I finished reading:

"The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945" written by Rick Atkinson.  641 pages.

The thirty fourth book of the year.  12,894 pages at an average of 379 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Romancing Vietnam: Inside the Boat Country" written by Justin Wintle.  459 pages.

The thirty third book of the year.  12,253 pages at an average of 371 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Wolves Eat Dogs" written by Martin Cruz Smith.  336 pages.

The thirty second book of the year. 11,794 pages at an average of 369 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Nerve" written by Dick Francis.  313 pages.

The thirty first book of the year.  11,458 pages at an average of 370 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Straight" written by Dick Francis.  303 pages.

The thirtieth book of the year.  11,145 pages at an average of 372 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Word of Honor" written by Nelson DeMille.  739 pages.

The twenty ninth book of the year.  10,842 pages at an average of 374 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"The Day of the Battle:  The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944" written by Rick Atkinson.  588 pages.

The twenty eighth book of the year.  10,103 pages at an average of 361 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"George C. Marshall:  Organizer of Victory 1943-1945" written by Forrest C. Pogue.  585 pages.

The twenty seventh book of the year.  9,515 pages at an average of 352 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Angels & Demons" written by Dan Brown.  569 pages.

The twenty sixth book of the year.  8,930 pages at an average of 343 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"We Should All Be Feminists" written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche.  48 pages.

The twenty-fifth book of the year.  8,361 pages at an average of 334 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Ghost Soldiers" written by Hampton Sides.  333 pages.

The twenty fourth book of the year.  8,313 pages at an average of 346 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Enquiry" 264 pages and "Come to Grief" 407 pages both written by Dick Francis.

The twenty second and twenty third books of the year.  7,980 pages at an average of 347 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Cat O'Nine Tales and other short stories" written by Jeffrey Archer.  328 pages.

The twenty-first book of the year.  7,309 pages at an average of 348 per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"The General's Daughter" written by Nelson DeMille.  464 pages.

The twentieth book of the year.  6,981 pages at an average of 349 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Give us this Day" written by R. F. Delderfield.  767 pages.

The nineteenth book of the year.  6,517 pages at an average of 343 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Love is Love" written by various authors.  144 pages.

The eighteenth book of the year.  5,750 pages at an average of 319 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Karl Marx: His Life and Environment" written by Isaiah Berlin.  284 pages.

The seventeenth book of the year.  5,606 pages at an average of 330 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"The World of Apples" written by John Cheever.  158 pages.

The sixteenth book of the year.   5,322 pages at an average of 333 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Morning Glories: Volume ten" written by Nick Spencer.  136 pages.

The fifteenth book of the year.  5,164 pages at an average of 344 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Theirs Was The Kingdom" written by R.F. Delderfield.  860 pages.

The fourteenth book of the year.  5,028 pages at an average of 359 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka" written by Franz Kafka. 328 pages.

The thirteenth book of the year.   4,168 pages at an average of 321 pages per book.

-Richard

II finished reading:

"The Leopard Hunts in Darkness" written by Wilbur Smith.  441 pages.

The twelfth book of the year.  3,840 pages at an average of 320 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Landline" written by Rainbow Rowell.  308 pages.

The eleventh book of the year.  3,399 pages at an average of 309 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Bare Bones" written by Kathy Reichs.  383 pages.

The tenth book of the year.  3,091 pages at an average of 309 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Queen Victoria" written by Lytton Strachey.  246 pages.

The ninth book of the year.  2,708 pages at an average of 301 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"BBC Doctor Who Time Trips" stories written by Cecelia Ahern, Jake Arnott, Trudi Canaan, Jenny T. Colgan, Stella Duffy, Nick Harkaway, Joanne Harris and A.L. Kennedy.  378 pages.

The eighth book of the year.  2,462 pages at an average of 308 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon" written by Henry Fielding.  114 pages.

The seventh book of the year.  2,084 pages at an average of 298 pages per book.

-Richard

End of Bout of Books Day 7 (January 8th) and Final Post:

Pages Read Day 7: 251
Books Finished Day 7: 0

Total Pages Read: 1744
Total Books Finished: 5

-Richard

I finished reading:

"The Wall" written by John Hersey.  632 pages.

The sixth book of the year.  1,970 pages at an average of 328 pages per book.

-Richard

End of Bout of Books Day 6 (January 7th):

Pages Read on Day 6: 225
Books Finished on Day 6: 0

Total Pages Read:  1,493
Total Books Finished:  5

-Richard

End of Bout of Books Day 5 (January 6th):

Pages Read Day 5: 133
Books Finished Day 5: 1

Total Pages Read: 1,258
Total Books Finished: 5

I finished reading "Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters" and started "The Wall".

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters:  Travels through England's Football Provinces" written by Daniel Gray.  291 pages.

The fifth book of the year.  1,338 pages at an average of 268 pages per book.

-Richard

End of Bout of Books Day 4 (January 5th):

Pages Read Day 4:  269
Books Finished Day 4: 1

Total Pages Read: 1,135
Total Books Finished: 4

I finished "The Loved One" written by Evelyn Waugh and started "Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters" written by Daniel Gray.

