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At the beginning of 2017 whenever I finished a book I wrote the title and author on my calendar, to be honest I don’t actually know why I started doing this , maybe I thought I’d forget what I’d read , I really don't know 

By the end of January I’d read 14 books and  I continued writing titles and authors down for the next few months until I thought ‘I wonder if I could read 200 books in a year?’ 

Now the thing is for a lot of people that sounds like a huge amount but I do read a lot and I read very quickly , I can read a whole book in a day and we’re not just talking a small book , the majority of books I’ve read this year have been 350 to 400 pages long , I read instead of watching tv and during the very long nights of insomnia 

So did I reach my target ? I still had 15 books to read during December and obviously it was a busy month ....But I came down with the lurgy on 28th and had to spend a day or 2 in bed so YES I did it , I’m fact I read 201 books during 2017 !!! 

Best book was ‘Between You And Me’ by Lisa Hall 
Worst book was an overly wordy , pretentious book by Sophie Dahl  that I didn’t even finish  and can’t remember the title of !! 


Here if you are interested is the whole list...just in case you fancy taking a look at any of them 

January - Nigel by Monty Don / The Hope Family Calendar by Mike Gayle / Between You And Me - Lisa Hall / The Longest Night - Ernst  Bornstein / Best Man - Matt Dunn / Tell Me No Lies - Lisa Hall / Rosemary & Tom - Ben Watt / A Dogs Purpose - W Bruce Cameron / Lie With Me - Sabine Durrant / Cat Among The Pumpkins - Mandy Morton  / Keep You Close - Lucy Whitehouse / The Christmasaurus - Tom Fletcher    / The Beginners Goodbye - Anne Tyler /Wedding Tiers - Tricia Ashley 14 

February - The Soul Of It All - Michael Bolton / Jennie - Paul Gallico /Lessons In Heartbreak - Kathy Kelly / 3 Girls and a Baby - Rachel Shung / Try Not To Breathe - Holly Seddon / Gray Mountain - John Grisham / My Sweet Revenge - Jane Fallon / A Dog Day Wedding - Rich Amocci / The Importance Of Being A Batchelor - Mike Gayle / The Letter - Kathryn Hughes / If You Love Me - Alice Heal / Meat Market - Rob Radcliffe / Perfect Image - Melissa Heath / Nothing Lasts Forever - Maureen Lee / White Wedding - Molly Johnson / Members Only - Leonie Fox 16 

March - BrittMarie Was Here - Fredrick Backman / Something Borrowed - Martina Reilly / The House On Cold Hill - Peter James / How To Fall In Love - Cecilia Ahern/ Love Out Of Season - Ray Connolly / Beg To Die - Beverly Barton / The Fifth Letter - Nicole Moriarty / Getting Rid Of Matthew - Jane Fallon / Under Your Skin - Sabine Durrant / Fractured - Dani Atkins / If Looks Could Kill - Beverly Barton / Rogue Lawyer - John Grisham / Strictly Between Us - Jane Fallon / Behind Closed Doors - B A Paris / The Husbands Secret - Luanne Moriarty / The Woman Who Went To Bed For A Year - Sue Townsend / The Foster Husband - Pippa Wright / Someday I’ll FindYou - Richard Madeley / The Associate - John Grisham 19

April - The Ugly Sister - Jane Fallon / Everything You Told Me - Lucy Dawson / RSVP - Helen Warner / Remember Me This Way - Sabine Durant / Port Mortuary - Patricia Cornwall / Red Mist - Patricia Cornwall / The Bone Bed - Patricia Cornwall/ Dust -Patricia Cornwall / Flesh and Blood - Patricia Cornwall/ Depraved Heart - Patricia Cornwall/ Chaos - Patricia Cornwall/ You Walked Back Into My Life - Hilary Boyd / What My Best Friend Did -Lucy Dawson / Foursome - Jane Fallon / Til We Meet Again- Lesley Pearce 15 

May - Got You Back - Jane Fallon/ Blackwater - James Henry / The Stranger In My Home - Adele Parks/ Consequences Of Love And Sex -  Coco Pritchard / Fly Away Home - Jennifer Weiner / The Cry - Helen Fitzgerald / Not Quite Nice - Celia Imrie / Searching For A Silver Lining - Miranda Dickinson / Somewhere Inside Of Happy - Anna Mc Partlin / You Belong To Me - Samantha Hayes / The Holiday Home - Fern Britton / Everything and Nothing - Araminta Hall / The Fat Ladies Club - various / The Friday Night Knitting Club - Kate Jacobs / Knit Two - Kate Jacobs / Hide Tide - Veronica Henry / Sunshine On A Rainy Day - Bryony Fraser / The Love Shack - Jane Costello / The Loving Husband- Griselda Hart 19

June - Our Song - Dani Atkins / Carry You - Beth Thomas / Secrets My Mother Kept - Kath Hardy / Me & You - Claudia Carroll / The Boy Noone Loved - Casey Watson / The Stepmother- Claire Seeber / The Boy Who Fell To Earth - Kathy Lette / The Secrets Sisters Keep - Sinead Moriarty/ We’ll Meet Again- Lily Baxter / Local Girl Missing - Claire Douglas/ Skeletons - Jane Fallon 11

