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Just finished: Hide Your Fear by Kevin O'Brien - 550 pages
Brings total to 1,400 of 12,500 pages read

1. The Picture of Dorian Gray - 254 pages
2. Insurgent - 525 pages
3. Rumble Fish - 144 pages
4. The World of Divergent: The Path to Allegiant - 50 pages
5. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - 127 pages
6. Letzte Hilfe - 15 pages
7. Otherworld- 355 pages
8. That Was Then, This Is Now - 159 pages
I have to increase my reading speed a bit to make the challenge, but january was quite a slow reading month for me this year. Therefore i still hope i can make it.

Read so far:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 870 pages
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - 652 pages
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - 759 pages
Peter Pan - 195 pages
Unhooked - 345 pages
2,821/25,000

So far i read:
January:
The Cruel Prince - 360 pages
360/25,000
Post 302 updated
Goal: 5,174/60,000
Goal: 5,174/60,000

1281/14,000 pages [9%]
#1 The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto pp. 496 4/5
#2 Coming Home pp. 785 4/5

(I'm keeping track of the actual pages per book on my personal challenge thread but will try to post here once a month with my progress)

6. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline - 374 pages
7. Makkelijk leven by Herman Koch - 96 pages
8. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - 479 pages
Pages read: 2676/15.000

Goal: 1,110/25,000, 4.44% - 4 total books.
January - 4 books, 1,110 total pages.
01. Ask an Astronaut: My Guide to Life in Space - 272 pages
02. The Perils and Dangers of this Night - 272 pages
03. A Kiss Before Dying - 288 pages
04. Bridge of Birds (The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, #1) - 278 pages
Post 302 Updated
Goal: 5,564/60,000
Goal: 5,564/60,000

The Ex, 284 pages, audio
The Baby, 281 pages, audio
Never Love a Highlander, 305 pages, audio
Pop Goes the Weasel, 460 pages, audio
Never Seduce a Scot, 372 pages, audio
Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 1: The Night of the Nasty Nostril Nuggets, 176 pages, read w/ B
Highlander Most Wanted, 352 pages, audio

4734/50000
# Title Author Pgs Total Pages
1 Blood Rise BJ Bourg 235 235
2 Trouble in Tawas Madison Johns 169 404
3 Treasure in Tawas Madison Johns 141 545
4 Bigfoot in Tawas Madison Johns 170 715
5 Blackbird Fly Lise McClendon 299 1014
6 The Girl in the Empty Dress Lise McClendon 257 1271
7 Bitch on Wheels Gregg Olsen 300 1571
8 Chaos Patricia Cornwell 480 2051
9 Murder most Vile Volume One Robert Keller 127 2178
10 Extinction Reversed J.S. Morin 400 2578
11 Brain Recyclers J.S. Morin 329 2907
12 Weaponized Human J.S. Morin 243 3150
13 Rebel Robots J.S. Morin 249 3399
14 The Roses of May Dot Hutchison 302 3701
15 Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End Manel Loureiro 333 4034
16 Xylo: A Novel in Three Branches SJ Cameron 700 4734

1314/8,000 pages completed
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi (689 pages) (Finished: 31 January 2018)
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January - 6,631/ 35,000
The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle against Imperial Japan - 320 pages
The Keeper of Lost Causes - 418 pages
The Pillars of the Earth - 1008 pages
Out Of Range - 386 pages
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - 287 pages
The Wanted - 332 pages
Fifty Poems of Emily Dickinson, Volume I - 112 pages
Pardonable Lies - 356 pages
In the Market for Murder - 300 pages
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story - 326 pages
A Quiet Life in the Country - 258 pages
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story - 831 pages
The Advocate - 493 pages
Code Name Verity - 452 pages
Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass - 462 pages
A Sandy's Seashell Shop Christmas 36 - pages (e-short)
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 254 pages

One Night With Her Bachelor :154 pgs
Taken: 352 pgs
That Summer Night: 305 pgs
Can’t Let Go: 298 pgs
His Secret Son: 224 pgs
A Grave Calling: 250 pgs
Which End Is Up?: 304 pgs
Eye of the Falcon: 408 pgs
Child Finder: 256 pgs
A Very Merry Princess: 101 pgs
New York Actually: 376 pgs
11 novels read and 2,928 /10,000 pages turned!
My favorite novel for the month was ‘� A Grave Calling’� by Wendy Roberts, with Brenda Jackson’s ‘’His Secret Son’� rolling into second place.
Now let’s turn into February!

Goal: 25,624/60,000
January: 5,620 (15 books)
February: 5,570 (18 books)
March: 3,890 (11 books)
April: 2,344 (6 books)
May: 1,643 (5 books)
June: 0
July: 0
August: 899 (2 books)
September: 302 (1 book)
October: 0
November: 537 (1 book)
December: 4,819 (15 books)

Earthian - 408
Blue Eyes - 49
Message (Akiko Monden)- 74
Limiter (Akiko Monden) - 162
1-en no Otoko - 176
Amayadori wa Basu-tei de - 180
Nine Stories(J.D Salinger) - 198
The Fall of the House of Usher - 36
Bi no Isu - 198
Koi to Uso to Pride to - 147
Sub-total: 1,628 pages
Part 1:
Family Simulation! (Aco Matsuyoshi) - 205
Guutara Renai no Seihou - 140
A Good Man is Hard to Find - 190
Where's My Teddy - 32
Annabel Lee - 24
My Friend Bear - 32
Irokoi Comedy - 248
Sub-total: 871 pages
Total: 2,499 pages

January: Part 2.
Earthian - 408
Blue Eyes - 49
Message (Akiko Monden)- 74
Limiter (Akiko Monden) - 162
1-en no Otoko - 176
Amayadori wa Basu-tei de - 180
Nine Stories(J.D Salinger) - 198
The Fall of the House of Usher - 36
Bi no Isu - 198
Koi to Uso to Pride to - 147
Sub-total: 1,628 pages
Part 1:
Family Simulation! (Aco Matsuyoshi) - 205
Guutara Renai no Seihou - 140
A Good Man is Hard to Find - 190
Where's My Teddy - 32
Annabel Lee - 24
My Friend Bear - 32
Irokoi Comedy - 248
Sub-total: 871 pages
Total: 2,499 pages
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