Adventure in Alaska by Cheryl Dougan
Death by Bagpipes: A Summer Murder in Edinburgh by Jennifer S. Alderson
High Style and Homicide by Kathleen Bridge
Bingo Bashed by Leena Clover
Penned In by Lynn Cahoon
Weekend
Keep
Ground
Door
Among
Midnight
Glitter
Highway
Lying
Ruin
Alchemy
Hoax
Blind
Chance
Flower
Sound
Favorite
Orange
Picture
Broken
Sister
Look
Forget
Fortune
Mirror
Mist
Party
Stray
Light
People
Everlasting
Spell
Bright
Creek
Letter
Empire
Forever
Emerald
Wreck
Eye
Box
Apple
Castle
Fool
Middle
Cold
Flight
Become
Fall
Sun
Boyfriend
Thousand
Shores
Country
Confession
Society
Matter
Spy
Roof
Missed
Zero
Enchant
Water
Point
Orbit
Hot
Daydream
Endure
Curse
Ice
Decay
Smile
Prey
Crypt
Hollow
Dreadful
Killer
Hex
Wolf
Lore
Whistle
Quiet
Bitter
Rising
Strings
Lands
Seven
Song
Lemon
Welcome
Bake
Crush
Cafe
Taste
Cat
Kind
Cub reporter: 5 books (1 from each category)
Columnist: 10 books (2 from each category)
News Anchor: 15 books (3 from each category)
Editor: 20 books (4 from each category)
Newspaper Mogul: 25 books (5 from each category)
BONUS CATEGORY:
Pulitzer Prize Winner (Newspaper Mogul plus Bonus Category) = 30 books
EXTRA BONUS CATEGORY:
Nobel Prize for Literature (Newspaper Mogul plus Pulitzer Prize + Extra Bonus) = 31 books
WHO
Protagonist is a baker
Any Character who is a dead person (ghost, skeleton, vampire, zombie, etc.)
A Side Character who is kooky (or fun)/someone you’d love to have as a friend
Protagonist is a mother or father
A Character who works with books or writes (librarian/restorer/reporter/author/bookstore clerk)
WHAT
Supernatural element in the title
Proper name in the title
Title starts with any letter in your last name
Holiday in the title
Title is a play on words (ex: Mind Your Own Beeswax or Gluten for Punishment, etc.)
WHERE
Set in a city that starts with a D, a P or a S
Set in a small town
Set in a New England state
On vacation
Set on foreign soil (NOT America or England)
WHEN
Set during a holiday
Set in the 1900s
Set during summer
Set during fall
Set during a snow storm (doesn’t have to be whole story)
HOW
Strangled
Stabbed
Shot
Poisoned
Blunt Instrument
BONUS CATEGORY – PULITZER PRIZE
WHO – Protagonist is married
WHAT – Title is at least seven words
WHERE – Set in a fictional place you would love to live
WHEN – Set during a conference or convention (doesn’t have to be entire story)
HOW – Accident
EXTRA BONUS CATEGORY – NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
Horoscope (from on-line or a newspaper or wherever)
Pick a horoscope from the 3rd of any month. Then read a book that relates to that horoscope.
Example: Horoscope says – While you may feel the urge to put on a pair of boxing gloves and duke it out with your family, try putting on an oven mitt instead. Cooking a meal or performing other domestic chores will help take your mind off your troubles with your family.
For this horoscope, you could read a book about a boxer or a chef or a baker or a maid or a butler or a cleaner, etc. Something in the book must somehow relate to the horoscope.
Rules: For this challenge – Each book can only be used once (If it fits more than 1 category – choose one – as it can only be used in 1 of the categories)
The bonus rounds are just an added challenge to kick it up a notch!
The challenge runs from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025.
You don’t have to choose your books in advance. If you do, you can change your list at any time during the year.
Books can be in any format – paper, ebooks, audio…
Crossovers with other challenges are fine.
Most of all—have fun!