Reading Challenges

CLASSICS CHALLENGE

My challenge to myself is to read (or re-read) classics that I currently own. For this personal challenge I am including books that are at least as old as I am. 😉 I’m giving myself 3-1/2 years, ending 12/31/17. I will update this list as I go.

1. The Cricket in Times Square by George Seldon Completed 7/7/14
2. Betsy and Mr. Kilpatrick by Carolyn Haywood Completed 7/12/14
3. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells  Completed 7/23/14
4. Time at the Top by Edward Ormondroyd Completed 7/24/14
5. Washington Square by Henry James Completed 8/9/14
6. All in Good Time by Edward Ormondroyd Completed 8/11/14
7. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis Completed 8/19/14
8. Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis Completed 8/28/14
9. Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary Completed 8/28/14
10. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Completed 8/31/14 
11. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis Completed 9/12/14
12. Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary Completed 9/14/14
13. A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry Completed 9/17/14 
14. Peril at End House by Agatha Christie Completed 9/23/14
15. The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis Completed 9/24/14
16. A Room With a View by E. M. Forster Completed 9/28/14
17. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt Completed 9/29/14 
18. Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie Completed 10/3/14
19. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie Completed 10/11/14
20. Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery Completed 10/28/14
21. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll Completed 11/12/14 
22. The Saving Of P. S by Robbie Branscum Completed 11/27/14
23. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Completed 12/19/14
24. The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis Completed 1/9/15
25. Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie Completed 1/14/15
26. The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis Completed 1/16/15
27. The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis Completed 1/26/15
28. The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White Completed 2/6/15
29. Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie Completed 2/21/15
30. The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells Completed 2/24/15
31. The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene Completed 2/25/15
32. The A. B. C. Murders by Agatha Christie Completed 3/2/15
33. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Completed 3/6/15
34. A Tangled Web by L. M. Montgomery Completed 3/9/15
35. Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery Completed 3/13/15
36. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Completed 3/23/15
37. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton Completed 3/28/15
38. Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie Completed 4/3/15
39. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass Completed 4/16/15
40. The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli Completed 4/24/15
41. Cards on the Table Agatha Christie Completed 4/27/15
42. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren Completed 4/30/15
43. The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes Completed 5/1/15
44. Pippi Goes on Board by Astrid Lindgren Completed 5/6/15
45. Pippi in the South Seas by Astrid Lindgren Completed 5/8/15
46. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Completed 5/8/15
47. Silas Marner by George Eliot Completed 6/5/15
48. A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond Completed 6/8/15
49. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Completed 6/9/15
50. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie Completed 6/19/15
51. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Completed 6/25/15
52. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Completed 6/30/15
53. More About Paddington by Michael Bond Completed 7/3/15
54. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Completed 7/3/15
55. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien Completed 7/10/15
56. The Princess Bride by William Goldman Completed 7/18/15
57. Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie Completed 7/23/15
58. Kneeknock Rise by Natalie Babbitt Completed 7/23/15
59. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie Completed 8/3/2015
60. Heidi by Joanna Spyri Completed 8/4/15
61. The Railway Children by E. Nesbit Completed 8/7/15
62. Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie Completed 8/9/15
63. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Completed 8/21/15
64. Stuart Little by E. B. White Completed 8/27/15
65. Ink on His Fingers by Louise A. Vernon Completed 8/28/15
66. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White Completed 9/3/15
67. Homer Price by Robert McCloskey Completed 9/15/15
68. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne Completed 9/24/15
69. Thunderstorm in Church by Louise A. Vernon Completed 9/24/15
70. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Completed 10/2/15
71. Centerburg Tales by Robert McCloskey Completed 10/3/15
72. Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe Completed 10/23/15
73. Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery Completed 11/6/15
74. Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie Completed 11/23/2015
75. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare Completed 11/24/15
76. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Completed 12/5/15
77. Emma by Jane Austen Completed 12/9/15
78. The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie Completed 12/20/15
79. Howards End by E. M. Forster Completed 1/13/2016
80. Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde Completed 1/17/2016
81. An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde Completed 1/18/2016
82. A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde Completed 1/19/2016
83. Salome by Oscar Wilde Completed 1/20/2016
84. The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare Completed 2/11/2016
85. Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie Completed 2/11/2016
86. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg Completed 2/27/2016
87. Ellen Tebbits by Beverly Cleary Completed 4/16/16
88. Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl Completed 4/18/2016
89. Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie Completed 4/21/2016
90. Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie Completed 4/30/2016
91. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery Completed 5/8/2016
92. The Hollow by Agatha Christie Completed 5/10/2016
93. The Blue Castle  by L. M. Montgomery Completed 5/29/2016
94. The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson Completed 6/10/2016
95. The Story Girl by L. M. Montgomery Completed 6/10/2016
96. Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie Completed 6/13/2016
97. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Completed 6/18/2016
98. Mrs McGinty’s Dead by Agatha Christie Completed 6/23/2016
99. After the Funeral by Agatha Christie Completed 6/24/2016
100. Kilmeny of the Orchard by L. M. Montgomery Completed 6/26/2016
101. Hickory Dickory Dock by Agatha Christie Completed 7/4/2016
102. Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie Completed 8/2/2016
103. Persuasion by Jane Austen Completed 8/3/2016
104. The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie Completed 8/4/2016
105. The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie Completed 8/5/2016
106. Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie Completed 8/12/2016
107. 4:50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie Completed 8/23/2016
108. Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie Completed 8/25/2016
109. N or M? by Agatha Christie Completed 8/26/2016
110. The Clocks by Agatha Christie Completed 8/30/2016
111. The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie Completed 9/2/2016
112. Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt Completed 9/7/2016
113. Crooked House by Agatha Christie Completed 9/10/2016
114. Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie Completed 9/16/2016
115. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Completed 9/20/2016
116. Third Girl by Agatha Christie Completed 9/21/2016
117. The Mysterious Mr. Quin by Agatha Christie Completed 9/27/2016
118. The Golden Road by L. M. Montgomery Completed 9/28/2016
119. Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie Completed 10/8/2016
120. Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie Completed 10/12/2016
121. The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White Completed 10/12/2016
122. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie Completed 10/13/2016
123. Parker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie Completed 10/16/2016
124. The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie Completed 10/16/2016
125. Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case by Agatha Christie Completed 10/18/2016
126. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe Completed 10/18/2016
127. Macbeth by William Shakespeare Completed 10/29/2016
128. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Completed 10/31/2016
129. Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie Completed 11/1/2016
130. The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie Completed 11/11/2016
131. Towards Zero by Agatha Christie Completed 11/13/2016
132. Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie Completed 11/15/2016
133. Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie Completed 11/17/2016
134. The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie Completed 12/4/2016
135. A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie Completed 12/9/2016
136. A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie Completed 12/11/2016
137. The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side by Agatha Christie Completed 12/14/2016
138. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Completed 12/17/16
139. Nemesis by Agatha Christie Completed 12/23/2016
140. The Mysterious Shrinking House by Jane Louise Curry Completed 1/10/17
141. The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie Completed 1/10/17
142. Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery Completed 2/6/17
143. Beauty by Robin McKinley Completed 3/12/17
144. At Bertram’s Hotel by Agatha Christie Completed 3/26/17
145. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff Completed 4/23/17
146. The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare Completed 4/24/17
147. The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne Completed 5/1/17
148. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster Completed 5/24/17
149. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare Completed 5/29/17
150. Othello by William Shakespeare Completed 6/28/17
151. Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery Completed 7/7/17
152. Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery Completed 7/17/17
153. Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare Completed 7/22/17
154. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff Completed 7/24/17
155. Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen Completed 8/12/17
156. The Tempest by William Shakespeare Completed 8/18/17
157. Chronicles of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery Completed 9/4/17
158. Hamlet by William Shakespeare Completed 9/8/17
159. Further Chronicles of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery Completed 9/10/17
160. The Tuesday Club Murders by Agatha Christie Completed 9/18/17
161. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Completed 9/24/17
162. Endless Night by Agatha Christie Completed 10/14/17
163. Dracula by Bram Stoker Completed 10/24/17
164. They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie Completed 11/1/17
165. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Completed 11/4/17
166. The Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene Completed 11/4/17
167. Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie Completed 11/6/17
168. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Completed 11/14/17
169. Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie Completed 11/15/17
170. King Lear by William Shakespeare Completed 11/17/17
171. Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie Completed 11/24/17
172. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Completed 11/30/17
173. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson Completed 12/1/17
174. The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year in by Charles Dickens Completed 12/2/17
175. The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens Completed 12/5/17
176. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne Completed 12/11/17
177. Paddington Helps Out by Michael Bond Completed 12/18/17
178. Paddington Abroad by Michael Bond Completed 12/20/17
179. Paddington At Large by Michael Bond Completed 12/22/17
180. Paddington Marches On by Michael Bond Completed 12/23/17
181. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Completed 12/29/17

