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2024: 800,000 Page Challenge COMPLETED!!
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330 954 pages
Antigona by Sofokle - 110Put Alije Đerzeleza by Ivo Andrić - 40
Ljubavnik ledi Četerli by D.H. Lawrence - 320
Kratke priče by Jorge Luis Borges - 124
Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell - 190
Zadužbina i Zemlja by Isaac Asimov - 510
Doživljaji Haklberija Fina by Mark Twain - 303
Izbor 50 pjesama by W.B. Yeats - 133
Večiti mladoženja by Jakov Ignjatović - 212
Pet prijatelja u cirkusu by Enid Blyton - 194
Kapija by Frederik Pohl - 266
To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer - 220
Krila golubice by Henry James - 508
Farmer Gil od Hama by J.R.R. Tolkien - 170
Na rubu pameti by Miroslav Krleža - 295
Pet prijatelja u službi znanosti by Enid Blyton - 169
Smrt dolazi na kraju by Agatha Christie - 287
Otrovne misli by Mark Twain - 204
Sirene s Titana by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - 240
Dvostruka odšteta by James M. Cain - 134
U seni devojaka u cvetu 2 by Marcel Proust - 329
Zlatno runo 6 by Borislav Pekić - 485
My total: 5,443
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330 954 pages"
Rosemarie for the win! MVP, doing all that math.
Here are a few more:Oranges, 149 pages
Tevye the Milkman, 159 pages
Jews Without Money, 329 pages
Twenty Years at Hull House, 248 pages
The Letters of Jane Austen, 277 pages
Total: 1500 pages,
Current group total: 332,454 pages
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Including Tatjana our
New group total is now: 337 897
The two I'm not sure about are:Sylvia Plath, a dramatic portrait Barry Kyle, first published in 1976, 70 pages
The Spoken Word: Sylvia Plath (British Library) --- audiobook, Sylvia Plath reading her own poetry + interviews etc, 73 minutes
but as I read classics I'll add them here
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The ones I am sure about are:
A Dog's Heart Mikhail Bulgakov --- 130 pages
Biographical Stories Nathaniel Hawthorne --- 66 pages
The Vampyre John Polidori --- 38 pages
We Yevgeny Zamyatin --- 230 pages
The Iliad of Homer Homer, Peter Green --- 527 pages
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson --- 217 pages
Life for Sale Yukio Mishima, Stephen Dodd --- 192 pages
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings Sylvia Plath --- 352 pages
Orestes by Euripides, translated by Frank Nisetich and John Peck 128 pages
Paradise Lost John Milton --- 135 pages
The Princess and the Goblin George MacDonald --- 206 pages
R.U.R: Karel ÄŒapek's Groundbreaking Science Fiction Karel ÄŒapek --- 218 pages
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) Chinua Achebe --- 215 pages
Epic of Gilgamesh Anon, NK Sanders --- 128 pages
The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man John Dryden --- 68 pages
Kindred Octavia E. Butler --- 288 pages
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston --- 192 pages
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) L.M. Montgomery --- 308 pages
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1) John Steinbeck --- 196 pages
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath --- 294 pages
Electra Euripides, translated by Janet Lembke & Kenneth J Reckford --- 112 pages
This comes to a total of 4110 pages read
That makes the new group total ---- 337 897 + 4110 === 342007
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Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
136 pages
Feb 5, 2024
That makes the new group total: 342007 + 136 = 342143
(It’s not much but it’s honest work.)
The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene - 180 pagesThe Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene - 182 pages
So 362 pages together.
Miss Lonelyhearts (142)Bleak House (989)
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (256)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (400)
The Iliad (848)
The Master and the margarita (396)
Subtotal: 3031
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Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power - 146 pgsThe Misty Harbour - 192 pgs
The Chrysalids - 185 pgs
Xingu - 26 pgs
A Murder Is Announced - 267 pgs
Big Ben Strikes Eleven - 343 pgs
On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 276 pgs
The Making of a Marchioness - 216 pgs
Raising Demons - 320 pgs
Jane and Prudence - 253 pgs
Total to Date: 348,148 pgs
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The Rector - 31 pgsThe Executor - 40 pgs
Introduction to Sally - 304 pgs
Someone at a Distance - 318 pgs
The Farthest Shore - 288 pgs
The Home - 251 pgs
Helen Passes By - 231 pgs
They Came to Baghdad - 305 pgs
He Who Whispers - 257 pgs
Mr Harrison's Confessions - 113 pgs
The Moorland Cottage - 119 pgs
The Minority Report - 53 pgs
Total to Date: 350,458 pgs
Rosemarie wrote: "Anisha, you can use the two books, since the biography is non-fiction. And as Samantha stated, audio books count too."Thanks Rosemarie for letting me know.
