Barb’s Comments (group member since Jun 02, 2012)

Barb’s comments from the The Lost Challenges group.

Finished

STAND ALONE CHALLENGE, 4/1 - 4/30

SOLITARY: Read 5-6 books
1. The Bordeaux Book Club, by Gillian Harvey, finished 4/4/26 ★★★.5
2. The Coworker, by Freida McFadden, finished 4/10/26 ★★★.5
3. Every Note Played, by Lisa Genova, finished 4/12/26 ★★★★
4. The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future, by Jon Gertner, finished 4/15/26 ★★★★
5. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, by Erik Larson, finished 4/18/26 ★★★★
6. Brain: An Owner’s Guide, by Elizabeth R. Ricker, finished 4/19/26 ★★★

Finished

TLC APRIL LISTENER, 4/1 - 4/30

1. Paradise Lost (Joanna Brady #9), by J.A. Jance, finished 4/2/26 ★★★★
2. The Bordeaux Book Club, by Gillian Harvey, finished 4/4/26 ★★★.5
3. Graveyard Dust (Benjamin January #3), by Barbara Hambly, finished 4/5/26 ★★★★
4. Chilled to the Cone (Bakeshop #12), by Ellie Alexander, finished 4/7/26 ★★★★
5. Slow Dollar (Deborah Knott #9), by Margaret Maron, finished 4/8/26 ★★★★
6. Dictator (Cicero #3), by Robert Harris, finished 4/11/26 ★★★★
7. Sunny Side Up (Aloha Chicken #6), by Josi Avari, finished 4/13/26 ★★★★
8. Blood Orange (China Bayles #24), by Susan Wittig Albert, finished 4/14/26 ★★★★
9. The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future, by Jon Gertner, finished 4/15/26 ★★★★
10. From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View #1), by Elizabeth Schaefer, editor, finished 4/16/26 ★★★★
11. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, by Erik Larson, finished 4/18/26 ★★★★
12. Brain: An Owner’s Guide, by Elizabeth R. Ricker, finished 4/19/26 ★★★

Thanks :)

Sounds like a lot of fun :) The spending limit per visit seems a bit unfair. Guess they expect you to spend more than $15 and have to pay the difference.

Finished

DELICIOUS BUNDT CAKES, no deadline
30/30 COMPLETE
Find the first letter of each title word in the cake names below. 3-word minimum, all words AND SUBTITLES count. Hyphenated words count as one word.

1. CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER BUNDT CAKE
City of Darkness and Light (Molly Murphy #13), by Rhys Bowen, finished 2/4/26 ★★★.5

2. LEMON SOUR CREAM CAKE
Absence of Mallets (Fixer-Upper #9), by Kate Carlisle, finished 3/12/26 ★★★★

3. KEY LIME BUNDT CAKE
Death in the Margins (Blue Ridge Library #7), by Victoria Gilbert, finished 3/1/26 ★★★★

4. BANANA BUNDT CAKE WITH BROWN SUGAR GLAZE
The Dead Shall Not Rest (Dr. Thomas Silkstone #2), by Tessa Harris, finished 3/8/26 ★★★

5. ROOT BEER FLOAT CAKE
The Apothecary Rose (Owen Archer #1), by Candace Robb, finished 2/5/26 ★★★.5

6. PINEAPPLE UPSIDE-DOWN BUNDT CAKE
Death at the Dog Show (Getaway Bay #4), by Grace York, finished 3/20/26 ★★★.5

7. PUMPKIN BUNDT CAKE
Make No Bones (Gideon Oliver #7), by Aaron Elkins, finished 2/16/26 ★★★★

8. CRACK CAKE (EASY RECIPE) |
Something’s Knot Kosher (Quilting #4), by Mary Marks, finished 3/18/26 ★★★★

9. SWEET POTATO POUND CAKE
The Shape of Dread (Sharon McCone #9), by Marcia Muller, finished 2/22/26 ★★★★

10. LEMON BLUEBERRY BUNDT CAKE
Death at the Manor (Lily Adler #3), by Katharine Schellman, finished 3/3/26 ★★★.5

11. KENTUCKY BUTTER CAKE
Chilled to the Cone (Bakeshop #12), by Ellie Alexander, finished 4/7/26 ★★★★

12. CHOCOLATE KAHLUA CAKE
Assailants, Asphalt and Alibis (Camper & Criminals #8), by Tonya Kappes, finished 3/19/26 ★★★.5

13. SOCK IT TO ME CAKE
The Carnival Murders (Tate & Bell #7), by Irina Shapiro, finished 2/15/26 ★★★★

14. BACARDI RUM CAKE
Kaua’i Me a River (Islands of Aloha #4), by JoAnn Bassett, finished 2/8/26 ★★★.5

15. CHERRY ALMOND BUNDT CAKE
The House at Devil’s Neck (Spector Locked-Room #4), by Tom Mead, finished 2/17/26 ★★★★

16. CHEESECAKE SWIRL CARROT BUNDT CAKE
Strangeways to Oldham (Belchester Chronicles #1), by Andrea Frazer, finished 4/5/26 ★★★

17. RED VELVET BUNDT CAKE
The Leper’s Bell (Sister Fidelma #14), by Peter Tremayne, finished 3/10/26 ★★★★

18. COCONUT CREAM BUNDT CAKE
The Bush Tea Murder, by Ashley-Ruth Bernier, finished 4/1/26 ★★★.5

19. EASY ORANGE CAKE
A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell #9), by Deanna Raybourn, finished 2/9/26 ★★★★

20. TOO MUCH CHOCOLATE CAKE
The Key to Murder (Old Maids of Mercer Island #5), by Lynn Bohart, finished 3/29/26 ★★★★

21. PISTACHIO CAKE
Cast Iron Alibi (Vintage Kitchen #9), by Victoria Hamilton, finished 2/23/26 ★★★★

22. LOUISIANA CRUNCH CAKE
Offstage in Nuala (Inspector de Silva #3), by Harriet Steel, finished 2/10/26 ★★★★

23. SEVEN-UP CAKE
Every Note Played, by Lisa Genova, finished 4/11/26 ★★★★

24. PERFECT LEMON RICOTTA BUNDT CAKE
Beatrice Ophelia is Flickering Out, by Megan Gerig, finished 3/7/26 ★★★

25. CHOCOLATE CHIP BUNDT CAKE
Death of a Bacon Heiress (Hayley Powell #7), by Lee Hollis, finished 2/28/26 ★★★★

26. STICKY TOFFEE BUNDT CAKE
Death Beside the Seaside (Lady Hardcastle #6), by T.E. Kinsey, finished 3/9/26 ★★★★

27. TIRAMISU BUNDT CAKE
Murder Takes the Stage (Phyllida Bright #4), by Colleen Cambridge, finished 2/27/26 ★★★★

28. EASY HOMEMADE FUNFETTI BUNDT CAKE
A Fine and Bitter Snow (Kate Shugak #12), by Dana Stabenow, finished 2/19/26 ★★★★

29. TEXAS SHEET CAKE BUNDT CAKE
Curses, Boiled Again! (Lobster Shack #1), by Shari Randall, finished 4/3/26 ★★★.5

30. HOMEMADE STRAWBERRY BUNDT CAKE RECIPE
A Baffling Murder at the Midsummer Ball (Dizzy Heights #2), by T.E. Kinsey, finished 2/20/26 ★★★★

* indicates a cozy mystery

✔ Threadbare, by Monica Ferris
T = author Tess Gerritsen – The Summer Guests (Martini Club #2), finished 10/21/25 ★★★★
H = author Tony Hillerman – The Fallen Man (Leaphorn & Chee #12), finished 9/15/25 ★★★★
R = author [author Robert Dugoni|63650] – The Conviction (David Sloane #5), finished 11/21/25 ★★★★
E = author Elton John – Farewell Yellow Brick Road, finished 1/2/26 ★★★★
A = author Lauren Aguirre – The Memory Thief: The Secrets Behind How We Remember, finished 9/4/25 ★★★★
D = author Donna Ball – Silent Night (Raine Stockton #5), finished 11/17/25 ★★★★
B = * Batter Off Dead (Southern Cake Baker #2), by Maymee Bell, finished 7/9/25 ★★★.5
A = * author Ashley Weaver – Death Wears a Mask (Amory Ames #2), finished 9/6/25 ★★★★
R = * Retriever Ransom (Pet Whisperer P.I. #10), by Molly Fitz, finished 12/28/25 ★★★.5
E = author J.R. Ellis – The Murder at Redmire Hall (Yorkshire #3), finished 1/5/26 ★★★★


✔ Unleashed, by Laurien Berenson
U = Under the Color of Law (Kevin Kerney #6), by Michael McGarrity, finished 11/18/25 ★★★★
N = Nash Falls (Walter Nash #1), by David Baldacci, finished 10/17/25 ★★★★
L = author Donna Leon – Quietly in Their Sleep (Commissario Brunetti #6), finished 10/29/25 ★★★★
E = author Elizabeth J. Duncan – Murder is for Keeps (Penny Brannigan #8), finished 12/23/25 ★★★★
A = * author Annie Adams – Perilous Arrangements (Flower Shop #5), finished 9/22/25 ★★★★
S = The Star from Calcutta (Perveen Mistry #5), by Sujata Massey, finished 10/19/25 ★★★★
H = Homecoming, by Kate Morton, finished 9/20/25 ★★★
E = * author Ellie Alexander – A Very Novel Murder (Novel Detectives #1), finished 12/30/25 ★★★★
D = * author Danielle Garrett – The Ghost Hunter Next Door (Beechwood Harbor Ghost #1), finished 11/22/25 ★★★.5

