Challenges

Agatha Christie Reading Challenge

The goal of the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge is to read through all of Christie’s novels in order (and short story collections as well, although not necessarily in order).

As set up by Kerrie from the blog Mysteries in Paradise (click on badge at right to sign up yourself), the challenge uses the list of novels according to Wikipedia:

1920 – The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
1922 – The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
1923 – Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
1924 – The Man in The Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
1925 – The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie
1926 – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
1927 – The Big Four by Agatha Christie by Agatha Christie
1928 – The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
1929 -The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie
1930 – The Murder at the Vicarage
1931 – The Sittaford Mystery
also Murder at Hazelmoor
1932  – Peril at End House
1933  -  Lord Edgware Dies
also Thirteen at Dinner
1934  -  Murder on the Orient Express
also Murder in the Calais Coach
1934  – Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
also The Boomerang Clue
1935  -  Three Act Tragedy
also Murder in Three Acts
1935  – Death in the Clouds
also Death in the Air
1936  - The A.B.C. Murders
also The Alphabet Murders
1936   – Murder in Mesopotamia
1936  -  Cards on the Table
1937   – Dumb Witness
also Poirot Loses a Client
1937  – Death on the Nile
1938  – Appointment with Death
1938  -  Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
also Murder for Christmas
also A Holiday for Murder
1939   -  Murder is Easy
also Easy to Kill
1939  -  And Then There Were None
also Ten Little Indians
also Ten Little Niggers
1940  -  Sad Cypress
1940  – One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
also An Overdose of Death
also The Patriotic Murders
1941  -  Evil Under the Sun
1941  -  N or M?
1942  -  The Body in the Library
1942  – Five Little Pigs
also Murder in Retrospect
1942   – The Moving Finger
also The Case of the Moving Finger
1944  - Towards Zero
1944   – Death Comes as the End
1945   – Sparkling Cyanide
also Remembered Death
1946  – The Hollow
also Murder After Hours
1948  – Taken at the Flood
also There is a Tide…
1949 – Crooked House
1950  – A Murder is Announced
1951  – They Came to Baghdad
1952 – Mrs McGinty’s Dead
also Blood Will Tell
1952 – They Do It with Mirrors
also Murder with Mirrors
1953  – After the Funeral
also Funerals are Fatal
also Murder at the Gallop
1953 – A Pocket Full of Rye
1954     Destination Unknown
also So Many Steps to Death
1955  – Hickory Dickory Dock
also Hickory Dickory Death
1956  – Dead Man’s Folly
1957   – 4.50 from Paddington
also What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!
also Murder She Said
1958  – Ordeal by Innocence
1959 – Cat Among the Pigeons
1961 – The Pale Horse
1962     The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
also The Mirror Crack’d
1963 – The Clocks
1964 – A Caribbean Mystery
1965 – At Bertram’s Hotel
1966  – Third Girl
1967  – Endless Night
1968 – By the Pricking of My Thumbs
1969  – Hallowe’en Party
1970  – Passenger to Frankfurt
1971  – Nemesis
1972  -  Elephants Can Remember
1973  – Postern of Fate
1975  - Curtain
1976  – Sleeping Murder

The Baker Street Challenge

The Baker Street Challenge (click the button to join) is a 2009 reading challenge, in honor of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 150th birthday. Under the rules of the challenge, you can read as many or as little as you want. Just set a goal in the following tiers:

Reading Tier

Three Pipe Problem: 3 books
The Sign of Four: 4 books
Five Orange Pips: 5 books
Seven Percent Solution: 7 books

Me? I’ve selected to be in The Sign of the Four, with:

1. A Study in Scarlet
2. The Sign of the Four
3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
4. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer

Pulitzer Project

The goal of the participants of this site is to read all 81 books that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. There is no time limit. Here is the list with those books that I’ve read crossed off.

2008 – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2007 – The Road (McCarthy)
2006 – March (Brooks)
2005 – Gilead (Robinson)
2004 – The Known World (Jones)
2003 – Middlesex (Eugenides)
2002 – Empire Falls (Russo)
2001 – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Chabon)
2000 – Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri)
1999 – The Hours (Cunningham)
1998 – American Pastoral (Roth)
1997 – Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (Millhauser)
1996 – Independence Day (Ford)
1995 – The Stone Diaries (Shields)
1994 – The Shipping News (Proulx)
1993 – A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (Butler)
1992 – A Thousand Acres (Smiley)
1991 – Rabbit at Rest (Updike)
1990 – The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Hijuelos)
1989 – Breathing Lessons (Tyler)
1988 – Beloved (Morrison)
1987 – A Summons to Memphis (Taylor)
1986 – Lonesome Dove (McMurtry)
1985 – Foreign Affairs (Lurie)
1984 – Ironweed (Kennedy)
1983 – The Color Purple (Walker)
1982 – Rabbit is Rich (Updike)
1981 – A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole)
1980 – The Executioner’s Song (Mailer)
1979 – The Stories of John Cheever (Cheever)
1978 – Elbow Room (McPherson)
1977 – None given
1976 – Humboldt’s Gift (Bellow)
1975 - The Killer Angels (Shaara)
1974 – None given
1973 – The Optimist’s Daughter (Welty)
1972 – Angle of Repose (Stegner)
1971 – None given
1970 – Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Stafford)
1969 – House Made of Dawn (Momaday)
1968 – The Confessions of Nat Turner (Styron)
1967 – The Fixer (Malamud)
1966 – Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Porter)
1965 – The Keepers Of the House (Grau)
1964 – None given
1963 – The Reivers (Faulkner)
1962 – The Edge of Sadness (Edwin O’Connor)
1961 – To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
1960 – Advise and Consent (Drury)
1959 – The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (Taylor)
1958 – A Death in the Family (Agee)
1957 – None
1956 – Andersonville (Kantor)
1955 – A Fable (Faulkner)
1954 – None
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)
1952 – The Caine Mutiny (Wouk)
1951 – The Town (Richter)
1950 – The Way West (Guthrie)
1949 – Guard of Honor (Cozzens)
1948 – Tales of the South Pacific (Michener)
1947 – All the King’s Men (Warren)
1946 – None
1945 – Bell for Adano (Hersey)
1944 – Journey in the Dark (Flavin)
1943 – Dragon’s Teeth I (Sinclair)
1942 – In This Our Life (Glasgow)
1941 – None
1940 – The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)
1939 – The Yearling (Rawlings)
1938 – The Late George Apley (Marquand)
1937 – Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)
1936 – Honey in the Horn (Davis)
1935 – Now in November (Johnson)
1934 – Lamb in His Bosom (Miller)
1933 – The Store (Stribling)
1932 – The Good Earth (Buck)
1931 – Years of Grace (Barnes)
1930 – Laughing Boy (Lafarge)
1929 – Scarlet Sister Mary (Peterkin)
1928 – The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Wilder)
1927 – Early Autumn (Bromfield)
1926 – Arrowsmith (Lewis)
1925 – So Big (Ferber)
1924 – The Able McLauglins (Wilson)
1923 – One of Ours (Cather)
1922 – Alice Adams (Tarkington)
1921 – The Age of Innocence (Wharton)
1920 – None
1919 – The Magnificent Ambersons (Tarkington)
1918 – His Family (Poole)

Awards

from Gautami Tripathy @ Reading Room

from Margaret @ BooksPlease

from Bethany @ B&B Ex Libris

from Rebecca @ Lost in Books: