bookmonkey: Person holding huge book stack, "so many books, so little time." (manybookslittletime)
Goal: 65 books - Wishful thinking: 85 books
Goal: 20+ 1001 titles

01 0207 01-03 Jan > The woman warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston >> 207
02 0097 01-04 Jan > I may not get there with you - Michael Eric Dyson (28%) >> 304
03 0198 04-06 Jan > The assault - Harry Mulisch >> 502
GN 0030 09-09 Jan > Malcolm X: a graphic biography - Andrew Helfer & Randy DuBurke (100p)>> 532
04 0279 06-10 Jan > The wind's twelve quarters - Ursula K Le Guin >> 811
05 0550 10-12 Jan > The mysterious island - Jules Verne >> 1361
06 0191 12-13 Jan > A wrinkle in time - Madeleine L'Engle >> 1552
07 0198 13-13 Jan > A wind in the door - Madeleine L'Engle >> 1750
08 0257 14-14 Jan > A swiftly tilting planet - Madeleine L'Engle >> 2007
09 0295 15-16 Jan > Many waters - Madeleine L'Engle >> 2302
10 0963 18-24 Jan > Anna Karenina - Lev Tolstoy >> 3265
11 0270 26-28 Jan > Joey the hitman - Joey & David Fisher >> 3535
12 0150 29-31 Jan > Island of Doctor Moreau - HG Wells >> 3685
13 0215 06-06 Feb > Seawitch - Alistair MacLean >> 3900
14 0679 01-08 Feb > The idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky >> 4579
15 0208 08-11 Feb > Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, & other writings >> 4787
16 0218 12-14 Feb > My father’s name - Lawrence P. Jackson >> 5005
17 0212 14-15 Feb > A wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K Le Guin >> 5217
18 0154 16-17 Feb > The city and the pillar - Gore Vidal >> 5371
19 0421 17-20 Feb > Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu >> 5792
20 0500 20-22 Feb > Evelina - Frances Burney >> 6292
21 0205 22-22 Feb > A child called it - Dave Pelzer >> 6497
22 0215 23-25 Feb > A handful of dust - Evelyn Waugh >> 6712
23 0183 25-26 Feb > The man within - Graham Greene >> 6895
24 0184 26-28 Feb > The casebook of Carnacki the ghost finder - WH Hodgson >> 7079

0693 16- Jan > The first circle - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn >>
bookmonkey: Chimp wearing glasses (Default)
Goal: 65 books
Wishful thinking: 85 books

01 0335 01-06/01 > Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins >> 335
02 0209 06-06/01 > Mary Poppins - P.L. Travers >> 544
03 0159 06-08/01 > In the Pirate's Den - Jorge Masetti >> 703
04 0340 08-21/01 > Chapel Road - Louis Paul Boon >> 1043
05 0136 13-16/04 > Minuet - Louis Paul Boon >> 1179
06 0295 27-27/04 > All quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque >> 1474
07 0099 10-10/05 > Anthem - Ayn Rand >> 1573
08 785 17/4-14/5 > Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes >> 2358
09 0271 15-16/05 > Troika - David Gurr >> 2629
10 0276 17-20/05 > In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan le Fanu >> 2905
11 0182 20-21/05 > A Gun for Sale - Graham Greene >> 3087
12 1030 21-25/05 > The Instructions - Adam Levin >> 4117
13 0182 25-26/05 > Petersburg Tales - Nikolai Gogol >> 4299
14 0277 26-27/05 > Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg >> 4576
15 0394 27-29/05 > Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain >> 4970
16 0345 29-30/05 > Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen >> 5315
17 0395 30-31/05 > Mansfield Park - Jane Austen >> 5710
18 0503 01-12/06 > Walking With the Wind - John Lewis >> 6213
19 0312 16-16/06 > Mary Poppins Comes Back - PL Travers >> 6525
20 0245 16-17/06 > The Nightrunners - Joe R Lansdale >> 6770
21 0932 12-18/06 > Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts >> 7702
22 0400 19-20/06 > Emma - Jane Austen >> 8102
23 0466 20-22/06 > Shadowland - Peter Straub >> 8568
24 0136 22-24/06 > Narrative of A. Gordon Pym - Edgar Allan Poe >> 8704
25 0458 22-26/06 > Metro 2033 - Dmitry Glukhovsky >> 9162
26 0220 27-27/06 > Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith >> 9382
27 0268 27-28/06 > The curious incident of the dog in the night-time - Mark Haddon >>
28 0115 28-28/06 > If I Were You - L Ron Hubbard >> 9497
29 0269 30/6-1/7 > Mary Poppins Opens the Door - PL Travers >> 9766
30 0169 11-16/07 > The real life of Sebastian Knight - Vladimir Nabokov >> 9935
31 0389 31/7-1/8 > Cat's Eye - William W Johnstone >> 10324
32 0418 06-08/08 > Who fears death - Nnedi Okorafor >> 10742
33 0449 17-18/08 > Sleep Walk - John Saul >> 11191
34 0454 18-20/08 > Gangster - Lorenzo Carcaterra >> 11645
35 0750 22-27/08 > Angel of Darkness - Caleb Carr >> 12395
36 0520 01-30/08 > The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens >> (quit)
37 0499 07-08/10 > Seize the Night - Dean Koontz >>
38 0747 12-27/10 > The Warlord - Malcolm Bosse >>
39 0218 26-27/10 > Puppet on a Chain - Alistair MacLean >>
40 0425 05-07/11 > The Right Hand of Evil - John Saul >>
41 0214 07-09/11 > The Lost World - Arthur Conan Doyle >>
42 0190 09-09/11 > Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen >>
43 0200 13-14/11 > Persuasion - Jane Austen >>
44 0440 14-15/11 > Brother Grimm - Craig Russell >>
45 0137 08-10/12 > Nightmares and Geezenstacks - Fredric Brown >>
46 0292 10-13/12 > Sweeney Todd - James Malcolm Rymer >>
47 0238 13-15/12 > If I Did It - OJ Simpson (Goldman Family)
48 0070 15-15/12 > Lady Susan - Jane Austen
49 0102 16-16/12 > A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
50 0123 16-17/12 > Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
51 0442 17-19/12 > The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
52 0296 01-20/12 > Notes from the underground and The gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky
53 0220 20-22/12 > In their father's country - Anne-Marie Drosso
54 0250 22-31/12 > I may not get there with you - Michael Eric Dyson (72%)
bookmonkey: "I do not understand the concept of too many books..." (nottoomanybooks)
Aiming to read at least 75 books!

