Reading RoundUp: January 2026

The first monthly summary of what I’ve been reading, listening to, and watching in 2026!

BOOKS

I read 11 books in January: 7 in print, 2 in e-book format, and 2 in audio format. They were:

1.       More Than Love: An Intimate Portrait of My Mother, Natalie Wood by Natasha Gregson Wagner. (AUDIOBOOK)

2.       The Day The Earth Froze by Gerald Hatch (PRINT - SOFTCOVER)

3.       Klaus: Complete Deluxe Hardcover by Grant Morrison and Dan Mora (PRINT - HARDCOVER, GRAPHIC NOVEL)

4.       Being Jazz by Jazz Jennings. (AUDIOBOOK)

5.       Rise of the Crones (The Crone Wars Book 5) by Lydia M. Hawke. (E-BOOK)

6.       Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. (PRINT - SOFTCOVER) (SPARTA BOOKS BOOK CLUB JANUARY PICK)

7.       The Searcher (Cal Hooper #1) by Tana French. (PRINT - SOFTCOVER) (STANZA BOOKS MYSTERY BOOK CLUB JANUARY PICK)

8.       Golden Age Christmas Mysteries, edited by Otto Penzler (PRINT – SOFTCOVER)

9.       Absolute Martian Manhunter, Volume 1: Martian Vision by Deniz Camp, Javier Rodriguez, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (PRINT – SOFTCOVER)

10.   Frankenstein Alive, Alive! By Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson (PRINT – SOFTCOVER)

11.   A Confluence of Obsidian (The Obsidian Sisterhood #3) by Lydia M. Hawke (E-BOOK)

STORIES

I have a goal of reading 365 short stories (1 per day, essentially, although it doesn’t always work out that way) once again this year. Here’s what I read this month and where you can find them if you’re interested in reading them too. If no source is noted, the story is from the same magazine or book as the story(ies) that precede(s) it.

1.       “Mother’s Hip” by Corey Jai White & Maddison Stoff, in Lightspeed Magazine #188, edited by John Joseph Adams

2.       “Bots All The Way Down” by Effie Seiberg.

3.       “Hunter, Hunter” by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe

4.       “A Brief Public Announcement” by Eli Brown

5.       “Choose Your Own Damnation” by Kehkashan Khalid

6.       “Where The Chicken-Footed Dwell” by Marisca Pichette

7.       “Academic Neutrality” by M.R. Robinson

8.       “The Moving Finger” by Adam-Troy Castro

9.       “Dregs” by R. Diego Martinez, from Nightmare #160, edited by Wendy N. Wagner

10.   “The Tailors” by Kurt Fawver

11.   “Jennifer's Daughter” by Sara S. Messenger

12.   “A Skull in Reverse” by Stephanie Feldman from Sunday Morning Transport Dec 2025, edited by Fran Wilde and Julian Yap

13.   “'Brokeheart' GPT, or "A Superintelligent Being Reads Pat Rosal”” by Micaiah Johnson, from Sunday Morning Transport Jan 2025

14.   “Donuts From the Daydream Network” by Julia Vee

15.   “Slake” by Victor Manibo

16.   “The Final Voyage of the Ouranos” by Marie Brennan

17.   “The Stolen Christmas Box” by Lillian de la Torre from Golden Age Christmas Mysteries, edited by Otto Penzler

18.   “Persons or Things Unknown” by Carter Dickson

19.   “Death on Christmas Eve” by Stanley Ellin

20.   “If Christmas Comes” by Steve Fisher

21.   “The Christmas Bogey” by Pat Frank

22.   “Silent Night” by Baynard Kendrick

23.   “Dead on Christmas Street” by John D. MacDonald

24.   “A Reversible Santa Claus” by Meredith Nicholson

25.   “Crime's Christmas Carol” by Norvell Page

26.   “The Adventure of the Dauphin's Doll” by Ellery Queen

27.   “The Butler's Christmas Eve” by Mary Roberts Rinehart

28.   “Dancing Dan's Christmas” by Damon Runyon

29.   “The Wrong Santa Claus” by Vincent Starrett

30.   “So Many Miles to the Heart of a Child” by Richard Bowes, from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 561 (April 1998), edited by Gordon Van Gelder

31.   “The Red One” by Jack London, from Voices From The Radium Age, edited by Joshua Glenn

32.   “First Bar at the End of the Day” by Ken Scholes, from Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds and Other Handfuls of Hope, edited by Patrick Swenson

