2023: 800,000 Page Challenge Showing 101-150 of 1,368

[Abyssdancer (Hanging in there!)]

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
348 pages

One of the best-written books I have ever read …

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Hi,Mike. The book you just posted is too new for our challenge since it was first published well after 1973. We're just using classics for this challenge.
No worries, since you're not the only member to make this mistake!

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Our actual total is 21 321 pages.

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Mike wrote: "Rosemarie wrote: "Hi,Mike. The book you just posted is too new for our challenge since it was first published well after 1973. We're just using classics for this challenge."

Oops. Apologies. I ass..."

No worries!

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Our new updated total is 21 669 pages.

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Weekend at Thrackley by Alan Melville

242 pages

Total to date: 21 911

[Cleo]

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

498 pages

Total pages to date: 22,409 pages

[jegaevi]

Hey!

I would love to participate in this challenge too! This group seems really wholesome and motivating. Are there any rules or restriction about the books that count, or do they just have to be written at least 50 years ago?

[John]

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe


286 pages - 21/01/23

Total to Date : 22,695

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

jegaevi wrote: "Hey!

I would love to participate in this challenge too! This group seems really wholesome and motivating. Are there any rules or restriction about the books that count, or do they just have to be ..."

Age is the only factor. We use the original publishing date. We have three categories that are newer: Children's/YA is 40 years, Western and Drama are 30 years.

Welcome aboard!

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson

384 pages

Total to date: 23,079 pages

[jegaevi]

Thank you Rosemarie!
I hope I am formatting this right!

The Golden Flower Pot by E.T.A. Hoffmann


96 pages

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert


329 pages

329+96 = 425

Total to date: 23,504 pages

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Just right, jegaevi!

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Bolesław Prus

720 pages

Total to date: 24 224

[Shaina]

Final Acts: Theatrical Mysteries: 103 - 340 pgs



Green for Danger - 246 pgs



Total to Date: 24,810 pgs

[Hung]

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - 242 pages



Total to date: 25,052 pages

[Samantha, Creole Literary Belle]

I love seeing more members join this challenge.

[Karen]

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

208 pages

Total to Date: 25,260

[Kathy]

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray


696 pages

Total to date: 25,956

[Cleo]

Parker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie

251 pages

Total Pages To-Date: 26, 207 pages

[Laurel]

The Pornographers by Akiyuki Nosaka

304p
Total to date: 26,511

[Laurel]

The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon

364p

total to date: 26,875

[Abyssdancer (Hanging in there!)]

Cup of Gold by John Steinbeck
216 pages

[Abyssdancer (Hanging in there!)]

Hello everyone …

The Cloven Viscount by Italo Colvino
111 pages

Happy reading!

Bonita

[Carol]

Tales From The Mountain by Miguel Torga

151 pages

Total to date 27,353 pages

[Chad]

The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate
244 pages

Total to Date: 27,597

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome

208 pages

Total to date: 27 805

[pice]

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

320 pages

Total to date: 28,125

[KC]

Good morning ~

1/20/25 @ 279 pages
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne


1/20/23 @ 31 pages
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe


1/25/23 @ 172 pages
The Call of the Wild by Jack London


Current Group Total = 28,607 pages

[Shaina]

Vera - 206 pgs

Total to Date: 28,813 pgs

[Laurel]

The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

530p

total to date: 29, 343 pages

[Kushagri]

True Grit by Charles Portis: 227 pages

Current Group total: 29,570

[Abyssdancer (Hanging in there!)]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
197 pages

Happy reading!

Bonita

[Cleo]

52 Pickup by Elmore Leonard

324 pages

(and adding Bonita's pages of 197 which don't appear as if they were added)

Total Pages to-Date: 30,091 pages

[Tr1sha]

The Chimes - Charles Dickens
117 pages

Journey by Moonlight - Antal Szerb
291 pages

Wonder Cruise - Ursula Bloom
332 pages

Ice Station Zebra - Alistair MacLean
401 pages

117+291+332+401 = 1 141 pages,
plus total 30 091 from message #134

Current group total = 31 232

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Thanks, Cleo!

[John]

Chess by Stefan Zweig


83 pages - 28/01/23

Total to Date: 31,315

[Iris]

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe - 11 pages
Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie - 210 pages
Decisive Moments in History by Stefan Zweig - 306 pages
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells - 185 pages
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story by Arthur Conan Doyle - 28 pages

Total to Date: 32.055

[Maureen]

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
180 pages

Total to Date 32,235

[Kathy]

Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie


276 pages

Total to date: 32,511

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Richard Adams's Favorite Animal Stories by Richard Adams

236 pages

Total to date: 32 747

[Laura]

130 pgs Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
64 The Gremlins by Roald Dahl
32 Alfie Gets in First by Shirley Hughes

Total pages= 32,973

[Armin]

Jan 28

274 pages


Jan 26

73 pages

Total pages= 33,320

[Andrea]

Jan = 960 pages total
Sankofa
Cachorro velho
Estela sem Deus
Their eyes were watching God
Los enemigos

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Our new total is 34 280 pages.

[Cosmic]

Abyssdancer wrote: "The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
348 pages

One of the best-written books I have ever read …"

One of my favorite by this author! I loved it too.

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

149 pages

Total to date: 34,429 pages

[Kathy]

My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon


178 pages

Total to date: 34,607

[Kathy]

Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse


230 pages

Total to date: 34,837

[John]

Highland River by Neil M. Gunn


242 pages - 30/01/23

Total to date : 35,079