✔ A Vintage Death, by Mary Ellen Hughes
A = * author Allison Brook – Death on Dickens Island (Books on the Beach #1), finished 10/2/25 ★★★.5
V = * A Villa in Sicily: Olive Oil and Murder (Cats & Dogs #1), by Fiona Grace, finished 9/28/25 ★★★.5
I = author Irina Shapiro – Murder on the Prince Regent (Tate & Bell #6), finished 10/11/25 ★★★★
N = * All My Bones (Old Juniper Bookstore #2), by P.J. Nelson, finished 10/27/25 ★★★.5
T = author Anne Svedrup-Thygeson – Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects, finished 11/2/25 ★★★★
A = author Ann Cleeves – Blue Lightning (Shetland #4), finished 10/9/25 ★★★★
G = * A Gala Event (Orchard #9), by Sheila Connolly, finished 9/24/25 ★★★★
E = Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing, finished 1/12/26 ★★★★
D = The Deepest Cut (Monkeewrench #11), by P.J. Tracy, finished 11/9/25 ★★★★.5
E = Everyone in This Bank is a Thief (Ernest Cunningham #4), by Benjamin Stevenson, finished 1/23/26 ★★★★
A = author Ashely Alker, M.D. – 99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them, finished 11/24/25 ★★★★
T = author Tilar J. Mazzeo – The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love and Adventure at the Bottom of the World, finished 11/3/25 ★★★★
H = Heather Webber – The Forget-Me-Not Library, finished 10/18/25 ★★★★

✔ War and Peach, by Susan Furlong
W = author Jacqueline Winspear – A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs #8), finished 11/27/25 ★★★★
A = * author Susan Wittig Albert – Bittersweet (China Bayles #23), finished 10/16/25 ★★★★
R = * author Ross Montgomery – The Murder at World’s End (Stockingham & Pike #1), finished 12/10/25 ★★★★
A = * author Alyssa Maxwell – Murder at the Breakers (Gilded Newport #1), finished 11/1/25 ★★★.5
N = author Natalia Holt – The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History, finished 10/12/25 ★★★★
D = * author Maria DiRico – It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder (Catering Hall #3), finished 11/8/25 ★★★★
P = * author Penny Brooke – Murder in the Library (Word Travels Mobile Bookshop #1), finished 9/22/25 ★★★★
E = * author [Elizabeth Penney|7877413] – Chapter and Curse (Cambridge Bookshop #1), finished 12/18/25 ★★★
A = * author Josi Avari – Home to Roost (Aloha Chicken #5), finished 11/5/25 ★★★★
C = * author Vivien Chien – Fatal Fried Rice (Noodle Shop #7), finished 11/16/25 ★★★★
H = author Henry Louis Gates, Jr. – Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy and the Rise of Jim Crow, finished 10/14/25 ★★★★

✔ The Xibalba Murders, by Lyn Hamilton
THE XIBALBA MURDERS
T = Tidings of Joy (Christmas in Evergreen #3), by Nancy Naigle, finished 11/13/25 ★★★.5
H = High Country (Anna Pigeon #12), by Nevada Barr, finished 10/24/25 ★★★★
E = author Aaron Elkins – Make No Bones (Gideon Oliver #7), finished 2/16/26 ★★★★
X = * author Diana Xarissa – Anxious in Nevada (Midlife Crisis #1), finished 3/4/26 ★★★★
I = Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness, by Pete Fromm, finished 11/5/25 ★★★★
B = * author Martha Bond – Murder in Venice (Lottie Sprigg 1920s Travel #1), finished 10/26/25 ★★★.5
A = author Annette Dashofy – Bridges Burned (Zoe Chambers #3), finished 11/28/25 ★★★★
L = Labyrinth (FBI #23), by Catherine Coulter, finished 11/15/25 ★★★★
B = author Marie Benedict and author Victoria Christopher Murray – The Personal Librarian, finished 10/28/25 ★★★.5
A = * author Donna Andrews – Lark! The Herald Angels Sing (Meg Langslow #24), finished 12/3/25 ★★★★
M = * Mocha and Murder (Killer Coffee #2), by Tonya Kappes, finished 11/29/25 ★★★.5
U = The Unkindness of Ravens (Greer Hogan #1), by M.E. Hilliard, finished 12/20/25 ★★★.5
R = author Rebecca Philipson – How to Get Away with Murder, finished 1/9/26 ★★★.5
D = * Death by Crockpot (Kissing Bridge #1), by Linda West, finished 12/5/25 ★★★
E = Effigies (Faye Longchamp #3), by Mary Anna Evans, finished 2/24/26 ★★★★
R = * author Rhys Bowen – City of Darkness and Light (Molly Murphy #13), finished 2/4/26 ★★★.5
S = * Sleighed! (Loser’s Club #4), by Yvonne Vincent, finished 11/23/25 ★★★

✔ Yeast of Eden, by Sarah Fox
Y = author Sarah Yarwood-Lovett – A Cast of Falcons (Nell Ward #2), finished 5/21/25 ★★★.5
E = * Eyelet Witness (Bonnie & Clyde #4), by Julie Anne Lindsey, finished 3/10/26 ★★★★
A = * author A.R. Winters – A Berry Deadly Welcome (Kylie Berry #1), finished 9/9/25 ★★★
S = The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance, by Mensun Bound, finished 9/7/25 ★★★★
T = author Will Thomas – The Limehouse Text (Barker & Llewelyn #3), finished 11/6/25 ★★★★
O = On Animals, by Susan Orlean, finished 11/19/25 ★★★★
F = A Ferry Merry Christmas, by Debbie Macomber, finished 10/5/25 ★★★★
E = * author Ellie Alexander – Beer and Loathing (Sloan Krause #6), finished 3/20/26 ★★★★
D = * author Maddie Day – Murder Uncorked (Cece Barton #1), finished 10/15/25 ★★★.5
E = * author Ellie Alexander – A Death in the Dark (Novel Detectives #2), finished 3/27/26 ★★★.5
N = * Newlyweds Can Be Knocked Off (Amish Matchmaker #6), by Amanda Flower, finished 9/18/25 ★★★★

✔ The Zombie Ball, by John Gaspard
T = The Tainted Coin (Hugh de Singleton #5), by Mel Starr, finished 11/12/25 ★★★★
H = * author Darci Hannah – Murder at the Christmas Cookie Bake-Off (Beacon Bakeshop #2), finished 9/3/25 ★★★.5
E = * author Ellen Crosby – The Sauvignon Secret (Wine Country #6), finished 4/6/26 ★★★.5
Z = The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery, by Siddharth Kara, finished 9/17/25 ★★★★
O = * author Carlene O’Connor – Murder in an Irish Cottage (Irish Village #5), finished 1/15/26 ★★★★
M = author Marie Benedict – The Queens of Crime, finished 11/10/25 ★★★.5
B = Baby Doll Games (Sigrid Harald #5), by Margaret Maron, finished 8/12/25 ★★★★
I = In on the Joke: The Original Queens of Stand-Up Comedy, by Shawn Levy, finished 10/3/25 ★★★.5
E = * author Ellie Alexander – Chilled to the Cone (Bakeshop #12), finished 4/7/26 ★★★★
B = * author Julia Buckley – Pudding Up with Murder (Undercover Dish #3), finished 9/26/25 ★★★.5
A = * And Then There Was the One, by Martha Waters, finished 9/14/25 ★★★.5
L = author Judy Leigh – Golden Girls on the Run, finished 11/11/25 ★★★.5
L = author Vanessa Lafaye – Miss Marley, finished 11/12/25 ★★★.5

* indicates a cozy mystery

✔ No Cats Allowed, by Miranda James
N = * No Stone Unturned (Lucy Lawrence #1), by Pam Lecky, finished 6/27/25 ★★★.5
O = One Greek Sunrise, by Mandy Baggot, finished 8/22/25 ★★★.5
C = * Cat Got Your Cash (Kitty Couture #2), by Julie Chase, finished 10/13/25 ★★★.5
A = Any Other Name (Walt Longmire #10), by Craig Johnson, finished 8/6/25 ★★★★
T = author Katie Tietjen – Murder in Miniature (Maple Bishop #2), finished 8/26/25 ★★★★
S = * Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes (Savvy Summers #1), by Sandra Jackson-Opoku, finished 6/15/25 ★★★.5
A = author Anna Lee Huber – Mortal Arts (Lady Darby #2), finished 8/14/25 ★★★★
L = A Lady Compromised (Rosalind Thorne #4), by Darcie Wilde, finished 9/8/25 ★★★★
L = author Judy Leigh – A Year of Mr. Maybes, finished 9/21/25 ★★★★
O = * author Carlene O’Connor – Murder in an Irish Pub (Irish Village #4), finished 9/1/25 ★★★★
W = author Wes Markin – The Viaduct Killings (Yorkshire Murders #1), finished 8/25/25 ★★★.5
E = * author Eryn Scott – Littered with Trouble (Whiskers & Words #1), finished 8/30/25 ★★★★
D = * author Maddie Day – Murder at the Lobstah Shack (Cozy Capers Book Group #3), finished 9/11/25 ★★★★

✔ Off Kilter, by Hannah Reed
O = author Olivia Hayfield – Queen, King, Ace, finished 7/28/25 ★★★
F = * author Sarah Fox – The Malt in Our Stars (Literary Pub #3), finished 5/25/25 ★★★★
F = * author Janet Finsilver – Murder at Redwood Cove (Kelly Jackson #1), finished 6/21/25 ★★★★
K = author Vaseem Khan – Midnight at Malabar House (Malabar House #1), finished 9/19/25 ★★★★
I = * In Hot Water (Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade #3), by J.J. Cook, finished 9/5/25 ★★★★
L = * author Lucy Burdette – The Key Lime Crime (Key West Food Critic #10), finished 7/26/25 ★★★★
T = Total Recall (V.I. Warshawski #10), by Sara Paretsky, finished 8/10/25 ★★★★
E = * author Ellie Alexander – Nothing Bundt Trouble (Bakeshop #11), finished 9/10/25 ★★★★
R = author M.J. Rose and author Steve Berry – The Lake of Learning (Cassiopeia Vitt #3), finished 8/19/25 ★★★.5