01 0120p 01-01/01 > In the Heart of the Seas - S. Y. Agnon
02 0453p 01-03/01 > Resolution - Denise Mina
03 0452p 03-05/01 > The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
04 0151p 06-06/01 > The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin
05 0213p 13-13/01 > The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
06 0248p 15-16/01 > In the Teeth of the Evidence - Dorothy L Sayers
07 0154p 16-17/01 > Prison Journal - Luise Rinser
08 0317p 05-21/01 > Ancestor Stones - Aminatta Forna
09 0244p 29-29/01 > Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
10 0277p 30-31/01 > I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
11 0190p 04-07/02 > Japanese Tales Mystery Imagination - Edogawa Rampo
12 0210p 07-07/02 > The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
13 0216p 08-10/02 > Mystery of the Yellow Room - Gaston Leroux
14 0381p 18-24/02 > Ghoul - Michael Slade
15 0387p 24-29/02 > Cutthroat - Michael Slade
16 0247p 01-04/03 > House Next Door - Anne Rivers Siddons
17 0196p 06-11/03 > Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
18 0576p 11-14/03 > Dune - Frank Herbert
19 0472p 1/2-19/3 > them - Joyce Carol Oates
20 0240p 18-20/03 > Son of Rosemary - Ira Levin
21 0300p 20-22/03 > The Rebels' Hour - Lieve Joris
22  (52p) 22-23/03 > Black Boy - Richard Wright (started 2015) (L)
23 0180p 30/3-4/4 > They Have Their Exits - Airey Neave
24 0403p 07-10/04 > Ripper - Michael Slade
25 0354p 13-13/04 > Revenant - Carolyn Haines
26 0410p 04-16/04 > The Last Man - Mary Shelley
27 0165p 17-17/04 > Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (L)
28 0213p 17-19/04 > Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal
29 0860p 19-27/04 > Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky
30 0235p 27-28/04 > Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
31 0310p 28-30/04 > My Father the Spy - John H Richardson
32 0165p 12-14/05 > Play it as it Lays - Joan Didion (L)
33 0273p 14-22/05 > If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
34 0468p 24-25/05 > Sweet Revenge - Diane Mott Davidson
35 0202p 05-07/06 > Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
36 0285p 11-12/06 > The Golden Ass - Apuleius (L)
37 0352p 21-22/06 > Long Fatal Love Chase - Louisa May Alcott
38 0359p 13-25/06 > Not Just Batman's Butler - Alan Napier
39 0180p 25-26/06 > Eaters of the Dead - Michael Crichton
40 0303p 26/6-3/7 > Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
41 0734p 04-09/07 > The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
42 0326p 09-11/07 > Beloved - Toni Morrison
43 0224p 11-12/07 > Democracy - Joan Didion (L)
44 0424p 22/5-13/7 > Danse Macabre - Stephen King
45 0142p 13-13/07 > Candide - Voltaire
46 0044p 14-14/07 > Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
47 0441p 14-22/07 > Stalin's Secret Pogrom - Rubenstein & Naumov
48 0178p 22-23/07 > The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
49 0164p 23-24/07 > Jacob's Room - Virginia Woolf
50 0270p 24-27/07 > Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
51 0335p 27-30/07 > Defcon One - Joe Weber
-- 0128p 31-31/07 > Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery Archives v1
52 0263p 05-06/08 > A Good Month for Murder - Del Quentin Wilber
53 0212p 06-07/08 > Human Acts - Han Kang
54 0290p 01-10/08 > The Castle - Franz Kafka
55 0118p 11-13/08 > Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
56 0457p 13-21/08 > Rob Roy - Walter Scott
57 0182p 22-24/08 > The King in Yellow - Robert W Chambers
58 0277p 25-26/08 > Flight of the Falcon - Daphne Du Maurier
59 0278p 26-26/08 > Dangerous Minds - LouAnne Johnson
60 0118p 26-27/08 > Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
61 0346p 27-29/08 > Villette - Charlotte Brontë
62 0346p 29/8-17/9 > King Rat - James Clavell
63 0330p 17-18/09 > The Dark - James Herbert
64 0757p 18/9-2/10 > Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
65 0263p 02-04/10 > Stone - Adam Roberts
66 0219p 09-12/11 > The Black Shrike - Alistair MacLean
67 0218p 13-13/11 > The Satan Bug - Alistair MacLean
68 0310p 02-16/11 > Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe (L)
69 0302p 16-19/11 > Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
70 0155p 19-21/11 > The Professor - Charlotte Brontë
71 1472p 3/1-6/12 > Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
72 0293p 06-07/12 > Hell House - Richard Matheson
73 0275p 07-10/12 > And We Are Not Saved - Derrick Bell
74 0291p 10-12/12 > Renfield: Slave of Dracula - Barbara Hambly
75 0295p 13-17/12 > Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
76 0155p 17-17/12 > Rip van Winkle & others - Washington Irving
77 0271p 18-20/12 > The Compass Rose - Ursula K Le Guin
78 0213p 20-22/12 > Myron - Gore Vidal
79 0214p 24-26/12 > The Secret of Chimneys - Agatha Christie
80 0120p 27-28/12 > The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M Cain
81 0225p 22-29/12 > The SS Dirlewanger Brigade - Christian Ingrao
82 0060p 29-30/12 > The Time Machine - HG Wells
83 0280p 31-31/12 > Bear Island - Alistair MacLean

----p 23/3- > Outsider - Richard Wright
bookmonkey: Chimp wearing glasses (Default)
I'm not sure what my challenges will be for this year, if any; I'm off to a super late start and, well, yeah. Meanwhile, the list.

01 0426p 09-11/03 > The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
02 0179p 11-13/03 > One Man's Initiation 1917 - John Dos Passos
03 0276p 04-08/04 > Ghost Stories - Edith Wharton
04 0472p 10-10/04 > By the Light of the Moon - Dean Koontz
05 0503p 11-12/04 > Others - James Herbert
06 0523p 12-16/04 > Oni - Marc Olden
07 0386p 16-18/05 > Monster - Sanyika Shakur
08 0310p 01-04/06 > Caleb Williams - William Godwin
09 0207p 04-08/06 > Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
10 0220p 16-19/06 > The Return of Simple - Langston Hughes
11 0214p 27/6-11/7 > Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick
12 1085p 9/6-12/7 > Complete Sherlock Holmes - A. Conan Doyle
13 0245p 25-25/07 > The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
14 0396p 01-03/08 > The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
15 0217p 21-21/08 > And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
16 0368p 21-23/08 > Sphere - Michael Crichton
17 0330p 04-18/10 > Max Havelaar - Multatuli
18 0408p 19-21/10 > Headhunter - Michael Slade
19 0169p 22-25/10 > Pepper Silk & Ivory (307, 1st 1/2 read 2014)
20 0206p 27-28/10 > Treasure Island - RL Stevenson
21 0407p 02-04/11 > Nekropolis - Tim Waggoner
22 0250p 16-17/11 > Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
23 0208p 28/10-1/12 > The Ten Thousand Things - Maria Dermoût
24 0328p 01-05/12 > The Most Wanted Man in China - Fang Lizhi
25 0151p 20/11-11/12 > Satan in Goray - IB Singer
26 0437p 15-16/12 > Garnethill - Denise Mina
27 0423p 25-27/12 > Exile - Denise Mina
28 0177p 29-30/12 > King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
29 0118p 22/11-30/12 > Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 0462p 12-30/12 > Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

4/12 - Fluent Forever
Later Works - Richard Wright
0469p 12/7- > Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
9/4- > Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
bookmonkey: Chimp wearing glasses (Default)
You can check out my previous years' lists: my 2013 100 book challenge (failed), my 2012 85 book challenge (failed), my 2011 75 book challenge (completed), my 2010 50 book challenge (completed), and my 2009 short reading list by following the links. If you have any questions on anything I have read, wherever it was mentioned, you are always welcome to ask. I'm always happy to talk books! ^__^

Challenge period: 1 Jan 2014-31 Dec 2014

Challenge progress (books):

46 / 85 books. 54.1% done!

Challenge progress (pages):

15921 / 30,000 pages. 53.1% done!

