2013 Outdo Yourself Reading Challenge

**Challenge complete. See my wrap-up post HERE.**

Dates: 1 January - 31 December, 2013
Hosted by: The Book Vixen

Guidelines (quoted from the Challenge announcement page):

• The goal is to outdo yourself by reading more books in 2013 than you did in 2012.
• See the different levels below and pick the one that works best for you. You can move up a level as often as you’d like but no moving down.
• Books can be any format (bound, ebook, audio).
• Novellas that are at least 100 pages in length, as well as full-length novels, will count for this reading challenge.
• Re-reads and crossovers from other reading challenges are allowed.
• You do not have to be a book blogger to participate; you can track your progress on Goodreads or LibraryThing.

Levels:

1. Getting my heart rate up – Read 1–5 more books 
2. Out of breath – Read 6–10 more books 
3. Breaking a sweat – Read 11–15 more books 
4. I’m on fire! – Read 16+ more books

** I'm signing up at the second level ("Out of breath").

See my original post about the challenge here. 
See my challenge wrap-up post here. 

See the Challenge announcement/sign-up page here.
See the Challenge review link-up page here.

MY READING LIST (books read, with links to reviews):

1. The Lost Symbol. Dan Brown 
2. Cat on the Scent. Rita Mae Brown
3. Darwin's Ghosts. Rebecca Stott 
4. The Heat of the Sun. David Rain
5. Farewell, Dorothy Parker. Ellen Meister
6. Guilt. Jonathan Kellerman 
7. Cold Remains. Sally Spedding
8. The Happy Hollisters. Jerry West
9. Half Magic. Edward Eager
10. The Gordonston Ladies Dog Walking Club. Duncan Whitehead
11. Clea. Lawrence Durrell
12. Seduction. M.J. Rose
13. Fer-de-Lance. Rex Stout 
14. The Flamethrowers. Rachel Kushner
15. & Sons: A Novel. David Gilbert 
16. Inferno. Dan Brown 
17. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. L. Frank Baum
18. A Fearful Madness. Julius Falconer
19. Death By a HoneyBee. Abigail Keam
20. Is This Tomorrow. Caroline Leavitt 
21. A Fatal Likeness. Lyn Shepherd 
22. Pretty Polly Flinders. Mary Frances Blaisdell
23. The Good Luck of Right Now. Matthew Quick 
24. The Buddhist Catechism. Henry Steel Olcott
25. Bunnicula.  James Howe & Deborah Howe
26. The Book of Secrets. Elizabeth Joy Arnold
27. Night Film. Marisha Pessl
28. The Small Hand & Dolly. Susan Hill
29. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. H.P. Lovecraft
30. Ignorance. Milan Kundera
31. The Shooting Party. Isabel Colegate
32. Time Will Tell. Donald Greig
33. Heroic Measures. Jill Ciment
34. Invisible Cities. Italo Calvino
35. Double Indemnity. James M. Cain
36. Evil Under the Sun. Agatha Christie
37. The 13 Clocks. James Thurber
38. Chéri. Colette