2013 Reading Goals: To read 120 books, including all MR Book Club selections.
Books Read: 125
Authors: 90
Pages Read: 42635 (per book average: 341 pages)
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Favorites
1.
Keep The Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell [2 Jan] 221 p.
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The Narrows - Michael Connelly [3 Jan] 405 p.
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Persuasion - Jane Austen [4 Jan] 249 p.
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Dance Hall of the Dead - Tony Hillerman [5 Jan] 255 p.
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These Old Shades - Georgette Heyer [7 Jan] 386 p.
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The Water's Edge - Karin Fossum [8 Jan] 235 p.
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Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow [9 Jan] 431 p.*
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The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck [12 Jan] 357 p.*
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The Closers - Michael Connelly [14 Jan] 416 p.
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A Fatal Winter by G.M. Malliet [19 Jan] 383 p.
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Noble Satyr - Lucinda Brant [22 Jan] 313 p.
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [27 Jan] 944 p.*
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Under The Dome - Stephen King [29 Jan] 897 p.
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Mapp and Lucia - E.F. Benson [31 Jan] 242 p.*
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The Deep Blue Good-By - John D. MacDonald [1 Feb] 144 p.
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The Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connelly [2 Feb] 350 p.*
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Tokyo Doll - John McPartland [4 Feb] 145 p.
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18.
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith [7 Feb] 249 p.
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Lady Maggie's Secret Scandal - Grace Burrowes [8 Feb] 253 p.
20.
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [9 Feb] 261 p.
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The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh [10 Feb] 308 p.
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Echo Park - Michael Connelly [12 Feb] 280 p.*
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One For The Money - Janet Evanovich [14 Feb] 288 p.
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A Place Beyond Courage by Elizabeth Chadwick [18 Feb] 418 p.
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Rajmund - D.B. Reynolds [19 Feb] 321 p.
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Very Good, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse [20 Feb] 304 p.*
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Driving Mr. Dead - Molly Harper [21 Feb] 160 p.
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Listening Woman - Tony Hillerman [22 Feb] 205 p.
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In the Time of Butterflies - Julia Alvarez [23 Feb] 303 p.
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand- Helen Simonson [24 Feb] 386 pp.
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31.
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows - Alan Bradley [25 Feb] 275 p.
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce [2 March] 297 p.
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The Overlook - Michael Connelly [3 March] 160 p.
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Lucia's Progress - E.F. Benson [6 March] 241 p.
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35.
The Brass Verdict - Michael Connelly [8 March] 432 p.
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36.
Claire Dewitt and the City of the Dead - Sara Gran [9 March] 273 p.
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37.
Nine Dragons - Michael Connelly [12 March] 385 p.
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The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler [15 March] 272 p.
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The Reversal - Michael Connelly [18 March] 389 p.
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The Inimitable Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse [20 March] 225 p.
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41.
Lamb - Christopher Moore [21 March] 444 pp.
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Before I Go To Sleep - S.J. Watson [23 March] 368 p.
43.
Dogging Steinbeck - Bill Steigerwald [8 Apr] 280 p.
44.
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan [14 Apr] 288 p.
45.
The Drop - Michael Connelly [17 Apr] 388 p.
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A Drop of the Hard Stuff - Lawrence Block [20 Apr] 319 p.
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Trouble for Lucia - E.F. Benson [23 Apr] 231 p.
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Chess Story - Stefan Zweig [24 Apr] 83 p.
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Bad Monkey - Carl Hiaasen [23 June] 337 p.
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The Fifth Witness - Michael Connelly [26 June] 421 p.
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The Black Box - Michael Connelly [4 July] 403 p.
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The Caller - Karin Fossum [6 July] 256 p.
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Angle of Investigation - Michael Connelly [7 July] 92 p.
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The Two Minute Rule - Robert Crais [8 July] 325 p.
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Bad Intentions - Karin Fossum [10 July] 192 p.
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The Conquest of the Incas - John Hemming [17 July] 624 p.
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Fanny and Stella - Neil McKenna [19 July] 413 p.
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Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell [20 July] 288 p.
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Bust - Ken Bruen & Jason Starr [21 July] 260 p.
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The Little Sister - Raymond Chandler [22 July] 256 p.
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The Walk - Richard Paul Evans [23 July] 289 p.
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The Dwelling Place - Catherine Cookson [24 July] 402 p.
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Speaking from Among the Bones - Alan Bradley [25 July] 378 p.
