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Maria, Bleak House was really good. It had your typical Dickens setting, a ton of characters, and subplots, two vastly different narrators, humor/satire, ...
Scott wrote: "Maria, Bleak House was really good. It had your typical Dickens setting, a ton of characters, and subplots, two vastly different narrators, humor/satire, ..."Cool. It's on my list. I'll see if I can get to it sometime this year! Too many book and not enough time :)
Ryan, what did you think of The Drawing of the Three? I didn't love The Gunslinger but I want to continue with the series.
Update to message 1466.The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
4,012/20,000
Update: 1. I went through my 'Read' list and there are two books I've read this year, both rated, but haven't put down the date I read them. I've thrown them into my recent calculations.
2. Having recently read The Bone Clocks, which is 613 pages long, this takes my total to 18,526/35,000.
Update: I just finished American Psycho for another 399 pages. Dark stuff, guys. Moving to something happier after this, for sure. Anyway, I am now 13,747/25,000
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster ~ read 15/4/16 ★★★ ~ 309 pagesNew sub total = 9,516 / 40,000 pages
[update]Day - 109 p.
Total : 16,727 pages
Message 290 update: 11,534 pages read
Update to message 1541. Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar
4,281/20,000
7,113+368+299= 7,780 total pages thus far
***COMPLETE***
I'll join this challenge! Goal: 20,000
1. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham - 286 pages
2. Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley - 228 pages
3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - 478 pages
4. Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott - 170 pages
5. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut - 222 pages
6. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë - 270 pages
7. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell - 323 pages
8. The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek - 752 pages
9. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - 254 pages
10. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - 238 pages
11. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - 409 pages
12. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare - 571 pages
13. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare - 539 pages
14. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank - 283 pages
15. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare - 574 pages
16. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - 92 pages
17. 1984 by George Orwell - 319 pages
18. Lord of the Flies by William Golding - 318 pages
19. Cinder by Marissa Meyer - 390 pages
20. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov - 88 pages
21. Nothing is Forgotten by Ryan Andrews - 192 pages
22. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer - 452 pages
23. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez - 543 pages
24. Solaris by Stanisław Lem - 286 pages
25. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev - 287 pages
26. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare - 718 pages
27. Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare - 587 pages
28. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Mallanaga Vātsyāyana - 222 pages
29. Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare - 731 pages
30. Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan - 160 pages
31. Saga, Volume 2 by Brian K. Vaughan - 168 pages
32. Saga, Volume 3 by Brian K. Vaughan - 144 pages
33. The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka - 486 pages
34. Saga, Volume 4 by Brian K. Vaughan - 152 pages
35. Saga, Volume 5 by Brian K. Vaughan - 152 pages
36. Lucretia by William Shakespeare - 52 pages
37. The English Roses by Madonna - 48 pages
38. The Angel of the Odd by Edgar Allan Poe - 12 pages
39. Апокалипсис Welcome by Zотов - 384 pages
40. Henry V by William Shakespeare - 352 pages
41. "Thou Art the Man" by Edgar Allan Poe - 28 pages
42. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - 509 pages
43. Other Shores by Vladimir Nabokov - 282 pages
44. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare - 204 pages
45. Dersu the Trapper by Vladimir Arsenyev - 364 pages
46. The Oblong Box by Edgar Allan Poe - 16 pages
47. Emma by Jane Austen - 474 pages
48. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien - 366 pages
49. All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare - 336 pages
50. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas - 404 pages
51. The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 64 pages
52. Salvation of a Forsyte, and Other Stories by John Galsworthy - 240 pages
53. Yes Please by Amy Poehler - 329 pages
54. Paper Towns by John Green - 334 pages
55. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien - 531 pages
56. Shirley by Charlotte Brontë - 637 pages
57. S.E.C.R.E.T. by L. Marie Adeline - 288 pages
58. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - 225 pages
59. Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos - 448 pages
60. Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country by Erich Maria Remarque - 464 pages
61. S.E.C.R.E.T. Shared by L. Marie Adeline - 304 pages
62. S.E.C.R.E.T. Revealed by L. Marie Adeline - 336 pages
63. Сумерки by Dmitry Glukhovsky - 320 pages
64. Love and Freindship and Other Early Works by Jane Austen - 104 pages
65. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien - 439 pages
66. Lady Susan by Jane Austen - 117 pages
67. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens - 554 pages
68. Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber - 320 pages
69. Landor's Cottage by Edgar Allan Poe - 30 pages
70. The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare - 272 pages
71. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - 560 pages
72. A Journey to Arzrum by Alexander Pushkin - 111 pages
73. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin - 240 pages
74. Big Rock by Lauren Blakely - 250 pages
75. Le Jour des fourmis by Bernard Werber - 463 pages
76. Spark of Life: A Novel of Resistance by Erich Maria Remarque - 424 pages
77. Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin - 185 pages
78. Henry VIII by William Shakespeare - 352 pages
79. A Tale Of The Golden Cockerel by Alexander Pushkin - 15 pages
80. The Dissipated Jeweler by O. Henry - 15 pages
81. A Harlem Tragedy by O. Henry - 11 pages
82. The Exact Science of Matrimony by O. Henry - 13 pages
83. Love and Friendship by Jane Austen - 87 pages
84. Lesley Castle by Jane Austen - 112 pages
85. A Comedy in Rubber by O. Henry - 9 pages
86. Tracked to Doom, or the Mystery of the Rue De Pechaud by O. Henry - 13 pages
87. La Révolution des fourmis by Bernard Werber - 671 pages
88. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien - 590 pages
89. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai - 400 pages
90. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - 480 pages
91. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell - 1,536 pages
92. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - 912 pages
93. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - 1,856
94. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri - 895 pages
95. Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan - 160 pages
96. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville - 896 pages
97. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - 592 pages
98. Persuasion by Jane Austen - 320 pages
98. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - 592 pages
100. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern - 512 pages
101. Dracula by Bram Stoker - 528 pages
102. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - 974 pages
103. No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel García Márquez - 69 pages
104. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving - 108 pages
105. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 1013 pages
106. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - 224 pages
107. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - 288 pages
108. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut - 287 pages
109. Stardust by Neil Gaiman - 256 pages
110. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak - 700 pages
111. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling - 223 pages
112. Курильщик by Mariam Petrosyan - 352 pages
113. About Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov - 211 pages
114. Маруся. Книга 1. Талисман бессмертия by Полина Волошина - 264 pages
115. The Ghost Writer by John Harwood - 384 pages
116. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - 296 pages
117. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - 544 pages
118. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle - 286 pages
119. Чужак by Max Frei - 640 pages
120. Our Tragic Universe by Scarlett Thomas - 512 pages
121. Story of O by Pauline Réage - 256 pages
122. The Golden Flower Pot by E.T.A. Hoffmann - 96 pages
123. Klein Zaches genannt Zinnober by E.T.A. Hoffmann - 150 pages
124. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner - 326 pages
125. Волонтеры вечности by Max Frei - 638 pages
126. Pushkin's Fairy Tales by Alexander Pushkin - 151 pages
127. Collected Narrative and Lyrical Poetry by Alexander Pushkin - 472 pages
128. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - 324 pages
129. Ruslan and Lyudmila by Alexander Pushkin - 256 pages
46,371/20,000
I'll join this challenge! Goal: 20,000
1. The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham - 286 pages
2. Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley - 228 pages
3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - 478 pages
4. Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott - 170 pages
5. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut - 222 pages
6. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë - 270 pages
7. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell - 323 pages
8. The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek - 752 pages
9. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - 254 pages
10. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - 238 pages
11. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - 409 pages
12. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare - 571 pages
13. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare - 539 pages
14. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank - 283 pages
15. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare - 574 pages
16. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - 92 pages
17. 1984 by George Orwell - 319 pages
18. Lord of the Flies by William Golding - 318 pages
19. Cinder by Marissa Meyer - 390 pages
20. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov - 88 pages
21. Nothing is Forgotten by Ryan Andrews - 192 pages
22. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer - 452 pages
23. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez - 543 pages
24. Solaris by Stanisław Lem - 286 pages
25. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev - 287 pages
26. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare - 718 pages
27. Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare - 587 pages
28. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Mallanaga Vātsyāyana - 222 pages
29. Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare - 731 pages
30. Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan - 160 pages
31. Saga, Volume 2 by Brian K. Vaughan - 168 pages
32. Saga, Volume 3 by Brian K. Vaughan - 144 pages
33. The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka - 486 pages
34. Saga, Volume 4 by Brian K. Vaughan - 152 pages
35. Saga, Volume 5 by Brian K. Vaughan - 152 pages
36. Lucretia by William Shakespeare - 52 pages
37. The English Roses by Madonna - 48 pages
38. The Angel of the Odd by Edgar Allan Poe - 12 pages
39. Апокалипсис Welcome by Zотов - 384 pages
40. Henry V by William Shakespeare - 352 pages
41. "Thou Art the Man" by Edgar Allan Poe - 28 pages
42. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - 509 pages
43. Other Shores by Vladimir Nabokov - 282 pages
44. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare - 204 pages
45. Dersu the Trapper by Vladimir Arsenyev - 364 pages
46. The Oblong Box by Edgar Allan Poe - 16 pages
47. Emma by Jane Austen - 474 pages
48. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien - 366 pages
49. All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare - 336 pages
50. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas - 404 pages
51. The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 64 pages
52. Salvation of a Forsyte, and Other Stories by John Galsworthy - 240 pages
53. Yes Please by Amy Poehler - 329 pages
54. Paper Towns by John Green - 334 pages
55. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien - 531 pages
56. Shirley by Charlotte Brontë - 637 pages
57. S.E.C.R.E.T. by L. Marie Adeline - 288 pages
58. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - 225 pages
59. Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos - 448 pages
60. Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country by Erich Maria Remarque - 464 pages
61. S.E.C.R.E.T. Shared by L. Marie Adeline - 304 pages
62. S.E.C.R.E.T. Revealed by L. Marie Adeline - 336 pages
63. Сумерки by Dmitry Glukhovsky - 320 pages
64. Love and Freindship and Other Early Works by Jane Austen - 104 pages
65. The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien - 439 pages
66. Lady Susan by Jane Austen - 117 pages
67. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens - 554 pages
68. Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber - 320 pages
69. Landor's Cottage by Edgar Allan Poe - 30 pages
70. The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare - 272 pages
71. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - 560 pages
72. A Journey to Arzrum by Alexander Pushkin - 111 pages
73. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin - 240 pages
74. Big Rock by Lauren Blakely - 250 pages
75. Le Jour des fourmis by Bernard Werber - 463 pages
76. Spark of Life: A Novel of Resistance by Erich Maria Remarque - 424 pages
77. Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin - 185 pages
78. Henry VIII by William Shakespeare - 352 pages
79. A Tale Of The Golden Cockerel by Alexander Pushkin - 15 pages
80. The Dissipated Jeweler by O. Henry - 15 pages
81. A Harlem Tragedy by O. Henry - 11 pages
82. The Exact Science of Matrimony by O. Henry - 13 pages
83. Love and Friendship by Jane Austen - 87 pages
84. Lesley Castle by Jane Austen - 112 pages
85. A Comedy in Rubber by O. Henry - 9 pages
86. Tracked to Doom, or the Mystery of the Rue De Pechaud by O. Henry - 13 pages
87. La Révolution des fourmis by Bernard Werber - 671 pages
88. The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien - 590 pages
89. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai - 400 pages
90. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - 480 pages
91. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell - 1,536 pages
92. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - 912 pages
93. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - 1,856
94. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri - 895 pages
95. Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan - 160 pages
96. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville - 896 pages
97. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - 592 pages
98. Persuasion by Jane Austen - 320 pages
98. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - 592 pages
100. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern - 512 pages
101. Dracula by Bram Stoker - 528 pages
102. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - 974 pages
103. No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel García Márquez - 69 pages
104. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving - 108 pages
105. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 1013 pages
106. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - 224 pages
107. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - 288 pages
108. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut - 287 pages
109. Stardust by Neil Gaiman - 256 pages
110. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak - 700 pages
111. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling - 223 pages
112. Курильщик by Mariam Petrosyan - 352 pages
113. About Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov - 211 pages
114. Маруся. Книга 1. Талисман бессмертия by Полина Волошина - 264 pages
115. The Ghost Writer by John Harwood - 384 pages
116. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - 296 pages
117. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - 544 pages
118. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle - 286 pages
119. Чужак by Max Frei - 640 pages
120. Our Tragic Universe by Scarlett Thomas - 512 pages
121. Story of O by Pauline Réage - 256 pages
122. The Golden Flower Pot by E.T.A. Hoffmann - 96 pages
123. Klein Zaches genannt Zinnober by E.T.A. Hoffmann - 150 pages
124. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner - 326 pages
125. Волонтеры вечности by Max Frei - 638 pages
126. Pushkin's Fairy Tales by Alexander Pushkin - 151 pages
127. Collected Narrative and Lyrical Poetry by Alexander Pushkin - 472 pages
128. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - 324 pages
129. Ruslan and Lyudmila by Alexander Pushkin - 256 pages
46,371/20,000
Update to message #1553.
15. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare - 541 pages
5,104/20,000
15. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare - 541 pages
5,104/20,000
Let’s Turn the Pages 1,972/8,000
February
CEO's Pregnant Lover - Leslie North - 88 Pages
The Marine's Virgin Lover - Leslie North - 79 Pages
FBI Agent's Reluctant Lover - Leslie North - 76 Pages
Navy Seal's Innocent Italian - Leslie North- 80 Pages
323 Pages
March
All I Want Part 1 - Renna Peak - 82 Pages
All I Want Part 2 - Renna Peak - 85 Pages
All I Want Part 3 - Renna Peak - 82 Pages
After the Storm - Linda Castillo - 293 Pages
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J. K. Rowling 309 Pages
The Sheikhs Pregnant Bride - Leslie North - 83 Pages
Valentines in Sweetwater County - Ciara Knight - 140 Pages
4th of July in Sweetwater County - Ciara Knight - 117 Pages
1,191 Pages
April
A Will and a Way - Nora Roberts - 180 Pages
Submerged (Book 1) Alaskan Courage Series - 278 pages
458 Pages
Lord of the Rings appendices by J. R. R. Tolkien - 111Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by various - 132
City of Glass by Cassandra Clare - 492
City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare - 435
Half a War by Joe Abercrombie - 497
Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman - 264
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch - 719
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo - 462
Landline by Rainbow Rowell - 356
Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs - 458
Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman - 241
The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson - 128
Uprooted by Naomi Novik - 435
A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab - 384
Total: 5,114 / 20,000
24,686/75,000The Hunger Games 375 pages
My Life in France 317 pages
Update in post 32New total: 9297 pages
Update to message #1553.
16. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - 92 pages
5,196/20,000
16. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - 92 pages
5,196/20,000
Update: 9,891/20,000Viper Wine: 432 pages
[update]Clockwork Princess - 567 p.
Total : 17,294 pages
Update to post 106:The Bitter Season by Tami Hoag - 408
7943/15,000
Update4. The Troop- 355
5. Jurassic Park- 399
6. The Lost World- 393
7. When the Dead Speak- 290
2,548/5,000
Update: 10,198/20,000I read Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (which was absolutely wonderful) - 307 pages.
I've joined in late but I'm aiming for 50,000. I'll add my list up to now a little later because it's time for dinner!! :) And because I currently have a little glitch between what I've said I've read so far and what GoodReads says I've read.
2025 Reading Challenge
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Clockwork Prince - 502 p.
Total : 16,618