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At the moment I will stick with an overall (challenge) of reading 75 books in the year. My 2015 challenge was for one a week - 52 books - but as there will be a number of shorts/novellas in my 2016 challenge (e.g. the Jodi Taylor St. Mary's Chronicles short stories) I have upped this challenge a bit.

As a sub-challenge (just so it's not too easy) I will also aim for an average of 300 pages per book.

[UPDATE: I have now decided to add the Something For Everyone challenge (read a book in every one of 40 named categories, as posted in GR) to my challenge list; details at the end of this post.]

Progress:
I've met all my challenges for 2016.

Books read = 82 (75) - Challenge met!
Page Average = 308 (300) - Challenge met!
Something for Everyone challenge = 40 (40) - Challenge met!
Page Total = 25,215

Books Read:

1. The Tall Dolores (Ed Noon #1) by Michael Avallone (160 pages)
2. The Very First Damned Thing (The Chronicles of St. Mary's 0.5) by Jodi Taylor (74 pages)
3. When a Child is Born (The Chronicles of St. Mary's #2.5) by Jodi Taylor (21 pages)
4. Roman Holiday (The Chronicles of St. Mary's #3.5) by Jodi Taylor (34 pages)
5. Don't Point that Thing at Me (Charlie Mortdecai #1) by Kyril Bonfiglioli (176 pages).
6. The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham (240 pages)
7. The Tales of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah (50 pages)
8. The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike #1) by Robert Galbraith (449 pages)
9. The Damsel (Alan Grofield #1) by Richard Stark (184 pages)
10. White Trash Zombie Gone Wild (White Trash Zombie #5) by Diana Rowland (325 pages)
11. The Executioners by Danny King (234 pages)
12. Robert B. Parker's the Devil Wins (Jesse Stone #14) by Reed Farrel Coleman (352 pages)
13. Death of a Dustman (Hamish Macbeth #16) by M.C. Beaton (288 pages)
14. The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq by Hassan Blasim (196 pages)
15. The Spitting Image (Ed Noon #2) by Michael Avallone (208 pages)
16. The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike #2) by Robert Galbraith (456 pages)
17. The Grownup by Gillian Flynn (79 pages)
18. Breakdown (Alex Delaware #31) by Jonathan Kellerman (350 pages)
19. The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera (176 pages)
20. The Last Girl (The Dominion Trilogy #1) by Joe Hart (371 pages)
21. Where the Bodies Are Buried by Christopher Brookmyre (405 pages)
22. Disclaimer by Renée Knight (352 pages)
23. Strands of Sorrow (Black Tide Rising #4) by John Ringo (480 pages)
24. Death of a Celebrity (Hamish Macbeth #17) by M.C. Beaton (274 pages)
25. Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben (387 pages)
26. Get Carter by Ted Lewis (240 pages)
27. Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek (296 pages)
28. Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike #3) by Robert Galbraith (494 pages)
29. Shooting Straight: Guns, Gays, God, and George Clooney by Piers Morgan (368 pages)
30. The Joker: Death of the Family by Scott Snyder (456 pages)
31. The Pure in Heart (Simon Serrailler #2) by Susan Hill (378 pages)
32. The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade by Piers Morgan (512 pages)
33. List of the Lost by Morrissey (118 pages)
34. The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovannino Guareschi (268 pages)
35. Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff (240 pages)
36. Don Camillo and the Prodigal Son by Giovannino Guareschi (224 pages)
37. The Nation's Favourite Poems Intro by Griff Rhys Jones (192 pages)
38. The Return of the Discontinued Man (Burton & Swinburne #5) by Mark Hodder (367 pages)
39. The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend (287 pages)
40. Robert B. Parker's Slow Burn (Spenser #44) by Ace Atkins (320 pages)
41. In The Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You by Luke Smitherd (298 pages)
42. The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein (279 pages)
43. The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz (437 pages)
44. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (302 pages)
45. Dispatches From the Sofa: The Collected Wisdom of Frank Skinner (336 pages)
46. The Girl In The Ice by Robert Bryndza (396 pages)
47. Dark Web by T.J. Brearton (372 pages)
48. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (216 pages)
49. Six Impossible Things by Renee Carter Hall (55 pages)
50. The Night Stalker by Robert Bryndza (289 pages)
51. End of Watch by Stephen King (368 pages)
52. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (432 pages)
53. My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (114 pages)
54. The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl (44 pages)
55. Cinder by Marissa Meyer (387 pages)
56. The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin (602 pages)
57. The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5 and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss (381 pages)
58. Tier One by Brian Andrews (391 pages)
59. Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (352 pages)
60. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories by Stephen King (507 pages)
61. The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey (460 pages)
62. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (350 pages)
63. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville (64 pages)
64. A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor (320 pages)
65. Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson (394 pages)
66. The North Water by Ian McGuire (336 pages)
67. Robert B. Parker's Debt to Pay by Reed Farrel Coleman (352 pages)
68. Home by Harlan Coben (400 pages)
69. Death of a Village by M.C. Beaton (283 pages)
70. Stuck On You by Jasper Bark (272 pages)
71. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (493 pages)
72. Triple Crown by Felix Francis (400 pages)
73. The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson (421 pages)
74. The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management by Tom DeMarco (310 pages)
75. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (352 pages)
76. Maestra by L.S. Hilton (384 pages)
77. Night School by Lee Child (400 pages)
78. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (474 pages)
79. The Sellout by Paul Beatty (289 pages)
80. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (215 pages)
81. Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz (368 pages)
82. The Feather Men by Ranulph Fiennes (400 pages)