July - Bodies - Jed Mercurio / The Other Side -  Kaylor Ward / The Last Thing I Remember - Deborah Bee / His Other Lover - Lucy Dawson / Paper Aeroplanes - Dawn O’Porter /Goose - Dawn O’Porter /The  Cows - Dawn O’Porter / The Girl With A Clock For A Heart - Peter Swanson / Left Neglected - Lisa Genova / The Things We Never Said - Susan Elliot Wright  / The Sister - Louise Jensen / The Accident - C L Taylor / Another Way To Fall - Amanda Brooke / The Third Wife - Lisa Jewell 14

August - A Tale Of 2 Sisters - Anna Maxted / The Detriment - David Vidcette / Falling - Jane Green / Getting Even - Claude Bouchard/ Make It Happen - Claude Bouchard/ Do No Harm - Henry Marsh  / Hearts In Atlantis - Stephen King / Mr Maybe - Jane Green / Brown Owls Guide To Life - Kate Harrison 9 

September- StarLight and Dreams - Benita Brown / The Breakdown -
BA Paris / Goodnight Beautiful - Dorothy Koomson / Deaths Acre - Bill Bass and John Jefferson / Heart Of The Matter - Emily Griffin / Unknown Means - Elizabeth Becka / The Time Of My Life - Cecelia Ahern / The Silent Sister - Dianne Chamberlain / Before I forget - Melissa Hill / The Book Lovers Appreciation Society - Various / I’ll   Be There - Iris Rainer Dart / The Mistake I Made - Paula Daley / All That Jazz - Dee Williams / The Last Letter From Your Lover - Jojo Moyes / The Girl Who Came Back - Susan Lewis / The Dating Detox - Gemma Burgess / The Missing Husband - Amanda Brooke/ Only In Vegas - Lindsey Brooke / These Days Of Ours - Juliet Ashton 19

October - 100 Names - Cecilia Ahern / One Little Mistake - Emma Curtis / Williams Progress - Matt Rudd / The Woman’s Next Door - Cass Green / In A Cottage , In A Wood - Cass Green / Beautiful People - Wendy Haden / Some Other Eden - Natasha Farrant/ The Next Accident - Lisa Gardener /  Before I Met You - Lisa Jewell / The Boy That Never Was - Karen Perry / Bright Rooms - Jenny Maxwell / Sycamore Row - John Grisham / The Family Tree - Barbara Delinsky / Standing In Another Mans Grave - Ian Rankin / Saints Of  The Shadow Bible - Ian Rankin/Even Dogs In The Wild - Ian Rankin / Rather Be The Devil - Ian Rankin / Don’t WantTo Miss A Thing - Jill Mansell 18

November - Growing Up Twice - Roman Coleman / The Increment - Christ Ryan / Never The Bride - Charlotte Fallowfield / The Devil Wears Scrubs - Frieda McFadden / Until We Collide - Charlotte Fallowfield /Made For Me - Kathryn R Biel / You Had Me At Hello - Mhari McFarlain / No Place To Hide - Susan Lewis / Stalked - Kate  Brennan / Annie Mays Black Book - Debby Holt / How Not To Murder Your Mother - Stephanie Calman / The Man Test - Amanda Askell / After The Party - Lisa Jewell / Perfect - Rachel Joyce / Summer At sea - Beth Labonte / The Appeal - John Grisham / Mince pies & Mistletoe at the Christmas Market - Heidi Swain / My Favourite Husband - Pat McCutcheon/ Christmas At Rosie Hopkins Sweet Shop - Jenny Colgan / Christmas Surprise- Jenny Colgan / The Christmas Thief - Mary Higgins-Clark / Deck The Halls - Mary Higgins-Clark / He sees you when You’re Sleeping - Mary Higgins-Clark / The Rose Petal Beach - Dorothy Koomson / The Christmas Killer - Jim Galloway /All I Ever Wanted - Lucy Dillon / One Small Act Of Kind was - Lucy Dillon / Miss Kane’s Christmas - Caroline Michelson / Crying For Help - Casey Watson / Beating About The Bush - Linda Taylor / Wrapped Up In You - Carole Matthews 31

December - Certain Girls - Jennifer Weiner / Friends With Partial Benefits - Luke Young / Friends With Full Benefits - Luke Young / The House We Grew Up In - Lisa Jewell / The Day I Lost You - Fionnula Kearney / Chez Stinky - Susan C Daffron / Three Wishes - Lianne Moriarty / Miss Adventure - Geralyn Corallo / Cold Purauit / Judith Cutler / Too Close To Home - Susan Lewis / You Sent Me A Letter - Lucy Dawson / Holding - Graham Norton / The OneThat Got Away - Lucy Dawson / Her Perfect Life - Sam Hepburn / Little Sister - Lucy Dawson / Paper Hearts And  Summer Kisses - Carole Matthews 16 

so there  they are , all 201 books with subjects ranging from murder , Auschwitz,&  domestic violence to weddings , love and dogs and pretty much everything in between 
(Please note , any miss spelling of Authors names is purely because I can’t always read my own writing on the calendar !!!) xx