I’d also like to add:
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath Heather Clark --- 1113 pages
Sylvia Plath: A Biography Linda Wagner-Martin --- 304 pages
Sylvia Plath, a dramatic portrait Barry Kyle --- 70 pages
Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual Kathleen Connors (editor) --- 269 pages
The Spoken Word: Sylvia Plath (British Library) --- 73 mins / estimated 64 pages
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life Anna Funda --- 12 hr. 40 min / book is 449 pages
This comes to a total of 2269, making the new group total (350739+2269) = 353008
But I’m not sure if these count, if not please ignoreThese books are non-fiction related to Classic Reads but are not biographies:
Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City Gwendolyn Leick --- 381 pages --- nonfiction, that also discusses Gilgamesh
The History of Color: A Universe of Chromatic Phenomena Neil Parkinson 439 pages --- nonfiction, books about books on the theory of colour --- (added) but books that go back to 12th Century to Newton’s theory and then moving forward to Josef Alber’s Interaction of Color
Reading Lessons: The Books We Read at School, The Conversations They Spark, we read at school, and Why They Matter Carol Atherton 392 pages --- nonfiction, 12 of the 15 books she discusses are Classic Reads.
If they count then this comes to a total of 1212, making the new group total (353008+1212) = 354220
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Samantha this is your realm would you think Inkspills books of Non-Fiction, be considered Classic reads??
Thanks!
These are of my reads meeting the 50+ year cutoff.
The last 1/3 of The Phantom of the Opera and other Gothic Tales (by various authors ): 272
Murder on the Orient Express (by Agatha Christie): 274
The Bell Jar (by Sylvia Plath): 244
Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories (by Ray Russell): 275
The Last Unicorn (by Peter S. Beagle): 320
The Exorcist (by William Peter Blatty): 400
I, Robot (by Isaac Asimov): 256
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (by Thomas Malory): 768
The Man in the Brown Suit (by Agatha Christie): 265
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination (by Edogawa Rampo): 222
The End of the Story (by Clark Ashton Smith): 285
Three Act Tragedy (by Agatha Christie): 272
Vathek (by William Beckford): 141
The Door to Saturn (by Clark Ashton Smith): 316
The Secret of Chimneys (by Agatha Christie): 336
The Magic Finger (by Roald Dahl): 64
The Complete Stories (by Flannery O'Connor: 555
Death in the Clouds (by Agatha Christie): 253
Fantastic Mr. Fox (by Roald Dahl): 112
Classic Ghost Stories (by various authors): 806
The Seven Dials Mystery (by Agatha Christie): 284
The King in Yellow (by Robert W. Chambers): 238
Fahrenheit 451 (by Ray Bradbury): 179
A Vintage From Atlantis (by Clark Ashton Smith): 352
Dune (by Frank Herbert): 565
Leaf Storm and Other Stories (by Gabriel García Márquez): 146
The Caves of Steel (by Isaac Asimov): 272
The ABC Murders (by Agatha Christie): 240
The Episodes of Vathek (by William Beckford): 208
The Phantom Tollbooth (by Norton Juster): 206
Mary Shelley: Gothic Tales (by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley): 64
The Maze of the Enchanter (by Clark Ashton Smith): 352
The Naked Sun (by Isaac Asimov): 269
No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories (by Gabriel García Márquez): 170
A Wizard of Earthsea (by Ursula K. Le Guin): 299
Murder in Mesopotamia (by Agatha Christie): 228
The Wind in the Willows (by Kenneth Grahame): 228
Collected Fiction Volume 1: Tales of Psychological and Supernatural Horror (by Ambrose Bierce: 360
Jonah's Gourd Vine (by Zora Neale Hurston): 288
The Last Hieroglyph (by Clark Ashton Smith): 360
The Foundation Trilogy (by Isaac Asimov): 752
The Tombs of Atuan (by Ursula K. Le Guin): 221
In Evil Hour (by Gabriel García Márquez): 192
Cards on the Table (by Agatha Christie): 249The total page count is 13,164. If Anisha's are included, then the new total is 367,384 (354,220 + 13,164). Otherwise, it's 366,172 (353,008 + 13,164).
