Reading Challenge: Reading by The Numbers 2025

I will be back for the Reading by the Numbers challenge in 2025.  It's a fairly simple challenge - set a reading goal and then have fun reading to get there.  That's it.  No levels.  Nothing but what you think you will hit.  And you can always increase your number of books along the way.

I'm going to do like I did last year and start out with a goal of 90 books for 2025.  I'm sure I'll be along part way into the year to increase it, but I don't want to set it too high.  This is the same strategy I employ for my Goodreads challenge each year.  In fact, this is a little less than I've done recently.  But I'm feeling like I might be slowing down my reading and reviewing this year.  We'll see if that holds true or not, I guess.  If I keep reading like always, I'll up my goal along the way.

I'll list my books below as I finish them:

1. Gilt Trip by Diane Vallere

2. Hired Guns by Steve Hockensmith

3. Rivers and Creaks by Marc Jedel

4. The Sinister Sitcom Caper by Sally Carpenter

5. Welcome Home to Murder by Rosalie Spielman

6. Murder at Mallowan Hall by Colleen Cambridge

7. Stuff to Spy For by Don Bruns

8. Fatal Reunion by Annette Dashofy

9. Written in Blood by Sheila Lowe

10. Framed for Murder by Marla A. White

11. Murder at Beechwood by Alyssa Maxwell

12. The Lies We Live by Liz Milliron

13. April Fool Dead by Carolyn Hart

14. Chocolate Can Be Deadly by Kim Davis

15. Kilned at the Ceramic Shop by Donna Clancy

16. London Calling by James Ponti

17. The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood

18. Termination Dust by Sue Henry

19. Something's Guava Give by Carrie Doyle

20. Silent as the Grave by Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles

21. Running on Empty by Karin Fitz Sanford

22. Snowy with a Chance of Murder by Jessica Fletcher and Barbara Early

23. Shattered Sight by Liz Milliron

24. Helpless by Annette Dashofy

25. Homicide in the Indian Hills by Erica Ruth Neubauer

26. Kingdom Keepers Inheritance: The Final Draw by Ridley Pearson

27. Waters of Destruction by Leslie Karst

28. People of Darkness by Tony Hillerman

29. Ranch Dressing by Diane Vallere

30. Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles by Elizabeth Crowens

31. Egg Drop Dead by Vivien Chien

32. Death on the Golden Mile by Caleb Wygal

33. The Library Game by Gigi Pandian

34. Murder Runs in the Family by Tamara Berry

35. A Fashionably French Murder by Colleen Cambridge

36. Hidden in Smoke by Lee Goldberg

37. #Throwback for Murder by Sarah E. Burr

38. A Killing Way by J. R. Sanders

39. A Killing in Costumes by Zac Bissonnette

40. Bait and Swiss by Korina Moss

41. The Tale of the Tenpenny Tontine by P.J. Fitzsimmons

42. What Comes Around by Annette Dashofy

43. Root of All Evil by Liz Milliron

44. Night of the Living Bread by Mary Lee Ashford

45. Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly

46. There's No Murder Like Show Murder by M. S. Greene

47. Home Is Where the Murder Is by Rosalie Spielman

48. A Rogue's Company by Allison Montclair

49. Murder Italian Style by Diane Vallere

50. Big Fat F@!k-Up by Lawrence Allan

51. Throne of Threats by Sarah E. Burr

52. Thrown for a Scoop by Dana Mentink