Judy’s Comments (group member since Jan 02, 2011)

Judy’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

by Judy. I'm ready to start
1. Cooking as Fast as I Can--Cat Cora
2. Death at Dovecote Hatch--Dorothy Cannell
3. The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine--Alexander McCall Smith
4. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?--Roz Chast
5. The Romanov Sisters--Helen Rappaport
6. H is for Hawk--Helen MacDonald
7. One L--Scott Turow
8. A Lesson in Dying--Ann Cleeves
9. The American Home Front: 1941-1942--Alistair Cooke
10. Patriot Games--Tom Clancy
11. The Ragamuffin Gospel--Brennan Manning
12. The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854--William W. Freehling
13. Curse of Rasputin--Daily Thurbin
14. The Harlequin Tea Set--Agatha Christie
15. Winnie-the-Pooh--A.A. Milne
16. The September Society--Charles Finch

Judy's Decade Challenge for 2015
I will attempt Level IX
2015
1. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust--Alan Bradley
2. Dreaming Spies--Laurie R. King
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2014
1. Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty--Diane Keaton
2. The Curious Case of the Cooper Corpse--Alan Bradley
3. Yes, Please--Amy Poehler
4. Nine Lives to Die--Rita Mae Brown
5. In the Company of Sherlock Holmes--Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger
6. Sunshine on Scotland Street--Alexander McCall Smith
7. Eisenhower--Paul Johnson
8. The Long Way Home--Louise Penny
9. The Monogram Murders--Sophie Hannah
10. The Museum of Extraordinary Things--Alice Hoffman
11. The Andy Cohen Diaries--Andy Cohen
12. Moriarty--Anthony Horowitz
13. 41: Portrait of My Father--George W. Bush
14. The Boston Girl--Anita Diamant
2013
1. Mr. Lynch's Holiday--Catherine O'Flynn
2. The All Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion--Fanny Flagg
3. Silent Voices--Ann Cleeves
4. Hushabye--Celina Grace
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2012
1. The House at Sea's End--Elly Griffiths
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2011
1. A Study in Sherlock--Laurie R. King &Leslie S. Klinger
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2010
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2007
1. I May Be Big But I Didn't Cause that Solar Eclipse--Gordon Kirkland
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1. The Path Between the Seas--David McCullough
2. Funny in Farsi--Firoozeh Dumas
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2003
1. The Party Cloudy Patriot--Sarah Vowell
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I will post as I read.

Judy's Books in 2015
1. The Path Between the Seas--David McCullough
2. Mr. Lynch's Holiday--Catherine O'Flynn
3. Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty--Diane Keaton
4. A Pint of Murder--Charlotte MacLeod
5. The Rubber Band--Rex Stout
6. A Child's Christmas in Wales--Dylan Thomas
7. The Curious Case of the Cooper Corpse--Alan Bradley
8. Yes, Please!--Amy Poehler
9. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust--Alan Bradley
10. The Red Box--Rex Stout
11. Funny in Farsi--Firoozeh Dumas
12. The All Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion--Fannie Flagg
13. Queen Elizabeth II--Nicholas Davies
14. Nine Lives to Die--Rita Mae Brown
15. A Study in Sherlock--Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger
16. In the Company of Sherlock Holmes--Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger
17. Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage--M.C. Beaton
18. The Age of Innocence--Edith Wharton
19. Sunshine on Scotland Street--Alexander McCall Smith
20. Eisenhower--Paul Johnson
21. Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham--M.C. Beaton
22. The Long Way Home--Louise Penny
23. The Monogram Murders--Sophie Hannah
24. The Museum of Extraordinary Things--Alice Hoffman
25. Silent Voices--Ann Cleeves
26. The House at Sea's End--Elly Griffiths
27. The Andy Cohen Diaries--Andy Cohen
28. Moriarty--Anthony Horowitz
29. 41: A Portrait of My Father--George W. Bush
30. The Partly Cloudy Patriot--Sarah Vowell
31. The Boston Girl--Anita Diamant
32. I May Be Big But I Didn't Cause the Solar Eclipse--Gordon Kirkland
33. Dreaming Spies--Laurie R. King
34. Ordeal by Innocence--Agatha Christie
35. Not My Father's Son--Alan Cumming
36. Savage Harvest--Carl Hoffman
37. The Return of George Washington--Edward J. Larson
38. Make It Happen--Lara Casey
39. Hollywood Stories--Stephen Schochet
40. Murder by the Book--Rex Stout
41. Three for the Chair--Rex Stout
42. A Bird in the Hand--Ann Cleeves
43. Tinseltown--William J. Mann
44. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd--Agatha Christie
45. Lila--Marilynn Robinson
46. Harm None--Will North
47. Hushabye--Celina Grace