✔ Pancakes and Corpses, by Agatha Frost
P = * Poison & Pooches, by Sandra Balzo, finished 9/9/25 ★★.5
A = author Alexander McCall Smith – The Department of Sensitive Crimes (Detective Varg #1), finished 8/16/25 ★★★
N = author Paul C. Nelson – Saving Worms After the Rain, finished 8/5/25 ★★★.5
C = * author Kate Carlisle – Premeditated Mortar (Fixer-Upper #8), finished 10/20/25 ★★★★
A = author Margaret Atwood – My Evil Mother, finished 8/19/25 ★★★.5
K = author Jeffrey Kluger – Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon – The Untold Story, finished 9/30/25 ★★★★
E = author Ellis Peters – The Pilgrim of Hate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #10), finished 10/26/25 ★★★★
S = author Spencer Quinn – Bow Wow (Bower & Birdie #3), finished 7/12/25 ★★★.5
A = Agent 355, by Marie Benedict, finished 8/19/25 ★★★.5
N = author Nic Saint – Purrfectly Deadly (Mysteries of Max #2), finished 8/12/25 ★★★.5
D = * A Dog Detective Short Story Collection, by Sandra Baublitz, finished 9/13/25 ★★★
C = author Claire Kells – Vanishing Edge (National Parks #1), finished 10/31/25 ★★★★
O = Old God’s Time, by Sebastian Barry, finished 10/5/25 ★★★
R = * Revenge, Served Royal (Lady Petra Inquires #3), by Celeste Connally, finished 10/22/25 ★★★★
P = * Privy to the Dead (Museum #6), by Sheila Connolly, finished 9/12/25 ★★★★
S = * Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests, by K.J. Whittle, finished 8/18/25 ★★★.5
E = * Embroidered Truths (Needlecraft #9), by Monica Ferris, finished 11/14/25 ★★★★
S = Short Tails: Chet & Bernie Short Stories, by Spencer Quinn, finished 8/19/25 ★★★★

✔ Queen of Hearts, by Rhys Bowen
Q = * author Spencer Quinn – Mrs. Plansky Goes Rogue (Mrs. Plansky #2), finished 6/10/25 ★★★★
U = The Useful Book: 201 Life Skills They Used to Teach in Home Ec and Shop, by Sharon and David Bowers, finished 6/30/25 ★★★
E = author Erin Moore – That’s Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us, finished 9/13/25 ★★★★
E = author Ellie Alexander – A Cozy Kind of Christmas,finished 10/4/25 ★★★.5
N = * author Jo Nichols – The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective, finished 8/3/25 ★★★.5
O = author Olivia Ford – Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame, finished 8/9/25 ★★★★
F = * author Sarah Fox – Yeast of Eden (Pancake House #4), finished 6/29/25 ★★★★
H = * author Traci Hall – Murder in a Scottish Shire (Scottish Shire #1), finished 8/29/25 ★★★.5
E = author Ellie Alexander – Clued in to Love, finished 10/6/25 ★★★.5
A = The Alehouse Murders (Templar Knight #1), by Maureen Ash, finished 8/5/25 ★★★.5
R = author Rex Stout – Too Many Cooks (Nero Wolfe #5), finished 10/1/25 ★★★★
T = author Peter Tremayne – Badger’s Moon (Sister Fidelma #13), finished 8/20/25 ★★★★
S = author Christopher Sandford – The Man Who Would Be Sherlock: The Real Life Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle, finished 6/11/25 ★★★

✔ Reel of Fortune, by Jana Deleon
R = * author Robin Paige – Death at Rottingdean (Kathryn Ardleigh #5), finished 10/25/25 ★★★★
E = * author Eve Calder – A Tale of Two Cookies (Cookie House #3), finished 11/20/25 ★★★★
E = Exit Strategy (Murderbot Diaries #4), by Martha Wells, finished 12/11/25 ★★★★
L = * author Catherine Lloyd – Death Comes to the Village (Kurland St. Mary #1), finished 10/15/25 ★★★.5
O = author Richard Osman – The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club #5), finished 8/15/25 ★★★★
F = author Mariah Fredericks – The Girl in the Green Dress, finished 7/11/25 ★★★.5
F = * The French Bookshop Murder, by Greg Mosse, finished 8/8/25 ★★★
O = Old Girls Go Greek, by Maddie Please, finished 10/23/25 ★★★★
R = author Taylor Jenkins Reid – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, finished 10/30/25 ★★★★
T = * author Tonya Kappes – Hitches, Hideouts & Homicides (Camper & Criminals #7), finished 9/26/25 ★★★.5
U = Unwrapped (South Pole Santa #4), by Jinglebelle Jackson, finished 11/7/25 ★★★.5
N = The Nantucket Inn (Nantucket Beach Plum Cove #1), by Pamela M. Kelly, finished 8/30/25 ★★★★
E = * author Earlene Fowler – Seven Sisters (Benni Harper #7), finished 12/13/25 ★★★★

✔ Sealed Off, by Barbara Ross
S = * author Susan M. Boyer – Big Trouble on Sullivan’s Island (Carolina Tales #1), finished 8/28/25 ★★★.5
E = * author Ellen Byron – Crescent City Christmas Chaos (Vintage Cookbook #4), finished 10/10/25 ★★★★
A = author Abigail Keam – Murder Under a Silver Moon (Mona Moon #4), finished 8/23/25 ★★★★
L = The Last Spirits of Manhattan, by John A. McDermott, finished 9/23/25 ★★★.5
E = * author E.J. Copperman – All Spooked Up, finished 10/10/25 ★★★.5
D = author Jana Deleon – Swamp Spook (Miss Fortune #13), finished 10/1/25 ★★★★
O = * author Olivia Blacke – Death at the Door (Ruby & Cordelia #2), finished 10/7/25 ★★★★
F = * author Fiona Veitch Smith – The Kill Fee (Poppy Denby #2), finished 9/16/25 ★★★.5
F = Flash of Brilliance (Dogleg Island #3), by Donna Ball, finished 9/27/25 ★★★★

* indicates a cozy mystery

✔ Hard Boiled, by Josi Avari
H = Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope #6), by Ann Cleeves, finished 7/13/25 ★★★★
A = * author Agatha Christie – The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot #2), finished 7/20/25 ★★★.5
R = Rumble on the Bayou, by Jana Deleon, finished 6/28/25 ★★★★
D = author Dorothy L. Sayers – Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey #2), finished 7/18/25 ★★★★
B = * Beef Stolen-Off (Jordan McAllister #2), by Liz Lipperman, finished 5/24/25 ★★★.5
O = On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done, by David Badre, finished 5/26/25 ★★★.5
I = author Irina Shapiro – Murder on Platform Four (Tate & Bell #5), finished 7/3/25 ★★★★
L = Land of Careful Shadows (Jimmy Vega #1), by Suzanne Chazin, finished 4/28/25 ★★★.5
E = author Elizabeth Peters – A River in the Sky (Amelia Peabody #19), finished 6/2/25 ★★★★
D = author Debbie Clarke Moderow – Fast Into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail, finished 7/29/25 ★★★★

✔ Ink and Shadows, by Ellery Adams
I = * Inherit the Word (Cookbook Nook #2), by Daryl Wood Gerber, finished 6/21/25 ★★★★
N = * No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding (Vacation Mysteries #2), by Catherine Mack, finished 4/25/25 ★★★
K = * author Kirsten Weiss – Planet of the Grapes (Wits’ End #2), finished 4/21/25 ★★★.5
A = * author Susan Wittig Albert – The Darling Dahlias and the Unlucky Clover (Darling Dahlias #7), finished 7/2/25 ★★★.5
N = * Nail Biter (Home Repair is Homicide #9), by Sarah Graves, finished 5/12/25 ★★★★
D = * Death of a Cozy Writer (St. Just #1), by G.M. Malliet, finished 8/1/25 ★★★
S = author Susan Elia MacNeal – The Hollywood Spy (Maggie Hope #10), finished 5/23/25 ★★★★
H = author Tony Hillerman – Sacred Clowns (Leaphorn & Chee #11), finished 5/13/25 ★★★★
A = author Michiko Aoyama – What You are Looking For is in the Library, finished 7/22/25 ★★★★
D = author Dean Buonomano – Brain Bugs: How the Brain’s Flaws Shape Our Lives, finished 8/17/25 ★★★.5
O = Old Girls Behaving Badly (Old Girls #1), by Kate Galley, finished 5/22/25 ★★★.5
W = * What the Cat Dragged In (Cat in the Stacks #14), by Miranda James, finished 4/18/25 ★★★★
S = author Sam Kean – Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists are Recreating the Sights, Smells and Tastes of Lost Civilizations, finished 6/7/25 ★★★★

✔ Jingle Bell Bark, by Laurien Berenson
J = * author Jacqueline Frost – Stalking Around the Christmas Tree (Christmas Tree Farm #4), finished 11/4/25 ★★★★
I = author Iva-Marie Palmer – Christmas People, finished 8/27/25 ★★★.5
N = author Nick Jans – A Wolf Called Romeo, finished 6/6/25 ★★★★
G = * Gone But Knot Forgotten (Quilting #3), by Mary Marks, finished 7/15/25 ★★★★
L = * Live and Let Chai (Seaside Café #1), by Bree Baker, finished 7/21/25 ★★★.5
E = * Edam and Weep (Grilled Cheese #6), by Linda Reilly, finished 7/13/25 ★★★★
B = * Breaking the Mould (Vintage Kitchen #8), by Victoria Hamilton, finished 6/14/25 ★★★★
E = * author Ellen Byron – Fatal Cajun Festival (Cajun Country #5), finished 7/23/25 ★★★★
L = * author Lee Strauss – Murder at Kensington Gardens (Ginger Gold #6), finished 8/16/25 ★★★★
L = * author Laurie Cass – Book ’Em, Eddie (Bookmobile Cat #13), finished 8/21/25 ★★★★
B = author Jon Burlingame – Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring, finished 6/28/25 ★★★
A = * author Victoria Abbott – The Sayers Swindle (Book Collector #2), finished 7/30/25 ★★★
R = author Deanna Raybourn – A Sinister Revenge (Veronica Speedwell #8), finished 8/13/25 ★★★★
K = * author Korina Moss – Cheddar Off Dead (Cheese Shop #1), finished 6/19/25 ★★★.5

