[BelleZora]

To read 120 books, including many from both the MR Book Club and the MR Literary Book Club. To limit my purchases to $40 monthly.

Books read: 129
Pages read: 41435
Average Page Count: 321
Purchases: January - $53.76; February - $79.89; March - $105.91; April - $33.71; May - $36.35; June - $45.38; July - $33.50; Aug - $70.34; Sept - $32.05; Oct - $19.92; Nov - $31.09, Dec - $69.08

Spoiler:

1. Life After Life - Kate Atkinson [2 Jan] 529 p. ****
2. On Canaan's Side - Sebastian Barry [4 Jan] 269 p. ***
3. Fall of Giants - Ken Follett [8 Jan] 985 p. ****
4. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier [9 Jan] 354 p. ****
5. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque [10 Jan] 248 p. *****
6. The Sultan of Monte Cristo - Holy Ghost Writer [10 Jan] 110 p. *
7. The Overcoat and Other Stories - Nikolai Gogol [13 Jan] 114 p. ***
8. Captain Blood - Rafael Sabatini [19 Jan] 296 p. ***
9. Shot on Location - Laurence Shames [20 Jan] 224 p. ***
10. Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom - Ken Ilgunas [21 Jan] 320 p. ***
11. Mr. Monk on the Road - Lee Goldberg [24 Jan] 291 p. ***
12. Winter of the World - Ken Follett [27 Jan] 940 p. ****
13. Reservation Blues - Sherman Alexie [29 Jan] 303 p. ****
14. Cocaine Blues - Kerry Greenwood [30 Jan] 185 p. ***
15. The Bat - Jo Nesbo [1 Feb] 369 p. ***
16. The Good Lord Bird - James McBride [8 Feb] 432 p. ***
17. Flight Behavior - Barbara Kingsolver [9 Feb] 436 p. ****
18. Fools Crow - James Welch [15 Feb] 400 p. ****
19. Outlander - Diana Gabaldon [20 Feb] 640 p. ****
20. Eva's Eye - Karin Fossum [22 Feb] 305 p. ***
21. Dragonfly in Amber - Diana Gabaldon [25 Feb] 768 p. ***
22. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America - Thomas King [26 Feb] 266 p.
23. Desert Heat - J.A. Jance [27 Feb] 172 p. ***
24. The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion [1 March] 304 p. ****
25. Roseanna - Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö [3 March] 224 p. ****
26. The Man With a Load of Mischief - Martha Grimes [7 March] 278 p. ***
27. The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons - Lawrence Block [8 March] 250 p. ****
28. A Time of Gifts - Patrick Leigh Fermor [11 March] 321 p. *****
29. The Inferno - Dante Alighieri [12 March] 350 p. ****
30. Death in a Cold Climate: A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction - Barry Forshaw [14 March] 224 p.
31. Cockroaches - Jo Nesbø [22 March] 384 p. ***
32. Naïve. Super - Erlend Loe [23 March] 208 p. ****
33. On the Trail of Genghis Khan - Tim Cope [3 April] 528 p. ****
34. The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras - J. Michael Orenduff [5 April] 268 p. ***
35. The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde [8 April] 273 p. ****
36. The Sins of the Fathers - Lawrence Block [10 April] 304 p. ****
37. Grey Mask - Patricia Wentworth [22 April] 256 p. ***
38. Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories - Agatha Christie [23 April] 387 p. ****
39. Death Turns a Trick - Julie Smith [24 April] 177 p. ***
40. Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth - Naguib Mahfouz [25 April] 176 p. ****
41. Last Bus to Woodstock - Colin Dexter [26 April] 282 p. ***
42. Lady Fortescue Steps Out - M.C. Beaton [27 April] 123 p. ***
43. Still Life - Louise Penny [28 April] 293 p. ***
44. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde [30 April] 385 p. ***
45. Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico - John L. Kessell [1 May] 240 p. ****
46. Flowers from the Storm - Laura Kinsale [2 May] 560 p. ***
47. Miss Tonks Turns to Crime - M.C. Beaton [3 May] 152 p. ***
48. O Pioneers! - by Willa Cather [4 May] 176 p. ***
49. Rules of Prey - John Sanford [6 May] 496 p. ***
50. The Stand - Stephen King [12 May] 1213 p. ****
51. The Face of Deception - Iris Johansen [14 May] 326 p. **
52. Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad [25 May] 384 p. ***
53. Time to Murder and Create - Lawrence Block [26 May] 185 p. ***
54. The Old Fox Deceiv'd - Martha Grimes [31 May] 324 pp ****
55. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman [21 June] 385 p. ***
56. The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways - Earl Swift [22 June] 384 p. ****
57. Midnight Riot - Ben Aaronovitch [24 June] 298 p. ***
58. Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain [5 July] 608 p.****
59. The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith [6 July] 464 p. ****
60. The Club of Queer Trades - G.K. Chesterton [15 July] 102 p. ****
