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Goal Met So Far: 16,237/20,000 Pages.

1. The secret history by Donna Tartt 629 pages
2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 1392 pages
3. The complete novels by Jane Austen 1269 pages
4. Harry Potter and the half blood prince by j k Rowling 768 pages
5. Harry Potter and the deathly hollows by j k Rowling 831 pages
6. Wuthering Heights by Emily bronte 337 pages
7. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 343 pages
8. Empress orchid by Anchee Min 368 pages
9. The last empress by Anchee Min 308 pages
10. The Canterbury tales by Chaucer 504 pages
11. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald pages 177
12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 592 pages
13. Eragon bey Christopher Paolini 503

Fire by Kristen Cashore - 352p
The Thieves of Ostia by Caroline Lawrence - 164p
Dream Storm by Katherine Applegate - 176p
70,946/67,500

5,693 /15000
Marta Perry – Heart of Christmas 89 pages
Patricia Davids – A Plain Christmas 100 pages
Virna DePaul -- Bedding the Wrong Brother 159 Pages
Mary Connealy – Out of Control 231 pages
Noelle Adams – One Night with her Boss 55 Pages
Margaret Daley – The Yuletide Rescue 161 Pages
Jean Brashear – Texas Refuge 199 Pages
Nora Roberts – Dark Witch 291 Pages
Jean Brashear – Texas Star 244 Pages
Jean Brashear – Texas Danger 183 Pages
Maggie Shayne – The Brands who came for Christmas 190 Pages
Nora Roberts – Unfinished Business 165 Pages
Susan Mallery – The Girls of Mischief Bay 304 Pages
Emma Cane – A Town Called Valentine 250 Pages
Tracy Wolff – About the Baby 206 Pages
Pamela Kelley – Six Months in Montana 124 Pages
Noelle Adams – Engaging the Boss 132 Pages
Emma Cane – True Love at Silver Creek Ranch – 256 Pages
Emma Cane – A Wedding in Valentine – 109 Pages
Emma Cane – The Christmas Cabin – 47 Pages
Amanda Torrey – Not Over You – 160 Pages
Linda Castillo – A Hidden Secret – 64 Pages
Duane “Dog” Chapman-- You Can Run but You Can’t Hide – 337 Pages
Maggie Shayne – The Littlest Cowboy – 187 Pages
Pamela Kelley – Mistletoe in Montana – 132 Pages
Marie Force – Treading Water – 281 Pages
Eve Langlais – Kodiak’s Claim – 175 Pages
Ciara Knight – Winter in Sweetwater County – 146 Pages
Ciara Knight – Spring in Sweetwater County – 136 Pages
Ciara Knight – Summer in Sweetwater County – 131 Pages
Ciara Knight -- Fall in Sweetwater County -- 121 Pages
Ciara Knight -- Christmas in Sweetwater County -- 141 Pages
Darcy Burke -- Where the Heart Is -- 125 Pages
Roxanne Snopek -- Small Town Secrets -- 62 Pages

Rush 413 pages
The Rumor 384 pages
Fever 417 pages
Fighting for Flight 449 pages
Burn 353 pages


Something Wicked This Way Comes***293 pages
The Demon Lover***305 pages
Shatter Me**338 pages
The Color of Magic****287 pages
Grimm Fairy Tales: Oz***156 pages
False Memory****755 pages

American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest 336 pgs, 10/20/15

132. Take This Man: A Memoir read 10/7/2015 225 pages
133. Atonement read 10/12/2015 300 pages
134. The Blessings read 10/13/2015 191 pages
135. You Saved Me, Too: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me about Living, Dying, Fighting, Loving, and Swearing in Yiddish read 10/14/2015 201 pages
136. Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake read 10/16/2015 222 pages
137. Dear Life : Stories read 10/17/2015 221 pages
138. Yellow Crocus read 10/19/2015 242 pages
Finished 40,664/40,000 pages
Challenge completed!