I'm going to try Level VIII. Fingers crossed.
2005
1. Gasping for Airtime--Jay Mohr
2. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close--Jonathan Safran Foer
3. Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin--Marion Meade
4. The Unknown American Revolution--Gary B. Nash
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2006
1. A Christmas Secret--Anne Perry
2. The God Delusion--Richard Dawkins
3. America--Jon Stewart
4. Tales From the Crib--Jennifer Coburn
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2007
1. A Suitable Vengeance--Elizabeth George
2. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle--Barbara Kingsolver
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2008
1. Not Quite What I Was Planning--Fershliser and Smith
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2009
1. Attila the Hun--John Man
2. Churchill's Bunker's--Richard Holmes
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2010
1. Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good--Josh Levine
2. It All Changed in an Instant--Larry Smith
3. American on Purpose--Craig Ferguson
4. Death by a HoneyBee--Abigail Keam
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2011
1. Kill Alex Cross--James Patterson
2. Twelve Drummers Drumming--C.C. Benison
3. Death Before Compline--Sharan Newman
4. The Girl in the Green Raincoat--Laura Lippman
5. Those Guys Have All the Fun--James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales
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2012
1. Loose Diamonds--Amy Ephron
2. What Einstein Kept Under His Hat--Robert L. Wolke
3. Eleven Pipers Piping--C.C. Benison
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2013
1. The World's Strongest Librarian--Josh Hanagame
2. The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon--Alexander McCall Smith
3. Spider Woman's Daughter--Anne Hillerman
4. The Storyteller--Jodi Picoult
5. The Execution of Noa P. Singleton--Elizabeth Silver
6. A Christmas Hope--Anne Perry
7. 12th of Never--James Patterson
8. Kinsey and Me--Sue Grafton
9. Still Foolin' 'Em--Billy Crystal
10. Lookaway, Lookaway--Wilton Barnhardt
11. Empty Mansions--Bill Dedman
12. Dying for Dinner Rolls-Lois Lavrisa
13. Critical Mass--Sara Paretsky
2014
1. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches--Alan Bradley
2. These Few Precious Days--Christopher Anderson
3. The Divorce Papers--Susan Rieger
4. Hunting Shadows--Charles Todd
5. Not to Be Missed--Kenneth Turan
6. The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls--Anton DiSclafani
7. The Blood of an Englishman--M.C. Beaton
8. The Nixon Tapes--Douglas Brinkley/Luke A Nichter
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eJudy's Books for 2014
I can't wait to get started.
1. A Suitable Vengeance--Elizabeth George
2. The World's Strongest Librarian--Josh Hanagame
3. A Christmas Secret--Anne Perry
4. The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon--Alexander McCall Smith
5. Spider Woman's Daughter--Anne Hillerman
6. Always on Sunday--Michael David Harris
7. English Country House Murders--edited by Thomas Godfrey
8. The Storyteller--Jodi Picoult
9. The Execution of Noa P. Singleton--Elizabeth Silver
10. Gasping for Airtime--Jay Mohr
11. A Christmas Hope--Anne Perry
12. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches--Alan Bradley
13. 12th of Never--James Patterson
14. The Cricket on the Hearth--Charles Dickens
15. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience--Henry David Thoreau
16. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close--Jonathan Safran Foer
17. The God Delusion--Richard Dawkins
18. The Listening Eye--Patricia Wentworth
19. Kill Alex Cross--James Patterson
20. Cold Comfort--Charles Todd
21. Kinsey and Me--Sue Grafton
22. Twelve Drummers Drumming--C.C. Benison
23. Wuthering Heights--Emily Bronte
24. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays--Ree Dummond
25. Grab Bag--Charlotte MacLeod
26. Death Before Compline--Sharan Newman
27. Elephants Can Remember--Agatha Christie
28. Great Expectations--Charles Dickens
29. Familiar Faces: Stories of People You Know--Mary Roberts Reinhart
30. Loose Diamonds--Amy Ephron
31. Still Foolin' 'Em--Billy Crystal
32. The Mermaid's Chair--Sue Monk Kidd
33. Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin--Marion Meade
34. Ender's Game--Orson Scott Card
35. Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good--Josh Levine
36. Death in the Clouds--Agatha Christie
37. Lookaway, Lookaway--Wilton Barnhardt
38. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle--Barbara Kingsolver
39. Empty Mansions--Bill Dedman
40. Not Quite What I Was Planning--Fershleiser and Smith
41. Hangman's Holiday--Dorothy L. Sayers
42. It All Changed in an Instant--Larry Smith
43. American on Purpose--Crai Ferguson
44. These Few Precious Days--Christopher Anderson
45. Dying for Dinner Rolls--Lois Lavrisa
46. In the Teeth of the Evidence--Dorothy L. Sayers
47. The Winter Garden Mystery--Carola Dunn
48. Those Guys Have All the Fun--James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales
49. Alibi for Isabel and Other Stories--Mary Roberts Rinehart
50. The Moving Finger--Agatha Christie
51. Critical Mass--Sara Paretsky
52. The Divorce Papers--Susan Rieger
53. The Rosie Project--Graeme Simsion
54. Mama Learns to Drive--Donald Davis
55. What Einstein Kept Under His Hat--Robert L. Wolke
56. Eleven Pipers Piping--C.C. Benison
57. Married People--Mary Roberts Reinhart
58. America--Jon Stewart
59. Tales From the Crib--Jennifer Coburn
60. Pagan Spring--G.M. Malliet
61. Death by a HoneyBee--Abigail Keam
62. That's What Mamas Do--Donald Davis
63. The Secret of the Old Clock--Carolyn Keene
64. Hunting Shadows--Charles Todd
65. The Watersplash--Patricia Wentworth
66. Her Death of Cold--Ralph McInerny
67. Bishop as Pawn--Ralph McInerny
68. Attila the Hun--John Man
69. The Unknown American Revolution--Gary B. Nash
70. Not to be Missed--Kenneth Turan
71. An Idea Whose Time Has Come--Todd Purdum
72. Leaving Everything Most Loved--Jacqueline
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73. The Dinner--Herman Koch
74. The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls--Anton DiSclafani
75. Churchill's Bunker--Richard Holmes
76. Five Days in November--Clint Hill
77. The Nixon Tapes--Douglas Brinkley/Luke A. Nichter

