Statistics: 2008 52 Book Challenge
Book 1: The House of Mirth
Author: Edith Wharton
Year 1st Published: 1905
Pages: 317
Rating: 2.5
Book 2: Close-up on Sunset Boulevard
Author: Sam Staggs
Year 1st Published: 2002
Pages: 379
Rating: 3
Book 3: Phone Calls from the Dead
Author: Wendy Brenner
Year 1st Published: 2001
Pages: 226
Rating: 2.5
Book 4: Buy Your First Home!
Author: Robert Irwin
Year 2nd ed. Published: 2000
Pages: 179
Rating: 4.5
Book 5: Mao: The Unknown Story
Author: Jung Chang & Jon Halliday
Year Published: 2006
Pages: 631
Rating: 4.5
Book 6: A House Somewhere: Tales of Life Abroad
Author: Don George & Anthony Sattin
Year Published: 2002
Pages: 310
Rating: 4.5
Book 7: Love Poetry Out Loud
Editorr: Robert Alden Rubin
Year Published: 2007
Pages: 189
Rating: 2.5
Book 8: Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
Editor: Lin Salamo, Victor Fischer and Michael B. Frank of the Mark Twain Project
Year Published: 2004
Pages: 221
Rating: 4.5
Book 9: Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions
Author: Lucy Hughes-Hallet
Year Published: 1990
Pages: 307
Rating: 2
Book 10: The Notebook
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Year Published: 1996
Pages: 214
Rating: 3.5
Book 11: The Subtle Knife (Part II of the Dark Materials Series)
Author: Philip Pullman
Year Published: 1997
Pages: 304
Rating: 4
Book 12: The Amber Spyglass (Part III of the Dark Materials Series)
Author: Philip Pullman
Year Published: 2003
Pages: 480
Rating: 2
Book 13: Portrait of a Lady
Author: Henry James
Year Published: 1881
Pages: 656
Rating: 1
Book 14: Love By Design (Containing Loving Jack and Best Laid Plans)
Author: Nora Roberts
Year Published: 1989 (both)
Pages: 403
Rating: 3.5
Book 15: The Underground Man
Author: Mick Jackson
Year Published: 1998
Pages: 272
Rating: 3
Book 16: The Lumiere Affair
Author: Sara Voorhees
Year Published: 2007
Pages: 302
Rating: 4
Book 17: The Time Traveler's Wife
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Year Published: 2003
Pages: 536
Rating: 5
Book 18: Tea in the East
Author: Carole Manchester
Year Published: 1996
Pages: 139
Rating: 5
Book 19: The Honeymoon Assigment
Author: Cathryn Clare
Year Published: 1996
Pages: 248
Rating: 1.5
Book 20: All I Want is Everything
Author: Marion Mill Preminger
Year Published: 1957
Pages: 328
Rating: 1.5
Book 21: Couplehood
Author: Paul Reiser
Year Published: 1995
Pages: 203
Rating: 3.5
Book 22: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Author: James W. Loewen
Year Published: 1995 (Though I read the 10th anniversary edition.)
Pages: 312
Rating: 5
Book 23: Utopia - Norton's Critical Edition
Author: Thomas More
Year Published: 1591
Pages: 260
Rating: 4
Book 24: Make Love* The Bruce Campbell Way
Author: Bruce Campbell
Year Published: 2005
Pages: 309
Rating: 1
Book 25: Hidden Touch
Author: Virginia Brown
Year Published: 1992
Pages: 445
Rating:1
Book 26: The Great Gatsby
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Year Published: 1925
Pages: 214 (It included extras like geographic mistakes and insights)
Rating: 4
Book 27: Eleanor of Aquitane: A Life
Author: Alison Weir
Year Published: 2001
Pages: 346
Rating: 5
Book 28: Ball of Fire: The Tumulteous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball
Author: Stefan Kanfer
Year Published: 2003
Pages: 319
Rating: 3
Book 29: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Author: John Berendt
Year Published: 1994
Pages: 416
Rating: 4
Book 30: The Monster Book
Author: Christopher Golden
Year Published: 2000
Pages: 384
Rating: 1
Book 31: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Year Published: 1971
Pages: 384
Rating: 2
Book 32: The Lovely Bones
Author: Alice Sebold
Year Published: 2002
Pages: 328
Rating: 1
Book 33: Mountain Laurel
Author: Jude Deveraux
Year Published: 1990
Pages: 312
Rating: 3
Book 34: Born O'Hurley
Author: Nora Roberts
Year Published: 1988
Pages: 459
Rating: 4
Book 35: An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life
Author: Dalai Lama XIV
Year Published: 2001
Pages: 187
Rating: 3
Book 36: Assassination Vacation
Author: Sarah Vowell
Year Published: 2006
Pages: 272
Rating: 4
Book 37: I Am America (And So Can You)
Author: Stephen Colbert
Year Published: 2007
Pages: 250
Rating: 2.5
Book 38: Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Author: Agatha Christie
Year Published: 1934
Pages: 288
Rating: 4
Book 39: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Author: Kim Edwards
Year Published: 2005
Pages: 432
Rating: 3
Book 40: Murder on the Orient Express
Author: Agatha Christie
Year Published: 1934
Pages: 336
Rating: 5
Book 41: Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Author: Barack Obama
Year Published: 1994
Pages: 480
Rating: 4
Book 42: O'Hurley's Return
Author: Nora Roberts
Year Published: 1988/1990
Pages: 432
Rating: 3
Book 43: Oscar Wilde
Author: Richard Ellmann
Year Published: 1984
Pages: 589
Rating: 3
Book 44: The Hero Within
Author: Carol S. Pearson, PH.D.
