In 1990 the Crime Writer’s Association published a list of The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time, and the Mystery Writers of America published their own list in 1995. Wikipedia rocks, both lists are on this page. The goal of this challenge is pretty basic: read and review as many of these books as possible. The rankings are as follows:
The Game’s Afoot – 5+ books
A Little Drop of Poison – 10+ books
A Dark and Stormy Night – 25+books
Stop, You’re Killing Me! – 50+ books
A Perfect Murder – 100+ books
A few rules:
- The challenge is from January 1 – Dec 31, 2012
- All books must be reviewed. If you’re not a blogger, post your review on Shelfari, Goodreads, Facebook…whatever social site you want.
- Bonus points if you watch and review a movie made based on these books.
- Cross-overs are just fine – books read for this challenge can also be used for other challenges, and vice versa.
- Sign up in the comments!
Depending on how much activity this generates, I may or may not offer prizes. But we’ll see, it should be fun!
Happy reading!
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