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Knocked out one more as of 6/3/2018. Took FOREVER to get that last E! :P Potions and Pastries
E Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime
R The Runner
I If Walls Could Talk
L Lucy & Desi: The Legendary Love Story of Television's Most Famous Couple
A The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience
T The Trouble With Witches
E The Engagements
N No Mallets Intended
D Dyeing Wishes
H Hark the Herald Angels Slay
O One Bad Apple
U Urn Burial
S Seeing the Dead
E An Early Wake
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Knocked out another today -- took forever to get that last U and E! And really, what was agatha thinking giving a title NINE VOWELS??????:M Monument to the Dead
U The Unfinished Clue
R Razing the Dead
D Death, Taxes, and a Sequined Clutch
E Energy Vampires: How to Deal With Negative People
R The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
I I'll Be Seeing You
N Norway to Hide
M Muffin to Fear
E Eight Hundred Grapes
S Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
O Old Haunts
P Privy to the Dead
O Overseas
T The Trouble with Scarlett: A Novel of Golden-Era Hollywood
A The Address
M Murder at Rough Point
I I Remember Me
A Adjust to Wealth and Health
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Knocked out another one today (7/21). I think they've been falling like timber because I've been concentrating on getting vowel books read and on some of these they're all I had left!T Too Big to Miss
H How Aunt Tillie Stole Christmas: A Wicked Witches of the Midwest Short
E An Engineered Injustice
A Arise
B Bloodstone
C A Charming Hex
M Murder Most Witchy
U Until Death Do Us Tart -terrible book.
R Rotten to the Core
D Defending the Dead
E The Ever After
R Raisins and Almonds
S Salvation Lake
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TIM----------BER! Another one felled:A Arranged
P Phantom QuartzPhantom Quartz
P Plagued By Quilt
O Our Little Racket
I The Informant
N The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
T Two Kinds of Truth
M The Making of the Atomic Bomb
E The Ever After
N 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
T Tea, Tiramisu, and Tough Guys
W The Witching on the Wall
I Iron Lake
T Telling Tails
H Heroes and Hurricanes
D Deader Homes and Gardens
E Engaged in Death
A The Awakening Course: The Secret to Solving All Problems
T Ten North Frederick
H Hex on the Ex
And another one topples...C Campaign Widows
A Assault and Batter
T To Catch a Witch
A Alex and Eliza
M Married by Monday
O Ornaments of Death
N A Novel Death
G A Great and Terrible Beauty
T Tin Man
H A Hundred Summers
E Everything We Keep
P The Promise of Provence
I I Just Remembered
G The Good Widow
E Everything We Left Behind
O One Moment, One Morning
N Not Quite Mine
S Seduced by Sunday
Agatha Christie Reading Challenge Option #3: Budding Agatha Christie Fan 0/20
Will add books as I go through them!
Knocked out a short one today (starting to run out of those!!)C Can't Stand the Heat
U The Upside of Unrequited
R Reds in the Beds: A Novel of Golden-Era Hollywood
T Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff
A Americanos, Apple Pies, and Art Thieves
I Infinite Power
N Nightshade for Warning
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One more down as of yesterday:T True Fiction
h The Highwayman
e Extremis
m Memo From Darryl F. Zanuck
u Undercover in High Heels
r Red Delicious Death
d Death, Taxes, and a French Manicure
e Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
r The Rejected Writers' Book Club
o The Other Daughter
f Familiar Motives
r Rejected Writers Take the Stage
o On Thin Icing
g The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from ViolenceGift of fear
e Earthly Delights
r Reversal of Fortune
a All-Butter ShortDead
c Conspiracy of FoolsConspiracy of fools
k Killer Closet Case
r Ruddy Gore
o Off the Menu
y The Years That Followed
d Death by Scones
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Great challenge idea! This has been a long term goal for me ever since I read my first Agatha Christie novel! I'm back dating to include books already read and logged on Goodreads.TITLE: Agatha Christie Reading Challenge
DURATION: 4/11/2018 - ?
LEVEL: Hardcore Agatha Christie Reader (Read each and every one of the Queen of Mystery's detective novels (66 in all, without the short stories) (skip the romance and the plays if you like)).
