50 books, 16 818 pages, 365 days. 

Because I feel the need to make myself do things, instead of just sitting around and thinking all the time, I’ve decided to make this into a challenge.  I haven’t figured out what my prize is going to be if I can manage all this, but maybe I can get Mum involved in a competition-type thing, and we’ll sort something out.  I’ve no idea.

So, here’s the complete list:

1. The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts – Douglas Adams (832 pages)
2. The Fault in Our Stars – John Green (318 pages)
3. The House of Silk – Anthony Horowitz (304 pages)
4. The Cat’s Table – Michael Ondaatje (288 pages)
5. Good Omens – Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman (416 pages)
6. The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery (325 pages)
7. The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd (336 pages)
8. My Dear Watson – Margaret Park Bridges (234 pages)
9. Smoke and Mirrors – Neil Gaiman (368 pages)
10. The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman (336 pages)
11. Shine – Lauren Myracle (376 pags)
12. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs (352 pages)
13. Before I Go to Sleep – S.J. Watson (368 pages)
14. A Mad Desire to Dance – Elie Wiesel (288 pages)
15. One Generation After – Elie Wiesel (224 pages)
16. The Story of Mankind – Hendrik Willem Van Loon (552 pages)
17. The Dead Witness – Michael Sims (608 pages)
18. Between Shades of Gray – Ruta Sepetys (320 pages)
19. The Final Solution: A Story of Detection – Michael Chabon (160 pages)
20. Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman – E.W. Hornung (176 pages)
21. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice – Laurie R. King (384 pages)
22. Sarah’s Key – Tatiana de Rosnay (320 pages)
23. The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster (272 pages)
24. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger (560 pages)
25. Rules of Civility – Amor Towles (352 pages)
26. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (320 pages)
27. Maggie-Now – Betty Smith (368 pages)
28. The Rag and Bone Shop – Robert Cormier (154 pages)
29. Ideas of Heaven – Joan J.R. Silber (224 pages)
30. The Name of the Star – Maureen Johnson (384 pages)
31. Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher (304 pages)
32. Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life – Gretchen Rubin (336 pages)
33. The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky (224 pages)
34. Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell (228 pages)
35. The Universe in a Nutshell – Stephen Hawking (224 pages)
36. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon (240 pages)
37. Dust and Shadow – Lyndsay Faye (336 pages)
38. The Sherlockian – Graham Moore (368 pages)
39. A Single Man – Christopher Isherwood (186 pages)
40. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John LeCarré (400 pages)
41. Tree of Codes – Jonathan Safran Foer (285 pages)
42. The Minds of Billy Milligan – Daniel Keyes (448 pages)
43. The Little Shadows – Marina Endicott (544 pages)
44. The Memory Palace: A Memoir – Mira Bartok (336 pages)
45. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde (256 pages)
46. A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash – Sylvia Nasar (464 pages)
47. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking – Susan Cain (352 pages)
48. My Week With Marilyn – Colin Clark (160 pages)
49. Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way – Bill Bryson (272 pages)
50. The Paris Wife – Paula McLain (200/336 pages)

Date Started: January the 26th, 2012

Pages completed: 3 828/16 818