##) [Pgs]    Title      --     Author     (Date Read) »» Pgs to date = % pgs complete
Books
S 01) [311p] My Father's Secret War - Lucinda Franks (1-2 Jan) »» 311/30,000 = 1%
S 02) [329p] On the Road - Jack Kerouac (3-6 Jan) »» 640/30000 = 2.1%
L 03) [331p] In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (7-9 Jan) »» 971/30000 = 3.2%
L 04) [399p] Native Son - Richard Wright (9-14 Jan) »» 1370/30000 = 4.6%
S 05) [197p] Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin (11-14 Jan) »» 1567/30000 = 5.2%
L 06) [300p] All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy (15-17 Jan) »» 1867/30000 = 6.2%
S 07) [230p] Divas, Dames & Daredevils - Mike Madrid (18-21 Jan) »» 2097/30000 = 7%
S 08) [367p] Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow (21-25 Jan) »» 2464/30000 = 8.2%
L 09) [314p] Monsieur René - Peter Ustinov (25-29 Jan) »» 2778/30000 = 9.3%
S 10) [198p] Dubliners - James Joyce (14-29 Jan) »» 2976/30000 = 9.9%
S 11) [208p] Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh (30-31 Jan) »» 3184/30000 = 10.6%
L 12) [313p] Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut (1-5 Feb) »» 3497/30000 = 11.7%
S 13) [604p] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë (5-10 Feb) »» 4101/30000 = 13.7%
L 14) [671p] Big Sleep—Farewell, My Lovely—High Window - Raymond Chandler (11-14 Feb) »» 4772/30000 = 15.9%
S 15) [261p] Peter Pan & PP in Kensington Gardens - JM Barrie (14-16 Feb) »» 5033/30000 = 16.8%
S 16) [252p] Fear is the Key - Alistair MacLean (19 Feb) »» 5285/30000 = 17.6%
S 17) [310p] Fifty Dead Men Walking - Martin McGartland (20-23 Feb) »» 5595/30000 = 18.7%
S 18) [263p] My Favorite Horror Story - Mike Baker/Martin Greenberg (25-27 Feb) »» 5858/30000 = 19.5%
S 19) [163p] Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys (1-3 Mar) »» 6021/30000 = 20.1%
E 20) [395p] Slices of Life - Leah Eskin (2-11 Mar) »» 6416/30000 = 21.4%
S 21) [246p] South Africa: The first man, the last nation - RW Johnson (17 Feb-11 Mar) »» 6662/30000 = 22.2%
S 22) [467p] The Italian - Ann Radcliffe (12-17 Mar) »» 7129/30000 = 23.8%
S 23) [436p] The Good Guy - Dean Koontz (21-22 Mar) »» 7565/30000 = 25.2%
S 24) [214p] The Thing from Outer Space - John W Campbell (22-25 Mar) »» 7779/30000 = 25.9%
S 25) [235p] Deep Simplicity - John Gribbin (11-31 Mar) »» 8014/30000 = 26.7%
S 26) [213p] Hound of Death - Agatha Christie (31 Mar) »» 8227/30000 = 27.4%
S 27) [338p] Shock - Robin Cook (7-8 Apr) »» 8565/30000 = 28.5%
S 28) [752p] IBM and the Holocaust - Edwin Black (4 Mar-10 Apr) »» 9317/30000 = 31.1%
S 29) [630p] Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela (1-11 Apr) »» 9947/30000 = 33.2%
L 30) [182p] Sweet Thursday - John Stienbeck (10-12 Apr) »» 10129/30000 = 33.8%
S 31) [451p] The Husband - Dean Koontz (29 May) »» 10580/30000 = 35.3%
S 32) [508p] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (29 May-18 Jul) »» 11088/30000 = 37%
S 33) [340p] By the Pricking of My Thumbs - Agatha Christie (18-19 Jul) »» 11428/30000 = 38.1%
S 34) [374p] Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe (20 Jul-6 Aug) »» 11802/30000 = 39.3%
S 35) [501p] The Survivors Club - Lisa Gardner (10-11 Aug) »» 12303/30000 = 41%
S 36) [789p] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (16-18 Aug) »» 13092/30000 = 43.6%
S 37) [151p] One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (20 Aug) »» 13243/30000 = 44.1%
S 38) [586p] De leeuw van Vlaanderen - Hendrik Conscience (20-22 Aug) »» 13829/30000 = 46.1%
S 39) [391p] The Plot Against America - Philip Roth (6-23 Aug) »» 14220/30000 = 47.4%
S 40) [211p] Song of the Vikings - Nancy Marie Brown (12 Apr-26 Aug) »» 14431/30000 = 48.1%
S 41) [254p] The Magic of Reality - Richard Dawkins (24-28 Aug) »» 14685/30000 = 49%
S 42) [246p] The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien (5-7 Sept) »» 14931/30000 = 49.8%
S 43) [101p] Transparent Things - Vladimir Nabokov (7 Sept) »» 15032/30000 = 50.1%
S 44) [262p] Parker Pyne Investigates - Agatha Christie (9 Sept) »» 15294/30000 = 51%
S 45) [114p] Nabokov's Quartet - Vladimir Nabokov (8-9 Sept) »» 15408/30000 = 51.4%
S 46) [513p] Garden of Beasts - Jeffery Deaver (11 Sept) »» 15921/30000 = 53.1%
S 47) [p] Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (9-21 Sept) »» /30000 = %
S 48) [p] They do it with Mirrors - Agatha Christie (27 Sept)
S 49) [p] Fear Nothing - Dean Koontz (28 Sept)
S ) [p] Ministry of Special Cases - Nathan Englander (23- Sept)
S ) [p] Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991 - Orlando Figes (28 Aug-) »» /30000 = %


E ) [327p] Making & Remaking Horror - David Roche (12 Mar-) »» /30000 = %
S ) [p] The Annotated Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov/Alfred Appel Jr (18 Mar-) »» /30000 = %

Graphic Novels
01) [122p] Snapshot - Andy Diggle (27 Jan)
02) [088p] Legends of Oz - Denton J. Tipton (27 Jan)
03) [125p] SHELTERED 1 - Johnnie Christmas (28 Jan)
04) [176p] War Brothers (30 Jan)
05) [109p] Charley's War: 2 June 1916-1 August 1916 (Vol 1) (29 Jan-1 Feb)
06) [154p] Unwritten 3 - Mike Carey/Peter Gross (2 Feb)
07) [138p] Unwritten 4 - Mike Carey/Peter Gross (2 Feb)
08) [138p] Unwritten 5 - Mike Carey/Peter Gross (2 Feb)
09) [150p] BPRD 15 - Mike Mignola (2 Feb)
10) Unwritten 6 - Mike Carey/Peter Gross (18 Feb)
11) Unwritten 7- Mike Carey/Peter Gross (18 Feb)
12) [199p] Preacher 1 - Garth Ennis/Steve Dillon (18 Feb)
13) [112p] The Night Wanderer - Drew Hayden Taylor-story/Michael Wyatt-art/Alison Kooistra-adaptation (21 Feb)
14) [p] Noah
15) [p] Market Day - Sturm (16 Mar)
16) [p] Charley's War: 1 August 1916-17 October 1916 (Vol 2) (16 Mar)
17) [p] Itty Bitty Hellboy
18) [p] Preacher 2 (24 Mar)
19) [p] Preacher 3 (24 Mar)
20) [p] Incognegro (30 Mar)
21) [p] Graveslinger (12 Apr)
22) [p] Preacher 4 (15 Apr)
23) [p] Preacher 5 (16 Apr)
bookmonkey: Chimp wearing glasses (Default)
You can check out my previous years' lists: my 2012 85 book challenge (failed), my 2011 75 book challenge (completed), my 2010 50 book challenge (completed), and my 2009 short reading list by following the links. If you have any questions on anything I have read, wherever it was mentioned, you are always welcome to ask. I'm always happy to talk books! ^__^

Challenge period: 1 Jan 2013-31 Dec 2013

Challenge progress (books):

75 / 100 books. 75% done!

Challenge progress (pages):

26159 / 30,000 pages. 87.2% done!

