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Let's Turn Pages - 2019

Goal: 16,257/20,000, 81.28% - 53 total books.
June - 15 books, 4,735 pages. 16,257 total pages.
39. North American Lake Monsters - 217 pages
40. Zorba the Greek - 320 pages
41. The Last Wish (The Witcher, #1) - 384 pages
42. Wide Sargasso Sea - 152 pages
43. Ripley Under Ground (Ripley, #2) - 288 pages
44. Ripley's Game (Ripley, #3) - 288 pages
45. Tau Zero - 200 pages
46. A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1) - 320 pages
47. The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1) - 307 pages
48. Rogues - 832 pages
49. Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination - 240 pages
50. The Thirteen Problems (Miss Marple, #2) - 320 pages
51. The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Ripley, #4) - 336 pages
52. The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #3) - 227 pages
53. Ripley Under Water (Ripley, #5) - 304 pages

June: Total Pages= 1,583
Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered by Karen Kilgaridd and Georgia Hardstark- 304 pages
Sweet Tea and Sympathy by Molly Harper- 321 pages
By Your Side by Kasie West- 346 pages
Field Notes on Love by Jennifer E Smith- 271 pages
Peachy Flippin’ Keen by Molly Harper- 75 pages
Currently Reading: The Matchmaker’s List by Sonya Lalli- 165 pages *not finished and Ain’t She A Peach by Molly Harper- 105 pages
Plan for July:
Save A Truck, Ride a Redneck by Molly Harper- 136 pages
Gimme Some Sugar by Molly Harper- 304 pages
A Few Pecans Short of a Pie by Molly Harper- 90 pages
The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory- 352 pages
The Distance From A to Z by Natalie Blitt- 352 pages
There’s Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon- 384 pages
Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills- 320 pages
Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch- 303 pages
Our Story, Our Voices by Amy Reed- 320 pages
Fudge Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke- 304 pages
As Kismet Would Have It by Sandhya Menon- 60 pages
Pride and Prejudice and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev- 481 pages
The Hidden Power of Fucking Up by The Try Guys- 288 pages
Just The Essentials by Shari Tapscott- 308 pages

17558/30000 (8 more books for June)
#49) “The Cat Who Played Post Office” by Lilian Jackson Braun (The Cat Who #6) – 224 (6/3/19)
#50) “Lost” by PC Cast (House of Night Otherworld #2) – 408 (6/9/19)
#51) “Whiskers in the Dark” by Rita Mae Brown (Mrs. Murphy #28) – 288 (6/13/19)
#52) “The Vanishing Season” by Dot Hutchison (The Collector #4) – 317 (6/19/19)
#53) “Vision in Silver” by Anne Bishop (The Others #3) – 400 (6/22/19)
#54) “Worth Fighting For: Love, Loss, and Moving Forward” by Lisa Niemi Swayze – 336 (6/23/19)
#55) “The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare” by Lilian Jackson Braun (The Cat Who #7) – 208 (6/26/19)
#56) “Covet” by JR Ward (Fallen Angels #1) – 474 (6/30/19)

1. Graphene: The Superstrong, Superthin, and Superversatile Material That Will Revolutionize the World - 272 pages
2. Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures - 336 pages
3. Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach - 176 pages
4. The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy - 320 pages
5. Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ - 273 pages
6. The Allies: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II - 464 pages
7. Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change - 225 pages
8. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet- 443 pages
9. A Closed and Common Orbit - 364 pages
10. A Closed and Common Orbit - 368 pages
11. Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child - 557 pages
12. Good-bye and Amen - 256 pages
13. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President- 368 pages
14. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World - 304 pages
15. Holy Fools - 368 pages
16. The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative - 304 pages
17. With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change - 304 pages
18. Can You Forgive Her? - 708 pages
19. Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants - 413 pages
20. All Our Wrong Todays - 373 pages
21. The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms - 240 pages
22. The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles - 416 pages
23. Phineas Finn - 654 pages
24. Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope - 452 pages
25. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements - 416 pages
26. American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation- 416 pages
27. The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom - 434 pages
28. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster - 538 pages
29.Ready Player One- 374 pages
30. To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette - 384 pages
31. Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives - 256 pages
32. The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants - 368 pages
33. Before the Fall - 391 pages
34. What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees - 324 pages
35. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II - 416 pages
36. Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, the Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class - 320 pages
37. Dear Mrs. Bird - 281 pages
38. The Bamboo Sword - 335 pages
39. Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars - 338 pages
40. Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution - 304 pages
41. Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X - 320 pages
42. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge - 253 pages
43. A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable - 272 pages
44. The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats - 397 pages
45. Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy - 400 pages
46. Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom - 512 pages
47. The Tropic of Serpents - 331 pages
Which makes a grand total of 19,245 pages for the year so far.
19,245/25,000