Wooden Heart by Martin Day - 247p
Forever Autumn by Mark Morris - 244p
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones - 223p
Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor - 416p
72,076/67,500


1. The secret history by Donna Tartt 629 pages
2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 1392 pages
3. The complete novels by Jane Austen 1269 pages
4. Harry Potter and the half blood prince by j k Rowling 768 pages
5. Harry Potter and the deathly hollows by j k Rowling 831 pages
6. Wuthering Heights by Emily bronte 337 pages
7. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 343 pages
8. Empress orchid by Anchee Min 368 pages
9. The last empress by Anchee Min 308 pages
10. The Canterbury tales by Chaucer 504 pages
11. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald pages 177
12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 592 pages
13. Eragon by Christopher Paolini 503
14. Eldest by Christopher Paolini 706

5,873 /15000
Marta Perry – Heart of Christmas 89 pages
Patricia Davids – A Plain Christmas 100 pages
Virna DePaul -- Bedding the Wrong Brother 159 Pages
Mary Connealy – Out of Control 231 pages
Noelle Adams – One Night with her Boss 55 Pages
Margaret Daley – The Yuletide Rescue 161 Pages
Jean Brashear – Texas Refuge 199 Pages
Nora Roberts – Dark Witch 291 Pages
Jean Brashear – Texas Star 244 Pages
Jean Brashear – Texas Danger 183 Pages
Maggie Shayne – The Brands who came for Christmas 190 Pages
Nora Roberts – Unfinished Business 165 Pages
Susan Mallery – The Girls of Mischief Bay 304 Pages
Emma Cane – A Town Called Valentine 250 Pages
Tracy Wolff – About the Baby 206 Pages
Pamela Kelley – Six Months in Montana 124 Pages
Noelle Adams – Engaging the Boss 132 Pages
Emma Cane – True Love at Silver Creek Ranch – 256 Pages
Emma Cane – A Wedding in Valentine – 109 Pages
Emma Cane – The Christmas Cabin – 47 Pages
Amanda Torrey – Not Over You – 160 Pages
Linda Castillo – A Hidden Secret – 64 Pages
Duane “Dog” Chapman-- You Can Run but You Can’t Hide – 337 Pages
Maggie Shayne – The Littlest Cowboy – 187 Pages
Pamela Kelley – Mistletoe in Montana – 132 Pages
Marie Force – Treading Water – 281 Pages
Eve Langlais – Kodiak’s Claim – 175 Pages
Ciara Knight – Winter in Sweetwater County – 146 Pages
Ciara Knight – Spring in Sweetwater County – 136 Pages
Ciara Knight – Summer in Sweetwater County – 131 Pages
Ciara Knight -- Fall in Sweetwater County -- 121 Pages
Ciara Knight -- Christmas in Sweetwater County -- 141 Pages
Darcy Burke -- Where the Heart Is -- 125 Pages
Roxanne Snopek -- Small Town Secrets -- 62 Pages
Tina Leonard -- The Rebel Cowboys Quadruplets -- 180 Pages

Book 43: The Shadow and the Rose 274 pages
Book 44: Dazzled by Silver 158 pages
Book 45: After the Fire 384 pages
Book 46: Fire at Twilight 160 pages
13,502 /15,000 pages. (1,498 to go)


01. The Mist: 230 pages
02. Bleak House: 989 pages
03. Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries: 432 pages
04. Being There: 140 pages
05. A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science: 316 pages
06. You: 432 pages
07. Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love: 368 pages
08. Gray Matter: 480 pages
09. A High Wind in Jamaica: 241 pages
10. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: 512 pages
11. Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany: 464 pages
12. The Bone Season: 452 pages
13. The Rats: 208 pages
14. Dictionary of the Khazars: 333 pages
15. Zits: Chillax: 256 pages
16. So You've Been Publicly Shamed: 290 pages
17. 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi: 307 pages
18. Defending Jacob: 421 pages
19. Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine: 198 pages
20. The Wasp Factory:184 pages
21. The Guynd: A Scottish Journal: 289 pages
22. Switched: 150 pages
23. Greek Gods and Heroes: 160 pages
24. Mayhem: 305 pages
25. Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account: 222 pages
26. The Secret Agent: 172 pages
27. Animal Farm: 140 pages
28. Every Fifteen Minutes: 432 pages
29. Peril at End House: 249 pages
30. Cards on the Table: 249 pages
31. The Secret History: 559 pages
32. The Killer Next Door: 387 pages
33. The Martian: 369 pages
1st goal of 10,000 completed
34. Finders Keepers: 448 pages
35. Dead Until Dark: 312 pages
36. Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen: 250 pages
37. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: 235 pages
38. Half Upon a Time: 385 pages
39. That's Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms, and What Our English Says About Us: 223 pages
40. Living Dead in Dallas: 289 pages
41. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch: 364 pages
42. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler: 260 pages
43. Club Dead : 274
44. Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever : 282 pages
45. Desperation : 690 pages
46. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix : 870 pages
47. The Worm Ouroboros : 434 pages
48. Dead to the World: 291 pages
49. NYPD Red 3: 384 pages
50. Bag of Bones: 529 pages
51. Dark Places: 349 pages
52. Dead as a Doornail: 295 pages
53. How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater: 288 pages
54. Carrie: 253 pages
55. Blockade Billy: 112 pages
56. The Deep: 394 pages
57. The Girl in the Spider's Web: 400 pages
58. I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks: 157 pages
59. Definitely Dead: 324 pages
60. Library of Souls: 458 pages
61. Of Mice and Men: 107 pages
62. I, Robot: 225 pages
63. The Silkworm: 455 pages
Total page count: 20,586
Total pages left: 1,414