##) [Pgs]    Title      --     Author     (Date Read) »» Pgs to date = % pgs complete
Books
S 01) [559p] Gorky Park - Martin Cruz Smith (1-5 Jan) »» 559/30,000 = 1.9%
S 02) [279p] Malcolm X: As They Knew Him - David Gallen (6-10 Jan) »» 838/30000 = 2.8%
L 03) [496p] The Alienist - Caleb Carr (10-12 Jan) »» 1334/30000 = 4.4%
L 04) [300p] Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje (13-14 Jan) »» 1634/30000 = 5.4%
S 05) [203p] Gold Coast Madam - Rose Laws (14-15 Jan) »» 1837/30000 = 6.1%
S 06) [187p] Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie (15 Jan) »» 2024/30000 = 6.7%
S 07) [815p] Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide - Douglas Adams (16-23 Jan) »» 2839/30000 = 9.5%
S 08) [130p] African Mythology - Geoffrey Parrinder (23-27 Jan) »» 2969/30000 = 9.9%
L 09) [339p] The Gun Seller - Hugh Laurie (25-27 Jan) »» 3308/30000 = 11%
S 10) [157p] Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut (28-29 Jan) »» 3465/30000 = 11.6%
S 11) [304p] Education of a Felon - Edward Bunker (29 Jan-2 Feb) »» 3769/30000 = 12.6%
S 12) [419p] Forever Odd - Dean Koontz (3 Feb) »» 4188/30000 = 14%
S 13) [218p] Ice Station Zebra - Alistair MacLean (9-10 Feb) »» 4406/30000 = 14.7%
S 14) [307p] Black Elk Speaks - John Neihardt [told to by Black Elk] (3-11 Feb) »» 4713/30000 = 15.7%
S 15) [466p] Watership Down - Richard Adams (11-15 Feb) »» 5179/30000 = 17.3%
L 16) [480p] Hannibal - Thomas Harris (15-16 Feb) »» 5659/30000 = 18.9%
L 17) [270p] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (17-18 Feb) »» 5929/30000 = 19.8%
L 18) [542p] Oxford Gothic Tales - (E.) Chris Baldick (18-25 Feb) »» 6471/30000 = 21.6%
L 19) [365p] Brother Odd - Dean Koontz (25-26 Feb) »» 6836/30000 = 22.8%
L 20) [248p] Adventures of Robin Hood - Roger Lancelyn Green (26-28 Feb) »» 7084/30000 = 23.6%
S 21) [226p] The Gates of the Forest - Elie Wiesel (3-5 Mar) »» 7310/30000 = 24.4%
S 22) [183p] The Quiet American - Graham Greene (6-9 Mar) »» 7493/30000 = 25%
L 23) [352p] Odd Hours - Dean Koontz (14-15 Mar) »» 7845/30000 = 26.1%
S 24) [266p] Aesop's Fables - Aesop (16-17 Mar) »» 8111/30000 = 27%
S 25) [250p] Bend Sinister - Vladimir Nabokov (16-22 Mar) »» 8361/30000 = 27.9%
S 26) [070p] Sultan of Monte Cristo - HGW (13 Apr) »» 8431/30000 = 28.1%
L 27) [213p] Evolution Man, Or, How I ate my father - Roy Lewis (13-23 Apr) »» 8644/30000 = 28.8%
L 28) [505p] Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami (24-25 Apr) »» 9149/30000 = 30.5%
S 29) [210p] Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde + Merry Men Stories - RL Stevenson (24 Mar-28 Apr) »» 9359/30000 = 31.2%
L 30) [550p] Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood (1-3 May) »» 9909/30000 = 33%
L 31) [317p] Manchurian Candidate - Richard Condon (30-31 May) »» 10226/30000 = 34.1%
S 32) [091p] Boy Who Played With Dark Matter - HGW (1 Jun) »» 10317/30000 = 34.4%
S 33) [497p] Velocity - Dean Koontz (3-4 Jun) »» 10814/30000 = 36%
S 34) [384p] Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris (24-26 Jun) »» 11198/30000 = 37.3%
L 35) [355p] Odd Apocalypse - Dean Koontz (27 Jun) »» 11553/30000 = 38.5%
L 36) [098p] Diary of Adam and Eve & other Adamic stories - Mark Twain (28 Jun-3 Jul) »» 11651/30000 = 38.8%
L 37) [312p] Black Mischief - Evelyn Waugh (4-5 Jul) »» 11963/30000 = 39.9%
S 38) [214p] An air war with Cuba - Daniel C. Walsh (12 Jun-15 Jul) »» 12177/30000 = 40.6%
L 39) [250p] Master of Petersburg - J.M. Coetzee (27 Jul-17 Aug) »» 12427/30000 = 41.4%
S 40) [418p] My Promised Land - Ari Shavit (15 Jul-30 Aug) »» 12845/30000 = 42.8%
S 41) [417p] The Good Lord Bird - James McBride (31 Aug-4 Sep) »» 13262/30000 = 44.2%
L 42) [290p] Minority Report - Philip K. Dick (5-8 Sep) »» 13552/30000 = 45.2%
L 43) [242p] Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy (9-10 Sep) »» 13794/30000 = 46%
L 44) [939p] Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates (20-30 Sep) »» 14733/30000 = 49.1%
S 45) [375p] Pitch Black - Susan Crandall (1 Oct) »» 15108/30000 = 50.4%
S 46) [575p] Creation - Gore Vidal (2-8 Oct) »» 15683/30000 = 52.3%
L 47) [200p] Eleuthéria - Samuel Beckett (9 Oct) »» 15883/30000 = 52.9%
L 48) [393p] The Business - Iain Banks (9-10 Oct) »» 16276/30000 = 54.3%
S 49) [776p] Temple - Matthew Reilly (10-11 Oct) »» 17052/30000 = 56.8%
S 50) [381p] Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (11-12 Oct) »» 17433/30000 = 58.1%
S 51) [531p] Sleeping Doll - Jeffery Deaver (13-14 Oct) »» 17964/30000 = 59.9%
S 52) [421p] Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally (18-25 Oct) »» 18385/30000 = 61.3%
S 53) [262p] Castle of Otranto, Vathek, Nightmare Abbey (6 May-27 Oct) »» 18647/30000 = 62.2%
L 54) [178p] Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (27-28 Oct) »» 18825/30000 = 62.8%
S 55) [531p] Life Expectancy - Dean Koontz (2-4 Nov) »» 19356/30000 = 64.5%
S 56) [608p] Sorrow of Belgium - Hugo Claus (14 Oct-7 Nov) »» 19964/30000 = 66.5%
L 57) [324p] Almost a Childhood - Hans-Georg Behr (9-10 Nov) »» 20288/30000 = 67.6%
S 58) [262p] Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle (12-13 Nov) »» 20550/30000 = 68.5%
S 59) [510p] Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak (30 Oct-14 Nov) »» 21060/30000 = 70.2%
S 60) [320p] Cry for the Strangers - John Saul (18-20 Nov) »» 21380/30000 = 71.3%
S 61) [360p] Wages of Sin - Stephen Coonts (22-23 Nov) »» 21740/30000 = 72.5%
S 62) [271p] Castro's Secrets - Brian Latell (14-25 Nov) »» 22011/30000 = 73.4%
L 63) [171p] Ragnarok: The end of the Gods - AS Byatt (26 Nov) »» 22182/30000 = 73.9%
S 64) [310p] Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov (26 Nov) »» 22492/30000 = 75%
S 65) [207p] Where Eagles Dare - Alistair MacLean (3-5 Dec) »» 22699/30000 = 75.7%
S 66) [327p] The Monk - Matthew Lewis (27 Nov-9 Dec) »» 23026/30000 = 76.8%
S 67) [282p] The Secret Ways - Alistair MacLean (14 Dec) »» 23308/30000 = 77.7%
S 68) [180p] Five Weeks in a Balloon - Jules Verne (10-15 Dec) »» 23488/30000 = 78.3%
S 69) [462p] The Burning Wire - Jeffery Deaver (15-16 Dec) »» 23950/30000 = 79.8%
S 68) [140p] Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne (18-19 Dec) »» 24090/30000 = 80.3%
L 70) [449p] Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (6-20 Dec) »» 24539/30000 = 81.8%
S 68) [080p] From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne (20-21 Dec) »» 24619/30000 = 82%
S 68) [100p] Round the Moon - Jules Verne (21-23 Dec) »» 24719/30000 = 82.4%
L 71) [164p] Cannery Row - John Steinbeck (24 Dec) »» 24883/30000 = 82.9%
S 68) [200p] 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (23-26 Dec) »» 25083/30000 = 83.6%
S 72) [148p] Slave Ship - Frederik Pohl (25 Dec) »» 25231/30000 = 84.1%
S 73) [271p] Nat Turner: Slave Rebellion... - Kenneth S. Greenberg (20-30 Dec) »» 25502/30000 = 85%
S 74) [185p] N or M? - Agatha Christie (29 Dec) »» 25687/30000 = 85.6%
S 75) [472p] Blood Eagle - Craig Russell (31 Dec) »» 26159/30000 = 87.2%

the extras )
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You can check out my 2011 75 book challenge and my 2009 booklist+2010 50 book challenge by following the links. If you have any questions on anything I have read, wherever it was mentioned, you are always welcome to ask. I'm always happy to talk books! ^__^

