Reading by the Numbers 2023: My Sign-Up

 

The Reading by the Numbers Challenge is the reading challenge at its most basic--just track everything you read. Anything counts--graphic novels or comic books, hard copy, e-books, audio novels, etc. If it is a book, it counts. And although the covers shown in the challenge image are all mysteries, you may read from any and all genres that interest you. Just set a goal and when January 1 comes around, start reading.

I blew by my goal of 100 in 2022, so I'm going to up the ante a bit for 2023 and go for 150. Hopefully, I'll rack up more than that. But with 150 I can claim the challenge complete.

 

1. Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (1/1/23)

2. The White Priory Murders by Carter Dickson (1/7/23)

3. Beauty Marks the Spot by Kelley Roos (1/7/23)

4. The Becket Factor by Michael David Anthony (1/9/23)

5. The Dante Game by Jane Langton (1/13/23)

6. Swing Low, Swing Death by R. T. Campbell (1/17/23)

7. Hopeland (aka Skippy Dies part one) by Paul Murray (1/19/23)

8. The Angry Heart by Leslie Edgley (1/21/23)

9. A Gentleman's Murder by Christopher Huang (1/22/23)

10. Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper (1/23/23)

11. Mysterious Invitation by Bernice Bloom (1/27/23)

12. The Crimson Clue by George Harmon Coxe (1/30/23)

13. Madeline & the Gypsies by Ludwig Bemelmans (1/30/23)

14. Wings Above the Diamantina by Arthur W. Upfield (2/3/23)

15. Here Come the Dead by Robert Portner Koehler (2/5/23)

16. Garden of Deadly Delights by Cynthia Manson [ed] (2/7/23)

17. Murder R.F.D. by Leslie Stephan (2/9/23)

18. The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian (2/12/23)

19. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries by various (2/15/23)

20. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Jan. 1996 [appears on Goodreads] (2/16/23)

21. Bats in the Belfry by E.C.R. Lorac (2/19/23)

22. Heart of the Sun by Pamela Sargent & George Zebrowski (2/19/23)

23. Phi Beta Murder by C. S. Challinor (2/20/23)

24. The Fear Sign by Margery Allingham (2/22/23)

25. My Pocket Meditations for Self-Compassion by Courtney E. Ackerman (2/22/23)

26. Looking for a Jumbie by Tracey Baptiste (2/22/23)

27. It Walks by Night by John Dickson Carr (2/24/23)

28. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (2/27/23)

29. The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien (2/27/23)

30. The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie (2/28/23)

31. The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie (3/1/23)

32. Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler (3/4/23)

33. Dead Wake by Erik Larson (3/4/23)

34. Towards Zero by Agatha Christie (3/5/23)

35. The Black Cat Murders by Karen Baugh Menuhin (3/7/23)

36. Number One Is Walking by Steve Martin (3/9/23)

37. The Woman in the Picture by John August (3/10/23)

38. Tintin in America by Hergé  (3/10/23)

39. Sidney Chambers & the Perils of the Night by James Runcie (3/11/23)

40. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (3/14/23)

41. Dead, Mr. Mozart by Bernard Bastable (3/15/23)

42. A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie (3/17/23)

43. Blood on the Tracks by Martin Edwards, ed (3/20/23)

44. Sabriel by Garth Nix (3/21/23)

45. Bony & the Kelly Gang by Arthur W. Upfield

46. Beyond by Theodore Sturgeon (3/26/23)

47. The Genesis Secret by Tom Knox (3/29/23)

48. Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn (3/30/23)

49. Speakers of the Dead by J. Aaron Sanders (4/1/23)

50. Where Serpents Sleep by C. S. Harris (4/2/23)

51. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold (4/4/23)

52. Gone West by Carola Dunn (4/6/23)

53. Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield (4/7/23)

54. Fatal Enquiry by Will Thomas (4/9/23)

55. Danger at the Drawbridge by Mildred A. Wirt (4/10/23)

56. Nine--And Death Makes Ten by Carter Dickson (4/11/23)

57. And So to Murder by Carter Dickson (4/12/23)

58. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott (4/14/23)

59. Inquest by Percival Wilde (4/15/23)

60. Murder in Miniatures by Sam Merwin, Jr. (4/15/23)

61. Death Demands an Audience by Helen Reilly (4/17/23)

62. In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (4/18/23)

63. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (4/20/23)

64. Silent Witness by Margaret Yorke (4/22/23)

65. Pride of the Peacock by Victoria Holt (4/23/23)

66. Packing My Library by Alberto Manguel (4/26/23)

67. The Cave of Time by Edward Packard (4/26/23)

68. Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (4/27/23)

