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Including three Irish books of any kind, three famous English classics, three nominations of someone else's and three of my own that don't win in the second half of 2014 in either MR book club, and Surfing and Health by Dorian Paskowitz, and all should be books I haven't yet read. (more detail here)

Progress- 9345/6000 pages, complete!
3/3 Irish (The Country Girls, Gulliver's Travels, At Swim-Two-Birds), complete!
3/3 English classic (Bleak House, Animal Farm, Tess of the d'Urbervilles), complete!
3/3 club non-winner, others (Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, The Iron King, To Kill a Mockingbird), complete!
3/3 club non-winner, my own (The Bible Unearthed, The Country Girls, The Giver), complete!
1/1 Surfing and Health, complete!
All goals complete

Beginning with the most recent,

December

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, narrated by Sissy Spacek, 737 minutes, ~322 pages, ✭✭✭✭✫
• At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien, 258 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, 453 pages, ✭✭✭✭✭
• The Iron King by Maurice Druon, narrated by Peter Joyce, 665 minutes, ~323 pages, ✭✭✭✭✫
• The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens, 106 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫
• Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal, translated by Harold Augenbraum, 479 pages, ✭✭✭✭✫
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, narrated by David Hyde Pierce, 592 minutes, ~309 pages, ✭✭✭✭✫
• Animal Farm by George Orwell, narrated by Ralph Cosham, 193 minutes, ~127 pages, ✭✭✭✭✭
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens, narrated by Sean Barrett and Teresa Gallagher, 2118 minutes, ~922 pages, ✭✭✭✭✭

November

• Ghost Story by Peter Straub, 500 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫

October

• The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling, 51 pages, ✭✭✫✫✫
• The Giver by Lois Lowry, narrated by Ron Rifkin, 291 minutes, ~203 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫
• O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, 168 pages, ✭✭✭✭✭
• The Bible Unearthed by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, 392 pages, ✭✭✭✭✫
• What Maisie Knew by Henry James, narrated by Maureen O'Brien, 602 minutes, ~291 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, narrated by Kirby Heyborne and Julia Whelan, 1151 minutes, ~452 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫

September

• Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang, narrated by Pik-Sen Lim, 1144 minutes, ~430 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 494 pages, ✭✭✭✭✫
• The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien, narrated by the author, 438 minutes, ~187 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫
• Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor, 273 pages, ✭✭✭✭✭
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, narrated by Kate Rudd, 434 minutes, ~317 pages, ✭✭✭✭✫

August

• On the Trail of Genghis Khan by Tim Cope, narrated by Philip Rose, 1119 minutes, ~519 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫
• The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Victoria Holbrook, 160 pages, ✭✭✭✭✭
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, 351 pages, ✭✭✭✭✫

July

• Surfing and Health by Dorian Paskowitz, 297 pages, ✭✭✭✭✭
• The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal, narrated by Walter Dixon, 500 minutes, ~304 pages, ✭✭✭✭✫
• The Club of Queer Trades by G.K. Chesterton, 113 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫
• Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer, 369 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, narrated by Adrian Cronauer, 346 minutes, ~166 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫
• Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates, 9 pages, ✭✭✭✭✫

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Goal: 4,000 pages in the first half of 2014
Including Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco and a 2014 MR book club (either one) nomination, originally nominated by someone other than me, that made it to the vote but didn't win

Progress- 9212/4000 pages, 1/1 Foucault's Pendulum, 1/1 club non-winner (The Bridge of San Luis Rey), complete!

Beginning with the most recent,

June

• Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith, narrated by Lisette Lecat, 475 minutes, ~246 pages, ✭✭✭✭✫
• Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, 658 pages, ✭✭✭✭✫
• Hyperion by Dan Simmons, 483 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫
• Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris, narrated by Johanna Parker, 611 minutes, ~316 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫
• Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad, 320 pages, ✭✭✭✭✫
• Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris, narrated by Johanna Parker, 569 minutes, ~301 pages, ✭✭✫✫✫

May

• Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith, narrated by Lisette Lecat, 379 minutes, ~222 pages, ✭✭✭✭✫
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder, 143 pages, ✭✭✭✭✭
• The Cuckoo's Calling by J.K. Rowling, 476 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫

April

• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, 298 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫
• Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz, translated by Tagreid Abu-Hassabo, 177 pages, ✭✭✫✫✫
• Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris, narrated by Johanna Parker, 623 minutes, ~319 pages, ✭✭✫✫✫
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, 342 pages, ✭✭✭✭✫
• Divergent by Veronica Roth, narrated by Emma Galvin, 671 minutes, ~456 pages, ✭✭✫✫✫

March

• A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor, 311 pages, ✭✭✭✭✭
• A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin, 1158 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫

February

• The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, 45 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, 821 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫
• Fools Crow by James Welch, 421 pages, ✭✭✭✫✫
• A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin, 826 pages, ✭✭✫✫✫

January

• Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver, 626 pages, ✭✭✫✫✫
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, translated by A.W. Wheen, 247 pages, ✭✭✭✭✫

Key:
✭✫✫✫✫ - Disliked
✭✭✫✫✫ - So-so
✭✭✭✫✫ - Good
✭✭✭✭✫ - Excellent
✭✭✭✭✭ - Favourite

Prior years 2013 2012 2011