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 last year I upped the ante a bit to 150. That seems to be a good goal and I'm going to stick with it for 2024. Hopefully, I'll rack up more than that. But with 150 I can claim the challenge complete.
1. Death, My Darling Daughters by Jonathan Stagge (1/1/24)
2. The Emperor's Snuff Box by John Dickson Carr (1/3/24)
3. Bodies from the Library 3 by Tony Medawar, ed (1/7/24)
4. The Passenger from Scotland Yard by H. F. Wood (1/11/24)
5. The Mystery at Orchard House by Joan Coggin (1/13/24)
6. There Is a Tide by Agatha Christie (1/14/24)
7. Murder in C Major by Sara Hoskinson Frommer (1/15/24)
8. Murder by the Book by Martin Edwards, ed (1/20/24)
9. Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb (1/21/24)
10. The Cambridge Murders by Glyn Daniel (1/24/24)
11. Murder & Mendelssohn by Kerry Greenwood (1/27/24)
12. A Guilty Thing Surprised by Ruth Rendell (1/28/24)
13. Playing with Myself by Randy Rainbow (1/31/24)
14. Death Has a Small Voice by Frances & Richard Lockridge (1/31/24)
15. The Song of Roland by Anonymous; translated by Dorothy L. Sayers (2/2/24)
16. The Final Days of Abbot Montrose by Sven Elvestad (2/3/24)
17. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Nov 1965 by Ellery Queen, ed (2/4/24)
18. Inspector of the Dead by David Morrell (2/7/24)
19. Miraculous Mysteries by Martin Edwards (2/9/24)
20. Winter in June by Kathryn Miller Haines (2/12/24)
21. Gently Down the Stream by Alan Hunter (2/13/24)
22. The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa (2/14/24)
23. The Blood-Dimmed Tide by Rennie Airth (2/16/24)
24. When Blood Lies by C. S. Harris (2/18/24)
25. Ellery Queen's Anthology 1966 Mid-Year Edition by Ellery Queen, ed (2/18/24)
26. A Fete Worse Than Death by Dolores Gordon-Smith (2/20/24)
27. Man of Two Tribes by Arthur W. Upfield (2/22.24)
28. Death Takes a Bow by Frances & Richard Lockridge (2/24/24)
29. Murder After Hours (The Hollow) by Agatha Christie (2/26/24)
30. The Unicorn Murders by Carter Dickson (2/28/24)
31. The Moneypenny Diaries by Kate Westbrook (2/29/24)
32. One by One They Disappeared by Moray Dalton (3/2/24)
33. The Blue Geranium by Dolan Birkley (3/3/24)
34. Death of a Fool by Ngaio Marsh (3/4/24)
35. The Silent Speaker by Rex Stout (3/5/24)
36. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Sept 1965 by Ellery Queen, ed (3/7/24)
37. Dorothy & Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers & C. S. Lewis by Gina Dalfonzo (3/11/24)
38. Mad About the Boy? by Dolores Gordon-Smith (3/13/24)
39. Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz (3/16/24)
40. Q-Squared by Peter David (3/17/24)
41. The Philadelphia Murder Story by Leslie Ford (3/21/24)
42. Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers (3/21/24)
43 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (3/22/24)
44. Red Bones by Ann Cleeves (3/24/24)
45. Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney (3/26/24)
46. Zombies of the Gene Pool by Sharyn McCrumb (3/27/24)
47. Grand Cru Heist by Jean-Pierre Alaux & Noel Balen (3/28/24)
48. The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (3/29/24)
49. Seance for a Vampire by Fred Saberhagen (4/9/24)
50. Making It So by Patrick Stewart (4/10/24)
51. Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang (4/14/24)
52. The Puzzle of the Blue Banderilla by Stuart Palmer (4/18/24)
53. Figure Away by Phoebe Atwood Taylor (4/20/24)
54. Mystery at Greenfingers by J. B. Priestley (4/23/24)
55. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (4/24/24)
56. The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton (4/25/24)
57. Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer (4/28/24)
58. Cold Bed in the Clay by Ruth Sawtell Wallis (4/30/24)
59. Write Murder Down by Richard Lockridge (5/4/24)
60. The List of Adrian Messenger by Philip MacDonald (5/4/24)
61. Sepulchre Street by Martin Edwards (5/8/24)
62. Bodies from the Library 4 by Tony Medawar, ed (5/13/24)
63. Twice Retired by Richard Lockridge (5/17/24)
64. Crows Are Black Everywhere by Herbert O. Yardley & Carl Grabo (5/17/24)
65. The Owl in the Cellar by Margaret Scherf (5/18/24)
66. Death in Five Boxes by Carter Dickson (5/20/24)
67. Six Queer Things by Christopher St. John Sprigg (5/21/24)
68. Who Cries for the Lost by C. S. Harris (5/21/24)
69. What Cannot Be Said by C. S. Harris (5/22/24)
70. The Tenth Life by Richard Lockridge (5/23/24)
71. Amphigorey by Edward Gorey (5/24/24)
72. The New Shoe by Arthur W. Upfield (5/25/24)
73. The Mystery of the Ivory Charm by Carolyn Keene (5/25/24)
74. Murder in Brass by Lewis Padgett (5/29/24)
75. Tied Up in Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh (5/30/24)
76. The Best English Detective Stories of 1928 by Father Ronald Knox & H. Harrington (6/2/24)
