100+ Books in 2025 discussion

Hello! I'm new here and am excited to keep track. I guess I've never counted how many books a year I read so I'm interested to see what my total is!

January:
1. Tell No One by Harlan Coben
2. The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
3. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
4. Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
5. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick
6. Little Bee by Chris Cleave
7. Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman
8. Stiff: Curious lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
9. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
10. Provence by Laney Salisbury
11. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
12. Rules by Cynthia Lord
13. Emerald by Phyllis Whitney
14. History of World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage

15. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
16. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

17. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

18. Marley & Me by John Grogan

19. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

20. Pure Drivel by Steve Martin.
Book of funny essays. It made me laugh but not my type of book.

21. Marilyn Monroe by Barbara Leaming
22. Booked to Die by John Dunning

23. Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

24. Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones by Greg Campbell

25. Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

26. The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank by Erma Bombeck

Total pages (so far): 7540

27. Before I fall by Lauren Oliver (amazing book!!!)
Total Pages: 8010

28. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
29. Felicia's Journey by William Trevor

Total Pages: 8508

30. Good Grief by Lolly Winston
31. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
32. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn

33. The Magician's Guild by Trudi Canavan
34. The Wish House by Celia Rees

Total Pages: 9779

35. Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
36. Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

Pages: 10,332

37. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
38. Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
39. Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen

total pages: 10,983

40. I am David by Anne Holm
41. P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern

total pages: 11,751

42. 33 Snowfish by Adam Rapp
43. Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
44. Big Fish by Daniel Wallace

45. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

46. Cassie Draws the Universe by P. S. Baber
47. Boy with the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

total pages: 13,599

48. It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
49. Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan

total pages: 14,228

50. The Stargirl by Jerri Spinelli
51. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

52. Look for JJ by Anne Cassidy
53. I'm Alice (I think) by Susan Juby


total pages: 15234

54. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
55. Milkweed by Jerri Spinelli

56. A Northern Light by Jennifer Connolly
57. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
58. Witch Child by Celia Rees

total pages: 16,886

59. Cirque Du Freak: A living Nightmare by Darren Shan
60. Arabella by Georgette Heyer

61. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
62. About a Boy by Nick Hornby

Trisha wrote: "59. Cirque Du Freak: A living Nightmare by Darren Shan
60. Arabella by Georgette Heyer"

I just read my very first Heyer...her knowledge of all things Regency is incredible!!! How could I not have known of her before?!

63. Pirates! by Celia Rees
64. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
65. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
66. If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson

Cindi wrote: I just read my very first Heyer...her knowledge of all things Regency is incredible!!! How co..."

I know!! I think they've been hiding her from us!!! ;)

67. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
68. Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
69. Watchmen by Alan Moore

70.The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
71. TTYL by Lauren Myracle

72. I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan
73. The War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells
74. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

75. Uglies by Scott Westerfield
76. P.S. Longer Letter Later by Paula Danziger
77. Fair Weather by Richard Peck
78. Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
79. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

80. Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
81. The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
82. Inside the Shadow City by Kristen Miller
83. The Beach by Alex Garland
84. A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer
85. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
86. There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom by Louis Sachar
87. M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman
88. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

89. Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger
90. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

91. Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
92. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
93. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
94. I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
95. Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof
96. My Abandonment by Peter Rock
97. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

98. All-American Girl by Meg Cabot
99. Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
100. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
101. The Rising Star of Rusty Nail by Lesley M. M. Blume

102. Mondays are Red by Nicola Morgan
103. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
104. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
105. The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
106. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
107. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
108. How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents by Julia Alvarez
109. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
110. Mates, Dates, and Inflatable Bras by Cathy Hopkins

111. Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
112. A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson
113. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen by Dyan Sheldon
114. City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
115. Night by Elie Wiesel
116. Boy2Girl by Terence Blacker
117. Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
118. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
119. A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
120. All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
121. Girl, 15, Charming but Insane by Sue Limb
122. The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein
123. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
124. Who Killed my Daughter by Lois Duncan

125. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
126. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
127. Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire Saenz
128. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
129. Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
130. Boy Meets Girl by Meg Cabot
131. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

132. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
133. How I live now by Meg Rosoff
134. Al Capone Does my Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
135. Gossip Girl by Cecily Von Ziegesar
136. Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
137. Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
138. The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy
139. A Heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius

140. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
141. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

142. The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant
143. Generation X by Douglas Coupland
144. Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

145. Cut by Patricia McCormick
146. Chocolat by Joanne Harris
147. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
148. Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
149. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
150. The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright
151. My So-Called Life by Catherine Clark

152. Utterly Devoted by Regina Scott
153. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
154. Feed by M. T. Anderson
155. A Prayer for the Dyng by Stewart O'Nan
156. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherin Paterson
157. Operation Redwood by Terrell S. French
158. Does My Head Look Big in This by Randa Abdel-Fattah
159. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
160. Dear Nobody by Berlie Doherty

161. Top 8 by Katie Finn
162. The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart
163. Girl in Hycinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
164. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
165. Breathe: A Ghost Story by Cliff McNash
166. The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon
167. The Rant Zone by Dennis Miller
168. Passion by Lauren Kate
169. I'm not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti
170. Go and Come Back by Joan Abelove

171. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
172. Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas
173. The Name of this Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch
174. The Skin I'm in by Sharon Flake
175. Saint Iggy by K. L. Going
176. Sold by Patricia McCormick
177. Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen
178. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
179. Before I die by Jenny Downham
180. When you Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
181. Counting Stars by Davild Almond
182. Red Phoenix by Larry Bond
183. Roads by Larry McMurtry

Number Pages so far: 53,427