Hercule Poirot Series (3/34)
Five Little Pigs
Hercule Poirot Collections
Miss Marple Series
Miss Marple Collections
Tommy and Tuppence Series
Tommy and Tuppence Collections
Superintendent Battle Books
Standalone Novels
Short Story Collections
Mary Westmacott
One more down as of 12/20:T The Thrill of the Haunt
H Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
E Eye of the Needle
L Laura
A Apple Strudel Alibi
B Bitter Harvest
O Ohio
U Until I Met Her
R The Red Book of Primrose House
S Stillhouse Lake
O On Power
F Feeling Is The Secret 1944
H Husbands and Other Sharp Objects
E Enemy of the State
R Revealing the Dead
C A Cold and Broken Hallelujah
U Undead and Unemployed
L Lethal Treasure
E Éclair and Present Danger
S A Secret in the Pumpkin Patch
One more -- seems like none go for awhile an then the trees all start falling in the same week!D Deep Fried Homicide
E The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
A All Signs Point to Murder
T Three Days Missing
H How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
O Occult and Battery
N Nearly Departed in Deadwood
T Two Tall Tails
H Hotel Hex
E An Ex to Grind in Deadwood
N Next to Love
I It's Always the Husband
L The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home
E Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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Well, I have finished the Challenge but not completed it, so to speak. I read the books one after the other, which was excellent for my Goodreads 2018 Reading Challenge but bad for my perception of Christie. I read all the Poirot/Marple titles and enjoyed most but sadly found the opinions and attitudes expressed in many of them very hard to stomach in the 21st Century.The T&T and stand alone 'spy' type stories I gave up on and could not read most of them. Parker Pyne & Harley Quinn stories - still found them enjoyable but not as much as I once did.
Thanks for letting me participate and congratulations to those who did it properly, lol. I am preparing my 2019 challenges so hope it is OK to join in one of the other Christie challenges?
A Happy New Year to everyone
Decided to start this on Christmas Day 2018, so aiming for just over a year. Using Option 1, I'm spelling out my favorite author, my favorite character, and my favorite book of hers.December 25, 2018 - December 31, 2019
2/3 Groupings as of 12/30/2019
Agatha Christie: 14/14 letters Completed
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Hercule Poirot: 13/13 letters Completed
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Murder on the Orient Express: 22/24 letters
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My love of reading stems a lot from the work on Agatha Christie so I'm excited to try out this challenge.
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Congratulations Ann ( and absolutely!)
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Option #1: Hardcore Agatha Christie FanStarting with Death on the Nile
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E - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
A - A Maigret Christmas
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H - The Hamster That Loved Puccini
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Timber! Another one fell yesterday:N Nipped in the Bud
E Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss
M Murder Past Due
E Evil Never Dies
S The Summer I Met Jack
I Incubus of Bourbon Street
S The Stargate Chronicles: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy
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Am in. Going for Option 2. Backdating to 1st January, 2019.NBRC Agatha Christie Reading Challenge
DURATION: 1/1/2019 - ?
LEVEL: Hardcore Agatha Christie Reader (Read each and every one of the Queen of Mystery's detective novels (66 in all, without the short stories) (skip the romance and the plays if you like)).