33.   “Making My Entrance Again With My Usual Flair” by Ken Scholes

34.   “John Stevenson's Good Fortune” by Horatio Alger, from Horatio Alger Society Website, editor unknown

35.   “The End of the Story” by Clark Ashton Smith, from Vampire Tales: The Big Collection, editor unknown

36.   “The Hills of the Dead” by Robert E. Howard

37.   “Carnival of Crime” by Fred Whitby, from Star Spangled Comics 45 (June 1945), edited by Jack Schiff

38.   “Worth His Salt!” by Herbert E. Smith, from Captain Marvel Adventures 33 (March 1944), edited by Will Lieberson

39.   “A Tip on a Turtle” by Robert Silverberg, from Playing Games, edited by Lawrence Block

40.   “The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria” by Carlos Hernandez, from The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria, edited by Bill Campbell

41.   “The Adventure of the Clockwork Men” by Ron Goulart, from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction #721, edited by C.C. Finlay

42.   “The Invisible Event” by Seanan McGuire, from The Author’s Patreon

43.   “Minor Hockey Gods of Barstow Station” by Beth Cato, from Red Dust and Dancing Horses and Other Stories, editor unknown (originally published in Galactic Games, edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt)

44.   “The Collector” by Daniel Jose Older, from Salsa Nocturna: Stories, edited by Kay T. Holt

45.   “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge” by Tananarive Due, from The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason

46.   “The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal” by Chaz Brenchley, from Everything in All The Wrong Order, edited by Seanan McGuire

47.   “The Stars You Can't See By Looking Directly” by Samantha Murray, from Clarkesworld 232, edited by Neil Clarke

48.   “The Purloined Letter” by Edgar Allan Poe, from Poetry and Tales, edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott

49.   “Hell on the Homefront Too” by Stephen Graham Jones, from Giving The Devil His Due: Special Edition, edited by Rebecca Brewer

50.   “Alchemy” by Carrie Vaughn, from Nevertheless She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project, editor unknown

51.   “Persephone” by Seanan McGuire

52.   “The Great King's Lost Bride” by R.K. Duncan, From Beneath Ceaseless Skies 449, edited by Scott H. Andrews

53.   “J.C. on the Dude Ranch” by Philip Jose Farmer, from Riverworld And Other Stories, editor unknown

54.   “The Fortingall Yew” by William Meikle, from A Winter's Tale: Horror Stories for the Yuletide, edited by Cliff Biggers, Charles R. Rutledge, James R. Tuck

So that’s 54 short stories in January. A bit more than “1 per day,” ha-ha (January 31st was, of course, the 31st day of 2026.)

COMIC BOOKS

I’ve begun tracking the individual monthly comic book issues I read and thought it would be fun to include that list in this monthly round-up as well. I’m striving for a comic book per day. I’ve also started doing a “Random Back Issue Comic Books Read/Reread” daily post on my Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky accounts. We’ll see how long that lasts. Here’s the comics I read in January:

1.       Knights of the Round Table #1 (Dell, 1954)

2.       ROM #1 (Marvel, 1979)

3.       Tomahawk #106 (DC, 1966)

4.       Marvel Super-Heroes #17 (Marvel, 1968)

5.       New Adventures of Superboy 29 (DC, 1983)

6.       Demon Hunter #1 (Atlas, 1975)

7.       Dark Shadows #6 (Gold Key, 1970)

8.       Marvel Two-in-One #33 (Marvel, 1977)

9.       Fence: Breakthrough: Quarter Clash #1 (Boom Studios, 2026)

10.   Nova Centurion #1 (Marvel, 2026)

11.   JSA #15 (DC, 2026)

12.   The Tin Can Society #9 (Image, 2026)

13.   Hero Zero #1 (Dark Horse, 1994)

14.   The MAZE Agency #2 (Comico, 1989)

15.   Hercules Unbound #12 (DC, 1977)

16.   Batman Family #12 (DC, 1977)

17.   Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #36 (Gold Key, 1971)

