2013.reading.challenge:complete

I did it! At the very last minute I finished the last few pages of the 40th book of the year! Hooray! I read some really great books this year, and some pretty terrible ones, but in the end it’s always good to be reading a story. I have challenged myself to read another 40 this year and there is already a stack by the bed vying for my attention first. One of the most anticipated books is Butler’s Lives of the Saints – I’m so excited to read about all of these fabulous and crazy religious folks! I may not be buying what they are selling, but I am most certainly impressed with their devotion to the cause.

1. Dead as a Doornail – Charlaine Harris
2. Later, At the Bar – Rebecca Barney
3. Definitely Dead – Charlaine Harris
4. All Together Dead – Charlaine Harris
5. From Dead to Worse – Charlain Harris
6. Dead and Gone – Charlain Harris
7. Dead in the Family – Charlain Harris
8. Dead Reckoning – Charlaine Harris
9. Deadlocked – Charlaine Harris
10. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carrol
11. Wideacre – Philippa Gregory
12. The Favored Child – Philippa Gregory
13. Meridon – Philippa Gregory
14. Pope Joan – Donna Woolfolk Cross
15. The Kingmaker’s Daughter – Philippa Gregory
16. Wickett’s Remedy – Myla Goldberg
17. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
18. Annie John – Jamaica Kincaid
19. Girls in Trucks – Katie Crouch
20. The Potty Mouth at the Table – Laurie Notaro
21. Dead Ever After – Charlain Harris
22. The Other Queen – Philippa Gregory
23. The Weird Sisters – Eleanor Brown
24. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk – David Sedaris
25. What to Wear to See the Pope – Christine Lehner
26. I Am Nujood, Age 10 & Divorced – Nujood Ali
27. Down the Common – Anne Baer
28. Medieval Women – Eileen Power
29. The Queen’s Fool – Philippa Gregory
30. Flower Children – Maxine Swann
31. The Beet Queen – Louise Erdrich
32. The Last Pope – Luis Miguel Rocha
33. Mastering the Art of French Eating – Ann Mah
34. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
35. Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
36. Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
37. Versailles – Kathryn Davis
38. The Birds’ Christmas Carol – Kate Douglas Wiggin
39. The Book of Salt – Monique Truong
40. Common Sense – Thomas Paine

12,475 pages read this year. I’ll take it!