61. Lucia in Wartime - Tom Holt [20 July] 208 p. ****
62. Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age - Modris Eksteins [23 July] 420 p. ****
63. Of Love and War - Paul Doherty [4 Aug] 213 p. ***
64. Lucia Triumphant - Tom Holt [17 Aug] 224 p. ****
65. The White Castle - Orhan Pamuk [23 Aug] 176 p. ****
66. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [25 Aug] 336 p. *****
67. Halfway to the Grave - Jeaniene Frost [27 Aug] 384 p. **
68. Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
- Barbara Ehrenreich [31 Aug] 256 p. ***
69. Fires of London - Janice Law [2 Sept] 188 p. ****
70. Typhoid Mary - Anthony Bourdain [3 Sept] 144 p. **
71. The Tall Dolores - Michael Avallone [4 Sept] 160 p. ***
72. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming [5 Sept] 189 p. ***
73. A Pocket Full of Rye - Agatha Christie [6 Sept] 256 p. ****
74. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
- Jung Chang [22 Sept] 436 p. ****
75. Ten Little Indians - Sherman Alexie [25 Sept] 256 p. ****
76. The Cater Street Hangman - Anne Perry [29 Sept] 288 p. ***
77. Tipperary - Frank Delaney [2 Oct] 466 p. ***
78. Wayfaring Stranger - James Lee Burke [3 Oct] 448 p. ****
79. Hemingway's Girl - Erika Robuck [4 Oct] 352 p.***
80. Everybody Had a Gun - Richard S. Prather [5 Oct] 160 p. ***
81. Into the Darkest Corner - Elizabeth Haynes [6 Oct] 432 p. ***
82. The Crossing Places - Elly Griffiths [7 Oct] 320 p. ****
83. The Prisoner of the Riviera - Janice Law [8 Oct] 232 p. ****
84. Time and Again - Jack Finney [9 Oct] 399 p. ****
85. A Mind to Murder - P.D. James [10 Oct] 256 p. ***
86. The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling [11 Oct] 40 p. ***
87. Succubus Blues - Richelle Mead [11 Oct] 343 p. ***
88. I Can See in the Dark - Karin Fossum [11 Oct] 250 p. ***
89. Miss Buncle Married - D.E. Stevenson [12 Oct] 396 p***
90. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith [13 Oct] 496 p. ****
91. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven - Sherman Alexie [14 Oct] 244 p. ****
92. 4:50 from Paddington - Agatha Christie [15 Oct] 288 p. ****
93. Callender Square - Anne Perry [16 Oct] 274 p. ***
94. Mr. Mercedes - Stephen King [17 Oct] 436 p. ***
95. Dissolution - C.J. Sansom [18 Oct] 481 p. ****
96. Bartleby, the Scrivener - Herman Melville [19 Oct] 38 p. ***
97. Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell [20 Oct] 228 p. ****
98. The Giver - Lois Mowbry [21 Oct] 179 p. ****
99. Medicus - Ruth Downie [22 Oct] 418 p. ****
100. Tibetan Peach Pie - Tom Robbins [29 Oct] ****
101. Fer-de-Lance - Rex Stout [31 Oct] ****
102. Bird Box - Josh Maler[man [31 Oct] 272 p.***
103. Florida Straits - Laurence Shames [5 Nov] 253 p. ****
104. Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins [7 Nov] 352 p. ****
105. Gray Mountain - John Grisham [10 Nov] 384 p. **
106. Terra Incognita - Ruth Downie [12 Nov] 400 p. ***
107. Mr. Monk Goes to Germany - Lee Goldberg [13 Nov] 300 p. ***
108. Sweet Thursday - John Steinbeck [14 Nov] 288 p. ****
109. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches - Alan Bradley [15 Nov] 307 p. ****
110. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [18 Nov] 468 p. *****
111. Open and Shut - David Rosenfelt [19 Nov] 256 p. ****
112. Voodoo River - Robert Crais [21 Nov] 304 p. ****
113. Borrower of the Night - Elizabeth Peters [22 Nov] 336 p. ***
114. Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop - Lee Goldberg [23 Nov] 300 p. ***
115. Crossing to Safety - Wallace Stegner [25 Nov] 386 p. ****
116. Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - P.G. Wodehouse [26 Nov] 176 p. ****U
117. Unwanted - Kristina Ohlsson [30 Nov] 357 p. ***
118. A Wreath of Snow - Liz Curtis Higgs [1 Dec] 224 p. **
119. The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon - Alexander McCall Smith [5 Dec] 256 p. ***
120. Venetia - Georgette Heyer [9 Dec] 384 p. ****
121. Under Fire - Henri Barbusse [13 Dec] 352 p. ****
122. The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon [14 Dec] 139 p. *****
123. The Burning Room - Michael Connelly [15 Dec] 400 p. ****
124. What Happens at Christmas - Victoria Alexander [19 Dec] **
125. The Cricket on the Hearth - Charles Dickens [20 Dec] 82 p. 396 p. **
126. People Are # 1 - Roger Yockey [22 Dec] 162 p. ***
127. A Rumpole Christmas: Stories - John Mortimer [23 Dec] 176 p. ****
128. Gallows View - Peter Robinson [27 Dec] 336 p. ****
129. The Mouse in the Mountain - Norbert Davis [28 Dec] 151 p. ****