18.   Teen Titans #44 (DC, 1976)

19.   Sorcerer Supreme #1 (Marvel, 2026)

20.   Shogun Warriors #1 (Marvel, 1979)

21.   C.O.R.T. (Children of the Round Table) #5 (DC, 2026)

22.   Aquaman #13 (DC, 2026)

23.   Green Lantern Corps #12 (DC, 2026)

24.   Supergirl #9 (DC, 2026)

25.   Action Comics #1094 (DC, 2026)

26.   Star Spangled Comics #45 (DC, 1945)

27.   Captain Marvel Adventures #33 (Fawcett, 1944)

28.   Nutsy Squirrel #71 (DC, 1956)

29.   DC Special #29 (DC, 1977)

30.   Tales of Evil #1 (Atlas, 1975)

31.   The New Warriors #1 (Marvel, 1990)

32.   Famous First Editions F-8 (reprinting Flash Comics #1) (DC, 1975)

33.   Showcase #83 (DC, 1969)

34.   Steel The Indestructible Man #1 (DC, 1978)

35.   Marvel Classics Comics (Dracula) #9 (Marvel, 1976)

36.   Kurt Busiek’s Astro City #1 (Image, 1995)

37.   Silver Age: Showcase #1 (The 7 Soldiers of Victory) (DC, 2000)

38.   The X-Men #44 (Marvel, 1968)

39.   Sea Devils #31 (DC, 1966)

40.   The Grim Ghost #2 (Atlas, 1975)

So that’s 40 comics, a bit ahead of the “one per day” goal.

MOVIES

1.       Zootopia 2 (2025), directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard (THEATER)

2.       Thunderbolts* (2025), directed by Jake Schreier (STREAMING, Disney+)

Not even close to the “one per week” I’m aiming for.

TELEVISION

·       Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2, episodes 1 – 8 (8 episodes)

·       Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow documentary (1 episode)

·       Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Eps 1 – 3 (3episodes)

That’s 12 episodes of television, not even close to the “1 per day” I was shooting for.

LIVE THEATER

1.       Oedipus (Studio 54, NYC)

PODCASTS

I’m a fairly recent convert to listening to podcasts, so I thought it would also be fun to list those here in the monthly roundups:

1         Justice Society Presents Episode 18 (JSA in the 90s: Justice Society #3)

2         Justice Society Presents Episode 19 (JSA in the 90s: Spotlight on the Holidays)

3         Justice Society Presents Episode 20 (JSA in the 90s: Justice Society #4)

4         Justice Society Presents Episode 21 (JSA in the 90s: Justice Society #5)

5         Justice Society Presents Episode 22 (JSA in the 90s: Spotlight on Jay Garrick, The Flash)

6         The History of Comics Books in 500 Issues Ep. 27 (African Comic Books Before World War Two)

7         The History of Comics Books in 500 Issues Episode 28 (Tijuana Bibles)

8         Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum Episode 400 (Tom Wilson interview)

9         Borgo Pass Horror Podcast Episode 3 (Man Mad Monster, 1941)

10     Borgo Pass Horror Podcast Episode 4 (The Invisible Man, 1933)

11     The Boxing Glove Arrow Podcast Episode 11 (Interview with Win Scott Eckert)

Summary of Challenges:

366 Short Stories Challenge: This month: 26 read; YTD: 26 of 366 read.

Goodreads Challenge: This month: 11 read; YTD: 11 of 120 read.

Graphic Novels Challenge: This month: 3 read; YTD: 3 of 52 read.

Read the Book / Watch the Movie Challenge: This month: 0 read/watched; YTD: 0 read/watched.

Movie Challenge: This month: 2 watched; YTD: 2 of 52 watched.

TV Shows Challenge: This month: 12 episodes watched; YTD: 12 of 365 watched.

Live Theater Challenge: This month: 1 show attended; YTD: 1 of 12 attended.

Comic Books Challenge: This month: 40; YTD: 40 of 365 read.

2025 Reading Roundup: By The Numbers

Time for my annual round-up of what I read and watched in 2025. Because I dropped the ball on doing monthly Round-Up reports, I’m going to run a few more detailed posts over the next week or two listing everything I’ve read or watched. Today’s post is mostly a “by the numbers” thing.

BOOKS

I did manage to read 123 books in 2025: 13 hardcovers, 49 softcover/paperbacks, 35 e-books, and 23 audiobooks. 19 of those titles were rereads, the rest books I read for the first time in 2025.

Monthly distribution: 7 in January; 9 in February; 9 in March; 6 in April; 5 in May; 11 in June; 9 in July; 10 in August; 13 in September; 5 in October; 13 in November; and 26 in December.