e/Finally made it to Level 2
101. The Burgess Boys--Elizabeth Strout
102. The Family Vault--Charlotte MacLeod
103. The Last Girls--Lee Smith
104. The Clocks--Agatha Christie
105. Treason at Lisson Grove--Anne Perry
106. Peter the Great--Robert K. Massie
107. Treason at Lisson Grove--Anne Perry
108. Last Night at the Ritz--Elizabeth Savage
109. The Innocence of Father Brown--G.K. Chesterton
110. Elsewhere--Richard Russo
111. The Difficult Saint--Sharan Newman
112. Assholes: A Theory--Aaron James
113. The View From Penthouse B--Elinor Lipman
114. A Lesson Before Dying--Ernest Gaines
115. Death of a Cad--M. C. Beaton
116. The Astronaut Wives Club--Lily Koppel
117. Keeper of the Keys--Perri O'Shaughnessy
118. The Bean Trees--Barbara Kingsolver
119. Storm Track--Margaret Maron
120. 1185 Park Avenue--Anne Roiphe
121. Listening Woman--Tony Hillerman
122. The Buzzard's Table--Margaret Maron
123. The Importance of Being Seven--Alexander McCall Smith
124. Z--Therese Anne Fowler
125. Never Change--Elizabeth Berg
126. Common Sense--Thomas Paine
127. The Picture of Dorian Gray--Oscar Wilde
128. A Pocket Full of Rye--Agatha Christie
129. Hello Goodbye Hello--Craig Brown
130. The Story of Us--Leah Stewart
131. Argo--Antonio Mendez
132. Call the Midwife--Jennifer Worth
133. Mom & Me & Mom--Maya Angelou
134. Inferno--Dan Brown
135. Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls--David Sedaris
136. The Ghostway--Tony Hillerman
137. Landscape Turned Red--Stephen W. Sears
138. The Once and Future King--T.H. White
139. The Dark Wind--Tony Hillerman
140. Pigs in Heaven--Barbara Kingsolver
141. Serving Victoria--Kate Hubbard
142. How I Slept My Way to the Middle--Kevin Pollak
143. Third Girl--Agatha Christie
144. Murder at Marble Arch--Anne Perry
145. The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat--Edward Kelsey Moore
146. Standup Guys--John DeBillis
147. A Christmas Homecoming--Anne Perry
148. Bunker Hill--Nathaniel Philbrick
149. The Last Word--Lisa Lutz
150. Corelli's Mandolin--Louis de Bernieres
151. Long Time Leaving--Ray Blount, Jr.
152. Crooked House--Agatha Christie
153. Going Clear--Lawrence Wright
154. Endless Night--Agatha Christie
155. The Petticoat Affair--John F. Marszalek
156. The Casual Vacancy--J.K. Rowling
157. The Gladstone Bag--Charlotte MacLeod
158. The Life of Elizabeth I--Alison Weir
159. Sky Woman Falling--Kirk Mitchell
160. Dead, White, and Blue--Carolyn Hart
161. A Week in Winter--Maeve Binchey
162. Something Borrowed, Something Dead--M.C. Beaton
163. Christmas Crumble--M. C. Beaton
164. Tapestry of Fortunes--Elizabeth Berg
165. The Drunken Botanist--Amy Stewart
166. Heirs and Graces--Rhys Bowen
167. The Alpine Xanadu--Mary Daheim
168. The Great Decision--Cliff Sloan/David McKean
169. People of Darkness--Tony Hillerman
170. A Christmas Garland--Anne Perry
171. Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules--David Sedaris
172. True Believers--Joe Queenan
173. The Fly on the Wall--Tony Hillerman
174. 1861: The Civil War Awakening--Adam Goodheart
175. Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener---M.C. Beaton
176. 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents--David Pietrusza
177. The Cuckoo's Calling--Robert Galbraith
178. Vienna 1814--David King
179. Shadows on the Coast of Maine--Lea Wait
180. Dad is Fat--Jim Gaffigan
181. The Entertainer--Margaret Talbot
182. What Would MacGyver Do?--Brendan Vaughan
183. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt--Edmund Morris
184. Theodore Rex--Edmund Morris
185. Ten Days That Shook the World--John Reed
186. The Reason I Jump--Naoi Higashida
187. The Logic of International Relations--Walter S. Jones
188. Politics Among Nations--Hans J. Morganthau
189. Boy--Roald Dahl
190. Winterdance--Gary Paulsen
191. Wait Till Next Year--Doris Kearns Goodwin
192. Bird by Bird--Anne Lamott
193. Murder on the Orient Express--Agatha Christie
194. Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories--Agatha Christie
195. A Christmas Carol--Charles Dickins
196. A Christmas Journey--Anne Perry
197. A Christmas Visitor--Anne Perry
198. Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley--M.C. Beaton
199. Death of an Outsider--M.C. Beaton
200. Les Miserables--Victor Hugo

Jane wrote: "How long does a book have to be to count for this challenge?
Anybody?"

I just put them all on. I've noticed that some people have even listed a few children's books. My feeling is that it's a personal challenge so you can do what you want.

