While I’m participating in a number of challenges that hinge on how many books you’ve read throughout the year, I’m also participating in this Pages Read challenge hosted by Book Dragon’s Lair. Let’s face it, when you read one of those epic books that has several hundred pages (like the Hamilton biography I’m working on now), it almost seems as if it should count for more than one book. Now it can, heh.
I’m shooting for the “Dwarf Peach” level of 24,001-36,000 pages for 2017. I may move up a category, but I felt this was the best level to start at. After all, for most reading challenges, including this one, you can go up the ladder of levels, but not down.
** Update 1/9/17 – Based on how many pages I’ve read in just the first 9 days of 2017, I’ve upped my challenge level to that of “Oak” – between 48,001-60,000 pages.**
If you’re interested in joining the challenge, click on the button/link at the bottom and it’ll take you to the challenge’s main page.
Running Tally of Pages = 35,776 pages
- Mystery of the Blue Train – Agatha Christie – 339 pages
- Peril at End House – Agatha Christie – 226 pages
- Lord Edgeware Dies – Agatha Christie – 269 pages
- Home Sweet Love – Ava Miles – 300 pages
- Towhee, Get Your Gun – J.R. Ripley – 232 pages
- Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie – 315 pages
- Three Act Tragedy – Agatha Christie – 249 pages
- Death in the Clouds – Agatha Christie – 253 pages
- The ABC Murders – Agatha Christie – 247 pages
- Cinder Edna – Ellen Jackson – 32 pages
- Assault & Beret – Jenn McKinlay – 304 pages
- Scorched Eggs – Laura Childs – 320 pages
- Egg Drop Dead – Laura Childs – 288 pages
- Murder in Mesopotamia – Agatha Christie – 264 pages
- Color Me Dead – Teresa Trent – 241 pages
- Cards on the Table – Agatha Christie – 249 pages
- The Water and the Wild – K.E. Ormsbee – 448 pages
- The Doorway and the Deep – K.E. Ormsbee – 480 pages
- Masked to Death – Christina Freeburn – 226 pages
- Command Me – Geneva Lee – 361 pages
- Conquer Me – Geneva Lee – 300 pages
- Crown Me – Geneva Lee – 248 pages
- Complete Me – Geneva Lee – 185 pages
- Smugglers and Scones – Morgan Talbot – 250 pages
- Dumb Witness – Agatha Christie – 317 pages
- Wish – Barbara O’Connor – 240 pages
- Echoes in Death – J.D. Robb – 384 pages
- Terror in Taffeta – Marla Cooper – 278 pages
- The Drawing Game – Deirdre Verne – 312 pages
- Spells & Scones – Bailey Cates – 320 pages
- Drawing Conclusions – Deirdre Verne – 312 pages
- Brotherhood in Death – J.D. Robb – 388 pages
- Drawing Blood – Deirdre Verne – 336 pages
- The Next Always – Nora Roberts – 324 pages
- The Last Boyfriend – Nora Roberts – 319 pages
- The Perfect Hope – Nora Roberts – 308 pages
- Kneaded to Death – Winnie Archer – 352 pages
- Crime & Poetry – Amanda Flower – 345 pages
- Gilt: By Invitation Only – Geneva Lee – 300 pages
- A Tale of Two Mommies – Vanita Oelschlager – 20 pages
- Pekoe Most Poison – Laura Childs – 317 pages
- Be Light Like a Bird – Monika Schröder – 240 pages
- Elementary, She Read – Vicki Delany – 320 pages
- Death By Chocolate Lab – Bethany Blake – 304 pages
- Twelve Angry Librarians – Miranda James – 288 pages
- Cat Got Your Diamonds – Julie Chase – 336 pages
- Prose & Cons – Amanda Flower – 323 pages
- A Killer Read – Erika Chase – 294 pages
- The Cracked Spine – Paige Shelton – 304 pages
- Of Books & Bagpipes – Paige Shelton – 304 pages
- A Christmas Tartan – Paige Shelton – 85 pages
- Borrowing Blue – Lucy Lennox – 282 pages
- Dying on the Vine – Marla Cooper – 288 pages
- Brad (novella) – Lucy Lennox – 32 pages
- Taming Teddy – Lucy Lennox – 238 pages
- The Moonlight Serenade – Ava Miles – 87 pages
- Cat Got Your Cash – Julie Chase – 336 pages
- Jumping Jude – Lucy Lennox – 257 pages
- Caramel Crush – Jenn McKinlay – 304 Pages
- Teach Me – Isabella Sterling & Demi Donovan – 208 pages
- Grounding Griffin – Lucy Lennox – 264 pages
- No Charm Intended – Mollie Cox Bryan – 320 pages