Books read: --/--
Option #2: Hardcore Agatha Christie Reader
Hercule Poirot Series 0/34
1.The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
2.The Murder on the Links (1923)
3.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
4.The Big Four (1927)
5.The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
6.Peril at End House (1932)
7.Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
8.Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
9.Three Act Tragedy (1935)
10.Death in the Clouds (1935)
11.The A.B.C. Murders (1936)
12.Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
13.Cards on the Table (1936)
14.Dumb Witness (1937)
15.Death on the Nile (1937)
16.Appointment with Death (1938)
17.Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938)
18.One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940)
19.Sad Cypress (1940)
20.Evil Under the Sun (1941)
21.Five Little Pigs (1942)
22.The Hollow (1946)
23.Taken at the Flood (1948)
24.Mrs. McGinty's Dead (1952)
25.After the Funeral (1953)
26.Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
27.Dead Man's Folly (1956)
28.Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
29.The Clocks (1963)
30.Third Girl (1966)
31.Hallowe'en Party (1969)
32.Elephants Can Remember (1972)
33.Curtain (1975)
34.The Monogram Murders
Hercule Poirot Collections 0/4
35.Poirot Investigates (1924)
36.Murder in the Mews (1937)
37.The Labours of Hercules (1947)
38.Poirot's Early Cases (1974)
Miss Marple Series 0/12
1.The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
2.The Body in the Library (1942)
3.The Moving Finger (1942)
4.A Murder is Announced (1950)
5.They Do It with Mirrors (1952)
6.A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
7.4:50 From Paddington (1957)
8.The Mirror Crack'd (1962)
9.A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
10.At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
11.Nemesis (1971)
12.Sleeping Murder (1976)
Miss Marple Collections 0/2
13.The Thirteen Problems (1932)
14.Miss Marple's Final Cases (1979)
Tommy and Tuppence Series 0/4
1.The Secret Adversary (1922)
2.N or M? (1941)
3.By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968)
4.Postern of Fate (1973)
Tommy and Tuppence Collections 0/1
5.Partners in Crime (1929)
Superintendent Battle Books 0/5
1.The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
2.The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
3.Cards on the Table (1936)
4.Murder is Easy (1939)
5.Towards Zero (1944)
Standalone Novels 1/13
1.The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)
2.The Sittaford Mystery (1931)
3.Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1934)
4. And Then There Were None
5.Death Comes as the End (1944)
6.Sparkling Cyanide (1945)
7.Crooked House (1949)
8.They Came to Baghdad (1951)
9.Destination Unknown (1954)
10.Ordeal by Innocence (1958)
11.The Pale Horse (1961)
12.Endless Night (1967)
13.Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)
Short Story Collections 0/15
1.The Mysterious Mr. Quin (1930)
2.The Hound of Death (1933)
3.The Listerdale Mystery (1934)
4.Parker Pyne Investigates (1934)
5.The Regetta Mystery and Other Stories (1939)
6.The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (1948)
7.Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950)
8.The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951)
9.The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)
10.Double Sin and Other Stories (1961)
11.Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories (1965)
12.The Golden Ball and Other Stories (1974)
13.Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991)
14.The Harlequin Tea Set (1997)
15.While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997)
Mary Westmacott 0/6
1.Giant's Bread (1930)
2.Unfinished Portrait (1934)
3.Absent in the Spring (1944)
4.The Rose and the Yew Tree (1948)
5.A Daughter's a Daughter (1952)
6.The Burden (1956)
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I think I read my first Christie book only a year or two ago and I am hooked. Sign me up. Think I will try challenge 1 and 2 starting with books read in 2019.Option 1: Spell it out
T - Third Girl
H - Hallowe'en Party
E - Evey in V for Vendetta
A - Achilles in The Song of Achilles
B - The Beekeeper's Apprentice
C - A Conspiracy in Belgravia
M - Milk and Honey
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E - Elephants Can Remember
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Option 2: Read all Agatha Christi Novels
Hercule Poirot
Third Girl
Hallowe'en Party
Elephants Can Remember
Death in the Clouds
Knocked out four more:The Burden
T The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
H Holding Breath: A Memoir of AIDS' Wildfire Days
E El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
B Better Homes and Corpses
U Undead and Unappreciated
R Reel Murder
D ark Rose
E Winter in Paradise Elin Hilderbrand
N eon Lawyer
The Pale Horse
T Tequila Trouble: A Danger Cove Cocktail Mystery
H Hi Bob!
E Engaged in Murder
P Palace Circle
A A Wild Fright in Deadwood Ann Charles
L Lemon Larceny
E Ex on the Beach
H The Haunted Fixer Upper
R Reaping The Immortal
S Seedtime and Harvest
E Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Giant's Bread
G The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding
I I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime
A The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion Alice Kimberly
N Nantucket Nights
T Taken by Tuesday
S Fire
B Bad Bites
R Robbing Peter to Kill Paul
E Eugenie's Story, Swallowcliffe Hall
A A Poison Manicure & Peach Liqueur
D Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
N or M
N Necessary Lies
O Old Fashioned Crooks
R The River Widow
M Meanwhile, Back in Deadwood
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Welcome SthTx Dawn!
