2014

The first chunk, with touchstones on the ones I really liked. 50 books, 13,500 pages:

001 The Garden of the Gods -- Gerald Durrell
002 JPod -- Douglas Coupland
003 Something Fresh -- P. G. Wodehouse
004 A Storm of Swords -- George R. R. Martin
005 Psmith, Journalist -- P. G. Wodehouse
006 The Rubber Band -- Rex Stout
007 The Riddle of the Sands -- Erskine Childers
008 The Human Factor -- Graham Greene
009 Red -- Warren Ellis
010 Two-Step -- Warren Ellis
011 Dr. No -- Ian Fleming
012 Fell Vol. 1: Feral City -- Warren Ellis
013 Leave it to Psmith -- P. G. Wodehouse
014 A History of Future Cities -- Daniel Brook
015 Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin -- P. G. Wodehouse
016 The Right Stuff -- Tom Wolfe
017 A Dead Man in Tangier -- Michael Pearce
018 Before She Met Me -- Julian Barnes
019 Rum Punch -- Elmore Leonard
020 The Loved One -- Evelyn Waugh
021 Too Many Cooks -- Rex Stout
022 Coming Through Slaughter -- Michael Ondaatje
023 The Red Box -- Rex Stout
024 The Cat Who Had 14 Tales -- Lilian Jackson Braun
025 Nowhere Near Everest -- Maurice Dolbier
026 We Didn't Mean to go to Sea -- Arthur Ransome
027 Quantum of Solace -- Ian Fleming
028 Greenmantle -- John Buchan
029 Curtains for Three -- Rex Stout
030 The Secret Agent -- Joseph Conrad
031 84, Charing Cross Road -- Helene Hanff
032 Wyrd Sisters -- Terry Pratchett
033 Marcovaldo, or, The Seasons in the City -- Italo Calvino
034 Narcissus and Goldmund -- Hermann Hesse
035 Pyramids -- Terry Pratchett
036 The Doorbell Rang -- Rex Stout
037 Summer Lightning -- P. G. Wodehouse
038 The Tartar Steppe -- Dino Buzzati
039 Please Pass the Guilt -- Rex Stout
040 A Bend in the River -- V. S. Naipaul
041 Heavy Weather -- P. G. Wodehouse
042 Kim -- Rudyard Kipling
043 The Diary of a Nobody -- George Grossmith
044 Pleasures of a Tangled Life -- Jan Morris
045 Jeeves in the Offing -- P. G. Wodehouse
046 The Ascent of Rum Doodle -- W. E. Bowman
047 Over My Dead Body -- Rex Stout
048 Vile Bodies -- Evelyn Waugh
049 The Dud Avocado -- Elaine Dundy
050 Secret Water -- Arthur Ransome

January and February featured epic procrastination, and much reading was done. Have spent most of March writing, and so read only three books so far.

Happy Reading!!! A Great Challenge.

50 Books (Average: 300 pages/book)= 13,500 pages = A set of Marcel Proust epic novel,In Search of Lost Time of 3,500+ pages, 14point + approx 30 books

Okay, now I see where the Wodehouse referrals came from! I definitely need to read more Jeeves - I was slightly underwhelmed by my first one but to be honest, with the winter funk I seem to be in, I don't think anything would have made me laugh. I will add him back to the list for spring :)

051 Some Buried Caesar -- Rex Stout
052 The Golden Spiders -- Rex Stout
053 White Eagles Over Serbia -- Lawrence Durrell
054 The Butcher's Wife and Other Stories -- Ang Li
055 Waterland -- Graham Swift
056 Trouble in Triplicate -- Rex Stout
057 Regeneration -- Pat Barker
058 Neuromancer -- William Gibson
059 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves -- P. G. Wodehouse
060 52 Pickup -- Elmore Leonard
061 Three Witnesses -- Rex Stout
062 The Big Six -- Arthur Ransome
063 The Enchanted April -- Elizabeth Von Arnim
064 Where There's a Will -- Rex Stout
065 A Time to Be Born -- Dawn Powell
066 Black Orchids -- Rex Stout
067 The Railway Man -- Eric Lomax
068 Piccadilly Jim -- P. G. Wodehouse
069 Eiger Dreams -- Jon Krakauer
070 The Twenty-One Balloons -- William Pène Du Bois
071 The Silent Speaker -- Rex Stout
072 Too Many Women -- Rex Stout
073 The Big Red Train Ride -- Eric Newby
074 Killshot -- Elmore Leonard
075 Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers -- Tom Wolfe
076 The Eye in the Door -- Pat Barker
077 Not Quite Dead Enough -- Rex Stout
078 The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street -- Helene Hanff
079 The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin -- Idries Shah
080 Naples '44 -- Norman Lewis
081 The Ghost Road -- Pat Barker
082 Little Brother -- Cory Doctorow
083 River Kwai Railway -- Clifford Kinvig
084 The Prince and the Pauper -- Mark Twain
085 This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall! -- Gordon Korman
086 The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin -- Idries Shah
087 Tishomingo Blues -- Elmore Leonard
088 Learning to Rock Climb -- Michael Loughman
089 Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking -- D. C. Dennett
090 Nightmare Town : Stories -- Dashiell Hammett
091 Parnassus on Wheels -- Christopher Morley
092 Jeeves and the Tie That Binds -- P. G. Wodehouse
093 The Hugo Winners -- Isaac Asimov
094 The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin -- Idries Shah
095 Sword of Honour -- Evelyn Waugh
096 Mr. Standfast -- John Buchan
097 The Father Brown Omnibus -- G. K. Chesterton
098 Aunts Aren't Gentlemen -- P. G. Wodehouse
099 I Want to Go Home! -- Gordon Korman
100 The Dude is From Circumstances -- Chris Onstad
101 And Be a Villain -- Rex Stout
102 The Second Confession -- Rex Stout
103 In the Best Families -- Rex Stout
104 Three Doors to Death -- Rex Stout
105 Invisible Cities -- Italo Calvino
106 Turing's Cathedral -- George Dyson
107 Prisoner's Base -- Rex Stout
108 The Black Mountain -- Rex Stout
109 Triple Jeopardy -- Rex Stout
110 Three Men Out -- Rex Stout
111 The Belly of Paris Émile Zola
112 Before Midnight -- Rex Stout
113 The Cat Who Could Read Backwards -- Lilian Jackson Braun
114 The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern -- Lilian Jackson Braun
115 The Hunt for Red October -- Tom Clancy
116 The Cat Who Turned On and Off -- Lilian Jackson Braun
117 The Gold Bat -- P. G. Wodehouse
118 A Prefect's Uncle -- P.G. Wodehouse
119 Timeline -- Michael Crichton
120 A Study in Scarlet -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
121 Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942
122 The Sign of Four -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
123 Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson
124 Cat's Cradle & the World's Best String Games -- Gunter Frorath
125 Guards! Guards! -- Terry Pratchett
126 Might As Well Be Dead -- Rex Stout
127 A Little Princess -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
128 Eric -- Terry Pratchett
129 Reaper Man -- Terry Pratchett
130 Moving Pictures -- Terry Pratchett
131 Witches Abroad -- Terry Pratchett
132 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
133 If Death Ever Slept -- Rex Stout
134 Lords and Ladies -- Terry Pratchett
135 Champagne For One -- Rex Stout
136 Rabbit Hill -- Robert Lawson
137 The Bell Jar -- Sylvia Plath
138 Uncle Fred in the Springtime -- P. G. Wodehouse
139 Slaughterhouse-Five -- Kurt Vonnegut
140 The Third Man -- Graham Greene
141 Small Gods -- Terry Pratchett
142 Men at Arms -- Terry Pratchett
143 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
144 Interesting Times -- Terry Pratchett
145 And Four To Go -- Rex Stout

I finished my dissertation and moved cities, so reading time was hard to come by for a few months (and when I did sit down to read, it was mostly filler). I will not hit 250 volumes this year, even though I am back in the 25 books/month habit. One of the perks of my new job is that I can get library books delivered to my mailbox :)
At least I will easily beat last year's 50k pages, as I am at 40k already!

Congrats on finishing/moving and getting your reading time back! I won't hit 250 either but am having fun trying nonetheless.