(Links to all challenges with full details, and to sign-up, can be found in this post.)
Challenges listed below:
Book Challenge by Erin 18.0
2023 TBR Pile Challenge
2023 I Read Horror Year-Round
2023 Book to Movie (and TV) Challenge
2023 Read Your Shelf Challenge
2023 TBR Pile Challenge
2023 I Read Horror Year-Round
2023 Book to Movie (and TV) Challenge
2023 Read Your Shelf Challenge
Book by an Australian author - Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier
Book with "black" or "white" in the title - Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi
GoodReads award winner from any year - Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard (2015, Best Goodreads Debut Author)
Book set in a small town or rural area - The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
Book with an unusual narrator - The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Book with a prime number under 1000 in the title - Five Mile House by Karen Novak
- The Loney, Andrew Michael Hurley (2015) finished February 23
- The Maidens, Alex Michaelides (2021) finished March 12
- The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson (2004)
- Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot (1964)
- Red Queen, Victoria Aveyard (2015)
- The Orphan Witch, Paige Crutcher (2021)
- Dracul, Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker (2018)
- The Penguin Book of Witches, Katherine Howe, Editor (2014)
- Subhuman, Michael McBride (2005)
- The Green Man, Kingsley Amis (1969)
- The Princes in the Tower, Alison Weir (1994) finished February 17
- The Last Duel, Eric Jager (2004)
Alternates:
1. The North Water, Ian McGuire (2016)
2. I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reid (2016)
I host this challenge at my sister (horror) blog, Castle Macabre. Year Three!
Here are the prompts and levels.
- Fairy Tale Retelling
- Zombies, Witches, Vampires, or Werewolves
Dracul, Dacre Stoker - Book by BIPOC author
My Heart is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones - finished January 15 - Title with Dead, Blood, or Bone
- Something by Poe
- Set in the past
- Horrific cover
- Folk horror (Ideas: https://tinyurl.com/yy8jj56a or https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/folk-horror?page=1
The Loney, Andrew Michael Hurley - finished February 23 - Winter theme or cover
Snow, Ronald Malfi - Black, red, or white cover
- Written by a woman
The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher - Debut horror
The Collector, John Fowles
Spooky: Read 6 books from 6 categories
Chilling: Read 12 Books from all 12 categories
Frightful: Read 2 books from each category for a total of 24 books
Horrifying: Read 3 books from each category for a total of 36 books
I'm doing the Chilling level. I've listed some of my planned reads above.
First One to the Theater - Read 4+ books (2023 releases only)
Also, additional levels...
Not Ready to Let Go: read at least one (1) book made into a movie or series in 2022
Living in the Past: read at least one (1) book made into a movie in previous years
The Movie Was Better (What?!): watch the movie(s) for the book(s) you read.
Potential books:
(Reread) The Witching Hour, Anne Rice (series, Mayfair Witches, currently streaming on AMC/AMC+)
The Pale Blue Eye, Louis Bayard (movie currently streaming on Netflix)
The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay (Knock at the Cabin, Feb 3)
(Maybe I'll actually finish it this time) Dune, Frank Herbert (Dune: Part 2, Nov 3)
The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe (tbd, 2023)
Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann (estimated May 2023)
Uglies, Scott Westerfeld (Netflix 2023 - expected)
2022
Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie
Kindred, Octavia E. Butler
2021
The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton
The Last Duel, Eric Jager
The Woman in the Window, A. J. Finn
The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
Kindred, Octavia E. Butler
2021
The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton
The Last Duel, Eric Jager
The Woman in the Window, A. J. Finn
The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
Books from my "holds shelf"...
Diary of an Immortal, David J. Castello
The Orphan Witch, Paige Crutcher
Universal Harvester, John Darnielle
The Witch Elm, Tana French
The American Adventuress, C.W. Gortner
The Year of the Witching, Alexis Henderson
The Penguin Book of Witches, Katherine Howe, Editor
Devil's Day, Andrew Michael Hurley
The Last Duel, Eric Jager
Billy Summers, Stephen King
Fairy Tale, Stephen King
The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher
Relics, Tim Lebbon
The Witch Doesn't Burn in this One, Amanda Lovelace
Black Mouth, Ronald Malfi
Subhuman, Michael McBride
The North Water, Ian McGuire
All the Dark Places, Terri Parlato
I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reid
Dracul, Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker
The Chestnut Man, Soren Sveistrop
The Book of Speculation, Enka Swyler
A People's History of the Vampire Uprising, Raymond A. Villareal
Additions to the hold shelf - 10 4 open spots
Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo
Hell Bent, Leigh Bardugo
Freezing Point, Karen Dionne
The Marsh King's Daughter, Karen Dionne
The Forever House, Tim Waggoner
The Writing Retreat, Julia Batz
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