Sizable in 2012

[Mad Scientist]

This Challenge is for the size of the book.

With the 12x12 challenge I wanted to keep track of how many bigger books I read, just to make sure that I don't sluff off. Because, honestly, I surly would go for a handful of smaller books just to make myself look completely worthy of the challenge.

With popular demand and discussion on this topic here we will be able to challenge ourselves to read books of various sizes.

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What page count will you mostly fall under?
What will be your longest book?
~~ Stephen King fans, I think that maybe in your area ;)

The idea is:

Match a smaller book with a larger book

or

To keep track.

[Mad Scientist]

To my lovely Mad Scientist,

Does size matter when it comes to the book & content?
Where will you fall in book sizes?
What will be my biggest book of the 2012 year?
Shall my shortest novella be worth the small pages?

Sincerely, Me

[Mad Scientist]

---> Read in 2012 <---

Novella shorter then 100


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[Zakiya]

I'm def going to do this challenge! This will make it a lot easier to keep up with my book sizes thruout the year :)

~Audiobooks
Oh. My. Gods.
Tell Me a Secret
When It Happens
My Soul to Lose
The Night Circus

~99-
Black Moon, 54 pages 21/1/2012
Silver Moon, 78 pages 27/1/2012
Ordinary Wisdom, 98 pages 27/3/2012
Total Blueprint for World Domination, 77 pages 22/6/2012

~100-199
Amber Moon, 101 pages 23/1/2012
Harvest Moon, 150 pages 29/1/2012
The Night My Life Changed Forever, 113 pages 24/3/2012
Vampire Mountain, 195 pages 4/4/2012
D.Gray-man: Old Man of the Land and Aria of the Night Sky, Vol. 2, 179 pages 23/4/2012
Night, 115 pages 22/4/2012
Au Revoir Crazy European Chick, 190 pages 6/6/2012
Eighth Grade Bites, 182 pages 5/7/2012
D.Gray-man: The Rewinding City, Vol. 3, 199 pages 16/7/2012
D.Gray-man: The Emergency of the Generals, Vol. 4, 191 pages 19/7/2012
A Raisin in the Sun, 151 pages 26/7/2012
D.Gray-man: Premonition, Vol. 5, 185 pages 11/10/2012
D.Gray-man: Delete, Vol. 6, 187 pages 11/10/2012
Alice in the Country of Hearts, Vol. 1, 186 pages Nov 2012
Alice in the Country of Hearts, Vol. 2, 191 pages Nov 2012
Alice in the Country of Hearts, Vol. 3, 184 pages Dec 2012
Alice in the Country of Hearts, Vol. 4, 150 pages Dec 2012
Light Dreams, 163 pages 2012
Alice in the Country of Hearts Vol 5, 138 pages 29/12/2012

~200-299
ttfn, 230 pages 4/1/2012
The Princess Diaries, 228 pages 13/1/2012
The Vampire's Assistant, 241 pages 26/1/2012
Sailor Moon Vol 1, 236 pages 31/1/2012
To Kill a Mockingbird, 281 pages 19/3/2012
Tunnels of Blood, 224 pages 19/3/2012
Death by Chocolate Anthology, 249 pages 2/4/2012
The Clique, 220 pages 6/4/2012
An Abundance of Katherines, 227 pages 8/4/2012
D.Gray-man: Opening, Vol. 1, 208 pages 21/4/2012
Feast of Fools, 242 pages 24/4/2012
Trials of Death, 202 pages 27/4/2012
Looking for Alaska, 221 pages 17/5/2012
Wintergirls, 278 pages 23/5/2012
When the Black Girl Sings, 266 pages 24/5/2012
Goddess Boot Camp, 264 pages 8/6/2012
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Vol. 2, 231 pages 16/7/2012
Whisper, 215 pages 22/7/2012
The Last Straw, 218 pages 2/8/2012
The Last Little Blue Envelope, 282 pages Sept 2012
Dog Days, 217 pages 21/9/2012
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 3, 235 pages 15/10/2012
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 4, 240 pages 21/10/2012
The Bet, 203 pages 2012

