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January:
The Professor and the Madman -252 pages
The Copper Sign -646 pages
The Evening Spider -400 pages
Weighing Shadows -328 pages
The Amber Shadows -464 pages
February:
Listed Books
Book 1 - Angela - 248 pages Read 01/28
Book 2 - To Catch a Killer (aka I Am Your Judge MPE) - 416 pagesRead 01/29
Book 3 - Passenger - 486 pages Read 02/08
Book 4 - Jillaroo by Rachael Treasure - 480 pages Read 02/09
Non-Listed Books
Book 1 - A Fence Around the Cuckoo & Fishing in the Styx -596 pages Read 02/05
Book 2 - The Greatest Show on Earth - 470 pages Read 02/05
Book 3 - Speaks the Nightbird - 816 pages Read 01/31
Book 4 - Night Study - 400 pages Read 01/23
Book 5 - The Afghan Campaign - 354 pages Read 01/22
Book 6 - Ignite Me - 421 pages Read 01/21
Book 7 - The Haunting of Hill House - 182 pages Read 01/18
Book 8 - Cat on the Edge - 274 pages Read 01/17
Book 9 - Girl in Hyacinth Blue - 242 pages Read 01/15
Book 10 - Amber Beach - 384 pages Read 01/14
Book 11 - The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki - 544 pages Read 02/14
Book 12 - Voss by Patrick White - 448 pages Read 02/15
Book 13 - The Great World by David Malouf - 336 pages Read 02/17
March:
Listed Books
Book 1 - Big Stone Gap -320 pages Read 02/20
Book 2 - Three Men in a Boat -184 pages Read 02/29
Book 3 - A Tangle of Gold (The Colours of Madeleine #3) -480 pages Read 03/02
Book 4 - Akarnae (The Medoran Chronicles #1) -436 pages Read 03/04
Book 5 - Lessons in Loving by Peter McAra -170 pages Read 03/10
Book 6 - Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz -432 pages Read 03/12
Book 7 - The Garlic Ballads -286 pages Read 03/26
Non-Listed Books
Book 1 - The Girl on the Train -325 pages -Read 02/29
Book 2 - The Girl with Seven Names -304 pages Read 02/23
Book 3 - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress -288 pages -Read 02/26
Book 4 - Run for your Life -373 pages -Read 03/07
Book 5 - The Snow Child -386 pages -Read 02/18
Book 6 - Like I Can Love -336 pages Read 03/22
April:
Listed Books
Book 1 - Raelia - Read 04/15
Book 2 - For Love of Country - Read 04/15
Book 3 - Dark Country - Read 04/22
Book 4 - The Shadow-Line - Read 04/26
Non-Listed Books
Book 1 - The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories - Read 02/27
Book 2 - The Moving Finger - Read 02/16
Book 3 - Waiting for a Wide Horse Sky - Read 04/20
May
Listed Books
Book 1 – A Decline in Prophets -354 pages
Book 2 – A Pocket Full of Rye -220 pages
Book 3 – The Third Victim -384 pages
Book 4 - The Fictional Woman -328 pages
Book 5 - Aunty Lee’s Deadly Specials -384 pages
Book 6 – The Square Root of Summer -295 pages
Book 7 - The Wild Orchid -224 pages
Book 8 – Golden Earrings -528 pages
Book 9 – All The Birds, Singing – 240 pages
Non-Listed Books
Book 1 – 11/22/63 -842 pages
Book 2 – The Book of Speculation -339 pages
Book 3 – The Secret History -576 pages
Book 4 – The Ringmaster's Wife -368 pages
Book 5 – Nirvana -186 pages
Book 6 – Six Four -656 pages
Book 7 – The Kite Family -232 pages
June
Listed Books
Book 1 - Wolf Winter -376 pages
Book 2 - Love, Lies and Spies -368 pages
Book 3 - Cat Under Fire (Joe Grey #2)
Book 4 - The Watercolourist -319 pages
Book 5 - Gallipoli -824 pages
Book 6 - What the Raven Saw -279 pages
Book 7 - A Murderous Procession -337 pages
Book 8 - Sang Pemimpi -292 pages
Book 9 - Australians: Origins to Eureka (Australians #1) – 628 pages
Non-Listed Books
Book 1 - The Death of Artemio Cruz -307 pages
Book 2 - The Sorrow of War -233 pages
Book 3 - Culture Is ... Australian stories across cultures -256 pages
Book 4 - Miles Off Course -350 pages
Book 5 - Told From the Hips -128 pages
Book 6 - The Semester of Our Discontent -246 pages
Book 7 - The Big Smoke -224 pages
Book 8 - Factory Girls -420 pages
Book 9 - A Few Right Thinking Men -349 pages
Book 10 - The Man in the Picture -145 pages
