100+ Books in 2025 discussion

2009 JANUARY:
1. Mercedes Lackey - Take a Thief (The Heralds of Valdemar, Book 5) - reread
2. Mercedes Lackey - The Fairy Godmother (Five Hundred Kingdoms, Book 1) - reread
3. Mercedes Lackey - Joust (The Dragon Jousters, Book 1)
4. Mercedes Lackey - The Serpent's Shadow (Elemental Masters, Book 2) - reread
5. Mercedes Lackey - The Gates of Sleep (Elemental Masters, Book 3)
6. Mercedes Lackey - Fortune's Fool (Five Hundred Kingdoms, Book 3)
7. Mercedes Lackey - Reserved for the Cat (Elemental Masters, Book 6) - reread
8. Mercedes Lackey - The Snow Queen (Five Hundred Kingdoms, Book 4)
9. JK Rowling - The Tales of Beedle the Bard
10. R.L.Stine - Superstitious
11. Julie Kenner - The Givenchy Code
12. Julie Kenner - The Prada Paradox (Book 3)

2009 FEBRUARY:
13.Janet Evanovich - Visions of Sugar Plums (A Stephanie Plum Between the Numbers/Holiday Novel, #1) re-read
14. Tamar Myers - The Crepes of Wrath (Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery, Book 9)
15. Andre Norton - Key of the Keplian re-read
16. Andre Norton - Mirror of Destiny re-read
17. Andre Norton - Secret of the Lost Race
18. 13.Janet Evanovich - Plum Lucky

2009 MARCH:
19. Andre Norton - Yurth Burden - reread
20. Barbra Hambly - Stranger at the Wedding - re-read
21. John David Anderson - Standard Hero Behavior
22. Lonnette Parks - The Mason Jar Cookie Cookbook (not my standard read but I wanted to know how to do these)
23. Terry Pratchett - The Hogfather - reread

Continuing the saga:
2009 APRIL
24.Andre Norton - Star Born - re-read
25. Janet Evanovich - Plum Lovin'
26. Jenny Nimmo - Midnight for Charlie Bone
27. G.A. McKevett - Bitter Sweets
28. Luanne Rice - Angels All Over Town
29. G.A. McKevett - A Body to Die For
30. Mercedes Lackey - Bedlam's Edge
31. Mercedes Lackey - One Good Knight
32. Jenny Nimmo - Charlie Bone and the Time Twister
33. Kyra Davis - Obsession, Deceit and Really Dark Chocolate
34. Jenny Nimmo - Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy
35. Jenny Nimmo - Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors
36. Jenny Nimmo - Charlie Bone and the Hidden King
37. Jenny Nimmo - Charlie Bone and the Beast
38. Jenny Nimmo - Charlie Bone and the Shadow
39. Robert Heinlein - Double Star
40. Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl (Book1)
41. Cathy Pickens - Can't Never Tell
42. Elle Newmark - The Book of Unholy Mischief

I will post May around the first of June, but have finished a few more. I tossed several back without finishing.

I have not finshed The Memorist. I checked it out of the library, and after a week had managed to read about 20 pages. I returned it without finishing it. But here are my completed reads for May 2009.

2009 May
43. Christopher Golden - Body Bags
44. Claudia Bishop - Buried By Breakfast
45. Dean Koontz - Brother Odd
46. Victoria Laurie - Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend
47. Joanna Carl - The Chocolate Mouse Trap
48. Dean Koontz - Odd Hours
49. M.C. Beaton - Kissing Christmas Goodbye
50. Andrew Greeley - The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St Germain
51. Kelley Armstrong - No Humans Involved
52. Joanna Carl - The Chocolate Frog Frame-Up
53. Piers Anthony - Currant Events
54. Joanna Carl - The Chocolate Puppy Puzzle
55. Kelley Armstrong - Men of the Otherworld
56. Kaylene Johnson - Sarah - How a Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside Down
57. Ann Coulter - Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America
58. Joanna Carl - The Chocolate Jewel Case

light month for reading - working too hard!

June 2009
59. John McCain and Mark Salter - Worth the Fighting For: A Memoir
60. Reginald Hill - Singing the Sadness
61. Katherine Valentine - The Haunted Rectory
62. Nancy Farmer - The Ear, The Eye and the Arm
63. Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes - Full Bloom
64. Janet Evanovich - The Grand Finale
65. Janet Evanovich - Plum Spooky

I topped 100 this month, just from those I remember. Those who know me well say I probably left off more than a few, but oh well.

