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79). The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & The Body Snatcher. Date Read: 9 July.
Total Number Of Pages Read: 19,338/25,000

7,509/14,000 pages [54%]
#1 The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto pp. 496 4/5
#2 Coming Home pp. 785 4/5
#3 First Frost pp. 314 5/5
#4 Rocket Science for Babies pp. 24 3/5
#5 Night Film pp. 637 4/5
#6 Doctor Sleep pp. 485 3/5
#7 The Miniaturist pp. 433 4/5
#8 Starseeker pp. 323 5/5
#9 The Rules of Magic pp. 367 5/5
#10 I See You pp. 372 4/5
#11 The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake pp. 325 3/5
#12 The Shipping News pp. 337 4/5
#13 Dark Matter pp. 401 4/5
#14 A Mislaid Magic pp. 236 4/5 (re-read)
#15 After the Unicorn pp. 252 4/5
#16 Arriving in Snowy Weather pp. 239 3/5
#17 Book of Pages pp. 64 5/5
#18 Up a Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog pp. 215 2/5
#19 Into the Water pp. 428 4/5
#20 Mr Mercedes pp. 405 4/5
#21 Finders Keepers pp. 371 3/5

1. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan - 432 pages
2. Bonfire by Krysten Ritter - 288 pages
3. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen - 343 pages
4. I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara - 334 pages
5. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones - 306 pages
6. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann - 287 pages
7. Lost Tribe of the Sith: Precipice by John Jackson Miller - 30 pages
8. Lost Tribe of the Sith: Skyborn by John Jackson Miller - 31 pages
9. Lost Tribe of the Sith: Paragon by John Jackson Miller - 32 pages
10. The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore by Joan Lowery Nixon - 305 pages
11. The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani - 228 pages
12. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling - 201 pages (I listened to the rest on audio)
13. Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell - 356 pages
14. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling - 341 pages
15. Russian Roulette by Michael Isikoff and David Corn - 305 pages
16. Lost Tribe of the Sith: Paragon by John Jackson Miller - 32 pages
17. Killer Cruise by Jennifer Shaw - 344 pages
18. Friends Forever by Danielle Steel - 318 pages
4,543/20,000

To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
209/30000
Stardust- Neil Gaiman
433/30000
Hungry: A Mother and Daughter Fight Anorexia - Sheila Himmel
737/30000
Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition, and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves - Crystal Renn
993/30000
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
1537/30000
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide - Kay Jamison
1985/30000
A Good Death - Gil Courtmanche
2191/30000
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced - Nujood Ali
2379/30000
The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton
2683/30000
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane - Lisa See
3083/30000
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey - Jill Taylor
3327/30000
The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
3533/30000
The Phantom Tollbooth- Norton Juster
3810/30000
Trauma: My Life as an Emergency Surgeon- James Cole
4162/30000

3099/30000
An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny - Laura Schroff
3371/30000
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
3467/30000
Grendel- John Gardner
3659/30000
Four: A Divergent Story Collection - Veronica Roth
3979/30000
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Marquez
4347/30000
Grace- Elizabeth Scott
4555/30000
The Invisible Ones - Stef Penney
4987/30000
The Complete Poems- Anne Sexton
5643/30000

Just finished reading Wolf By Wolf- 388 pages
Iron To Iron- 104 pages
14,397 pages read
35,603 pages remaining

June: 6,600
Completed: 39,254/75,000
Reached by Ally Condie = 512 pages
Furyborn by Claire Legrand = 516 pages
The Dry by Jane Harper = 352 pages
Eversong by Donna Grant = 272 pages
This Is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith = 404 pages
I See You by Clare Mackintosh = 372 pages
Misadventures of the First Daughter by Meredith Wild = 280 pages
Misadventures of a Backup Bride by Shayla Black = 280 pages
Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier = 451 pages
Where She Went by Gayle Forman = 264 pages
Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies about Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be by Rachel Hollis = 241 pages
I Found You by Lisa Jewell = 448 pages
Delirium by Lauren Oliver = 401 pages
The Program by Suzanne Young = 405 pages
Misadventures on the Night Shift by Lauren Rowe = 280 pages
Dumplin' by Julie Murphy = 384 pages
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan = 210 pages
Misadventures with the Boss by Kendall Ryan = 208 pages
Return to the Isle of the Lost by Melissa de la Cruz = 320 pages

