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As a list maker for all sorts of things, my favorite is a list of all of the books I read each year. I thought it would be fun for us to list our books by month including the author and number of pages.

I will begin my list in my next message. And the way I do it is have onbe message for this and when I add a book I simply edit the message and include the new book I read.

Please join with me and find recommendations from other poeple and a good record of what you've read.

Nancy's Books Read in 2012


January
1. Believe by Dan Zadra
2. Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
3. Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers
4. The Goodbye Quilt by Susan Wiggs
5. The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers By Harry Bernstein
6. The Unlikely Spyby Daniel Silva
7. The Sugar Divorce - FITNESS OVER FIFTY - by Suzanna Stinnett
8. The FitzOsbornes in Exile by Michelle Cooper
9. The Dovekeepersby Alice Hoffman
10. Yiddish with Dick and Janeby Ellis Weiner
11. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney
12. Kill Alex Cross by James Patterson
13. After the Auction by Linda Frank
14. The Dream: A Memoir by Harry Bernstein
15. War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
16. The Golden Willow: The Story of a Lifetime of Love by Harry Bernstein

February
17. Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman
18. The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
19. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
20. Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos
21. I was a Bad Kid: True Tales of a Deceptive Child
22. A Northern Light
23. Skeletons at the Feast
24. Live Wire

March
25. A Secret Kept
26. Sonoma Rose
27. The Lost Wife
28. Deal Breaker
29. Defending Jacob: A Novel
30. Hold Tight
31. Letters to the Wise One: A Holocaust Survivor's Conversations with God
32. Beat the Reaper
33. Split Second
34. Private #1 Suspect
35. Miracle Cure

April
36. The Hunger Games
37.

Gracious! I like the idea but I'm aiming for 200 books so this will be a long list :)

January

1. Mary Modern by Camille DeAngelis - 368 pages

2. The Widow by Carla Neggers - 332 pages

3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - 449 pages

4. Peach Cobbler Murder by Joanne Fluke - 384 pages

5. Lemon Meringue Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke - 352 pages

6. The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie - 226 pages

7. Fudge Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke - 304 pages

February

8. They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie - 224 pages

9. Fortune and Fate by Sharon Shinn - 432 pages

That's OK Linda. The longer, the better. In the meantime Good Reads won't allow me to enter a currently read book. Oh well!!!

Ok here is my list!


January
1. A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin 1034 pages

2. You Don't Need a Prince: A Letter to My Daughter by Cheryl Shireman 93 pages

3. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 387 pages

4. The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story by Susan Hill 164 pages

5. I Love Everybody by Laurie Notaro 224 pages

6. 11/22/63 by Stephen King 960 pages

7. Ox Cart Angel by J. A. Arnold 170 pages

8. Spell Hunter by R.J. Anderson 340 pages

9. Asylum: Book One of the Birch Harbor Series by Kristen Selleck 367 pages

10. Stand-Up and Die by Pat Dennis unknown page numbers

11. Every Last One by Anna Quindlen 300 pages

12. Half a Life: A MemoirDarin Strauss 208 pages

13. UR by Stephen King 127 pages

14. Grave Situation by Alex Maclean 6867 kindle locations

Edit*** 27th February 2012: Well, about time I updated this I think!
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Great idea!

I'm aiming for 160, so a little shorter than Linda.

Books List 2012

January

1. A Princess of Landover by Terry Brooks 352p

2. Time Dancers by Steve Cash 416p

3. The Remembering by Steve Cash 304p

4. Changeless by Gail Carriger 374p

5. Blameless by Gail Carriger 355p

6. Heartless by Gail Carriger 374p

7. The Stone Cutter by Camilla Lackberg

8. The Gallows Bird by Camilla Lackberg

9. Divergent by Veronica Roth

10. Star Wars: Darth Plagueis by James Luceno 400p

11. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

12. The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars

13. The Taker

14. Dragon Haven

February

15. Star Trek: The Original Series: The Rings of Time

16. The Hidden Child

17. Naamah's Curse

18. Naamah's Blessing

19. The Paris Vendetta

20. The Emperor's Tomb

21. The Jefferson Key: A Novel

22. Shades of Milk and Honey

23. Unbroken: A World War II Story Of Survival, Resilience, And Redemption

24. The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios

25. The Eye of the World

26. The Weird Sisters

27. The Informationist

28. City of Dragons

29. That Which Divides

30. A Magic of Twilight

31. A Magic of Nightfall

Linda how come both BookyBoy and I have shorter list to read this year and we are ahead of you! Get busy girl! =P

I read ALOT in the summer so I'll catch up then ;)

Bookboy wrote: "Great idea!

