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Finished reading:
Techinically, You Started It- 384 pages
18,840 pages read
21,160 pages remaining

23,507 pages complete/20,000 goal
I'd like to update my goal to 27,000 pages please!

I will shoot for 40,000 in 2019: Challenge Completed 9/16/19
January: Month-to-date: 3913; Year-to-Date: 3913
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt 409 pages
The Map of Salt and Stars Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar 368
Winter Journey Diane Armstrong 496
Go, Went, Gone Jenny Erpenbeck 320
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West Hampton Sides 636
Black Swan Green David Mitchell 306
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez 368
The Shadow of the Wind Carols Ruiz Zafón 506
Ready Player One Ernest Cline 368
Discover Oil Painting: Easy Landscape Painting Techniques Julie Gilbert Pollard 128
February: Month-to-Date: 5107; Year-to-Date: 9020
Have a Little Faith: The Story of a Last Request Mitch Albom 267
We Own the Sky Luke Allnutt 368
The Sea of Tranquility Katja Millay 448
Caraval Stephanie Garber 416
The Heart's Invisible Furies John Boyne 567
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Atul Gawande 297
Without a Country Ayse Kulin 316
The Astonishing Color of After Emily X.R. Pan 480
In the Midst of Winter Isabel Allende 352
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines Thomas C. Foster 336
People of the Book Geraldine Brooks 396
A Portrait in Sepia Isabel Allende 304
Nobody's Fool Richard Russo 560
March: Month-to-Date: 5334; Year-to-Date: 14,354
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson 658
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories Simon Winchester 512
The Ragged Edge of Night Olivia Hawker 340
The Japanese Lover Isabel Allende 337
The Women of the Copper Country Mary Doria Russell 352
The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing Mira Jacob 530
The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller 389
Private Life Jane Smiley 418
Pickle's Progress Marcia Butler 288
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford 290
Behold the Dreamers Imbolo Mbue 401
The Golem and the Jinni Helene Wecker 819
April: Month to Date: 4024; Year to Date: 18,378
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: The History and Discovery of the World's Richest Shipwreck Gary Kinder 527
And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life Jane Christmas 304
The Bear and the Nightingale Jane Arden 336
The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism John U. Bacon 432
Educated Tara Westover 352
American Rust Philipp Meyer 384
Inland Téa Obreht 368
The Lost Painting Jonathan Harr 288
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf 197
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 258
The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey Into the Dark Side of the Brain James Fallon 258
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin 320
May: Month-to-Date: 4352; Year-to-Date: 22,730
The Interestings Meg Wolitzer 480
The High Mountains of Portugal Yann Martel 368
Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World Christina Rickardsson 249
The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future Joselin Linder 276
A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry 628
The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende 496
To the Bright Edge of the World Eowyn Ivey 410
Sarah's Key Tatiana de Rosnay 305
The Hours Michael Cunningham 239
All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy 330
The Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare 176
City of Thieves David Benioff 284
Winter Journey Rick Mallery 111
June: Month-to-Date: 5060; Year-to-Date: 27,790
The Address Fiona Davis 367
The Story of Arthur Truluv Elizabeth Berg 241
The Rainmaker John Grisham 711
Watermelon Snow William Liggett, Jr. 240
Fools and Mortals Bernard Cornwell 385
Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold Margaret Atwood 320
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski 580
The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 402
Grief Is the Thing With Feathers Max Porter 129
Eva Luna Isabel Allende 307
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood Helene Cooper 385
The Princess Diarist Carrie Fisher 267
The Good Shepherd C.S. Forester 310
The Wife Between Us Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen 416
July: Month-to-Date: 4669; Year-to-Date: 32,459
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 343
In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown Nathaniel Philbrick 384
Atonement Ian McEwan 351
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper Phaedra Patrick 336
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain Ed Viesturs and David Roberts 354
White Teeth Zadie Smith 448
Divergent Veronica Roth 501
Testimony of Two Men Taylor Caldwell 614
The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes 177
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie 275
The Postmistress Sarah Blake 336
Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee 162
Wonder Boys Michael Chabon 388
August: Month-to-Date: 5190; Year-to-Date: 37,649
Quichotte Salman Rushdie 416
The Girl in the Blue Coat Monica Hesse 337
The Brothers K David James Duncan 640
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong 256
Savage Harvest Carl Hoffman 339
The Girl from the Savoy Hazel Gaynor 448
Frankissstein Jeanette Winterson 352
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Elif Shafak 305
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin Gordon S. Wood 320
The Luminaries Eleanor Catton 849
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy 321
The Housekeeper and the Professor Yoko Ogawa 191
Five Seasons Roger Angell 416
September: Month to Date: 2493; Year to Date: 40,142
The Way of Beauty Camille Di Maio 377
Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors James D. Hornfischer 546
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk 288
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 212
The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence 378
Freshwater Akwaeke Emezi 240
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton Jane Smiley 452

70,077/70,000 pages over 226 books.
Challenge completed on 9/21/19! Woohoo!
My titles/covers are shown here: TerryJane's Year in Books 2019 .

Finished reading:
Mrs. Everything- 416 pages
19,256 pages read
20,744 pages remaining

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
August
El ùltimo Hombre. Daniel Baldacci. 571 pages
September
Discusiones Filosóficas. L. Wittgenstein. 485 pages
TOTAL 5,612 pages

Finished reading:
The Bride Test- 296 pages
19,548 pages read
20,452 pages remaining

Goal: 23,745/20,000, 118.73% - 69 total books.
September - 6 books, 2,562 pages. 23,745 total pages.
64. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce, #2) - 384 pages
65. A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce, #3) - 291 pages
66. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - 272 pages
67. A Dance to the Music of Time, Volume 2: Summer (A Dance to the Music of Time, #4-6) - 738 pages
68. Ammonite - 397 pages
69. The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2) - 480 pages
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