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Sticking broadly with my approach from previous years and still trying to clear TBR shelves my challenge for 2024 is

1. Book Series - completed 5.11.24

1.1 Finish Louise Penny - Inspector Gamache series - completed 22.6.24
1.2 Finish L J Ross - DCI Ryan series - completed 1.7.24
1.3 Reginald Hill - Dalziel and Pascoe series - books 6 - 10 - completed 5.11.24
1.4 Get up to date with series from previous year’s challenges
1.4.1 Alex Gray - DCI Lorimer - completed 27.8.24
1.4.2 M.C. Beaton - Agatha Raisin - completed 24.2.24
1.4.3 Donna Leon - Commissario Brunetti - completed 28.9.24

2. Books from my old TBR shelves by authors with initials I-P

3. All books signed by the author in 2023

4. Five books by authors new to me - completed 8.5.24

5. Mixed list

5.1 a travel book
5.2 secret Santa book from my book group
5.3 a classic
5.4 an unfinished book
5.5 book signed by the author prior to 2023

that should hopefully help clear some of the backlog

Looks like a nice amount of variety Fiona! Enjoy what you choose! :-)

Great categories. I hope you have better luck than I did last year.

Good luck and happy reading!

Fiona wrote: "still trying to clear TBR shelves"

This is such a lofty goal, and you have lots of company here. But we all love our overstuffed TBRs, and we add more than what we take out 🤣. Happy reading!

I like your challenge. Enjoy.

Good luck with your goals.

Book Series

1.1 Louise Penny Inspector Gamache

1.1.1 The Nature of the Beast - Book 11 - 5 stars - completed 28.3.24
1.1.2 A Great Reckoning - Book 12 - 5 stars - completed 4.4.24
1.1.3 Glass Houses - Book 13 - 5 stars - completed 20.4.24
1.1.4 Kingdom of the Blind - Book 14 - 4 stars - completed 30.4.24
1.1.5 A Better Man - Book 15 - 4 stars - completed 8.5.24
1.1.6 All the Devils Are Here - Book 16 - 5 stars - completed 16.5.24
1.1.7 The Madness of Crowds - Book 17 - 4 stars - completed 30.5.24
1.1.8 A World of Curiosities - Book 18 - 5 stars - completed 22.6.24

Book Series

1.2 L J Ross DCI Ryan
1.2.1 Cragside - Book 6 - 4 stars - completed 15.1.24
1.2.2 Dark Skies - Book 7 - 4 stars - completed 19.1.24
1.2.3 Seven Bridges - Book 8 - 4 stars - completed 22.1.24
1.2.4 The Hermitage - Book 9 - 4 stars - completed 26.1.24
1.2.5 Longstone - Book 10 - 4 stars - completed 29.1.24
1.2.6 The Infirmary - Book 11 - 4.5 stars - completed 2.2.24
1.2.7 The Moor - Book 12 - 4 stars - completed 8.2.24
1.2.8 Penshaw - Book 13 - 4 stars - completed 10.2.24
1.2.9 Borderlands - Book 14 - 3 stars - completed 13.2.24
1.2.10 Ryan’s Christmas - Book 15 - 3 stars - completed 15.2.24
1.2.11 The Shrine - Book 16 - 4 stars - completed 17.2.14
1.2.12 Cuthbert’s Way - Book 17 - 4 stars - completed 21.2.24
1.2.13 The Rock - Book 18 - 4 stars - completed 24.2.24
1.2.14 Bamburgh - Book 19 - 3 stars - completed 1.3.24
1.2.15 Lady’s Well - Book 20 - 4 stars - completed 6.3.24
1.2.16 Death Rocks - Book 21 - 4 stars - completed 1.7.24

Book Series

1.3 Reginald Hill Dalziel and Pascoe
1.3.1 A Killing Kindness - Book 6 - 4 stars - completed 11.9.24
1.3.2 Deadheads - Book 7 - 4 stars - completed 24.9.24
1.3.3 Exit Lines - Book 8 - 4 stars - completed 29.9.24
1.3.4 Child's Play - Book 9 - 4 stars - completed 17.10.24
1.3.5 Under World by Reginald Hill - Book 10 - 4 stars - completed 5.11.24