77. Doom in the Midnight Sun by Eunice Mays Boyd (6.4/24)
78. The Rocksburg Railroad Murders by K. C. Constantine (6/5/24)
79. The Haunted Bridge by Carolyn Keene [Original text] (6/6/24)
80. The Haunted Bridge by Carolyn Keene [Revised text] (6/6/24)
82. Brother Sebastian at Large by Chon Day (6/8/24)
83. Old Hall, New Hall by Michael Innes (6/12/24)
84. The Phantom of Pine Hill by Carolyn Keene (6/13/24)
85. The Golden Eagle Mystery by Ellery Queen (6/14/24)
86. The Dragon Boat Mystery by John Bechtel (6/19/24)
87. A Vacation to Kill For by Eunice Mays Boyd [w/Elizabeth Aden] (6/22/24)
88. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Aug 1959 by Ellery Queen, ed (6/24/24)
89. Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout (6/25/24)
90. Still Life by Louise Penny (6/28/24)
91. The Secret of High Eldersham by Miles Burton (7/3/24)
92. The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn & Janie Chang (7/4/24)
93. It's Not Little Red Riding Hood by Josh Funk (7/4/24)
94. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Nov 1958 by Ellery Queen, ed (7/9/24)
95. Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers (7/14/24)
96. Murder on Deck! by Rosemary Herbert, ed (7/17/24)
97. Death in a Small World by Laura Colburn (7/20/24)
98. Mystery Muses by Jim Huang & Austin Lugar (7/21/24)
99. My First Murder by Susan Baker (7/21/24)
100. A Body at a Boarding School by Benedict Brown (7/23/24)
101. Passport to Crime by Janet Hutching, ed (7/28/24)
102. Murder Aboard the Flying Scotsman by Lee Strauss (7/29/24)
103. Crossed Skis by Carol Carnac (7/31/24)
104. Murder Rides the Campaign Train by The Gordons [Mildred & Gordon Gordon] (8/2/24)
105. The May Week Murders by Douglas G. Browne (8/7/24)
106. What Rhymes with Murder? by Jack Iams (8/7/24)
107. Murder at the Boat Club by Lee Strauss (8/9/24)
108. The Widow of Bath by Margot Bennett (8/18/24)
109. Dance of Death by Helen McCloy (8/21/24)
110. Castle Skull by John Dickson Carr (8/25/24)
111. The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton (8/28/24)
112. The Mirror Crack'd by Agatha Christie (8/29/24)
113. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Feb 1965 by Ellery Queen, ed (9/1/24)
114. Pieces of Justice by Margaret Yorke (9/2/24)
115. Nothing Like Blood by Leo Bruce (9/4/24)
116. Reading Up a Storm by Eva Gates (9/7/24)
117. Thin Air by Ann Cleeves (9/8/24)
118. Terrace Story by Hilary Leichter (9/10/24)
119. Kill the Boss Good-by by Peter Rabe (9/11/24)
120. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 32nd Anniversary Issue [March 1973] by Ellery Queen, ed (9/14/24)
121. The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin (9/14/24)
122. The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves (9/17/24)
123. Death in a Pheasant's Eye by James Fraser (9/19/24)
124. Think Twice by Harlan Coben (9/22/24)
125. Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers (9/24/24)
126. Wycliffe & the Guild of Nine by W. J Burley (9/29/24)
127. Coronation Year by Jennifer Robson (10/2/24)
128. The Final Deduction by Rex Stout (10/2/24)
129. The Queen's Awards 8th Series by Ellery Queen, ed (10/7/24)
130. The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff (10/10/24)
131. Never Cross a Vampire by Stuart Kaminsky (10/14/24)
132. The Mystery of the Coughing Dragon by Nick West (10/15/24)
133. Find a Crooked Sixpence by Estelle Thompson (10/16/24)
134. Wicked Uncle by Patricia Wentworth (10/22/24)
135. You'll Die Today by Marjorie J. Grove (10/24/24)
136. Murder on the Moor by C. S. Challinor (10/26/24)
137. The X'ed-Out X-ray by Ron Roy (10/26/24)
138. Eleven Came Back by Mabel Seeley (10/31/24)
139. Heberden's Seat by Douglas Clark (11/3/24)
140. Death for a Dietitian by E. X. Giroux (11/11/24)
141. The Case of the One-Penny Orange by E. V. Cunningham (11/14/24)
142. The Penny Detective by John Tallon Jones (11/17/24)
143. Nightmare at Noon by Stewart Sterling (11/20/24)
144. Only in Books by J. Kevin Graffagnino (11/24/24)
145. Scarhaven Keep by J. S. Fletcher (11/25/24)
146. Jane Withers & the Phantom Violin by Roy J. Snell (11/26/24)
147. Eight Detectives by Alex Pavesi (11/29/24)
148. Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson (12/7/24)
149. Who Rides a Tiger by Colin Robertson (12/9/24)
150. The Desert Moon Mystery by Kay Cleaver Strahan (12/14/24)
Commitment Complete!
151. The Twelve Deaths of Christmas by Marian Babson (12/16/24)
152. McKee of Centre Street by Helen Reilly (12/21/24)
153. The Clue in the Old Stagecoach by Carolyn Keene (12/22/24)
154. Death Wears a White Gardenia by Zelda Popkin (12/26/24)
155. The Cat Wears a Noose by D. B. Olsen (12/31/24)
156. Dead Man Manor by Valentine Williams (12/31/24)
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