✔ A Killer Clue, by Victoria Gilbert
A = author Archer Mayor – Fall Guy (Joe Gunther #33), finished 7/27/25 ★★★★
K = Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic, by Simon Winchester, finished 7/25/25 ★★★.5
I = * In the Time of Five Pumpkins (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #26), by Alexander McCall Smith, finished 9/2/25 ★★★★
L = author Janet Lembke – Because the Cat Purrs: How We Relate to Other Species and Why it Matters, finished 6/19/25 ★★.5
L = * author Julie Anne Lindsey – Murder by the Seaside (Patience Price #1), finished 7/6/25 ★★★★
E = * author Ellen Byron – Solid Gold Murder (Golden Motel #2), finished 7/2/25 ★★★★
R = * author Rhys Bowen – Crowned and Dangerous (Her Royal Spyness #10), finished 8/7/25 ★★★★
C = * Cutie Pies and Deadly Lies (Murder in the Mix #1), by Addison Moore, finished 9/29/25 ★★★.5
L = * author Lee Hollis – Death of a Cupcake Queen (Hayley Powell #6), finished 7/19/25 ★★★★
U = Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness, by Nathanael Johnson, finished 5/27/25 ★★★★
E = author Elizabeth Comen – All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today, finished 7/4/25 ★★★★

✔ Lending a Paw, by Laurie Cass
L = Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books, by Kirsten Miller, finished 4/29/25 ★★★.5
E = The Echo of Old Books, by Barbara Davis, finished 6/12/25 ★★★★
N = * Not They Who Soar (Katharine Wright #2), by Amanda Flower, finished 5/4/25 ★★★★
D = * Double Shot (Top Shelf #4), by Lolli Powell, finished 6/24/25 ★★★★
I = In the Middle of Hickory Lane, by Heather Webber, finished 6/23/25 ★★★★
N = author Norman Russell – An Antique Murder (Oldminster Mysteries #2), finished 5/27/25 ★★★★
G = The Ghost Walker (Wind River Reservation #2), by Margaret Coel, finished 7/5/25 ★★★★
A = * author Agatha Frost – Lemonade and Lies (Peridale Café #2), finished 6/18/25 ★★★★
P = * author Gigi Pandian – Quicksand (Jaya Jones #3), finished 7/24/25 ★★★★
A = All Roads Lead to Murder (Old Maids of Mercer Island #4), by Lynn Bohart, finished 6/26/25 ★★★★
W = author Jacqueline Winspear – The Mapping of Love and Death (Maisie Dobbs #7), finished 6/22/25 ★★★★

✔ Mallets Aforethought, by Sarah Graves
M = author Michael McGarrity – The Judas Judge (Kevin Kerney #5), finished 6/29/25 ★★★★
A = * author J.B. Abbott – Picking Up the Pieces, finished 8/2/25 ★★★
L = author Judy Leigh – The Silver Ladies Seize the Day, finished 5/17/25 ★★★★
L = The List, by Steve Berry, finished 6/9/25 ★★★★
E = * author Ellery Adams – The Tattered Cover (Secret, Book & Scone Society #8), finished 8/11/25 ★★★★
T = * Triple Shot (Maggy Thorsen #7), by Sandra Balzo, finished 7/5/25 ★★★
S = Spirit of Steamboat (Walt Longmire #9.1), by Craig Johnson, finished 6/13/25 ★★★★
A = author Amanda Peters – The Berry Pickers, finished 8/4/25 ★★★★
F = * author Freya Sampson – The Busybody Book Club, finished 5/6/25 ★★★.5
O = author Paul A. Offit – Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong, finished 6/17/25 ★★★★
R = * Recipes for Love & Murder (Tannie Maria #1), by Sally Andrew, finished 9/25/25 ★★★.5
E = * author Erica Wynters – Marigolds, Mischief and Murder (Camelot Flowers #1), finished 8/24/25 ★★★.5
T = author Sherry Thomas – The Librarians, finished 7/7/25 ★★★.5
H = * author Sherry Harris – From Beer to Eternity (Chloe Jackson #1), finished 7/14/25 ★★★★
O = Of Time and Turtles, by Sy Montgomery, finished 7/17/25 ★★★★
U = Under a Greek Sun, by Mandy Baggot, finished 5/10/25 ★★★.5
G = author Daryl Wood Gerber – Murder by the Millions (Literary Dining #2), finished 10/8/25 ★★★★
H = The Hidden City (Charles Lenox #12), by Charles Finch, finished 7/31/25 ★★★★
T = author Jodi Taylor – The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal, finished 7/8/25 ★★★★

Finished

A-Z COZY SPELL, no deadline
* indicates a cozy mystery

✔ Access Denied, by Donna Andrews
A = Acqua Alta (Commissario Brunetti #5), by Donna Leon, finished 4/20/25 ★★★★
C = * A Case of Conspiracy in Clerkenwell (Freddy Pilkington-Soames #3), by Clara Benson, finished 4/19/25 ★★★★
C = * author Vivien Chien – Killer Kung Pao (Noodle Shop #6), finished 5/9/25 ★★★★
E = * author Eryn Scott – Matcha Do About Murder (Pebble Cove Teahouse #2), finished 4/18/25 ★★★★
S = * author Meeti Shroff-Shah – A Mumbai Murder Mystery (Temple Hill #1), finished 4/12/25 ★★★★
S = * author Paula Sutton – The Potting Shed Murder (Hill House Vintage #1), finished 5/1/25 ★★★.5
D = The Dolce Vita Divas, by Maddie Please, finished 4/9/25 ★★★.5
E = author Mari K. Eder – The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line, finished 4/22/25 ★★★★
N = author Nancy Naigle – To Light the Way Forward (Shell Collector #2), finished 4/2/25 ★★★.5
I = * In the Beginning, There Was a Murder (Miss Riddell #1), by P.C. James, finished 4/1/25 ★★★
E = * author Elizabeth Penney – Bodies and Battlements (Ravensea Castle #1), finished 4/24/25 ★★★.5
D = * author Karen Dukess – Welcome to Murder Week, finished 5/18/25 ★★★.5

✔ Back Stabbers, by Julie Mulhern
B = Blood Hollow (Cork O’Connor #4), by William Kent Krueger, finished 4/3/25 ★★★★
A = author Sarah Addison Allen – First Frost (Waverly Family #2), finished 4/19/25 ★★★★
C = * The Chocolate Frog Frame-Up (Chocoholic #3), by JoAnna Carl, finished 6/18/25 ★★★
K = * author Sofie Kelly – Sleight of Paw (Magical Cats #2), finished 4/15/25 ★★★.5
S = The Singing of the Dead (Kate Shugak #11), by Dana Stabenow, finished 4/17/25 ★★★★
T = * author Tonya Kappes – Four Leaf Felony (Holiday Cozy #1), finished 5/7/25 ★★★
A = America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation, by Michael MacCambridge, finished 4/6/25 ★★★.5
B = Beneath the Ashes (Jessie Arnold & Alex Jensen #7), by Sue Henry, finished 4/14/25 ★★★★
B = * Back Stabbers (Country Club #8), by Julie Mulhern, finished 4/19/25 ★★★★
E = author Percival Everett – James, finished 4/16/25 ★★★★
R = author Deanna Raybourn – Silent in the Sanctuary (Lady Julia Grey #2), finished 4/10/25 ★★★★
S = author Susan Casey – Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins, finished 5/19/25 ★★★★

✔ Caramel Crush, by Jenn McKinlay
C = * author Carmela Dutra – A Murder Most Fowl, finished 8/19/25 ★★★.5
A = Another Time, Another Place (Chronicles of St. Mary’s #12), by Jodi Taylor, finished 4/26/25 ★★★★.5
R = * Renewed for Murder (Blue Ridge Library #6), by Victoria Gilbert, finished 4/24/25 ★★★★
A = author Mark Adams – Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time, finished 5/14/25 ★★★★
M = * author Julie Mulhern – Fields’ Guide to Assassins (Poppy Fields #2), finished 9/28/25 ★★★★
E = * author Elizabeth J. Duncan – Murder on the Hour (Penny Brannigan #7), finished 5/8/25 ★★★★
L = * author Harper Lin – A Hiss-tory of Magic (Wonder Cats #1), finished 4/4/25 ★★★.5
C = * author Catie Murphy – Dead in Dublin (Dublin Driver #1), finished 8/31/25 ★★★.5
R = * author Rosemarie Ross – Cobblered to Death (Courtney Archer #1), finished 4/25/25 ★★★.5
U = An Unmarked Grave (Bess Crawford #4), by Charles Todd, finished 4/5/25 ★★★★
S = * Silence in the Library (Lily Adler #2), by Katharine Schellman, finished 5/21/25 ★★★★
H = * author Lee Hollis – My Father Always Finds Corpses, finished 5/3/25 ★★★.5