I can't wait to get started in 2013.
1. The Good News from North Haven--Michael Lindvall
2. Winter Journal--Paul Auster
3. And Four to Go--Rex Stout
4. Life Itself--Roger Ebert
5. Acceptable Loss-Anne Perry
6. Mrs. Kennedy and Me--Clint Hill
7. The Christmas Cantata--Mark Schweizer
8. Emily, Alone--Stewart O'Nan
9. Mrs. McGinty's Dead--Agatha Christie
10. Homer's Odyssey--Gwen Cooper
11. The Portable Curmudgeon--Jon Winokur
12. Eeny Meeny Murder Mo--Rex Stout
13. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore--Robin Sloan
14. Wicked Plants--Amy Stewart
15. Crash Diet--Jill McCorkle
16. This Won't Kill You--Rex Stout
17. Disobedience--Naomi Alderman
18. The Distinguished Guest--Sue Miller
19. Bootlegger's Daughter--Margaret Maron
20. The Worst Hard Time--Timothy Egan
21. The Face of a Stranger--Anne Perry
22. The Oath--Jeffrey Toobin
23. The American Cookbook--Carol Fisher
24. And Then There Were None--Agatha Christie
25. The Truth About Santa--Gregory Mone
26. The Vanderbilt Women--Clarice Stasz
27. Tell the Wolves I'm Home--Carol Rifka Brunt
28. A Morbid Taste for Bones--Ellis Peters
29. Milk Glass Moon--Adriana Trigiani
30. Speaking From Among the Bones--Alan Bradley
31. "I" is for Innocent--Sue Grafton
32. McNally's Puzzle--Lawrence Sanders
33. Funerals are Fatal--Agatha Christie
34. The Mysterious Mr. Quin--Agatha Christie
35. The End of Your Life Book Club--Will Schwalbe
36. Sleep of the Unjust--E.X. Ferrars
37. Paris: A Love Story--Kati Marton
38. The House at Riverton--Kate Morton
39. American Dervish--Ayad Akhtar
40. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings--Maya Angelou
41. Mrs. Queen Takes the Train--William Kuhn
42. The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said--Robert Byrne
43. First Among Sequels--Jasper Fforde
44. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal--William E. Leuchtenburg
45. Sparkling Cyanide--Agatha Christie
46. Help Thanks Wow--Anne Lamott
47. Holy Disorders--Edmund Crispin
48. The Treble Wore Trouble--Mark Schweizer
49. Masked Ball at Broxley Manor--Rhys Bowen
50. The Zimmermann Telegram--Barbara Tuchman
51. Confederates in the Attic--Tony Horwitz
52. Teacher Man--Frank McCourt
53. Yes, Chef--Marcus Samuelsson
54. A Fatal Winter--G.M. Malliet
55. The Murder of the Century--Paul Collins
56. P is for Peril--Sue Grafton
57. Let's Pretend This Never Happened--Jenny Lawson
58. Search the Dark--Charles Todd
59. The Hermit of Eyton Forest--Ellis Peters
60. My Mother Was Nuts--Penny Marshall
61. The Joy Luck Club--Amy Tan
62. Eleanor: The Years Alone--Joseph Lash
63. The Beekeeper's Apprentice--Laurie R. King
64. Beautiful Ruins--Jess Walter
65. Name Dropping: From FDR On--John Kenneth Galbraith
66. Dutch--Edmund Morris
67. Garment of Shadows--Laurie R. King
68. Gideon's Trumpet--Anthony Lewis
69. Distory--Robert Schnakenberg
70. Object Lessons--Anna Quindlen
71. Father Melancholy's Daughter--Gail Godwin
72. So Many Books, So Little Time--Sara Nelson
73. Quartet in Autumn--Barbara Pym
74. The Family Man--Elinor Lipman
75. The Cemetery Yew--Cynthia Riggs
76. Wish You Were Here--Stewart O'Nan
77. Queen Victoria's Granddaughters--Christina Croft
78. Snowballs and Scotch Mist--Andrea Frazer
79. Death of Yesterday--M.C. Beaton
80. I Want My MTV--Craig Marks
81. The Pleasure of My Company--Steve Martin
82. The President's House-Margaret Truman
83. The Ayton Swans--Alison Greaves
84. Love and Hate in Jamestown--David A. Price
85. All Over But the Shoutin'--Rick Bragg
86. The Pull of the Moon--Elizabeth Berg
87. Rumpole and the Angel of Death--John Mortimer
88. The River King--Alice Hoffman
89. Proof of Guilt--Charles Todd
90. Creatures of Habit--Jill McCorkle
91. Who Killed Bianca?--Emma Darcy
92. Vet in the Vestry--Alexander Cameron
93. The Testament of Mary--Colm Toibin
94. Coolidge--Amity Shlaes
95. My Latest Grievance--Elinor Lipman
96. Watching the Dark--Peter Robinson
97. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie--Ayana Mathias
98. Dumb Witness--Agatha Christie
99. Death of a Celebrity--M.C. Beaton
100. The Right Words at the Right Time--Marlo Thomas

On to Level 2!

