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In mid 2010 I started keeping track of books that I read cover to cover (as opposed to reference/coffee table/short story flip through books). I'm fairly inconsistent about whether or not I count graphic novels, re-reads, and such.

June 2010
1. News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir by Peter Fleming
2. Forbidden Journey by Ella K. Maillart
3. Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
4. The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece by Edward Dolnick
5. Word Crime: Solving Crime through Forensic Linguistics by John Olsson
6. Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
7. Ireland's Pirate Queen: The True Story of Grace O'Malley, 1530-1603 by Anne Chambers
8. The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse by P.G. Wodehouse
9. Round the Red Lamp; being the Facts and Fancies of Medical Life by Arthur Conan Doyle
10. Johannes Cabal the Detective by Jonathan L. Howard
11. Turkestan Solo by Ella K. Maillart
12. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
13. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
14. Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton by Mary S. Lovell
15. The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures by Philip Mould
16. The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson
17. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
18. Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
19. Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
20. The Nice Girl Syndrome: Stop Being Manipulated and Abused and Start Standing Up for Yourself by Beverly Engel
21. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
22. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
23. The Lost Chalice: The Epic Hunt for a Priceless Masterpiece by Vernon Silver
24. Blameless by Gail Carriger
25. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Man Behind Sherlock Holmes by Andrew Norman
26. Artful Partners by Colin Simpson
27. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
28. The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt by Brian Fagan
29. Wizard Squared by K. E. Mills
30. Lost Rights: The Misadventures of a Stolen American Relic by David Howard
31. Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer by M. J. Trow
32. The Coming of the Fairies by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
33. One's Company by Peter Fleming
34. The Gilded Tongue: Overly Eloquent Words for Everyday Things by Rod Evans
35. Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous by Don Foster
36. The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812 by James Blake Bailey
37. Ambrose Bierce's Write It Right: The Celebrated Cynic's Language Peeves Deciphered, Appraised, and Annotated for 21st-Century Readers by Jan Freeman
38. The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick by Peter Lamont
39. First Lord's Fury by Jim Butcher
40. The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison by John Emsley
41. Christianity: The Origins of a Pagan Religion by Philippe Walter
42. Scribes and Illuminators by Christopher De Hamel
43. Piers Plowman by William Langland
44. The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
45. The Inexperienced Ghost and Nine Other Stories by H. G Wells
46. Hens' Teeth and Horses' Toes by Stephen Jay Gould
47. Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel
48. The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman
49. Grendel by John Gardner
50. Eric by Terry Pratchett

Jan 2011
51. Dissecting Death: Secrets of a Medical Examiner by Fredrick Zugibe and David L. Carroll
52. Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece by Noah Charney
53. The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence Krauss
54. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
55. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
56. Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
57. Bad Kitty Gets a Bath by Nick Bruel
58. Side Jobs by Jim Butcher
59. The Murder Room by Michael Capuzzo
60. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
61. The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce
62. The Natural History of Unicorns by Chris Lavers
63. (Burton & Swinburn in) The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder
64. The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes by Colin Evans
65. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore et. al.
66. Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman et. al.
67. The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales
68. The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths by Pat Brown
69. The Killer of Little Shepherds by Douglas Starr
70. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
71. The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
72. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
73. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
75. Hatter M, Vol. 1: The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
76. The Stuff of Legend, Book 1: The Dark by Mike Raicht
77.Every Creeping Thing: True Tales of Faintly Repulsive Wildlife by Richard Conniff
78. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley
79. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
80. Unicorn Sonata by Peter S. Beagle
81. Medical Mysteries: From the Bizarre to the Deadly . . . The Cases That Have Baffled Doctors by Ann Reynolds
82. The Affair of the Poison: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV by Anne Somerset
83. Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor
84. Arch Enemy by Frank Beddor
85. Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
86. Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
87. The First Psychic by Peter Lamont
88. (Burton & Swinburn in) The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man by Mark Hodder
89. Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love, War, and Survival by Owen Matthews
90. Something from the Nightside by Simon R. Green
91. Agents of Light and Darkness by Simon R. Green
92. Hatter M, vol. 2: Mad with Wonder by Frank Beddor et al.
93. Hatter M, vol. 3: The Nature of Wonder by Frank Beddor et al.
94. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
95. Nightingale's Lament by Simon R. Green
96. Hex and the City by Simon R. Green
97.The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
98. The Barbary Plague by Marilyn Chase
99. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman
100. Deadly Feasts by Richard Rhodes
101. Heartless by Gail Carriger

June 2011
102. Stuff of Legend 2: The Jungle by Mike Raicht
103. The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexander Dumas
104. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
105. Dinosaur in a Hay Stack by Stephen Jay Gould
106. Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart
107. Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives by Karen Shanor and Jagmeet Kanwal
108. The Osiris Ritual (A Newbury & Hobbes Investigation) by George Mann
109. Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy by Melissa Milgrom
110. Ghost Story by Jim Butcher
111. Finders Keepers: Eight Collections by Rosamond Wolff Purcell and Stephen Jay Gould
112. Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey

Oh, I forgot about this for a few months. I started up again, but have forgotten some of the books that I read during my list-lapse.

