tired1. The Diviners by Libba Bray – 578 pages
2. Through the Zombie Glass by Gena Showalter – 444 pages
3. A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the Third: The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket – 214 pages
4. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain – 323 pages
5. Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore by Bettany Hughes – 412 pages
6. The Day Her Heart Stood Still by Susan Grant – 205 pages
7. How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran – 301 pages
8. A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the Fourth: The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket – 194 pages
9. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest by Stieg Larsson – 746 pages
10. A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl by Mariane Pearl with Sarah Crichton – 272 pages
11. Celebrity Crimes: The Dark Side of the Limelight by Xavier Waterkeyn – 233 pages
12. The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory – 437 pages
13. A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the Fifth: The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket – 221 pages
14. Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge – 342 pages
15. Man Drought and Other Social Issues of the New Century by Bernard Salt – 276 pages
16. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn – 395 pages
17. I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes – 700 pages
18. A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the Sixth: The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket – 259 pages
19. The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of the Iliad by Caroline Alexander – 277 pages
20. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown – 509 pages
21. Flame by Amy Kathleen Ryan – 326 pages
22. A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce – 395 pages
23. A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the Seventh: The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket – 256 pages
24. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green – 313 pages
25. My Point…And I Do Have One by Ellen DeGeneres – 211 pages
26. The Sexual Paradox: Troubled Boys, Gifted Girls and the Real Difference between the Sexes by Susan Pinker – 308 pages
27. Mortal Remains by Kathy Reichs – 306 pages
28. A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the Eighth: The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket – 255 pages
29. American Gods by Neil Gaiman – 588 pages
30. Poker Face: The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga by Maureen Callahan – 225 pages
31. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire – 495 pages
32. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey – 457 pages
33. A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the Ninth: The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket – 286 pages
34. Sex Drive: In pursuit of female desire by Dr Bella Ellwood-Clayton – 312 pages
35. Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After by Bella DePaulo, PH.D. – 308 pages
36. When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the women who fought back by Stephen Singular – 305 pages
37. Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs – 271 pages
38. A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the Tenth: The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket – 337 pages
39. Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture by Juliet B. Schor – 258 pages
40. Bones are Forever by Kathy Reichs – 462 pages
41. Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything by Harold L. Sirkin, James W. Hemerling and Arindam K. Bhattacharya – 267 pages
42. Bones of the Lost by Kathy Reichs – 462 pages
43. A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the Eleventh: The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket – 323 pages
Comparison to 2013:
Top 5 books (including re-reads):
5. The Sexual Paradox
4. The Diviners
3. Quiet
2. I Am Pilgrim
1. Cruel Beauty
Interesting Facts:
Improvement on last year: +13 (+3806)
Library books: 11
Non-fiction:15
Most read author: Lemony Snicket (9 books/2345 pages)
Books with a sci-fi/fantasy element: 10
Re-reads: 0
Sequels/not the first in a series: 18
So close, yet so far. I know I'm never gonna make the 50 books unless something bizarre happens in my life, but I got so very close to the 15000 pages this year (and it wasn't from lack of trying). Unfortunately the last book I picked would have got me across the line but was a nightmare to read, so I didn't make it. I also didn't make the 15 500+ page books (I read 4, so an improvement on 2013), nor have I got close to it for 2015. Oh well. Another attempt shall begin in earnest in 2016!
