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Archived Reading Challenges > 2022: 700,000 Page Challenge

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message 901: by Book Nerd, Purple Book Horse (new)

Book Nerd (book_nerd_1) | 1129 comments Mod
The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake
The Gormenghast Novels (Gormenghast, #1-3) by Mervyn Peake

1272 pages

Totaol to date: 284,339


message 902: by Piyangie, Classical Princess (new)

Piyangie | 3682 comments Mod
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

1060 pages

Group total: 285,399 pages


message 903: by Gilbert (new)

Gilbert Don Quixote Don Quixote by miguel-de-cervantes-saavedra by miguel-de-cervantes-saavedra

1060 pages

Group total: 286,459


message 904: by Armin (new)

Armin Durakovic | 169 comments Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

464 pages

Group total: 286,923


message 905: by VeeInNY (new)

VeeInNY | 41 comments Framley Parsonage Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope by Anthony Trollope

Pages: 592

Total to date: 287,515


message 907: by VeeInNY (new)

VeeInNY | 41 comments My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier My Cousin Rachel
byDaphne du Maurier

Pages 352
Total to date: 288,531
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message 908: by Shaina (last edited Jul 29, 2022 06:07AM) (new)

Shaina | 536 comments Suspects Nine by E.R. Punshon - 252 pgs
Suspects Nine (The Bobby Owen Mysteries, #12) by E.R. Punshon

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

The Yellow Dog by Georges Simenon - 164 pgs
The Yellow Dog (Inspector Maigret #5) by Georges Simenon

Total to Date: 289,203 pgs


message 909: by Shaina (new)

Shaina | 536 comments The Paradise Mystery by J.S. Fletcher - 197 pgs
The Paradise Mystery by J.S. Fletcher

Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov - 49 pgs
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov

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

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius - 286 pgs
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Total to Date: 289, 979 pgs


message 910: by Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar (last edited Jul 29, 2022 07:50AM) (new)

Rosemarie | 15929 comments Mod
Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
260 pages

Total to date: 290 239


message 911: by Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar (new)

Rosemarie | 15929 comments Mod
Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire

90 pages

Total to date: 290 329


message 912: by Maureen (new)

Maureen (maursbooks) | 16 comments Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier
260 pages

Total to date 290 589


message 913: by Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar (new)

Rosemarie | 15929 comments Mod
The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit
The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit
291 pages

Total to date: 290 880


message 914: by VeeInNY (new)

VeeInNY | 41 comments The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

316 pages

Total to date: 291,196 pages


message 915: by VeeInNY (last edited Jul 29, 2022 09:41PM) (new)

VeeInNY | 41 comments True Grit by Charles Portis
True Grit by Charles Portis 235 pages

Total to date: 291,431


message 916: by VeeInNY (new)

VeeInNY | 41 comments Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

343 pages

Total to date: 291,774 pages


message 917: by VeeInNY (new)

VeeInNY | 41 comments The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

pages 224

Total to date: 291,998 pages


message 918: by VeeInNY (new)

VeeInNY | 41 comments Chicken Every Sunday: My Life with Mother's Boarders by Rosemary Taylor
Rosemary Taylor
Chicken Every Sunday My Life with Mother's Boarders by Rosemary Taylor

307 pages

Total to date: 292,305 pages


message 919: by VeeInNY (new)

VeeInNY | 41 comments The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli


pages: 120

Total to date: 292,425 pages


message 920: by VeeInNY (new)

VeeInNY | 41 comments Three Blind Mice and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories by Agatha Christie



pages 235

Total to date: 292,660 pages


message 921: by Tr1sha (new)

Tr1sha | 1044 comments The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern - Jules Verne

123 pages

Current group total 292 783


message 922: by John (new)

John R Maigret's First Case by Georges Simenon
Maigret's First Case (Inspector Maigret #30) by Georges Simenon

192 pages

The Hills is Lonely by Lillian Beckwith
The Hills is Lonely (Hebridean Trilogy, #1) by Lillian Beckwith

