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Both are fun, Lesle, however, I am leaning towards page count as there is a difference between reading Of Mice and Men and The Count of Monte Cristo 😊

Lindenblatt I can totally understand. Thank you for the comment and thoughts.

You can add a rule that the books must be over 100 pages to count or not a short story.

Pharmacdon my thought with that is that a few short stories would balance out when one reads a Hefty or a Husky.

Whatever you choose to make as the metric, I will join you :)

Thank you Jennifer!

There are plenty of short story collections that can make up a hefty read, such as The Stories of John Cheever.
Maybe the goal of total books read could be the sum of everyone's 2026 Reading Challenges. Or, the only books that count are from the group's reading list.

If we do the Book Count Challenge it will follow our Fundementals of Classic reads only, Short or Hefty.