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Finished
Mercy by Jodi Picoult 400 pages
The Jane Austen Book Club 250 pages
Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult 434 pages
The One & Only by Emily Giffin 415 pages
The Girls of August221 pages
We Are Not Ourselves 620 pages
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness 264 pages
The Awakening of Miss Prim: A Novel 258 pages
Confessions of a Wild Child 294 pages
We Are Water 561 pages
Ladies' Night 456 pages
I want in on this one. My goal is 30,000 pages. This is an average of 300 pages per book in my 100 book personal challenge. I rarely read anything shorter so it should tie in nicely.

Finished: 0/40,000 pages
Currently Reading:
Planned Reading:
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 1,276 pp - will use Kindle & audi..."
Theresa, I am also reading Les Miserable, so I'll catch you for the buddy read there too.

Duration: January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015
We are always making goals about how many books we want to read in a year. How about we make a goal for number of pages we ..."
My name is Julie F. I would love to join this challenge and will sign up to read 25,000 pages.

I should read Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady. I hated it in college. I even argued that Sophia from The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling was a more successful dramatic heroine than Clarissa because she was so over the top, no one could relate to her. Hopefully, I am a little wiser now. Let me know when you read it.

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady - 1534 pages
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany - 1264 pages
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling - 1024 pages
Les Miserables 1463 pages
Finished:
The Professor - 262 pages
We Need to Talk About Kevin 400 pages -
Just One Damned Thing After Another 332 pages
The Vanishing 332 pages
Scientific Secrets for Self-Control, The Great Courses - 180 minutes - finished (I'm working on getting the page numbers)

1416 pages

I noticed my mean pages for this year was 450 pages/book. Last year 400 pages/book. I guess I tend to read medium and big books more than small ones.


1.The Sense of an Ending: 150 pages
2.The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared: 396 pages
3.Fifty Shades of Grey: 514 pages
4.The Hunger Games: 387 pages
5.Catching Fire: 448 pages
6.Mockingjay: 390 pages
7.(Memoirs of Idhún #1) La resistencia: 556 pages
8.The Sleeper and the Spindle: 72 pages
9.Songmaster: 352 pages
10.Of Love and Other Demons: 169 pages
11.The Secret Lives of Men: 246 pages
12.The Handmaid's Tale: 311 pages
13.The Great Gatsby: 203 pages
14.The Sign of Four: 167 pages
15.The Shining: 659 pages
16.The Catcher in the Rye: 230 pages
17.Sissi Emperatriz: Elizabeth de Austria: 192 pages
18.Summer: 194
19.Stardust: 333
20.The Old Man and the Sea: 99
*.Spring Snow: 132/389
*.The Night Circus: 35/502
*.Time of the Twins:21/389
Final count: 6,256 pages

4929/15000 pages
1. The Drop(224 pages)
2. Insurgent (525 pages)
3. Mary Poppins (224 pages)
4. Allegiant (526 pages)
5. Flowers in the Attic (411 pages)
6. Big Little Lies (460 pages)
7. The Silver Linings Playbook (289 pages)
8. Cinder (390 pages)
9. Four: A Divergent Story Collection (285 pages)
10. Green River Killer (234 pages)
11. Harvey Pekar's Cleveland (120 pages)
12. Doggie Day Care Murder (256 pages)
13. Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland (336 pages)
14.20th Century Ghosts (316 pages)
15. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (176 pages)
16. First World Problems: 101 Reasons Why The Terrorists Hate Us (157 pages)


Total Pages Read :- 4,444/30,000
p478 - Watership Down
p420 - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
p404 - Postmortem
p264 - And Then There Were None
p352 - Where the Rainbow Ends
p337 - Bones of the Lost
p336 - Bones Never Lie:
p100 - Swamp Bones: A Temperance Brennan Short Story
p288 - The Light Fantastic
p192 - The Yuletide Engagement
p180 - Snowbound Reunion
p176 - Irene
p219 - Make Believe Honeymoon
p192 - A Husband Of Convenience
p192 - Pagan Surrender
p127 - Settling The Score
p187 - Before Midnight
Plus two more romances that according to Goodreads.... Have no pages? I have only counted the books that Goodreads recognises in My Stats :-)