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Listed Books
Book 1 - The Dogs of War -400 pages
Book 2 - A Sense of the World -416 pages
Book 3 - The 5 Love Languages of Children -224 pages
Book 4 - Aunty Lee's Chilled Revenge -368 pages
Book 5 - Shadows of the Workhouse -293 pages
Book 6 - The Voyage Out
Non-Listed Books
Book 1 - Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale (Seasons of the Sword #1) -230 pages
Books read (not in chain & not listed):
Exposure by Susan Anderson Read 01/22
Fall by Candice Fox Read 01/14
Bleak House Read 02/16
2001: A Space Odyssey Read 02/19
Firstlife Read 02/24
Sitti Nurbaya Read 03/05
Crossed by Ally Condie Read 03/07
The Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck]
The Axe by Sigrid Undsett
Rich Dad Poor Dad
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Therese Raquin
The Soldier's Curse
Scared Yet?
Riding the Black Cockatoo
The Storyteller's Muse
Seveneves
Robbery Under Arms
The Aquitaine Progression
Sea Hearts
The Prisoner of Heaven
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The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis
The Adventures of Pirates: Tall Tales and Other Short Stories by Evelyn M. Zimmer
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Antidote to Murder by Felicity Young
Ash by Malinda Lo
Aunty Lee’s Deadly Specials
Aunty Lee’s Chilled Revenge
A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nun
Behind the Sun by Deborah Challinor
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
Billabong Bend by Jeniffer Scoullar
Bitter Chocolate by Lesley Lokko
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
The Boston Girl by Ania Diamant
The Bread with Seven Crusts by Susan Temby
Canton Elegy by Stephen Lee
A Carribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
Cat's Eyes by Margaret Atwood
Cherry Pie (Simone Kirsch #3) by Leigh Redhead
The Commandant by Jessica Anderson
Cup of Gold by John Steinbeck
Daisy Miller and an International Episode by Henry James
Dark Country by Bronwyn Parry
The Dark World by Cara Lynn Shultz
Dead Souls by Nicolai Gogol<
Dreaming the Enemy by David Metzenthen
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
Fateful by Claudia Gray
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Firecracker by Moira Rogers
Focus by Alyssa Rose Ivy
Found by Alyssa Rose Ivy
The Gate by Natsume Soseki
The Great Hunt by Wendy Higgins
The Harp in the south by Ruth Park
The Haunted Hotel & Other Stories by Wilkie Collins
He Died With a Felafel in His Hand by John Birmingham
The Highland Lass by Rosemary Gemmell
Holiday on Ice by David Sedaris
Jamaica Inn by Daphne DuMaurier
Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
Lessons in Loving by Peter McAra
The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
The Monsoon Bride by Michelle Aung Thin
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Neverhome by Laird Hunt
Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton
Number the stars by Lois Lowry
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Opening Atlantis (Atlantis #1) by Robert Silverberg
The Other side of the world by Sophie Bishop
Paper Cities by Ekaternia Sedia
Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz
Peeling the Onion by Gunter Grass
Poison (Wind Dancer #1) by Lan Chan
The Potato Factory (The Potato Factory #1) by Bryce Courtenay
Promise Me This by Cathy Gohlke
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Raelia by Lynette Noni
Right As Rain by Tricia Stringer
The River and the Book by Alison Croggon
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Sad Cypres by Agatha Christie
Sailing from Byzantium by Robert Silverberg
Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways & Sailors’ Wives by David Cordingly
A Sense of the World by Jason Roberts
The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad
