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2024: 800,000 Page Challenge COMPLETED!!
Thank you all for your amazing contributions!
Don't worry about the group totals, please.
Once things settle down, we'll go back and tally up all the numbers.
I see some super books on your lists!
Happy continued reading!
Don't worry about the group totals, please.
Once things settle down, we'll go back and tally up all the numbers.
I see some super books on your lists!
Happy continued reading!
Anna wrote: "Pride and prejudice: Jane Austen
The brothers Karamazov: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina : Leo Tolstoy
To Kill a mockingbird: Harper lee
The Great gatsby : Scott Fitzgerald
Jane eyre: Charlotte ..."
Need to add you pages for each book and than add them to the group total please.
The brothers Karamazov: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina : Leo Tolstoy
To Kill a mockingbird: Harper lee
The Great gatsby : Scott Fitzgerald
Jane eyre: Charlotte ..."
Need to add you pages for each book and than add them to the group total please.
Lesle wrote: "Anna wrote: "Pride and prejudice: Jane Austen
The brothers Karamazov: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina : Leo Tolstoy
To Kill a mockingbird: Harper lee
The Great gatsby : Scott Fitzgerald
Jane eyr..."
I'll go back and double check all the totals since there's some confusion, Lesle.
And we posted at the same time!
The brothers Karamazov: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina : Leo Tolstoy
To Kill a mockingbird: Harper lee
The Great gatsby : Scott Fitzgerald
Jane eyr..."
I'll go back and double check all the totals since there's some confusion, Lesle.
And we posted at the same time!
Rosemarie I added them up and have
Group Total = 278,106
The only one I did get I believe is Anna's as she did not give page totals!!
Group Total = 278,106
The only one I did get I believe is Anna's as she did not give page totals!!
Please make sure you take the prior comments Group Total + your own total = New Group Total:
Group Total Prior = 278,106
Arianis Nicole
message: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
136 pages
Prior total = 278106 + 136 = New Total pages
Group Total = 278,242
Group Total Prior = 278,106
Arianis Nicole
message: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
136 pages
Prior total = 278106 + 136 = New Total pages
Group Total = 278,242
Lisa Kelsey
I read:
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
published 1927
297 pages
New Group Total = 278,539
I read:
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
published 1927
297 pages
New Group Total = 278,539
Rosemarie
If you want to double check me I am totally ok with that!!
Never hurts
New Group Total = 278,539
If you want to double check me I am totally ok with that!!
Never hurts
New Group Total = 278,539
I started adding them up but it's taking forever, so I'll trust your total Lesle. I lost 10 pages somewhere, but it's definitely not that far off your answer. I probably forget to carry a one since I'm adding the old-fashioned way-with pen and paper!
All I can say is "Wow"!
All I can say is "Wow"!
I did use the Calculator on my laptop!!!
Thanks for double checking. I would take old school over modern any day!!!
Thanks for double checking. I would take old school over modern any day!!!





















Total Group Pages: 284,547
Cleo wrote: "So that's a Page Total of 284,835 that we're starting with."
Thank you Cleo!!!
Group Page Total = 284,835
Thank you Cleo!!!
Group Page Total = 284,835

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - 159 pages
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - 1,232 pages
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - 1,296 pages
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 671 pages
A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne - 375 pages
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - 331 pages
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol - 57 pages
The Immoral by Jorge Luis Borges - 18 pages
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 964 pages
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 1,013 pages
So my total number of pages read for classics this year so far is…6,585 pages (and counting)!


So 256 + 6585 from Sydney + 284,835=
291,676 Group total so far

Villette - Charlotte Brontë: 608 pages
Beer in the Snooker Club - Waguih Ghali: 222 pages
348+608+222 = 1178
1178 + 291,676 = 292,854 total page number

Persuasion, Jane Austen. 249 pages
Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte, Horacio Quiroga. 151 pages
292,344 Group total so far






























327 pages
(2) Land of Men: Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
229 pages
Group Page Total: 301,008

(1) Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
234 pages
(2) They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie
272 pages
(3) Here Is New York by E.B. White
56 pages
(4) Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
287 pages
(5) Cold Comfort Farm
260 pages
Total: 1109 pages
Group Page Total: 302,117

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Total: 2,187
New Group Total: 304,304

