Goals
- Have fun.
- Keep track of what I read.
- Read 40000 pages.
- Pick a theme for each month (see list and full rules below).
Statistics
- Books read: 119
- Pages read: 41904
- Themes finished: 13
- Books abandoned: 2
Ongoing series
- Guido Brunetti (12/25)
- Lincoln Rhyme (7/13)
- Body Farm (10/11)
- Shetland (1/4)
- The Morganville Vampires (4/27)
- Department Q (5/6)
- The River (4/11)
- Cormoran Strike (2/3)
Series finished/abandoned/back burner/up to date
- World’s Scariest Places (up to date)
- Merrily Watkins (up to date)
- Sigma Force (up to date)
- Blackwater Saga (abandoned)
- Rizzoli & Isles (up to date)
- Simon Serrailler (finished)
- Sebastian St. Cyr (up to date)
- Ruth Galloway (up to date)
- Pilgrim (up to date)
- Mary Russell (up to date)
- Nell West & Michael Flint (up to date)
- The Boylan House Trilogy (finished)
- The Ravencrest Saga (up to date)
- Odd Thomas (finished)
- Outlander (back burner)
- The Graveyard: Classified (up to date)
- The Cabin (finished)
- The Great Library (up to date)
- Mary Russell (up to date)
- The Descent (finished)
- Will Trent (up to date)
Theme challenge rules & list
- Choose a theme and read at least four books relating to that theme in a month (unless otherwise stated in the list).
- It is allowed to choose more than one theme and have overlap (e.g. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is both Scandinavian and a thriller), but the theme has to be read within one month.
- Books of 800 pages or more count as two books for the challenge, book of 1200 pages or more count as three books.
- If I think of a new theme I can add it to the list.
Series (full month)Stand alone (full month)Horror/ghosts/paranormalThrillerCrime- Cozy
- Long on TBR list
- New best sellers
New to me authorsOld time favouritesTV/film- Classic
Historical- Non-fiction
Mystery- Young adult
British- Scandinavian (incl. Iceland)
- Far East
- Australia
WishlistCalibre (full month)
Book list
- Friends of the Dusk by Phil Rickman*
- Helltown by Jeremy Bates*
- The Lake House by Kate Morton
- Asylum Lake by R.A. Evans*
- The Flood by Michael McDowell*
- The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
- The Levee by Michael McDowell*
- The Keep by Jennifer Egan
- The Twelfth Card by Jeffery Deaver
- The Influence by Bentley Little*
- The Cat Who Said Cheese by Lilian Jackson Braun
- The Lie Tree by Francis Hardinge
- The Midnight Watch by James Rollins*
- The Bone Labyrinth by James Rollins*
- The Soul of Discretion by Susan Hill *
- The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olson*
- Die Again by Tess Gerritsen*
- The Almshouse by Blanche King*
- The Inquisitor’s Key by Jefferson Bass*
- Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood*
- The Bank of the River by Michael Richan*
- The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris*
- A Circumstance of Blood by Jeanette Batz Cooperman
- The Pelican Brief by John Grisham*
- Sub Basement by Darcy Coates
- The Black Ice by Michael Connelly*
- Residual by Michael Richan
- Gin and Daggers by Jessica Fletcher*
- The Splendour Falls by Sussana Kearsley*
- Broadmaw Bay by F.G. Cottam
- Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman
- Fearful Symmetry by Michael McBride
- A Haunting in Oregon by Michael Richan
- The Witch’s Daughter by Paula Brackston*
- When Falcons Fall by C.S. Harris*
- The Woman in Blue by Ellie Griffiths*
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield*
- The Widow by Fiona Barton
- Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz
- A Conspiracy of Faith by Jussi Adler-Olsen
- In the Blood by Steve Robinson*
- The House Where Evil Lurks by Brandon Callahan
- The Ice Limit by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child*
- The Cold Moon by Jeffery Deaver*
- The Crypt by Darcy Coates
- I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes*
- The Lost Girls of Rome by Donato Carrisi*
- A Dark Dividing by Sarah Rayne
- The Marriage of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King
- The Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King
- Deeply Odd by Dean Koontz
- The Mammoth Book of Killers at Large by Nigel Cawthorne
- Ghost of Our Fathers by Michael Richan
- The House at Midnight by Lucie Whitehouse
- Haunted by Tamara Thorne
- The Bell Tower by Sarah Rayne
- The Purity of Vengeance by Jussi Adler-Olsen
- The Genesis Secret by Tom Knox*
- Witch Island by David Bernstein*
- You Are Destined to Be Together Forever by Dean Koontz
- The Cuckoo Calling by Robert Galbraith
- The Boylan House Trilogy by Ron Ripley*
- The Ghosts of Ravencrest by Tamara Thorne & Alistair Cross*
- The Haunting of Blackwood House by Darcy Coates*
- The Dark Man by Desmond Doane
- Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
- Saint Odd by Dean Koontz
- It by Stephen King*
- The Cat Who Tailed a Thief by Lilian Jackson Braun*
- The Body Reader by Anne Frasier*
- Fiercombe Manor by Kate Riordan*
- Gideon’s Sword by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child*
- Sacred Treason by James Forrester*
- The Alexander Cipher by Will Adams*
- Moonfall by Tamara Thorne*
- Jordan’s Stormy Bank by Jefferson Bass*
- Cut to the Bone by Jefferson Bass*
- The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury
- Belgravia by Julian Fellowes*
- Stiletto by Daniel O’Malley*
- Transmission by Ambrose Ibsen
- The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith*
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling*
- The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware*
- The Cabin by Amy Cross
- After the Cabin by Amy Cross
- The Marco Effect by Jussi Adler-Olsen
- The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
- The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
- Gideon’s Corpse by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- The White Night by Desmond Doane
- Paper and Fire by Rachel Caine
- The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood*
- HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt*
- The Haunting of Ashburne House by Darcy Coates*
- Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben*
- Charnel House by Graham Masterton*
- Someone in the House by Barbara Michaels*
- The Sunbird by Wilbur Smith (DNF)
- Dead Lake by Darcy Coates*
- The Romanov Conspiracy by Glenn Meade*
- Hanging Hill by Mo Hayder (DNF)
- Thunderhead by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child*
- Mistral Bed & Breakfast by Darcy Coates*
- The Calling by Inger Ash Wolfe*
- The American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin*
- The Blood House by Amy Cross
- No Wind No Blame by Georgette Heyer*
- The Obsession by Nora Roberts*
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson*
- Mary Russell’s War by Laurie R. King*
- The Haunting of Blackwych Grange by Amy Cross
- The Codex by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
- Deeper by Jeff Long
- Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
- The Cabin by Matt Shaw
- The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter
- Uniformed Justice by Donna Leon
- Pandora’s Star by Peter F. Hamilton