Total
1,653/10,000
1. The Wolf of Wall Street 528 pages Finished 1/28/15
2. Push by Sapphire 192 pages Finished 1/31/15
3. Never Make the Same Mistake Twice: Lessons on Love and Life Learned the Hard Way by Nene Leakes 228 pages Finished 2/22/15
4. Dollbaby by Laura Lane McNeal 337 pages Finished 3/28/15
5. Ruby by Cynthia Bond 368 pages Finished 7/20/15

272/6000
Hatchet Job: Love Movies, Hate Critics - 272 - 24/1/15

I'm in! Just a goal of 25,000, but I might bump it up depending on how things go.
Finished: 499/25,000 pages
190 pages - The Book of Lost Things
309 pages - The Absolutist

LET'S TURN PAGES CHALLENGE - 2015
January 1st - December 31st, 2015
1. Dreamfever - Karen Marie Moning ★★★★★ 400 pages (01/01/15)
2. Shadowfever - Karen Marie Moning ★★★★★ 689 pages (02/01/15)
3. Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn ★★★★☆ 272 pages (04/01/15)
4. Dark Places - Gillian Flynn ★★★★☆ 424 pages (09/01/15)
5. The Fault in Our Stars - John Green ★☆☆☆☆ 337 pages (10/01/15)
6. Broken Monsters - Lauren Beukes ★★★☆☆ 400 pages (17/01/15)
7. The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton ★★★★☆ 427 pages (20/01/15)
8. Iced - Karen Marie Moning ★★★☆☆ 512 pages (24/01/15)
9. Burned - Karen Marie Moning ★★★★☆ 512 pages (26/01/15)
10. The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins ★★★★☆ 336 pages (28/01/15)
11. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant ★★☆☆☆ 336 pages (01/02/15)
12. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel ★★★★★ 304 pages (04/02/15)
13. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë ★★★★★ 332 pages (11/02/15)
14. Me Before You - Jojo Moyes ★★★★☆ 385 pages (15/02/15)
15. Vicious - V.E. Schwab ★★★★☆ 366 pages (21/02/15)
16. Secrets of a Summer Night - Lisa Kleypas ★★★☆☆ 384 pages (21/02/15)
17. Dead Witch Walking - Kim Harrison ★★☆☆☆ 416 pages (24/02/15)
18. A Darker Shade of Magic - V.E. Schwab ★★★★★ 400 pages (28/02/2015)
19. Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard ★★★☆☆ 400 pages (01/03/15)
20. The Sin Eater’s Daughter - Melinda Salisbury ★★☆☆☆ 320 pages (06/03/15)
21. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell ★★★★☆ 1,472 pages (15/03/15)
22. It Happened One Autumn - Lisa Kleypas ★★★☆☆ 382 pages (18/03/15)
