2014 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, from 7/1/14 to 12/31/17. These are the ones I read in 2014. Full list here.

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. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Completed 8/7/14
6. Washington Square by Henry James Completed 8/9/14
7. All in Good Time by Edward Ormondroyd Completed 8/11/14
8. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis Completed 8/19/14
9. Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis Completed 8/28/14
10. Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary Completed 8/28/14
11. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Completed 8/31/14 
12. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis Completed 9/12/14
13. Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary Completed 9/14/14
14. A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry Completed 9/17/14 
15. Peril at End House by Agatha Christie Completed 9/23/14
16. The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis Completed 9/24/14
17. A Room With a View by E. M. Forster Completed 9/28/14
18. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt Completed 9/29/14 
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

POIROT CHALLENGE

I am attempting to read all of Agatha Christie’s Poirot novels and short stories in original publication order. I have no time limit. These are the ones I read in 2014. Full list here.

• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 1926
• The Big Four 1927
• The Mystery of the Blue Train 1928
• Peril at End House 1932
• Lord Edgware Dies 1933
• Murder on the Orient Express 1934
• Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie