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 = 26,695 pages

1. Mystery of the Blue Train – Agatha Christie – 339 pages
2. Peril at End House – Agatha Christie – 226 pages
3. Lord Edgeware Dies – Agatha Christie – 269 pages
4. Home Sweet Love – Ava Miles – 300 pages
5. Towhee, Get Your Gun – J.R. Ripley – 232 pages
6. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie – 315 pages
7. Three Act Tragedy – Agatha Christie – 249 pages
8. Death in the Clouds – Agatha Christie – 253 pages
9. The ABC Murders – Agatha Christie – 247 pages
10. Cinder Edna – Ellen Jackson – 32 pages
11. Assault & Beret – Jenn McKinlay – 304 pages
12. Scorched Eggs – Laura Childs – 320 pages
13. Egg Drop Dead – Laura Childs – 288 pages
14. Murder in Mesopotamia – Agatha Christie – 264 pages
15. Color Me Dead – Teresa Trent – 241 pages
16. Cards on the Table – Agatha Christie – 249 pages
17. The Water and the Wild – K.E. Ormsbee – 448 pages
18. The Doorway and the Deep – K.E. Ormsbee – 480 pages
19. Masked to Death – Christina Freeburn – 226 pages
20. Command Me – Geneva Lee – 361 pages
21. Conquer Me – Geneva Lee – 300 pages
22. Crown Me – Geneva Lee – 248 pages
23. Complete Me – Geneva Lee – 185 pages
24. Smugglers and Scones – Morgan Talbot – 250 pages
25. Dumb Witness – Agatha Christie – 317 pages
26. Wish – Barbara O’Connor – 240 pages
27. Echoes in Death – J.D. Robb – 384 pages
28. Terror in Taffeta – Marla Cooper – 278 pages
29. The Drawing Game – Deirdre Verne – 312 pages
30. Spells & Scones – Bailey Cates – 320 pages
31. Drawing Conclusions – Deirdre Verne – 312 pages
32. Brotherhood in Death – J.D. Robb – 388 pages
33. Drawing Blood – Deirdre Verne – 336 pages
34. The Next Always – Nora Roberts – 324 pages
35. The Last Boyfriend – Nora Roberts – 319 pages
36. The Perfect Hope – Nora Roberts – 308 pages
37. Kneaded to Death – Winnie Archer – 352 pages
38. Crime & Poetry – Amanda Flower – 345 pages
39. Gilt: By Invitation Only – Geneva Lee – 300 pages
40. A Tale of Two Mommies – Vanita Oelschlager – 20 pages
41. Pekoe Most Poison – Laura Childs – 317 pages
42. Be Light Like a Bird – Monika Schröder – 240 pages
43. Elementary, She Read – Vicki Delany – 320 pages
44. Death By Chocolate Lab – Bethany Blake – 304 pages
45. Twelve Angry Librarians – Miranda James – 288 pages
46. Cat Got Your Diamonds – Julie Chase – 336 pages
47. Prose & Cons – Amanda Flower – 323 pages
48. A Killer Read – Erika Chase – 294 pages
49. The Cracked Spine – Paige Shelton – 304 pages
50. Of Books & Bagpipes – Paige Shelton – 304 pages
51. A Christmas Tartan – Paige Shelton – 85 pages
52. Borrowing Blue – Lucy Lennox – 282 pages
53. Dying on the Vine – Marla Cooper – 288 pages
54. Brad (novella) – Lucy Lennox – 32 pages
55. Taming Teddy – Lucy Lennox – 238 pages
56. The Moonlight Serenade – Ava Miles – 87 pages
57. Cat Got Your Cash – Julie Chase – 336 pages
58. Jumping Jude – Lucy Lennox – 257 pages
59. Caramel Crush – Jenn McKinlay – 304 Pages
60. Teach Me – Isabella Sterling & Demi Donovan – 208 pages
61. Grounding Griffin – Lucy Lennox – 264 pages
62. No Charm Intended – Mollie Cox Bryan – 320 pages
63. Strange Fruit – Gary Golio & Charlotte Riley-Webb – 40 pages
64. Kale to the Queen – Nell Hampton – 288 pages
65. Magick & Mayhem – Sharon Pape – 358 pages
66. Reunion in Death – J.D. Robb – 371 pages
67. A Stone’s Throw – Debbie De Louise – 372 pages
68. Between a Rock & a Hard Place – Debbie De Louise – 277 pages
69. Written in Stone – Debbie De Louise – 214 pages
70. Day of Secrets – Daryl Wood Gerber – 270 pages
71. Homicide in Hardcover – Kate Carlisle – 289 pages
72. If Books Could Kill – Kate Carlisle – 290 pages
73. Dumpster Dying – Lesley A. Diehl – 223 pages
74. Murder Under Cover – Kate Carlisle – 304 pages
75. The Connecticut Corpse Caper – Tyler Colins – 317 pages
76. Grilled, Chilled, and Killed – Lesley A. Diehl – 224 pages
77. Pages of Sin – Kate Carlisle – 68 pages
78. Jamie Quinn Box Set (#1-3) – Barbara Venkataraman – 361 pages
79. The Convenient Cadaver – Matt Ferraz – 200 pages
80. Star-Crossed – Barbara Dee – 288 pages
81. Death on the Nile – Agatha Christie – 333 pages
82. Bearly Departed – Meg Macy – 293 pages
83. The Frog Princess Returns – E.D. Baker – 208 pages
84. Once Upon a Spine – Kate Carlisle – 288 pages
85. Treble at the Jam Fest – Leslie Budewitz – 288 pages
86. The Swallow’s Nest – Emilie Richards – 496 pages
87. The Witch & the Dead – Heather Blake – 320 pages
88. All Signs Point to Murder – Connie Di Marco – 336 pages
89. My Secret Guide to Paris – Lisa Schroeder – 224 pages
90. Sealed with a Secret – Lisa Schroeder – 224 pages **
91. Stuck: The Penningtons Investigate – C.T. Collier – 309 pages
92. The Fiesta Burger Murder – Rosie A. Point – 110 pages
93. Curiosity Thrilled the Cat – Sofie Kelly – 324 pages
94. Calamity at the Continental Club – Colleen J. Shogan – 272 pages
95. Town in a Blueberry Jam – B.B. Haywood – 320 pages
96. Town in a Lobster Stew – B.B. Haywood – 384 pages