Freda's Voice 100+ Book Challenge 2016

 Book Challenge 2016

The Philosopher Stone Reading List

January 2016 Reviews

#1 - No Rest for the Dead - A Novel (Twenty-Six Writers. One Mystery.) Edited by Andrew F. Gulli and Lamia J. Gulli

#2 - The Crossing - A Bosch Novel by Michael Connelly

#3 - All Dressed in White by Mary Higgins Clark & Alafa Burke

#4 - Copy Cat Murder - A Hat Shop Mystery - by Jenn McKinlay 

#5 - Scandalous Behavior - A Stone Barrington Novel - by Stuart Woods

#6 - Sam Phillips - The Man Who Invented Rock ’n’ Roll by Peter Guralnick 

#7 - Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder - A Hannah Swensen Mystery by Joanne Fluke

#8 - Blueberry Muffin Murder - A Hannah Swensen by Joanne Fluke  

#9 - Wildlife Photographer of the Year: 50 Years by Rosamund Cox (Editor)

#10 - NYPD RED 4 by James Patterson & Marshall Karp

February 2016 Reviews 

#11 - iPhone for Dummies (ebook) by Edward C. Baig

#12 - Capturing Better Photos & Video with your IPhone by J. Dennis Thomas 

#13 - The Plague of Thieves Affair - A Carpenter And Quincannon Mystery by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

#14 - The iPhone Photographer - How To Take Professional Photographs with Your iPhone by Michal Fagans 

#15 - Once A Crooked Man - A Novel by David McCallum

#16 - Double Fudge Brownie Murder - A Hannah Swensen Mystery by Joanne Fluke  

#17 - Carpenter & Quincannon, Professional Detective Services by Bill Pronzini

#18 - The History of Rock ’N’ Roll in Ten Songs by Greil Marcus 

#19 - This Old Man - looking back at a literary life by Roger Angell 

#20 - The Black Dudley Murder - An Albert Campion Mystery - by Margery Allingham 

#21 - Learning to See Creatively Third Edition Design, Color, and Composition in Photography by Bryan Peterson

#22 - Here Comes Valentine CAT by Deborah Underwood pictures by Clauida Rueda 

#23 - Robert B. Parker’s Blackjack - A Novel by Robert Knott

#24 - When That Rough God Goes Riding - Listening to Van Morrison By Greil Marcus 

#25 - Midnight Sun by Joe Nesbø

March 2016 Reviews 

#26 - Violent Crimes - Ann Amanda Jaffe Novel by Phillip Margolin

#27 - The Practice of Contemplative Photography - Seeing the world with Fresh Eyes by Andy Karr & Michael Wood

#28 - The Waters of Eternal Youth - A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery by Donna Leon 

#29 - My Granny is a Pirate by Val McDermid

#30 - Off the Grid - A Joe Pickett  Novel by C.J. Box

#31 - Splinter the Silence by Val McDermid 

April 2016 Reviews

#32 - PRIVATE PARIS, by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan

#33 - Historic US Route 20 - A Journey across America’s Longest Highway by Bryan Farr

#34 - Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher - the Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan

#35 - No Shred of Evidence - An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery by Charles Todd

#36 - Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben

#37 - Hour of the Wolf: Inspector Van Veeteren Series, Book 7 by Håkan Nesser

#38 - Beneath the Bleeding by Val McDermid

#39 - Blood Brothers - The Fatal Friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X by Randy Roberts & Johnny Smith 

#40 - Bears in the Bath by Shirley Parenteau illustrated by David Walker

#41 - Duck's Vacation by Gilad Soffer

#42 - Split! Splat! by Amy Gibson illustrated by Steve Bojørkman 

May 2016 Reviews

#43 - A Morbid Taste for Bones - The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, at Shrewsbury by Ellis Peters

#44 - Nobody’s Mother is in Second Grade by Robin Pulver pictures by G. Brian Karas 

#45 - 15th Affair (Women's Murder Club) by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro 

#46 - The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

#47 - The Steel Kiss by Jeffery Deaver 

#48 - Family Jewels by Stuart Woods

#49 - Geocaching - Hike and Seek With Your GPS by Erik Sherman 

June 2016 Reviews

#50 - Suspicion of Vengeance by Barbara Parker

#51 - The Last Mile by David Baldacci

#52 - Extreme Prey by John Sandford 

#53 - The Snatchabook by Helen Docherty

#54 - Our Great Big Backyard by Laura Bush and Jenna Bush Hager

#55 - When Falcons Fall (Sebastian St. Cyr) by C.S. Harris 

July 2016 Reviews 

#56 - Charcoal JOE by Walter Mosley

#57 - The Pursuit by Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg

#58 - As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley 

#59 - Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin • Pictures by Harry Bliss

#60 - Dishonorable Intentions (Stone Barrington #38) by Stuart Woods 

#61 - The Games - A Private Novel by James Patterson & Mark Sullivan

#62 - Devious - A Bentz and Montoya Novel (#7) by Lisa Jackson 

#63 - Let’s Have A Tree Party by David Martin

#64 - Murder at the Loch - A Langham & Dupré Mystery by Eric Brown

August 2016 Reviews

#65 - Beaks, Bones & Bird Songs by Roger J. Lederer

#66 - Bobby Kennedy: the making of a liberal icon by Larry Tye

#67 - Baby Birds: An Artist Looks into the Nest by Julie Zickefoose 

#68 - Bear and Duck by Katy Hudson

#69 - Phantom Instinct by Meg Gardiner 

#70 - Hummingbirds and Butterflies by Bill Thompson III and Connie Toops 

#71 - Robert B. Parker’s Slow Burn - A Spenser Novel by Ace Atkins

September 2016 Reviews

#72 - Killer Look - A Novel by Linda Fairstein 

#73 - Bullseye - A Detective Michael Bennett Thriller by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge

#74 - The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School by Laura Murray

#75 - Kill Chain (Evan Delaney #5 - 2007) by Meg Gardiner 

#76 - The Trial: A BookShot by James Paterson & Maxine Paetro 

#77 - Explorer's Guide Finger Lakes (5th Edition) by Katharine Delavan Dyson

#78 - The Shattered Tree - A Beth Crawford Mystery by Charles Todd 

#79 - Tribe - On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger

October 2016 Reviews

#80 - A Great Reckoning - A Novel ((Chief Inspector Gamache Novel) by Louise Perry 

#81 - Thirteen Guests - J. (Joseph) Jefferson Farjeon

#82 - Suspect by Michael Robotham 

#83 - Fishbone’s Song by Gary Paulsen

#84 - The Last Detective - by Robert Crais

#85 - Revenge In a Cold River by Anne Perry 

November 2016 Reviews 

#86 - Painting Without Paint by Matthew Palmer

#87 - Sex,Lies, & Serious Money (Stone Barrington #39) by Stuart Woods 

#88 - Big Bad Breakfast - The Most Important Book of the Day by John Currence

#89 - And They Found No Witches - A True Police Story by Tom Alessi 

#90 - The Jealous Kind by James Lee Burke 

#91 - The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly 

#92 - Escape Clause - A Virgil Flowers Novel by John Sanford

#93 - How To Catch Santa by Jean Reagan 

#94 - Don’t Go Home (Death On Demand #25) by Carolyn Hart 

December 2016 Reviews

#95 - Night School - A Jack Reacher Novel (#21) by Lee Child

#96 - Wines of the Finger Lakes by Peter Burford 

#97 - Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen 

#98 - My Special One and Only by Joe Berger 

#99 - A Christmas Message by Anne Perry 

#100 - The Road to Character by David Brooks 

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