✔ Dead Bolt, by Juliet Blackwell
D = * Death on a Summer’s Day (Lord Edington Investigates #3), by Benedict Brown, finished 6/6/25 ★★★★
E = * author Emma Dakin – Hazards in Hampshire (British Book Tour #1), finished 5/17/25 ★★★.5
A = * author Mildred Abbott – Chaotic Corgis (Cozy Corgi #6), finished 4/23/25 ★★★★
D = Different Paths (Stella Crown #5), by Judy Clemens, finished 6/13/25 ★★★★
B = * Berried in the Past (Cranberry Cove #5), by Peg Cochran, finished 4/21/25 ★★★★
O = * On the Wings of Murder (Florida Keys B&B #3), by Danielle Collins, finished 4/12/25 ★★★★
L = * Long Island Iced Tina (Catering Hall #2), by Maria DiRico, finished 4/4/25 ★★★★
T = * author Robert Thorogood – The Marlow Murder Club (Marlow Murder Club #1), finished 5/11/25 ★★★★

✔ Egg Drop Dead, by Vivien Chien
E = * author [author [author:Ellie Alexander|8123142]|8123142] – A Body at the Book Fair (Secret Bookcase #6), finished 5/28/25 ★★★★
G = author C.M. Gleason – Murder at the Capitol (Lincoln’s White House #3), finished 5/7/25 ★★★★
G = author Graham Brack – The Noose’s Shadow (Master Mercurius #4), finished 6/8/25 ★★★★
D = * Death in the Sunshine (Retired Detectives Club #1), by Steph Broadribb, finished 6/16/25 ★★★★
R = author David Rosenfelt – Play Dead (Andy Carpenter #6), finished 6/3/25 ★★★★
O = Of Mutts and Men (Chet & Bernie #10), by Spencer Quinn, finished 4/27/25 ★★★★
P = Paradox (FBI #22), by Catherine Coulter, finished 4/13/25 ★★★★
D = author Donna Ball – Bone Yard (Raine Stockton #4), finished 6/19/25 ★★★★
E = * An Ear for Trouble (Riverbend K-9s #2), by K.T. Lee, finished 5/24/25 ★★★★
A = * author Antony Johnson – Can You Solve the Murder?, finishing 5/30/25 ★★★
D = Devil’s Claw (Joanna Brady #8), by J.A. Jance, finished 6/20/25 ★★★★

✔ Fatal Fiction, by Kym Roberts
F = The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, by Hallie Rubenhold, finished 4/30/25 ★★★.5
A = * Ashes to Ashes, Crust to Crust (Deep Dish #2), by Mindy Quigley, finished 5/16/25 ★★★★
T = The Toast of Time (Chronicles of St. Mary’s #12.5), by Jodi Taylor, finished 5/18/25 ★★★★
A = author Andrea Carter – Treacherous Strand (Inishowen #2), finished 5/20/25 ★★★★
L = * author Harper Lin – Sweets and a Stabbing (Pink Cupcake #1), finished 4/23/25 ★★★.5
F = Fever Season (Benjamin January #2), by Barbara Hambly, finished 5/5/25 ★★★★
I = * Icing on the Murder (Baker Street #4), by Valerie Burns, finished 5/2/25 ★★★★
C = The Crowded Grave (Bruno, Chief of Police #4), by Martin Walker, finished 7/16/25 ★★★★
T = * author T.E. Kinsey – The Deadly Mystery of the Missing Diamonds (Dizzy Heights #1), finished 6/25/25 ★★★★
I = The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World, by Oliver Milman, finished 6/4/25 ★★★★
O = * author Ovidia Yu – The Frangipani Tree Mystery (Crown Colony #1), finished 5/15/25 ★★★.5
N = * author Nancy Warren – The Great Witches Baking Show (Great Witches Baking Show #1), finished 4/11/25 ★★★.5

✔ A Gala Event, by Sheila Connolly
A = * author Anita Davison – Murder in the Library (Miss Merrill & Aunt Violet #2), finished 6/5/25 ★★★★
G = * A Ghostwriter’s Guide to Murder, by Melinda Mullet, finished 7/1/25 ★★★.5
A = author Alex Michaelides – The Fury, finished 6/8/25 ★★★
L = author Louise Penny – A Great Reckoning (Chief Insp. Armand Gamache #12), finished 4/7/25 ★★★★
A = author Donna Ashcroft – The Little Cornish House, finished 6/14/25 ★★★.5
E = * author Eve Calder – Sugar and Vice (Cookie House #2), finished 5/31/25 ★★★★
V = * A Vow of Silence (Sister Joan #1), by Veronica Black, finished 7/10/25 ★★★.5
E = author Mary Anna Evans – The Dark Library, finished 6/1/25 ★★★.5
N = author Nevada Barr – Flashback (Anna Pigeon #11), finished 4/8/25 ★★★★
T = author Tom Standage – A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next, finished 6/26/25 ★★★.5

You sound surprised by that :)

Now the next six books you read will all have sheriffs in them :)

Thanks!

That is such a good series! You could also use Brother Cadfael, by Ellis Peters, or Sister Fidelma, by Peter Tremayne.

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31. PIE TOWN, NEW MEXICO
🤔 Read a book with 0 or 6 in the publication year (share year) OR with the word PIE in the title
* publ 2022 : The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance, by Mensun Bound, finished 9/7/25 ★★★★
* title : Christmas Pie (Chron. of St. Mary’s #14.5), by Jodi Taylor, finished 12/6/25 ★★★★

32. BUTTERNUTS, NEW YORK
🤔 Read a book with a large tree on the cover (show cover) OR set in New York
* tree : Crescent City Christmas Chaos (Vintage Cookbook #4), by Ellen Byron, finished 10/10/25 ★★★★
* New York : It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder (Catering Hall #3), by Maria DiRico, finished 11/8/25 ★★★★


33. WHYNOT, NORTH CAROLINA
🤔 Read a book where characters are settlers to a new area OR with a page count that contains a 0, 5 or 7 (share page count)
* 259 pages : Fields’ Guide to Assassins (Poppy Fields #2), by Julie Mulhern, finished 9/28/25 ★★★★
* settlers : Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier, by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, finished 1/4/26 ★★★★

34. ZAP, NORTH DAKOTA
🤔 Read a book whose author's name contains a Z OR where there is a mention of Scotland
* author Sandra Baublitz – A Dog Detective Short Story Collection, finished 9/13/25 ★★★
* Scotland : Death Distilled (Whisky Business #2), by Melinda Mullet, finished 12/11/25 ★★★★

35. PEE PEE, OHIO
🤔 Read a book with an African-American character OR by an author whose first or last name begins with P
* author Robin Paige – Death at Rottingdean (Kathryn Ardleigh #5), finished 10/25/25 ★★★★
* African-American : Wrecked (IQ #3), by Joe Ide, finished 2/14/26 ★★★★

36. SLAUGHTERVILLE, OKLAHOMA
🤔 Read a book whose author is named James (may be first or last name) OR published in November of any year (share year)
* publ 11-24-20 : A Lady Compromised (Rosalind Thorne #4), by Darcie Wilde, finished 9/8/25 ★★★★
* author Miranda James – Hiss Me Deadly (Cat in the Stacks #15), by Miranda James, finished 12/2/25 ★★★★

37. BORING, OREGON
🤔 Read a book where a character is/was in the military OR where there is a forest around the town
* forest : Glass Houses (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #13), by Louise Penny, finished 12/7/25 ★★★★.5
* Cotton was in the Navy : The Devil’s Bible (Cotton Malone #20), by Steve Berry, finished 12/9/25 ★★★★.5

38. ASYLUM, PENNSYLVANIA
🤔 Read a book where a character must leave their country because of war OR set in Pennsylvania OR set in the late 1700s.
* Philadelphia PA : Privy to the Dead (Museum #6), by Sheila Connolly, finished 9/12/25 ★★★★
* 1700s : The Dead Shall Not Rest (Dr. Thomas Silkstone #2), by Tessa Harris, finished 3/8/26 ★★★

39. WOONSOCKET, RHODE ISLAND
🤔 Read a book whose location begins with a letter in NIPMUC (share location) OR set in Rhode Island
* RI : Murder at the Breakers (Gilded Newport #1), by Alyssa Maxwell, finished 11/1/25 ★★★.5
* location = Cleveland OH : Fatal Fried Rice (Noodle Shop #7), by Vivien Chien, finished 11/16/25 ★★★★

40. COWARD, SOUTH CAROLINA
🤔 Read a book where a character goes over a bridge OR whose page count contains a 1, 2 or 6 (share page count)
* bridge : Flash of Brilliance (Dogleg Island #3), by Donna Ball, finished 9/27/25 ★★★★
* 156 pages : A Christmas Carl (Greyhound Classics #2), by John Gaspard, finished 11/23/25 ★★★★

41. RED SHIRT, SOUTH DAKOTA
🤔 Read a book with a red cover (show cover) that is tagged/genre Western
* cover : Miss Marley, by Vanessa Lafaye, finished 11/12/25 ★★★.5
* western : Under the Color of Law (Kevin Kerney #6), by Michael McGarrity, finished 11/18/25 ★★★★


42. SWEET LIPS, TENNESSEE
🤔 Read a book with less than 100 pages (share page count) OR with the word CREEK in the text (share page/Loc#) OR with a movie tie-in of some kind
* text : Nothing Bundt Trouble (Bakeshop #11), by Ellie Alexander, finished 9/10/25 ★★★★
audiobook, page unknown "...kids splashing in Ashland Creek,..."
* 58 pages : Messenger (Walt Longmire #8.2), by Craig Johnson, finished 4/2/26 ★★★★

43. LOONEYVILLE, TEXAS
🤔 Read a book with a word in the title that contains double o (oo) OR set in Texas
* title : TOO Many COOKS (Nero Wolfe #5), by Rex Stout, finished 10/1/25 ★★★★
* TX : Bittersweet (China Bayles #23), by Susan Wittig Albert, finished 10/16/25 ★★★★

44. EGGNOG, UTAH
🤔 Read a book where eggnog is served OR with a page count that contains a 1, 7 or 9 (share page count)
* 293 pages : In Hot Water (Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade #3), by J.J. Cook, finished 9/5/25 ★★★★
* eggnog : Twisted Tea Christmas (Tea Shop #23), by Laura Childs, finished 11/25/25 ★★★★
p. 178 “…eggnog from his refrigerator.”

