2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Books for 2020 Mystery Challenge: Just the Facts, Ma'am
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Great challenge. I will try to do all 60 :)
As I found out some 5 minutes ago, I will have to think about what to read (but I am planning to (re) read lots of Agatha Christie books).

Progress: 16/60

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#42

Planned: 8/9
Progress: 6/9

1. Poetry: The Rose That Grew from Concrete
2. Self-help: Lightly: How to Live a Simple, Serene, and Stress-Free Life
3. Children's literature, YA fiction: The Phantom Tollbooth
4. History and true crime: Buried Deep
5. Fiction: Convenience Store Woman
6. Thriller: IJsengel
7. Mystery: THE LAVENDER LADY a one-off spooky mystery full of twists
8. Nonfiction: Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
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*Classics
*Fantasy, epic fantasy, high/low fantasy, historical fantasy, urban fantasy
*Folktales, fairytales, and their retellings
*Hobbies & crafts
*Myths, legends, and their retellings
*Science and technology
*Science fiction, dystopian literature, cli-fi, space opera
*Travelogues
*Westerns
*Special super-duper bonus prompt: Read a book set in a bookshop or about a bookshop owner.

Monthly:

January: All the Light We Cannot See

Books for Listopia - 2020
Message #50

I'm in for 50 books:

Read 8/50

20 books from Cozy Mystery Series - First Book of a Series

1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
2. The Crossing Places
3. Louisiana Longshot
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15 books from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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5 books from Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once

1. The Complete Sherlock Holmes
2. The Phantom Tollbooth
3. All the Light We Cannot See
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Lists to check:

1. Best Fantasy Books
2. Best Crime & Mystery Books
3. BBC Top 200 Books (43/200)
4. The Golden Age Queens of Crime: Christie -- Sayers -- Marsh -- Allingham -- Wentworth
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Books for Serial reader 2020
Message #93

Count me in.
I will read at least 100 books that are part of a series.
How I will do it I will think of later :)

Progress 45/100.

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Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Books
✓ The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
The Murder on the Links (1923)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
The Big Four (1927)
The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
Peril at End House (1932)
Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
Three Act Tragedy (1935)
Death in the Clouds (1935)
The A.B.C. Murders (1936)
Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
Cards on the Table (1936)
Dumb Witness (1937)
Death on the Nile (1937)
Appointment with Death (1938)
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938)
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940)
Sad Cypress (1940)
Evil Under the Sun (1941)
Five Little Pigs (1942)
The Hollow (1946)
Taken at the Flood (1948)
Mrs. McGinty's Dead (1952)
After the Funeral (1953)
Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
Dead Man's Folly (1956)
Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
The Clocks (1963)
Third Girl (1966)
Hallowe'en Party (1969)
Elephants Can Remember (1972)
Curtain (1975)
The Monogram Murders (2014)

Publication Order of Hercule Poirot Collections
Poirot Investigates (1924)
Murder in the Mews (1937)
The Labours of Hercules (1947)
Poirot's Early Cases (1974)

Publication Order of Miss Marple Books
The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
The Body in the Library (1942)
The Moving Finger (1942)
A Murder is Announced (1950)
They Do It with Mirrors (1952)
A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
4:50 From Paddington (1957)
The Mirror Crack'd (1962)
A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
Nemesis (1971)
Sleeping Murder (1976)

Publication Order of Miss Marple Collections
The Thirteen Problems (1932)
Miss Marple's Final Cases (1979)

Publication Order of Tommy and Tuppence Books
The Secret Adversary (1922)
N or M? (1941)
By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968)
Postern of Fate (1973)

Publication Order of Tommy and Tuppence Collections
Partners in Crime (1929)

Publication Order of Superintendent Battle Books
The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
Cards on the Table (1936)
Murder is Easy (1939)
Towards Zero (1944)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)
Giant's Bread (1930)
The Sittaford Mystery (1931)
Unfinished Portrait (1934)
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1934)
And Then There Were None (1939)
Absent in the Spring (1944)
Death Comes as the End (1944)
Sparkling Cyanide (1945)
The Rose and the Yew Tree (1948)
Crooked House (1949)
They Came to Baghdad (1951)
A Daughter's a Daughter (1952)
Destination Unknown (1954)
The Burden (1956)
Ordeal by Innocence (1958)
The Pale Horse (1961)
Endless Night (1967)
13 at Dinner (1969)
Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)
The Murder at Hazelmoor (1984)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The Mysterious Mr. Quin (1930)
The Hound of Death (1933)
The Listerdale Mystery (1934)
Parker Pyne Investigates (1934)
The Regetta Mystery and Other Stories (1939)
The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (1948)
Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950)
The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951)
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)
Double Sin and Other Stories (1961)
Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories (1965)
The Golden Ball and Other Stories (1974)
Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991)
The Harlequin Tea Set (1997)
While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997)

I will again read at least 50 or ore books for 2020. (I also signed up for the page count group).

This is my favorite quote of all time! I hope it brings you luck with your reading in 2020!

Happy New Year, and good luck with your goal in 2020!