To kill a mockingbird - 323 pages
The Wedding Knell - 24 pages
The Canterville Ghost - 126 pages
Oedipus the King - 104 pages
Big Sur - 256 pages
Diary of a drug fiend - 384 pages
The Grapes of Wrath -
Naked Lunch - 289 pages
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - 204 pages
Fahrenheit 451 - 194 pages
They Do It With Mirrors - 224 pages
Dead Man’s Folly - 94 pages
The Doors of Perception - 208 pages
Lord Edgeware Dies - 219 pages
The Talented Mr Ripley - 273 pages
Five Little Pigs - 216 pages
Peril at End House - 287 pages
Taken at the Flood - 352 pages
After the Funeral - 306 pages
Three Act Tradegy - 336 pages
TheABC Murders - 232 pages
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - 139 pages
The Catcher in the Rye - 277 pages
A Moveable Feast - 192 pages
Dante’s Purgatory - 384 pages
The Art of War - 170 pages
Casting the Runes - 42 pages
Ethan wrote: "Filling in what I've missed...."
Plus what I missed of Ethan's Total: 2,187
Sarah wrote: "Classics over 50 years so far this year ..."
Sarah's total I believe is 5305 without the Grapes of Wrath as no page number was included;
Group Total = 311,455
Plus what I missed of Ethan's Total: 2,187
Sarah wrote: "Classics over 50 years so far this year ..."
Sarah's total I believe is 5305 without the Grapes of Wrath as no page number was included;
Group Total = 311,455
Lesle wrote: "Update somewhere between 667 and 669 posting at the same time maybe?
Group Total = 303,963"
The postings were one minute apart=at the same time
Group Total = 303,963"
The postings were one minute apart=at the same time

I hope to make it up from now to the end of the challenge!
Sesame and Lilies - 256 pages
The Shadow-Line - 192 pages
Meditations - 254 pages
My total = 702
Group total = 312,157
Remember - if you listen to a classic audiobook, simply use the page count from an equivalent (or close to it) print edition.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
104 pages
Group Total: 10860

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...
264 pages (GR page count is incorrect)
Group Total: 11124

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
160 pages
Group Total: 11284

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
262 pages
Group Total: 11546

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
88 pages
The Vinland Sagas (Pallson, Trans)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
124 pages
Group Total: 11758

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
148 Pages
Becket by Jean Anouilh
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
144 Pages
Group Total: 12113

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
376 Pages
Group Total: 12489

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
128 Pages
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
82 pages
Group Total: 12699

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
266 Pages
Group Total: 12965

260 pages
Group total: 312 525"
Hi, Rosemarie,
Please see Luis's group Total of 312 605 at message 684. The next total is again wrong, and the wrong total persists.
Should we continue without counting up totals?
Thanks.

The Blue Castle, L.M. Montgomery, 255 pages
Under the Greenwood Tree, Thomas Hardy, 218 pages
The Enchanted April, Elizabeth von Arnim, 176 pages
Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell, 480 pages
Kew Gardens, Virginia Woolf, 10 pages
The Sign of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle, 129 pages
New Grub Street, George Gissing, 560 pages
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce, 36 pages
The Lost Stradivarius, John Meade Falkner, 133 pages
Cannery Row, John Steinbeck, 181 pages
My total for these books is 2178 pages
I haven’t given a group total based on comments about errors above.

Belly of Paris-Zola-300 pages
The Professor-Charlotte Bronte-269 pages
The Moviegoer-Walker Percy-242 pages
A Game of Hide and Seek-Elizabeth Taylor-260 pages
True Grit-Charles Portis- 224 pages
Norwood- Charles Portis- 190 pages

The Irrational Season by Madeleine L'Engle - 224
Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage by Madeleine L'Engle - 240
Salted with Fire by George MacDonald - 283
Anne of the Island by LM Montgomery - 243
Anne of Windy Poplars by LM Montgomery - 258
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien - 287
Anne's House of Dreams by LM Montgomery - 227
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - 496
Robert Falconer by George MacDonald - 462
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - 188
The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery - 218
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope - 511
Five Children and It by E. Nesbit - 237
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope - 506
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope - 580
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope - 695
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope - 712
Subtotal: 6,367
New Group Total: [*Will edit to add group totals when errors are corrected*]
Thanks for noticing the discrepancies in the group total. For now, please keep on the way you have been by just sharing your personal totals.
We'll tally them up later today.
It's great to see the wide variety of classics our members are reading! 📚📚📚📚📚
We'll tally them up later today.
It's great to see the wide variety of classics our members are reading! 📚📚📚📚📚
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Claudia
Appreciate if you could add your pages into the group total please!!
Thank you!