23. Devil in Winter - Lisa Kleypas ★★★★☆ 368 pages (19/03/15)
24. Scandal in Spring - Lisa Kleypas ★★★☆☆ 374 pages (22/03/15)
25. Naked in Death - J.D. Robb ★★★★☆ 316 pages (25/03/15)
26. Glory in Death - J.D. Robb ★★★★☆ 320 pages (28/03/15)
27. Immortal in Death - J.D. Robb ★★★★☆ 345 pages (29/03/15)
28. Rapture in Death - J.D. Robb ★★★★☆ 417 pages (30/03/15)
29. Ceremony in Death - J.D. Robb ★★★☆☆ 327 pages (03/04/15)
30. The Ocean at the End of the Lane- Neil Gaiman ★★★★☆ 255 pages (04/04/15)
31. The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah ★★★★☆ 416 pages (08/04/15)
32. Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas ★★★☆☆ 416 pages (17/04/15)
33. Crown of Midnight - Sarah J. Maas ★★★★★ 433 pages (20/04/15)
34. Heir of Fire - Sarah J. Maas ★★★★☆ 562 pages (03/05/15)
35. Vengeance in Death - J.D. Robb ★★★★☆ 343 pages (09/05/15)
36. Holiday in Death - J.D. Robb ★★★★☆ 308 pages (10/05/15)
37. Midnight in Death - J.D. Robb ★★★☆☆ 90 pages (11/05/15)
38. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ★★★★★ 324 pages (24/05/15)
39. Uprooted - Naomi Novik ★★★★★ 438 pages (30/05/15)
40. Conspiracy in Death - J.D. Robb ★★★★☆ 364 pages (26/06/15)
41. Loyalty in Death - J.D. Robb ★★★★☆ 355 pages (27/06/15)
42. Witness in Death - J.D. Robb ★★★★☆ 339 pages (03/07/15)
43. Judgement in Death - J.D. Robb ★★★☆☆ 356 pages (05/07/15)
44. Ross Poldark - Winston Graham ★★★☆☆ 368 pages (18/07/15)
45. Demelza - Winston Graham ★★★★☆ 521 pages (22/07/15)
46. Fatherland - Robert Harris ★★★☆☆ 380 pages (27/07/15)
47. The Boleyn King - Laura Andersen ★★☆☆☆ 358 pages (30/07/15)
48. That Scandalous Summer - Meredith Duran ★★★☆☆ 368 pages (05/08/15)
49. Orange Is the New Black - Piper Kerman ★★☆☆☆ 352 pages (06/08/15)
50. Fool Me Twice - Meredith Duran ★★★★☆ 365 pages (09/08/15)
51. Lady Be Good - Meredith Duran ★★★☆☆ 400 pages (22/08/15)
52. Written on Your Skin - Meredith Duran ★★★☆☆ 357 pages (27/08/15)
53. Luck Be a Lady - Meredith Duran ★★★★★ 368 pages (28/08/15)
54. Romancing the Duke - Tessa Dare ★★★★★ 370 pages (30/08/15)
55. Say Yes to the Marquess - Tessa Dare ★★★☆☆ 384 pages (31/08/15)
56. When a Scot Ties the Knot - Tessa Dare ★★★☆☆ 384 pages (01/09/2015)
Total Pages Read: 22,301/35,000

