I'm part of the 50bookchallenge and 15000pages (though I'm trying to read 20,000 pages this year) ... so far, I've read:

1. The Ship Who Sang
       by Anne McAffrey
       [248 pages] [*****]
2. Robot Visions
       by Isaac Asimov
       [... pages] [reading]
3. Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
       by Steve Almond
       [264 pages] [****]
4. A Spot of Bother: A Novel
       by Mark Haddon
       [390 pages] [****]
5. Scarlet Feather
       by Maeve Binchy
       [501 pages] [*****]
6. The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse
       by Robert Rankin
       [342 pages] [*****]
7. A Scanner Darkly
       by Philip K. Dick
       [278 pages] [****]

This puts me at:

I'm part of the 50bookchallenge and 15000pages ... so far, I've read:

1. Watership Down
       by Richard Adams
       [494 pages] [*****]
2. The Zombie Survival Guide
       by Max Brooks
       [254 pages] [****]
3. The Thread That Binds The Bones
       by Nina Kirki Hoffman
       [311 pages] [****]
4. 2010: Odyssey Two
       by Arthur C. Clarke
       [288 pages] [****]
5. The Pegasus Secret
       by Gregg Loomis
       [369 pages] [****]
6. 2061: Odyssey Three
       by Arthur C. Clarke
       [279 pages] [****]
7. Tales From Watership Down
       by Richard Adams
       [267 pages] [****]
8. Anno Dracula
       by Kim Newman
       [409 pages] [*****]
9. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
       by Gregory Maguire
       [368 pages] [****]
10. Interpreter of Maladies
        by Jhumpa Lahiri
        [198 pages] [****]
11. Neverwhere
        by Neil Gaiman
        [337 pages] [****]
12. Double Helix: a novel
        by Nancy Werlin
        [252 pages] [****]
13. The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green
        by Joshua Braff
        [259 pages] [****]
14. The Darkening
        by Chanlder McGrew
        [413 pages] [*****]
15. In the Electric Eden: stories
        by Nick Arven
        [206 pages] [****]
16. The Amityville Horror
        by Jay Anson
        [269 pages] [****]
17. The Worthing Chronicle
18. Tales of Capitol
19. Tales from the Forest of Waters
    The Worthing Saga (three books in one)
        by Orson Scott Card
        [480 pages] [*****]
20. Stardust
        by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
        [333 pages] [****]
21. The Bourne Identity
        by Robert Ludlum
        [535 pages] [****]
22. Outwitting Clutter: 101 Ingenious Space-Saving Tips and Ideas
        by Bill Adler Jr.
        [253 pages] [****]
23. Garden of Shadows
        by V.C. Andrews
        [376 pages] [****]
24. Flowers in the Attic
        by V.C. Andrews
        [389 pages] [****]
25. Wicked
        by Gregory Maguire
        [406 pages] [*****]
26. Out
        by Natsuo Kirino
        [359 pages] [*****]
27. Snow Crash
        by Neal Stephenshon
        [440 pages] [*****]
28. More Stories from The Hugo Winners, Vol. II
       edited by Isaac Asimov
        [320 pages] [***]
29. Interview With the Vampire
        by Anne Rice
        [371 pages] [*****]
30. Asimov's Mysteries
        by Isaac Asimov
        [255 pages] [****]
31. Son of a Witch
        by Gregory Maguire
        [337 pages] [****]
32. Petals on the Wind
        by V.C. Andrews
        [439 pages] [****]
33. If There Be Thorns
        by V.C. Andrews
        [374 pages] [***]
34. Crystal Singer
        by Anne McCaffrey
        [311 pages] [****]
35. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
        by Haruki Murakami
        [400 pages] [****]
36. The Classic Ten
        by Nancy MacDonnell Smith
        [208 pages] [****]
37. The 1981 Annual World's Best SF
        edited by Donald A. Wollheim
        [... pages] [***]
38. The 1987 Annual World's Best SF
        edited by Donald A. Wollheim
        [303 pages] [****]
39. Out of the Silent Planet
        by C.S. Lewis
        [160 pages] [*****]
40. Perelandra
        by C.S. Lewis
        [224 pages] [*****]
41. That Hideous Strength
        by C.S. Lewis
        [384 pages] [****]
42. The Innamorati
        by Midori Snyder
        [381 pages] [****]
43. The Vampire Lestat
        by Anne Rice
        [481 pages] [****]
44. A Girl Named Disaster
        by Nancy Farmer
        [309 pages] [***]
45. The Time Traveler's Wife
        by Audrey Niffenegger
        [546 pages] [*****]
46. Children of the Atom
        by Wilmar Shiras
        [216 pages] [****]
47. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
        by Philip K. Dick
        [224 pages] [****]
48. Eragon
        by Christopher Paolini
        [497 pages] [****]
49. The Twenty-One Balloons
        by William Pene du Bois
        [180 pages] [****]
50. Galax-Arena
        by Gillian Rubenstein
        [199 pages] [*****]
    
    This puts me at:

    50 / 50 books (100.0%)

    15,663+... / 15,000 pages (104.4%)

    12 / 12 months (100.0%)

    
    
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    Also check out my bibliophil account for more books that I've read.
    
    
    

OK, so I finished a little late... but I started a little late too! (I finished my first book for 2005 on January 28th, so I must have started on the 25th or 26th.) So I figure I finished ahead of schedule. Anyway, here's my top 10 books for 2005:

A Fistful of Sky by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
     naamah_darling said in her LJ that this was a good book, and boy was she right; definitely different from what I normally read, but also very good.

Vamped: A Novel by David Sosnowski
     An entertaining take on an interesting concept: what would the world be like if nearly everyone was a vampire? To be honest, the cover art is what grabbed my attention, but I'm glad it did.

