2021 Cloak and Dagger Reading Challenge

HOST: Carol @ Carol's Notebook

DATES: January 1 - December 31, 2021

Guidelines (quoted from challenge announcement page):

• You can read any book that is from the mystery/suspense/thriller/crime genres. Any sub-genres are welcome as long as they incorporate one of these genres.
• You don’t need a blog to participate but you do need a place to post your reviews to link up (blog, Goodreads, Instagram, etc.).
• Books need to be at least 100 pages long. Please no short stories.
• Crossovers with other challenges are fine.
• The Challenge will run from Jan. 1st to Dec. 31st. (Sign up ends March 15th.)
• There will be a monthly link-up for reviews.
  
  

Levels:

1. Amateur sleuth =  5 - 15 books
2. Detective =  16 - 25 books 
3. Inspector =  26 - 35 books 
4. Special agent =  36 - 55 books
5. Sherlock Holmes =  56+ books

I'm signing up at the "Amateur Sleuth" level (5-15 books). 

See my original post about the challenge HERE. 
See the challenge announcement/sign-up page HERE.

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

1. Nemesis (Miss Marple #11). Agatha Christie (1971) 
2. Jerusalem Inn (Richard Jury #5). Martha Grimes (1984)
3. Suspicious Death (Inspector Thanet #8). Dorothy Simpson (1988) 
4. Bryant & May: Oranges and Lemons (Peculiar Crimes Unit #17). Christopher Fowler (2021) 
5. The Clue of the Tapping Heels (Nancy Drew #16). Carolyn Keene (1939)
6. A Guilty Thing Surprised (Inspector Wexford #5). Ruth Rendell (1970)
7. Faithful Unto Death (Chief Inspector Barnaby #5). Caroline Graham (1996) 
8. The Clue in the Crumbling Wall (Nancy Drew #22). Carolyn Keene (1945)
9. The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur #2). Elly Griffiths (2021)
10. An Extravagant Death (Charles Lenox Mysteries #14). Charles Finch (2021)
11. A Body at the Tea Rooms (Kate Palmer Mysteries #3). Dee MacDonald (2021) 
12. Dead Dead Girls. Nekesa Afia (2021) 
13. Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot #17). Agatha Christie (1929)
14. Castle Shade (Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes #17). Laurie R. King (2021)
15. Killing in a Koi Pond (Murder, She Wrote #53). Terrie Farley Moran (2021) 
16. Smilla's Sense of Snow. Peter Høeg (1992) 
17. The Religious Body (Inspector Sloan #1). Catherine Aird (1966) 
18. The Hollywood Spy (Maggie Hope #10). Susan Elia MacNeal (2021) 
19. Wolf Lake (Dave Gurney #5). John Verdon (2016) 
20. The Victim in Victoria Station (Dorothy Martin #5). Jeanne M. Dams (1999)
21. The Return of the Pharaoh: From the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. (Sherlock Holmes Pastiche #5). Nicholas Meyer 
22. Bloodless (Pendergast #20). Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (2021) 
23. Plot It Yourself (Nero Wolfe #32). Rex Stout (1959) 

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2021 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge

 
HOST: Marg @ The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader.

DATES: January - December 2021

Guidelines:

• Read historical fiction. Any sub-genre of historical fiction is accepted (Historical Romance, Historical Mystery, Historical Fantasy, Young Adult, History/Non-Fiction, etc.)
• Anyone can participate. A blog isn't necessary - you can post your reviews on Goodreads, Facebook, or Amazon, or you can add your book title and thoughts in the comment section of the review link-up page.
• Monthly review link-ups will be posted. Add the link(s) of your review(s) including your name and book title to the Mister Linky.

Levels:

20th Century Reader - 2 books
Victorian Reader - 5 books
Renaissance Reader - 10 books
Medieval - 15 books
Ancient History - 25 books
Prehistoric - 50+ books

I'm signing up at the "20th Century Reader" level. 

● See my original post about the challenge HERE.
● See the challenge announcement/sign-up post HERE.  

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

1. An Extravagant Death (Charles Lenox Mysteries #14). Charles Finch (2021; set in 19th Century London and Newport, RI)
2. Dead Dead Girls (Harlem Renaissance Mystery #1). Nekesa Afia (2021; set in Harlem, NYC, 1920s) 
3. Castle Shade (Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes #17). Laurie R. King (2021; set in 1920s Romania) 
4. The Hollywood Spy (Maggie Hope #10). Susan Elia MacNeal (2021; set during WWII, in Hollywood, California) 
5. The Return of the Pharaoh: From the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. (Holmes Pastiche #5). Nicholas Meyer (2021; set in 1911 Egypt) 

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2021 Finishing the Series Reading Challenge

Hosted by: Celebrity Readers
Dates: January 1 - December 31, 2021

Guidelines:

• The challenge will run from January 1st, 2021 to December 31st, 2021.  Books must be read during this time frame to count.  Sign up is open from now until December 1st, 2021, so you may join even just for the last month of the year.
• Series can be already completed as well as still ongoing.  For ongoing series, the goal is to catch up to the most recent book published by the end of 2021.
  
• It doesn't matter if you have only 1 book or 10 books to read in order to finish your series, as long as you’ve started the series before 2021 (i.e., read at least one book in the series), it counts.  Re-reads are not required.
• Any format and length of book counts – print, ebook, audio, ARC, etc.
• Series can be any length (even if it’s just a Duet).
• Crossovers from other challenges are totally acceptable!
• Reviews are not required, but highly encouraged.

Levels:

1. C-List Series Finisher = complete 1-4 series
2. B-List Series Finisher = complete 5-8 series
3. A-List Series Finisher = complete 9+ series

I'm signing up at the "C-List" level.

● See my original post about the challenge HERE.
● See the challenge announcement/sign-up page HERE. 

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

1. Faithful unto Death (Chief Inspector Barnaby series, #5). Caroline Graham (1996)

2. Wolf Lake (Dave Gurney series, #5). John Verdon (2016) 

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Series I'd like to finish:

● Robert Langdon series, by Dan Brown (1 book left)

Origin (2017)

● The Dark Is Rising series, by Susan Cooper (1 book left)

Silver on the Tree (1977)

● Mrs. Malory Mysteries, by Hazel Holt (3 books left)

Mrs. Malory and a Death in the Family (2006)
Mrs. Malory and a Necessary End (2012)
Death Is a Word (2014)

● Dave Gurney Mysteries, by John Verdon (4 books left)

Let the Devil Sleep (2012)
Wolf Lake (2016)
White River Burning (2018)
On Harrow Hill (coming in 2021) 

● Inspector Barnaby series, by Caroline Graham (4 books left)

Death of a Hollow Man (1989)
Death in Disguise (1993)
Faithful Unto Death (1996) 
A Ghost in the Machine (2004) 

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