81). Elfrida: The First Crowned Queen of England. Pages: 219.
Total Number Of Pages Read: 19,957/25,000

Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan (340/10,000)
Those Girls by Chevy Stevens (724/10,000)
I Brake for Yard Sales: High Style - Low Budget by Lara Spencer and Kathy Griffin (900/10,000)
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney (1268/10,000)
The Daughter by Jane Shemilt (1609/10,000)
A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton (1824/10,000)
Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews (2336/10,000)
The Deepest Secret by Carla Buckley (2784/10,000)

6,856/16,500 pages
1. Origin (461)
2. The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia (304)
3. The Lightning Thief (375)
4. Firestarter (428)
5. The Hobbit (303)
6. Memoirs of a Geisha (512)
7. Outlander (866)
8. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (320)
9. You'll Grow Out of It (305)
10. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (352)
11. A Wrinkle in Time (228)
12. The Female Persuasion (464)
13. Little Fires Everywhere (348)
14. The Hunger Games (387)
15. The Fellowship of the Ring (432)
16. Armada (368)
17. Catching Fire (403)

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Steven Levitt
5958/30000
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It - Al Gore
6290/30000
The Secret (The Secret #1) - Rhonda Byrne
6488/30000
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
6814/30000
Dune - Frank Herbert
7710/30000
Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
8046/30000
Love Poetry Out Loud - Robert Rubin
8246/30000
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
8448/30000
Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
8992/30000
New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
9555/3000
Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
10495/30000
Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
11163/30000
The Twilight Companion: The Unauthorized Guide to the Series - Lois Gresh
11435/30000
Holding On to Zoe - George Lyon
11611/30000
Mother, Mother - Koren Zailckas
12011/30000
The PTSD Workbook: Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptoms - Mary Beth Williams
12395/30000

Added:
52. Inkheart - 548 pages
53. Lying in Wait - 320 pages
54. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 870 pages
55. Best Friends Forever - 336 pages
Total: 20598 / 26500

Pride and Prejudice edition was 352 pages.
This One Summer 320 pages
Ranma ½, Vol. 1 (Ranma ½ 304 pages
Total: 17,987 / 20,000 pages

I have surpassed my pages read and would like to change my goal to from 25,000 to 35,000
Currently at 26,270/35,000
Thanks :-)

1. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan - 432 pages
2. Bonfire by Krysten Ritter - 288 pages
3. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen - 343 pages
4. I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara - 334 pages
5. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones - 306 pages
6. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann - 287 pages
7. Lost Tribe of the Sith: Precipice by John Jackson Miller - 30 pages
8. Lost Tribe of the Sith: Skyborn by John Jackson Miller - 31 pages
9. Lost Tribe of the Sith: Paragon by John Jackson Miller - 32 pages
10. The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore by Joan Lowery Nixon - 305 pages
11. The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani - 228 pages
12. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling - 201 pages (I listened to the rest on audio)
13. Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell - 356 pages
14. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling - 341 pages
15. Russian Roulette by Michael Isikoff and David Corn - 305 pages
16. Lost Tribe of the Sith: Paragon by John Jackson Miller - 32 pages
17. Killer Cruise by Jennifer Shaw - 344 pages
18. Friends Forever by Danielle Steel - 318 pages
19. The Sleeping Beauty Killer by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke - 301 pages
4,844/20,000

Just finished reading Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging (Confessions Of Georgia Nicolson #1)- 247 pages
14,644 pages read
35,356 pages remaining

First, although I believe the number of pages is included in my total, I accidently omitted these books from my previous posts:
Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall - 368 pages.
The Warden - 310 pages
Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon - 312 pages
My most recently completed books:
The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True Story of the Spanish Armada - 512 pages
Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman---and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America - 336 pages
Nature’s Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything - 288 pages
12,625/15,500
Message #12 update!
52. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - 361 pages
24,160/25,000
52. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - 361 pages
24,160/25,000
Message #12 update!
53. New Facercise by Carole Maggio - 128 pages
24,288/25,000
53. New Facercise by Carole Maggio - 128 pages
24,288/25,000
Message #12 update!
54. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon - 310 pages
24,598/25,000
54. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon - 310 pages
24,598/25,000
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15,549/40,000