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2024: 800,000 Page Challenge COMPLETED!!
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Humility of Heart by Cajetan Maria da Bergamo. 236 pagesCharles I: A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History 57 pages
Group total: 392,577My total: 3,375
The Stranger by Albert Camus, 123 pages
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, 64 pages
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, 244 pages
The Magicians Nephew by C.S. Lewis, 202 pages
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, 189 pages
The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis, 224 pages
Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis, 223 pages
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis, 248 pages
The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis, 243 pages
The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis, 211 pages
My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett, 25 pages
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyim by Omar Khayyim, 90 pages
Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, 251 pages
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, 128 pages
Animal Farm by George Orwell, 101 pages
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, 247 pages
Gothic Tales by Marquis de Sade, 192 pages
Night by Elie Wiesel, 109 pages
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, 27 pages
The Lady or The Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton, 6 pages
Aladdin and The Magic Lamp by Anonymous, 27 pages
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, 9 pages
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell, 192 pages
Tatjana wrote: "Kapetanova kći by Alexander Pushkin - 142Group Total: 387,553"
New Group Total: 392,719
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It is exciting to see it build up and see how close we can get to our goal
Monthly we should be reaching around 66,000 read pages, We should be at the end of the month around 533,000. It is totally doable for us!! If all of our Members help out.
Even if you do not comment in the other threads this thread is really great for showing us your reads and what you have accomplished which gives us a group accomplishment!!!
We appreciate everyones help with this!!!
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole104 pages
The Vampyre by John Willian Polisario
73 pages
A Dark Night’s Work by Elizabeth Gaskell
210 pages
My total - 387 pages
New group total 393,106
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Prometheus Bound by [bookcover:Prometheus BoundAeschylus|990]Pages 144
The Forbidden Notebook by Alba de CéspedesCat’s Cradle
Pages 288
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
Pages 192
Cat’s Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.pages 179
The Road to the City by Natalia Ginzburg
Pages 99
New group total 393,106 + 99 = 3,94,008
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
Pages 217
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
pages 175
by Italo CalvinoThe Cloven Viscount
Pages 106
New group total 3,94,506
The Saga of the Volsungs by Anonymous
Pages 145
by Vicki BaumGrand Hotel
Pges 288
The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
Pages 320
by Marcel ProustThe Guermantes Way
Pages 619
Kabuliwala by Rabindranath Tagore
Pages 45
New group total 3,95,923
The Immortal by Jorge Luis Borges
Pages 10
by R.K. NarayanSwami and Friends
Pages 190
The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre by Jean-Paul Sartre
Pgaes 256
by Thomas PynchonThe Crying of Lot 49
Pages 152
Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac
Pages 220
by Honoré de BalzacA Woman at Thirty
Pages 235
Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
Pages 557
by George Sand The Country WaifPages 181
The Girl With The Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac
Pages 72
by Simone de Beauvoir InseparablePages 156
Simone de Beauvoir wrote the book in 1954 but it saw light in 2021.
New group total 3,97,781
total read: 1 603 pages Les Misérables Victor Hugo (Christine Donougher’s translation) 1443 pages
Vincent: A Graphic Biography: A Graphic Biography (BioGraphics) Simon Elliott, based on A Memoir of Vincent van Gogh by Jo van Gogh-Bonger (1862 – 1925) --- 160 pages
New Group Total (398 025+1 603 =) 399 628
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison - 206 pagesThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - 291 pages
Utopia by Thomas More - 113 pages
Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis - 223 pages
We Have Always Lived in a Castle by Shirley Jackson - 146 pages
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis - 216 pages
The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis - 243 pages
The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis 224 pages
The Magicians Nephew by C. S. Lewis - 208 pages
The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis - 184 pages
The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie - 400 pages
A Vindication on the Rights of Woman - 269 pages
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder - 384
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder - 335 pages
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie - 248 pages
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald - 450 pages
Total Pages: 4,140
New Group Total: 399,628 + 4,140 = 403,768
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 501 pagesThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka - 69 pages
Total pages -570
New group total: 403,768 + 570 = 404,338
Pride and prejudice - Jane Austen 421405.189
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
546 pages
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
704 pages
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
264 pages
My pages: 2310
New group total = 407499
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Thank you so much everyone. Please do not forget to follow up with your reads the rest of the year as well!!!
