2024 Cozy Mystery Reading Challenge with Prompts (Tracking Post)
Hosted by: CMRC & Book Club
Cozy Mysteries only. ~ This is the only hard and fast rule. This challenge was built to expand our love within the Cozy genre, so feel free to pull selections from all sub-genre’s but the books must be a Cozy Mystery to count.
One Book Per Prompt ~ Unless you want to check off five prompts with the same book, go for it. 😉 Your challenge your rules, remember.
Participate ~ We love to see your posts on Instagram, read your comments on Facebook, and see what books you’ve added to the prompts on Storygraph. It’s much more fun when everyone participates, and we Mods get bored when it’s just us talking and posting.
There are 20 prompts with an extra three bonus prompts. They are on Instagram and Facebook.
Karen
My goal this year is to complete all 27 of the prompts. I am feeling courageous this year. So, I will try all of them. Let’s see if I succeed.
2024 Cozy Mystery Reading Challenge
Host: CMRC & Book Club
Progress: 11/27 (41%)
1 January, 2024 — 31 December, 2024
In Progress
| Prompt #1 | Prompt #2 | Prompt #3 | Prompt #4 | |
| Boat on the cover | Car on the cover | Something broken on the cover | house or building on the cover | |
| The Secret Ingredient to Murder by Terry Ambrose | Just Shoot Me Dead by Anne R. Tan | |||
| Prompt #5 | Prompt #6 | Prompt #7 | Prompt #8 | |
| Food or drink on the cover | 2020 Prompt: Holiday based cozy | 2021 Prompt: next in a series you started last year | 2022 Prompt: cozy from an author's backlist | |
| Double Grudge Donuts by Ginger Bolton | Christmas Lights and Cat Fights by Heather Weidner | Quilty as Charged by Maggie Bailey | Muffalettas and Murder by Jann Franklin | |
| Prompt #9 | Prompt #10 | Prompt #11 | Prompt #12 | |
| 2023 Prompt: paranormal or magical cozy | Your favorite prompt from a past challenge | Real person as a character | A cozy you would have read regardless | |
| Five Furry Familiars by Lynn Cahoon | Gone with the Witch by Angela M. Sanders | Fondue or Die by Korina Moss | Sprites and Scuttlebutt by Elizabeth Pantley | |
| Prompt #13 | Prompt #14 | Prompt #15 | Prompt #16 | |
| Makes you laugh out loud | Alliterative title | Two or more sleuths | Title has a number | |
| A Twinkle of Trouble by Daryl Wood Gerber | Sprites and Scuttlebutt by Elizabeth Pantley | Sprites and Scuttlebutt by Elizabeth Pantley | Five Furry Familiars by Lynn Cahoon | |
| Prompt #17 | Prompt #18 | Prompt #19 | Prompt #20 | |
| Cozy from a series with 10 or more books | Sleuth who is or was a journalist | Author's name starts with the same letter as yours | Favorite Author | |
| Murder in the Tea Leaves by Laura Childs | The Secret Ingredient to Murder by Terry Ambrose | Murder Marks the Page by Karen Rose Smith | A Twinkle of Trouble by Daryl Wood Gerber | |
| Bonus Prompt #1 | Bonus Prompt #2 | Bonus Prompt #3 | ||
| Three cozies, one commonality | story takes place in two places | three cozies nominated but not selected for book chat reads | ||
| Sprites and Scuttlebutt by Elizabeth Pantley |
Jen
Jen’s goal this year is to complete 20 of the 27 prompts. She is focusing on the main prompts this year and not the bonus ones.
Jenz 2024 Cozy Mystery Reading Challenge
Host: CMRC & Book Club
Progress: 11/20 (55%)
1 January, 2024 — 31 December, 2024
In Progress
| Prompt #1 | Prompt #2 | Prompt #3 | Prompt #4 | |
| Boat on the cover | Car on the cover | Something broken on the cover | house or building on the cover | |
| A Statue To Die For by Jennifer S. Alderson | Revved Up 4 Murder by J.C. Eaton | Ill-Fated Fortune by Jennifer J. Chow | Murder at an Irish Chipper by Carlene O'Connor | |
| Prompt #5 | Prompt #6 | Prompt #7 | Prompt #8 | |
| Food or drink on the cover | 2020 Prompt: Holiday based cozy | 2021 Prompt: next in a series you started last year | 2022 Prompt: cozy from an author's backlist | |
| Death by Irish Whiskey by Catie Murphy | Apple Dumpling Murder by Trixie Silvertale | Ophelia PI: Murder in Cicero by T. Lockhaven | ||
| Prompt #9 | Prompt #10 | Prompt #11 | Prompt #12 | |
| 2023 Prompt: paranormal or magical cozy | Your favorite prompt from a past challenge | Real person as a character | A cozy you would have read regardless | |
| Tallowed Ground by Valona Jones | Molten Death by Leslie Karst | Revved Up 4 Murder by J.C. Eaton | Revved Up 4 Murder by J.C. Eaton | |
| Prompt #13 | Prompt #14 | Prompt #15 | Prompt #16 | |
| Makes you laugh out loud | Alliterative title | Two or more sleuths | Title has a number | |
| Revved Up 4 Murder by J.C. Eaton | Lavender and Lies by Carly Winter | Revved Up 4 Murder by J.C. Eaton | Revved Up 4 Murder by J.C. Eaton | |
| Prompt #17 | Prompt #18 | Prompt #19 | Prompt #20 | |
| Cozy from a series with 10 or more books | Sleuth who is or was a journalist | Author's name starts with the same letter as yours | Favorite Author | |
| Revved Up 4 Murder by J.C. Eaton | A Poisonous Palate by Lucy Burdette | A Statue To Die For by Jennifer S. Alderson | A Statue To Die For by Jennifer S. Alderson | |
| Bonus Prompt #1 | Bonus Prompt #2 | Bonus Prompt #3 | ||
| Three cozies, one commonality | story takes place in two places | three cozies nominated but not selected for book chat reads | ||
| Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack |
Thank you for stopping by to see our progress on the 2024 Cozy Mystery Reading Challenge with Prompts. 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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