SF_fan_mae's 2023 50 Book Challenge

57 books finished in 2023!

And so begins 2023, ready to start another 50 book challenge. My Christie reading group is up to 1946 in our ordered reading, so starting January with The Hollow.


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)

January

1. The Hollow - Agatha Christie
2. Resurrection of the Daleks - Eric Saward
3. The Pushcart War - Jean Merrill, rereading a favorite children's book
4. The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures - anthology
5. The Hills Have Spies - Mercedes Lackey
6. Pilgrimage - Zenna Henderson

Happy Reading in 23. 53 was my total last year, as well. Cheers!

February

7. Taken at the Flood - Christie
8. Witness for the Prosecution and other stories - Christie
9. Living Faithfully - church study book
10. The People: No Different Flesh - Zenna Henderson

March

11. Crooked House - Christie
12. Finding Jesus in the Psalms - Barb Roose, Bible study group book for Lent
13. Eye Spy - Mercedes Lackey
14. Revelation of the Daleks - Eric Saward
15. Sword & Sorceress XXI - short story collection
16. A Furnace Sealed - Keith R. A. DeCandido

April.

17. A Murder is Announced - Christie
18. Mrs. Jeffries takes the Stage - Emily Brightwell
19. Mrs. Jeffries Answers the Question - Brightwell
20. The Anything Box - Zenna Henderson

May

21. They Came to Baghdad - Christie
22. Pursued - God's Relentless Love for YOU - Jennifer Cowart
23. Mrs. Jeffries Reveals Her Art - Emily Brightwell
24. Enchanted Forests - short story anthology
25. The Mysterium - P.C. Doherty

June (What I'm taking to the beach!)

26. Mrs. McGinty's Dead - Christie
27. Zorro and the Little Devil - Peter David
28. A Gift of Sanctuary - Candace Robb
29. The Chinese Maze Murders - Robert van Gulik
30. Holding Wonder - Zenna Henderson
31. Torchwood: Exodus Code - Carole Barrowman, John Barrowman
32. A Spy for the Redeemer - Candace Robb

July

I've gotten ahead of my pace for the first half of the year. #22 is on hold while my Bible study group takes a 2 month summer break.

33. Murder with Mirrors - Christie
34. Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter, been meaning to re-read this for years, will really slow my pace for a bit
35. Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2022 - anthology
36. Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps - J. Gregory Keyes - bad, DNF, got rid of the whole trilogy
36. Songmaster - Orson Scott Card (not an author I usually like, but I know a lovely filksong by Julia Ecklar that is based on this, so I'm finally reading it.)... big mistake, it was awful

August

37. Funerals are Fatal - Christie
38. The Best of Leigh Brackett
39. Return to Avalon - fantasy anthology
40. Pulling Up Stakes - Peter David

September

41. A Pocket Full of Rye - Christie
42. The Ghost from the Grand Banks - Arthur C. Clarke
43. Killers of a Certain Age - Deanna Raybourn
44. The Readaholics and the Gothic Gala - Laura DiSilverio

October

45. So Many Steps to Death - Christie
46. Rise Like Lions - David Mack
47. A Little History of Art - Charlotte Mullins
48. The Last 'Devil' to Die - Richard Osman
49. Phoenix Precinct - Keith R.A. DeCandido

November

50. Hickory Dickory Death - Christie
51. Mrs. Jeffries and the Three Wise Women - Emily Brightwell
52. The Fires of Pompeii - James Moran
53. Grease Monkeys - short stories
54. The Art of the Impossible: Lost Era 2328-2346 - Keith R.A. DeCandido

December - I've breezed past my 50 this year!

55. Dead Man's Folly - Christie
56. Born a Child and Yet a King - Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth (Church group Advent study)
57. English Country House Murders - anthology ed. by Thomas Godfrey
58. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding - Christie

Made it to 57 books this year, with only one (#57) to carry over to next year. Also read 36 magazines and 102 comic books.