The Agatha Christie Reading ChallengeDuration: May 2nd, 2019
Completed: 0/96
Option #2: Hardcore Agatha Christie Reader
Read each and every one of the Queen of Mystery's detective novels
Hercule Poirot Series 0/34
1.The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
2.The Murder on the Links (1923)
3.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
4.The Big Four (1927)
5.The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
6.Peril at End House (1932)
7.Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
8.Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
9.Three Act Tragedy (1935)
10.Death in the Clouds (1935)
11.The A.B.C. Murders (1936)
12.Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
13.Cards on the Table (1936)
14.Dumb Witness (1937)
15.Death on the Nile (1937)
16.Appointment with Death (1938)
17.Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938)
18.One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940)
19.Sad Cypress (1940)
20.Evil Under the Sun (1941)
21.Five Little Pigs (1942)
22.The Hollow (1946)
23.Taken at the Flood (1948)
24.Mrs. McGinty's Dead (1952)
25.After the Funeral (1953)
26.Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
27.Dead Man's Folly (1956)
28.Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
29.The Clocks (1963)
30.Third Girl (1966)
31.Hallowe'en Party (1969)
32.Elephants Can Remember (1972)
33.Curtain (1975)
34.The Monogram Murders
Hercule Poirot Collections 0/4
35.Poirot Investigates (1924)
36.Murder in the Mews (1937)
37.The Labours of Hercules (1947)
38.Poirot's Early Cases (1974)
Miss Marple Series 0/12
1.The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
2.The Body in the Library (1942)
3.The Moving Finger (1942)
4.A Murder is Announced (1950)
5.They Do It with Mirrors (1952)
6.A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
7.4:50 From Paddington (1957)
8.The Mirror Crack'd (1962)
9.A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
10.At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
11.Nemesis (1971)
12.Sleeping Murder (1976)
Miss Marple Collections 0/2
13.The Thirteen Problems (1932)
14.Miss Marple's Final Cases (1979)
Tommy and Tuppence Series 0/4
1.The Secret Adversary (1922)
2.N or M? (1941)
3.By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968)
4.Postern of Fate (1973)
Tommy and Tuppence Collections 0/1
5.Partners in Crime (1929)
Superintendent Battle Books 0/5
1.The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
2.The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
3.Cards on the Table (1936)
4.Murder is Easy (1939)
5.Towards Zero (1944)
Standalone Novels 0/13
1.The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)
2.The Sittaford Mystery (1931)
3.Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1934)
4.And Then There Were None (1939)
5.Death Comes as the End (1944)
6.Sparkling Cyanide (1945)
7.Crooked House (1949)
8.They Came to Baghdad (1951)
9.Destination Unknown (1954)
10.Ordeal by Innocence (1958)
11.The Pale Horse (1961)
12.Endless Night (1967)
13.Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)
Short Story Collections 0/15
1.The Mysterious Mr. Quin (1930)
2.The Hound of Death (1933)
3.The Listerdale Mystery (1934)
4.Parker Pyne Investigates (1934)
5.The Regetta Mystery and Other Stories (1939)
6.The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (1948)
7.Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950)
8.The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951)
9.The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)
10.Double Sin and Other Stories (1961)
11.Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories (1965)
12.The Golden Ball and Other Stories (1974)
13.Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991)
14.The Harlequin Tea Set (1997)
15.While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997)
Mary Westmacott 0/6
1.Giant's Bread (1930)
2.Unfinished Portrait (1934)
3.Absent in the Spring (1944)
4.The Rose and the Yew Tree (1948)
5.A Daughter's a Daughter (1952)
6.The Burden (1956)
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Nothing But Reading ChallengesAgatha Christie Reading Challenge
Duration: 6/18/2019 - Til Done!