The Silent Country by Diane Morrissey
The Son by Philipp Meyer
The Sound of One hand clapping by Richard Flanagan
Swimming Home by Mary-Rose MacColl
Syrup by Max Barry
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Time’s Long Run by Stephen Orr
The Time-Travelling Fashionista On Board the Titanic by Bianca Turetsky
Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay
The Voyage Out by Virgina Woolf
Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook
What Lies Between Us by Nayomi Munaweera
The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth
Myron Bolitar series
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Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles #2)
The Third Victim
A Semester of Our Discontent
Take Me As I Am
Fury
Nirvana
Risuko
The Kite Family
The Ringmaster’s Wife
Six Four
Annabeth Neverending
Non-Listed Books being read but NOT in Chain:
The Courtesan
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Listed Books being read but NOT in Chain:
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Dark Country - Dark -Read 04/22
The Dogs of War - Dogs War -Read 08/23
Wolf Winter - Wolf Winter -Read 05/24
The Wild Orchid - Wild Orchid -Read 05/18
Shadows of the Workhouse - Shadows Of -Read 09/30
Sad Cypres - Sad Cypress
To Catch a Killer - To Catch -Read 01/29
A Tangle of Gold - Tangle of -Read 03/02
Outback Dreams - Outback Dreams
Darcy's Voyage - Darcy's Voyage
Murder at the Vicarage - Murder Vicarage
A Murderous Procession - Murderous Procession -Read 06/15
A Pocket Full of Rye - Pocket Full -Read 04/30
The Fictional Woman - Fictional Woman -Read 05/04
A Sense of the World - Sense World -Read 08/05
Someone Like You - Someone Like
The Highland Lass - Highland Lass
Cold Cold Heart - Cold Heart
Cat Under Fire - Cat Fire -Read 05/29
Master and Fool - Master Fool
A Man Betrayed - Man Betrayed
All the Birds, Singing - Birds Singing -Read 05/21
A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea - Earth Sea
Farewell To the East End - EastTo
Time’s Long Ruin - Time's Long
The 5 Love Languages of Children - Love Languages -Read 07/05
The Forty Rules of Love - Rules Love
Cat Raise the Dead - Raise Dead
Aunty Lee’s Deadly Specials - Deadly Specials -Read 05/11
Secrets of the tide - Secrets Tide
Three Men in a Boat - Three Men -Read 02/29
The Magic Pudding - Magic Pudding
A Beautiful Place to Die - Place Die
Palace of Desire - Palace Desire -Read 03/12
Sang Pemimpi - Sang Pemimpi -Read 06/15
Swimming Home - Swimming Home
Pug Hill - Pug Hill
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Passenger by Alexandra Bracken -Read 02/08
What the Raven Saw by Samantha-Ellen Bound -Read 06/12
A Decline in Prophets by Sulari Gentill - Read 05/02
The Third Victim by Lisa Gardner -Read 04/29
Akarnae by Lynette Noni -Read 03/04
Raelia by Lynette Noni - Read 04/15
Black Swan Rising by Lee Carroll
The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey
The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan -Read 03/26
Aunty Lee's Chilled Revenge by Ovidia Yu -Read 09/28
Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk -2BListed
In the Wake by Per Petterson
Gallipoli by Peter FitzSimons -Read 06/11
The Year of the Rat by Claire Furniss
Heart of the Valley by Cathryn Hein
Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf by Sonya Harnett
The Nameless Day by Sara Douglass
The Wounded Hawk by Sara Douglass
The Crippled Angel by Sara Douglass
The Aspen Account by Bryan Devore
The Watercolourist by Beatrice Masini -Read 06/07
The Ivory Rose by Belinda Murrell
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver -2BListed
Australians: Origins to Eureka by Thomas Keneally -Read 06/28
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*listed books
The Professor and the Madman -Read 01/05
The Death ofArtemio Cruz -Read 04/03
The Copper Sign -Read 01/02
