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2024: 800,000 Page Challenge COMPLETED!!
The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark Twain
560 pages
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
231 pages
Total to date: 198,845
560 pages
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
231 pages
Total to date: 198,845


243 pages
"Looking for Some Dignity" by Clarice Lispector 9 pages
"The Tree" by Maria Luisa Bombal 10 pages
from the book Short Stories by Latin American Women Paperback ed. by Celia Correas De Zapata

Total to date: 199,491

Pages.
Group Total Pages Read: 143 + 194,948 = 195,091.

Pages.
Group Total Pages Read: 143 + 194,948 = 195,091. "
Group Total Pages Read: 143 + 199,950 = 200,093

163 Pages
Group Total Pages Read: 163 + 200,093 = 200,256 Pages

I read the Standard Ebooks edition of Meditations, which has 149 pages, not 143, so the correct
Group Pages Read is 200,736
The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark Twain
531 pages
Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
191 pages
Group Total: 201,592

531 pages
Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

191 pages
Group Total: 201,592

The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens 576
You Know Me Al - Ring Lardner 224
Secresy; or The Ruin On The Rock - Eliza Fenwick 240
The Belly Of Paris - Émile Zola 660
The Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence 316
The Rush For The Spoil - Émile Zola 352
Homage To Catalonia - George Orwell 232
Ivanhoe - Walter Scott 496
The Italian - Anne Radcliffe 544
Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter - William Wells Brown 320
The Captain’s Daughter - Alexander Pushkin 124
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut 282
No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai 177
Fletch - Gregory McDonald 197
Flashman (Flashman Papers #1) - George Macdonald Fraser 323
Manchild In The Promised Land - Claude Brown 416
Roadside Picnic - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky 145
The Odd Women - George Gissing 432
The Serpent’s Coil - Farley Mowat 189
Professor Dowell’s Head - Alexander Belyaev 157
The Tower Of Dago - Mor Jokai 104
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison 134
The Life Of Lazarillo Tormes - Anonymous 118
The Devil’s Wind - Manohar Malgonkar 320
The Beginning And The End - Naguib Mahfouz 412
7490 + 201810
New total 209,300

Emily of New Moon - LM Montgomery, 342
The Gabriel Hounds - Mary Stewart, 256
The Magnificent Amberson’s - Booth Tarkington, 300
Goodbye Mr Chips - James Hinton, 115
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck, 182
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote, 343
At the Mountains of Madness - HP Lovecraft, 194
The Maracot Deep - Arthur Conan Doyle, 200
The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin, 145
Total = 2,236
So far in 2024.

That and Doctor Thorne. I saw movies based on those two books and can’t wait to read them.
Jenna


48 pages
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

252 pages
Death in Zanzibar by M.M. Kaye

270 pages
The Travels of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff

56 pages
Total to date: 213,369
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
197 pages
Escape to Witch Mountain by Alexander Key
144 pages
Total - 341 pages
Group total = 214,180
197 pages
Escape to Witch Mountain by Alexander Key
144 pages
Total - 341 pages
Group total = 214,180

That and Doctor Thorne. I saw movies based on those two books and can’t wait to read them.
Jenna"
I enjoyed both!

139 pages
The Blessing Way
306 pages
The Stars Look Down
608 pages
Nightmare in Pink
224 pages
Mystery in the Channel
284 pages
A Purple Place for Dying
240 pages
The Drowned World
198 pages
The Hour of the Star
128 pages
Death on the Riviera
242
The Death of Artemio Cruz
307 pages
The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray
96 pages
= 2,772 pages
Current Group Total: 218,423 pages
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