Progress: 14 out of 110
Pick an option:
Option #1: Hardcore Agatha Christie Fan
Spell out (using NBRC's spell out rules*) any Character from an Agatha Christie novel, a title from one of her books, or her name. (for example, Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, And Then There Were None)
A: Alice Clayton; Nuts - ***** - 6/28/2019 - 308 Pages
G: A Good Dog: The Story of Orson, Who Changed My Life by Jon Katz - ***** - 8/1/2019 - 240 Pages
A: Jennifer Ashley; Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage - **** - 7/18/2019 - 316 Pages
T: Tommy Wallach; We All Looked Up - *** - 9/11/2019 - 370 Pages
H: Helen Harper; Slouch Witch - ***** - 9/2/2019 - 342 Pages
A: Augie and the Green Knight by Zach Weinersmith - ***** - 7/20/2019 - 219 Pages
C: Circe by Madeline Miller - ***** - 6/25/2019 - 393 Pages
H: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas - ***** - 6/21/2019 - 512 Pages
R: Rachel Caine; Stillhouse Lake - ***** - 7/8/2019 - 286 Pages
I: The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman - ***** - 7/17/2019 - 329 Pages
S: Seven Nights in a Rogue's Bed by Anna Campbell - *** - 6/18/2019 - 385 Pages
T: Tessa Dare; When a Scot Ties the Knot - ***** - 8/12/2019 - 376 Pages
I: Ilona Andrews; One Fell Sweep - ***** - 9/25/2019 - 340 Pages
E: Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues by Molly Harper - ***** - 9/30/2019
Option #2: Hardcore Agatha Christie Reader
Read each and every one of the Queen of Mystery's detective novels
Hercule Poirot Series 0/34
1.The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
2.The Murder on the Links (1923)
3.The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
4.The Big Four (1927)
5.The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
6.Peril at End House (1932)
7.Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
8.Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
9.Three Act Tragedy (1935)
10.Death in the Clouds (1935)
11.The A.B.C. Murders (1936)
12.Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
13.Cards on the Table (1936)
14.Dumb Witness (1937)
15.Death on the Nile (1937)
16.Appointment with Death (1938)
17.Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938)
18.One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940)
19.Sad Cypress (1940)
20.Evil Under the Sun (1941)
21.Five Little Pigs (1942)
22.The Hollow (1946)
23.Taken at the Flood (1948)
24.Mrs. McGinty's Dead (1952)
25.After the Funeral (1953)
26.Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
27.Dead Man's Folly (1956)
28.Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
29.The Clocks (1963)
30.Third Girl (1966)
31.Hallowe'en Party (1969)
32.Elephants Can Remember (1972)
33.Curtain (1975)
34.The Monogram Murders
Hercule Poirot Collections 0/4
35.Poirot Investigates (1924)
36.Murder in the Mews (1937)
37.The Labours of Hercules (1947)
38.Poirot's Early Cases (1974)
Miss Marple Series 0/12
1.The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
2.The Body in the Library (1942)
3.The Moving Finger (1942)
4.A Murder is Announced (1950)
5.They Do It with Mirrors (1952)
6.A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
7.4:50 From Paddington (1957)
8.The Mirror Crack'd (1962)
9.A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
10.At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
11.Nemesis (1971)
12.Sleeping Murder (1976)
Miss Marple Collections 0/2
13.The Thirteen Problems (1932)
14.Miss Marple's Final Cases (1979)
Tommy and Tuppence Series 0/4
1.The Secret Adversary (1922)
2.N or M? (1941)
3.By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968)
4.Postern of Fate (1973)
Tommy and Tuppence Collections 0/1
5.Partners in Crime (1929)
Superintendent Battle Books 0/5
1.The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
2.The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)
3.Cards on the Table (1936)
4.Murder is Easy (1939)
5.Towards Zero (1944)
Standalone Novels 0/13
1.The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)
2.The Sittaford Mystery (1931)
3.Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1934)
4.And Then There Were None (1939)
5.Death Comes as the End (1944)
6.Sparkling Cyanide (1945)
7.Crooked House (1949)
8.They Came to Baghdad (1951)
9.Destination Unknown (1954)
10.Ordeal by Innocence (1958)
11.The Pale Horse (1961)
12.Endless Night (1967)
13.Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)
Short Story Collections 0/15
1.The Mysterious Mr. Quin (1930)
2.The Hound of Death (1933)
3.The Listerdale Mystery (1934)
4.Parker Pyne Investigates (1934)
5.The Regetta Mystery and Other Stories (1939)
6.The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (1948)
7.Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950)
