SF_fan_mae's 2024 50 Book Challenge

54 of 50 books finished so far.

I made it to 57 in 2023, maybe I can hit 60 this year. If I ever really do the complete in-order re-read of my Target collection, I can probably hit 100.


SF_fan_mae's 2023 50 Book Challenge (57)
SF_fan_mae's 2022 50 Book Challenge (53)
SF_fan_mae's 2021 50 Book Challenge (51)
SF_fan_mae's 2020 50 Book Challenge (51)
SF_fan_mae's 2019 50 Book Challenge (55)
SF_fan_mae's 2018 50 Book Challenge (59)
SF_fan_mae's 2017 50 Book Challenge (50)
SF_fan_mae's 2016 Reading List (48)

ABC is playing the ball drop

January

1. English Country House Murders - the one carried over from last year
2. Ink & Paint - The Women of Walt Disney's Animation - coffee table book, will take a while
3. 4:50 from Paddington - Christie, my group read has about a year and a half to go to finish the novels in order
4. The Eaters of Light - Rona Munro
5. Double Sin - Christie
6. Right Here Right Now - first Bible Study book for 2024
7. The House Between Worlds - Marion Zimmer Bradley

February

8. Ordeal by Innocence - Christie
9. The Birthday of the World - Ursula K. Le Guin
10. Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction - huge anthology
11. Taggerung - Brian Jacques

March

12. Cat Among the Pigeons - Christie
13. Gospel of Mark - Amy-Jill Levine, Lenten Bible Study group book
14. The Outlaw's Tale - Margaret Frazer

April

15. The Pale Horse - Christie
16. The Young Elizabeth - Jennette & Francis Letton
17. Planet of the Ood - Keith Temple

May

18. The Mirror Crack'd - Christie
19. Great Detectives - anthology, another 700+ pages, includes 2 novels that I'll list separately
20. The Waters of Mars - Phil Ford
21. The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 5 - classic 1978 story collection, edited by Lin Carter

June - beach reading

22. The Clocks - Christie
23. The Zygon Invasion - Peter Harness
24. The Worlds of H. Beam Piper
25. The Lacquer Screen - Rober van Gulik
26. Roswell Johnson Saves the World - Chris Colfer
27. Shenanigans - Valdimar anthology

July

28. A Caribbean Mystery - Christie
29. The Chill - Ross Macdonald (included in Great Detectives)
30. Kerblam! - Pete McTighe
31. Spy in Chancery - P.C. Doherty
32. Shady Hollow - Juneau Black
33. The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 6 - classic short story collection, 1979
34. Gaslight & Grimm: Steampunk Faerie Tales - anthology
35. The Murderer's Tale - Margaret Frazer

Got a lot read on vacation weeks!

August

36. At Bertram's Hotel - Christie
37. Death Notes - Ruth Rendell (included in Great Detectives)
38. The Star Beast - Gary Russell
39. Everyone in my Family Has Killed Someone - Benjamin Stevenson
40. The Legend of Nightfall - Mickey Zucker Reichert (another 500 page book!)

September

41. The Third Girl - Christie
42. The New Solar System - J. Kelly Beatty, found this under a book pile, with the marker still in chapter 4, where it's probably been since the 1990s, planning to finish it.

October

43. Endless Night - Christie
44. Anything with Nothing - Valdemar anthology
45. A Faithful Heart - Sally Dyck, church Bible study for Sept./Oct.
46. Quantum Leap 10: Odyssey - Barbara Walton
47. Alfred Hitchcock's Once Upon a Dreadful Time - 1960s anthology, for Halloween!
48. Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder - Mark Morris
49. We Solve Murders - Richard Osman

November

50. By the Pricking of my Thumbs - Christie
51. The Giggle - James Goss
52. The Haunted Monastery - Robert van Gulik
53. Founding of Valdemar #1- Beyond - Mercedes Lackey

December

54. Halloween Party - Christie
55. Mrs. Jefferies and the Merry Gentlemen - Emily Brightwell, my Christmas read

I made it to 54 books this year, with just one of the big coffee table books (#42) to carry over.