July 2009
66. Madelyn Alt - A Charmed Death
67. Rosemary Jones - City of the Dead
68. Jeanne M. Dams - Indigo Christmas
69. Sarah Isidore - Daughters of Bast: The Hidden Land
70. Justine Larbalestier - Magic Lessons
71. Justine Larbalestier - Magic's Child
72. Steven Saylor - The Triumph of Caesar: A Novel of Ancient Rome
73. Lisa Shearin - Armed & Magical
74. Steven E. Schend - Blackstaff Tower
75. Brian Keene - Ghost Walk
76. Elaine Viets - Murder with all the Trimmings
77. Mercedes Lackey, Ellen Guon - Summoned to Tourney (Bedlam's Bard, #2)
78. Betty Webb - The Anteater of Death
79. Corey Mitchell - Murdered Innocents
80. Elaine Cunningham - Elfshadow

August 2009
81. Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice
82. John Ringo and Julie Cochrane - Sister Time
83. James Frey - A Million Little Pieces
84. Rita Lakin - Getting Old is Criminal
85. Janet Evanovich - Finger Lickin' Fifteen
86. Rita Lakin - Getting Old is to Die For
87. Tamar Myers - A Penny Urned
88. Andre Norton - Key of the Keplian (re-read again!)
89. Tim Myers - Booked for Murder
90. Tamar Myers - Statue of Limitations
91. Brittiany A. Koren - Fantasy Gone Wrong
92. Rita Lakin - Getting Old is the Best Revenge
93. Tamar Myers - Splendour in the Glass
94. Tamar Myers - Monet Talks
95. Maria V. Snyder - Poison Study
96. Maria V. Snyder - Magic Study
97. Ed McBain - Learning to Kill Stories
98. Maria V. Snyder - Fire Study
99. Philip Pullman - The Golden Compass

September 2009
100. Gregory Maguire - What the Dickens - The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy
101. Andre Norton and Lyn NcConchie - Silver May Tarnish

The September reads with 2 "reposts"
September 2009
100. Gregory Maguire - What the Dickens - The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy
101. Andre Norton and Lyn NcConchie - Silver May Tarnish
102. Paul Challen - The House That Hugh Laurie Built
103. Don Bassingthwaite & Dave Gross - Mistress of the Night
104. Diane Duane - The Wizard's Dilemma
105. Bruce R. Cordell - Lady Of Poison
106. Andre Norton - Secret of the Lost Race (re-read)
107. Shirley Damsgaard - Witch Way to Murder
108. Antonia Michaelis - Tiger Moon
109. Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife
110. Richard Lee Byers - Queen of the Depths
111. Kameron M. Franklin - Maiden of Pain
112. Mercedes Lackey - Firebird
113. Mercedes Lackey - The Gates of Sleep (Elemental Masters, Book 2)
114. Julie Kenner - Good Ghouls Do
115. Charlaine Harris - Grave Sight
116. Charlaine Harris - All Together Dead
117. Tom Piccirilli - Headstone City

that last one I wondered why I bothered - I kept trying to figure out the point

October 2009
118. Agatha Christie - The Labors of Hercules
119. Kim Harrison - White Witch, Black Curse
120. Tamar Myers - Poison Ivory
121. Robert Asprin & Peter J. Heck - Phule's Errand
122. Barb & J.C. Hendee - In Shade and Shadow: A Novel of the Noble Dead
123. Nancy Atherton - Aunt Dimity, Vampire Hunter
124. Jim Butcher - Furies of Calderon
125. Charlaine Harris - Grave Surprise
126. Lisa Cach - A Babe in Ghostland
127. Linda Wisdom - Hex Appeal
128. Beverly Lewis - The Shunning
129. Yasmen Galendorn - Dragon Wytch
130. Jimmy Carter - Christmas in Plains
131. Victoria Laurie - Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye
132. Fred Saberhagen - Berserker Attack
133. Victoria Laurie - Death Perception
134. Debbie Macomber - A Cedar Cove Christmas
135. Devon Monk - Magic to the Bone
136. Sara Douglass - The Nameless Day
137. Charlaine Harris - Real Murders
138. Patricia Briggs - Cry Wolf
139. Kerrelyn Sparks - All I Want For Christmas is a Vampire

If you see my reviews, you'll know that #136 is another 'why bother' read. Don't waste your time - pick up a good history book of the time period instead.

November 2009
140. Anne McCaffrey & Todd McCaffrey - Dragon Harper
141. Katherine Kurtz - In the King's Service
142. Jenna Woginrich - Made from Scratch
143. Kim Harrisonn - The Outlaw Demon Wails
144. Mercedes Lackey - Foundation
145. Victoria Laurie - Whats a Ghoul to Do?
146. Victoria Laurie - Crime Seen
147. Victoria Laurie - Killer Insight
148. Victoria Laurie - Ghouls Just Haunt to Have Fun
149. Mercedes Lackey - The River's Gift
150. Victoria Laurie - Better Read Than Dead
151. Charlaine Harris - The Julius House
152. Katie MacAlister - Holy Smokes
153. Lynn Freed - The Servants' Quarters
154. Andre Norton - Dragon Magic

I think that next year I will try for a 200 book challenge. 16 books a month times 12 months should do it.

This finishes those I recorded in 2009...
December 2009
155. U.S. News Ultimate Guide to Medical Schools, 3E
156. Katherine Kurtz - King Kelson's Bride
157. Tamora Pierce - Wild Magic
158. Carolyn Hart - Ghost at Work
159. Tamora Pierce - Wolf-Speaker
160. Jim Butcher - Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera, #1)
161. Jim Butcher - Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)
162. Jim Butcher - Cursor's Fury (Codex Alera, #3)
163. Jim Butcher - Captain's Fury (Codex Alera, #4)
164. Dean Koontz - In Odd We Trust
165. Preston Child - Cemetary Dance
166. Christopher Moore - Fool - A Novel

I still like the "Odd" series by Dean Koontz - good read with a likable character