*Love, Lies and Spies -Read 05/24
The Amber Shadows -Read 01/09
The Sorrow of War -Read 03/23
Weighing Shadows -Read 01/07
Culture Is ... Australian stories across cultures -Read 05/25
Ignite Me -Read 01/21
Miles Off Course -Read 05/27
The Afghan Campaign -Read 01/22
*Absolution Creek
Cat on the Edge -Read 01/17
*The Voyage Out -Read 10/5
The Third Victim -Read 04/29
Told From the Hips -Read 04/11
Girl in Hyacinth Blue -Read 01/15
*Golden Earrings -Read 05/20
The Greatest Show on Earth -Read 02/05
The Semester of Our Disconent -Read 04/19
The Haunting of Hill House -Read 01/18
*Amber House
Amber Beach -Read 01/14
The Big Smoke -Read 04/19
Night Study -Read 01/23
*The Name of the Wind
The Great World -Read 02/17
State of Grace
Speaks the Nightbird -Read 01/31
*The River of No Return
Run for your Life -Read 03/07
Factory Girls -Read 03/17
The Girl with Seven Names -Read 02/23
*Sartor Resartus - Read 04/18
A Few Right Thinking Men - Read 03/10
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress -Read 02/26
The Man in the Picture - Read 02/24
***END CHAIN***
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*listed books
The Evening Spider by Emily Arsenault -Read 01/06
*Cat's Eyes by Margaret Atwood
Scarlet by Melissa Meyer
*Angela by James Moloney -Read 01/29
The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki -Read 02/14
*Jillaroo by Rachael Treasure -Read 02/09
A Fence Around the Cuckoo & Fishing in the Styx by Ruth Park -Read 02/05
*Ash (Destined #1) by Shani Petroff
Fury by Shirley Marr
*Lessons in Loving by Peter McAra -Read 03/10
Voss by Patrick White -Read 02/15
*The Tree of Man by Patrick White
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins -Read 02/29
*A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
Nirvana by J.R. Stewart -Read 05/11
*Holiday on Ice by David Sedaris
Risuko by David Kudler -Read 08/31
*Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
The Kite Family by Hon Lai Chu -Read 05/18
*Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook
Like I Can Love by Kim Lock -Read 03/22
*Canton Elegy by Stephen Lee
11.22.63 by Stephen King -Read 01/22
*Lelaki Harimau by Eka Kurniawan
The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler -Read 04/22
*Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield
The Secret History by Donna Tartt -Read 03/31
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*listed books
The Ringmaster's Wife -Read 05/05
* The Square Root of Summer -Read 05/15
Six Four -Read 05/17
*Angel Falls
Annabeth Neverending
*Number the Stars
The Snow Child -Read 02/18
*The Shadow Line -Read 04/26
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories Read 02/27
*For Love of country Read 04/08
The Moving Finger Read 02/16
*For the Love of Mike
Waiting for a Wide Horse Sky Read 04/20
*Den of Wolves
Death of Riley
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MODERATE ~Book-Chain allows Non-listed books:
1 pt for each book read that are NOT listed BUT part of your Book-Chain
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25 pts for each Book-Chain completed that consist of 6-12 books
50 pts for each Book-Chain completed that consist of 13-24 books
75 pts for each Book-Chain completed that consists of 25-36 books
100 s for each Book-Chain completed that consists of more than 36 books
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2 pts for each book read that are listed*
50 pts for each Book-Chain completed that consist of 6-12 books
100 pts for each Book-Chain completed that consist of 13-24 books
150 pts for each Book-Chain completed that consists of 25-36 books
200 pts for each Book-Chain completed that consists of more than 36 books
PAGES bonus:
101-200p book: 1 pt
201-300p book: 2 pts
301-400p book: 3 pts
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901-1,000p book: 9 pts
1,001++p book: 10 pts