[Dazrin]

I increased my goal from 24,000 to 27,000 pages this year to match my yearly average since I started tracking in 2011. In March I added the All Your Book are Belong to Us challenge from Goodreads.

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Page Goal: Read 27,000 pages in 2017.
Status as of December 31: 38,405 pages read, 120 books/short stories completed.
Page goal completed 9/7/2017

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Progress charts:



Overall Summary Stats:

• AYBABTU: Finished with 247 points and 9 completed categories, missing only 8 challenge items.
• Read 46 Books from 42 new authors
• Read 81 library books (65%)
• Read 43 books that either won or were shortlisted for a literary award
• Read books published in 51 different years
  • Highest from 2014 with 9
  • Read 8 books published in 2017
• Most read author: Jim Butcher with 9
• Re-read 28 books this year (23%)
• Read 31 different genres
• Read 8 audio books, totaling 53H, 36M
• Average pages/year went from 27,194 to 28,907, up 6%.

Books in progress:

• The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien

Completed books: Ordered by finish date

1. The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe - March 2014 book club nomination
2. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari - November 2016 Book Club
3. Homeland (Drizzt 4) - R.A. Salvatore
4. The Nowhere Man (Orphan X/Evan Smoak 2) - Gregg Hurwitz
5. Pawn of Prophecy (Belgariad 1) - David Eddings
6. Maskerade (Discworld 18) - Terry Pratchett
7. Queen of Sorcery (Belgariad 2) - David Eddings
8. Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon 1) - Nevada Barr
9. Magician's Gambit (Belgariad 3) - David Eddings
10. Castle of Wizardry (Belgariad 4) - David Eddings
11. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith - MR Book Club Selection February 2017
12. Redshirts - John Scalzi
13. Enchanters' End Game (Belgariad 5) - David Eddings
14. Letters from Father Christmas - J.R.R. Tolkien
15. Feet of Clay (Discworld 19) - Terry Pratchett
16. The Glass Magician (The Paper Magician 2) - Charlie N. Holmberg
17. Exile (Drizzt 5) - R.A. Salvatore
18. Old Man's War - John Scalzi
19. The Master Magician (The Paper Magician 3) - Charlie N. Holmberg
20. The Home Crowd Advantage (Rivers of London 1.5) - Ben Aaronovitch
21. Sojourn (Drizzt 6) - R.A. Salvatore
    • Abandoned: Nevernight - Jay Kristoff
22. Summer Knight (Dresden 4) - Jim Butcher
23. Naked in Death (#1) - Nora Roberts (as J.D. Robb)
24. Glory in Death (#2) - Nora Roberts (as J.D. Robb)
25. Queen Lucia - E.F. Benson - Audio book, March 2017 MR Book Club
26. Death Masks (Dresden 5) - Jim Butcher
27. Book 27
28. Oregon Off the Beaten Path: A Guide to Unique Places - Myrna Oakley
29. Hellboy: Seeds of Destruction - Mike Mignola
30. Forging ZERO (Book 1) - Sara King
31. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
32. Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War - Mary Roach
33. The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War 2) - John Scalzi
34. Blood Rites (Dresden 6) - Jim Butcher
35. Immortal in Death (In Death 3) - J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts)
    • Abandoned: Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
36. Jingo (Discworld 21) - Terry Pratchett
37. The Book of Three (Chronicles of Prydain 1) - Lloyd Alexander
38. A Cold Day for Murder (Kate Shugak 1) - Dana Stabenow - MR Book Club April 2017 selection
39. Omnilingual - H. Beam Piper
40. Little Fuzzy - H. Beam Piper
41. Still Life - Louise Penny - MRBC April 2017 nominee (and runner-up)
42. Red Dragon (Hannibal Lector 1) - Thomas Harris
43. The Lieutenants (Brotherhood of War 1) - W.E.B. Griffin
    • Abandoned: The Natural - Bernard Malamud
44. The Crystal Shard (Drizzt 1) - R.A. Salvatore
45. Buy a Bullet (Orphan X 0.5) - Gregg Hurwitz
46. Dead Beat (Dresden 7) - Jim Butcher
47. The Last Continent (Discworld 22, Rincewind 6) - Terry Pratchett
48. Rapture in Death (In Death 4) - Nora Roberts (as J.D. Robb)
49. The Captains (Brotherhood of War 2) - W.E.B. Griffin
50. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - MR Book Club May 2017 selection
51. Proven Guilty (Dresden 8) - Jim Butcher
