2022: 700,000 Page Challenge Showing 951-1,000 of 1,853

[Prachi]

The Pilgrim’s Progress - 373 pages
Anne of green gables - 320 pages
Anne of Avonlea - 276 pages
Anne of the Island - 243 pages
Anne’s House of Dreams - 227 pages
Rainbow Valley - 225 pages
Rilla of Ingleside - 277 pages
Wuthering Heights - 400 pages
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - 143 pages

My total page count - 2484

Group total - 318 849

[Susan]

I just reread one of my favorite novels:
Spring Night by Tarjei Vesaas (167 pages)
published in Norwegian in 1964
translated into English in 1972


Group total - 319,016

[Michelle]

I Married a Dead Man by William Irish/Cornell Woolrich
p. 234


The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
p.240


Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
p. 180


The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
p. 246


84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
p. 97


320,013

[Clare]

Nigel Balchin (1942) (212 pages)
Dubliners - James Joyce (1914) (368 pages)
Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata (1956) (123 pages)
The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen (1929) (206 pages)
The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark (1963) (140 pages)
One Moonlit Night - Caradog Prichard (1961) (193 pages)

Total - 1242 pages

Group total - 321,255

[Tony]

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - 331 pages

Watership Down by Richard Adams - 478 pages

My total pages = 809

GROUP TOTAL = 322,064

[Lesle, Appalachian Bibliophile]

Oh my goodness, how wonderful!
We can always count on our Members, so exciting to see the catch up total for our Group grow so much!

We decided to do this a few years ago and it gives me and others a smile to see the numbers increase :)

Thank you to for some new Classics to look into!

To play catch up msg 946 our group should be at:

Group Total: 322,826

[Cleo]

07/16/22

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

254 pages

Group Total: 323,080 pages

[Kent Mattoon]

The Wreck of the Titan - 1898 - 46 pages
Tarzan of the Apes - 1912 - 288 pages
The Return of Tarzan - 1913 - 224 pages

[Kent Mattoon]

Sorry - Tarzan of the Apes - 1912 - 288 pages
(I forgot the page count)

[Diane]

Shadow of the Moon by M.M. Kaye — 722 pages

Group total - 317,087

[Amber]

The Picture of Dorian Gray
288 pages

[Erich C]

The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton (1905) (351 pages)
East of Eden - John Steinbeck (1952) (601 pages)
The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866) (188 pages)
The Moon Is Down - John Steinbeck (1942) (144 pages)
To a God Unknown - John Steinbeck (1933) (181 pages)
Death and the Dervish - Mesa Selimovic (1966) (473 pages)
The Old Capital - Yasunari Kawabata (1962) (164 pages)
The Fortress - Mesa Selimovic (1970) (406 pages)
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck (1945) (181 pages)
The Pearl - John Steinbeck (1945) (96 pages)
Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck (1935) (256 pages)
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (1963) (179 pages)
The Time of Miracles - Borislav Pekic (1965) (320 pages)
Giants in the Earth - O E Rolvaag (1925) (531 pages)
The Long Valley - John Steinbeck (1938) (303 pages)
Home of the Gentry - Ivan Turgenev (1859) (208 pages)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (1955) (288 pages)
The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck (1961) (291 pages)
The Gormenghast Novels - Mervyn Peake (1959) (1173 pages)
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino (1972) (165 pages)
The Possessed - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1871) (630 pages)
Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol (1842) (278 pages)
Memed, My Hawk - Yasar Kemal (1955) (392 pages)
The Overcoat and The Nose - Nikolai Gogol (1842) (89 pages)
Damned Souls - Dimitar Dimov (1945) (308 pages)
Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell (1853) (194 pages)

My pages: 8,390
Group Total: 333,038

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Our new total is 334 038 pages!!!!

For those of you not familiar with the goodreads page glitch, it happens a lot on this thread. It doesn't always take you to the most recent message, instead it only goes to the end of a set of 50.

Thanks to everyone for sharing your books!

[Diane]

And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie - (1939) 264 pages
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - (1910) 331 pages

Group Total: 334,633

[Iris]

The Pledge by Friedrich Dürrenmatt - 155 pages
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig - 79 pages
Letter from an Unknown Woman by Stefan Zweig - 83 pages

Current Group Total: 334,950

[Marylovesreading]

Helen’s babies 120 pgs
Daddy-Long-Legs 249 pgs
The Great Gatsby 180 pgs
The screwtape Letters 209 pgs
Hills Like White Elephants 6 pgs
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 327 pgs
Don Quixote 1023 pgs
The Wind in the Willows 197 pgs
The Aventures of Tom Sawyer 244 pgs
Merchant of Venice 337 pgs
The Crucible 143 pgs
The Scarlette Letter 278 pgs
Great Expectations 544 pgs
Hamlet 289 pgs
Total 4147

Group total: 339097

[Dave]

Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Borges

260 pages

Total to date; 339,357

[Michelle]

Lord of the Flies by William Golding 8/4/2022 202 pages

Group total 339, 559

[Melissa]

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
960 pages, Signet Publisher

Group total 340,519

[Tabitha]

The Portable Cervantes (Eng) 854 pages, 20,000 leagues under the sea 319 pages. lazarillo de tormes and the Swindler (Eng) 240 pages, mansfield park 384 pages.

[Lesle, Appalachian Bibliophile]

With Tabitha's reads we have a

Group Total: 341,997


Thank you Members keep up the total pages read and we might get a half million read!

[Liane]

Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky 224 pages

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr. 334 pages

Walden by Henry David Thoreau 352 pages

Total 910

New total 342,907

[Lorraine]

Hello everyone. I am new to this group. I am from Montreal, Canada and hope to read more classics with your group.
Here are some of the book I've read this year ( I will not add them all today but should be done by Friday)
- The secret garden by Frances Hodgson. 285 pages
- Mémoires d'Hadrien (Memoirs of Hadrien) by Margurite Yourcenar. 364 pages
- Le temps retrouvé (Time regained) by Marcel Proust. 447 pages
-The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. 176 pages
- The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki. 530 pages
-Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne. 146 pages
-Le petit Prince by Antoine de St-Exupery. 113 pages
-L'attrape-coeurs (The catcher in the rye) by J.D.Salinger 253 pages
-The chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis. 767 pages

total 3081 + 342,907 = 345,988

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Hi, Lorraine. Welcome to the group! I live in Toronto and enjoy visiting Montreal. Bienvenue!

[Tabitha]

Also for this year: The social Contract - por Jean Jacques Rousseau 188pgs, Persuasion por jane austen , 249 pgs; King Solomons Mines por H.Rider Haggard 224 pgs, y Robinson Crusoe por Daniel Defoe 288pgs (That's just for 2022. Not sure what the parameteres of "recent"consists) so total 949 pges

Group total 345,988 + 949= 346,937

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Tabitha, all classics read in 2022 count for the challenge.

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Geschwister Tanner by Robert Walser

330 pages

Total to date: 347 267

[Armin]

Mirgorod: Four Tales by Nikolai Gogol - Nikolai Gogol


275 pages

Total to date: 347 542

[Lesle, Appalachian Bibliophile]

Hello and Welcome Lorraine, Thank you for helping out. Great reads in your list! Excited to see what else you have read this year.

Tabitha like Rosemarie said anything read this year you can add. Shorts are even included!

[Armin]

Zadig; Or, the Book of Fate - Voltaire


88 pages

Total to date: 347 630

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

The Aeneid by Virgil

(I couldn't find the edition I read through add book)

358 pages

Group total: 347,988 pages

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

A Fragment of Life by Arthur Machen

80 pages

Total to date: 348 068

[Angie]

A Discourse on the Method by Rene Descartes 160 pages
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1013 pages
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurance Sterne 735 pages
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad 398 pages

Group Total 350,374

[Laurel]

A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

273p

Total to date: 350,647

[Soph]

breakfast at tiffany’s- truman capote (136)
lord of the flies - william golding (244)
the catcher in the rye - j. d. Salinger (234)
animal farm - george orwell (122)

total 736

group total: 351383

[Lorraine]

Thank you Rosemarie and Lesle.

-L'Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche by Cervantes. Volume 1 and 2. 1058 pages
- Dubliners by James Joyce. 317 pages
- Portrait of the Artist as a young man by James Joyce. 329 pages
- Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the end of the night) by Celine. 516 pages
- Odyssée by Homère. 511 pages
- The summer book by Tove Jansson. 176 pages
- The fire next time by James Baldwin. 128 pages
- No longer human by Osamu Dazai. 177 pages
- Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen. 367 pages
- Sa majesté des mouches ( Lord of the flies) by William Golding. 245 pages

Total 3824 + 351,383= 355,207

[Lorraine]

last entry for books read before today:

- Ulysses by James Joyce. 980 pages
- Persuasion by Jane Austen. 249 pages
- The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 182 pages
- To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee. 324 pages
- The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide by Robert Louis Stevenson. 224 pages
- The Iron King by Maurice Druon. 269 pages

Total 2228 + 355,207= 357,435.

[John]

A Long Way From Home by Claude McKay.


270 pages - 08/08/22.

Total to Date : 357,705

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

We've passed the half way mark! Yay! Thank you, all :)

[Lesle, Appalachian Bibliophile]

Piyangie wrote: "We've passed the half way mark! Yay! Thank you, all :)"

This is exciting! I so appreciate everyone's involvement!!

[Rodrigo]

Books read this year so far:


Prometheus Bound | 144 pages
Eumenides | 320 pages
The Libation Bearers | 43 pages
Agamemnon |144 pages
The Suppliants | 52 pages
The Seven Against Thebes | 41 pages
The Persians | 48 pages
The Iliad | 683 pages
La Chanson de Roland | 275 pages
Poema de Mío Cid | 153 pages

Personal total: 1903

Group Total: 1,903 + 357,705 = 359,608

[John]

Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier


253 pages - 08/08/22

Total to Date: 359,861

[Kathy]

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

8/8/22

207 pages

Total to date: 260,068

[Iris]

A Dangerous Game by Friedrich Dürrenmatt - 64 pages

Fear by Stefan Zweig - 113 pages

Z by Vassilis Vassilikos - 306 pages

Total to date: 360,551

[John]

A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories by Robert Walser


208 pages - 09/08/22

Total to Date : 360,759

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

The Twymans a Tale of Youth by Henry Newbolt

364 pages

Total to date: 361 123

[Carol]

Misery by Anton Chekhov - 17 pages
Folk Tales from Vietnam, collected by Glenn W. Monigold - 61 pages



Total to date: 360,837

[Dave]

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

228 pages

Paradise Lost

453 pages

Total to date; 361,518

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Der Weg zum Glück 2 Der Silberbauer by Karl May


612 pages

Total to date: 362 130

[Shaina]

The Secret Vanguard by Michael Innes - 228 pgs


The Seat of the Scornful by John Dickson Carr - 229 pgs


Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie - 272 pgs


Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl - 177 pgs


With a Bare Bodkin by Cyril Hare - 206 pgs


Aesop's Fables by Aesop - 356 pgs


Charlotte's Web by E.B. White - 184 pgs


Total to date: 363,782 pgs