Rachael's 60+ books in 2016

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BOOKS READ SO FAR IN 2016:

1. City of Bones
2. The Invisible Library
3. The Collectors: His Dark Materials Story
4. Golden Son
5. Tempest
6. Hollow Earth
7. Junk
8. Once Upon a Time in the North
9. Lyra's Oxford
10. The Hobbit
11. The Fellowship of the Ring
12. The Two Towers
13. The Return of the King
14. The Woman in Blue
15. The Tales of Beedle the Bard
16. Warm Up
17. Room
18. Kindred Spirits
19. Morning Star
20. Trace Evidence: A Virals Short Story Collection
21. A Calendar of Tales
22. War and Peace
23. The Queen's Poisoner
24. Cinder
25. Ship of Magic
26. Half Lost
27. Half Truths
28. Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Dime Museum Murders
29. Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Floating Lady Murder
30. Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Houdini Specter
31. As You Like It
32. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
33. The Girl Who Played with Fire
34. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
35. Royal Wedding

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36. The Earthsea Quartet
Rating = 4 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, Clear the Shelves, Special 10,000 Challenge.
Also, according to Goodreads, this is the 400th book I have read.

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37. The Masked City
Rating = 4 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, Clear the Shelves, Special 10,000 Challenge

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38. The Maze Runner
Rating = 4 stars plus review.
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, Clear the Shelves, Special 10,000 Challenge

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39. The Scorch Trials
Rating = 4 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, Clear the Shelves

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40. Thomas’s First Memory of the Flare
No rating (too short to get an opinion about)
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages

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41. The Death Cure
Rating = 2 stars plus review
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, Clear the Shelves

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42. Flawed
Rating = 4 stars.
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, The 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge

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Halfway through the year already!
Time for a little recap.

Number of books read = 42. 12 ahead of schedule.
Number of pages read = 15,477. Average is 368.5 pages per book
Best book: Morning Star
Worst book: The Death Cure
Longest book: War and Peace
Shortest 'book': Thomas's First Memory of the Flare
I have completed all group monthly/quarterly/special challenges that I signed up for and am making good progress with my yearly challenges.
Favourite group challenges: Clear the Shelves, Your Reading History! Reread your Favourites

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43. The Forty Rules of Love
Rating = 3 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, The Fellowship of the Ring

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Been on holiday for over a week. I read loads but didn't have good internet access to update this. So here goes now.

44. Stardust
Read 3 July.
Rating = 4 stars plus review
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, The Fellowship of the Ring.

45. A Possible Life
Read 5 July.
Rating = 4 stars.
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages

46. The Kite Runner
Read 8 July.
Rating = 4 stars.
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages

47. Black & Blue
Read 8 July.
Rating = 4 stars.
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, The 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge.

48. One Day
Read 10 July.
Rating = 5 stars plus review
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, The Fellowship of the Ring

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49. The Fireman
Rating = 4 stars plus review
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, The 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge

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50. Harry Potter: The Prequel
Rating = 5 stars plus review

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51. Uprooted
Rating = 5 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, The Fellowship of the Ring

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52. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Rating = 5 stars plus review
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, The 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge, Your New Book Friend, buddy read

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53. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Rating = 3 stars plus review
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, Your New Book Friend

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54. Vici
Rating = 4 stars

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55. Temeraire
Rating = 5 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, Your New Book Friend

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56. Feast or Famine
Rating = 4 stars

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57. Throne of Jade
Rating = 4 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, Your New Book Friend

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58. Black Powder War
Rating = 4 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, Your New Book Friend

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59. Empire of Ivory
Rating = 4 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages

60. In Favour with their Stars (from the Unfettered anthology)
Rating = 4 stars with review

Just because I've hit my target doesn't mean I'm going to stop reading. There are so many more books I want to read.

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61. Victory of Eagles
Rating = 4 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages

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62. Outliers: The Shape of Things to Come
Rating = 4 stars plus review
Challenges: The 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge

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63. Tongues of Serpents
Rating = 4 stars plus review
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages

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64. Crucible of Gold
Rating = 4 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages

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65. Blood of Tyrants
Rating = 3 stars plus review
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages

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October already! 3 months of the year left! Where has the time gone?
Let's recap what reading goals I still need to reach.
Overall goal: met 29 August
The 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge: 4 books to go
Let's Turn Pages Challenge: 2,777 pages to go
Race to the Finish: 10 books to go as only just started this challenge

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66. League of Dragons
Rating = 3 stars plus review
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, The 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge, Race to the Finish

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67. Never Never
Rating = 4 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, The 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge, Race to the Finish

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68. Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists
Rating = 5 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, The 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge

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69. Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide
Rating = 4 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, The 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge

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70. Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies
Rating = 4 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, The 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge

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71. The Magician's Apprentice
Rating = 4 stars with review
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, Race to the Finish

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72. The Audition
Rating = 4 stars

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Second DNF of the year: Anna Karenina
From what I've read of this, it's not a bad book. I am just really not motivated to read it right now. So I'll put to one side to return to at a later date.

(My first DNF of 2016 was Beastly which was a bad book)

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73. Mary Poppins
Rating = 3 stars with review
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, Race to the Finish, (late) buddy read

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74. The Mad Apprentice
Rating = 4 stars

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75. Love's Labour's Lost
Rating = 3 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, Race to the Finish, Wedding Day (Plus)

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76. Woman of God
Rating = 4 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, The 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge, Race to the Finish, Wedding Day (Plus)

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77. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Rating = 4 stars, review to follow
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, Race to the Finish, Tbr Twins

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78. The Time Traveler's Wife
Rating = 5 stars
Challenge: Let's Turn Pages, Race to the Finish, Wedding Day (Plus)

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79. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Rating = 4 stars

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80. The Bonesetter's Daughter
Rating = 4 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, Race to the Finish, Wedding Day (Plus)

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81. The Blood Card
Rating = 4 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, The 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge, Race to the Finish

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82. A Cavern of Black Ice
Rating = 4 stars with review
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, Race to the Finish

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My year in books.
Read some books that I didn't count in this group's challenges. Plus, there's still plenty of time for me to read a few more.

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83. Heartless
Rating = 5 stars. Review to follow
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, The Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge, Race to the Finish, Tbr twins

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84. Shade's Children
Rating = 4 stars
Challenges: Let's Turn Pages, Race to the Finish