t's June 18th and I'm finally at Level 2.
101. Death in a White Tie--Ngaio Marsh
102. The Hollow--Agatha Christie
103. Bloody Crimes--James L. Swanson
104. Imagine--Jonah Lehrer
105. The Attenbury Emeralds--Jill Paton Walsh
106. An Unmarked Grave--Charles Todd
107. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake--Anna Quindlen
108. Master of the Senate--Robert Caro
109. Elizabeth the Queen--Sally Bedell Smith
110. Cover Her Face--P. D. James
111. Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress--Susan Jane Gilman
112. Colour Scheme--Ngaio Marsh
113. We Have Always Lived in the Castle--Shirley Jackson
114. Before the Poison--Peter Robinson
115. Dispatches From the Edge--Anderson Cooper
116. A Gracious Plenty--Sheri Reynolds
117. Sight Unseen--Mary Roberts Rinehart
118. Home Front--Kristin Hannah
119. Death at the Bar--Ngaio Marsh
120. Jane Eyre--Charlotte Bronte
121. Wild--Cheryl Strayed
122. Doctor Sally--P.G. Wodehouse
123. The Cat's Table--Michael Ondaatje
124. Heading Out to Wonderful--Robert Goolrick
125. Drawing Conclusions--Donna Leon
126. Drop Dead Healthy--A.J. Jacobs
127. Grace (Eventually)--Anne Lamott
128. If Ever I Return, Peggy-O--Sharyn McCrumb
129. The Ballad of Tom Dooley--Sharyn McCrumb
130. Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons--Greg Fitzsimmons
131. What the Dead Know--Laura Lippman
132. On Chesil Beach--Ian McEwen
133. The Body in the Boudoir--Katherine Hall Page
134. A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar--Suzanne Joinson
135. Last of the Mohicans--James Fenimore Cooper
136. A Thousand Acres--Jame Smiley
137. The Man With a Load of Mischief--Martha Grimes
138. Endgame--Frank Brady
139. Death of a Hollow Man--Caroline Graham
140. Tara Road--Maeve Binchy
141. Black-Eyed Susan--Laura Lippman
142. Most Talkative--Andy Cohen
143. Good Evening, Mrs. Craven--Mollie Panter-Downes
144. Crewel World--Monica Ferris
145. How It All Began--Penelope Lively
146. The Yard--Alex Grecian
147. The Rope--Nevada Barr
148. War in a Time of Peace--David Halberstam
149. A Conspiracy of Friends--Alexander McCall Smith
150. Murder at Madingley Grange--Caroline Graham
151. The Big Cat Nap--Rita Mae and Sneaky Pie Brown
152. The Greater Journey--David McCullough
153. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie--Muriel Spark
154. The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln--Stephen L. Carter
155. The Uninvited Guests--Sadie Jones
156. The War for Late Night--Bill Carter
157. The Beautiful Mystery--Louise Penny
158. The Leper of St. Giles--Ellis Peters
159. Surfeit of Lampreys--Ngaio Marsh
160. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life--Richard Hofstader
161. The Age of Miracles--Karen Thompson Walker
162. The Case of the Perfect Maid--Agatha Christie
163. The Tape Measure Murder--Agatha Christie
164. The Witness for the Prosecution--Agatha Christie
165. Dead Man's Folly--Agatha Christie
166. God's Hotel--Victoria Sweet
167. The Light Between Oceans--M.L. Stedman
168. Year of Wonders--Geraldine Brooks
169. This is Where I Leave You--Jonathan Tropper
170. Too Big to Miss--Sue Ann Jaffarian
171. Hiss and Hers--M.C. Beaton
172. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry--Rachael Joyce
173. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana--Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
174. Bring Up the Bodies--Hilary Mantel
175. Black As He's Painted--Ngaio Marsh
176. Gone Girl--Gillian Flynn
177. The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter--Sharyn McCrumb
178. Payment in Blood--Elizabeth George
179. The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.--Nichole Bernier
180. Einstein's Refrigerator--Steve Silverman
181. Loud and Clear--Anna Quindlen
182. Deliverance--James Dickey
183. Game Change--John Heilemann
184. Seating Arrangements--Maggie Shipstead
185. Appointment with Death--Agatha Christie
186. The Woman Who Died a Lot--Jasper Fforde
187. State of Wonder--Ann Patchett
188. A Sunless Sea--Anne Perry
189. Hercule Poirot's Christmas--Agatha Christie
190. Drama: An Actor's Education--John Lithgow
191. Cocaine Blues--Kerry Greenwood
192. Well-Schooled in Murder--Elizabeth George
193. Double Cross--Ben Macintyre
194. Jeneration X--Jen Lancaster
195. A Rumpole Christmas
196. The Jerusalem Inn--Martha Grimes
197. Diary of a Mall Santa--Stewart Scott
198. The Twelve Clues of Christmas--Rhys Bowen
199. Very Good, Jeeves--P.G. Wodehouse
200. Charm City--Laura Lippman
201. Superfreakonomics--Steven D. Levitt
202. A Christmas Memory--Truman Capote
203. Madness Under the Royal Palms--Laurence Leamer
204. American Lady: The Life of Susan Mary Alsop--Caroline de Margerie
205. Working--Studs Terkel
206. Heads in Beds--Jacob Tomsky