Finished reading:
The Poet X- 368 pages
In An Absent Dream- 203 pages
No Exit- 278 pages
12,441 pages read
27,559 pages remaining

I finally got May totals in today.
9375/ TOTAL: 45,440/100,000
Maybe June will get posted soon.

January
Books Read: 5
Pages Read: 1,164
February
Books Read: 2
Pages Read: 666
March
Books Read: 2
Pages Read: 582
April
Books Read: 4
Pages Read: 998
May
Books Read: 2
Pages Read: 399
June
Books Read: 4
Pages Read: 1,237
July
Books Read: 1
Pages Read: 203
August
September
October
November
December

June: 2,095 pages
The Line Between, 384 pages, audio
Deal with the Devil, 275 pages, audio
Defiant Queen, 252 pages, audio
Sinful Empire, 243 pages, audio
You, 422 pages, audio
To Love a Lady, 244 pages
Savage Prince, 275 pages, audio
May: 1,678 pages
The Choice, 358 pages
The 18th Abduction, 368 pages, audio
The Cornwalls Are Gone, 352 pages, audio
Reveling in Sin, 250 pages, audio
Ruthless King, 350 pages, audio
April: 3,939 pages
Beneath This Ink, 372 pages, audio
Juror #3, 352 pages, audio
Guilty as Sin, 250 pages, audio
Beneath These Chains, 358 pages, audio
Beneath These Scars, 346 pages, audio
Beneath the Truth, 350 pages, audio
Beneath These Shadows, 386 pages, audio
Beneath These Lies, 363 pages, audio
The Sixth Day, 662 pages
Real Good Man, 250 pages, audio
Real Good Love, 250 pages, audio
March: 2,972 pages
Claim Me, 371 pages, audio
More Than Need You, 477 pages, audio
Dirty Girl, 250 pages, audio
Overheard, 94 pages, audio
Secrets of Midnight, 343 pages
Beneath This Mask, 290 pages, audio
Three by Kate Grey, 327 pages
Complete Me, 320 pages, audio
Dirty Love, 250 pages, audio
Richer Than Sin, 250 pages, audio
February: 1,960 pages
Summoned to Thirteenth Grave, 304 pages
Eyes on You, 320 pages, audio
More Than Want You, 276 pages, audio
Release Me, 345 pages, audio
Look Alive Twenty-Five, 311 pages
True North, 404 pages, audio
January: 1,841 pages
Defy the Dawn, 228 pages
The Devil's Triangle, 495 pages
Grave Secret, 306 pages, audio
Minutes Before Sunset, 278 pages
Target: Alex Cross, 414 pages
Midnight Untamed, 120 pages

March. The Bible. 1,200 pages
El cementerio de Praga 549 pages
April
El Profesor 606 pages
Qué es ser ilustrado 64 pages
Ciudad Real 219 pages
Futbol 146 pages
May
Oficio de tinieblas. 374. pages
Confesión de Fe de Westminster. 430 pages
Julian Assange. 280 pages
June
La Lentitud. 168 pages
July
El Extranjero. 124 pages
Dos años, ocho meses y veintiocho noches. 396 pages
TOTAL 4,556 pages
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6,436/10,000
6,436/10,000
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Progress: 25,236/40,000