2014

A recap of my 2014 reading challenge, in which I set out to read a total of 52 books over the course of 52 weeks. I had no real restrictions on what I could or could not read. However, I chose not to include comics or manga, though graphic novels (had I read any) would have been acceptable.

Book #
Title
Author
# of Pages
Total Pages Read
1
Blood is Red
Scott Sigler
132
132
2
Howard’s End
E.M. Forster
243
375
3
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife
Eben Alexander, M.D.
171
546
4
Bones Are White
Scott Sigler
175
721
5
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
190
911
6
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
211
1122
7
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
319
1441
8
Pandemic
Scott Sigler
652
2093
9
The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
His Holiness The Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, M.D.
320
2413
10
Egghead: Or, You Can’t Survive on Ideas Alone
Bo Burnham
234
2647
11
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
335
2982
12
In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks… And Other Complaints from an Angry, Middle-Aged White Guy
Adam Carolla
239
3221
13
1984
George Orwell
326
3547
14
Rebecca’s Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World
Jon F. Sensbach
247
3794
15
Profoundly Disconnected: A True Confession From Mike Rowe
Mike Rowe
154
3984
16
China: A Macro History
Ray Huang
269
4217
17
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
269
4486
18
Nocturnal
Scott Sigler
648
5134
19
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
246
5380
20
The Ruins
Scott Smith
369
5749
21
The Inferno
Dante Alighieri
185
5934
22
The Purgatorio
Dante Alighieri
203
6137
23
The Paradiso
Dante Alighieri
203
6340
24
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (in Different Seasons)
Stephen King
---
---
25
Apt Pupil (in Different Seasons)
Stephen King
---
---
26
The Body (in Different Seasons)
Stephen King
---
---
27
The Breathing Method (in Different Seasons)
Stephen King
508 (for all of Different Seasons)
6848
28
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
590
7438
29
The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson
473
7911
30
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Stieg Larsson
526
8437
31
Kindness in a Cruel World: The Evolution of Altruism
Nigel Barber
380
8817
32
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
Kao Kalia Yang
277
9094
33
Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
246
9340
34
Dracula
Bram Stoker
450
9790
35
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
258
10048
36
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
107
10155
37
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
66
10221
38
Inherit the Wind
Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee
129
10350
39
A Room with a View
E.M. Forster
225
10575
40
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
180
10755
41
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
214
10969
42
What the Best College Students Do
Ken Bain
250
11219
43
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed
315
11534
44
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
185
11719
45
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
213
11932
46
1922 (in Full Dark, No Stars)
Stephen King
---
---
47
Big Driver (in Full Dark, No Stars)
Stephen King
---
---
48
Fair Extension (in Full Dark, No Stars)
Stephen King
---
---
49
A Good Marriage (in Full Dark, No Stars)
Stephen King
560 (for all of Full Dark, No Stars)
12492
50
Airborn
Kenneth Oppel
257
12749
51
Skybreaker
Kenneth Oppel
279
13028
52
Starclimber
Kenneth Oppel
275
13303

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