And to start the New Year:
1. The Troubled Man--Henning Mankell
2. One of Our Thursdays is Missing--Jasper Fforde
3. Just Kids--Patti Smith
4. Lush Life--Richard Price
5. A Presumption of Death--Dorothy Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh
6. The Night Train--Clyde Edgerton
7. Death Threads--Elizabeth Lynn Casey
8. Buttons and Foes--Dolores Johnson
9. A Bitter Truth--Charles Todd
10, The Vicious Vet--M.C. Beaton
11. The Hangman--Louise Penny
12. The Forgotten Affairs of Youth--Alexander McCall Smith
13. The Kitchen House--Kathleen Grissom
14. The Language of Flowers--Vanessa Diffenbaugh
15. Smokin' Seventeen--Janet Evanovich
16. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister--Gregory Maguire
17. The Man in the Wooden Hat--Jane Gardam
18. Hemingway's Boat--Paul Hendrickson
19. All Fishermen Are Liars--Linda Greenlaw
20. Holy Ghost Girl--Donna Johnson
21. Death of a Gossip--M.C. Beaton
22. Minding Frankie--Maeve Binchy
23. Krakatoa--Simon Winchester
24. The Golden Ball and Other Stories--Agatha Christie
25. Rin Tin Tin--Susan Orlean
26. The Confession--Charles Todd
27. The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories--Agatha Christie
28. Medium Raw--Anthony Bourdain
29. Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs--Patrick F. McManus
30. A Share in Death--Deborah Crombie
31. Wild Horses--Dick Francis
32. Finding Moon--Tony Hillerman
33. A Civil Action--Jonathan Harr
34. The Charming Quirks of Others--Alexander McCall Smith
35. City of Whispers--Marcia Muller
36. My Seinfeld Year--Fred Stoller
37. To Darkness and to Death--Julia Spencer-Fleming
38. Mirror, Mirror--Gregory Maguire
39. Catherine the Great--Robert Massie
40. Extraordinary Patriots--Nancy Robinson Masters
41. Royal Flush--Rhys Bowen
42. A Confederacy of Dunces--John Kennedy Toole
43. The Nine Tailors--Dorothy Sayers
44. Then Came You--Jennifer Weiner
45. Agent Zigzag--Ben Macintyre
46. If You Can't Stand the Heat--Robin Allen
47. Honest Doubt--Amanda Cross
48. The Defining Moment--Jonathan Alter
49. That Bear Ate My Pants--Tony James Slater
50. The Weird Sisters--Eleanor Brown
51. The Fallen Curtain--Ruth Rendell
52. Trail of the Spellmans--Lisa Lutz
53. The Red Garden--Alice Hoffman
54. By Myself and Then Some--Lauren Bacall
55. Artists in Crime--Ngaio Marsh
56. Simon Said--Sarah Shaber
57. The Art of Fielding--Chad Harbach
58. Enemies, A Love Story--Josh Schollmeyer
59. The Fairy Tale Detectives--Michael Buckley
60. Elizabeth and Hazel--David Margolick
61. Messenger of Truth--Jacqueline Winspear
62. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day--Winifred Watson
63. Swim Back to Me--Ann Packer
64. Hedy's Folly--Richard Rhodes
65. Cool, Calm, & Contentious--Merrill Markoe
66. The Rose Rent--Ellis Peters
67. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down--Anne Fadiman
68. An Incomplete Revenge--Jacqueline Winspear
69. Death Comes to Pemberley--P.D. James
70. Four Sisters--Nancy Goldstone
71. A Double Death on the Black Isle--A.D. Scott
72. The Vicious Circle--edited by Otto Penzler
73. Three-Mile Town--Margaret Maron
74. Elegy for Eddie--Jacqueline Winspear
75. Defending Jacob--William Landay
76. Every Secret Thing--Laura Lippman
77. The New, New Rules--Bill Maher
78. The Roman Hat Murder--Ellery Queen
79. The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection--Alexander McCall Smith
80. V is for Vengeance--Sue Grafton
81. The Cater Street Hangman--Anne Perry
82. Jonathan Edwards--Perry Miller
83. The Glass Castle--Jeannette Walls
84. The Path to Power--Robert Caro
85. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children--Ransom Riggs
86. A Great Deliverance--Elizabeth George
87. Skippy Dies--Paul Murray
88. Almost President--Scott Farris
89. Murder in Mount Holly--Paul Theroux
90. Dorchester Terrace--Anne Perry
91. The Memory of Running--Ron McLarty
92. No Mark Upon Her--Deborah Crombie
93. The Faiths of the Founding Fathers--David L. Holmes
94. Quiet--Susan Cain
95. Means of Ascent--Robert Caro
96. Death of a Kingfisher--M.C. Beaton
97. Saturday Night Cocoa Fudge--Gloria Teague
98. Grayson--Lynne Cox
99. Then Again--Diane Keaton
100. Naughty in Nice--Rhys Bowen

I know that it's December, but I made it.
201. The Tiger's Wife--Tea Obreht
202. The Night Circus--Erin Morgenstern
203. Food Rules--Michael Pollan
204. Shockaholic--Carrie Fisher
205. The Quiche of Death--M.C. Beaton
206. The Happiest Days--Iain Manson
207. A Grave Mistake--Ngaio Marsh
208. Midnight Rising--Tony Horwitz
209. The Various Haunts of Men--Susan Hill
210. The Big Year--Mark Obmascik

I would love to be involved with this. I think that I will post as I go along.

I think that I will start with Pearl.

P=Palm Trees on the Hudson--Elliot Tiber
E=East of Eden--John Stinebeck
A=And the Rest is History--Marlene Wagman-Geller
R=Rumpole of the Bailey--John Mortimer
L=Last Ditch--Ngaio

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Melanie wrote: "Welcome Christine and Judy!