Duration: January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015
Goal: 25000 pages
I count them from the date finished. Books read for more than one month counts when finished.
January:
1. First Contact, Michael R. Hicks - 01.12.15 - 392 pages
2. Empire, Michael R. Hicks - 01.22.15 - 312 pages
Total: 704 pages
February:
1. Confederation, Michael R. Hicks - 02.04.15 - 312 pages
2. Final Battle, Michael R. Hicks - 02.10.15 - 228 pages
3. Legend of the Sword, Michael R. Hicks - 02.18.15 - 320 pages
4. Tales of Oescienne - Volume One, Jenna Elizabeth Johnson - 02.19.15 - 100 pages
5. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley - 02.23.15 - 134 pages
6. Novella - UR, Stephen King - 02.24.15 - 61 pages)
7. Mønsteret rakner, Chinua Achebe - 02.25.15 - 189 pages
8. The Cat Who Came In From The Cold, Deric Longden - 02.26.15 - 242 pages
Total: 1586 pages
March:
1. The Misremembered Man, Christina McKenna - 03.06.15 - 307 pages
2. Elfhunter, C.S. Marks - 03.08.15 - 536 pages
3. Stormfulle Høyder, Emily Brontë - 03.09.15 - 310 pages
4. The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley - 03.10.15 - 141 pages (the version I had is unknown number, used the other I have).
5. Desperation, Stephen King - 03.19.15 - 724 pages
6. Into the Wild, Erin Hunter - 03.19.15 - 290 pages
7. Et Dukkehjem, Henrik Ibsen - 03.24.15 - 180 pages
8. White Fang, Jack London - 03.25.15 - 249 pages
9. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott - 03.25.15 - 649 pages
10. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee - 03.26.15 - 385 pages
11.Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll - 03.27.15 - 122 pages
12. Xerxes, Jacob Abbott - 03.28.15 - 153 pages
13. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro - 03.29.15 - 272 pages
14. Fire and Ice, Erin Hunter - 03.30.15 - 336 pages
Total: 4654 pages
April:
1. Jernjomfruen, Ann-Christin Gjersøe - 04.03.15 - 395 pages
2. Persuasion, Jane Austen - 04.05.15 - 239 pages
3. A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift - 04.05.15 - 28 pages
4. The Weight of Blood, David Dalglish - 04.05.15 - 228 pages
5. Oroonoko, Aphra Behn - 04.12.15 - 64 pages
6. Alberte og Jacob, Cora Sandel - 04.12.15 - 205 pages
7. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess - 04.13.15 - 213 pages
8. Dead Soul, Michael R. Hicks - 04.16.15 - 260 pages
9. The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 04.17.15 - 40 pages
10. Haugtussa, Arne Garborg - 04.18.15 - 194 pages
11. Almost Heaven, Chris Fabry - 04.21.15 - 385 pages
12. Forest of Secrets, Erin Hunter - 04.28.15 - 336 pages
13. Drop City, T.C. Boyle - 04.28.15 - 464 pages
Total: 3051 pages
May:
1. Broken April, Ismail Kadare - 05.02.15 - 248 pages
2. Thaïs, Anatole France - 05.05.15 - 129 pages
3. The Time Machine, H.G. Wells - 05.05.15 - 128 pages
4. When the Lion Feeds, Wilbur Smith - 05.08.15 - 544 pages
5. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick - 05.10.15 - 193 pages
6. The Shining, Stephen King - 05.14.15 - 464 pages
7. Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll - 05.17.15 - 141 pages
8. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë - 05.19.15 - 447 pages
9. Trekket mot nord, Tayeb Salih - 05.20.15 - 147 pages
10. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce - 05.24.15 - 235 pages
11. Engel med svarte vinger, Margit Sandemo - 05.26.15 - 253 pages
12. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad - 05.30.15 - 116 pages
Total: 3045 pages
June:
1. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes, Anonymous - 06.02.15 - 146 pages
