What's In A Name Reading Challenge 2016

Link to sign-up post

Dates: January 1 - December 31, 2016
Host: Charlie @ The Worm Hole

● See my original post about the challenge HERE.
● See my wrap-up post HERE.
● See the challenge announcement/sign-up post HERE.
● See the challenge Gateway post for linking reviews HERE.


MY READING LIST (books I've read, with links to reviews):

• A country: 
• An item of clothing: 
• An item of furniture: The Clocks (Hercule Poirot #34). Agatha Christie 
• A profession: Dreaming Spies. Laurie R. King
• A month of the year: The Last September. Nina de Gramont [note to self: linked to review page 7/14/2016]
• Title with the word "tree" in it: 

Other Possibilities:

• Category 1 - A country
  The China Governess. Margery Allingham
  Death in Kenya. M.M. Kaye
  England Made Me. Graham Greene
  From Russia With Love. Ian Fleming
  Little Egypt. Lesley Glaister 


• Category 2 - An item of clothing
  Death in a White Tie. Ngaio Marsh
  The Dutch Shoe Mystery. Ellery Queen
  The Green Hat. Michael Arlen
  The Roman Hat Mystery. Ellery Queen
  The Spanish Cape Mystery. Ellery Queen


• Category 3 - An item of furniture
  The Cabinet of Curiosities. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
  The Clocks. Agatha Christie
  Isabel's Bed. Elinor Lipman
  Separate Beds. Elizabeth Buchan
  They Do It with Mirrors. Agatha Christie


• Category 4 - A profession
  The Nine Tailors. Dorothy L. Sayers
  The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. Natasha Pulley


• Category 5 - A month of the year
  August Folly. Angela Thirkell
  The Enchanted April. Elizabeth von Arnim
  July and August. Nancy Clark
  Three Junes. Julia Glass
  The Violets of March. Sarah Jio


• Category 6 - Title with the word "tree" in it
  Gently in Trees. Alan Hunter
  The Grail Tree. Jonathan Gash
  The King in the Tree: Three Novellas. Steven Millhauser
  Silver on the Tree. Susan Cooper
  The Wizard in the Tree. Lloyd Alexander

2016 Mount TBR Reading Challenge

Link to Challenge Announcement Post

Dates: January 1 - December 31, 2016
Host: Bev @ MY READER'S BLOCK

Guidelines

• Sign-up anytime before November 1, 2016.
• Choose a level of participation. Once you choose, you're locked in for at least that many books. You can increase your level; all books counted for lower levels carry over towards the new level.
• Books must be owned by you prior to January 1, 2016. No library books.
• Books can be counted for other challenges.
• Reviews aren't required, and a blog isn't necessary.
• Rereads may count (see challenge announcement page for details).
• Audiobooks and E-books may count if they are yours and they are one of your primary sources of backlogged books.
• You may count any "currently reading" book that you begin prior to January 1--provided that you had 50% or more of the book left to finish in 2015.
• "Did Not Finish" books can be counted, under some circumstances (see challenge announcement page for details).
• You can submit a list in advance, or add your books as you read them.
• There will be quarterly check-ins.

Challenge Levels:

1. Pike's Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile/s
2. Mount Blanc: Read 24 books from your TBR pile/s
3. Mt. Vancouver: Read 36 books from your TBR pile/s
4. Mt. Ararat: Read 48 books from your TBR piles/s
5. Mt. Kilimanjaro: Read 60 books from your TBR pile/s
6. El Toro: Read 75 books from your TBR pile/s
7. Mt. Everest: Read 100 books from your TBR pile/s
8. Mount Olympus (Mars): Read 150+ books from your TBR pile/s

✸ I'm signing up at the first level (Pike's Peak), so I'll be reading at least 12 books from my TBR pile.

● See my original post about the challenge HERE.
● See the challenge announcement page HERE.
● See the review pages: JAN, FEB, MAR, APR, MAY, JUN, JUL, AUG, SEP, OCT, NOV, DEC.
● See the quarterly check-in pages:

• Check Point #1 (March)
• Check Point #2 (July)
• Check Point #3 (October)
• Check Point #4 (December) 

MY READING LIST (Books I've read, with links to reviews):

1. Mrs. Malory and the Lilies That Fester (Sheila Malory series #11). Hazel Holt (2001)
2. Daisy Miller. Henry James (first published 1878)  [linked to review page 7/14/2016]
3. To Have and Have Not. Ernest Hemingway (first published 1937)  [linked to review page 7/14/2016]
4. Inkheart. Cornelia Funke (first published 2003)  [linked to review page 7/14/2016]
5. The Vanishment. Jonathan Aycliffe (1994) 
6. The Clocks (Hercule Poirot #34). Agatha Christie (1963)
7. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (Hercule Poirot #39). Agatha Christie (1975) 
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Books I'd Like to Read in 2016 (all long-time TBR titles):

• Afternoon Men. Anthony Powell
• The Art of Mending. Elizabeth Berg
• The Berlin Stories. Christopher Isherwood
• The Book of the Dead. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child 
• Busman's Honeymoon. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• The Children's Book. A.S. Byatt 
• Daisy Miller. Henry James 
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 
• The Enchanted April. Elizabeth von Arnim 
• The Europeans. Henry James 
• The Fencing Master. Arturo Pérez-Reverte 
• Five Red Herrings. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• Flaubert's Parrot. Julian Barnes 
• Foundation. Isaac Asimov 
• The Glass Room. Simon Mawer 
• Identity. Milan Kundera 
• Inkheart. Cornelia Funke
• Invitation to the Waltz. Rosamond Lehmann 
• Istanbul Passage. Joseph Kanon 
• Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte 
• July and August. Nancy Clark 
• Jumping the Queue. Mary Wesley 
• Just Kids. Patti Smith 
• Los Alamos. Joseph Kanon 
• Mrs. Malory and a Death in the Family. Hazel Holt
• Mrs. Malory and a Necessary End. Hazel Holt
• Mrs. Malory and the Lilies That Fester. Hazel Holt
• The Moonstone. Wilkie Collins 
• Murder At the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1). Agatha Christie 
• Murder Must Advertise. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• The Nine Tailors. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• Prater Violet. Christopher Isherwood 
• Prophecy. S.J. Parris 
• Providence. Anita Brookner 
• Relic. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child 
• The Road to Lichfield. Penelope Lively 
• The Secret Keeper. Kate Morton 
• Silver on the Tree. Susan Cooper 
• Time and Again. Clifford D. Simak 
• Two Serious Ladies. Jane Bowles 
• The Spoils of Poynton. Henry James 
• Unnatural Death. Dorothy L. Sayers 
• A Wreath of Roses. Elizabeth Taylor 
• The Year of Magical Thinking. Joan Didion