I'm aiming for 160, so a little shorter than Linda.

Books List 2012

January

1. A Princess of Landover by Terry Brooks 352p

2. Time Dancers b..."


I am amazed that you have finished this many book already and it is only Jan.7TH

Brenda wrote: "Bookboy wrote: "Great idea!

I'm aiming for 160, so a little shorter than Linda.

Books List 2012

January

1. A Princess of Landover by Terry Brooks 352p

2. [book:Time D..."

I'm a quick reader, about a book a day at the mo. I average about 3500 Kindle 'locations' (I can't talk in pages anymore, how scary is that!). And to be fair, I started A Princess of Landover on New Year's Eve and finished it on January 1st - can I still count it? :)

Linda wrote: "I read ALOT in the summer so I'll catch up then ;)"

lol Ah, Summer, how we love you!

Booklist 2012

January

1. Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout 266p
2. Daimon by Jennifer Armentrout 62p
3. Half-Bloodby Jennifer L. Armentrout 281p
4. Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins 323p
5. Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins 359p
6. Pleasure Unbound by Larissa Ione 389p
7. Desire Unchained by Larissa Ione 380p
8.How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper 371p
9. The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper 336p

Well, I had a little vacation so I was able to read ... but I also hope I'll make 150 books by the end of the year(that's my challenge)..

Now, I'm starting my
10th book Finding Home.

I have a list on my blog, www.eileengranfors.blogspot.com

I loved "The Language of Flowers, Coming Together, and When She Woke," among others. I read "Say Her Name" too late to make my best of lists!

I hope more people will add list, this is interesting! :)

Dierdra wrote: "I hope more people will add list, this is interesting! :)"

Agree! But you guy's are all outreading me!! :)

Wow, your numbers are all pretty inspiring. I'm shooting for 90 books this year, but I too read the majority in the summer.

January:
1. Maine by J Courtney Sullivan, 388
2. The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar, 320
3. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, 315
4. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, 412
5. Anatomy of a Disappearance: A Novel by Hisham Matar, 224
6. The Cat's Tableby Michael Ondaatje, 269

Lauren's Booklist 2012
I'm aiming for 36 as I'm still at college, but I'm secretly aiming for more ;)

January:
1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, 454
2. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, 472
3. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins, 448
4. Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson, 256 (I read 100 and skimmed the rest, it's a waste of time)
5. Harry Potter: The Prequel by J.K. Rowling, 2
6. This Brilliant Darkness by Red Tash, 316
7. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, 429

I'm aiming for 52 books this year...

January

1. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
2. This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
3. The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
4. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
5. A Place Called Here by Cecelia Ahern
6. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
7. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
8. My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
9. One for the Money by Janet Evanovich


February
10. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Forgive me if this is a repeat. My lap top went a little wild (dog put paw on keyboard).

My goal is 110 books. But I have to weigh reading time versus writing time. I usually write morning and read afternoons. I have an anthology of flash fiction to finish and a historical novel in its second draft out with Beta readers.

Here's my list:

1. Accidents of Providence
2, Say Her Name
3. West by West
4. The Enterprise, The Fightingest Ship
5. The Drop
6. Chain Reaction (YA)
7. Song of Achilles (comes out in March; do not miss this beautiful book)
8. Tuberculosis (grades 6-12) Science history
9. Victims (Kellerman's new one)
10. The Dovekeepers
11. I, Iago
12. Heroes and Hounds
13. Dead Red Heart
14. Defending Jacob
15. Plenty of Candles, Lots of Cake
I'm not sure what will be next up for me!I, Iago: A NovelHeroes and HoundsDefending Jacob: A NovelIago: A Novel

Just added Live Wire by Harlan Coben on my list and my 24th book for the two months. Now on to March.

Just added:

28. City of Dragons

29. That Which Divides

30. A Magic of Twilight

31. A Magic of Nightfall

Just added my 27th read, The Lost Wife and my 28th read, Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben.

Just added my 29th read Defending Jacob and my 30th read Hold Tight by Harlan Coben.