~300-399
The Fault in Our Stars, 313 pages 18/3/2012
The Hunger Games, 374 pages 23/3/2012
Marked, 306 pages 29/4/2012
Betrayed, 310 pages 1/5/2012
Paper Towns, 305 pages 3/5/2012
13 Little Blue Envelopes, 319 pages 13/5/2012
Hush Hush, 391 pages 19/5/2012
Eyes Like Stars, 352 pages 29/5/2012
Hex Hall, 323 pages 30/5/2012
Shatter Me, 338 pages 31/5/2012
Bumped, 323 pages 12/6/2012
Bewitching, 338 pages 16/6/2012
Blue Bloods, 302 pages 20/6/2012
Serial Hottie, 374 pages 29/6/2012
Firelight, 323 pages 23/7/2012
V is for Virgin, 360 pages Nov 2012
Echoes, 306 pages 2012

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Clockwork Prince, 498 pages 28/1/2012
Incarceron, 442 pages 9/3/2012
Revolution, 472 pages 15/5/2012
Crescendo, 427 pages 19/5/2012
Silence, 438 pages 26/5/2012
Hourglass, 400 pages 17/6/2012
Fallen, 452 pages 8/7/2012
The Power of Six, 421 pages 27/10/2012

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Great Expectations, 516 pages 19/2/2012
Nevermore, 543 pages 8/5/2012

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[Mad Scientist]

{Tentative Large Book List}

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by Stieg Larsson

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by Elizabeth Kostova also works for the Where in the World Challenge.
by Margaret George also works for the Where in the World Challenge
by Stephenie Meyer

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by Margaret George also works for the Where in the World Challenge

[Megan L]

This sounds like a fun one! I am in!

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1. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia: 563 pages - 1/6/12
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[Adam]

This is another quality challenge!

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Love Hina Volume 2
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth
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Congo
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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[Mad Scientist]

Adam wrote: "This is another quality challenge!"

Why thank you Adam?

I was thinking this and one where you have to read a book published in as many different years as possible ;)

[★Meghan★]

Yay! Another great challenge...and I already started placing some of mine.

[★Meghan★]

Sizable Challenge 2012

Less than 100 pages
1. The Strange Case of Finley Jayne 78 pgs 3/22/2012
2. Remedial Magic 29 pgs 10/22/2012


100-199 pages
1. Call Me Mrs. Miracle 150 pgs 1/22/2012
2. The Awakening 166 pgs 1/25/2012
3. Misty and the Single Dad 186 pgs 3/13/2012
4. Ten Things We Did 194 pgs 4/8/2012
5. At First Sight 195 pgs 4/10/2012
6. The Tales of Beedle the Bard 112 pgs 5/22/2012
7. Epic Fail 179 pgs 6/2/2012
8. Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy 170 pgs 6/10/2012
9. Hex Hall 145 pgs 6/15/2012
10. The Awakening 186 pgs 7/25/2012
11. Bossypants 147 pgs 8/23/2012
12. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 189 pgs 8/30/2012
13. Living Dead in Dallas 189 pgs 9/10/2012
14. The Color Purple 131 pgs 9/15/2012
15. Alphas 182 pgs 12/6/2012