8.The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951)
9.The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)
10.Double Sin and Other Stories (1961)
11.Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories (1965)
12.The Golden Ball and Other Stories (1974)
13.Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991)
14.The Harlequin Tea Set (1997)
15.While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997)
Mary Westmacott 0/6
1.Giant's Bread (1930)
2.Unfinished Portrait (1934)
3.Absent in the Spring (1944)
4.The Rose and the Yew Tree (1948)
5.A Daughter's a Daughter (1952)
6.The Burden (1956)
Option #3: Budding Agatha Christie Fan
Read as many Agatha Christie books as you can that you haven't read before
Spell-it-Out Rules
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Finished one more today:T Tea with Milk and Murder
A Another One Bites the Crust
K A Killer Crop
E Enemies of the Heart
N No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming of Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine
A The Advocate's Daughter
T Tinseltown Confidential: A Novel of Golden-Era Hollywood
T Twisted Boulevard: A Novel of Golden-Era Hollywood
H How to Walk Away
E The Matchmaker Elin Hilderbrand
F Fortune's Wheel
L The Last Telegram
O The Only Diet There Is
O Office Visit Set III: Worry, Fear & Anxiety, Pain & Suffering, and Losing Weight
D Dallas, November 22, 1963
One more fell this morning:T A Time to Scatter Stones: A Matthew Scudder Novella
H House of Gold
E The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America
M A Midwinter's Tail
Y Southern Sass and Killer Cravings Kate Young
S Sweets & a Stabbing
T To Fudge or Not to Fudge
E A Crime of Passion Fruit Ellie Alexander
R Reel of Fortune
I I'll Be There for You: The One about Friends
O The Only Woman in the Room
U Under the Wide and Starry Sky
S Sleight of Paw
M Mai Tai One On
R Me and My Ghoulfriends Rose Pressey
Q Queen of Hearts
U Undercover Coven
I I Am Abraham: A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War
N No Escape Claws
More casualties of my summer binge reading:Parker Pyne Investigates
P The Purple Diaries: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s
A Agatha Raisin and the Witches' Tree
R Close Encounters of the Alien Kind Fiona Roarke
K The King Tides
E Burying the Honeysuckle Girls Emily Carpenter
R The Rejected Writers' Christmas Wedding
P The Princeling
Y The Yin to His Yang
N Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
E Killer Eyeshadow and a Cold Espresso Elizabeth Ashby
I The Immortal Takes a Wife
N A Dragon Speaks Her Name Kira Nyte
V A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies, and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment
E Stiffs and Swine Ellery Adams
S Sweet Expectations
T Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
I Iced Inn
G The Game of Hope
A The Ghost and the Bogus Bookseller Alice Kimberly
T Tails, You Lose
E Ashenden Elizabeth Wilhide
S Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
The Golden Ball and Other Stories
T Two Down, Bun to Go
H His Other Lover
E The Blue Bistro Elin Hilderbrand
G The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
O The Oak Apple
L The Last Great Dance on Earth
D Devil's Food Cake Murder
E Clandestine James Ellroy
N The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: The shocking story of how America really took over the world
B Better Off Dead in Deadwood
A As The Crow Flies
L We Were Liars E. Lockhart
L Light Falls: Space, Time, and an Obsession of Einstein
A As Long as We Both Shall Live
N No Cats Allowed
D Dutch Me Deadly
O Once a Duchess
T The Pain Scale Tyler Dilts
H How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
E Winter Stroll Elin Hilderbrand
R The Rhyme of the Magpie
S Sugar Coated Sins
T Troubled Treats
O Once a Liar
R The Witch's Enchanted Alien Fiona Roarke
I It Takes a Coven
E Winter Storms Elin Hilderbrand
S The Spook in the Stacks
Option 3:1. Taken at the Flood (read 9/13/19)
2. After the Funeral (read 6/9/20)
3. The Clocks (read 5/3/20)
4. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (read 10/10/19)
5. Death on the Nile(read 1/8/20)
6. And Then There Were None (read 2/11/19)
7. Hallowe'en Party (read 10/26/20)
Few more down (I've been reading a lot of "R" and "O" books lately and it turns out I really needed them!)The Listerdale Mystery
T Blood Echoes Thomas H. Cook
H Haunted on Bourbon Street
E Summer of '69 Elin Hilderbrand
L Lost Souls ParaAgency and the Three Witches of Burberry:
I If the Shoe Kills
S Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
T Trouble Is Brewing
E The Tailgate Elin Hilderbrand
R The Roanoke Girls
D Gator Bait Jana Deleon
A All Fudged Up