Previous Years Series

1.4.1 Alex Gray Inspector Lorimer
1.4.1.1 Questions for a Dead Man - book 20 - 3 stars - completed 27.8,24

1.4.2 M.C.Beaton Agatha Raisin
1.4.2.1 Down the Hatch - book 32 - 4 stars - completed 5.2.24
1.4.2.2 Dead on Target - book 34 - 3 stars - completed 24.2.24

1.4.3 Donna Leon Commissario Brunetti
1.4.3.1 Give Unto Others - book 31 - 3 stars - completed 2.9.24
1.4.3.2 So Shall You Reap - book 32 - 4 stars - completed 28.9.24

2. Old TBR author’s initials I - P

2.1 I
2.2 J
2.3 K
2.4 L
2.5 M
2.6 North Freya Polly - 3 stars - completed 24.11.24
2.7 O’Connell Carol Mallory's Oracle - 2 stars - completed 11.12.24
2.8 Parkhurst Carolyn Lost and Found - 3 stars - completed 23.7.24

3. Books signed by the author in 2023

3.1 The Wild Coast by Lin Anderson - 4 stars - completed 21.3.24
3.2 A Winter Grave by Peter May - 3 stars - completed 25.5.24
3.3 The Last Passenger by Will Dean - 4 stars - completed 12.7.24
3.4 Nothing Left to Fear From Hell by Alan Warner - 4 stars - completed 13.7.24
3.5 The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days108519232] by Helen Rebanks - 4 stars. - completed 22.7.24
3.6 The Girl in the Photo by Heidi Amsinck - 4 stars - completed 5.8.24
3.7 Music in the Dark by Sally Magnusson - 3 stars - completed 20.10.24
3.8 Unhinged by John Lier Horst and Thomas Enger - 4 stars - completed 11.11.24
3.9 The Murder Game by Tom Hindle - 3 stars - completed 17.11.24
3.10 Blood Runs Cold by Neil Lancaster - 4 stars - completed 19.11.24
3.11 The Conspirators: When the price of life is death by G W Shaw - 3 stars - completed 1.12.24
3.12 In the Palm of Her Hand by Dorothy Webster - 2 stars - completed 12.12.24

4. Five Books by authors new to me

4.1 Birnam Woodby Elinor Catton - 4 stars - completed 8.2.24
4.2 The Bird in the Bamboo Cage by Hazel Gaynor - 3.5 stars - completed 14.3.24
4.3 Black Thorn by Sarah Hillary - 3 stars - completed 26.3.24
4.4 Clear by Carys Davies - 3 stars - completed 12.4.24
4.5 The List of Suspicious Things - 5 stars - completed 8.5.24

5. Mixed list

5.1 a travel book - Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure - 4 stars - completed 27.12.24
5.2 secret Santa book from my book group - The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry STORIED LIFE OF A J FIKRY D UNABRIDGED Compact Disc - 5 stars - completed 19.1.24
5.3 a classic
5.4 an unfinished book
5.5 book signed by the author prior to 2023

Fiona wrote: "Book Series

1.2 L J Ross DCI Ryan
1.2.1 Cragside - Book 6 - 4 stars - completed 15.1.24
1.2.2 Dark Skies - Book 7 - 4 stars - completed 19.1.24
1.2.3 Seven Bridges - Book 8 - 4 stars - completed..."

Kudos on your progress, Fiona! Woot!

Romped through the remaining L J Ross Ryan series. Can’t wait to visit Northumbria again in June

Completed Louise Penny Inspector Gamache series - love Three Pines and all the supporting cast. There’s a new novel due before the end of the year so will add it in due course

Congratulations, Fiona!

Fiona wrote: "Completed Louise Penny Inspector Gamache series - love Three Pines and all the supporting cast. There’s a new novel due before the end of the year so will add it in due course"

Good grief, and I've only read the first two or three.. Congratulations.

Had to update my L J Ross reads as a new one had just been published.
Death Rocks is set beside Dunstanburgh Castle and we have just returned from holiday in the area including the walk from Craster to Dunstanburgh that Ryan / Philips take in the book.

Congratulations, Fiona! You are working at a great pace. I have book 14 of the Louise Penny books ready to read which is pretty good for me. I usually fall off long before I get that far in a series.
Happy Reading!

Whilst I’m not going to finish the whole list I’ve made progress although the TBR has probably grown not shrunk !

Still a few days left to complete a couple more