Cover to Cover Challenge discussion

I hit the goal of 144 in 2010, but it was a chore at times. I will start off trying for 100, and see if reading at a more leisurely pace works better.

Here is what I completed in January:

1. Courting Trouble (***)
2. Gravity (***)
3. Cross Fire (***)
4. The Last Surgeon (***1/2)
5. Dead Ringer (***1/2)
6. The Gift: Witch & Wizard, Book 2 (**)
7. Hell’s Corner (****)
8. Killer Smile (***)
9. Daddy’s Girl (***)
10. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (***)
11. Lady Killer (***)
12. Where the Sidewalk Ends (****)
13. Japan ai (***1/2)
14. I Am the Messenger (****)

Thank goodness for audio books, because I have listened to lots more than I have read.

Here are my February reads:

15. Before I Fall (***)
16. Kindred (***)
17. Think Twice (***1/2)
18. Tick Tock (***1/2)
19. Man’s Search for Meaning (***)
20. Think of a Number (***)
21. Shanghai Girls (***)
22. The Naked Mole Rat letters (***1/2)
23. The Help (****1/2)
24. Shantaram (****)
25. Little Brother (***1/2)
26. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (****)
27. The Time Traveler’s Wife (***)

March reads:

28. The Name of the Wind (****)
29. The Perfect Man (***1/2)
30. High Fidelity (**)
31. Dark Lover (***1/2)
32. Someone Knows My Name (****)
33. Cupid (***)
34. Shaken (***1/2)
35. Zombies vs. Unicorns (***)
36. Ceres (**)
37. The Last Unicorn (**1/2)

April reads:

38. The Heretic’s Daughter (***)
39. The Lonely Polygamist (**)
40. Half the Sky (***)
41. Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty (**)
42. Watchers (****)
43. The Confession (***1/2)
44. The Forgotten Garden (***)
45. Grave Goods (***1/2)
46. The Curse of the Spellmans (***)
47. Dark Summer (*)
48. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (***)
49. The Gargoyle (**)

May was a bad reading month for me, even with the read-a-thon. Here is what I completed:

50. An Abundance of Katherines (***1/2)
51. Death Note, Volume 1: Boredom (***1/2)
52. My Name is Mary Sutter (***)
53. The Weight of Silence (***1/2)
54. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (**)
55. The Book of Joe (***1/2)
56. The Raven and Other Poems (**)
57. Room (****)

June reads were as follows:

58. Horns (**1/2)
59. The Hunt for Atlantis (***)
60. The Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare (*)
61. Angel (***)
62. A Wrinkle in Time (***)
63. The Handmaid’s Tale (**)
64. First Drop of Crimson (***)
65. The Complete Persepolis (***)
66. The Angel’s Game (**)
67. The Stranger (**)

Here is what I completed in July:

68. Echoes From the Dead (***)
69. Buried Prey (****)
70. Miki Falls: Spring (***)
71. Will Grayson, Will Grayson (***)
72. Chains (***1/2)
73. Feed (***)
74. Forge (***)
75. Timeline (***1/2)
76. The Cellist of Sarajevo (***)
77. Welcome to Hard Times (***)
78. Miki Falls: Summer (***)
79. The Eyre Affair (***)
80. 55 Proof (***)
81. Black Cross (****)
82. Doc (***)

August reads:

83. Before We Were Free (**)
84. Miki Falls: Fall (***)
85. The Dark and Hollow Places (***)
86. Scars (***)
87. A Heart of Stone (***)
88. No Place Like Home (***1/2)
89. Miki Falls: Winter (***)
90. Sentry (***1/2)
91. Revolution: A Manifesto (***)
92. Last Chance to See (***)
93. The Sparrow (**)
94. Native Son (***1/2)

Completed in September:

95. Little Bee (***)
96. Eternal Kiss of Darkness (**)
97. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (***)
98. Shadow of the Wind (****)
99. Fear the Worst (****)
100. Lord of the Flies (**)
101. Pride of Baghdad (***)
102. Mouse Guard (Volume 1): Fall 1152 (**1/2)
103. Smokin’ Seventeen (**)
104. Just Kids (***1/2)
105. The Essential Groucho (**)
106. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (****)
107. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (**)
108. Bone: Out from Boneville (**1/2)
109. Yossel, April 19, 1943 (***1/2)

Looks like I forgot to add my October reads. Here they are (better late than never) along with what I completed in November:

October
110. The Invisible Bridge (****1/2)
111. Afraid of the Dark (***)
112. Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy (****)
113. Peace Maker 1 (*)
114. Old Man’s War (****)
115. A Faint Cold Fear (***)
116. Peace: the Biography of a Symbol (**)
117. The Winter Sea (****1/2)
118. A Quiver Full of Arrows (**)
119. A Touch of Dead (***)
120. Simple Genius (***)
121. Open and Shut (****)
122. Dear Bully (***1/2)
123. 20th Century Ghosts (***)
124. The Black Ice (***)
125. Life on Mars (**)

November
126. Peace, Love & Baby Ducks (**1/2)
127. Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady (***1/2)
128. Stolen: A Letter to My Captor (***)
129. Pirates (***)
130. Live Wire (***1/2)
131. Open Season (***)
132. A Town Like Alice (****1/2)
133. The Redbreast (***1/2)
134. Woodstock: Three Days that Rocked the World (***)
135. The Shack (*)
136. The Little Prince (***)
137. Only Time Will Tell (****)
138. Empress of Mars (***)
139. Dead Reckoning (**1/2)
140. Milkweed (***)
141. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (***)
142. On Canaan’s Side (***)
143. The Outsiders (***1/2)
144. Peter Pan (***)
145. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (***)

Started at 100, upped it to 150, and ended with 172. All in all, a successful year!

December
146. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (***)
147. Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber (****)
148. Tunnel in the Sky (***)
149. State of the Union (**1/2)
150. Tricks (**)
151. Tuesdays with Morrie (***1/2)
152. Love in the Present Tense (***1/2)
153. Miracle on the 17th Green (***)
154. Delta of Venus (*)
155. Garnethill (***1/2)
156. In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber (***1/2)
157. Eye of the Needle (***1/2)
158. The Back Nine (***1/2)
159. Peace: A Novel (***)
160. Nemesis (***1/2)
161. Teach Me (***)
162. The Sandman, Volume 1: Preludes and Nocturnes (***)
163. Gone, But Not Forgotten (***1/2)
164. Paper Towns (**)
165. City of Shadows (****)
166. A Fraction of the Whole (***)
167. There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children (12/29) (****)
168. Seabiscuit (****)
169. Under the Tuscan Sun (*)
170. Kill Alex Cross (***)
171. The Road From Chapel Hill (**)
172. Apples are From Kazakhstan (***)