2008: #26 – Twilight (Stephenie Meyer)

Book #26 was Twilight, the first book in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga. The back of the book reads: “I’D NEVER GIVEN MUCH THOUGHT TO HOW I WOULD DIE– I’d had reason enough in the last few months –but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this. . . . Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of

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2007: #79 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling)

Book #79 was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the 7th and final book in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. The back of the book reads (in an extremely unrevealing way): Released on July 21, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the most anticipated book of 2007, marks the seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling’s magical Harry Potter series. In an announcement from the

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2007: #64 – The End (Lemony Snicket)

Book #64 was The End, the 13th and final book in Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events. The back of the book reads: Dear Reader, You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if you read the end from the beginning of the

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2006: #73 – The Penultimate Peril (Lemony Snicket)

Title: The Penultimate Peril Series: Series of Unfortunate Events #12 Author: Lemony Snicket Genre: Juvenile Fiction Release Date: 2005-10 Pages: 353 Dear Reader, If this is the first book you found while searching for a book to read next, then the first thing you should know is that this next-to-last book is what you should put down first. Sadly, this book presents the penultimate chronicle

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