45. MOSQUITOVILLE, VERMONT
🤔 Read a book with a swamp in the story OR where the author's first and last name totals 12 letters in any form
* author Ashley Weaver – Death Wears a Mask (Amory Ames #2), finished 9/6/25 ★★★★
* swamp : Swamp Spook (Miss Fortune #13), by Jana Deleon, finished 10/1/25 ★★★★

46. DRAGONVILLE, VIRGINIA
🤔 Read a book whose title begins with D OR set in Virginia
* VA : Lark! The Herald Angels Sing (Meg Langslow #24), by Donna Andrews, finished 12/3/25 ★★★★
* title : A Deadly Clue (Hunter & Clewe #3), by Victoria Gilbert, finished 12/21/25 ★★★★

47. HUMPTULIPS, WASHINGTON
🤔 Read a book where a canoe is used OR where someone eats salmon
* salmon : Pudding Up with Murder (Undercover Dish #3), by Julia Buckley, finished 9/26/25 ★★★.5
* canoe : The Summer Guests (Martini Club #2), by Tess Gerritsen, finished 10/21/25 ★★★★

48. BOOGER HOLE, WEST VIRGINIA
🤔 Read a book with a ghost hunter OR where someone is murdered or someone disappears
* ghost hunter : The Ghost Hunter Next Door (Beechwood Harbor Ghost #1), by Danielle Garrett, finished 11/22/25 ★★★.5
* murder : Sleighed! (Loser’s Club #4), by Yvonne Vincent, finished 11/23/25 ★★★

49. IMALONE, WISCONSIN
🤔 Read a book where a person is alone a lot OR with the word ALONE in the title
* Tom is usually alone : Old God’s Time, by Sebastian Barry, finished 10/5/25 ★★★
* title : Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness, by Pete Fromm, finished 11/5/25 ★★★★

50. CHUGWATER, WYOMING
🤔 Read a book where a legend is told OR with a buffalo/bison in the story OR with a character who hunts.
* legend (view spoiler)[cars breaking down (hide spoiler)]: The Forget-Me-Not Library, by Heather Webber, finished 10/18/25 ★★★★
* hunter : Below Zero (Joe Pickett #9), by C.J. Box, finished 3/6/26 ★★★★ 

Finished

WHAT? WHERE IS THAT?, 9/1/25 – 8/31/26
100/100 COMPLETE

1. BURNT CORN, ALABAMA
🤔 Read a book with a 1, 3 or 8 in the page count (share count) OR with a Native American character
* Native American character : The Fallen Man (Leaphorn & Chee #12), by Tony Hillerman, finished 9/15/25 ★★★★
* 320 pages : Murder by the Millions (Literary Dining #2), by Daryl Wood Gerber, finished 10/8/25 ★★★★

2. UNALASKA, ALASKA
🤔 Read a book set on an island OR where a character is a fisherman (of any kind)
* unnamed fisherman : A Villa in Sicily: Olive Oil and Murder (Cats & Dogs #1), by Fiona Grace, finished 9/28/25 ★★★.5
* island : Home to Roost (Aloha Chicken #5), by Josi Avari, finished 11/5/25 ★★★★

3. WHY, ARIZONA
🤔 Read a book whose title begins or ends with Y OR with the word WHY in the title
* title begins w/Y : A Year of Mr. Maybes, by Judy Leigh, finished 9/21/25 ★★★★
* WHY in title : Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects, by Anne Svedrup-Thygeson, finished 11/2/25 ★★★★

4. POSSUM GRAPE, ARKANSAS
🤔 Read a book where you find the word GRAPE in the text (share page/Loc#) OR with a black title (show cover)
* text : The Memory Thief: The Secrets Behind How We Remember, by Lauren Aguirre, finished 9/4/25 ★★★★
page # unavailable (audiobook) "grape, peanut, soap, and lemon."
* black title : That’s Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us, by Erin Moore, finished 9/13/25 ★★★★


5. ZZYZX, CALIFORNIA
🤔 Read a book with a criminal OR with a character who is a federal officer (FBI, CIA, NCIS)
* FBI agents : Labyrinth (FBI #23), by Catherine Coulter, finished 11/15/25 ★★★★
* criminal : A Tale of Two Cookies (Cookie House #3), by Eve Calder, finished 11/20/25 ★★★★

6. NO NAME, COLORADO
🤔 Read a book with a highway on the cover (show cover) OR with more than 119 pages (share count)
* highway : Catching Christmas, by Terri Blackstock, finished 12/6/25 ★★★.5
It’s hard to tell from the cover, but the content makes clear that it’s a highway
* 371 pages : The Last Days of Night, by Graham Moore, finished 1/11/26 ★★★★


7. HAPPYLAND, CONNECTICUT
🤔 Read a book set in the 1930s OR with nine letters in the title (in any form)
* title : Nash Falls (Walter Nash #1), by David Baldacci, finished 10/17/25 ★★★★
* 1930s : A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs #8), by Jacqueline Winspear, finished 11/27/25 ★★★★

8. Little Heaven, Delaware
🤔 Read a book with an Irish character OR set on a farm or orchard
* Irish character, Siobhan and more : Murder in an Irish Pub (Irish Village #4), by Carlene O’Connor, finished 9/1/25 ★★★★
* orchard : A Gala Event (Orchard #9), by Sheila Connolly, finished 9/24/25 ★★★★

9. BURNT STORE, FLORIDA
🤔 Read a book set on a river OR with a character who is a store manager
* Cece : Murder Uncorked (Cece Barton #1), by Maddie Day, finished 10/15/25 ★★★.5
* Po River : Quietly in Their Sleep (Commissario Brunetti #6), by Donna Leon, finished 10/29/25 ★★★★

10. EXPERIMENT, GEORGIA
🤔 Read a book with a character that is involved in food production and/or agriculture OR with the letters AES (in any order) in the author's name
* food production : A Berry Deadly Welcome (Kylie Berry #1), by A.R. Winters, finished 9/9/25 ★★★
* author Annie Adams – Perilous Arrangements (Flower Shop #5), finished 9/22/25 ★★★★

11. HAIKU, HAWAII
🤔 Read a book with a red title (show cover) OR set in Hawaii
* red title : A Ferry Merry Christmas, by Debbie Macomber, finished 10/5/25 ★★★★
* Hawaii : Kaua’i Me a River (Islands of Aloha #4), by JoAnn Bassett, finished 2/8/26 ★★★.5


12. GOOD GRIEF, IDAHO
🤔 Read a book by an author whose initials are the same letter OR where there is two dogs or an old grouch in the story
* author Celeste Connally – Revenge, Served Royal (Lady Petra Inquires #3), finished 10/22/25 ★★★★
* dogs : Hot Dog (Melanie Travis #9), by Laurien Berenson, finished 12/8/25 ★★★★

13. BOODY, ILLINOIS
🤔 Read a book tagged Humor OR by an author that uses a middle initial
* author John A. McDermott – The Last Spirits of Manhattan, finished 9/23/25 ★★★.5
* humor : In on the Joke: The Original Queens of Stand-Up Comedy, by Shawn Levy, finished 10/3/25 ★★★.5

14. SANTA CLAUS, INDIANA
🤔 Read a book set at Christmas OR with a Santa character
* Santa : Unwrapped (South Pole Santa #4), by Jinglebelle Jackson, finished 11/7/25 ★★★.5
* Christmas : Silent Night (Raine Stockton #5), by Donna Ball, finished 11/17/25 ★★★★

15. WHAT CHEER, IOWA
🤔 Read a book where there is a town meeting in the story OR whose publishing year contains a 2 and 1 (share year)
* town meeting : Death on Dickens Island (Books on the Beach #1), by Allison Brook, finished 10/2/25 ★★★.5
* publ 2010 : Blue Lightning (Shetland #4), by Ann Cleeves, finished 10/9/25 ★★★★

16. KICKAPOO, KANSAS
🤔 Read a book with a character that is a wanderer OR whose title begins with K
* title : The Kill Fee (Poppy Denby #2), by Fiona Veitch Smith, finished 9/16/25 ★★★.5
* wanderer, Nola : The Viper (Zig & Nola #3), by Brad Meltzer, finished 12/12/25 ★★★★

17. HIPPO, KENTUCKY
🤔 Read a book where a character has a nickname OR set in Kentucky
* nickname, Mackenzie = Mac : Murder at the Lobstah Shack (Cozy Capers Book Group #3), by Maddie Day, finished 9/11/25 ★★★★
* Kentucky : Hitches, Hideouts & Homicides (Camper & Criminals #7), by Tonya Kappes, finished 9/26/25 ★★★.5

18. WATERPROOF, LOUISIANA
🤔 Read a book with a farmer character OR set in Louisiana
* set New Orleans LA : Cat Got Your Cash (Kitty Couture #2), by Julie Chase, finished 10/13/25 ★★★.5
* farmer : Berried Motives (Cranberry Cove #6), by Peg Cochran, finished 12/30/25 ★★★★

19. BALD HEAD, MAINE
🤔 Read a book where a character has a bald head OR with a hotel as the main location OR with a cliff on the cover (show cover)
* bald : The Pilgrim of Hate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #10), by Ellis Peters, finished 10/26/25 ★★★★
* cliff : Cliff Diver (Emilia Cruz #1), by Carmen Amato, finished 3/31/26 ★★★.5


20. ACCIDENT, MARYLAND
🤔 Read a book with a 1, 7 or 0 in the page count (share count) OR with a one word title
* 304 pages : The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery, by Siddharth Kara, finished 9/17/25 ★★★★
* title : Gemini, by Jeffrey Kluger, finished 9/30/25 ★★★★

