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2022: 700,000 Page Challenge

and Karen Swallow Prior

pages 664
Total to date: 288,179


The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin - 256 pgs

The Yellow Dog by Georges Simenon - 164 pgs

Total to Date: 289,203 pgs


Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov - 49 pgs

Crook o' Lune: A Lancashire Mystery by E.C.R. Lorac - 244 pgs (pg count from Amazon)

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius - 286 pgs

Total to Date: 289, 979 pgs

Rosemary Taylor

307 pages
Total to date: 292,305 pages

123 pages
Current group total 292 783


192 pages
The Hills is Lonely by Lillian Beckwith

240 pages
Total to Date: 293,215
Almost at 300,000! We are doing better than last year!
Keep adding your reads and thank you for helping us reach our goal!
Keep adding your reads and thank you for helping us reach our goal!

Othello 320 pages
Hamlet 104 pages
1984 328 pages
Purple Hibiscus 336 pages
And I added two books from my previous comments that I had forgotten to add to the current total

Animal Farm by George Orwell p.120
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde p.213
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald p.446
Post Office by Charles Bukowski p.216
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka p.146
Total pages to date 298 712

Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie, 352 pages
The Valley of Fear, Arthur Conan Doyle, 194 pages
Total pages to date: 299 258

Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler, published 1940, 292 pages
Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault, published 1969, 375 pages
Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler, published 1940, 272 pages
The High Window by Raymond Chandler, published 1942, 265 pages
Total pages to date: 300,462

The Horla, deMaupassant, 79 pages
Whose Body?, Sayers, 224 pages
All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque, 307 pages
Fear Stalks the Village, White, 240 pages
Little House in the Big Woods, Wilder, 243 pages
The Unfinished Clue, Heyer, 321 pages
Miss Buncle Married, Stevenson, 352 pages
A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, Tanizaki, 128 pages
The Wimsey Papers—The Wartime Letters and Documents of the Wimsey Family, Sayers, 62 pages
The Two Mrs. Abbotts, Stevenson, 288 pages
The Four Graces, Stevenson, 304 pages
The Reluctant Widow, Heyer, 323 pages
Arabella, Heyer, 312 pages
I, Robot, Asimov, 304 pages
The Unknown Ajax, Heyer, 377 pages
The Religious Body, Aird, 158 pages
Total page count: 304,484

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - 432
Candide by Voltaire - 155
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy - 448
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy - 374
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot - 536
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy - 482
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Armin - 262
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame - 256
The Trumpet Major by Thomas Hardy - 385
The Awakening by Kate Chopin - 95
My Total 3425
Total pages to date 303,887


The Snow GoosebyPaul Gallico-80 pages.
The Birthday PartybyHarold Pinter-96 pages.
The Eve of St. AgnesbyJohn Keats-56 pages.
All My SonsbyArthur Miller-112 pages.
A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two ActsbyArthur Miller-56 pages
A Raisin in the SunbyLorraine Hansberry-162 pages.
TyphoonbyJoseph Conrad-144 pages.
Billy Budd, SailorbyHerman Melville-166 pages.
The PricebyArthur Miller-128 pages.
A Memory of Two MondaysbyArthur Miller-51 pages.
An Enemy of the People: An Adaptation of the Play by Henrik IbsenbyArthur Miller-128 pages.
Poems of West & EastbyVita Sackville-West-46 pages.
Bartleby the ScrivenerbyHerman Melville-64 pages.
A Dog's TalebyMark Twain-52 pages.
The Midwich CuckoosbyJohn Wyndham-220 pages.
Krapp's Last TapebySamuel Beckett-13 pages.
The EntertainerbyJohn Osborne-184 pages.
The Potting ShedbyGraham Greene-96 pages.
Moby-Dick or, the WhalebyHerman Melville-654 pages.
The Practise of the Presence of God/ Maxims of Brother LawrencebyBrother Lawrence-96 pages.
Henry VIIIbyWilliam Shakespeare-354 pages.
My total:2958 plus 307,909 =
310,867 pages.

The Last Leaf by O. Henry - 35 pages
The Death of a Government Clerk byAnton Chekhov - 4 pages
Total
311,314 pages

Complete Fairy Tales/ Pasakas by Wilhelm Hauff - 427 pages
Memoires/ Kādas Kurzemes muižnieces atmiņas by Elisa von der Recke - 342 pages
Poema de Mio Cid/ Dziesma par manu Sidu - 200 pages
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky - 127 pages
Daugava by Rainis - 76 pages
The Ladies' Paradise/ Dāmu paradīze by Émile Zola - 403 pages
The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie - 191 pages
Kidnapped / Catriona/ Nolaupītais. Katriona by Robert Louis Stevenson - 448 pages
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson- 234 pages
Suvi: Pildikesi noorpõlvest I ja II (The Summer)/ Vasara by Oskar Luts - 358 pages
Every Man Dies Alone/ Cilvēks mirst vientulībā by Hans Fallada - 578 pages
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion/ Zelta templis by Yukio Mishima - 240 pages
The Suicide Club by Robert Louis Stevenson - 64 pages
Drei Männer im Schnee/ Trīs vīri kūrortā by Erich Kästner - 142 pages
Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist/ Fabians: stāsts par kādu morālistu by Erich Kästner - 229 pages
The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie - 299 pages
Zelts (The Gold) by Andrejs Upīts - 326 pages
My total - 5051 pages
Group's total - 316 365
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