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15. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak - 704 pages
6,614/25,000
15. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak - 704 pages
6,614/25,000

Just finished reading The Woman In Cabin 10- 340 pages
4,465/50,000
45,535 pages remaining

1. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan - 432 pages
2. Bonfire by Krysten Ritter - 288 pages
3. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen - 343 pages
1,063/20,000

Total pages read: 1,621/30,000
The Diary of a Young Girl: 283 pages
The Darkest Minds: 488 pages
A Torch Against the Night: 452 pages
A Darker Shade of Magic: 398 pages

4,752/8,000 pages completed
"Mask of Shadows" by Linsey Miller
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The following is what I've read so far:
January Reads:
1). Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 1. Dates started and finished: 1st January 2018 (Read this in a day). Pages: 186
2). Unravel: To Unwell and Back. Dates started and finished: 1st January to 2nd January. Pages: 113
3).Asylum. Date Read: 2nd January. Pages: 110
4). Yona of the Dawn, Vol. 1. Date Read: 2nd January. Pages: 200
5). Red Queen. Date Read: 3rd to 5th January. Pages: 383
6). The Good People. Date Read: 5th to 9th January. Pages: 384
7). Midwives. Date Read: 10th to 14 January. Pages: 374
8). Squatter's Rights. Dates Read: 15 to 17 January. Pages: 192
9). Manga Classics: Great Expectations Date Read: 17 January. Pages: 308
10). The Secret Garden Date Read: 18 - 20th January. Pages: 242
11). The Secret Annexe: from The diary of Anne Frank Date Read: 23 January. Pages: 56
12). The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium. Date Read: 20th to 26th January. Pages: 230
13). Yona of the Dawn, Vol. 2. Date Read: 26th January. Pages: 192
14). Sanctum. Date Read: 26th to 27th January. Pages: 343
15). The Promised Neverland, Vol. 1: Grace Field House. Date Read: 28th January. Pages: 183
16). A Silent Voice, Vol. 1. Date Read: 30th January. Pages: 192
February Reads:
1). The Stars My Destination Pages: 244. Dates Read: 30th January to 4th February.
2). The Subtle Knife. Pages: 288. Dates Read: 9th to 12 February.
3). Purple Hibiscus. Pages: 307. Dates Read: 12th to 14th February.
4). The Miniaturist. Pages: 400. Dates Read: 15th to 18th February.
5). The Dream of the Red Chamber. Pages: 96. Dates Read: 19th to 22nd February.
6). Slow River. Pages: 321. Dates Read: 22nd to 27th February.
March Reads:
1). Pride and Prejudice: Manga Classics. Pages: 377. Date Read: 2nd March.
2). Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now. Pages: 288. Dates Read: 3-7 March.
Total Number of Pages Read: 6009/25,000
Message #12 update!
16. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - 368 pages
6,982/25,000
16. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - 368 pages
6,982/25,000

8. Milk Glass Moon by Adriana Trigiani Completed 23/2/18 Rating 4 stars
254 pages
9. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Completed 6/3/18 Rating 5 stars
343 pages
2,675/15,000

Duration: January 1 to December 31, 2018
20,236/75,000
January
1.Stillhouse Lake
2.The Neighborhood
3.Evermore
4A is for Alibi
5Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between
6.11/22/63
7.The Drawing of the Three
8Falling into You
9.Between the Blade and the Heart
10. Guilty Pleasures
11.The Good Daughter
12.Fake Wife
13.Do Over
14.The Laughing Corpse
15.Vindication
16.Circus of the Damned
17.Frenched
18.The Cruel Prince
19.The Lunatic Cafe
20.Bloody Bones
21The Breakdown
22.The Drowned Girls
23The Risk
24.The Killing Dance
25.Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
26.The Chalk Man
27.Burnt Offerings
28.Sidetracked
29.Blue Moon
February
1Dirty Filthy Rich Men
2.Scarlet Angel
3.Killman Creek
4.Relief Valve
5.Playmaker
6.Obsidian Butterfly
7.All the Lies
8.Dirty Filthy Rich Love
9.The Lucky Ones
10.Silent Child
11.Paint It All Red
12.Narcissus in Chains
13.Final Girls
14.Girl Unknown
15.The One
16.The Liar's Girl
17Cerulean Sins
18The Wife
19Incubus Dreams
20.The Woman in the Window
March
1.In Deep Water
2.Micah
3.Dreamcatcher
I feel very accomplished so far this year.