240 pages

Total to Date: 293,215


message 923: by Dave (last edited Jul 30, 2022 10:24AM) (new)

Dave (adh3) | 177 comments The Inferno by Dante

736 pages

293,951


message 924: by Armin (new)


message 925: by Kathy (new)

Kathy E | 2408 comments Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
7/31/22

242 pages

Total to date: 294,397


message 926: by Dave (new)

Dave (adh3) | 177 comments Farenheit 451 by Bradbury

208 pages

Total to date;294,515


message 927: by John (new)

John R River of Fire: The Clydebank Blitz by John MacLeod
River of Fire The Clydebank Blitz by John MacLeod

431 pages - 01/08/22

Total to Date: 294,946


message 928: by Valerie (new)

Valerie (valroos) | 40 comments Inseparable by Simone de Beauvoir

208 pages

Total to date: 295,154


message 929: by Karen (new)

Karen | 87 comments A Country Doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett

259 pages

Total to date: 295,413


message 930: by John (new)

John R Caen by Henry Maule
Caen by Henry Maule

176 pages - 03/08/22

Total to Date : 295,589


message 931: by Dave (new)

Dave (adh3) | 177 comments Macbeth by Shakespeare

94 pages

Total to date; 295,693


message 932: by Karen (new)

Karen | 87 comments The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder

334 pages

To date: 296,027


message 933: by Armin (new)

Armin Durakovic | 169 comments Evenings Near the Village of Dikanka - Nikolai Gogol

Evenings Near the Village of Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol
277 pages

The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
57 pages

To date: 296,361


message 934: by Lesle, Appalachian Bibliophile (new)

Lesle | 8712 comments Mod
Almost at 300,000! We are doing better than last year!
Keep adding your reads and thank you for helping us reach our goal!


message 935: by Rae (new)

Rae | 3 comments Finished 4/26

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronti

400 pages


message 936: by Rae (new)

Rae | 3 comments Antigone
3/21/22
56 pages


message 937: by Rae (new)

Rae | 3 comments Current Page Count: 297,571

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


message 938: by Gintarė (new)

Gintarė Varnelytė (gintarevarnelyte) | 1 comments Read since the start of the year:



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


message 939: by Fannie (new)

Fannie D'Ascola | 58 comments Since the start of the year:

Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie, 352 pages
The Valley of Fear, Arthur Conan Doyle, 194 pages

Total pages to date: 299 258


message 940: by Ken (new)

Ken Seeling | 10 comments Books to Date:

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


message 941: by Doris (last edited Aug 04, 2022 05:31AM) (new)

Doris (webgeekstress) | 44 comments Chiming in late, to help boost the page count:

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


message 942: by Laura (new)

Laura  (Reading is a Doing Word) (readingisadoingword) | 8 comments This year so far:
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


message 943: by Doris (new)

Doris (webgeekstress) | 44 comments Ken, Laura, and I all posted at about the same time, throwing off the page total. If my arithmetic is correct, the new page total should be 307,909


message 944: by Aumonier (last edited Aug 05, 2022 11:35AM) (new)

Aumonier | 2 comments Des gueules d'enterrement by Frédéric Dard
Read 05/08/2022
218 pages

Total pages to date : 308127


message 945: by Christy (new)

Christy Hall (cbailleul) | 12 comments Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott 224p

Total pages to date: 308351


message 946: by Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar (new)

Rosemarie | 15929 comments Mod
Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers

320 pages

Total to date: 308 671


message 947: by Piyangie, Classical Princess (new)

Piyangie | 3682 comments Mod
Yay, we've passed 300,000! :)


message 949: by The Bibliophile Doctor (last edited Aug 04, 2022 07:08AM) (new)

The Bibliophile Doctor | 117 comments The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch - 408 pages

The Last Leaf by O. Henry - 35 pages

The Death of a Government Clerk byAnton Chekhov - 4 pages

Total

311,314 pages


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