Sellevision: A Novel by Augusten Burroughs
     I love Burroughs' work, though I find it a bit odd that my favorite (other than Running With Scissors, the first one I read) is his only (at the moment) fiction novel. The ending was what made it awesome though. Trust me.

I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
     I've always been obsessed with opposites and their realms: yin and yang, angels and demons, primary/secondary colors, good and bad, light and dark, the zodiacs, the seasons, the whole shebang. So when I found this book, in which Satan comes to live in a human's body, I couldn't resist. I can't really explain, but it's just so good. Especially with all these flashbacks to stuff that happened in the Bible, and the (surprisingly non-irritating) condescending way in which the story is told, this is just a great book.

( six more books under the cut... )

Which isn't to say that these were the only good books I read this year... I also read Chuch Palahniuk's Fight Club, Paul M. Sammon's controversial Splatterpunks II, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Morgan Spurlock's Don't Eat This Book, and Bill Bryson's travel guide to Australia, In a Sunburned Country. Hopefully there will be as many good books this year. :)

I'm part of the 50bookchallenge and 15000pages ... so far, I've read:

1. Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About: A Novel
       by Mil Millington
       [384 pages] [****]
2. In a Sunburned Country
       by Bill Bryson
       [304 pages] [****]
3. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
       by Eric Schlosser
       [288 pages] [****]
4. How Democratic is the American Constitution?
       by Robert A. Dahl
       [203 pages] [****]
5. Mythology
       by Edith Hamilton
       [512 pages] [*****]
6. A Fistful of Sky
       by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
       [353 pages] [*****]
7. Devil in the Details
       by Jennifer Traig
       [246 pages] [***]
8. The BFG
       by Roald Dahl
       [208 pages] [****]
9. Matilda
       by Roald Dahl
       [240 pages] [****]
10. The Witches
        by Roald Dahl
        [208 pages] [****]
11. Vamped: A Novel
        by David Sosnowski
        [335 pages] [*****]
12. Sellevision: A Novel
        by Augusten Burroughs
        [229 pages] [****]
13. I, Lucifer
        by Glen Duncan
        [262 pages] [*****]
14. Isaac Asimov Presents Great Science Fiction 12 (1950)
        [319 pages] [****]
15. Stairway C
        by Elvire Murail
        [192 pages] [****]
16. Circuit
        by Melinda M. Snodgrass
        [232 pages] [****]
17. Into the Land of the Unicorns
        by Bruce Coville
        [159 pages] [****]
18. Song of the Wanderer
        by Bruce Coville
        [334 pages] [*****]
19. 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
        by Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn
        [352 pages] [*****]
20. The Great Science Fiction Series: Stories from the Best of the Series from 1944 to 1980 by All-Time Favorite Writers
        edited by Frederick Pohl and Isaac Asimov
        [419 pages] [****]
21. The Martian Chronicles
        by Ray Bradbury
        [192 pages] [****]
22. From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
        by E.L. Konigsburg
        [168 pages] [****]
23. Science fiction A to Z: a Dictionary of the Great S.F. Themes
        edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh
        [655 pages] [****]
24. Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America
        by Morgan Spurlock
       [308 pages] [*****]
25. The Kite Runner
        by Khaled Hosseini
        [371 pages] [*****]
26. Supernanny: How to Get the Best From Your Children
        by Jo Frost
        [223 pages] [****]
27. Magical Thinking: True Stories
        by Augusten Burroughs
        [268 pages] [****]
28. Magic Kingdom For Sale--Sold!
        by Terry Brooks
        [324 pages] [***]
29. Fight Club: A Novel
        by Chuch Palahniuk
        [208 pages] [*****]
30. Watchmen
        by Alan Moore
        [384 pages] [****]
31. The Hounds of the Mórrígan
        by Pat O'Shea
        [674 pages] [*****]
32. Flowers for Algernon
        by Daniel Keyes
        [274 pages] [****]
33. A Child Called "It"
        by Dave Pelzer
        [184 pages] [***]
34. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
        by Koren Zailckas
        [368 pages] [***]
35. Killer Heels
        by Sheryl J. Anderson
        [311 pages] [****]
36. The Yellow Wallpaper
        Charlotte Perkins Gilman
        [80 pages] [***]
37. Women: Images & Realities
        by Kesselman, McNair, & Schniedewind
        [640 pages] [read 350 pages, stopped] [***]
38. Splatterpunks II: Over the Edge
        edited by Paul M. Sammon
        [416 pages] [****]
39. Another Roadside Attraction
        by Tom Robbins
        [352 pages] [****]
40. The Tattoo Murder Mystery Case
        by Akimitsu Takagi
        [324 pages] [*****]
41. All She Was Worth
        by Miyuki Miyabe
        [296 pages] [*****]
42. The Watchmen
        by John Altman
        [262 pages] [****]
43. A Wolf at the Door: and Other Retold Fairy Tales
        edited by Ellen Daltow & Terri Windling
        [192 pages] [*****]
44. 2001: A Space Odyssey
        by Arthur C. Clarke
        [236 pages] [*****]
45. How Men Think
        by Adrienne Mendell
        [272 pages] [*****]
46. World's Wackiest Lawsuits
        by K.R. Hobbie
        [128 pages] [***]
47. Memoirs of a Geisha
        by Arthur Golden
        [434 pages] [*****]
48. The Mommy Club
        by Sarah Bird
        [371 pages] [***]
49. The Discrete Charm of Charlie Monk
        by David Ambrose
        [309 pages] [***]
50. Dry
        by Augusten Burroughs
        [293 pages] [****]

This puts me at: