2023 Craving For Cozies Reading Challenge
I finished!! I read 76 cozy mystery books this year and 175 total books! I signed up for the famished level & I finished at STARVING! I’m pretty proud of myself! Be sure to check out my page for the 2024 challenge!
JUST FOR FUN!
Cozy mysteries, also referred to simply as “cozies”, are a sub-genre of crime fiction mysteries in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community. The crime-solver is an amateur sleuth, usually but not always a woman, who is thrust into the aftermath of the murder. The protagonist frequently has an occupation or hobby that brings appealing information to the reader.
Challenge – Read as many cozy mysteries as you can in 2023!
The challenge runs from January 1, 2023, and ends on December 31, 2023.
Rules
1. Choose the level at which you would like to participate:
Levels
Peckish – 1 – 25 Cozy Mysteries
Famished – 26 – 51 Cozy Mysteries
Yearning – 51 – 75 Cozy Mysteries
Starving – 76 – 100 Cozy Mysteries
Ravenous – 101 – 125 Cozy Mysteries
Voracious – 126 – 150 Cozy Mysteries
Overindulged – 151 – 200 Cozy Mysteries
Pigged Out – 201 or more Cozy Mysteries
You can always go up a level but you can’t go down.
I am signed up for Famished!
2. You can Feed Your Need To Read with print, digital, or audiobooks.
3. You do not have to post a review but the authors would appreciate it if you did. If you need help just let me know.
4. You do not need to have a blog to participate. If you do have a blog, take the button above, put it on your blog, and post about the challenge.
5. Join the Craving for Cozies Facebook Group here and share your progress with everyone.
6. Follow Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book (right sidebar) for cozy giveaways and reviews.
7. You can keep track any way you wish. You can even set up a special shelf on Goodreads.com to help you keep track! It is super easy, Just click the MY BOOKS tab at the top of the page. When that page opens just click – ADD A SHELF in the left-hand sidebar. Title it Craving for Cozies Challenge and you are all set.
The form has a spot to request a copy of your responses so you can save it and be able to refresh your memory as to which level you signed up for.
If you post about your books on Social Media, please use the hashtag #CravingCozies
Join the Craving for Cozies Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1391926991114022
My Books
- Antique Tragedy by Victoria Tait
- Dial M for Meow by Ruth J. Hartman
- Gone But Not For Garden by Kate Collins
- Not Me: Speluncaphobia, Secrets and Hidden Treasures by Charlotte Stuart
- Wined and Died in New Orleans by Ellen Byron
- The Case of the Absent Heirs by Cathy Ace
- A Mystery Before Christmas by Adriana Licio
- Bakeries and Buffoonery by Elizabeth Pantley
- Sticks and Stones and a Bag of Bones by Heather Weidner
- In Farm’s Way by Amanda Flower
- A PURR before Dying by T.C. LoTempio
- Twelve Slays of Christmas by Jacqueline Frost
- Twas the Knife before Christmas by Jacqueline Frost
- Slashing Through the Snow by Jacqueline Frost
- Lemon Curd Killer by Laura Childs
- The Case of the Cursed Cottage by Cathy Ace
- A Flicker of a Doubt by Daryl Wood Gerber
- Murder in Postscript by Mary Winters
- Stalking Around the Christmas Tree by Jacqueline Frost
- A Fatal Encounter in Tuscany by Vivian Conroy
- The Ghost Goes to the Dogs by Cleo Coyle
- Red Hot Murder by Michele Pariza Wacek
- Poaching is Puzzling by Daryl Wood Gerber
- Murder at the Manor by Catherine Coles
- A Novel Disguise by Samantha Larsen
- The Navigator’s Daughter by Nancy Cole Silverman
- Earl Grey and Shallow Graves by Victoria Tait
- Priceless Betrayal by Victoria Tait
- Death in High Places by Benedict Brown
- Crewel Intentions by Lois Winston
- Broadway by Stan Charnofsky
- Under Lock and Skeleton Key by Gigi Pandian
- How the Murder Crumbles by Debra Sennefelder
- Sewing Suspicion by Kathryn Mykel
- And Then There Were Bones by Adriana Licio
- Genies and Gibberish by Elizabeth Pantley
- Quilting Calamity by Kathryn Mykel
- The Water Tower by Amy Young
- Dame Alice Hits Hollywood by Allie Mahoney
- Honey Drop Dead by Laura Childs
- Murder at the Village Fete by Catherine Coles
- Murder A La Mode by Lena Gregory
- Deadly Manor by Kate Parker
- Murder in Trastevere by Jen Collins Moore
- The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves
- Murder in Starry Cove by Lucinda Harrison
- Toes in the Tulips: (Adventures of Gladys) by Katherine H. Brown
- A Quite Deadly Affair (Mr. Quayle Mysteries) by Anthony Slayton
- The Case of the Uninvited Undertaker by Cathy Ace
- Darjeeling and a Deadly Disappearance by Victoria Tait
- Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas by Vicki Delany
- Secrets and Scallywags by Elizabeth Pantley
- Joy to the Wool by Rebecca McKinnon
- The Fog Ladies: Date with Death by Susan McCormick
- Murders of a Feather by Eileen Brady
- Overdue or Die by Allison Brook
- Murder by the Seashore by Samara Yew
- Deadly Performance by Victoria Tait
- Holly, Baubles and Murder by Victoria Tait
- Syrup to No Good by Catherine Bruns
- Inheriting Murder by Jamie Rutland Gillespie
- Cat House by Mollie Hunt
- Bulletproof Barista by Cleo Coyle
- Christmas Lights and Cat Fights by Heather Weidner
- Grounds for Murder by Lena Gregory
- Murder In the Churchyard by Catherine Coles
- Murder in Belgrave Square by Catherine Coles
- Murder on Tour by V.M. Burns
- A Christmas Conundrum by Stacy Wilder
- Jingle Bells, Rifle Shells by Bruce Hammack
- Murder at the Wedding Chapel by Catherine Coles
- Murder at Rochester Park by Catherine Coles
- Death at a Scottish Wedding by Lucy Connelly
- Pistols and Poinsettias by Bruce Hammack
- Vanilla Chai and a Vanishing Victim by Victoria Tait
- Twinkle, Twinkle Au Revoir by Heather Weidner