I read work from approximately 110 different creators (authors and anthology editors mostly; I did not track graphic novels editorial staff, colorists, and letterers this year).

17 of these books were for book clubs at Sparta Books in Sparta NJ and Stanza Books in Beacon NY. 12 of them were Advanced Review Copies (either print or from NetGalley). 3 of them were for my “Reread My Favorites” project (hopefully debuting on the blog soon.)

The shortest book I read was 41 pages long (Jeffrey Ricker’s short story collection Lies I Tell Myself: Stories), the longest 609 (Suzanne Finstad’s Natalie Wood: The Complete Biography).

Genre Breakdown:

·       Adventure: 1

·       Biography: 1

·       Crime: 1

·       Pop culture analysis: 2

·       Fantasy: 20

·       Historical fiction: 2

·       History: 2

·       Horror: 28

·       Memoirs: 25

·       Mimetic/current day fiction: 3

·       Mixed genre short story collections: 2

·       Mystery: 12

·       Mythology: 1

·       Romance: 7

·       Science: 3

·       Science Fiction: 11

·       Superhero: 2

·       Thriller: 1

·       True Crime: 1

These were my own rough classifications, and in hindsight I’m not sure why I broke crime fiction and mysteries into separate categories. I was surprised to realize I once again read a lot more horror than I thought. I didn’t read any playscripts this year for the first time in a while. And also, for the second year in a row, not a single poetry collection. I am not a big poetry reader, but I usually like to at least try to read a collection or two during National Poetry Month.

STORIES

I did manage to read 366 short stories in 2025 by 243 different authors (this includes translators).

The monthly distribution: 35 in January; 38 in February; 36 in March; 8 in April; 24 in May; 31 in June; 17 in July; 16 in August; 39 in September; 14 in October; 12 in November, and 96 in December. (Clearly, I was way behind my 1-per-day pace by the time I hit December, but a few anthologies and single-author collections helped me catch up.)

These stories came from 23 anthologies and single-author collections, 15 different magazines, 1 author Patreon site, 1 author website, 1 stand-alone e-book independently published, 3 printed chapbooks, and 2 novels (as back-matter). Last year, I calculated exactly how many stories came from each format, but as I’m running behind on this post, I’m going to skip that this year. In previous years I’ve also counted how many different editors were involved, but I neglected to accurately track that this year as well.

Genre breakdown:

·       Adventure: 3

·       Comedy: 3

·       Crime: 3

·       Fantasy: 102

·       Horror: 134

·       Mimetic/modern-day: 4

·       Mystery: 9

·       Science Fiction: 104

·       Super-Heroes: 4

Again, I’m surprised that I read a bit more horror than I thought I did. And I’m still not sure why I separated crime, mystery, and thrillers into distinct subcategories.

MOVIES

I didn’t even come close on my “watch 52 movies” challenge. I watched 3 whole movies in 2025.

I had challenged myself to watch more of the several hundred DVDs I own (split between movies and television series). 1 of the 3 movies watched was on DVD. The other two were in actual movie theaters.

Genre breakdown:

·       Horror (kind of): 1 (The Life of Chuck, a movie that is hard to categorize)

·       Super-Heroes: 2 (Superman and Fantastic Four: First Steps)

These 3 movies were the work of 3 different directors.

TELEVISION

I only managed to watch 63 distinct episodes across 9 series, so nowhere near the “1 episode for every day” goal.

Genre breakdown:

·       Comedy: 2 series

·       Science Fiction: 2 series

·       Super-Heroes: 1 series

·       Horror: 1 series

·       Crime: 1 series

·       Variety/Comedy Specials: 2

LIVE THEATER

I saw 11 live theatrical productions in 2025, so I missed my “average one per month” goal by 1! I attended these shows in 11 different theaters, 9 of which were in New York City. One was in the Los Angeles area, and 1 was a local high school production. 8 were musicals, 3 were dramas. One was a new production of a show I’ve seen live before (Guys and Dolls), and two were shows I’ve seen movie or filmed stage versions of (Moulin Rouge and Pirates of Penzance).