200-299 pages
1. Fools Rush In 272 pgs 1/5/2012
2. Wish 256 pgs 1/24/2012
3. The Girl in the Steel Corset 257 pgs 2/3/2012
4. I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You 201 pgs 2/7/2012
5. Paranormalcy 233 pgs 2/8/2012
6. Succubus Blues 278 pgs 3/7/2012
7. 13 Little Blue Envelopes 235 pgs 3/12/2012
8. The Hunger Games 267 pgs 3/27/2012
9. Dead Until Dark 292 pgs 4/5/2012
10. Darkfever 255 pgs 4/16/2012
11. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 5/5/2012
12. Hard Love 5/22/2012
13. Susannah's Garden 5/31/2012
14. Hereafter 6/8/2012
15. Vampire Academy 6/25/2012
16. Moon Called 7/14/2012
17. Marked 241 pgs 7/20/2012
18. Leaving Paradise 223 pgs 7/28/2012
19. Pleasure Unbound 246 pgs 8/5/2012
20. Bed of Roses 264 pgs 8/16/2012
21. Unholy Ghosts 232 pgs 9/21/2012
22. Summer on Blossom Street 285 pgs 9/25/2012
23. Dead Witch Walking 291 pgs 10/14/2012
24. Savor the Moment 251 pgs 10/16/2012
25. The Darkest Night 272 pgs 10/27/2012
26. Summer Love 205 pgs 10/30/2012
27. Divergent 296 pgs 11/5/2012
28. The Iron King 280 pgs 11/25/2012
29. Evernight 223 pgs 12/19/2012
30. You Against Me 281 pgs 12/27/2012


300-399 pages
1. Pam of Babylon 330 pgs 1/21/2012
2. Twilight 309 pgs 2/14/2012
3. Dark Lover 368 pgs 3/23/2012
4. Wither 358 pgs 5/13/2012
5. Lover Eternal 373 pgs 7/9/2012
6. Shiver 301 pgs 8/10/2012
7. Graceling 328 pgs 10/1/2012
8. Water for Elephants 319 pgs 10/19/2012
9. Twenties Girl 353 pgs 12/11/2012


400-499 pages
1. Home at Rose Cottage: Three Down the Aisle\What's Cooking? 459 pgs 1/3/2012
2. Revolution 410 pgs 1/9/2012
3. Night World, No. 3: Huntress, Black Dawn, Witchlight 450 pgs 2/28/2012
4. The Girl in the Clockwork Collar 411 pgs 4/3/2012
5. Nevermore 466 pgs 5/3/2012


500-599 pages
1. The Mediator: Volume 1 - Shadowland & Ninth Key 516 pgs 2/21/2012


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1. Eragon 754 pgs 12/12/2012


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[Mad Scientist]

Glad everyone is liking this one.

[Shay]

In 2011, I read over 80 books that were 500+ pages. I think the longest fiction book was A Suitable Boy and the longest non-fiction was Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. I'm planning to read at least 80 books over 500 pages this year.

[Dee]

damn Shay!!

[Mad Scientist]

Shay wrote: "In 2011, I read over 80 books that were 500+ pages. I think the longest fiction book was A Suitable Boy and the longest non-fiction was [book:Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898..."

Wow! Shay! Wow!

I have not heard of either. We will be watching your list for BIG hefty Books!

For the record. I haven't heard of either of those.

[★Meghan★]

Haha I saw so many of your books we even over 1000 pages last year. I can just imagine what books you will accomplish this year.

[Mad Scientist]

I think I'm going to have to try to get Under the Dome done.

[Dee]

i think my longest fiction last year with Kushiel's Dart = the paperback was over 1000, and my longest non-fiction was Washington: A Life that was like 960 (i did the audiobook and it was 40+ hours of listening)

[★Meghan★]

I have 2 that are set for long books for me on audiobooks for this year. They are both 45+ hours long and it is taking me quite awhile to read them. I am looking forward to see what I can do.

[Mad Scientist]

I only know of a handful of really big books. I'll be looking to everyone for ideas. Just a heads up.

[Aneeqah]

I'm in for this challenge! Sounds like another really fun one. I'm really interested to see how many bigger books I read this year.

Chunky Book Challenge
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The Raft by S.A. Bodeen [231 Pages]


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Everneath by Brodi Ashton [384 Pages]
Incarnate by Jodi Meadows [384 Pages]


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[Aneeqah]

Mad Scientist wrote: "I only know of a handful of really big books. I'll be looking to everyone for ideas. Just a heads up."

Same here! I hear of people reading all these big books, but I can't ever find any!

[Shay]

A listopia of big books:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/31...

Some of the books were added in error- too short- but it's a good place to start if you're looking for longer books.