2. Ronja Røverdatter, Astrid Lindgren - 06.03.15 - 255 pages
3. Huset i Eldafjord, Margit Sandemo - 06.04.15 - 254 pages
4. The Skull Ring, Scott Nicholson - 06.07.15 - 330 pages
5. Selvfølelse nå!, Mia Törnblom - 06.11.15 - 203 pages
6. The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe - 06.13.15 - 706 pages
7. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt - 06.18.15 - 771 pages
8. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle - 06.23.15 - 211 pages
9. The Book of Lost Things, John Connolly - 06.28.15 - 310 pages
Total: 3186 pages
July:
1. Fire-heart, C.S. Marks - 07.03.15 - 643 pages
2. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James - 07.06.15 - 117
pages
3. The Perfume Garden, Kate Lord Brown - 07.15.15 - 416 pages
4. Den hemmelige historien, Donna Tartt - 07.22.15 - 584 pages
5. Summer, Edith Wharton - 07.22.15 - 216 pages
6. From Chaos Born, Michael R. Hicks - 07.30.15 - 261 pages
Total: 2237 pages
August:
1. The Home and the World, Rabindranath Tagore - 08.02.15 - 174 pages
2. Fruen fra havet, Henrik Ibsen - 08.05.15 - 106 pages
3. Sværmere, Knut Hamsun - 08.06.15 - 88 pages
4. Homo Faber, Max Frisch - 08.13.15 - 193 pages
5. Doctor Sleep, Stephen King - 08.15.15 - 545 pages
6. Ravenshade, C.S Marks - 08.17.15 - 576 pages
7. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith - 08.22.15 - 235 pages
8. Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne - 08.26.15 - 154 pages
9. Jan van Huysums Blomsterstykke, Henrik Wergeland - 08.30.15 - 90 pages
10. Outcaste, C.S. Marks - 08.31.15 - 402 pages
Total: 2563 pages
September:
1. Forged in Flame, Michael R. Hicks - 09.06.15 - 246 pages
2. The Unit, Ninni Holmqvist - 09.09.15 - 273 pages
3. The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende - 09.30.15 - 491 pages
Total: 1010 pages
October:
1. Bleak House, Charles Dickens - 10.03.15 - 882 pages
2. The Iron Heel, Jack London - 10.06.15 - 266 pages
3. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card - 10.07.15 - 226 pages
4. Mistress Of The Ages, Michael R. Hicks - 12.10.15 - 352 pages
5. The Devil and Miss Prym, Paulo Coelho - 15.10.15 - 202 pages
6. Black Sun Rising, C.S. Friedman - 10.21.15 - 595 pages
7. Skandalen, Margit Sandemo - 10.22.15 - 252 pages
8. Carrie, Stephen King - 10.26.15 - 256 pages
Total: 3031 pages
25067/25000 pages
Challenge Complete

Thank you ^^ This challenge was really fun! I'm gonna set up books read each month next year too. Interesting to see how many you actually read in a month and pages :)



I've finished three more books and finished the challenge.
Salem's Lot 483 pages
Knife of Dreams 860 pages
Don Quixote 982 Pages
New total 36123/35000


Not on My Patch by Diane Duane - ?p
Aftermath by Katherine Applegate - 176p
The Sandman, Volume 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman - 224p
How Lovely Are Thy Branches by Diane Duane - ?p
Survival by Katherine Applegate - 176p
Lifeboats by Diane Duane - 391p
73,113/67,500


The Dante Club 424 pages
The Air He Breathes 354 pages
The Gunslinger 231 pages
Pucked 315 pages
Pucked UP 388 pages
Kaleidoscope Hearts 300 pages
Paper Hearts 351 pages
Torn Hearts 45 pages

1) Bet the Farm!: Be More Prepared Today to Reach Your Dreams! Unleash the Productivity Within You 88 pages
2) The Twelve 593 pages
Total now stands at 8,453 of 10,000.
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Just finished The Accident Season and Xingu which takes me up to 10,167 / 15,000
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