- Strange Fruit – Gary Golio & Charlotte Riley-Webb – 40 pages
- Kale to the Queen – Nell Hampton – 288 pages
- Magick & Mayhem – Sharon Pape – 358 pages
- Reunion in Death – J.D. Robb – 371 pages
- A Stone’s Throw – Debbie De Louise – 372 pages
- Between a Rock & a Hard Place – Debbie De Louise – 277 pages
- Written in Stone – Debbie De Louise – 214 pages
- Day of Secrets – Daryl Wood Gerber – 270 pages
- Homicide in Hardcover – Kate Carlisle – 289 pages
- If Books Could Kill – Kate Carlisle – 290 pages
- Dumpster Dying – Lesley A. Diehl – 223 pages
- Murder Under Cover – Kate Carlisle – 304 pages
- The Connecticut Corpse Caper – Tyler Colins – 317 pages
- Grilled, Chilled, and Killed – Lesley A. Diehl – 224 pages
- Pages of Sin – Kate Carlisle – 68 pages
- Jamie Quinn Box Set (#1-3) – Barbara Venkataraman – 361 pages
- The Convenient Cadaver – Matt Ferraz – 200 pages
- Star-Crossed – Barbara Dee – 288 pages
- Death on the Nile – Agatha Christie – 333 pages
- Bearly Departed – Meg Macy – 293 pages
- The Frog Princess Returns – E.D. Baker – 208 pages
- Once Upon a Spine – Kate Carlisle – 288 pages
- Treble at the Jam Fest – Leslie Budewitz – 288 pages
- The Swallow’s Nest – Emilie Richards – 496 pages
- The Witch & the Dead – Heather Blake – 320 pages
- All Signs Point to Murder – Connie Di Marco – 336 pages
- My Secret Guide to Paris – Lisa Schroeder – 224 pages
- Sealed with a Secret – Lisa Schroeder – 224 pages
- Stuck: The Penningtons Investigate – C.T. Collier – 309 pages
- Do Fairies Bring the Spring – Liza Gardner Walsh – 32 pages
- The Fiesta Burger Murder – Rosie A. Point – 110 pages
- Curiosity Thrilled the Cat – Sofie Kelly – 324 pages
- Calamity at the Continental Club – Colleen J. Shogan – 272 pages
- Town in a Blueberry Jam – B.B. Haywood – 320 pages
- Town in a Lobster Stew – B.B. Haywood – 384 pages
- Hospitality and Homicide – Lynn Cahoon – 217 pages
- Killer Party – Lynn Cahoon – 190 pages
- Town in a Wild Moose Chase – B.B. Haywood – 336 pages
- Town in a Pumpkin Bash – B.B. Haywood – 336 pages
- Town in a Strawberry Swirl – B.B. Haywood – 320 pages
- Town in a Sweet Pickle – B.B. Haywood – 336 pages
- Shadow Girl – Gerry Schmitt – 336 pages
- Vangie Vale and the Murdered Macaron – R.L. Syme – 422 pages
- The Bear and the Nightingale – Katherine Arden – 322 pages
- Town in a Cinnamon Toast – B.B. Haywood – 320 pages
- Catering to Nobody – Diane Mott Davidson – 301 pages
- Strawberry Cream Murder – Susan Gillard – 218 pages
- Maple Frosted Murder – Susan Gillard – 218 pages
- Cadbury Creme Murder – Susan Gillard – 213 pages
- Tricky Blueberry Murder – Susan Gillard – 210 pages
- Chocolate Frosted Murder – Susan Gillard – 205 pages
- Mint Chip Murder – Susan Gillard – 210 pages
- Red, White and Blueberry Murder – Susan Gillard – 215 pages
- World of Innocent – Nadine Keels – 106 pages
- Town in a Maple Madness – B.B. Haywood – 304 pages
- Stepbrother with Benefits 1 – Mia Clark – 110 pages
- Stepbrother with Benefits 2 – Mia Clark – 99 pages
- Stepbrother with Benefits 3 – Mia Clark – 101 pages
- Stepbrother with Benefits 4 – Mia Clark – 97 pages
- Stepbrother with Benefits 5 – Mia Clark – 100 pages
- Stepbrother with Benefits 6 – Mia Clark – 138 pages
- Stepbrother with Benefits 7- Mia Clark – 99 pages
- Broken Angel – Kristy Gibs – 120 pages
- Moving Maverick – Lucy Lennox – 279 pages
- The Witness – Nora Roberts – 468 pages
- The Collector – Nora Roberts – 496 pages
- A Knit Before Dying – Sadie Hartwell – 288 pages
- My Stepbrother’s Arrangement 1 – Juliette Jaye – 110 pages
- My Stepbrother’s Arrangement 2 – Juliette Jaye – 106 pages
- My Stepbrother’s Arrangement 3- Juliette Jaye – 39 pages
- My Stepbrother’s Arrangement 4 – Juliette Jaye – 40 pages
- My Stepbrother’s Arrangement 5 – Juliette Jaye – 37 pages
- A Christmas Peril – J.A. Hennrikus – 288 pages
- Secrets in Death – J.D. Robb – 370 pages
- Body on Baker Street – Vicki Delany – 297 pages
- If You Give a Mouse a Brownie – Laura Numeroff – 32 pages
