(Links to all challenges with full details, and to sign-up, can be found in this post.)
Book Challenge by Erin 20.0 and 21.0
2024 I Read Horror Year-Round
1000 Books Project 2024: Collins/Dickens
2024 Book to Movie (and TV) Challenge
2024 Read Your Shelf Challenge
21.0 - July 1 through October 31
GR Best Books of 2024 - The Fury, Alex Michaelides
Due to a challenge mix-up, I read two for this category...
Set in more than one country - Hell on High, Michael Clark
Protagonist involved in sports - The Fencing Master, Arturo Perez-Reverte
One of the following words in the title: year - The Year of the Witching, Alexis Henderson
Mode of transportation on the cover - Gollitok, Andrew Najberg October 27
Punctuation in the title - Don’t Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones
Protagonist unemployed/changing jobs - Stuck, Ben Young
20.0 - January 1 through April 30
I host this challenge at my sister (horror) blog, Castle Macabre. This is year four!
Here are the prompts and levels...
- Witch, dark, blood, bone, or body in title
Children of the Dark, Jonathan Janz April 16 - Nature gone wild (when plants or animals attack)
Animal Kingdom, Iain Rob Wright August 26 - Creepy character/object (House, doll, child, etc.)
Cunning Folk, Adam Nevill December 13 - Holiday horror (Christmas, yule, etc.)
- Short story anthology or collection
Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele, editor February 25 - Takes place during Halloween season
Mischief Night Massacre: Ten Tales of Halloween, Jason Parent October 24 - Winter theme, or winter on cover
A Winter Haunting, Dan Simmons January 14 - A book that is also a movie
I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reid March 2024 - By BIPOC author
Lone Women, Victor LaValle August 24 - Classic horror novel
The Necromancers, Robert Hugh Benson October 30 - Dark Academia novel (here's a list on Goodreads)
Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo February 14 - Gothic novel
The Dismembered, Jonathan Janz April 28
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.
My main level...
The Enthusiast: read 1-3 booksAlso, additional levels...
Not Ready to Let Go: read at least one (1) book made into a movie or series in 2023
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.
Not Ready to Let Go: read at least one (1) book made into a movie or series in 2023
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:
The Watchers, A.M. Shine
Wicked, Gregory Maguire
Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
The Witching Hour, Anne Rice (reread)
The Pale Blue Eye, Louis Bayard
The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay
Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann
Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones, George R.R. MartinBooks read
I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reid March 2024
The Watchers, A.M. Shine June 24
Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens October 9
Movies watched
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2022)
The Watchers (2024)
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
Completed books will be listed after the graphic below. The title will be struck through in the list below and its replacement will be listed beside it.
Curious about this challenge? Get all the details here.
Books from my "holds shelf"
The Orphan Witch, Paige Crutcher
The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
The American Adventuress, C.W. Gortner
The Year of the Witching, Alexis Henderson
The Penguin Book of Witches, Katherine Howe, Editor
The Double Bind, Chris Bohjalian
Billy Summers, Stephen King
The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher
Relics, Tim Lebbon
The Witch Doesn't Burn in this One, Amanda Lovelace
The North Water, Ian McGuire
All the Dark Places, Terri Parlato
The Chestnut Man, Soren Sveistrop
The Book of Speculation, Enka Swyler
A People's History of the Vampire Uprising, Raymond A. Villareal
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
Camp Zero, Michelle Min Sterling
Babel, R.F. Kuang
Strange Piece of Paradise, Terri Jentz
White Horse, Erika T. Wurth
The Broken Ones, Stephen M. Irwin
The Kingdom of Sweets, Erika Johnson
Witches Get Stuff Done, Molly Harper
Diavola, Jennifer Marie Thorne
The String Diaries, Stephen Lloyd Jones
My Darling Girl, Jennifer McMahon
Maplecroft, Cherie Priest
The Evening Road, Laird Hunt
Don't Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones
Salvation Spring, T.C. Parker
Hummingbird, T.C. Parker
The Long Con, T.C. Parker
Familia, Lauren E. Rico
The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd
Try Not to Die: At Ghostland, Ralston & Tullius
Hell on High, Michael Clark
Hemlock Island, Kelley Armstrong
Witches Steeped in Gold, Ciannon Smart
Not sure if I will add new acquisitions to the shelf or not. What I may do is make a list of new books acquired in 2024, and alternate adding a title from that list with adding a title from my main shelves (main circulation) each time I finish a book from the Holds Shelf. We shall see.
Books replacing completed books on the "holds shelf"
Frankenstein Omnibus (Books 1 - 3), Dean Koontz
Castle of Sorrows, Jonathan Janz
Deerskin, Robin McKinley
Babysitter, Joyce Carol Oates
The Manor House, Gilly MacMillan
Affinity, Sarah Waters
The Book of Atrix Wolfe, Patricia A. McKillip
The Fury, Alex Michaelidis
Pine, Francine Toon
Horseman, Christina Henry
Incidents Around the House, Josh Malerman
Holly, Stephen King
The Hacienda, Isabella Canas
Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot
Children of the Night, Dan Simmons
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