100+ Books in 2025 discussion

Wow! Judging by my current status I don't think I'll make it. I didn't read too many books at the beginning of the year. We'll see!

1. Plum Lucky-Janet Evanovich
2. The Cider House Rules-John Irving
3. When the Wind Blows-James Patterson
4. The Fifth Vial-Michael Palmer
5. It's Not News, It's Fark-Drew Curtis
6. Playskool Guide to the Toddler Years
7. The Lovely Bones-Alice Sebold
8. The Spiderwick Chronicles 1
9. " " 2
10. " " 3
11. " " 4
12. " " 5
13. Drowning Ruth
14. Cesar's Way-Cesar Milan
15. The Innocent Man-John Grisham
16. Shoot the Moon-Billie Letts
17. Nanny Diaries
18. Nineteen Minutes-Jodi Picoult
19. Water for Elephants-Sara Gruen
20. Cell-Stephen King
21. Harvest-Tess Gerritsen
22. Mediterranean Caper (Dirk Pitt #1)
23. Eat This, Not That
24. The Thirteenth Tale-Dianne Setterfield
25. The Colorado Kid-Stephen King
26. In Defense of Food-Pollan
27. The Journal of Eleanor Druse
28. On Writing-Stephen King
29. What the Dead Know-Laura Lippman
30. Saving Faith-David Baldacci
31. Heart Shaped Box-Joe Hill
32. Elements of Style-William Strunk
33. Along Came a Spider-James Patterson
34. Prodigal Son-Dean Koontz (Frankenstein #1)
35. Poe Shadow
36. Fearless 14, Stephanie Plum-J. Evanovich
37. Life of Pi-Yann Martel
38. Pillars of the Earth
39. Big Over Easy-Jasper Fforde
40. Aunt Dimity's Death
41. The Woman who Swallowed a Toothbrush
42. House of God-Samuel Shem
43. Twilight-Stephenie Mayer
44. From a Buick 8-Stephen King
45. On Chesil Beach-Ian McEwan
46. Atonement-McEwan
47. Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austin
48. The Book Thief-Markus Zusak
49. Murder 101
50. A Walk in the Woods-Bill Bryson
51. The Princess Bride
52. The Art of Racing in the Rain
53. The Alchemist-Paulo Coehlo
54. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
55. Practical Magic

Oops! I forgot these (early 2008)

56. 3rd Degree-Patterson
57. 4th of July-Patterson
58. 5th Horseman-Patterson

You're doing better than I am. Oh, and looking at your list reminded me of a couple of books I read that I didn't put on here at all!

Also, I'll definitely make it if I count all the kid books I've read with Sam. These are BackUps:

1. Charley Monkey
2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
3. Green Eggs and Ham
4. Hippos go Berserk
5. Old MacDonald
6. I Love Dogs
7. Good Night Moon
8. I Love You Through and Through
9. Where the Wild Things Are
10. There's a Nightmare in my Closet
11. The Backyardigan's Monster Halloween Party
12. The Foot Book
13. Mr. Brown Can Moo, can You
14. The Cat in the Hat
15. If I Ran the Rainforest
16. No, David!
17. Baby Einsteins' my First Book of Numbers
18. Baby Einsteins' my First Book of Letters
19. I Wish I Had Duck Feet
20. Yurtle the Turtle
21. Counting on the Bay
22. Eric Carle A-Z
23. Put Me in the Zoo
24. Three Little Caterpillars
25. Bedtime in the Southwest
26. 10 Rubber Duckies
27. Pokey Little Puppy
28. Saggy Baggy Elephant
29. There's a Monster at the End of this Book
30. Are You My Mom?
31. Hop on Pop
32. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
33. Stand Back said the Elephant, I'm Going to Sneeze
34. Go Dog, Go
35. Hand Hand Fingers Thumb
36. Dizzy Dragon

Ha! I forgot I read The Foot Book and The Pokey Little Puppy, too. Oh! And a couple others. Yay, children's books! Reading is reading!

You also forgot Wibbly Pig!!

So I did!

37. It's Bedtime, Wibbly Pig

38. Pat the Bunny

59. Jane Eyre

60. I was Told There'd be Cake

61. Lambs of London

Hey, if you count the children's books I've read, I'm one away from 100 books in 2008!!!!!!!!

I say count them! They're books read!

39. Sam Tells Tales

Does this mean you've hit 100?!

62. From the Mixed up File of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Melissa-if you count the children's books, I'm totally at 101!!!

63. The Secret Lives of Bees

64. The Dead Zone (PHENOMENAL!!!)

65. House of Leaves (not sure how I feel about this one)

66. The Spellman Files--LOVE IT!!!

67. Odd Thomas-wonderful!

68. The Devil and Miss Prym

69. Shopgirl-Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin)

Think you'll hit 100 "grown up" books before the end of the year?

Ooh, Mel I really don't know...If I read the three I'm supposed to this month, it leaves 26 left to read by the end of the year. That's really, REALLY pushing it. I don't think I can read more than 10 a month.

70. The Curse of the Spellmans

71. Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie)

40. David Goes to School
41. Green Hat, Yellow Hat

72. Forever Odd
73. A Voyage Long and Strange

Good job finishing A Voyage Long and Strange!! I've been stalled pretty much since Friday between scrapping all weekend and helping Andy and Jess move today. Hopefully I will be able to catch up by the end of the week!

Thanks! I told myself Sunday I was gonna sit and finish Voyage (I only had 30 pages left), but I fell asleep. So, I said it again last night........and I'm done!

I'm trying The Bourne Identity, but I just can't get into it. It's a good story, but it's not holding me. I'm only on page 40, though. I'm totally gonna finish it, but I think I might grab another off my shelf to read in tandem.

Sometimes that helps. How long is The Bourne Identity?

535 pages. So, I enjoy it while I'm reading it, but when I'm not reading it I don't feel like picking it up.

I grabbed Around the World in 80 Days. It's only 200+ pages long, and it's my classic for Oct.

I need a book that will be lots of fun to read...so I also picked up Lamb by Christopher Moore. Since this is supposed to be hilarious, I figure it'll jump start me again (I have not been so good since before the weekend).

74. Around the World in 80 Days

75. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

AWESOME!!!

76. Devil in the White City

77. Blindness :-(
78. Brother Odd :-)

42. If you give a mouse a cookie
43. What's wrong, Little Pookie

79. A Great and Terrible Beauty :-)

Did you know there's a book, If You Give a Cat a Cupcake? I want to get that for Chris.

Actually, I did. And there's another one that stars a pig (I think!). They're good, but I would've thought they would rhyme, and they don't. Ah, well.

Yeah, it's If You Give a Pig a Pancake.

80. Book of Lost Things

81. Shoeless Joe

82. The Constant Princess

83. New Moon

84. Just After Sunset
85. Sippy Cups are not for Chardonnay

86. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

41. Pirates Don't Change Diapers
42. The David Shannon Christmas book (sorry, can't remember the name)

87. Eclipse
88. The Complete Stephen King Universe
89. The Monster of Florence

90. The Graveyard Book

Okay, so it's 2300 on 12/31. I didn't quite make it to 100 this year (in non-children's books), but I did make it to 90, which isn't shabby at all.

There's always 2009! And, this year, I'm using the "Add book/author" feature from the start.