POIROT CHALLENGE

I read or re-read ALL of Poirot between May, 2013 and October, 2016.

• The Mysterious Affair at Styles 1920
• Murder on the Links 1923
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 1926
• The Big Four 1927
• The Mystery of the Blue Train 1928
• Peril at End House 1932
• Black Coffee 1998
• Lord Edgware Dies 1933
• Murder on the Orient Express 1934
• Three Act Tragedy 1935
• Death in the Clouds 1935
• The ABC Murders 1936
• Murder in Mesopotamia 1936
• Cards on the Table 1936
• Dumb Witness 1937
• Death on the Nile 1937
• Appointment with Death 1938
• Hercule Poirot’s Christmas 1938
• The Labours of Hercules (original short stories published 1939-1940)
• Sad Cypress 1940
• One, Two Buckle My Shoe 1940
• Evil Under the Sun 1941
• Five Little Pigs 1943
• The Hollow 1946
• Taken at the Flood 1948
• Mrs McGinty’s Dead 1952
• After the Funeral 1953
• Hickory Dickory Dock 1955
• Dead Man’s Folly 1956
• Cat Among the Pigeons 1959
• The Clocks 1963
• Third Girl 1966
• Hallowe’en Party 1969
• Elephants Can Remember 1972
• Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case 1975
• The Monogram Murders 2014
• Closed Casket 2016
• Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie