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2023: 800,000 Page Challenge
The Five Orange Pips by Arthur Conan Doyle
40 pages
The Adventure of the Yellow Face by Arthur Conan Doyle
32 pages
New Grub Street by George Gissing
560 pages
Total to date: 221,770
I'm a bit late to the party but here goes:1. The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
461 pages
2. The Swedish Cavalier by Leo Perutz
192 pages
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
252 pages - 07/05/23
Total to Date : 223,572 (including Ila's two books)
8,076 pages (various, see below) between Jan 2023, and 5/7/2023Total to Date: 234,106
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
260 pages
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Richard Howard (Translator)
96 pages
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
408 pages
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss (Translator/Editor)
1,276 pages
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
188 pages
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
671 pages
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
368 pages
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
189 pages
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
Herman Melville
skipped "biology" chapters, so zero pages from book are included in page count
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
171 pages
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
691 pages
The Stranger
Albert Camus
159 pages
The Plague
Albert Camus
308 pages
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
581 pages
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
288 pages
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Ormsby (Translator)
1,123 pages
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
479 pages
The Brothers Karamazov (5/7/2023)
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (Translator)
820 pages
Greg, Shakespeare plays and poetry as well definitely count, as does non-fiction- as long as they were first published before our cut-off dates.
All plays count if they're old enough.
All plays count if they're old enough.
The fall of house of usher by Edgar allan poe 36 pagesA hunger artist by Franz Kafka -84 pages
Before the law by Franz Kafka - 4 pages
Total -124 pages
Group total 234,294 pages
John wrote: "Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
252 pages - 07/05/23
Total to Date : 223,572 (including Ila's two books)"
Oh dear, the page count slipped my mind. Thanks for including my books too, John.
No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym 238 pages
Burning Bright by John Steinbeck 112 pages
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy 256 pages
Group Total to Date: 235,204
Burning Bright by John Steinbeck 112 pages
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy 256 pages
Group Total to Date: 235,204
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells (large print edition)- 194 pagesTotal pages read: 235,481.
The York Buildings Company;: A chapter in Scotch history, read before the Institutes of Bankers and Chartered Accountants, Glasgow, 19th February, 1883 by David Murray131 pages - 08/05/23
Total to Date : 235,612
by Amor Towles 466 pages
by Fredrik Backman 337 pages
Lynda Rutledge 381 pages
Liane Moriarty 455 pages
Sarah Addison Allen 290 words
David Grann 359 pages.
Ken Follett 976 pages
Harold Schechter 56 pagesTotal pages 3,318
Group total 244,450
Here is some general information about the challenge for our newer members.
Since this is a classics group, novels, poetry and short stories need to have been first published at least 50 years ago (1973), Children's and YA 40 years ago (1983), Frontier Western and Drama 30 years ago (1993).
Thank you to everyone has been participating!
Any classics you have read since the beginning of 2023 count for this challenge, even if you have only recently joined the group.
Happy continued reading, everyone!
Since this is a classics group, novels, poetry and short stories need to have been first published at least 50 years ago (1973), Children's and YA 40 years ago (1983), Frontier Western and Drama 30 years ago (1993).
Thank you to everyone has been participating!
Any classics you have read since the beginning of 2023 count for this challenge, even if you have only recently joined the group.
Happy continued reading, everyone!
After reading the parameters recently posted, I have three more books I've read this year to add to the list:Their Eyes Were Watching God; Hurston, Zora Neale; 238 pages
Ordeal By Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party; Stewart, George R.; 392 pages
Very Good, Jeeves; Wodehouse, P.G.; 272 pages
Another 902 pages to add!
Rosemarie wrote: "Here is some general information about the challenge for our newer members.Since this is a classics group, novels, poetry and short stories need to have been first published at least 50 years ago ..."
Thank you for restating the parameters!
BTW: Possible Worlds was published in 1989
With Karen's 902 pages and minus 70 pages of possible worlds 243,065 + 902 - 70 = 243,897
New grand total is 243,897
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Continental Crimes - 320 pgs
Murder of a Lady by Anthony Wynne - 266 pgs
The Long Arm of the Law: Classic Police Stories - 288 pgs
The Two-Penny Bar by Georges Simenon - 164 pgs
Total to Date: 220,927 pgs