OTHER LIVE EVENTS

I also tracked what other live events I went to. I attended:

·       one college graduation (my goddaughter’s, from the University of Pittsburgh),

·       1 baseball game (our local minor league team, The Sussex Miners)

·       1 work convention

·       2 book conventions/festivals (PulpFest; Milford Readers and Writers)

·       1 antiquarian book fair (in NYC)

·       1 annual birthday bookstore crawl (in NYC)

·       4 In-Person Author Events (1 at Kew and Willow in NYC, 3 at Stanza Books in Beacon)

·       6 online author events (mostly on C.S.E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez’s Twitch channel)

·       16 book club meetings (6 at Sparta Books in Sparta NJ, 10 at Stanza Books in Beacon NY)

PODCASTS

I only really started listening to podcasts late this year (other than about a decade ago when I used to listen to the New Yorker’s short story podcast, back when I still had an iPod Nano). So of course I decided to track my listening: 54 individual episodes across 5 different podcasts. All of them were comic book-related with the exception of 2 episodes:

·       The Borgo Pass podcast (Universal Monsters): 2 episodes

·       World on Fire: the All-Star Squadron podcast: 3 episodes

·       The Boxing Glove Arrow podcast (Green Arrow): 5 episodes

·       JSA Presents (various Justice Society related shows): 16 episodes

·       The History of Comic Books in 500 Issues: 24 episodes

COMIC BOOKS

I also decided to track how many individual comic books (single monthly issues, or “floppies”) I read in 2025. The total was 467. 30 of those were rereads, the other 437 were new (and mostly newly published). These issues were stretched across approximately 112 different titles from 10 different publishers.

The monthly distribution: 32 in January; 55 in February; 15 in March; 34 in April; 45 in May; 42 in June; 35 in July; 29 in August; 31 in September; 66 in October; 29 in November, and 54 in December.

The genre breakdown:

·       Comedy: 2

·       Fantasy: 25

·       Horror: 44

·       Mystery: 7

·       Sports: 2

·       Science Fiction: 2

·       War: 2

·       Super-Heroes: 383

Summary of Challenges:

366 Short Stories Challenge: 366 of 365 read.

Goodreads Challenge: 123 of 120 read.

Movie Challenge: 3 of 52 watched.

Television Challenge: 63 of 365 watched.

Live Theater Challenge: 11 of 12 shows attended.

2026 Reading Challenges!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here’s hoping for a healthy book-and-story-filled 2026.

I always set myself more than one reading/viewing challenge per year. Some goals carry over from year to year, and some are new. Some are broad and some are themed. And in many cases, books read will help me meet more than one challenge. In 2024 I also started making some formal movies, television, and live theatre viewing challenges.

On the reading side of things, in 2025, I hit my overall book and short story goals but on the viewing side of things, I only got close to my goal for live theater, and majorly dropped the ball on my television and movie viewing goals. Instead of one large annual wrap-up post, I’m going to make a series of shorter posts: one for overall numbers (probably tomorrow), one for books, two for short stories (the first of which will go up on Sunday January 4), one for comic books, one for live theater and other live events (Thursday, January 8), and one for television/movies.

Once again, this year, I’m sticking mostly to the basic challenges:

365 SHORT STORIES CHALLENGE

Every year, I challenge myself to read one short story per day. Some years I keep the pace well, and some years I fall behind and then scramble to catch up (and some years, I catch up and fall behind again, and some years I blow past the goal handily). I’m defining “short story” as anything from flash fiction to novella-length. I am going to once again make an effort to review one or two stories every Sunday in my “Sunday Shorts” feature.

GOODREADS CHALLENGE

Goodreads allows members to set a challenge. In previous years, I’ve set goals ranging from 125 to 150 books. For 2025, I’m setting a goal of 120 to start with (10 books per month), and we’ll see what happens.

MOVIE CHALLENGE

I own a lot of DVDs. (I know, you’re shocked. Shocked!) Every year I say, “This is the year I’m going to make an effort to watch them!” And then, somehow, I … don’t. One year, I did a list of 12 and two alternates as I used to do for the ToBeRead Challenge, called it the ToBeWatched Challenge … and failed it miserably. In 2024, I got about halfway to the goal of 52 movies (an average of one per week). In 2025, not so much. So this year, I’m setting myself the same challenge. This includes movies on DVD, streaming services, and any trips to an actual movie theater (which have become rare for me).

TELEVISION CHALLENGE

Did I mention I own a lot of DVDs? And that I’m subscribed to a lot of streaming services? I did? Well, you won’t be shocked to know that it’s not all about the movies. So I’m setting myself a “TV Series Watch” challenge akin to my Short Story Challenge: an average of one full episode of a television series (regardless of length) for each day in the year, which this year means 365 episodes.