69. The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits by Mike Ashley, ed. (4/30/23)

70. Jimmie Dale & the Blue Envelope Murder by Frank L. Packard (5/1/23)

71. The Gentle Hangman by James M. Fox (5/3/23)

72. Nala's World by Dean Nicholson (5/6/23)

73. The End of the Alphabet by C. S. Richardson (5/7/23)

74. Mystery of the Hidden Hand by Phyllis A. Whitney (5/7/23)

75. Death Turns the Tables by John Dickson Carr (5/9/23)

76. The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley (5/11/23)

77. The Four False Weapons by John Dickson Carr (5/12/23)

78. The Beauty Queen Killer by John Creasey (5/14/23)

79. Tom O'Bedlam by Robert Silverberg (5/16/23)

80. Murder in Burgundy by Audrey Peterson (5/17/23)

81. Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson (5/19/23)

82. Line-Up by John Rhode, ed (5/22/23)

83. Blackstone Fell by Martin Edwards (5/23/23)

84. Murder & Blueberry Pie by Frances & Richard Lockridge (5/25/23)

85. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Oct 1965 edited by Clayton Rawson (5/29/23)

86. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (5/26/23)

87. Murder Is Suggested by Frances & Richard Lockridge (6/1/23)

88. The Curriculum Murders by Marlis Day (6/6/23)

89. Family Skeletons by Rett MacPherson (6/7/23)

90. Murder Is Pathological by P. M. Carlson (6/8/23)

91. 52 Miles to Terror by Ruth Christoffer Carlsen & G. Robert Carlsen (6/9/23)

92. And Be a Villain by Rex Stout (6/9/23)

93. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (6/10/23)

94. Death Among Friends & Other Detective Stories by Cyril Hare (6/12/23)

95. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (6/15/23)

96. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine July 1958 by Ellery Queen, ed (6/16/23)

97. Everything I Needed to Know I Learned from a Little Golden Book by Diane Muldrow (6/1/23)

98. 6 X H by Robert A. Heinlein (6/19/23)

99. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (6/19/23)

100. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Feb 1961 (6/21/23)

101. Murder, London--New York by John Creasey (6/22/23)

102. Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers (6/22/23)

103. Inspector West Kicks Off by John Creasey (6/23/23)

104. The Distant Hours by Kate Morton (6/29/23)

105. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (6/30/23)

106. The Figure in the Dusk by John Creasey (7/2/23)

107. The Birthday Murder by Lange Lewis (7/3/23)

108. Who Cries for the Lost by C. S. Harris (7/4/23)

109. The Frightened Pigeon by Richard Burke (7/5/23)

110. I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay by Harlan Ellison & Isaac Asimov (7/5/23)

111. See Also Murder by Larry D. Sweazy (7/7/23)

112. Slay Bells by Eunice Mays Boyd (7/7/23)

113. Juggernaut by Alice Campbell (7/11/23)

114. Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott (7/16/23)

115. The Final Appointment by Marcia Blair (7/16/23)

116. Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers (7/17/23)

117. Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers (7/20/23)

118. What Remains of Heaven by C. S. Harris (7/23/33)

119. Where Shadows Dance by C. S. Harris (7/23/23)

120. When Maidens Mourn by C. S. Harris (7/24/23)

121. The Private Wound by Nicholas Blake (7/25/23)

122. What Darkness Brings by C. S. Harris (7/26/23)

123. Soldiers Don't Go Mad by Charles Glass (7/28/23)

124. The Bell in the Fog by John Stephen Strange (7/29/23)

125. Why Kings Confess by C. S. Harris (7/31/23)

126. The Body in the Cast by Katherine Hall Page (8/1/23)

127. Ashes to Ashes by Emma Lathen (8/3/23)

128. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally (8/6/23)

129. 12 Impossible Daredevil Stunts by Samantha S. Bell (8/7/3)