21. SANDWICH, MASSACHUSETTS
🤔 Read a book set in Massachusetts OR that has been on your TBR/WTR list forever
* Massachusetts : Death at the Door (Ruby & Cordelia #2), by Olivia Blacke, finished 10/7/25 ★★★★
* added 7-14-13 : High Country (Anna Pigeon #12), by Nevada Barr, finished 10/24/25 ★★★★

22. HELL, MICHIGAN
🤔 Read a book where a character is a mayor OR where characters get married
* mayor : Clued in to Love, by Ellie Alexander, finished 10/6/25 ★★★.5
* wedding : Stalking Around the Christmas Tree (Christmas Tree Farm #4), by Jacqueline Frost, finished 11/4/25 ★★★★

23. EMBARRASS, MINNESOTA
🤔 Read a book where you find the word IRON in the text (share page/Loc#) OR set in Minnesota* text : Midnight at Malabar House (Malabar House #1), by Vaseem Khan, finished 9/19/25 ★★★★
loc. 349 "...iron door and pulling it open..."
* Minnesota : The Deepest Cut (Monkeewrench #11), by P.J. Tracy, finished 11/9/25 ★★★★.5

24. HOT COFFEE, MISSISSIPPI
🤔 Read a book by an author who uses initials (not just a middle initial) instead of a first name OR where someone makes coffee
* Shannon and more make coffee : Premeditated Mortar (Fixer-Upper #8), by Kate Carlisle, finished 10/20/25 ★★★★
* author P.J. Nelson – All My Bones (Old Juniper Bookstore #2), by P.J. Nelson, finished 10/27/25 ★★★.5

25. FRANKENSTEIN, MISSOURI
🤔 Read a book with a main character whose first name begins with G OR with a 0, 1, 8, or 9 in the page count (share count)
* MC Georgie : And Then There Was the One, by Martha Waters, finished 9/14/25 ★★★.5
* 384 pages : Recipes for Love & Murder (Tannie Maria #1), by Sally Andrew, finished 9/25/25 ★★★.5

26. BIG ARM, MONTANA
🤔 Read a book set near a lake OR with the letters ARM (intact) in the title
* Lake Michigan : Murder at the Christmas Cookie Bake-Off (Beacon Bakeshop #2), by Darci Hannah, finished 9/3/25 ★★★.5
* title : A Wedding on Ladybug Farm (Ladybug Farm #5), by Donna Ball, finished 2/11/26 ★★★.5

27. WORMS, NEBRASKA
🤔 Read a book where a village has a bar, church and homes OR whose title begins with a letter in LUTHERAN
* title : All Spooked Up, by E.J. Copperman, finished 10/10/25 ★★★.5
* village : Death Comes to the Village (Kurland St. Mary #1), by Catherine Lloyd, finished 10/15/25 ★★★.5

28. SUGAR BUNKER, NEVADA
🤔 Read a book a Series #6 OR someone goes to a storage unit
* series : Newlyweds Can Be Knocked Off (Amish Matchmaker #6), by Amanda Flower, finished 9/18/25 ★★★★
* Steve, storage unit : Murder in the Library (Word Travels Mobile Bookshop #1), by Penny Brooke, finished 9/22/25 ★★★★

29. POTTER PLACE, NEW HAMPSHIRE
🤔 Read a book tagged Magic OR by an African-American author OR with a character who is a magician, ventriloquist, or showman
* retired magician : The House at Devil’s Neck (Spector Locked-Room #4), by Tom Mead, finished 2/17/26 ★★★★
* author Barbara Neely – Blanche Passes Go (Blanche White #4), finished 3/16/26 ★★★★

30. CHEESEQUAKE, NEW JERSEY
🤔 Read a book where a character goes hiking, camping, fishing, or boating OR with a 1, 2, 4, or 7 in the page count (share page count)
* boating : In the Time of Five Pumpkins (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #26), by Alexander McCall Smith, finished 9/2/25 ★★★★
* 344 pages : Murder on the Prince Regent (Tate & Bell #6), by Irina Shapiro, finished 10/11/25 ★★★★

Finished

FAMOUS QUOTES SPELL OUT #7, no deadline

We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
– Japanese Proverb

W = author Laura Jensen Walker – The Alphabet Sleuths, finished 1/1/26 ★★★.5
E = author Elton John – Farewell Yellow Brick Road, finished 1/2/26 ★★★★
R = author Rebecca Philipson – How to Get Away with Murder, finished 1/9/26 ★★★.5
E = author J.R. Ellis – The Murder at Redmire Hall (Yorkshire #3), finished 1/5/26 ★★★★


F = author Sarah Fox – Claret and Present Danger (Literary Pub #4), finished 1/14/26 ★★★★
O = author Carlene O’Connor – Murder in an Irish Cottage (Irish Village #5), finished 1/15/26 ★★★★
O = Our Marriage is Murder, by Carol Goodman, finished 1/31/26 ★★★.5
L = The Last Days of Night, by Graham Moore, finished 1/11/26 ★★★★
S = author Stacey Lee – Under a Painted Sky, finished 1/10/26 ★★★.5


W = author William Kent Krueger – Mercy Falls (Cork O’Connor #5), finished 2/3/26 ★★★★
H = How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World, by Steven Johnson, finished 1/3/26 ★★★★
E = Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing, finished 1/12/26 ★★★★
T = author Tom Clavin and author Bob Drury – Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier, finished 1/4/26 ★★★★
H = author Stacy Hackney – The Primrose Murder Society, finished 1/21/26 ★★★.5
E = author Emily Littlejohn – Inherit the Bones (Det. Gemma Monroe #1), finished 1/18/26 ★★★.5
R = author Rhys Bowen – City of Darkness and Light (Molly Murphy #13), finished 2/4/26 ★★★.5


W = A Wedding on Ladybug Farm (Ladybug Farm #5), by Donna Ball, finished 2/11/26 ★★★.5
E = Everyone in This Bank is a Thief (Ernest Cunningham #4), by Benjamin Stevenson, finished 1/23/26 ★★★★


D = Death of a Wandering Wolf (Hungarian Tea House #2), by Julia Buckley, finished 1/13/26 ★★★★
A = author Agatha Christie – The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side (Miss Marple #8), finished 1/17/26 ★★★★
N = author Barbara Neely – Blanche Passes Go (Blanche White #4), finished 3/16/26 ★★★★
C = author Jennifer Chiaverini – The Patchwork Players (Elm Creek Quilts #24), finished 1/16/26 ★★★.5
E = author Aaron Elkins – Make No Bones (Gideon Oliver #7), finished 2/16/26 ★★★★


O = Open Carry (Arliss Cutter #1), by Marc Cameron, finished 2/7/26 ★★★★
R = author Deanna Raybourn – A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell #9), finished 2/9/26 ★★★★


N = author Nancy Coco – Give Fudge a Chance (Candy-Coated #11), finished 3/19/26 ★★★★
O = Offstage in Nuala (Inspector de Silva #3), by Harriet Steel, finished 2/10/26 ★★★★
T = Truffle Trouble (Amish Candy Shop #10), by Amanda Flower, finished 1/27/26 ★★★★


S = author Sarah Yarwood-Lovett – A Mischief of Rats (Nell Ward #3), finished 1/20/26 ★★★★
O = The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orlean, finished 3/23/26 ★★★


W = Wrecked (IQ #3), by Joe Ide, finished 2/14/26 ★★★★
E = Effigies (Faye Longchamp #3), by Mary Anna Evans, finished 2/24/26 ★★★★


M = author Jenn McKinlay – Booking for Trouble (Library Lovers #16), finished 1/8/26 ★★★★
I = author Irina Shapiro – The Carnival Murders (Tate & Bell #7), finished 2/15/26 ★★★★
G = Good Joy, Bad Joy, by Mikki Brammer, finished 1/19/26 ★★★★
H = author A.L. Herbert – Murder with Collard Greens and Hot Sauce (Mahalia Watkins Soul Food #3), finished 2/6/26 ★★★.5
T = author T.E. Kinsey – A Baffling Murder at the Midsummer Ball (Dizzy Heights #2), finished 2/20/26 ★★★★


A = author Agatha Christie – Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot #3), finished 1/19/26 ★★★.5
S = author Mark Stevens – The Fireballer, finished 1/22/26 ★★★★


W = author Brigid Washington – Salt, Sweat & Steam: The Fiery Education of an Accidental Chef, finished 3/26/26 ★★★.5
E = Eyelet Witness (Bonnie & Clyde #4), by Julie Anne Lindsey, finished 3/10/26 ★★★★
L = author Laurien Berenson – Peg and Rose Solve a Murder (Senior Sleuths #1), finished 2/2/26 ★★★.5
L = author Harper Lin – Macchiatos, Macarons and Malice (Cape Bay Café #9), finished 2/10/26 ★★★.5


D = Daughter of Egypt, by Marie Benedict, finished 1/25/26 ★★★★
A = The Apothecary Rose (Owen Archer #1), by Candace Robb, finished 2/5/26 ★★★.5
N = author Nicholas Rhea – Constable on the Hill (Constable Nick #1), finished 3/24/26 ★★★.5
C = The Crossing (Det. Insp. Louise Blackwell #1), by Matt Brolly, finished 2/1/26 ★★★★
E = author Ellie Alexander – Beer and Loathing (Sloan Krause #6), finished 3/20/26 ★★★★