(0/15,000)

Total so far: 8,038
1. I Could Chew on This - 112
2. The Undomestic Goddess - 432
3. The Eyre Affair - 374
4. Lost in a Good Book - 399
5. The Well of Lost Plots - 373
6. Mockingjay - 415
7. The Hunger Games - 374
8. Catching Fire - 405
9. Something Rotten - 385
10. First Among Sequels - 363
11. The Woman Who Died a Lot - 384
12. Mr Mercedes - 436
13. A Dirty Job - 387
14. One of Our Thursdays is Missing - 362
15. The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon - 256
16. The Handsome Man's Deluxe Cafe - 227
17. The Portable Door - 416
18. The Graveyard Book - 312
19. Without Conscience - 236
20. In Your Dreams - 480
21. Seven Little Australians - 152
22. Case Histories - 310
23. Finders Keepers - 448

Completed: 16,695/30,000 pages
1) Midwinterblood 288 pgs.
2) Dark Taste of Rapture 451 pgs.
3) Divine Misdemeanors 371 pgs.
4) The Trouble with Humans 384 pgs.
5) House of the Rising Sun 403 pgs.
6) Ashes 465 pgs.
7) Islands of Rage & Hope 416 pgs.
8) Trickster's Choice 422 pgs.
9) Trickster's Queen 444 pgs.
10) Kiss the Dead 359 pgs.
11) Shadows 518 pgs.
12) Monument 14 294 pgs.
13) Ecstasy in Darkness 502 pgs.
14) Poison Princess 369 pgs.
15) Sky on Fire 212 pgs.
16) House Immortal 336 pgs.
17) Savage Drift 305 pgs.
18) Alanna: The First Adventure 274 pgs.
19) In the Hand of the Goddess 264 pgs.
20) Monsters 671 pgs.
21) The Dangerous Days of Daniel X 272 pgs.
22) Her Sky Cowboy 328 pgs.
23) Mouse and Dragon 512 pgs.
24) How to Date a Dragon 352 pgs.
25) Infinity Bell 368 pgs.
26) Scout's Progress 320 pgs.
27) Strands of Sorrow 353 pgs.
28) Daniel X: Watch the Skies 251 pgs.
29) Dirty Magic 381 pgs.
30) Demons and Druids 243 pgs.
31) Air Bound 400 pgs.
32) Voyage of the Dead 286 pgs.
33) Water Bound 480 pgs.
34) Flotilla of the Dead 242 pgs.
35) Daniel X: Game Over 229 pgs.
36) The First Days 331 pgs.
37) PANDORA: End of Days 200 pgs.
38) Deluge of the Dead 288 pgs.
39) Terminal 432 pgs.
40) Fighting to Survive 307 pgs.
41) Sleeping Dragons Books 1-6 266 pgs.
42) Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk 228 pgs.
43) Siege 368 pgs.
44) The Untold Tales Omnibus: Zombie Stories From The As The World Dies Universe 328 pgs.
45) The Remaining 375 pgs.
46) The Sky Phantom 180 pgs.
47) Hearts and Swords: Four Original Stories of Celta 452 pgs.
48) No Strings Attached 137 pgs.
49) Aftermath 325 pgs.
50) Spirit Bound 416 pgs.

Updated to here. Mary-Ann, you're the first one on the board!

12,021/30,000
1) The Maze Runner 374 pgs.
2) The Cat in the Hat Comes Back 63 pgs.
3) The Scorch Trials 360 pgs. 1/5/15
4) A Study in Scarlet 108 pgs 1/6/15
5) The Sign of Four 129 pgs. 1/8/15
6) The Hound of the Baskervilles 256 pgs. 1/13/15
7) Grave Mercy 549 pgs. 1/15/15
8) Dark Triumph 385 pgs. 1/17/15
9) Enchantress 626 pgs. 1/21/15
10) The Hidden Relic. 484 pgs. 1/24/15
11) The Path of the Storm. 488 pgs. 2/1/15
12) Disney Christmas Storybook Collection 304 pgs.
13) The Last Moriarty: a Sherlock Holmes Thriller 242 pgs. 4/6/15
14) Poison Study 409 pgs. 4/10/15
15) Winterborne 301 pgs. 4/12/15
16) Descendants 233 pgs 4/13/15
17) Rune Gate. 232 pgs. 4/17/15
18) Unearthly. 435 pgs. 4/19/15
19) The Wretched of Muirwood. 300 pgs. 4/20/15
20) The Blight of Muirwood 466 pgs. 4/24/15
21) The Scourge of Muirwood. 354 pgs. 4/28/15
22) First Grave on the Right. 310 pgs. 5/01/15
23) Second Grave on the Left 307 pgs. 5/02/15
24) Third Grave Dead Ahead 310 pgs. 5/04/15
25) Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet. 320 pgs. 5/06/15
26) Fifth Grave Past the Light. 339 pgs. 5/08/15
27) Sixth Grave on the Edge. 326 pgs. 5/10/15
28) Tiger's Eye. 268 pgs. 5/12/15
29) Emerald Isle. 324 pgs. 5/14/15
30) Obsidian Curse. 305 pgs. 5/16/15
31) Artemis Fowl. 317 pgs. 5/17/15
32) Heart of the Hunter. 410 pgs. 5/21/15
33) Not Quite Dead. 379 pgs. 5/24/15
34) The Purge of Babylon: A Novel of Survival. 483 pgs. 5/29/15
35) The Gates of Byzantium 526 pgs. 6/02/15

Landline: 310 pages
Ella Enchanted: 232 pages
The Opposite of Loneliness: 240 pages
Total: 782/45,000

