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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 375 pages
The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan 423 pages
Ban This Book by Alan Gratz 256 pages
Knocking it up to 8,951 words :)

Unofficially I am now just going to try to beat my annual record, which is 16,764 pages.
#1 I'm Travelling Alone pp. 524 4/5
#2 The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry pp. 306 5/5
#3 The Dandelion Years pp. 463 4/5
#4 The One Memory of Flora Banks pp. 303 4/5
#5 What I Was pp. 199 4/5
#6 The Driver's Seat pp. 107 4/5
#7 Paper Towns pp. 305 4/5
#8 The Loney pp. 360 3/5
#9 The Book of Tomorrow pp. 420 3/5
#10 The Woman in Cabin 10 pp. 344 4/5
#11 Dishing the Dirt pp. 294 1/5
#12 Bird Box pp. 381 4/5
#13 Ghastle and Yule pp. 92 3/5
#14 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society pp. 290 5/5
#15 Eeny Meeny pp. 437 3/5
#16 Thirteen Reasons Why pp. 288 3/5
#17 Show Me How pp. 320 2/5
#18 The Snow Child pp. 438 5/5
#19 The Perks of Being a Wallflower pp. 231 4/5
#20 Dark Places pp. 424 4/5
#21 Painting Classes pp.189 4/5
#22 The Peach Keeper pp. 314 4/5
#23 Sovereign pp. 662 4/5
#24 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children pp. 369 4/5
#25 The Rosie Project pp. 330 3/5
#26 A Month In The Country pp. 104 4/5
#27 The Quick pp. 517 4/5
#28 We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves pp. 323 5/5
#29 The Reading Group pp. 466 3/5 (generous)
#30 Elsewhere pp. 273 4/5
#31 The Woman Who Walked Into Doors pp. 226 5/5
#32 The Thing About Jellyfish pp. 343 3/5
#33 I Let You Go pp. 373 5/5
#34 Pretty Little Things pp. 470 4/5
#35 Looking for Alaska pp. 272 4/5
#36 Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse pp. 219 4/5
#37 Something Wicked This Way Comes pp. 215 5/5
#38 Fur Person pp. 125 4/5
#39 Cloud Atlas pp. 529 5/5
#40 Sole Survivor pp. 312 3/5
#41 Emily Windsnap and the Castle in the Mist pp. 197 3/5
#42 Game of Scones: All Men Must Dine pp. 132 2/5
#43 The Little Red Chairs pp. 297 3/5
#44 Night Watch pp. 474 4/5
#45 In a Cottage In a Wood pp.312 4/5
#46 Skylight Confessions pp. 262 5/5
#47 The Elegance of the Hedgehog pp. 320 4/5

Unofficially I am now just going to try to beat my annual record, which is 16,764 pages.
#1 I'm Travelling Alone pp. 524 4/5
#2 The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry pp. 306 5/5
#3 The Dandelion Years pp. 463 4/5
#4 The One Memory of Flora Banks pp. 303 4/5
#5 What I Was pp. 199 4/5
#6 The Driver's Seat pp. 107 4/5
#7 Paper Towns pp. 305 4/5
#8 The Loney pp. 360 3/5
#9 The Book of Tomorrow pp. 420 3/5
#10 The Woman in Cabin 10 pp. 344 4/5
#11 Dishing the Dirt pp. 294 1/5
#12 Bird Box pp. 381 4/5
#13 Ghastle and Yule pp. 92 3/5
#14 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society pp. 290 5/5
#15 Eeny Meeny pp. 437 3/5
#16 Thirteen Reasons Why pp. 288 3/5
#17 Show Me How pp. 320 2/5
#18 The Snow Child pp. 438 5/5
#19 The Perks of Being a Wallflower pp. 231 4/5
#20 Dark Places pp. 424 4/5
#21 Painting Classes pp.189 4/5
#22 The Peach Keeper pp. 314 4/5
#23 Sovereign pp. 662 4/5
#24 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children pp. 369 4/5
#25 The Rosie Project pp. 330 3/5
#26 A Month In The Country pp. 104 4/5
#27 The Quick pp. 517 4/5
#28 We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves pp. 323 5/5
#29 The Reading Group pp. 466 3/5 (generous)
#30 Elsewhere pp. 273 4/5
#31 The Woman Who Walked Into Doors pp. 226 5/5
#32 The Thing About Jellyfish pp. 343 3/5
#33 I Let You Go pp. 373 5/5
#34 Pretty Little Things pp. 470 4/5
#35 Looking for Alaska pp. 272 4/5
#36 Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse pp. 219 4/5
#37 Something Wicked This Way Comes pp. 215 5/5
#38 Fur Person pp. 125 4/5
#39 Cloud Atlas pp. 529 5/5
#40 Sole Survivor pp. 312 3/5
#41 Emily Windsnap and the Castle in the Mist pp. 197 3/5
#42 Game of Scones: All Men Must Dine pp. 132 2/5
#43 The Little Red Chairs pp. 297 3/5
#44 Night Watch pp. 474 4/5
#45 In a Cottage In a Wood pp.312 4/5
#46 Skylight Confessions pp. 262 5/5
#47 The Elegance of the Hedgehog pp. 320 4/5
#48 The Graveyard Book pp. 312 5/5

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18744/25000
487 - Divergent
352 - Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
432 - End of Watch
179 - If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
1456 - The Fiery Cross
124 - The Stranger
524 - Insurgent
402 - Hollow City
301 - Plainsong
194 - The Lathe of Heaven
796 - The Well of Ascension
526 - Allegiant
464 - Library of Souls
301 - Eventide
387 - Buddhism for Dummies
724 - The Hero of Ages
624 - A Conjuring of Light
258 - Benediction
332 - The Alloy of Law
399 - The Golden Compass
504 - White Witch, Black Curse
465 - Golden Son
387 - Cinder
320 - A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe
383 - Shadows of Self
24 - The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
327 - The Subtle Knife
24 - The Collectors
296 - All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
470 - Small Great Things
521 - The Amber Spyglass
64 - Lyra's Oxford
484 - Scarlet
104 - Once Upon a Time in the North
432 - The Bands of Mourning
280 - Artemis Fowl
560 - Cress
171 - Secret History
524 - Morning Star
352 - Ink and Bone
1173 - A Storm of Swords
256 - Fairest
277 - The Arctic Incident
1061 - A Feast for Crows


Total: 25,361/25,000 COMPLETE
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