Thx Julie:-D"

Thanks. I love setting a goal with my reading.

Julie wrote: "Judy wrote: "I can't believe that I made it to Level 2
101. The Saturday Big Ten Wedding Party--Alexander McCall Smith"

Woot! Welcome!"

Thanks. I love this challenge.

I can't believe that I made it to Level 2
101. The Saturday Big Ten Wedding Party--Alexander McCall Smith
102. Fire Season--Philip Connors
103. Learn Me Good--John Pearson
104. Scandalous Women--Elizabeth Kerri Mahon
105. One Christmas in Washington--David Bercuson & Holger Herwig
106. A History of God--Karen Armstrong
107. Red Bones--Ann Cleeve
108. For You Mom, Finally--Ruth Reichl
109. Nemesis--Agatha Christie
110. Peace Like a River--Leif Enger
111. Three Act Tragedy--Agatha Christie
112. The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World--Susan Veness
113. The Pig Did It--Joseph Caldwell
114. The Case of the Missing Books--Ian Sansom
115. Go the F**k to Sleep--Adam Mansbach
116. Hotel Angeline: A Novel in Thirty-Six Voices--Garth Stein et al.
117. Happiness Sold Separately--Lolly Winston
118. Retail Hell--Freeman Hall
119. The American Home Front, 1941-1942--Alistair Cooke
120. Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me--Various Authors
121. Bossypants--Tina Fey
122. The President is a Sick Man--Matthew Algeo
123. Rumpole for the Defence--John Mortimer
124. Sing You Home--Jodi Picoult
125. Mr. Dixon Disappears--Ian Sansom
126. The Lonely Polygamist--Brady Udall
127. Rumpole and the Golden Thread--John Mortimer
128. Belle Ruin--Martha Grimes
129. Into the Wild--Jon Krakauer
130. Rumpole's Last Case--John Mortimer
131. Fatal Voyage--Kathy Reichs
132. Grave Secrets--Kathy Reichs
133. Palm Trees on the Hudson--Elliot Tiber
134. Blue Lightning--Ann Cleeves
135. The Paris Wife--Paula McLain
136. Stories I Only Tell My Friends--Rob Lowe
137. In the Garden of Beasts--Erik Larsen
138. Very Good Jeeves--P.G. Wodehouse
139. Rumpole Rests His Case--John Mortimer
140. Caleb's Crossing--Geraldine Brooks
141. Manhunt--James Swanson
142. If You Ask Me--Betty White
143. The Body in the Gazebo--Katherine Hall Page
144. Crunch Time--Diane Mott Davidson
145. The Reservoir--John Milliken Thompson
146. The Wordy Shipmates--Sarah Vowell
147. Friday the Rabbi Slept Late--Harry Kemelman
148. Please Look After Mom--Kyung-Sook Shin
149. Something Rotten--Jasper Fforde
150. Sex on the Moon--Ben Mezrich
151. One Was a Soldier--Julia Spencer-Fleming
152. Dust--Martha Grimes
153. Once Upon a Time, There Was You--Elizabeth Berg
154. Somewhere Towards the End--Diane Athill
155. Bring on the Empty Horses--David Niven
156. Tracks--Louise Erdrich
157. Four Souls--Louise Erdrich
158. Mr. Chartwell--Rebecca Hunt
159. A Trick of the Light--Louise Penny
160. A Stolen Life--Jaycee Dugard
161. The Book Stops Here--Ian Sansom
162. Poirot's Early Cases--Agatha Christie
163. Assassination Vacation--Sarah Vowell
164. Rules of Civility--Amor Towles
165. The Darling Dahlias and the Cumcumber Tree--Susan Wittig Albert
166. Murder on the Links--Agatha Christie
167. Rumpole a la Carte--John Mortimer
168. How to Dump Your Boyfriend in the Men's Room--Sibel Hodge
169. The Best Advice I Ever Got--Katie Couric
170. A Distant Mirror--Barbara Tuchman
171. Grey Mask--Patricia Wentworth
172. Alexander the Great and His Time--Agnes Savill
173. Mourning Gloria--Susan Wittig Albert
174. Murder in the Mews--Agatha Christie
175. Loving Frank--Nancy Horan
176. The Cookbook Collector--Allegra Goodman
177. Destiny of the Republic--Candice Millard
178. Murder on the Rocks--Karen MacInerney
179. Darkness Visible--William Styron
180. Making Toast--Roger Rosenblatt
181. Rumpole and the Primrose Path--John Mortimer
182. The Dog Who Came in From the Cold--Alexander McCall Smith
183. I, Richard--Elizabeth George
184. The Wailing Wind--Tony Hillerman
185. The Alice Behind Wonderland--Simon Winchester
186. The Peach Keeper--Sarah Addison Allen
187. Lost in Shangri-La--Mitchell Zuckoff
188. The Murder at the Vicarage--Agatha Christie
189. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter--Tom Franklin
190. Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy--Caroline Kennedy
191. As the Pig Turns--M.C. Beaton
192. The President and the Assassin--Scott Miller
193. My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business--Dick Van Dyke
194. Seriously, I'm Kidding--Ellen DeGeneres
195. The Women of the Cousins' War--Philippa Gregory, Michael York, David Baldwin
196. The Body in the Ivy--Kathrine Hall Page
197. I Am Half Sick of Shadows--Alan Bradley
198. Wicked Autumn--G.M. Malliet
199. Faith--Jennifer Haigh
200. Sarah's Key--Tatiana de Rosnay
It's December, but off to Level 3

I'm a mood reader also and my evidence are the piles of books under every table in my house. There is something there for every mood--and then I go to the library.