Currently reading:
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Six Scary Stories by Stephen King (126 pages)
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (324 pages)

Something for Everyone Challenge:

Try to read a book in every category below. Probably won't make the full list, but will give it a go:

A book based on a fairy tale - Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
A National Book Award winner - All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
A YA bestseller - The Last Girl by Joe Hart
A book you haven't read since high school - The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
A book set in your home state - The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
A book translated to English - The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq by Hassan Blasim
A romance set in the future - Cinder by Marissa Meyer
A book set in Europe - Don't Point that Thing at Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli
A book that's under 150 pages - The Grownup by Gillian Flynn (79 pages)
A book that's becoming a movie this year - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
A self-improvement book - The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
A book you can finish in a day - List of the Lost by Morrissey
A book written by a celebrity - The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade by Piers Morgan
A book that's more than 600 pages - The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin
A science-fiction novel - The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
A book recommended by a family member - The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz
A graphic novel - The Joker: Death of the Family by Scott Snyder
A book that is published in 2016 - Breakdown by Jonathan Kellerman
A classic from the 20th century - My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
A book that takes place during Summer - The Night Stalker by Robert Bryndza
A book and its prequel - The Very First Damned Thing (The Chronicles of St Mary's 0.5) and When a Child is Born (The Chronicles of St Mary's #2.5) by Jodi Taylor
A murder mystery - Death of a Dustman by MC Beaton
A book written by a comedian - Dispatches from the Sofa: The Collected Wisdom of Frank Skinner
A dystopian novel - Strands of Sorrow by John Ringo
A book with a blue cover - The Damsel by Richard Stark
A book of poetry - The Nation's Favourite Poems by Griff Rhys Jones (Foreword)
The first book you see in a bookstore - Disclaimer by Renée Knight
A book from the library - The Spitting Image by Michael Avallone
An autobiography - Shooting Straight: Guns, Gays, God, and George Clooney by Piers Morgan
A book about a culture you're unfamiliar with - The House of Hungerby Dambudzo Marechera
A book that takes place on an island - Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek
A book that's guaranteed to bring you joy - Don Camillo and the Prodigal Son by Giovannino Guareschi
A book at least 100 years older than you - Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
A New York Times bestseller - Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben
A book about a road trip - Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
A political memoir - The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History by Boris Johnson
A book with a protagonist who has your occupation - The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management by Tom DeMarco
A book from Oprah's Book Club - The Reader by by Bernhard Schlink
A satirical book - Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
A book recommended by someone you just met - The Feather Men by Ranulph Fiennes