52. The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lector 2) - Thomas Harris
53. Animal Farm - George Orwell
54. The Way of Shadows (Night Angel 1) - Brent Weeks
55. Nightingale: London 1966 (Rivers of London 0.5)- Ben Aaronovitch
56. Reynolds: Arizona 2014 (Rivers of London 3.5) - Ben Aaronovitch
57. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal - Mary Roach
58. Postmortem (Scarpetta 1) - Patricia Cornwell
59. Longtitude - Dava Sobel - June 2017 MR Book Club Selection
60. Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) - Jenny Lawson (The Bloggess)
61. Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
62. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Neil DeGrasse Tyson
63. Sorcerer to the Crown - Zen Cho
64. Way Station - Clifford D. Simak
65. The Commitments - Roddy Doyle
66. A Rare Book of Cunning Device (Rivers of London 5.6) - Ben Aaronovitch - Audiobook narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
67. Night of the Hunter (Drizzt 25) - R.A. Salvatore
    • Abandoned: Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
68. The Man of Legends - Kenneth Johnson
69. The Birds - Daphne Du Maurier
70. Tobias Winter - Meckenheim 2012 (Rivers of London 1.3) - Ben Aaronovitch
71. Eye of the Needle - Ken Follett
72. The Gunslinger (Dark Tower 1) - Stephen King
73. Carpe Jugulum (Discworld 23) - Terry Pratchett
74. American Assassin (Mitch Rapp 1) - Vince Flynn
75. White Night (Dresden 9) - Jim Butcher
76. Fatal Flight: The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship - Bill Hammack
77. Working for Bigfoot (Dresden Files collection) - Jim Butcher - Audiobook narrated by James Marsters
78. The Hunt For Red October (Jack Ryan 4) - Tom Clancy
79. Broken Homes (Rivers of London 4) - Ben Aaronovitch - Audiobook narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
80. Uncanny Valley - Greg Egan
81. Rise of the King (Drizzt 26) - R.A. Salvatore
82. Saturn Run - John Sandford and Ctein
83. Life, the Universe, and Everything (Hitchhiker's Trilogy 3) - Douglass Adams
84. The Veldt - Ray Bradbury
85. Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan 6) - Tom Clancy
86. Sorcery and Cecilia - Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
87. In the Air (Silo 1.a) - Hugh Howey
88. In the Mountain (Silo 1.b) - Hugh Howey
89. In the Woods (Silo 1.c) - Hugh Howey
90. The Fifth Elephant (Discworld 24, City Watch 5) - Terry Pratchett
91. Without Remorse (Jack Ryan 1) - Tom Clancy - Completed 2017 page goal.
92. Professor Incognito Apologizes - Austin Grossman
93. Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf (Drizzt 27) - R.A. Salvatore
94. Those Who Hunt the Night - Barbara Hambly
95. The Sum of All Fears (Jack Ryan 7) - Tom Clancy
96. A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea 1) - Ursula LeGuin
97. Last Rituals (Thora Gudmundsdóttir 1) - Yrsa Sigurdardottir
98. The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea 2) - Ursula LeGuin
99. Battle Cruiser - B.V. Larson
100. The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
101. Harry Potter 1
102. Harry Potter 2
103. Harry Potter 3
104. Harry Potter 4
105. Harry Potter 5
106. Harry Potter 6
107. The Deathly Hallows (HP 7) - J.K. Rowling
108. Shoeless Joe - W.P. Kinsella
109. Fated (Alex Verus 1) - Benedict Jacka
110. Ringworld - Larry Niven - Audio book
111. Small Favor (Dresden 10) - Jim Butcher
112. Turn Coat (Dresden 11) - Jim Butcher
113. Cursed (Alex Verus 2) - Benedict Jacka
114. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - J.K. Rowling
115. The Truth (Discworld 25) - Terry Pratchett
116. Debt of Honor (Jack Ryan 8) - Tom Clancy
117. Artemis - Andy Weir
118. Swords and Deviltry (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser 1) - Fritz Leiber
119. Sylvie and Bruno - Lewis Carroll - MR Book Club December 2017 selection
120. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
     • Abandoned: Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake

Updates:
3/8/17: Added the All Your Book are Belong to Us challenge and AYBABTU challenge tracker
4/11/17: Increased goal to 27,000 pages since it looks like I will blow by my initial goal of 25,500. My average page count through 2016 is 27,194, so hopefully I at least meet it.

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