L The Long Shadow
E Killer Colada: a Danger Cove Cocktail Mystery Elizabeth Ashby
M Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
Y The Frangipani Tree Mystery Ovidia Yu
S Some Women
T To Hatch a Thief
E The Surfing Lesson Elin Hilderbrand
R Goodnight from London Jennifer Robson
Y The Betel Nut Tree Mystery Ovidia Yu
The Mirror Crackd
T The Third George
H The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler
E Everything I Never Told You
M Mr. Churchill's Secretary
I In Cold Chocolate
R Rattling the Heat in Deadwood
R The Whole Cat and Caboodle Sofie Ryan
O The Obituary Society
R Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics Richard H. Thaler
C Custard Crime
R Raspberry Revenge
A American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
C Chappaquiddick: Power, Privilege, and the Ted Kennedy Cover-Up
K Killer Calories
D Dead Air
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
T Tail of the Dragon
H Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives
E Making Masterpiece: 25 Years Behind the Scenes at Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! on PBS Rebecca Eaton
A American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt
D Depth of Winter
V Vanilla Vices
E Here's to Us Elin Hilderbrand
N Montauk Nicola Harrison
T Tough Cookie
U Undead and Unreturnable
R Getting Even Sarah Rayner
E Winter Street Elin Hilderbrand
O An Open Book
F Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
T These Haunts are Made for Walking
H Here Today, Gone Tamale
E A Slaying in the Orchard Elizabeth Ashby
C Clairvoyant and Present Danger
H Bonnie of Evidence Maddy Hunter
R The Dragon's Spellbound Alien Fiona Roarke
I Iced Chiffon
S The Secret of Instant Healing
T Two Girls Down
M Midnight Train To Paris
A Whisper of the Moon Moth Lindsay Jayne Ashford
S A Skeleton in the Family
P Pecan Pies and Dead Guys
U Undead and Unpopular
D Deadly Thanksgiving Sampler: a Danger Cove Quilting Mystery
D Dead Case in Deadwood
I Inherit the Wool
N Gold Coast Nelson DeMille
G Ghostal Living
D Death at First Sight
U Unraveled
M Murder at Beechwood
B By Book or By Crook
W A Witch Before Dying
I It Happens All the Time
T Tiny Little Thing
N The Nymph Takes Nashville
E Espressos, Eggnogs, and Evil Exes
S Six Days of Impossible: Navy SEAL Hell Week - A Doctor Looks Back
S Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
Knocked out a few more:T Trouble in Mudbug
H Witch Summer Night's Cream H.Y. Hanna
E Another One Bites the Crust Ellie Alexander
H Hearts of Resistance
O Oh Say Can You Fudge
U Under Lock & Key
N Kale to the Queen Nell Hampton
D A Death in Belmont
O The Obituary Society's Last Stand
F Feint of Art
D Lethal Bayou Beauty Jana Deleon
E Winter Solstice Elin Hilderbrand
A While My Pretty One Knits Anne Canadeo
T Lillian and Dash Sam Toperoff
H Firehouse David Halberstam
D Death by Coffee
E The Emperor
A Anatomy of a Scandal
D Death by Tea
M The Midnight Line
A The Autumn Throne
N No Coming Back
S The Summer Wives
F Fortune's Favors
O The Old Man
L A Late Frost
L Lookaway, Lookaway
Y The Yankee Club
T Titans
H Hearse and Gardens
E The Beach Club Elin Hilderbrand
Y You Need a Budget: The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck to Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want
D Dangerous Alterations
O Murder in an Irish Village Carlene O'Connor
I In the Company of Legends
T Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World Tom Wright
W The Summer Country Lauren Willig
I If I Fall
T Tatiana and Alexander
H The Chevalier Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
M Mystic Mayhem
I I'm a Fool to Kill You
R Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do About It
R Red War
O Obsessed
R Fashions Fade, Haunted Is Eternal Rose Pressey
S Stars Over Sunset Boulevard
T To Die For
H The Heretic Queen
R Read and Gone
E Summer People Elin Hilderbrand
E The Shaman Charms The Shifter Larissa Emerald
B A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
L A Little Life
I It Was A Very Bad Year
N Lord of the Pies Nell Hampton
D The Dough Must Go On
M The Masterpiece
I Ill Met by Murder
C Cake Spell Disaster
E The Electric Hotel
A White Houses Amy Bloom
N Private Lives Noël Coward
D Dangerous Dough
O On a Cold Dark Sea
T Descent: A Novel Tim Johnson
H The Black Pearl Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
E The Killer Ascendant Barry Eisler
R Luck Be a Lady, Don't Die Robert J. Randisi
S Copycat Killing Sofie Kelly
T The Bomb Maker Thomas Perry
O On Borrowed Time
R The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai
I The Islanders
E When the Women Come Out to Dance Elmore Leonard
S Faux Paw Sofie Kelly
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Welcome Sophie!
