One of my favorite reading times of the year is upon us -- the start of Karl's Readers Imbibing Peril (R.I.P.) Challenge! This is the fifth year of the challenge but only my second year participating. I believe it was originally an October challenge but was expanded to include September (to the delight of many!). Last year, I went far above and beyond the four books I signed up for. I'm sure I will surpass it again this year so I'm going to make my own Infinite Peril category! I've decided this year to read almost entirely from my own stacks. I've sorted my TBR shelves and have come up with many, many choices! Here are pictures of the almost two shelves that I have dedicated to the challenge.
1. The Gates
by John Connolly (YA, supernatural, horror)*
2. The Prince of Mist
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (YA, ghosts)*
3. The Ghosts of Kerfol
by Deborah Noyes (short stories, ghosts)
4. Messenger of Truth
by Jacqueline Winspear (series, murder, detective)
5. Affinity
by Sarah Waters (ghosts, supernatural)
5. Affinity
6. The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters (ghosts, supernatural)*
7. Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel
by Boris Akunin (series, murder, detective)
8. The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
(short stories, ghosts)
9. The Homeward Bounders
by Diana Wynne Jones (youth, magic, adventure)
8. The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
9. The Homeward Bounders
10. The Time of the Ghost
by Diana Wynne Jones (youth, ghosts)*
11. The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James (short stories, ghosts)
12. Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson (youth, adventure, pirates)
13. The Leavenworth Case
by Anna Katherine Green (mystery, murder)
14. Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories
by M.R. James (short stories, ghosts)
15. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
by Charles Dickens (murder)
16. The Monk
by Matthew Lewis (murder)
17. The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
by Peter Ackroyd (horror, supernatural)*
18. The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits
(short stories, mystery)
19. The Good Thief
by Hannah Tinti (violence, adventure)
20. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
by Mary Roach (non-fiction, death)*
21. Christine Falls
by Benjamin Black (series, mystery, murder)
22. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
by Kate Summerscale (non-fiction, murder, history)
23. In the Woods
by Tana French (series, mystery, murder, detective)*
24. 20th Century Ghosts
by Joe Hill (short stories, horror)
25. The Oxford Murders
by Guillermo Martinez (mystery, murder)
26. The Picture of Dorian Grey
by Oscar Wilde (graphic novel, murder, supernatural)*
26. The Picture of Dorian Grey
27. A Duty to the Dead
by Charles Todd (series, mystery)
28. The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein
by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler (non-fiction, monsters)
28. The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein
28. The Domino Men
by Jonathan Barnes (supernatural, mystery)*
29. The Ghost in Love
by Jonathan Carroll (ghosts)
30. The Book of Air and Shadows
by Michael Gruber (mystery, murder, adventure)
31. Ysabel
by Guy Gavriel Kay (ghosts, supernatural)
32. Icelander
by Dustin Long (mystery, murder)
33. The Red House Mystery
by A.A. Milne (mystery, murder)*
33. The Red House Mystery
34. Some Danger Involved
by Will Thomas (series, murder, detective)
35. An Expert in Murder
by Nicola Upson (series, murder)
36. The Angel Maker
by Stefan Brijs (horror, supernatural)
37. The Blackstone Key
by Rose Melikan (mystery)
38. Tesla: Man Out of Time
by Margaret Cheney (non-fiction, science)
39. The Forgotten Garden
by Kate Morton (mystery)
40. Fer-de-Lance and The League of Frightened Men
by Rex Stout (series, mystery, murder)
41. Full Dark House
by Christopher Fowler (series, mystery, detectives)
42. Bone: Out From Boneville
by Jeff Smith (youth, graphic novel, ghosts)
43. The Court of the Air
by Stephen Hunt (adventure)
44. The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession
by David Grann (non-fiction, murder)
45. The Children's Book
by A.S. Byatt (mystery)
Wow. I certainly buy books of a certain mood, don't I? Last year I got through eighteen books in two months. We'll see how I do this year. I think my unofficial goal will be twenty. It will be nice to make a decent-sized dent in my TBR stacks. If you want to see other reviews as they go up or link to your own reviews, the site is here.
Oh, and there's also a film component this year, Peril on the Screen. Don't worry! I have plenty of those as well (almost 50 DVDs that should qualify!). I'll kick it off this week with Dorian Gray
(which I finally got on Netflix) and go from there.
Oh, and there's also a film component this year, Peril on the Screen. Don't worry! I have plenty of those as well (almost 50 DVDs that should qualify!). I'll kick it off this week with Dorian Gray
Are there any of these books that you can recommend or that you would like to see me read? I've put stars by the ten I think I'm most likely to read and then the rest will be decided as I go along.
Hoping the leaves start changing soon to set the mood,
K
Hoping the leaves start changing soon to set the mood,
K