Barrow by Josephine Bell (5/29/15)
65. The Abominable Man by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (5/29/15)
66. The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov (5/31/15)
67. Penny Allen & the Mystery of the Hidden Treasure by Jean McKechnie (5/31/15)
68. Double Cross Purposes by Ronald A. Knox (6/3/15)
69. The Darling Dahlias & the Cucumber Tree by Susan Wittig Albert (6/5/15)
70. Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever (Original Teleplay) by Ellison, Adapted by Scott & David Tipton (6/5/15)
71. The Line-Up by Helen Reilly (6/8/15)
72. Falling Star by Patricia Moyes (6/12/15)
73. The Diamond-Studded Typewriter by Carlton Keith (6/14/15)
74. The Riddle of the Traveling Skull by Harry Stephen Keeler (6/21/15)
75. The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie (6/22/15)
76. Whisper Murder! by Vera Kelsey (6/24/15)
77. The Humphrey Bogart Murder Case by George Baxt (6/26/15)
78. Murder on Her Mind by Vechel Howard (6/27/15)
79. The Summer School Mystery by Josephine Bell (6/29/15)
80. The Turquoise Shop by Frances Crane (7/3/15)
81. Grammy Lamby & the Secret Handshake by Kate and M. Sarah Klise (7/3/15)
82. Young Mrs. Cavendish & the Kaiser's Men by K. K. Beck (7/4/15)
83. Hand of Fate by Michael Underwood (7/5/15)
84. The Case of the Borrowed Brunette by Erle Stanley Gardner (7/6/15)
85. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (7/8/15)
86. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov (7/8/15)
87. The Crime & the Crystal by Elizabeth Ferrars (7/9/15)
88. The Lack of the Irish by Ralph McInerny (7/11/15)
89. Murder Past Due by Miranda James (7/13/15)
90. The Witch & the Hysteric by Alexander Doty & Patricia Clare Ingham (7/14/15)
91. Resorting to Murder by Martin Edwards, ed (7/18/15)
92. The British Invasion by Barry Miles (7/20/15)
93. Two & Two Make Twenty-Two by Gwen Bristow & Bruce Manning (7/23/15)
94. Shadow of a Doubt by June Thomson (7/27/15)
95. The Bookfair Murders by Anna Porter (7/29/15)
96. The Penny Murders by Lionel Black (7/31/15)
97. The Avenging Parrot by Anne Austin (8/3/15)
98. Conundrums for the Long Week-End by Robert Kuhn McGregor & Ethan Lewis (8/7/15)
99. The Old Die Young by Richard Lockridge (8/9/15)
100. The Cases of Susan Dare by Mignon G. Eberhart (8/10/15)
101.  Antony & Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (8/12/15)
102. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (8/16/15)
103. Ringworld by Larry Niven (8/20/15)
104. Keep Cool, Mr. Jones by Timothy Fuller (8/24/15)
105. Death in Kashmir by M. M. Kaye (8/25/15)
106. Glass on the Stairs by Margaret Scherf (8/27/15)
107. Jewelled Eye by Douglas Clark (9/1/15)
108. Murder by Death by Henry Keating (9/2/15)
109. The Fourteen Dilemma by Hugh Pentecost (9/3/15)
110. The Giver by Lois Lowry (9/4/15)
111. The Stowmarket Mystery by Louis Tracy (9/5/15) [336 pages]
112. The Brandeburg Hotel by Pauline Glen Winslow (9/7/15) 
113. The Bat Flies Low by Sax Rohmer (9/10/15)
114. Swing Low, Sweet Harriet by George Baxt (9/13/15)
115. The Albert Gate Mystery by Louis Tracy (9/14/15)
116. Briar Rose by Jane Yolen (9/14/15)
117. The Gay Phoenix by Michael Innes (9/15/15)
118. Some Buried Caesar by Rex Stout (9/17/15)
119. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (9/19/15)
120. Black Alibi by Cornell Woolrich (9/23/15)
121. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (9/23/15)
122. The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl (9/25/15)
123. Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters (9/28/15)
124. Death Dines Out by Theodora Du Bois (9/30/15)
125. The Red Box by Rex Stout (10/3/15)
126. At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie (10/6/15)
127. Happiness Is a Warm Corpse as edited by Alfred Hitchcock (10/7/15)
128. Paris in the Twentieth Century by Jules Verne (10/11/15)
129. The Ghost Writer by John Harwood (10/16/15)
130. The HItchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (10/20/15)
131. Ax by Ed McBain (10/21/15)
132. A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict by John Baxter (10/24/15)
133. Murder on Cue by Jane Dentinger (10/27/15)
134. There Hangs a Knife by Marcia Muller (10/29/15)
135. The Vanishing Corpse by Ellery Queen (10/31/15)
136. Murder in the Hellfire Club by Donald Zochert (11/3/15)
137. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson (11/4/15)
138. Xenogenesis Book 1: Dawn by Octavia Butler (11/5/15)
139. In Spite of Thunder by John Dickson Carr (11/7/15)
140. Murder with a Twist by Tracy Kiely (11/8/15)
141. The Bobbsey Twins' Search in the Great City by Laura Lee Hope (11/10/15)
142. The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts (11/14/15)
143. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (11/15/15)
144. Call for the Dead by John le Carré (11/18/15)
145. Perpetual Check by Conrad Haynes (11/20/15)
146. Murder at the ABA by Isaac Asimov (11/23/15)
147. Chef Maurice & a Spot of Truffle by J. A. Lang (11/24/15)
148. Auggie Wren's Christmas Story by Paul Auster (11/25/15)
149. A Question of Identity by June Thomson (11/27/15)
150. The Two Tickets Puzzle by J. J. Connington (11/30/15)
151. The Santa Klaus Murder by Mavis Doriel Hay (12/2/15)
Challenge Complete
152. The Corpse & 3 Ex-Husbands by Sue McVeigh (12/5/15)
153. The Monday Theory by Douglas Clark (12/7/15)
154. The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula LeGuin (12/9/15)
155. The Chuckling Fingers by Mabel Seeley (12/12/15)
156. Game Without Rules by Michael Gilbert (12/14/15)
157. The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit by Ray Bradbury (12/15/15)
158. Cold Poison by Stuart Palmer (12/18/15)
159. The Valley of Fear by Doyle graphic novel reworked by Ian Edginton & I. N. J. Culbard (12/20/15)
160. Body of Opinion by Susannah Stacey (12/26/15)
161. Three Doors to Death by Rex Stout (12/28/15)
162. The Angel Doll by Jerry Bledsoe (12/29/15)
163. The Labor Day Murder by Lee Harris (12/30/15)
164. The Cashmere Kid by B. (Barbara) Comfort (12/31/15)