[Mad Scientist]

I was looking at that earlier. There is a list for 800+ & 1000+ as well. I think the big books are going to challenge me to get out of my comfort range. Which I think is pretty open but some of the big books sound very boring :(

[★Meghan★]

I am excited to see how many I get over 400 pages even. I am on my second right now though :). I will be done here in the next couple of days.

[Dee]

MS - do you like Fantasy? most of the Kushiel series are 500+ pages but the world building is soo intricate

[Mad Scientist]

I do like fantasy. I just got the Game of Thorns series. and I love Margaret George's long historicals. I'll have to check to see if Lord of Rings has a huge amount of pages.

[Melissa]

This is a great challenge, i'm in!


Sizeable Challenge 2012

Less Than 100 Pages:


100-199 pages
1. 176 pages

200-299 pages
1. 212 pages finished Jan 1
2. 255 pages, finished Jan 2
3. 260 pages

300-399 pages
1. 305 pages finished Jan 8
2. 304 pages
400-499 pages

500-599 pages
1. 563 pages

600-699 pages
1. 629 pages

700-799 pages

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900-999 pages

More than 1000 pages

[Jennifer]

I am in this challenge as well, but I am just posting my updates in my own folder. =)

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/7...

[Dee]

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Crossed (360 pages)
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[Mad Scientist]

I'm excited to see these kind of stats build up over the year.

[Dee]

i have to do my breakdown of last years books and get them posted

[Roseann]

I really need to stop looking at challenges, but this one spoke to me ;-)!


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Give My Secrets Back: An Alison Kaine Mystery
The Woman in Black
Grimm Fairy Tales Vol. 1
Grimm Fairy Tales Vol. 2
Horoscopes For The Dead: Poems
Keesha's House

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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale
Murder Gets A Life
My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business
Time Cat
The Peach Keeper
Earthlight Volume 1
We
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
Deliverance
Vanished at Sea: The True Story of a Child TV Actor and Double Murder
As If
I Love a Broad Margin to My Life

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The Night Circus
Smokin' Seventeen

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Delirium

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Jane Eyre

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Outlander

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[Mad Scientist]

That's ok. We all are feeling like one more will kill us. But I think these will really help us reach the 144. or at least up our books from last year. - just to be realistic

[Cee]

I like this one! I want to try for at least one 1000+ book this year (The Stand by Stephen King) ^^

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Heart of Perdition

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The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable
Sisters of Glass
Ugly to Start With

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Alienation
Curbchek
Birth of a Killer
Beauty's Punishment
Fracture
Fire Baptized
Generation

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Burnt Offerings
Shiver
Touch of Power
Scarlet
The Wolf Gift
Katana
A Witch in Winter
The Replacement
Linger
Ripper
Cinder

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For Darkness Shows the Stars
Passion
Divergent
The Legacy of Eden

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Feed
Deadline
Grave Mercy

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Shadowfever

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Brisingr

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[Mad Scientist]

I recently added The Stand and Under the Dome to my Nook. I'm hoping one gets read too!

[Cee]

Haha, good luck! I'm always so afraid to start a book so big o:

[Mad Scientist]

Just started listening to but I'm looking at the book book right now. Next to the computer. I'm just not able to concentrate so much right now for something so complex. So, I'm doing a cheat of sort.

[Adam]

I have both "The Stand" and "Under the Dome", maybe I should try to read them this year as well. I have yet to read any Stephen King anyway.

[★Meghan★]

I have Under the Dome and hope to read it sometime soon...mmmm...looking like a good book to make either MBOM or VR.

[Mad Scientist]

I've yet to read King as well. I was told to start off w the stand. Maybe we can work through them and get some interesting conversation going. There has been none on the group reads :( I'm thinking we could get rid of them if no one discusses and just do an open discussion and/ find others to read the book w through a thread. ???

But I'm open for reading either or of the King books.

[Dee]

I hate group reads where there are no discussions, or where the discussion just revolves around, omg I loved this book with nothing else

[Adam]

Mad Scientist wrote: "I've yet to read King as well. I was told to start off w the stand. Maybe we can work through them and get some interesting conversation going. There has been none on the group reads :( I'm thi..."

