2026 Craving the Cozies Reading Challenge

2026 Craving the Cozies Reading Challenge Tracking Post

Hosted by: Escape with Dollycas

Challenge – Read as many cozy mysteries as you can in 2026!

The challenge runs from
January 1 and ends on December 31.

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.

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 Lori know.
4. You do not need to have a blog to participate. If you have a blog, use the button from Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book, add it to your blog, and post about the challenge.
5. Join the Craving for Cozies Facebook Group and share your progress with everyone. Facebook Group
6. Follow Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book for cozy giveaways and reviews.
7. You can keep track any way you wish. You can set up a special shelf on Goodreads.com to help you keep track!  It is super easy. Click the MY BOOKS tab at the top of the page. When that page opens, click – ADD A SHELF in the left-hand sidebar. Title it Craving for Cozies Challenge, and you are all set.
8. SIGN UP Sign Up Today

If you post about your books on Social Media, please use the hashtag #CravingCozies

Karen

My goal this year is to enter the peckish stage with 20 books.

1. Critters and Crimes by Elizabeth Pantley
2. Teddy Bears and Ghostly Lairs by Heather Weidner
3. Death at a Firefly Tea by Laura Childs
4. Terror in Taffeta by Marla Cooper
5. Two Purloined Pillows by Allie Pleiter
6. A Blue Ribbon Murder by T.C. LoTempio
7. Misfortune Cookie by Vivien Chien
8. Dead Focused and Hocus Pocused by Marcy Blesy
9. Murder Most Trivial by Jessica Fletcher, Barbara Early
10. Hot Wings and Homicide by Carmela Dutra
11. The Diva Hosts a Murderer by Krista Davis
12. Death of an Antiquarian by Rose Kerr
13. A Cultivated Corpse by Debra Sennefelder
14. Trouble Is Brewing by Vicki Delany
15. The Dockside Letter by Clara Whitford
16. Purranormal Activity by Cate Conte
17. Murder at First Slice by Valerie Burns
18. Murder on Charity Lane by Jo Nichols
19. Fire at the Track by M.J. Evans

Jen

Jen’s goal this year is to enter the peckish stage with 20 books.

1. The Peculiar Case of the Petersburg Professor by Sharon Kay
2. Muffins and Murder in Sunset Cove by Elly Grey
3. Dungeons and Danger by Elizabeth Penney
4. Dreidels and Dead Ends by Nancy J. Cohen
5. The Mango Murders by Lucy Burdette
6. A Delicious Deception by Lucy Burdette
7. Savvy Summers and the Po'boy Perils by Sandra Jackson-Opoku
8. The Barn Identity by Diane Kelly
9. Tell-Tale Treats by Jennifer J. Chow

Thank you for checking in on our progress with the 2026 Craving the Cozies 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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