Challenge period: 1 Jan 2012-31 Dec 2012

Challenge progress (books):

59 / 85 books. 69.4% done!
Challenge: failed, when excluding graphic novels/comic books :(
Challenge progress (pages):

18762 / 30,000 pages. 62.5% done!

##) [Pgs]      Title      --     Author     (Date Read) »»Total pgs to date
Books
01) [767p] Louisa May Alcott Unmasked: Collected Thrillers (23-25 Dec, 30 Dec-11 Jan) »» 650/30,000 = 2.2%
02) [278p] Woman of the Inner Sea - Thomas Keneally (11-14 Jan) »» 928/30000 = 3.1%
03) [215p] The Game-Players of Titan - Philip K. Dick (16 Jan) »» 1143/30000 = 3.8%
04) [380p] A Darker Place - Laurie R. King (17-18 Jan) »» 1523/30000 = 5.1%
05) [210p] Werewolves in Their Youth - Michael Chabon (19-21 Jan) »» 1733/30000 = 5.8%
06) [150p] Journey to Topaz - Yoshiko Uchida (22-23 Jan) »» 1883/30000 = 6.3%
07) [250p] The Measure of a Man - Sidney Poitier (23-26 Jan) »» 2133/30000 = 7.1%
08) [180p] Lily's Crossing - Patricia Reilly Giff (26-27 Jan) »» 2313/30000 = 7.7%
09) [212p] Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky (27-28 Jan) »» 2525/30000 = 8.4%
10) [405p] The People's Train - Thomas Keneally (28 Jan-5 Feb) »» 2930/30000 = 9.7%
11) [310p] Pirate Latitudes - Michael Crichton (5-6 Feb) »» 3240/30000 = 10.8%
12) [300p] Freedom Writers Diary - Erin Gruwell & Freedom Writers (7-8 Feb) »» 3540/30000 = 11.8%
13) [155p] City Of Illusions - Ursula K. Le Guin (14-15 Feb) »» 3695/30000 = 12.3%
14) [720p] Roots: The Saga of an American Family - Alex Haley (8-16 Feb) »» 4415/30000 = 14.7%
15) [655p] Omnibus: The Hymn / Night Plague - Graham Masterton (16-23 Feb) »» 5070/30000 = 16.9%
16) [310p] The Ghost - Robert Harris (23-24 Feb) »» 5380/30000 = 17.9%
17) [280p] Rites of Passage - William Golding (24-25 Feb) »» 5660/30000 = 18.9%
18) [325p] HeartSick - Chelsea Cain (26 Feb) »» 5985/30000 = 20%
19) [150p] Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape - Frans de Waal, Frans Lanting (2-4 Mar) »» 6135/30000 = 20.5%
20) [285p] Cimarron Rose - James Lee Burke (9-10 Mar) »» 6420/30000 = 21.4%
21) [400p] Sweetheart - Chelsea Cain (15-16 Mar)
22) [235p] Anthills Of The Savannah - Chinua Achebe (13-27 Mar) »» 6655/30000 = 22.2%
23) [390p] Heartwood - James Lee Burke (28 Mar) »» 7045/30000 = 23.5%
24) [470p] Bitterroot - James Lee Burke (29 Mar) »» 7515/30000 = 25%
25) [385p] In the Moon of Red Ponies - James Lee Burke (30-31 Mar) »» 7900/30000 = 26.3%
26) [595p] The Broken Window - Jeffery Deaver (4-5 Apr) »» 8495/30000 = 28.3%
27) [100p] Russian Mirror: Three Plays By Russian Women - Melissa T Smith (5-6 Apr) »» 8595/30000 = 28.7%
28) [335p] Atlantis - David Gibbins (14-16 Apr) »» 8930/30000 = 29.8%
29) [300p] The Gates of November - Chaim Potok (25-30 Apr) »» 9230/30000 = 30.8%
30) [305p] The Hacker and the Ants - Rudy Rucker (1-4 May)
31) [310p] Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (5-8 May) »» 9540/30000 = 31.8%
32) [480p] Year's Best SF (#1 - 95/96) (9-25 May) »» 10020/30000 = 33.4%
33) [120p] Maurice, Or, The Fisher's Cot - Mary Shelley (26 May) »» 10140/30000 = 33.8%
34) [250p] Mister B. Gone - Clive Barker (26-27 May) »» 10390/30000 = 34.6%
35) [415p] The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon (29 May-2 Jun)
36) [287p] HMS Ulysses - Alistair MacLean (14-15 Jul)
37) [190p] Morality Play - Barry Unsworth (15-18 Jul)
38) [320p] Narrative of Sojourner Truth - Sojourner Truth (23 Jul-7 Aug)
39) [330p] Killing Rommel - Steven Pressfield (8-10 Aug)
40) [475p] The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories (16 Aug-10 Sept)
41) [455p] Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko (11-13 Sept)
42) [455p] Day Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko (13-15 Sept)
43) [405p] Twilight Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko (16-17 Sept)
44) [370p] Last Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko (17-18 Sept)
45) [265p] China Trade - S. J. Rozan (19-20 Sept)
46) [400p] Attack on the Queen - Richard P. Henrick (20-26 Sept)
47) [235p] The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (6-7 Oct)
48) [205p] Gentlemen of the Road - Michael Chabon (15-16 Oct)
49) [220p] Goodbye, Columbus - Philip Roth (18-22 Oct)
50) [080p] Adrift on the Sea of Rains - Ian Sales (26 Oct)
51) [210p] The Body Snatchers - Jack Finney (29-30 Oct)
52) [490p] Dead Souls - Nicolai Gogol (26 Feb-15 Nov)
53) [425p] The Monster of Florence - Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi (16-18 Nov)
54) [190p] Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (6-9 Dec)
55) [290p] Concourse - S. J. Rozan (16-18 Dec)
56) [290p] Mandarin Plaid - S. J. Rozan (18-19 Dec)
57) [245p] Blood Memories - Barb Hendee (20 Dec)
58) [320p] Red Dragon - Thomas Harris (22-25 Dec)
59) [405p] Book of Renfield - Tim Lucas (26-30 Dec)

