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Goal: 18,551/25,000, 74.20% - 62 total books.
August - 5 books, 2,307 pages. 18,551 total pages.
58. The Robber Bride - 528 pages
59. The Ruins - 432 pages
60. Foucault's Pendulum - 656 pages
61. The Ill-Made Knight (The Once and Future King, #3) - 291 pages
62. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (The Karla Trilogy, #1) - 400 pages

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
20. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling - 435 pages
21. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 92 pages (Finished on audio)
22. The Hellfire Club by Jake Tapper - 325 pages
23. Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History - 293 pages
24. Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco - 248 pages
25. The Outsider by Stephen King - 561 pages
6,798/20,000

8,924/14,000 pages [64%]
#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
#22 End of Watch pp. 368 3/5
#23 How to Find Love in a Bookshop pp. 375 4/5
#24 The Couple Next Door pp. 362 3/5
#25 Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops pp. 119 4/5
#26 The Mother Garden pp. 191 3/5

21880/25000 (88 %)
With another good reading month I should be able to finish this.
By the way, I just realised that my progress has never been updated in the summarised post. So in case the nick name is the problem (I normaly only link the original message to an update and hope this helps) but Ninaastrid = Nina.
I changed the name after participation. As there is already a Nina taking part, feel free to put me down as Nina2.

Pride and Prejudice edition was 352 pages.
This One Summer 320 pages
Ranma ½, Vol. 1 (Ranma ½ 3..."
18,802 pages + ...
飴色パラドックス 2 Ameiro Paradox 2 190 pages
= 18,992 / 20,000 pages

Challenge Completed: 6/30/18
Please count me in for 25,000 pages for 2018:
January: 3421; YTD - 3421
February: 4328; YTD - 7749
March: 3504; YTD - 11,253
April: 3952; YTD - 15,205
May: 5543; YTD - 20,748
June: 4387; YTD - 25,135
July: 4861; YTD - 29,996
August: 4924; YTD - 34,920

I also found an error in my previous total and had to recalculate.
Given the corrected number and the newly completed book, I now stand at 19,765 pages.
19,765/15,500

21353/20000

Finished reading:
No Such Person- 256 pages
A Wrinkle In Time- 218 pages
19,067 pages read
30,933 pages remaining

8,966/16,500 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)
18. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (341)
19. The Secret History (546)
20. Manhattan Beach (438)
21. Truly Madly Guilty (415)
22. The Lying Game (370)

January
Black House - 840 pages
The Zookeeper's Wife - 384 pages
Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements - 240 pages
Nineteen Eighty-Four - 328 pages
Phasma - 381 pages
Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit - 416 pages
Alexander Hamilton - 433 pages (DNF)
Total for January: 3,022 pages
February
All the Light We Cannot See - 531 pages
Murder on the Orient Express - 274 pages
Total for February: 805 pages
March
The Night Circus - 512 pages
Dark Places - 349 pages
Defectors - 290 pages
Total for March: 1151 pages
April
The Forgetting Time - 357 pages
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - 320 pages
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life - 210 pages
Total for April: 887 pages
May
A Gentleman in Moscow - 208 pages (DNF)
Song of Susannah - 560 pages
Into the Water - 400 pages
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - 341 pages
Authority - 341 pages
Total for May: 1,850 pages
June
The Alienist - 498 pages
Norse Mythology - 299 pages
Life Debt - 430 pages
The Alchemist - 182 pages
Total for June: 1,409 pages
July
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 435 pages
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 768 pages
Total for July: 1,203 pages
August
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America - 447 pages
The Dark Tower - 1050 pages
Total for August: 1,497 pages
Total for 2018: 11,824 pages

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - 309
My Heart and Other Black Holes - 320
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - 228
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 435
Total - 13314/16000
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My challenge hasn't been updated in a long time. Is everyone facing the same thing or is it just me?

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - 309
Total - 12331/16000
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My challenge hasn't been updated in a long time. Is everyone facing the same thing or is it just me?"
Nobody's has been updated since April

Finished reading:
A Game Of Thrones ( A Song Of Ice And Fire #1)- 848 pages
19,915 pages read
30,085 pages remaining

Pegasus - 404 pages
On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon - 304 pages
20,473/15,500

A Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell 87/354
The Power by Naomi Alderman 246/399
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 308
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge 272
The Barmy British Empire by Terry Deary 128
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 214
The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla 272
If Only They Didn't Speak English: Adventures in America - The Most Foreign Land on Earth by Jon Sopel 198
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 562
The Universe Doesn't Give a Flying F*** About You by Johnny B. Truant 13
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman 299
Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes by Denise Grover Swank 374
Spectacles by Sue Perkins 464
Coraline by Neil Gaiman 208
Paper Towns by John Green 321
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 116
Beloved by Toni Morrison 291
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 196/422 (Didn't finish)
The Perpetual Astonishment of Jonathon Fairfax by Christopher Shevlin 314
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne 226
Lonely Planet's Beautiful World by Lonely Planet 272
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen 528

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29,637 pages remaining
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