2026 Cloak and Dagger Reading Challenge

2026 Cloak and Dagger Reading Challenge Tracking Post

Hosted by: Carol’s Notebook

Challenge Rules:

• You can read any book from the mystery/suspense/thriller/crime genres. Any subgenre is welcome as long as it incorporates one of these genres.
• You don’t need a blog to participate, but you do need a place to post your reviews to link up. (blog, Goodreads, Instagram, etc.)
• Make a goal post and link it here with your goal for this challenge.
• Books need to be at least 100 pages long. Please, no short stories.
• Crossovers with other challenges are fine.
• The challenge will run from January 1st to December 31st. (Sign-up ends March 15th)

We still have our Facebook group, so if you haven’t joined, we would love for you to! It’s a closed group, so ask to join, and we’ll let you in.

Facebook Group

There will be a monthly link-up to see what everyone’s reading – and probably add some to our TBR lists. We will have giveaways for participants at the halfway mark and at the end.

We’ll continue to use the hashtag #CloakDaggerChal.

Levels:

5-15 books – Amateur sleuth

16-25 books – Detective

26-35 books – Inspector

36 – 55 – Special agent

56+ books – Sherlock Holmes

Karen

My goal this year is to reach Inspector status with 30 books.

1. Critters and Crimes by Elizabeth Pantley
2. Vows and Villainy by Elizabeth Penney
3. Cross Your Heart and Hope He Dies by Jenny Elder Moke
4. Teddy Bears and Ghostly Lairs by Heather Weidner

Jen

Jen’s goal this year is to be an Inspector with 30 books.

1. The Water Lies by Amy Meyerson
2. A Spy in Saigon by Nancy Cole Silverman
3. Fiend by Alma Katsu
4. The Second Son by Simon Gervais, Ryan Steck
5. The Peculiar Case of the Petersburg Professor by Sharon Kay

Thank you for checking my and Jen’s progress on the 2026 Cloak and Dagger Reading Challenge. Please feel free to check out our other reading challenges for this year. You can find them linked to the menu above.

Happy Reading!

 

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