How I did it: Reading! A lot! Finding random times to read, like when standing in line, or sitting in waiting rooms. I never was without a book. I also listened to a handful of audio books and counted those. I made sure to read an assortment of books so I wouldn't get bored.

Here is my final list:
1. Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy
2. Through the Children's Gate by Adam Gopnik
3. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
4. Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell
5. Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen
6. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
7. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
8. Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
9. Society Girls by Sarah Mason
10. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
11. Do Butlers Burgle Banks? by P.G. Wodehouse
12. Left Behind by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye
13. Swapping Lives by Jane Green
14. The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson
15. Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey
16. The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith
17. The Case for the Real Jesus by Lee Strobel
18. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
19. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
20. Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
21. My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
22. Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
23. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
24. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
25. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
26. Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
27. I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
28. Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
29. Bertie Wooster Sees it Through by P.G. Wodehouse
30. The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
31. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
32. First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
33. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
34. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
35. The Gathering by Anne Enright
36. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
37. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
38. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
39. How to Get a Date Worth Keeping by Dr. Henry Cloud
40. Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
41. How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life by Mameve Medwed
42. Alphabet Weekends by Elizabeth Noble
43. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
44. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
45. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
46. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
47. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
48. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
49. Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
50. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
51. The Shack by William P. Young
52. Persuading Annie by Melissa Nathan
53. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
54. The Faith Club by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner
55. The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
56. Full Speed by Janet Evanivich
57. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
58. unChristian by David Kinneman
59. Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym

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