Books:
The Ghost Files 3 349 pages
The Longest Ride 398 pages
If I Stay 196 pages
Where She Went 260 pages
Gone Girl 415 pages
The Night Circus 512 pages
Cujo 304 pages
Eye Candy 311 pages
From the Corner of His Eye 622 pages
Pride and Prejudice 237 pages
Pulse 214 pages
Life's Blood 232 pages
Blood Burned 240 pages
Blue Blood 245 pages
Blood Bond 235 pages
Blood Legacy 240 pages
Blood Rights 246 pages
Blood Curse 239 pages
Blood Ring 127 pages
Pines 303 pages
Wayward 298 pages
The Last Town 285 pages
Ride Steady 603 pages
Vampire Academy 332 pages
Frostbite 327 pages
Shadow Kiss 443 pages
Blood Promise 503 pages
Spirit Bound 489 pages
Last Sacrifice 588 pages
Wicked Woods 234 pages
Shimmer 231 pages
Silver 221 pages
Silence 240 pages
Sight 248 pages
Shifter 243 pages
Crown Hill: A Novel of Love, Live and The Afterlife 286 pages
The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend 277 pages
Wake 210 pages
Fade 248 pages
Gone 214 pages
Girl in the House of Hate 144 pages
Getting A Life, Even If You're Dead 222 pages
Walk Through Fire 595 pages
Wake Wood 295 pages
Blood and Chocolate 264 pages
Poison Princess 369 pages
Endless Knight 320 pages
Dead of Winter 303 pages
Marked 306 pages
Betrayed 310 pages
Chosen 307 pages
Untamed 338 pages
Hunted 323 pages
Total: 16,541/20,000

Death, and the Girl He Loves
272/15,000

What a great start, everyone!
I finished The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections yesterday.
264/40,000

January
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories - 288 pages
In Real Life - 187 pages
The Long Haul - 224 pages
Animal Farm - 128 pages




March
Load the Dice: The Complete Series - 218 pages

April
Spice - 225 pages
I Choose You - 87 pages
Pivot and Slip - 174 pages
Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story - 200 pages
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Last Gleaming - 168 pages
Afterlife with Archie Book 1: Escape from Riverdale - 160 pages
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging - 247 pages
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - 357 pages








May
Burned - 544 pages

June
Paper Towns - 305 pages
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda - 303 pages
The Great Gatsby - 180 pages
Something Like Summer - 224 pages
The Old Man and the Sea - 128 pages





July
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl - 308 pages
Something Like Winter - 374 pages
Something Like Autumn - 404 pages
Zom-B Underground - 180 pages
Summer Love - 276 pages
The Lightning Thief - 377 pages
Go Set a Watchman - 278 pages







August
The Sea of Monsters - 279 pages
Amy and Roger's Epic Detour - 368 pages
Saga, Volume 1 - 160 pages
On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God - 243 pages
Nimona - 272 pages
The Wishing Spell - 438 pages
Saga, Volume 2 - 168 pages
Saga, Volume 3 - 144 pages
Undead and Unemployed - 272 pages
Undead and Unappreciated - 279 pages
Undead and Unreturnable - 250 pages
Saga, Volume 4 - 152 pages
Unmanned - 126 pages













September
Morning Glories, Vol. 1: For a Better Future - 188 pages
Trouble Is a Friend of Mine - 336 pages
Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery - 128 pages
Undead and Unpopular - 257 pages
Yes Please - 329 pages
Saga, Volume 5 - 152 pages






October
Orphan Black, Vol. 1 - 124 pages
Winger - 439 pages
Tuck Everlasting - 139 pages
Why Not Me? - 240 pages
Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy - 128 pages
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir - 318 pages
Nuts - 320 pages
Lumberjanes, Vol. 2: Friendship to the Max - 112 pages








November
Lumberjanes, Vol. 3 - 112 pages
Finding Audrey - 288 pages
The Grownup - 64 pages
Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living - 340 pages
Everything, Everything - 320 pages





December
None of the Above - 352 pages
You're Never Weird on the Internet - 262 pages
Stardust - 292 pages
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - 181 pages
The 5th Wave - 457 pages
Sweet Tooth, Vol. 1: Out of the Deep Woods - 128 pages
Sweet Tooth, Vol. 2: In Captivity - 144 pages
Sweet Tooth, Vol. 3: Animal Armies - 143 pages
The Infinite Sea - 320 pages
A Christmas Carol - 104 pages
New X-Men, Vol. 1: E is for Extinction - 144 pages











16,454/10,000
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