LIVE THEATRE CHALLENGE

I did pretty well with this one in 2025, even though I didn’t manage to post reviews of everything. So I’m continuing the goal for 2026: I want to see at least 1 live theatrical performance per month. Most of them will be in New York City, but I’ll count any play, musical, opera, ballet, or staged reading I see anywhere, regardless of whether it’s fully professional productions, college, community theatre, whatever. (Music concerts, author signings, and conferences/conventions do not count towards this but will be tracked separately.)

COMIC BOOK CHALLENGE

I also own a lot of comic books. I went “cold turkey” on buying new comics about 20 years ago for budget and space reasons. But then in 2018 Seanan McGuire and Saladin Ahmed, two authors whose work I love, started writing various comics for Marvel and thought brought me back into buying monthly comics. And I keep buying more. 2025 was the first year I actually tracked every individual comic book issue (“floppies,” as some people call them) I read, so I’m going to make this an official Challenge for 2026: as with the short stories and the television episodes, I plan to read at least one comic book (new or back issue) for every day of the year … so again, 365 total.

ALPHABET CHALLENGE

I saw at the beginning of 2025 several book bloggers posting about various alphabet challenges: one book title for each letter of the alphabet, one author for each letter of the alphabet. I made a good run at both in 2025 without necessarily making reading decisions based on either, so I think I’m going to do them again in 2026.

 NOVELLA NOVEMBER

I’ve made NovellaNovember (or, as another book blogger on Bluesky coined it, Novellavember) a thing for the past few years. My goal is to promote and discuss novellas and short novels (and even novelettes) throughout the month, including publisher, author and editor interviews. I say every year I’m going to shoot for a novella day, but I think I’ll make that a novella every two days for 2026.

OTHER UNOFFICIAL CHALLENGES

There are a few ongoing (in some cases, sort of life-long, or at least second-half-of-my-life long) challenges that I don’t think I’ve ever written about here. For instance, I’m well on my way to having read everything Bram Stoker ever wrote. Here are those challenges, and I’m going to do my best to create dedicated posts early in the year showing what I’ve already read/watched for each challenge and then update as I go along. Again, these are multi-year challenges:

·       The Complete Bram Stoker Read-Through

·       The Complete Seanan McGuire Read-Through

·       The Complete Silvia Moreno-Garcia Read-Through

·       The Complete Philip Jose Farmer Read-Through

·       The Complete Edgar Rice Burroughs Read-Through

·       The Complete Maurice Broaddus Read-Through

• The Complete Perry Rhodan Read-Through

·       The Complete Dark Shadows Rewatch

·       The Complete Doctor Who Rewatch

·       The Complete Star Trek Rewatch

·       The Complete Planet of the Apes Rewatch

·       The Complete Brother Cadfael Read-Through and Rewatch

·       The Complete A.A. Fair (Cool and Lam series) Read-Through

·       The Complete Marvel Comics 1970s Novels Reread

·       The Complete Hard Case Crime Read-Through

·       The Complete Radium Age of Science Fiction Read-Through

·       The Complete American Mystery Classics Read-Through

·       The Complete Doc Savage Read-Through

·       The Complete Three Investigators Read-Through

·       The Complete Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Girl From U.N.C.L.E. Read-Through and Rewatch

·       The Complete All-Star Squadron Reread

·       The Complete The Invaders (Marvel Comics) Reread

·       The Complete Starman (2000’s DC) Reread

·       The Complete Tomb of Dracula Reread

·       The Complete Micronauts and ROM Reread

·       The Complete Shakespeare Watch (either Live theater or filmed)

·       Read A Book or Story From Every Nation in the World

·       Read a Book From Every State and US Territory

·       Read a Book from Every Canadian Province/Territory

And one of these days I would really like to finish creating a list of every book I remember reading in my life.

ACCOUNTABILITY

So how am I going to hold myself accountable? I’m planning to bring back my monthly Reading RoundUps. (I know, I know … I said this in the 2025 Challenge post and failed miserably at actually doing it. Second time’s the charm?) I’m not going to rename/rebrand because I like the alliterative title (which falls well in line with Series Saturday, Sunday Shorts, and a few other blog series I’m hoping to make regular features again in 2026), but those posts will also track the Viewing challenges.

I would love to hear what YOUR Reading, Writing, or Viewing Challenges are for 2024. Let me know in the comments!