I would definitely participate in discussions, the problem is group reads are usually books I don't care about or would have to go find. Whereas I like to stick to my current shelves and kill THAT stuff off. But I would be up for reading The Stand if we're supposed to do that first.

[Mad Scientist]

@Dee I know what u mean. I didn't vote for either of the books. But I tried starting convos for both. I wish to get some more in depth discussions.

@Adam I wish group reads would branch out more, not just this group. I do read YA but I like to read so much more. I'm up for added the Stand for the next month... Or two.

We can post a King poll between the two and see who has which book the most?

I'll add a thread so we can Get together for ideas for books that members have and want to read, together, or at least discuss together.

[Cee]

I would love to do a The Stand read, I just really want to get through that one (:

[Kate]

I would like to get one book in each category... so that will be another little goal I have for this year.

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1.The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - 178

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1.Sprinkle with Murder - 215
2.Mistletoe Murder - 224

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1.Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder - 310

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1.Daughter of Smoke and Bone - 418

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1.Eclipse - 629

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1.Breaking Dawn - 768

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[Mad Scientist]

Another one bites the dust! 300+ page book.

Grr... So far it seems to be the normal for me.

[Nikki]

I'm going to jump in with this one. Seems like a nice starting point for challenges.



Under 100
Delineation [87 pages] 4/24
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Crawl to Me [104 pages] 1/14
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish [167 pages] 7/8
The Constant Rider Omnibus: Stories from the Public Transportation Front [125 pages]7/8
Jonathan Livingston Seagull [112 pages] 7/13
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Doctor Who: Borrowed Time [256 pages] 2/3
Monsters [200 pages] 2/3
A Year of Mornings: 3191 Miles Apart [208 pages] 2/3
Year of the Chick [292 pages] 2/6
Fight Club [218 pages] 3/22
Survivor [289 pages] 3/30
Blink [296 pages] 4/24
Flow Chronicles [200 pages]4/24
Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights [284 pages] 5/9
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [216 pages] 5/21
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe [256 pages] 6/17
Life, the Universe, and Everything [240 pages] 7/6
Mostly Harmless [218 pages] 7/8
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [244 pages] 7/10
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Dawn of Darkness [318 pages] 3/9
Life of Pi [356 pages] 4/3
Misery [310 pages] 5/14
At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much [320 pages] 7/10
The Friday Night Knitting Club [384 pages] 7/13
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Song of Susannah [513 pages] 1/23
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The Waste Lands [588 pages] 1/7
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Wizard and Glass [668 pages] 1/12
700+
75 Years Of DC Comics: The art Of Modern Mythmaking [720 pages] 2/2
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Wolves of the Calla [925 pages] 1/21
1000+
The Dark Tower [1050 pages] 1/30

[Aneeqah]

Mad Scientist wrote: "Another one bites the dust! 300+ page book.

Grr... So far it seems to be the normal for me."

Same for me! I though 400+ was going to be my most common type, but right now, it's 300+. I'm hoping to change that throughout the year!

[Shay]

Not going to do the other categories. Don't want to list 400+ books. And I don't read a lot of books under 200 pages.

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The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
Columbine by Dave Cullen
A Dublin Student Doctor: An Irish Country Novel by Patrick Taylor (490 pages)
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart(492 pages)
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman (444 pages)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Strange Flesh: A Novel by Michael Olson
Defending Jacob by William Landay
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx
Storms: My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac by Carol Ann Harris
Bridge of Scarlet Leaves by Kristina McMorris
Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins
In One Person by John Irving

500+
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
Illuminate by Aimee Agresti
Insurgent by Veronica Roth

600+
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith
The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa

700+
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

800+
Roots by Alex Haley
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

900+
Caesar's Women by Colleen McCullough
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Caesar by Colleen McCullough

1000+
The Memoirs Of Cleopatra by Margaret George

Currently Reading:

[Mad Scientist]

That's ok. I like that u are tailoring it to you.