Year Published: 1986 (revised 1998)
Pages: 288 (not counting appendices because I didn't really do those activities)
Rating: 4
Book 45: Expiration Date
Author: Tim Powers
Year Published: 1996
Pages: 534
Rating: 3.5
Book 46: Eat, Pray, Love
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Year Published: 1996
Pages: 334
Rating: 5
Book 47: The Other Boleyn Girl
Author: Philippa Gregory
Year Published: 2002
Pages: 672
Rating: 3
Book 48: The Golden Chance
Author: Jayne Ann Krentz
Year Published: 1997
Pages: 368
Rating: 3
Book 49: The Wedding
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Year Published: 2005
Pages: 250?
Rating: 2
Book 50: Silver Linings
Author: Jayne Ann Krentz
Year Published: 1997
Pages: 352
Rating: 2
Book 51: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life
Author: Richard Carlson
Year Published: 1997
Pages: 248
Rating: 2
Book 52: The Last King of Texas
Author: Richard Riordan
Year Published: 2000
Pages: 369
Rating: 4
Book 53: The Best American Short Stories 2005
Editor: Michael Chabon
Year Published: 1995
Pages: 393
Rating: 3
Author: Edith Wharton
Year 1st Published: 1905
Pages: 317
Rating: 2.5
Book 2: Close-up on Sunset Boulevard
Author: Sam Staggs
Year 1st Published: 2002
Pages: 379
Rating: 3
Book 3: Phone Calls from the Dead
Author: Wendy Brenner
Year 1st Published: 2001
Pages: 226
Rating: 2.5
Book 4: Buy Your First Home!
Author: Robert Irwin
Year 2nd ed. Published: 2000
Pages: 179
Rating: 4.5
Book 5: Mao: The Unknown Story
Author: Jung Chang & Jon Halliday
Year Published: 2006
Pages: 631
Rating: 4.5
Book 6: A House Somewhere: Tales of Life Abroad
Author: Don George & Anthony Sattin
Year Published: 2002
Pages: 310
Rating: 4.5
Book 7: Love Poetry Out Loud
Editorr: Robert Alden Rubin
Year Published: 2007
Pages: 189
Rating: 2.5
Book 8: Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
Editor: Lin Salamo, Victor Fischer and Michael B. Frank of the Mark Twain Project
Year Published: 2004
Pages: 221
Rating: 4.5
Book 9: Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions
Author: Lucy Hughes-Hallet
Year Published: 1990
Pages: 307
Rating: 2
Book 10: The Notebook
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Year Published: 1996
Pages: 214
Rating: 3.5
Book 11: The Subtle Knife (Part II of the Dark Materials Series)
Author: Philip Pullman
Year Published: 1997
Pages: 304
Rating: 4
Book 12: The Amber Spyglass (Part III of the Dark Materials Series)
Author: Philip Pullman
Year Published: 2003
Pages: 480
Rating: 2
Book 13: Portrait of a Lady
Author: Henry James
Year Published: 1881
Pages: 656
Rating: 1
Book 14: Love By Design (Containing Loving Jack and Best Laid Plans)
Author: Nora Roberts
Year Published: 1989 (both)
Pages: 403
Rating: 3.5
Book 15: The Underground Man
Author: Mick Jackson
Year Published: 1998
Pages: 272
Rating: 3
Book 16: The Lumiere Affair
Author: Sara Voorhees
Year Published: 2007
Pages: 302
Rating: 4
Book 17: The Time Traveler's Wife
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Year Published: 2003
Pages: 536
Rating: 5
Book 18: Tea in the East
Author: Carole Manchester
Year Published: 1996
Pages: 139
Rating: 5
Book 19: The Honeymoon Assigment
Author: Cathryn Clare
Year Published: 1996
Pages: 248
Rating: 1.5
Book 20: All I Want is Everything
Author: Marion Mill Preminger
Year Published: 1957
Pages: 328
Rating: 1.5
Book 21: Couplehood
Author: Paul Reiser
Year Published: 1995
Pages: 203
Rating: 3.5
Book 22: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Author: James W. Loewen
Year Published: 1995 (Though I read the 10th anniversary edition.)
