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Deborah, that's somewhat up to you. I'm personally using the first published date, but if that's hard to find go ahead and use the date of the edition you read.



(4/22)
1995
1996- A Game of Thrones- George R. R. Martin
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007- Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway- Susan Jeffers
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012- Tilt- Ellen Hopkins
2013
2014- The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories- Marina Keegan
2015
2016

2011. The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While (★★★★)
2015. Elementally Priceless (★★★)
/NN

Progress: 26/26
1991 Richard III and the Princes in the Tower
1992 A Break with Charity
1993 Le vergini suicide
1994 The Oracle Glass
1995 Katherine
1996 Passato prossimo
1997 Fantasmi di terra, aria, fuoco e acqua
1998 Veronika decide di morire
1999 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2000 Sei nei guai
2001 The Haunted
2002 La principessa di Mantova
2003 L'imperatrice Orchidea
2004 Jonathan Strange & il signor Norrell
2005 Non lasciarmi
2006 The Final Empire
2007 Estate di morte
2008 The Lady in Red
2009 Il centenario che saltò dalla finestra e scomparve
2010 Anime legate
2011 L'amica geniale
2012 Storia del nuovo cognome
2013 Joyland
2014 Scritto sulla sabbia
2015 A Darker Shade of Magic
2016 The Rose and the Dagger

Update : I had several new books reserved at library so I had to read those before I could start concentrating on previous years Because of that I'm going to up my number of overall books to 15.
8/15
01. 1953 - 1958 - Go Tell It on the Mountain - 7/30/16
02. 1959 - 1964 - The Bell Jar
03. 1965 - 1970
04. 1971 - 1976
05. 1977 - 1982
06. 1983 - 1988
07. 1989 - 1994
08. 1995 - 2000 - Animal Farm (paperback 1999) - comp. 5/20/16
09. 2001 - 2005 - Getting Unstuck: Breaking Your Habitual Patterns & Encountering Naked Reality - comp. 6/3/16
10. 2006 - 2011 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - comp 5/2/16
11. 2012 - 2016:
Hush Hush completed 1/19/16
It Was Me All Along completed 1/21/16
Mycroft Holmes completed 1/30/16
Trust - Iyanla Vanzant
The Girl in the Spider's Web completed 2/15/16

2014- Learn How to Crochet Quick and Easy
2006- American Born Chinese
2000- The Dream

1986. Maus, I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (★★★★)
2011. The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While (★★★★)
2015. Elementally Priceless (★★★)
/NN

Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2016
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8/29
1987The Black Dahlia
✓1988 Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder
1989The Dark Half
1990The Face of a Stranger
1991The Prize
1992The Children of Men
1993Where There's Smoke
1994Autobiography of a Face
1995Rose Madder
✓1996Jack & Jill
✓1997
1998A Clash of Kings
1999Ashes to Ashes
2000
✓2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
✓2010
✓2011
2012
2013Wicked Beat
2014
✓2015-
2016

2005: Holly and Mistletoe by Susan Mallery
Years completed so far are 2014, 2006, 2005, & 2000.

Completed year 2013

1975:
1976: Abel's Island by William Steig
1977:
1978: The Enormous Crocodile by Roal Dahl
1979:
1980:
1981:
1982:
1983:
1984:
1985:
1986:
1987:
1988:
1990:
1991:
1992: African Tales: Folklore of the Central African Republic by Rodney Willmer
1993:
2011: The Martian by Andy Weir (currently reading)

I've read two to start but will continue to update.
For the Devil's star I went with the year it was first published in Norway-not the year it was sent & translated to the U.S.
14/27
1990 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 4.0 Stars
1991
1992
1993
1994 The Alienist by Caleb Carr 4 Stars
1995
1996
1997 Bad Chili by Joe R. Lansdale 4 Stars
1998
1999
2000
2001 Dead Sleep by Greg Iles 3.5 Stars
2002
2003 The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbø 5 Stars
2004
2005 Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill 3.5 Stars
2006 The Cleaner by Paul Cleave 3.0 Stars
2007
2008 Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith 5 Stars
2009
2010
2011 Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward 2.5 Stars
2012 Me Before You by Jojo Moyes 2.5 Stars
2013 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 4 Stars
2014 North of Boston by Elisabeth Elo 2.0 Stars
2015 The Whites by Harry Brandt 3.5 Stars
2016 The Guest Room by Chris Bohjalian 3.0 Stars

23/30
Complete!
1987 Say Jesus and Come to Me (Mar. 23, 2016)
1988 The Alchemist (Oct. 6, 2016)
1989 A Year in Provence (May 9, 2016)
1990 Black Orchid (Oct. 22, 2016)
1991 A Thousand Acres (July 14, 2016)
1992 The Secret History (Apr. 8, 2016)
1993 Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes (Apr. 11, 2016)
1994 Autobiography of a Face (Oct. 24, 2016)
1995 The Liars' Club (Nov. 21, 2016)
1996 Fight Club (Feb. 29, 2016)
1997 Holidays on Ice (Nov. 3, 2016)
1998 Summer Sisters (June 26, 2016)
1999 White Teeth (June 4, 2016)
2000 How All This Started (Oct. 15, 2016)
2001 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Dec. 25, 2016)
2002 What Happened to Lani Garver (Feb. 10, 2016)
2003 The Da Vinci Code (Jan. 20, 2016)
2004 The Burn Journals (Oct. 9, 2016)
2005 My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student (Feb. 28, 2016)
2006 The Art of Racing in the Rain (May 29, 2016)
2007 Breakneck (Mar. 26, 2016)
2008 Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad (Oct. 22, 2016)
2009 Commencement (Feb. 23, 2016)
2010 The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To (Jan. 17, 2016)
2011 The Language of Flowers (Feb. 15, 2016)
2012 Pure (Jan. 16, 2015)
2013 The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (Mar. 5, 2016)
2014 Bird Box (Jan. 23, 2016)
2015 The Kind Worth Killing (Jan. 9, 2016)
2016 The Nest (May 14, 2016)

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