130. The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan D/oyle (8/9/23)/

131. Who Buries the Dead by C. S. Harris (8/10/23)

132. In the Shadow of Agatha Christie by Leslie S. Klinger (8/12/23)

133. The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell (8/13/23)

134. The Alarm of the Black Cat by D. B. Olsen/Dolores Hitchens (8/14/23)

135. The Mystery of the Yellow Hands by Jake & Luke Thoene (8/16/23)

136. Psycho by Robert Bloch (8/18/23)

137. When Falcons Fall by C. S. Harris (8/21/23)

138. The Widening Stain by W. Bolingbroke Johnson [Morris Bishop] (8/24/23)

139. Where the Dead Lie by C. S. Harris (8/24/23)

140. The World's Best One Hundred Detective Stories by Eugene Thwing, ed (8/26/23)

141. Why Kill the Innocent by C. S. Harris (8/26/23)

142. Birthday Party Murder by Leslie Meier) (8/27/23)

143. Who Slays the Wicked by C. S. Harris (8/29/23)

144. The Art of the Mystery Story by Howard Haycraft, ed (8/29/23)

145. Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie (8/31/23)

146. Beverly Gray on a Treasure Hunt by Clair Blank (8/31/23)

147. The Case Against Paul Raeburn by John Creasey (9/1/23)

148. The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier (9/2/23)

149. Who Speaks for the Damned by C. S. Harris (9/5/23)

150. Holding by Graham Norton (9/5/23)

Commitment Complete! Still Reading

151. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (9/9/23)

152. What the Devil Knows by C. S. Harris (9/9/23)

153. Borkmann's Point by Hakan Nesser (9/10/23)

154. The Covenant of the Crown by Howard Weinstein (9/12/23)

155. Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie (9/16/23)

156. Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson (9/18/23)

157. Hemlock Hollow by Culley Holderfield (9/19/23)

158. The Man in the Cellar by Palle Rosenkrantz (9/20/23)

159. Who Is Simon Warwick? by Patricia Moyes (9/22/23)

160. Nemesis by Agatha Christie (9/23/23)

161. Pax by Sara Pennypacker (9/25/23)

162. The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman (9/28/23)

163. Depart This Life by E. X. Ferrars (9/30/23)

164. They Called Us Enemy by George Takei et al (9/30/23)

165. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (10/2/23)

166. Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan (10/6/23)

167. Murder on the Purple Water by Frances Crane (10/8/23)

168. While the Clock Ticked by Franklin W. Dixon (10/9/23)

169. What Happened at Hazelwood? by Michael Innes (10/14/23)

170. Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery as ed. by Alfred Hitchcock (ed. by Robert Arthur) (10/16/23)

171. Hopjoy Was Here by Colin Watson (10/17/23)

172. Death & Chicanery by Philip MacDonald (10/19/23)

173. The Will of the Tribe by Arthur W. Upfield (10/21/23)

174. Body Blow by Kenneth Hopkins (10/22/23)

175. Secret of the Old Post Box by Dorothy Sterling (10/22/23)

176. The War of the Worlds Murder by Max Allan Collins (10/24/23)

177. Death & the Conjuror by Tom Mead (10/26/23)

178. The Floating Lady Murder by Daniel Stashower (10/28/23)

179. Uncoffin'd Clay by Gladys Mitchell (11/2/23)

180. Black Friday by David Goodis (11/3/23)

181. The Red Death Murders by Jim Noy (11/6/23)

182. Murder for Two by George Harmon Coxe (11/9/23)

183. The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace (11/10/23)

184. Fear Nothing Vol 1 by Dean Koontz (11/12/23)

185. Only the Good by Mary Collins (11/12/23)

186. You'll Be the Death of Me by Miriam Lynch (11/13/23)

187. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien (11/16/23)

188. Death of a Doll by Hilda Lawrence (11/17/23)

189. A Most Efficient Murder by Anthony Slayton (11/18/23)

190. Vultures in the Sky by Todd Downing (11/22/23)

191. The Professor Knits a Shroud by Wirt Van Arsdale (11/26/23)

192. Murder in Mayfair by D. M. Quincy (11/29/23)

193. Murder in Bloomsbury by D. M. Quincy (11/30/23)

194. The Toff & the Runaway Bride by John Creasey (12/2/23)

195. The Mystery of the Silver Spider by Robert Arthur (12/3/23)

196. Murder on Fifth Avenue by Michael Jahn (12/6/23)

197. The Clue in the Jewel Box by Carolyn Keene (12/7/23)

198. Sound of Revelry by Octavus Roy Cohen (12/10/23)

199. Blind Man's Bluff by Baynard Kendrick (12/12/23--finished; review coming 12/16/23 for ROY Awards)

200. John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles by Douglas G. Green (12/19/23)

201. The Mistletoe Murders & Other Stories by P. D. James (12/20/23)

202. The Quest of the Missing Map by Carolyn Keene (12/22/23)

203. Murder Is a Collector's Item by Elizabeth Dean (12/30/23)

204. The Secret in the Old Attic by Carolyn Keene (12/30/23)

205.