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Light of the World - James Lee Burke [29 July] 560 p.
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Doomsday Book - Connie Willis [2 Aug] 578 p.
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66.
Against the Tide - Elizabeth Camden [3 Aug] 362 p.
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The Princes of Ireland - Edward Rutherford [6 Aug] 762 p.
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The Light Between Oceans - M.L. Stedman [7 Aug] 356 p.
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Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome [8 Aug] 176 p.
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Cover Her Face - P.D. James [11 Aug] 250 p.
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A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving [15 Aug] 656 p.
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72.
The Shining - Stephen King [18 Aug] 466 p.
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Sold - Patricia McCormick [19 Aug] 263 p.
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To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis [22 Aug] 493 p.
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75.
Thus Was Adonis Murdered - Sarah Caudwell [24 Aug] 324 p.
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76.
And There Were None - Agatha Christie [25 Aug] 247 p.
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Fantasy Lover - Sherrilyn Kenyon [26 Aug] 337 p.
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The Moving Finger (Miss Marple #4) - Agatha Christie [26 Aug] 240 p.
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Montana 1948 - Larry Watson [27 Aug] 186 p.
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80.
The Rebels of Ireland - Edward Rutherford [30 Aug] 896 p.
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81.
Brown's Requiem - James Ellroy [31 Aug] 256 p.
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Purge - Sofi Oksanen [1 Sept] 400 p.
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83.
Indecent Exposure - Tom Sharpe [2 Sept] 353 p.
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84.
They Do It With Mirrors (Miss Marple #5) - Agatha Christie [3 Sept] 258 p.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence [5 Sept] 327 p.
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The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling [8 Sept] 465 p.
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87.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself - Harriet Jacobs [10 Sept] 258 p.
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The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie [13 Sept] 578 p.
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Queen Victoria - Lytton Strachey [14 Sept] 255 p.
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No Orchids for Miss Blandish - James Hadley Chase [15 Sept] 188 p.
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Open Season - C.J. Box [16 Sept] 316 p.
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A Traveller in Time - Alison Uttley [17 Sept] 336 p.
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Ireland - Frank Delaney [21 Sept] 576 p.
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94.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie [23 Sept] 208 p.
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Doctor Sleep - Stephen King [27 Sept] 531 p. *
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Cockfighter - Charles Willeford [1 Oct] 200 p.
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The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson [6 Oct] 443 p.
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98.
TransAtlantic - Colum McCann [7 Oct] 304 p.
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The Secret River - Kate Grenville [9 Oct] 334 p.
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The Shortest Way to Hades - Sarah Caudwell [13 Oct] 195 p.
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The Curse of Capistrano - The Mark of Zorro - Johnston McCulley [15 Oct] 288 p.
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The Misremembered Man - Christina McKenna [17 Oct] 307 p.
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Havana Blue - Leonardo Padura Fuentes [22 Oct] 244 p.
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Kindred - Octavia Butler [24 Oct] 264 p.
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Wilt - Tom Sharpe [27 Oct] 336 p.
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Savage Run - C.J. Box [28 Oct] 304 p.
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The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas [3 Nov] 1276 p.
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108.
A Murder is Announced - Agatha Christie [4 Nov] 245 p.
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Miss Buncle's Book - D.E. Stevenson [5 Nov] 299 p.
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Disappeared - Anthony Quinn [6 Nov] 252 p.
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Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini [7 Nov] 384 p.
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112.
Sycamore Row -John Grisham [9 Nov] 447 p.
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113.
Candide - Voltaire [10 Nov] 114 p.
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The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection - Alexander McCall Smith [11 Nov] 257 p.
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The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain [20 Nov] 120 p.
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Plum Lucky - Janet Evanovich [22 Nov] 166 p.
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A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz [25 Nov] 560 p.
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Gently does It - Alan Hunter [2 Dec] 250 p.
119. The Gods of Guilt - Michael Connelly [6 Dec] 400 p. *
120. Inferno - Dan Brown [9 Dec] 446p.
121. The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman [10 Dec] 181 p.
122. Dubliners - James Joyce [13 Dec] 276 p.
123. Las Vegas: The Great American Playground [22 Dec] 160 p.
124. James Joyce Revisited - Richard F. Peterson [24 Dec] 131 p.
125. The Best of Frank O'Connor - Frank O'Connor [25 Dec] 712 p.
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