Comics & Graphic Novels
01) [190p] Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 (#1) - David Petersen (11 Jan)
02) [088p] The Amazon - Steven T. Seagle (Author), Tim Sale (Illustrator) (14 Jan)
03) [096p] Zombie Cop - Jeff Mariotte (Author), Szymon Kudranski (Illustrator) (16 Jan)
04) [224p] BioGraphic Novel: The 14th Dalai Lama - Tetsu Saiwai (17 Jan)
05) [142p] The Unwritten, Vol. 1 - Mike Carey (Author), Peter Gross (Illustrator) (18-19 Jan)
06) [165p] The Unwritten, Vol. 2 - Mike Carey (Author), Peter Gross (Illustrator) (21-22 Jan)
07) [280p] V For Vendetta - Alan Moore (Author), David Lloyd (Illustrator) (22 Jan)
08) [190p] Mouse Guard: Winter 1152 (#2) - David Petersen (28 Jan)
09) [160p] Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story - Mat Johnson (Author), Simon Gane (Illustrator) (8 Feb)
10) [140p] Big Book of Horror - Steve Niles (Author), Ted McKeever, Scott Morse, Richard Sala (Painters) (25 Feb)
11) [105p] Alan Moore's A Small Killing - Alan Moore, Oscar Zárate (26 Feb)
12) [240p] Preludes and Nocturnes (The Sandman #1; issues 1-7) - Neil Gaiman (Author), Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III (Illustrators) (11 Mar)
13) [130p] DMZ, Vol. 1: On the Ground - Brian Wood (Author), Riccardo Burchielli (Illustrator) (6 Apr)
14) [100p] The Jew of New York - Ben Katchor (10-14 Apr)
15) [265p] Fables: The Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1 (Fabletown/Animal Farm) - Bill Willingham;; Lan Medina, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Craig Hamilton (Illustrators) (16-17 Apr)
16) [240p] The Doll's House (The Sandman #2) - Neil Gaiman;; Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, Chris Bachalo, Michael Zulli, Steve Parkhouse (Illustrators) (18 Apr)
17) [120p] Dream Country (The Sandman #3) - Neil Gaiman;; Charles Vess, Colleen Doran, Malcolm Jones III, Kelly Jones (Illustrators) (26 Apr)
18) [225p] Season of Mists (The Sandman #4) - Neil Gaiman;; Kelley Jones, Mike Dringenberg, Matt Wagner, Dick Giordano, George Pratt, P. Craig Russell (Illustrators) (26-27 Apr)
19) [265p] Fables: The Deluxe Edition, Vol. 2 (Storybook Love) - Bill Willingham;; Lan Medina, Craig Hamilton, Bryan Talbot, Linda Medley, Steve Leialoha, P. Craig Russell (Illustrators) (8 May)
20) [160p] The Unwritten, Vol. 3: Dead Man's Knock - Mike Carey, Peter Gross (Illustrator), Yuko Shimizu (Cover Artist) (13-15 May)
21) [190p] A Game of You (The Sandman #5) - Neil Gaiman;; Shawn McManus, Colleen Doran, Bryan Talbot, George Pratt, Stan Woch, Dick Giordano (Illustrators) (16 May)
22) [265p] Fables and Reflections (The Sandman #6) - Neil Gaiman;; Bryan Talbot, Stan Woch, P. Craig Russell, Shawn McManus, John Watkiss, Jill Thompson, Duncan Eagleson, Kent Williams (Illustrators) (17 May)
23) [255p] Brief Lives (The Sandman #7) - Neil Gaiman;; Jill Thompson, Vince Locke (Illustrators) (18 May)
24) [240p] Fables, Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers - Bill Willingham;; Mark Buckingham, Craig Hamilton, Steve Leialoha, P. Craig Russell (Illustrators) (20 May)
25) [165p] Fables, Vol. 5: The Mean Seasons - Bill Willingham;; Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Tony Akins, Jimmy Palmiotti (Illustrators) (20 May)
26) [190p] Fables, Vol. 6: Homelands - Bill Willingham;; Mark Buckingham, David Hahn, Steve Leialoha (Illustrators) (20 May)
27) [145p] Fables, Vol. 7: Arabian Nights - Bill Willingham;; Mark Buckingham, Jim Fern (Pencils); Steve Leialoha, Jimmy Palmiotti, Andrew Pepoy (Inks) (20 May)
28) [160p] Fables, Vol. 8: Wolves - Bill Willingham;; Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Shawn McManus, Andrew Pepoy (Illustrators) (21 May)
29) [145p] Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall - Bill Willingham;; Esao Andrews, John Bolton, Mark Buckingham, James Jean, Derek Kirk Kim, Jill Thompson, Mark Wheatley, Charles Vess, Michael W. Kaluta, Tara McPherson (Illustrators) (21 May)
30) [200p] Fables, Vol. 9: Sons of Empire - Bill Willingham;; Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Andrew Pepoy, Gene Ha, Joshua Middleton, Inaki Miranda, Michael Allred (Illustrators) (1 Jun)
31) [105p] The Amazing Screw-on Head and Other Curious Objects - Mike Mignola (2 Jun)
32) [070p] King #1 - Ho Che Anderson (2 Jun)
33) [170p] DMZ, Vol. 2: Body of a Journalist - Brian Wood (Author), Riccardo Burchielli (Illustrator) (2-3 Jun)
34) [170p] Worlds' End (The Sandman #8) - Neil Gaiman;; Michael Allred, Gary Amaro, Mark Buckingham, Dick Giordano, Tony Harris, Steve Leialoha, Vince Locke, Shea Anton Pensa, Alec Stevens, Bryan Talbot, John Watkiss, Michael Zulli (Illustrators) (3 Jun)
35) [350p] The Kindly Ones (The Sandman #9) - Neil Gaiman;; Mark Hempel, Richard Case, D'Israeli, Teddy Kristiansen, Glyn Dillon, Charles Vess, Dean Ormston, Keven Nowlan (Illustrators) (4-5 Jun)
36) [190p] The Wake (The Sandman #10) - Neil Gaiman;; Michael Zulli, Jon J. Muth, Charles Vess (Illustrators) (6 Jun)
37) [185p] Coraline - P. Craig Russell (Adaptor/Illustrator), Neil Gaiman (7 Jun)
38) [240p] Fables, Vol. 10: The Good Prince - Bill Willingham;; Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Aaron Alexovich, Andrew Pepoy (Illustrators) (12 Jun)
39) [190p] Fables, Vol. 11: War and Pieces - Bill Willingham;; Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Niko Henrichon, Andrew Pepoy (Illustrators) (14 Jun)
40) [130p] DMZ, Vol. 3: Public Works - Brian Wood (Author), Riccardo Burchielli (Illustrator) (22 Jun)
41) [130p] DMZ, Vol. 4: Friendly Fire - Brian Wood (Author), Riccardo Burchielli (Illustrator) (22 Jun)
42) [095p] Signal to Noise - Neil Gaiman (Author), Dave McKean (Illustrator) (11 Jul)
43) [145p] Klezmer, Book One: Tales of the Wild East - Joann Sfar, Alexis Siegel (Translator) (15 Jul)
44) [145p] DMZ, Vol. 5: The Hidden War - Brian Wood (Author), Riccardo Burchielli (Illustrator) (10 Aug)
45) [215p] The Mice Templar, Vol. 1: The Prophecy - Bryan J.L. Glass, Michael Avon Oeming (11 Aug)
46) [140p] The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 - Thomas Ott (21 Aug)
47) [175p] Fables, Vol. 12: The Dark Ages - Bill Willingham;; Mark Buckingham, Peter Gross, Andrew Pepoy, Michael Allred, David Hahn (Illustrators) (25 Aug)
48) [110p] The Piper (Grimm Fairy Tales) - Mike Kalvoda, Axel Machain, Joe Brusha, Ralph Tedesco, (Illustrators) (25 Aug)
49) [155p] Ted McKeever Library Book 1: Transit - Ted McKeever (2 Sept)
50) [455p] Castle Waiting, Vol. 1 - Linda Medley (2-9 Sept)
51) [145p] DMZ, Vol. 6: Blood in the Game - Brian Wood (Author), Riccardo Burchielli (Illustrator) (10 Sept)
52) [145p] Baltimore, Vol 1: The Plague Ships - Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden (Authors), Ben Stenbeck (Illustrator) (10 Sept)
53) [375p] Castle Waiting, Vol. 2 - Linda Medley (11 Sept)
54) [140p] Cuba: My Revolution - Inverna Lockpez (18 Sept)
55) [205p] Nat Turner - Kyle Baker (29 Sept)
56) [215p] The Ticking - Renée French (1-3 Oct)
57) [145p] Global Frequency, Vol 1: Planet Ablaze - Warren Ellis;; Steve Dillon, Glenn Fabry, Garry Leach, David Lloyd, Roy A. Martinez, Jon J Muth, Liam Sharp (Illustrators) (16-17 Oct)
58) [140p] Unknown Soldier Vol. 1: Haunted House - Joshua Dysart, Alberto Ponticelli (Illustrator) (17-18 Oct)
59) [230p] Fables: Great Fables Crossover - Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges;; Mark Buckingham, Tony Akins, Andrew Pepoy, José Jr. Marzán, Dan Green (Illustrators) (11-12 Nov)
60) [065p] There's a Hair in My Dirt! A Worm's Story - Gary Larson (15 Nov)
61) [165p] DMZ, Vol. 07: War Powers - Brian Wood (Author), Riccardo Burchielli, Kristian Donaldson, Nikki Cook (Illustrators) (15 Nov)
62) [200p] Unknown Soldier Vol. 2: Easy Kill - Joshua Dysart (Author), Alberto Ponticelli, Pat Masioni (Illustrators)(2-3 Dec)
63) [290p] Palestine - Joe Sacco (10-11 Dec)
64) [145p] Dante's Inferno - Christos Gage, Diego Latorre (Artist) (11-12 Dec)
65) [110p] De: Tales - Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá (14 Dec)
66) [130p] Hellboy, Vol 1: Seed of Destruction - Mike Mignola (Story & Illustration), John Byrne (Script) (14 Dec)
67) [180p] Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites by Evan Dorkin, Jill Thompson (Illustrator) (19 Dec)
68) [130p] Y: The Last Man, Vol 1: Unmanned - Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, José Jr. Marzán, Clem Robins, Pam Rambo (30 Dec)
69) [130p] Y: The Last Man, Vol 2: Cycles - Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, José Jr. Marzán, Clem Robins, Pamela Rambo (30 Dec)
70) [95p] The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch - Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illustrator) (30-31 Dec)
12425pgs
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You can check out my 2009 & 2010 book list/50 book challenge also. If you have any questions on anything I have read, wherever it was mentioned, you are always welcome to ask. I'm always happy to talk books! ^__^