Finished

2026 COUNTDOWN, 1/1 - 12/31
12/12 TASKS COMPLETE

Read 10 books from any series
1. Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot #3), by Agatha Christie, finished 1/19/26 ★★★.5
2. A Mischief of Rats (Nell Ward #3), by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett, finished 1/20/26 ★★★★
3. Everyone in This Bank is a Thief (Ernest Cunningham #4), by Benjamin Stevenson, finished 1/23/26 ★★★★
4. Mercy Falls (Cork O’Connor #5), by William Kent Krueger, finished 2/3/26 ★★★★
5. Offstage in Nuala (Inspector de Silva #3), by Harriet Steel, finished 2/10/26 ★★★★
6. A Wedding on Ladybug Farm (Ladybug Farm #5), by Donna Ball, finished 2/11/26 ★★★.5
7. The Dream Stalker (Wind River Reservation #3), by Margaret Coel, finished 3/4/36 ★★★★
8. Below Zero (Joe Pickett #9), by C.J. Box, finished 3/6/26 ★★★★
9. The Dead Shall Not Rest (Dr. Thomas Silkstone #2), by Tessa Harris, finished 3/8/26 ★★★
10. The Leper’s Bell (Sister Fidelma #14), by Peter Tremayne, finished 3/10/26 ★★★★


Read 9 books by female authors
1. author Laura Jensen Walker – The Alphabet Sleuths, finished 1/1/26 ★★★.5
2. author Emily Littlejohn – Inherit the Bones (Det. Gemma Monroe #1), finished 1/18/26 ★★★.5
3. author Stacy Hackney – , finished 1/21/26 ★★★.5
4. author Marie Benedict – Daughter of Egypt, finished 1/25/26 ★★★★
5. author Carol Goodman – Our Marriage is Murder, finished 1/31/26 ★★★.5
6. author Candace Robb – The Apothecary Rose (Owen Archer #1), finished 2/5/26 ★★★.5
7. author JoAnn Bassett – Kaua’i Me a River (Islands of Aloha #4), finished 2/8/26 ★★★.5
8. author Jane Harper – Last One Out, finished 3/2/26 ★★★★
9. author Victoria Thompson – Murder on Gramercy Park (Gaslight #3), finished 3/15/26 ★★★★


Read 8 books from the same genre | cozy mystery
1. Public Anchovy #1 (Deep Dish #3), by Mindy Quigley, finished 1/6/26 ★★★★
2. Booking for Trouble (Library Lovers #16), by Jenn McKinlay, finished 1/8/26 ★★★★
3. Death of a Wandering Wolf (Hungarian Tea House #2), by Julia Buckley, finished 1/13/26 ★★★★
4. Claret and Present Danger (Literary Pub #4), by Sarah Fox, finished 1/14/26 ★★★★
5. Murder in an Irish Cottage (Irish Village #5), by Carlene O’Connor, finished 1/15/26 ★★★★
6. City of Darkness and Light (Molly Murphy #13), by Rhys Bowen, finished 2/4/26 ★★★.5
7. Murder with Collard Greens and Hot Sauce (Mahalia Watkins Soul Food #3), by A.L. Herbert, finished 2/6/26 ★★★.5
8. Doughnuts and Deception (Peridale Café #3), by Agatha Frost, finished 2/26/26 ★★★★


Read 7 books published in 2024 or 2025
1. publ 9-24-24 : Farewell Yellow Brick Road, by Elton John, finished 1/2/26 ★★★★
2. publ 9-1-24 : Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel (Helen Dexter #3), by Glenda Young, finished 1/29/26 ★★★.5
3. publ 3-12-24 : A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell #9), by Deanna Raybourn, finished 2/9/26 ★★★★
4. publ 7-15-25 : The House at Devil’s Neck (Spector Locked-Room #4), by Tom Mead, finished 2/17/26 ★★★★
5. publ 10-22-24 : Murder Takes the Stage (Phyllida Bright #4), by Colleen Cambridge, finished 2/27/26 ★★★★
6. publ 3-4-25 : Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS, by Lisa Rogak, finished 3/5/26 ★★★.5
7. publ 9-1-25 : Under a Greek Sky, by Francesca Catlow, finished 3/30/26 ★★★.5


Read 6 books published in 2023 or earlier
1. publ 6-7-16 : Murder at the Mansion (Kelly Jackson #2), by Janet Finsilver, finished 1/2/26 ★★★★
2. publ 9-13-18 : The Murder at Redmire Hall (Yorkshire #3), by J.R. Ellis, finished 1/5/26 ★★★★
3. publ 7-29-18 : Quarrelsome Quartz (Cozy Corgi #7), by Mildred Abbott, finished 1/26/26 ★★★★
4. publ 2-14-20 : The Crossing (Det. Insp. Louise Blackwell #1), by Matt Brolly, finished 2/1/26 ★★★★
5. publ 3-1-19 : Macchiatos, Macarons and Malice (Cape Bay Café #9), by Harper Lin, finished 2/10/26 ★★★.5
6. publ 7-7-05 : Arthur & George, by Julian Barnes, finished 2/18/26 ★★★.5


Read 5 books that are stand alones
1. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World, by Steven Johnson, finished 1/2/26 ★★★★
2. Under a Painted Sky, by Stacey Lee, finished 1/10/26 ★★★.5
3. The Last Days of Night, by Graham Moore, finished 1/11/26 ★★★★
4. Good Joy, Bad Joy, by Mikki Brammer, finished 1/19/26 ★★★★
5. The Fireballer, by Mark Stevens, finished 1/22/26 ★★★★


Read 4 books that are from any series already started
1. Murder by Moonrise (Dr. Julia Lewis #3), by Patrice McDonough, finished 1/7/26 ★★★★
2. The Patchwork Players (Elm Creek Quilts #24), by Jennifer Chiaverini, finished 1/16/26 ★★★.5
3. A Cookbook Conspiracy (Bibliophile #7), by Kate Carlisle, finished 1/24/26 ★★★★
4. Truffle Trouble (Amish Candy Shop #10), by Amanda Flower, finished 1/27/26 ★★★★


Read 3 books that have one word titles
1. Wrecked (IQ #3), by Joe Ide, finished 2/14/26 ★★★★
2. Effigies (Faye Longchamp #3), by Mary Anna Evans, finished 2/24/26 ★★★★
3. Unbirthday, by Liz Braswell, finished 3/13/26 ★★★.5


Read 2 book whose title has 5 words or more
1. How to Get Away with Murder, by Rebecca Philipson, finished 1/9/26 ★★★.5
2. The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side (Miss Marple #8), by Agatha Christie, finished 1/17/26 ★★★★


Read 1 book by a male author
1. author Benedict Brown – The Yacht Party, finished 1/18/26 ★★★

READ THE MONTHS: 2nd QUARTER, 4/1 – 6/30
Level : June

1. 📖 Read a book by one of the above authors [William Shakespeare, Harper Lee, Charlotte Bronte, Tom Clancy, Beverly Cleary, Hans Christian Anderson, and Terry Pratchett] OR read a book published in April of any year OR a book where the author’s initials can be found in AUTHORS APRIL.

2. 📖 Read a book with a horse on the cover OR set at a bar OR where the author’s initials can be found in UNICORN DAY.

3. 📖 Read a book where a character reads OR uses a map (not a GPS) OR set in USA OR with a character who is a garbage collector.

4. 📖 Read a book by one of the above authors [Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Coatsworth, L. Frank Baum, Eoin Colfer, Joseph Heller, Mary Pope Osborne, Martha Grimes, J. M. Barrie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ian Fleming and Daphne du Maurier] OR read a book published in May of any year OR a book where the author’s initials can be found in AUTHORS MAY.

5. 📖 Read a book with the word PILLOW in the text (give a partial sentence and page/loc #) OR read a book with shoes on the cover OR that is second in a series.

6. 📖 Read a book where a character is on a diet OR with a fire on the cover OR where a character goes for a walk.

7. 📖 Read a book by one of the above authors [Thomas Hardy, Thomas Mann, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Orwell, Dan Brown, Eric Carle, and Joyce Carol Oates] OR read a book published in June of any year OR a book where the author’s initials can be found in AUTHORS JUNE.

8. 📖 Read a book with a flower on the cover OR with a MC who has children OR where a character panics.

9. 📖 Read a book set in Summer OR with arms or a nose on the cover OR a title that has a contraction in it.

TLC APRIL LISTENER, 4/1 - 4/30

1. Paradise Lost (Joanna Brady #9), by J.A. Jance, finished 4/2/26 ★★★★
2. The Bordeaux Book Club, by Gillian Harvey, finished 4/4/26 ★★★.5
3. Graveyard Dust (Benjamin January #3), by Barbara Hambly, finished 4/5/26 ★★★★
4. Chilled to the Cone (Bakeshop #12), by Ellie Alexander, finished 4/7/26 ★★★★
5. Slow Dollar (Deborah Knott #9), by Margaret Maron, finished 4/8/26 ★★★★
6. Dictator (Cicero #3), by Robert Harris, finished 4/11/26 ★★★★
7. Sunny Side Up (Aloha Chicken #6), by Josi Avari, finished 4/13/26 ★★★★
8. Blood Orange (China Bayles #24), by Susan Wittig Albert, finished 4/14/26 ★★★★
9. The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future, by Jon Gertner, finished 4/15/26 ★★★★
10. From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View #1), by Elizabeth Schaefer, editor, finished 4/16/26 ★★★★
11. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, by Erik Larson, finished 4/18/26 ★★★★
12. Brain: An Owner’s Guide, by Elizabeth R. Ricker, finished 4/19/26 ★★★

STAND ALONE CHALLENGE, 4/1 - 4/30

SOLITARY: Read 5-6 books
1. The Bordeaux Book Club, by Gillian Harvey, finished 4/4/26 ★★★.5
2. The Coworker, by Freida McFadden, finished 4/10/26 ★★★.5
3. Every Note Played, by Lisa Genova, finished 4/12/26 ★★★★
4. The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future, by Jon Gertner, finished 4/15/26 ★★★★
5. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, by Erik Larson, finished 4/18/26 ★★★★
6. Brain: An Owner’s Guide, by Elizabeth R. Ricker, finished 4/19/26 ★★★