I'll do Option 3, probably start in January. I have some Agathas in mind I've been wanting to read for various other challenges, and this will hold me more accountable to get to them. A few of them in no particular order, will link when read:Jan. 1, 2020 - ?
Hallowe'en Party
And Then There Were None
The Secret Adversary Agatha Christie 7/9/20
Partners in Crime
The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie 10/25/21
Murder on the Orient Express
Cat Among the Pigeons
A Caribbean Mystery
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Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Welcome Tari!"Thank you!
Deanie's Agatha Christie ChallengeOption #3: Budding Agatha Christie Fan
Read: 15/20+
My goal is to read all of Miss Marple, then move on to Poirot and some of the stand-alones. Hopefully, I'll read all 66 eventually.
Novels:
Miss Marple
1. The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) - 11/20/2020
2. The Body in the Library (1942) - 1/20/2020
3. The Moving Finger (1942) - 11/20/2020
4. A Murder is Announced (1950) - 12/1/2020
5. They Do It with Mirrors (1952) - 2/19/2020
6. A Pocket Full of Rye (1953) - 9/20/2020
7. 4:50 From Paddington (1957) - 1/22/2020
8. The Mirror Crack'd (1962) - 12/3/2020
9. A Caribbean Mystery (1964) - 1/17/2020
10. At Bertram's Hotel (1965) - 12/8/2020
11. Nemesis (1971) - 12/8/2020
12. Sleeping Murder (1976) - 1/31/2020
Hercule Poirot
1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
2. The Murder on the Links (1923)
3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
4. The Big Four (1927)
5. The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
6. Peril at End House (1932)
7. Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
8. Murder on the Orient Express (1934) - 8/4/2020
9. Three Act Tragedy (1935)
10. Death in the Clouds (1935)
11. The A.B.C. Murders (1936)
12. Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
13. Cards on the Table (1936)
14. Dumb Witness (1937)
15. Death on the Nile (1937) - 8/6/2020
16. Appointment with Death (1938)
17. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938)
18. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940)
19. Sad Cypress (1940)
20. Evil Under the Sun (1941)
21. Five Little Pigs (1942)
22. The Hollow (1946)
23. Taken at the Flood (1948)
24. Mrs. McGinty's Dead (1952)
25. After the Funeral (1953)
26. Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
27. Dead Man's Folly (1956)
28. Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)
29. The Clocks (1963)
30. Third Girl (1966)
31. Hallowe'en Party (1969)
32. Elephants Can Remember (1972)
33. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (1975)
Standalones
1. The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)
2. The Sittaford Mystery (1931)
3. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1934)
4. And Then There Were None (1939) - 1/5/2020
5. Death Comes as the End (1944)
6. Sparkling Cyanide (1945)
7. Crooked House (1949)
8. They Came to Baghdad (1951)
9. Destination Unknown (1954)
10. Ordeal by Innocence (1958)
11. The Pale Horse (1961)
12. Endless Night (1967)
13. Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)
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Books mentioned in this topic
The Murder on the Links (other topics)Taken at the Flood (other topics)
The Secret of Chimneys (other topics)
Mord im Orientexpress (other topics)
Lord Edgware Dies (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Jon Katz (other topics)Helen Harper (other topics)
Jennifer Ashley (other topics)
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Tommy Wallach (other topics)
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