My goal for the year is 52 books! I was trying 1 a week but I am 2 behind right now!

1.Fast Women By Jennifer Cruise
2.Breathless By Dean Koontz
3.Dead Reckoning By Charlaine Harris
4. One Day By David Nicholls
5. Nightlight: A Parody By Various
6. Suddenly By Barbara Delinsky
7.The Gunslinger By Stephen King
8. The Drawing of the Three By Stephen King
9. The Waste Lands By Stephen King

Gonna try to get to a 100 this year!

Books:75 Pages: 18,937

January

1. Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison 309 pages
2. Dubliners by James Joyce 156 pages
3. Split Image by Robert B. Parker 318 pages
4. The Judas Strain by James Rollins 543 pages
5. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 590 pages
6. Loss by Glen Krisch 110 pages
7. Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy 85 pages
8. Stagestruck by Peter Lovesey 325 pages
9. Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner 320 pages
10. Sex With Kings by Eleanor Herman 287 pages
11. The Case of the Lonely Heiress by Erle Stanley Gardner 216 pages
12. Tales From the Crypt by Jack Oleck 121 pages
13. The Devil's Game by Michael Diaz 194 pages

Best of January: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

February

1. The Weekend by Peter Cameron 241 pages
2. The Universe Maker by A.E. van Vogt 127 pages
3. Faint of Heart by Jeff Strand
4. Freeze by Daniel Pyle 136 pages
5. Still Coming by Joseph Flynn 433 pages
6. Gateway Drug by Scott Nicholson 139 pages
7. Ask the Dice by Ed Lynskey
8. Killers by Blake Crouch/Jack Kilborn 73 pages
9. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 174pages
10. Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy 256pages
11. Eragon by Christopher Paolini 754 pages

Best of February: Eragon

March

1. Death Mask by Graham Masterton 323 pages
2. Missing Pieces by Scott Nicholson 100 pages
3. Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close 244 pages
4. The First by Scott Nicholson 161 pages
5. Burial to Follow by Scott Nicholson 85 pages
6. Stronghold by Paul Finch 342 pages
7. Freakonomics by Levitt/Dubner 313 pages
8. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham 228 pages
9. Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene 264 pages
10. The Academy by Bentley Little 391 pages

Best of March: The Day of the Triffids

April

1. Embassytown by China Mieville 345 pages
2. The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham 239 pages
3. A Scream of Murder by John Creasey 183pages
4. The Engagement by Georges Simenon 130pages
5. Eat the Dark by Joe Schreiber 192 pages
6. Triage by Ketchum/Laymon/Lee 310 pages
7. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 246pages
8. Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie 253pages
9. The Bone Factory by Nate Kenyon 320pages
10. The Waves by Virginia Woolf 297pages
11. Look Three Way at Murder by John Creasey 190pages
12. End of Tears by Ruth Rendell 323pages
13. No Doors, No Windows by Joe Schreiber 276pages
14. Maigret Sets a Trap by Georges Simenon 182pages
15. The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larrson 724 pages
16. A Gathering of Crows by Brian Keene 301pages
17. The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen 395pages
18. Criminal Conversation by Nicolas Freeling 213pages
19. Infected by Scott Sigler 339 pages
20. The Laughing Policeman by Sjowall/Wahloo 211pages
21. The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin 190pages
22. Give Me Murder by John Creasey 174 pages

May

1. The Running Woman by Patricia Carlon 186 pages
2. Zero Cool by John Lange 221 pages
3. Blockade Billy by Stephen King 112 pages
4. The Reckoning by Sarah Pinborough 338 pages
5. The Vampire of Ropraz by Jacques Chessex 105pages
6. A Jew Must Die by Jacques Chessex 92pages
7. The Eye by Vladimir Nabokov 104 pages
8. Contagious by Scott Sigler 438 pages
9. Not In the Flesh by Ruth Rendell 303pages
10. The Innocents by Georges Simenon 160 pages
11. King Rat by China Mieville 319 pages
12. The Byworlder by Poul Anderson 160 pages
13. The Disappearance by Bentley Little 391pages
14. The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan 293 pages
15. Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard by Georges Simeon 214 pages
16. Body Rides by Richard Laymon 534 pages
17. The Outfit by Richard Stark 214 pages
18. First Love by Joyce Carol Oates 86 pages
19. The Seventh by Richard Stark 156 pages