-Richard

I finished reading;

"The Loved One" written by Evelyn Waugh.  191 pages.

The fourth book of the year.  1,047 pages at an average of 262 pages per book.

-Richard

End of Bout of Books Day 3 (January 4th)

Pages read on Day 3: 212
Books finished on Day 3:1

Total Pages Read:  866
Total Books Finished: 3

I finished reading "The Man Who Only Loved Numbers" written by Paul Hoffman and start "The Loved One" written by Evelyn Waugh.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"The Man Who Only Loved Numbers:  The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth" written by Paul Hoffman.   268 pages.

The third book of the year.  856 pages at an average of 285 pages per book.

-Richard

End of Bout of Books Day 2 (January 3rd):

Pages Read on Day 2:  309
Books Finished on Day 2: 1

Total Pages Read: 654
Total Books Finished: 2

I finished reading "Dead in the Family" by Charlaine Harris and started "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers" written by Paul Hoffman.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Dead in the Family" written by Charlaine Harris. 311 pages.

The second book of the year.  588 pages at an average of 294 pages per book.

-Richard

End of Bout of Books Day 1 (January 2nd):

Pages Read on Day 1:  345 Pages
Books finished on Day 7: 1

Total Pages Read: 345
Total Books Finished:1

I finished reading "How The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin" and started to read "Dead in the Family".

-Richard

I finished reading:

"How The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin:  The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution" written by Leslie Woodhead.  277 pages.

The first book of 2017.

-Richard

We are again participating the week long  Bout of Books readathon.  I am again taking my Christmas Holiday the first week of January so it coincides which is nice.  A good way to get the year started!!

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, January 2nd and runs through Sunday, January 8th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 18 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

Here are a few random reading stats from 2016:

Books Finished:  117
Pages Read: 38,483
Average # of Pages per Book: 329

I read authors born in 19 different countries:  1. USA - 64,  2. England - 20, 3. Wales - 6, 4. Russia - 4 and 5. France - 3

I read authors born in 23 different US States: 1. New York - 8, 2. Texas - 5 and 3. Missouri, Georgia, Massachusetts and Minnesota - 4

I read books with titles starting with 21 different letters. I did not read books starting with N, V, X, Y or Z.

I read authors with last names starting with 18 different letters.  I did not read I, J, K O, Q, U, V and X

Since I've started tracking the number of books (2005) I have read 925 which means an average of 77 per year.   Since I've started tracking the # of pages (2008) I have  read 269,411 pages at an average or 29,935 a year and 348 per book.

Next years goal for books read will be 100.   A higher target, but, I have now hit over 100 two years in a row.  This years goal was 66.

Happy New Year.

- Richard

I finished reading:

"Einstein: The Life and Time" written by Ronald W. Clark.  778 pages.

The one hundred and seventeenth book of the year.  38,483 pages at an average of 329 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Field of Thirteen" written by Dick Francis.   287 pages.

The one hundred and sixteenth book of the year.  37,715 pages at an average of 325 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"The Fire" written by Katherine Neville.  441 pages.

The one hundred and fifteenth book of the year.  37,428 pages at an average of 325 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"The Bridge on the Drina" written by Ivo Andric.  314 pages.

The one hundred and fourteenth book of the year.  36,987 pages at an average of 324 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Red Moon" written by Robert Westbrook.  283 pages.

The one hundred and thirteenth book of the year.  36,673 pages at an average of 325 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"The Jews of Silence" written by Elie Wiesel.  171 pages.

The one hundred and twelth book of the year.  36,390 pages at an average of 125 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Great Expectations" written by Charles Dickens.  383 pages.

The one hundred and eleventh book of the year.

36,219 pages at an average of 326 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Quantum Web" written by Tom Grace.  372 pages.

The one hundred and tenth book of the year.  35,836 pages at an average of 326 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Kobe the Dread:  Laughter and the Twenty Million" written by Martin Amis.  277 pages.

The one hundred and ninth book of the year.  25,464 pages at an average of 325 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Marathon: The Pursuit of the Presidency 1972-1976" written by Jules Witcover.  656 pages.

The one hundred and eighth book of the year.  35,187 pages at an average of 326 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Kit Carson's Autobiography" written by Kit Carson.  170 pages.

The one hundred and seventh book of the year.  34,531 pages at an average of 323 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Ross Luxemburg" written by Paul Frolich. 311 pages.

The one hundred and sixth book of the year.  34,361 pages at an average of 324 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"Decipher" written by Stel Pavlou.  575 pages.

The one hundred and fifth book of the year.  34,050 pages at an average of 324 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"The Portable North American Indian Reader" edited by Frederick W. Turner.  625 pages.

The one hundred and fourth book of the year.  33,475 pages at an average of 322 pages per book.

-Richard

I finished reading:

"To the Hilt" written by Dick Francis.  322 pages.

The one hundred and third book of the year.  32,850 pages at an average of 319 pages per book.

-Richard