2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Best of luck, Gretchen :)

I hope you go beyond your 75 book resolution! Best of Luck!

118/80 I originally had 75 but have increased to 80.

January 2021

1. Wolfhunter River
2. Rage
3. Big Little Lies
4. The Housekeeper
5. Photographing the Dead
6. The Praying Mantis
7. In the Heart of the Fire
8. The Mercy of Snakes
9. Red Rain
10. Memories of Tomorrow
11. The Eighth Sister
12. Over the Top
13. Naked in Death
14. The Last Agent

February 2021
15. The Tracker
16. Deadly Cry
17. Too Much and Never Enough
18. The Last Trial
19. Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse
20. The Professor
21. The War that Saved My Life
22. Between Black and White

March 2021
23. The Crucifix Killer
24. Dark Sky
25. Hell Hath No Fury
26. The Killer's Wife
27. The #1 Ladies Detective Agency
28. Fer de Lance
29. Win
30. First Grave on the Right
31. No Truth without Ruth

April 2021
32. The Wolf at the Door
33. Where the Sidewalk Ends
34. Black Coral
35. Island of the Blue Dolphins
36. Ricochet Joe
37. A Minute to Midnight
38. Educated
39. The Princess Bride
40. Messenger
41. Ocean Prey

May 2021
42. One Good Deed
43. The Book Case
44. This is the Fire
45. The Defendants
46. The Answer is...
47. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
48. The Whisperers
49. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
50. Twisted Lies
51. In Her Tracks
52. Odd Thomas

June 2021
53. Forever Odd
54. Brother Odd
55. The Cold Dish
56. The Academy
57. A Cold Trail
58. Death Without Company
59. The Passage
60. Calypso
61. The Twelve
62. It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership
63. The lost Soul of the City
64. Gentle is the Angel of Death

July 2021
65. When You are Engulfed in Flames
66. Kaleidoscope
67. Corkscrew
68. Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not
69. Zero In
70. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
71. Later
72. The City of Mirrors
73. Dull Knife
74. A Quiet End (Radiant Angel)
75. This Tender Land
76. The Black Book
77. Yearbook
78. On Tyranny
79. Holidays on Ice
80. The Other Emily
81. The Panther
82. Where the Crawdads Sing

August 2021
83. St. Benet's
84. The Red Book
85. Triptych
86. Cop Town
87. Rendezvous

September 2021
88. A is for Alibi
89. Until Proven Guilty
90. Fear Your Enemy
91. D is for Deadbeat
92. C is for Corpse
93. Open Season
94. F is for Fugitive
95. Snatched
96. Kisscut
97. E is for Evidence
98. B is for Burglar
99. Savage Run

October 2021
100. G is for Gumshoe
101. H is for Homicide
102. One Dog Night
103. I is for Innocent
104. K is for Killer
105. A Killer's Wife
106. The Pearl
107. A Darkness More than Night
108. A Time to Kill
109. Out of Range
110. J is for Judgment
111. Ordinary Grace
112. A Carnival of Snackery
113. Daughter of the Morning Star
114. L is for Lawless



November 2021


December 2021

I am struggling to find interest in books this year. As an alternative, I have turned to audiobooks. Did you know it is a challenge to listen to books and do crossword puzzles at the same time? I am having a hard time focusing on one book at a time. This struggle to focus is caused by many personal and professional distractions. Ugh. I will carry on so get my 80 books completed. Reading what others have completed is inspiring. Thanks for that

I'm not surprised you are having difficulty focusing if listening to an audiobook and doing a crossword at the same time! I often play a game such as Solitaire on the iPad while listening to an audiobook but never attempt a crossword at the same time. I'm sure that would fry whatever brain cells I have left if i did that! However, I do Cryptic Crosswords and that takes all of my little grey cells and often need the help of my husband! Good luck with your reading challenge.

Dorothy wrote: "I'm not surprised you are having difficulty focusing if listening to an audiobook and doing a crossword at the same time! I often play a game such as Solitaire on the iPad while listening to an aud..."

Thanks 🙂

#80; 114/80