113. The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M Valente
114. The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne M Valente
115. A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities: A Compendium of the Odd, the Bizarre, and the Unexpected by Jan Bondeson
116. The Two-Headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels by Jan Bondeson
117. The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History by Jan Bondeson
118. The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers by Scott Carney
119. Molecules of Murder by John Emsley
120. Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker
121. The First Detective: The Life and Times of Eugene-Francoise Vidocq, Criminal, Spy, and Private Eye
122. Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure by
Amanda Adams
123. I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradly
124. Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler
125. Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
126. The Lizard King: The True Crimes and Passions of the World's Greatest Reptile Smugglers by Bryan Christy
127. Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures by Bill Schutt
128. The Woman with a Worm in Her Head & Other True Stories of Infectious Disease by Pamela Nagami
129. Suddenly at the Priory: A Victorian Poisoning and Cause Celebre by John Williams
130. The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus by John Emsley
131. The Little Endless Storybook by Jill Thompson
132. Animal Investigators: How the World's First Wildlife Forensics Lab Is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species by Laurel A Neme
133. A Treasury of Victorian Murder by Rick Geary
134. The Good Neighbors #1: Kin by Holly Black
135. Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall by Bill Willingham

Jan 2012 Damn. Forgetting a couple of months' worth and being distracted over the last 2 months really hurt my total. I guess I'll have to make those books up.

136. Polly and the Pirates by Ted Naifeh
137. Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels by Robert & Michele Root-Bernstein
138. Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
139. Fur, Hide, & Bone by Erika Harada et al.
140. League of Ordinary Gentleman by Ted Naifeh
141. The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists by Ann Vandermeer and Jeff Vandermeer
142. The Good Neighbors #2: Kith by Holly Black
143. The Good Neighbors #3: Kind by Holly Black
144. Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Peterson
145. Mouse Guard: Winter 1152 by David Peterson
146. Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard by David Peterson et al.
147. Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty by Craig Welch
148. The Taxidermist by John Wagner et al.
149. London's Curse -- Murder, Black Magic, and Tutankhamun in the 1920s West End by Mark Beynon
150. Loving Him without Losing You: How to Stop Disappearing and Start Being Yourself by Beverly Engel
151. False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes by Thomas Hoving
152. Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land by Nina Burleigh
153. The Great Pretenders: The True Stories Behind Famous Historical Mysteries by Jan Bondeson
154. George III and the Mad Business by Ida Macalpine & Richard Hunter
155. The Dangerous World of Butterflies: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists by Peter Laufer
156. Timeless by Gail Carriger
157. The Portland Vase: The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Mysterious Roman Treasure by Robin Brooks
158. Fables vol. 2: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
159. Fables vol. 3: Storybook Love by Bill Willingham
160. Amulet: The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi
161. Queen Victoria's Stalker: The Strange Case of the Boy Jones by Jan Bondeson
162. The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale by Jan Bondeson
163. The Bone Key by Sarah Monette
164. Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense ed. by Jack Dan & Nick Gevers
165. Long Tail Kitty by Lark Pien
166. Stuff of Legend 3: A Jester's Tale by Mike Raicht
167. Captain Swing & The Electrical Pirates of Cindery Island by Warren Ellis
168. Fables vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers by Bill Willingham
169. The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould
170. Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. by Warren Ellis et. al.
171. Fables vol. 5: Mean Seasons by Bill Willingham
172. Fables vol. 6: Homelands by Bill Willingham
173. Salamandraston (A Tale of Redwall) by Brian Jacques
174. Steam Age: Amazing Wonders through the Power of Steam by R Talsorian Games
175. Art Theft: The Case of the Stolen Turners by Sandy Nairne
176. Redwall by Brian Jacques
177. Mossflower (A Tale of Redwall) by Brian Jacques
178. Mariel of Redwall by Brian Jacques
179. Martin the Warrior (A Tale of Redwall) by Brian Jacques
180. The Bellmaker (A Tale of Redwall) by Brian Jacques
181. Mouseguard, Labyrinth, and Other Stories
182. Outcast of Redwall by Brian Jacques
183. The Long Patrol (A Tale of Redwall) by Brian Jacques
184. Marlfox (A Tale of Redwall) by Brian Jacques
185. (Burton & Swinbourne in) Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon by Mark Hodder
186. The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios by Eric Rasmussen
187. Fables vol. 7: Arabian Nights (and Days) by Bill Willingham et al.
188. (Selections from) The Arabian Nights trans. Sir Richard Burton
189. Fables vol. 8: Wolves by Bill Willingham et al.
190. Johannes Cabal and the Fear Institute by Johnathan L Howard
191. Legend of Luke (A Tale of Redwall) by Brian Jacques
192. The Great Mambo Chicken & The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over the Edge by Ed Regis
193. Here There Be Dragons: A Fantastic Bestiary by Ariane & Christian Delacampagne
194. Lord Brocktree (A Tale of Redwall) by Brian Jacques
195. Mattimeo (A Tale of Redwall) by Brian Jacques
196. Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear by Jan Bondeson
197. Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
198. The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands by Nicholas Clapp
199. Pearls of Lutra (A Tale of Redwall) by Brian Jacques
200. Across Mongolian Plains: A Naturalist's Account of China's Great Northwest by Roy Chapman Andrews
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