Challenge period: 1 Jan 2011-31 Dec 2011

Challenge progress (books):

76 / 75 books. 101.3% done!

Challenge progress (pages):

26786 / 25,000 pages. 107.1% done!
Completed!

##) [Pgs]      Title      --     Author     (Date Read) »»Total pgs to date
01) [048p] The Day After - Wil Wheaton (2? Jan) »»48p / .2%
02) [213p] If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin (9 Jan) »»261p / 1%
03) [257p] The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells (10-14 Jan) »»518p / 2%
04) [188p] The Listerdale Mystery - Agatha Christie (19-21 Jan) »»706p / 2.8%
05) [480p] You Belong to Me - Ann Rule (22-24 Jan) »»1186p / 4.7%
06) [296p] Buddha or Bust - Perry Garfinkel (24 Jan-9 Apr) »»1482p / 5.9%
07) [191p] Sad Cypress - Agatha Christie (6-7 Apr) »»1673p / 6.7%
08) [624p] The Little Friend - Donna Tartt (9-11 Apr) »»2297p / 9.2%
09) [339p] The Mission Song - John le Carré (12 Apr) »»2636p / 10.5%
10) [445p] The Godfather - Mario Puzo (12-14 Apr) »»3081p / 12.3%
11) [505p] The Black Tattoo - Sam Enthoven (14-15 Apr) »»3586p / 14.3%
17) [288p] The Black Tulip - Alexandre Dumas (15 Apr-11 May) »»5804p / 23.2%
12) [434p] Captives - Shaun Hutson (27-30 Apr) »»4020p / 16.1%
13) [220p] Breeding Ground - Shaun Hutson (30 Apr-3 May) »»4240p / 16.9%
14) [437p] Hooligans - William Diehl (3-5 May) »»4677p / 18.7%
15) [369p] Sharky's Machine - William Diehl (5-9 May) »»5046p / 20.2%
16) [470p] Venom - Joan Brady (10 May) »»5516p / 22%
18) [189p] The Most Evil Men & Women in History - Miranda Twiss (11-14 May) »»5993p / 24%
19) [298p] Day After Night - Anita Diamant (14-15 May) »»6291p / 25.1%
20) [400p] The Trudeau Vector - Juris Jurjevics (15-18 May) »»6691p / 26.7%
21) [260p] Lucky Man - Michael J. Fox (18 May) »»6951p
22) [286p] The Wolfman - Nicholas Pekearo (18-19 May) »»7237p
23) [376p] Candles Burning - Tabitha King & Michael McDowell (20-24 May) »»7613p
24) [318p] Black Sunday - Thomas Harris (24-29 May) »»7931p
25) [078p] Deogratias - Jean-Philippe Stassen (28 May) »»8009p
26) [488p] A Thousand Suns - Alex Scarrow (29-31 May) »»8497p
27) [451p] The Fire - Katherine Neville (2-4 June) »»8948p
28) [672p] The Assassini - Thomas Gifford (4-8 June) »»9620p
29) [490p] For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway (8-12 June) »»10110p
30) [391p] The Dark Room - Rachel Seiffert (12-13 June) »»10501p
31) [422p] Skinny Legs and All - Tom Robbins (13-26 June) »»10923p
32) [564p] Brandenburg - Henry Porter (26-28 June) »»11487p
33) [581p] Cold Granite - Stuart MacBride (28-30 June) »»12068p
34) [429p] The Last Nazi - Stan Pottinger (30 June-1 July) »»12497p
35) [349p] If Chins Could Kill - Bruce Campbell (1-4 July) »»12846p
36) [454p] In the Beginning - Chaim Potok (4-8 July) »»13300p
37) [253p] The Star Beast - Robert Heinlein (8-9 July) »»13553p
38) [190p] Between Planets - Robert Heinlein (9 July) »»13743p
39) [398p] The 6th Lamentation - William Brodrick (9-11 July) »»14141p
40) [167p] Winner Take Nothing - Ernest Hemingway (11-12 July) »»14308p
41) [413p] Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift (12-30 July) »»14721p
42) [063p] The Prague Golem - /collected stories/ (28-30 July) »»14784p
43) [423p] The Homing - John Saul (30-31 July) »»15207p
44) [213p] The Servants - Michael Marshall Smith (1 Aug) »»15420p
45) [422p] By the Rivers of Babylon - Nelson DeMille (1-3 Aug) »»15842p
46) [454p] The Waking - T. M. Jenkins (3-11 Aug) »»16296p
47) [356p] The Violet Hour - Richard Montanari (11-13 Aug) »»16652p
48) [424p] Dracula The Un-Dead - Dacre Stoker & Ian Holt (14-16 Aug) »»17076p
51) [500p] Crazy Horse and Custer - Stephen E. Ambrose (16-27 Aug) »»17890p
49) [207p] Passenger to Frankfurt - Agatha Christie (21-22 Aug) »»17283p
50) [107p] Spy Killer - L. Ron Hubbard (25-26 Aug) »»17390p
52) [145p] Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne (27 Aug) »»18035p
53) [416p] Playing with Cobras - Craig Thomas (27-30 Aug) »»18451p
54) [424p] The Stone Monkey - Jeffery Deaver (31 Aug-1 Sept) »»18875p
55) [305p] A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays - Tennessee Williams (2-3 Sept) »»19180p
56) [399p] The Vanished Man - Jeffery Deaver (4-5 Sept) »»19579p
57) [504p] Vodka - Boris Starling (5-9 Sept) »»20083p
58) [232p] The Mysteries of Pittsburgh - Michael Chabon (9-10 Sept) »»20315p
59) [308p] The African Queen - C.S. Forester (11 Sept) »»20623p
60) [302p] Our Game - John le Carré (12-13 Sept) »»20925p
61) [395p] The Twelfth Card - Jeffery Deaver (14-15 Sept) »»21320p
63) [339p] Island - Aldous Huxley (16-23 Sept) »»22039p
62) [380p] Hide - Lisa Gardner (17 Sept) »»21700p
64) [135p] We're All in This Together - Owen King (23-24 Sept) »»22174p
65) [375p] Visibility - Boris Starling (24-25 Sept) »»22549p
66) [400p] The Cold Moon - Jeffery Deaver (25-27 Sept) »»22949p
70) [600p] The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories - [p1-400] (27 Sept-1 Oct), [p400-600] (25 Oct-8 Nov) »»23549p
67) [388p] Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz (12-13 Oct) »»23937p
68) [340p] Fountain Society - Wes Craven (14-18 Oct) »»24277p
69) [513p] Lisey's Story - Stephen King (20-23 Oct) »»24790p
71) [280p] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (10-13 Nov) »»25070p
72) [324p] I Married a Communist - Philip Roth (13-30 Nov) »»25394p
73) [435p] The Lost World - Michael Crichton (3-6 Dec) »»25829p
74) [368p] Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon (7-10 Dec) »»26197p
75) [404p] Sleepers - Lorenzo Carcaterra (10-11 Dec) »»26601p
76) [185p] Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley (11-15 Dec) »»26786p