I just keep editing the message that I used to sign up with--that seems to work fine.

I'm in. I'm a new member of the group and I think that I will post as I go.
1. A Highland Christmas-M.C. Beaton
2. Christmas Is Murder-C.S. Challinor
3. Slay Bells-Kate Kingsbury
4. Raven Black-Ann Cleeves
5. I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections-Nora Ephon
6. Fly Away Home-Jennifer Weiner
7. Growing Up Laughing--Marlo Thomas
8. Sizzling Sixteen--Janet Evanovich
9. The Guinea Pig Diaries--A.J. Jacobs
10. A Lonely Death--Charles Todd
11. The Place to Be--Roger Mudd
12. Secrets of Eden--Chris Bohjalian
13. Talk Show--Dick Cavett
14. This Mighty Scourge--James McPherson
15. The Ritual Bath--Faye Kellerman
16. The Fifties--David Halberstam
17. The Grace of Silence--Michele Norris
18. Cold Sassy Tree--Olive Ann Burns
19. Travels in Siberia--Ian Frazier
20. Lies I Told My Children--Karen McQuestion
21. White Nights--Ann Cleeves
22. The Good Good Pig--Sy Montgomery
23. The Girl in the Green Raincoat--Laura Lippman
24. The Widower's Tale--Julia Glass
25. The Worst Noel: Hellish Holiday Tales--various authors
26. A Walk in the Woods--Bill Bryson
27. Invisible--Lorena McCourtney
28. The New Yorker Stories--Ann Beattie
29. An Imperfect God--Henry Wiencek
30. Mourn Not Your Dead--Deborah Crombie
31. A Red Herring Without Mustard--Alan Bradley
32. My Life in France--Julia Child
33. I'd Know You Anywhere--Laura Lippman
34. Little Earthquakes--Jennifer Weiner
35. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim--David Sedaris
36. Cleopatra--Stacy Schiff
37. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition--Daniel Okrent
38. America's Hidden History--Kenneth C. Davis
39. A Perfect Union--Catherine Allgor
40. Cat of the Century--Rita Mae Brown
41. Live Free or Die--Jessie Crockett
42. Friend of the Devil--Peter Robinson
43. The Imperial Cruise--James Bradley
44. Death of a Chimney Sweep--M.C. Beaton
45. Spoken From the Heart--Laura Bush
46. Nineteen Minutes--Jodi Picoult
47. Billy Boyle--James R. Benn
48. The Happiness Project--Gretchen Rubin
49. The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse--Robert Rankin
50. Admit One: My Life in Film--Emmett James
51. Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800--John Ferling
52. Antiques Roadkill--Barbara Allan
53. Twin--Allen Shawn
54. Easy to Kill--Agatha Christie
55. In the Bleak Midwinter--Julia Spencer-Fleming
56. Hellraisers--Robert Sellers
57. The First Wave--James R. Benn
58. I Don't Know How She Does It--Allison Pearson
59. High Crimes-Michael Kodas
60. Eighteen Acres--Nicolle Wallace
61. The Sherlockian--Graham Moore
62. Corduroy Mansions--Alexander McCall Smith
63. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother--Amy Chua
64. My Reading Life--Pat Conroy
65. Great House--Nicole Krauss
66. I Totally Meant to Do That--Jane Borden
67. The Kennedy Detail--Gerald Blaine
68. My Father at 100--Ron Reagan
69. Gallows View--Peter Robinson
70. Promises to Keep--Jane Green
71. Must You Go?--Antonia Fraser
72. The Funny Thing Is...--Ellen DeGeneres
73. There is a Tide--Agatha Christie
74. Going Home to Glory--David Eisenhower
75. Writing the World--Kelly Cherry
76. Unbroken--Laura Hillenbrand
77. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding--Agatha Christie
78. A Fountain Filled With Blood--Julia Spencer-Fleming
79. Queen Isabella--Alison Weir
80. Live From New York--Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller
81. The King's Speech--Mark Loue and Peter Conrad
82. The Lincoln Lawyer--Michael Connelly
83. The Fallen Man--Tony Hillerman
84. Royal Wisdom--Kate Petrella
85. Playing for Pizza--John Grisham
86. Coldwater--Mardi McConnochie
87. And the Rest is History--Marlene Wagman-Geller
88. Lst Ditch--Ngaio Marsh
89. Baltimore Blues--Laura Lippman
90. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt--Edmund Morris
91. A Lesson in Secrets--Jacqueline Winspear
92. The Twelve Sacred Traditions of Magnificent Mothers-In-Laws--by Haywood Smith
93. Their Last Suppers--Andrew Caldwell
94. She Walks in Beauty--Caroline Kennedy
95. You Better Not Cry--Augusten Burroughs
96. Started Early, Took My Dog--Kate Atkinson
97. Cleaning Nabokos's House--Leslie Daniels
98. The Liar's Club--Mary Karr
99. Don't Know Much About History--Kenneth Davis
100. Hiss of Death--Rita Mae Brown