Buzzword Challenges

For a while now Books and Lala have sponsored the Buzzword Reading Challenge on Storygraph. The goal is pretty simple--just read one book per month which has the following prompt words in the title. And now they have added a second challenge to the mix--the Buzzword Cover Reading Challenge where you read books that have the prompts somewhere on the cover. So, of course, I'm going to do both and record them both here. Titles listed below are tentative possibilities--will update with final choice once read.

Buzzword Reading Challenge Prompts

January "Truth & Lies" (a book with "truth/true" or  "lies, liar, lying"): The Deadly Truth by Helen McCloy; My True Love Lies by Lenore Glen Offord

February Water Related Words: Death in Shallow Water by Miles Burton; Death of a Lake by Arthur W. Upfield

March "Thing" (includes "something/nothing/everything/etc"): Nothing Is the Number When You Die by Joan Fleming; Evidence of Things Seen by Elizabeth Daily; One of Those Things by Peter Cheyney

April Animals: Beagle Scented Murder by Frank Gruber; Curiosity Didn't Kill the Cat by M. K. Wren; Mystery of the Green Cat by Phyllis A. Whitney; The Cat Wears a Noose by D. B. Olsen

May "To" and "Too": Warped Factors: A Neurotic's Guide to the Universe by Walter Koenig

June Memory Related Words: Where Memories Lie by Deborah Crombie; Murders & Other Acts of Literature: Twenty-Four Unforgettable & Chilling Stories by Some of the World's Best-Loved, Most Celebrated Writers by Michele Slung, ed

July Features Punctuation: Murder's Little Helper by George Bagby; Who Benefits? by Lee Thayer

August "With": The Door With Seven Locks by Edgar Wallace; Gently With the Innocents by Alan Hunter; Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell

September Events (party/vacation/reunion/etc): Death of the Party by Leela Cutter; The Mardi Gras Murders by Gwen Bristow & Bruce Manning; Reunion with Murder by Timothy Fuller

October Violent Words (kill/death/attack/murder/etc): 'Til Death by Ed McBain; It's Raining Violence by Theodora Du Bois

November "Never": He Never Came Back by Helen McCloy; Old Students Never Die by Ivan T. Ross; They Never Looked Inside by Michael Gilbert

December Alliteration: Mystery Mile by Margery Allingham; Panic in Paradise by Alan Amos

Buzzword Cover Reading Challenge Prompts

January Features a Pattern: Poison for Teacher by Nancy Spain (stripes on the cover)

February Features a Skyline: Verses for the Dead by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child; The Mystery of Cloomber by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

March Features Books: Bodies from the Library 5 by Tony Medawar, ed; Ginny Gordon & the Lending Library by Julie Campbell

April Features an Animal: The Cat Wears a Noose by D. B. Olsen

May Features Eyes: The Black Eye by Constance & Gwenyth Little

June Features Celestial Objects: The Hijacked Moon by Thomas Brace Haughey; Goodnight, Irene by Jan Burke (moon); So Pretty a Problem by Frances Duncan (moon)

July Features Technology: The Mystery of the Screaming Clock by Robert Arthur; A Dying Fall by June Thomson; Murder Strikes an Atomic Unit by Theodora Du Bois

August Features Transportation: Death on a Summer's Day by Benedict Brown; Long Spoon Lane by Anne Perry; Drilling for Death by John Wolfe; Death at Deepwood Grange by Michael Underwood

September Features Foliage: The Missing Link by Katharine Farrer; That Affair Next Door by Anna Katharine Green

October Features a Weapon: Death in the Past by Richard A. Moore; Shear the Black Seep by David Dodge; The Juda Pair by Jonathan Gash

November Features Food &/Or Drink: The Killings at Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham (tea); The Final Ring by Marcia Blair (wine); The Black Coat by Constance & Gwenyth Little (martini)

December Features Monochromatic Color Scheme: one of the Masterpieces of Mystery set edited by Ellery Queen (all red covers)