--) [593p] The Complete Plays - Christopher Marlowe (9-30 Oct, 6-22 Dec) »» Finished 11 Mar
--) [767p] Louisa May Alcott Unmasked: Collected Thrillers (23 Dec) »» Finished 11 January
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Challenge progress:

50 / 50 books. 100% done!
COMPLETED as of 10 Sept 2010!

Challenge Reads [2010]
1) The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre - various (nov 23 '09-mar 15)
2) Lies My Teacher Told Me - James Loewen (nov 24 '09-mar 13)
3) The Jungle - Upton Singlair (jan 23-27)
4) Tick Tock - Dean Koontz (feb 9-12)
5) The Cage - Ruth Minsky Sender (feb 12-mar 13)
6) Gone - Lisa Gardener (mar 17 8.15-15.30)
7) Chameleon - Shirley Kennett (mar 17-18)
8) Thunderland - Brandon Massey (mar 18-19)
9) Complete Short Stories - Graham Greene (mar 19-apr 25)
10) Purgatory - Tim Wilson (apr 25-28)
11) A Rose for Her Grave - Ann Rule (apr 28-may 1)
12) Light Before Day - Christopher Rice (may 1-2)
13) The Russian Debutante's Handbook - Gary Shteyngart (may 2-22)
14) The Night Letter - Paul Spike (may 22-24)
15) The Eight - Katherine Neville (may 24-28)
16) Kiss Kiss - Roald Dahl (may 29-jun 3)
17) Davita's Harp - Chaim Potok (jun 3-5)
18) Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman (jun 5-7)
19) Still Life with Woodpecker - Tom Robbins (jun 7-19)
20) Manhattan is My Beat - Jeffery Deaver (jun 19)
21) The Sett - Ranulph Fiennes (jun 19-23)
22) The Voice of the Night - Dean Koontz (jun 23)
23) Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury (jun 23-26)
24) The Charm School - Nelson Demille (jun 26-28)
25) Spandau Phoenix - Greg Iles (jun 28-jul 1)
26) The Good Guys - Bill Bonanno & Joe Pistone (jul 1-2)
27) King of the Jews - Nick Tosches (jul 2-4)
28) The Guns of Navarone - Alistair MacLean (jul 4-6)
29) The Perfect Husband - Lisa Gardner (jul 6-7)
30) Who's Sorry Now - Joe Pantoliano (jul 7-9)
31) Death of a Blue Movie Star - Jeffery Deaver (jul 10)
32) Force 10 from Navarone - Alistair MacLean (jul 11)
33) South by Java Head - Alistair MacLean (jul 12-14)
34) Miracle at St. Anna - James McBride (jul 14-15)
35) The Great Fire - Shirley Hazzard (jul 16-22)
36) The Vampyricon: The Priest of Blood - Douglas Clegg (jul 22-26)
37) Famous Crimes Revisited - Dr Henry Lee (jul 27-aug 13)
38) Night Without End - Alistair MacLean (aug 14-15)
39) The Footprints of God - Greg Iles (aug 17-19)
40) The Boomerang Clue - Agatha Christie (aug 19)
41) Plague from Space - Harry Harrison (aug 20)
42) Seven Dials Mystery - Agatha Christie (aug 21-22)
43) Rising Sun - Michael Crichton (aug 22-23)
44) Iceberg - Clive Cussler (aug 23-25)
45) The Bad Place - Dean Koontz (aug 25-27)
46) The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky (jan 27-sept 10)
47) Villa Incognito - Tom Robbins (28 Aug-Sept 14)
48) Nigger: An Autobiography - Dick Gregory (Sept 14)
49) The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson (Sept 14-17)
50) The Other Daughter - Lisa Gardner (Sept 17-18)
[[challenge complete!]]
51) Blind Fall - Christopher Rice (Sept 18-19)
52) Jurassic Park & Congo - Michael Crichton (Sept 19-21)
53) [341p] The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin - Alex de Jonge (Sept 21-Oct 12)
54) [373p] The Third Victim - Lisa Gardner (Oct 12-14)
55) [387p] The Next Accident - Lisa Gardner (Oct 14-15)
56) [319p] Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen & Seth Grahame Smith (Oct 15-17)
57) [412p] The Law of Second Chances - James Sheehan (Oct 17)
58) [636p] The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabot (Oct 18-23)
59) [190p] 4.50 from Paddington - Agatha Christie (Oct 24)
60) [479p] The Empty Chair - Jeffery Deaver (Oct 24-26)
61) [306p] Star Trek Memories - William Shatner (Oct 26-27)
62) [279p] Marathon Man - William Goldman (Oct 28-31)
63) [353p] Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Nov 1-5)
64) [455p] Machine of Death - Various (Nov 6-12)
65) [763p] The Years of Rice and Salt - Kim Stanley Robinson (Nov 5-Dec 4)
66) [125p] Siddhartha - Herman Hesse (Nov 16-21)
67) [303p] The Prop - Pete Hautman (Dec 5-6)
68) [216p] Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (Dec 6-9)
69) [072p] Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (Dec 10-13)
70) [240p] The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John le Carré (Dec 13-15)
71) [319p] The Beardless Warriors - Richard Matheson (Dec 16-17)
72) [269p] The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (Dec 18-24)
73) [249p] The Winter Queen - Boris Akunin (Dec 25)
74) [393p] The Russia House - John le Carré (Dec 26-Jan 8)
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In 2009 I moved countries, got married, and did a lot of traveling. My reading was pretty craptastic!

2009 Booklist:
01) Just a Geek - Wil Wheaton (may?)
02) Dancing Barefoot - Wil Wheaton (may?)
03) Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Tom Robbins (july ?-17)
04) Three Negro Classics - various (?)
05) From a Buick 8 - Stephen King (aug 5-8)
06) Blaze - Stephen King (aug 8-10)
07) Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (reread)(aug)
08) Closing Time - Joseph Heller (sept 11-oct 21)
09) Dracula - Bram Stoker (oct 21-23)
10) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky (oct 24-31)
11) Carmilla - J. S. Le Fanu (nov 23)
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