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Drácula by Bram Stoker 488 pag
Rebelión en la granja (edición escolar) (edición definitiva avalada por The Orwell Estate) by George Orwell 201 pag
This comes to a total of 689, making the new group total (367,384+689) = 368,073
Catching up, my second set:Green for Danger, Christianna Brand, 254
The Occupant of the Room, Algernon Blackwood, 13
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell, 590
The Widow of Bath, Margot Bennett, 187
The Pearl, John Steinbeck, 96
The Quarry Wood, Nan Shepherd, 213
The Blacker the Berry..., Wallace Thurman, 221
Total for these books is 1574 pages
Group total is 368 073 + 1574 = 369 647
Catching up, my third set:Love of Life, Jack London, 44
Love, Elizabeth von Arnim, 408
Sweet Thursday, John Steinbeck, 249
The Seventh Sinner, Elizabeth Peters, 288
Impact of Evidence, Carol Carnac, 230
One Day More, Joseph Conrad, 31
The Three Sisters, Anton Chekhov, 81
The Seven Dials Mystery, Agatha Christie, 375
The Man in the Queue, Josephine Tey, 255
(I have nothing else to add until I read some more!)
Total for these books is 1961 pages
Group total is 369 647 + 1961 = 371 608
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 331 ppNew Testament-NIV 432 pp
Group total so far: 371,608 + 331 + 432= 362,371
God's Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell 187 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 294
Mary Anne by Daphne Du Maurier 403
Miss Mole by E.H. Young 288
The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov 97
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens 432
Devoted Ladies by Molly Keane 303
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett 238
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope 735
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 476
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope 794
Embers by Sàndor Màrai 181
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 438
The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope 598
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace 694
China Court: The Hours of a Country House by Rumer Godden 353
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zola Neale Hurston 228
Mystery in the Channel by Freeman Wills Crofts 279
Death on the Riviera by John Bude 242
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley 267
The Three Hostages by John Buchan 282
A Fugue in Time by Rumer Godden 225
To Sir, With Love by E.R. Braithwaite 189
Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara 519
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck 180
Shane by Jack Schaefer 227
Subtotal 9149
Karin wrote: " The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 331 ppNew Testament-NIV 432 pp
Group total so far: 371,608 + 331 + 432= 362,371"
The group total should be 372,371
Daniela wrote: "God's Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell 187 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 294
Mary Anne by Daphne Du Maurier 403
Miss Mole by E.H. Young 288
[..."
The group total: 372,371 + 9149 = 381,520
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New group total= 381 520
We posted at the same time, Luis!
The Letters of Sylvia Beach by Sylvia Beach 376p Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 183p
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 110p
GROUP TOTAL: 382,969 pages
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 564p
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan216p
Luís wrote: "Karin wrote: " The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 331 ppNew Testament-NIV 432 pp
Group total so far: 371,608 + 3..."
Thanks!
Rosemarie wrote: "Daniela's total is 9149New group total= 381 520
We posted at the same time, Luis!"
Yeah.
Karin wrote: "Luís wrote: "Karin wrote: " The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 331 ppNew Testament-NIV 432 pp
Group total so far..."
You're welcome!
Bats in the Belfry 252 pagesThe Moon Is a Harsh Mistress 288 pages
Post After Post-Mortem 284 pages
The Death of Artemio Cruz 307 pages
Lord of Light 296 pages
Death of a Bookseller 256 pages
Mystery in the Channel 284 pages
Pale Fire 246 pages
(Sorry I'm late to post these!)
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Group total: 385 182
The Turn of the Screw 121 pages
The Stranger 123 pages
Cold Comfort Farm 233 pages
First Love 124 pages
Group total: 386 120
This is exciting! Almost to 400,000. I’m easily entertained. 😄
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You're not alone!
Jenna wrote: "This is exciting! Almost to 400,000. I’m easily entertained. 😄"My sentiments exactly and ditto to your second comment!
Normally I don't come here until I'm going to update, but now I'm checking every day to see how things are going.
How to kill a mockingbird, harper lee (385 pages)Pride and prejudice, jane austen (448 pages)
Doris wrote: "How to kill a mockingbird, harper lee (385 pages)Pride and prejudice, jane austen (448 pages)"
Total = 385+448 = 833
833+386578 = 387,411
New Group Total = 387,411
Lesle and Samantha, thanks and I'll keep it in mind for future reads :)
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