Pages: 312
Rating: 5
Book 23: Utopia - Norton's Critical Edition
Author: Thomas More
Year Published: 1591
Pages: 260
Rating: 4
Book 24: Make Love* The Bruce Campbell Way
Author: Bruce Campbell
Year Published: 2005
Pages: 309
Rating: 1
Book 25: Hidden Touch
Author: Virginia Brown
Year Published: 1992
Pages: 445
Rating:1
Book 26: The Great Gatsby
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Year Published: 1925
Pages: 214 (It included extras like geographic mistakes and insights)
Rating: 4
Book 27: Eleanor of Aquitane: A Life
Author: Alison Weir
Year Published: 2001
Pages: 346
Rating: 5
Book 28: Ball of Fire: The Tumulteous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball
Author: Stefan Kanfer
Year Published: 2003
Pages: 319
Rating: 3
Book 29: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Author: John Berendt
Year Published: 1994
Pages: 416
Rating: 4
Book 30: The Monster Book
Author: Christopher Golden
Year Published: 2000
Pages: 384
Rating: 1
Book 31: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Year Published: 1971
Pages: 384
Rating: 2
Book 32: The Lovely Bones
Author: Alice Sebold
Year Published: 2002
Pages: 328
Rating: 1
Book 33: Mountain Laurel
Author: Jude Deveraux
Year Published: 1990
Pages: 312
Rating: 3
Book 34: Born O'Hurley
Author: Nora Roberts
Year Published: 1988
Pages: 459
Rating: 4
Book 35: An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life
Author: Dalai Lama XIV
Year Published: 2001
Pages: 187
Rating: 3
Book 36: Assassination Vacation
Author: Sarah Vowell
Year Published: 2006
Pages: 272
Rating: 4
Book 37: I Am America (And So Can You)
Author: Stephen Colbert
Year Published: 2007
Pages: 250
Rating: 2.5
Book 38: Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Author: Agatha Christie
Year Published: 1934
Pages: 288
Rating: 4
Book 39: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Author: Kim Edwards
Year Published: 2005
Pages: 432
Rating: 3
Book 40: Murder on the Orient Express
Author: Agatha Christie
Year Published: 1934
Pages: 336
Rating: 5
Book 41: Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Author: Barack Obama
Year Published: 1994
Pages: 480
Rating: 4
Book 42: O'Hurley's Return
Author: Nora Roberts
Year Published: 1988/1990
Pages: 432
Rating: 3
Book 43: Oscar Wilde
Author: Richard Ellmann
Year Published: 1984
Pages: 589
Rating: 3
Book 44: The Hero Within
Author: Carol S. Pearson, PH.D.
Year Published: 1986 (revised 1998)
Pages: 288 (not counting appendices because I didn't really do those activities)
Rating: 4
Book 45: Expiration Date
Author: Tim Powers
Year Published: 1996
Pages: 534
Rating: 3.5
Book 46: Eat, Pray, Love
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Year Published: 1996
Pages: 334
Rating: 5
Book 47: The Other Boleyn Girl
Author: Philippa Gregory
Year Published: 2002
Pages: 672
Rating: 3
Book 48: The Golden Chance
Author: Jayne Ann Krentz
Year Published: 1997
Pages: 368
Rating: 3
Book 49: The Wedding
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Year Published: 2005
Pages: 250?
Rating: 2
Book 50: Silver Linings
Author: Jayne Ann Krentz
Year Published: 1997
Pages: 352
Rating: 2
Book 51: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life
Author: Richard Carlson
Year Published: 1997
Pages: 248
Rating: 2
Book 52: The Last King of Texas
Author: Richard Riordan
Year Published: 2000
Pages: 369
Rating: 4
Book 53: The Best American Short Stories 2005
Editor: Michael Chabon
Year Published: 1995
Pages: 393
Rating: 3