SF_fan_mae's 2026 50 Book Challenge

29 of 50 books completed so far.

My 2025 reading went well over 50, made it to 63. Between this challenge and the BingoDOG and ColorCAT challenges, I made some good headway into my TBR collection. For 2026, I'll continue with the 50 Book, BingoDOG and ColorCoverCAT challenges this year.

SF_fan_mae's 2025 50 Book Challenge (63)
SF_fan_mae's 2024 50 Book Challenge (54)
SF_fan_mae's 2023 50 Book Challenge (57)
SF_fan_mae's 2022 50 Book Challenge (53)
SF_fan_mae's 2021 50 Book Challenge (51)
SF_fan_mae's 2020 50 Book Challenge (51)
SF_fan_mae's 2019 50 Book Challenge (55)
SF_fan_mae's 2018 50 Book Challenge (59)
SF_fan_mae's 2017 50 Book Challenge (50)
SF_fan_mae's 2016 Reading List (48)

SF_fan_mae's 2026 Challenge Reading
SF_fan_mae tries a BingoDog for 2025

January

Starting with one carry-over.

1. The New Solar System - the carry-over from last year
2. Murder in the Secret Garden - CoverCAT "garden" book
3. Everyone on this Train is a Suspect - Bingo square, mode of transport
4. The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories - Christie
5. Artful: A Novel - Peter David
6. Quantum Leap: Angels Unaware - L. Elizabeth Storm
7. Quantum Leap: Loch Ness Leap - Sandy Schofield
The QL tie-in books got progressively worse and I never bothered reading the last few I had. I'm skimming over them so I can add them to my bag for the used book store. I'll only add them here if I skim-read the entire book, one has already gone DNF, all I read was the back cover blurb.

8. The Pushcart War - reread of an all-time favorite, we're all snowed in anyway.

February

9. The Labors of Hercules - Christie
10. The Ghost and the Femme Fatale - Alice Kimberly - CoverCAT
11. Close Knit Killer - Maggie Sefton
12. Smoke and Mirrors - Valdemar anthology
13. Forever Knight: These Our Revels - Ann Hathaway-Nayne

March

14. Witness for the Prosecution - Christie
15. The Grub-and-Stakers move a mountain - Charlotte MacLeod
16. Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus - Ann Spangler, Bible Study group book, started in Jan.
17. Quantum Leap: Mirror's Edge - Carol Davis, we'll see if this one works as a conclusion, at least to skim. I already skipped the 2 before it in the series. Nope, read about 50 pages, then switched to very light skim to the end. Not good.
18. The Case of the One-Eyed Witness - Erle Stanley Gardner

April

19. The Secret of Chimneys - Christie
20. The Latter Fire - James Swallow
21. Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils - Rob MacGregor, more unread tie-in novels to skim and sell on.
22. Stranger than Fan Fiction - Chris Colfer, re-reading this for the "road trip" square on the Bingo challenge.

May

23. Boldly Writing - Joan Marie Verba
24. The Seven Dials Mystery - Christie
25. The Serpent's Shadow - Mercedes Lackey
26. Sisters in Crime #3 - anthology
27. The Real Force: A 40 Day Devotional - Paul Kent
28. Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge - Rob MacGregor

June

29. The Under Dog and Other Stories - Christie
30. A Touch of the Grape - Claudia Bishop - darn, not liking this at all, idiot plot, as it all the characters act like idiots, getting on my last nerve, skimming 2nd half.
31. The Thursday Murder Club - rereading for a Bingo square, still funny
32. Son of Film Flubs
33. Mrs. Jeffries Pleads Her Case
34. Three Victorian Detective Novels - Andrew Forrester, Wilkie Collins, Israel Zangwill