David Safier - Plötzlich Shakespeare = 315
Total in March = 315
Total 6095/20.000 pages

Duration: January 1 to December 31, 2018
6,953/25,000
The Librarian from the Black Lagoon- 32
The Moral Landscape- 291
Outlander- 850
After You- 353
The Sherlock Effect- 215
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions - 50
Twelve Years a Slave- 240
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing- 224
War Trash- 368
X: A Short Story- 30
The Hate U Give- 464
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time- 170
Dragon Ball Super, Vol. 1- 192
Luckiest Girl Alive- 352
Quidditch Through the Ages- 105
Ready Player One- 374
Hatchet- 189
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things- 329
Who Censored Roger Rabbit?- 240
All the Missing Girls-384
The Metamorphosis-100
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood- 304
If I Was Your Girl-288
The Scarlet Pimpernel-271
Into the Water-358
In the Cut- 180
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Goal: 12,846/60,000 - 21% - 45 total books
Goal: 12,846/60,000 - 21% - 45 total books

I finished book number 25. Manga Classics: The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (Dates Read: 7-10 March, Pages: 308).
Total pages read so far: 6317/25,000

4,236/14,000 pages [30%]
#1 The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto pp. 496 4/5
#2 Coming Home pp. 785 4/5
#3 First Frost pp. 314 5/5
#4 Rocket Science for Babies pp. 24 3/5
#5 Night Film pp. 637 4/5
#6 Doctor Sleep pp. 485 3/5
#7 The Miniaturist pp. 433 4/
#8 Starseeker pp. 323 5/5
#9 The Rules of Magic pp. 367 5/5
#10 I See You pp. 372 4/5

154. **** - Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Le Couteur
155. ** - Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
156. *** - An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
157. *** - The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle
158. *** - Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall
159. *** - Economics: The User's Guide by Ha-Joon Chang
160. ***** - The 10x Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure by Grant Cardone
161. **** - On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
162. *** - 30 Ways to Reboot Your Body: A Complete User Manual for Getting the Most Out of the Human Body by Ben Greenfield
163. *** - A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
164. *** - On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
165. *** - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
166. *** - Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey
167. ** - A Sky Full of Birds by Matt Merritt
168. **** - Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness by Alan Derickson
169. **** - Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight
170. **** - Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You by Daniel Priestley
171. ***** - Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho
Total Books: 171
Total Pages: 49,512

February:
More Than This - 2,273/20,000
The Afterlife of Holly Chase - 2,662/20,000

Recently finished Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused - 273 pages.
3,944/15,500

So far I have read:
Stoneheart - 500 pages
The Golden Braid - 320 pages
Wildwood Dancing - 407 pages
The Flame of Olympus - 385 pages
Valkyrie - 352 pages
Day of Doom - 270 pages
Reaching for Sun - 144 pages
The Fugitive Factor - 160 pages
Candlelight for Rebecca - 77 pages
Rebecca and the Movies- 78 pages
A Noble Groom - 525 pages
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora - 236 pages
The Princess Bride - 317 pages
Kit Learns a Lesson: A School Story - 67 pages
Metamorphosis (Kindle edition) - 50 pages
Breakaway - 192 pages
The Old Man and the Sea- 127 pages
The Battle of Hackham Heath - 346 pages
Persuasion - 225 pages
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards - 256 pages
Really Truly Ruthie - 75 pages
Children of Blood and Bone - 525 pages
The Caldera - 432 pages
Villain Keeper - 333 pages
Mystery of the Ivory Charm- 208 pages
The Clue of the Tapping Heels- 202
Maelyn- 142
The Cat Who Saw Red - 256
The Cat Who Turned On and Off - 271
Daring to Dream- 176
Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold-336
The Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk- 180
The Mystery at the Moss-covered Mansion- 204
The Red Fox Clan
The Secret of Mirror Bay
The Clue in the Crossword Cipher
The Clue of the Leaning Chimmney
The Ghost of Blackwood Hall
The Clue in the Crumbling Wall
The Witch Tree Symbol
The Moonstone Castle Mystery
The Clue in the Old Album
The Clue of the Velvet Mask
The Secret of the Wooden Lady
The Clue in the Jewel Box
The Quest of the Missing Map
The Secret in the Old Attic
The Mystery of the Fire Dragon
The Mystery of the Tolling Bell
Let's Turn Pages: 11105/10000 YAYYY!!! Just in time for the end of the year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DONE!
Thanks!

February: 6,820
Completed: 15,569/75,000
Dating You / Hating You by Christina Lauren = 350 pages
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder = 431 pages
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore = 496 pages
Firelight by Kristen Callihan = 385 pages
Blood Fury by J.R. Ward = 411 pages
A Crown of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi = 369 pages
The Child by Fiona Barton = 336 pages
Wither by Lauren DeStefano= 358 pages
Moonglow by Kristen Callihan = 384 pages
Misadventures of a Virgin by Meredith Wild = 188 pages
Misadventures of a City Girl by Meredith Wild and Chelle Bliss = 187 pages
Play by Kylie Scott = 304 pages
Lead by Kylie Scott= 318 pages
Deep by Kylie Scott = 271 pages
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black = 384 pages
Roomies by Christina Lauren = 368 pages
Magic Study by Maria V. Snyder = 448 pages
One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake = 464 pages
Phantom Evil by Heather Graham = 368 pages
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Total 21,785/50,000
January - 3,417
February - 5,102
March - 5402
April - 2001
May - 2586
June - 3277
July -
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