New group total = 407,499
Jenna wrote: "❤️🤓 Yay 400,000 !!!"We're in the middle.
Madame Bobary by Gustave Flaubert 448 pagesLuces de Bohemia by Valle-Inclán 142 pages
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare 144 pages
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett 242 pages
Diario de un hombre superfluo by Turgenev 104 pages
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 448 pages
Anne of Green gables by L.M Montgomery 384 pages
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 128 pages
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 507 pages
Las penas del joven Werther by Goethe 144 pages
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde 161 pages
La Peste by Albert Camus 360 pages
Una historia desagradable by Fyodor Dostoevsky 126 pages
She by H. Rider Haggard 326 pages
Silas Marner by George Eliot 240 pages
La vida es sueño by Calderón de la Barca 234 pages
The Call of the Wild by Jack London 150 pages
The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers 128 pages
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 128 pages
Total pages: 4.544
New group total = 412.043
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 1232 pagesCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 492 pages
Dune by Frank Herbert 412 pages
Philadelphia, Here I Come by Brian Friel 112 pages
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 288 pages
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlow 98 pages
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 150 pages
The Masque of Blackness by Ben Jonson 56 pages
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 280 pages
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass 72 pages
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn 144 pages
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 400 pages
The Tempest by William Shakespeare 104 pages
The Beach of Falesa by Robert Louis Stevenson 127 pages
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 68 pages
The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling 104 pages
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 112 pages
The Post Office by Rabindranath Tagore 34 pages
total pages: 4285
New group total: 416,504
A Far Cry from Kensington, Muriel Spark - 177 pagesThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark - 131 pages
The Driver’s Seat, Muriel Spark - 128 pages
Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford - 258 pages
The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford - 242 pages
The Third Man and the Fallen Idol, Graham Greene - 162 pages
Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene - 256 pages
My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier - 349 pages
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce - 374 pages
Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 150 pages
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje - 339 pages
The House of Seven Gables, Nathanial Hawthorne - 238 pages
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne - 279 pages
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes - 311 pages
Puddnhead Wilson, Mark Twain - 162 pages
Total pages = 3,556
Group total: 420,427
The Haunted Hotel - Wilkie Collins262 pages
Greygallows - Barbara Michaels
256
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
285
The Collector - John Fowles
322
Subtotal 1125
New Total 421,552
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Amanda, unfortunately The English Patient is too newPublished in 1992
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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 277 pages
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421 552-339+277=421 490
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 881Lenz by Georg Büchner 200
Total 1081 + 421,490 = 422,571
April (not previously reported)The Gods From 'The Gods and Other Lectures' by Ingersoll, 48p
About The Holy Bible A Lecture by Ingersoll, 48p
Shakespeare A Lecture by Ingersoll, 42p
Heretics And Heresies From 'The Gods and Other Lectures' by Ingersoll, 35p
The Christian Religion: An Enquiry by Ingersoll, 30p
Individuality From 'The Gods and Other Lectures' by Ingersoll, 18p
Hell Warm Words on the Cheerful and Comforting Doctrine of Eternal Damnation by Ingersoll, 18p
Humboldt From 'The Gods and Other Lectures' by Ingersoll, 13p
A Coney Island of the Mind by Ferlinghetti, 93p
The Ethics of Belief by Clifford, 27p
Gandhi on Non-Violence by Gandhi, 82p
Life Without Principle by Thoreau, 48p
April Total (not previously reported) 502
May
Mistakes of Moses by Ingersoll, 182p
The Ghosts And Other Lectures by Ingersoll, 66p
Beowulf, by unknown author, 180p
May Total: 428
June
The Atheist's Mass by Balzac, 82p
Albert Savarus by Balzac, 116p
Vendetta by Balzac, 76p
The Purse by Balzac, 54p
An Essay On Criticism by Pope, 48p
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge, 51p
Lincoln Letters by Lincoln, 22p
An Oration On The Life And Services Of Thomas Paine by Ingersoll, 54p
Walt Whitman An Address by Ingersoll, 47p
The Tryal of William Penn and William Mead for Causing a Tumult at the Sessions Held at the Old Bailey in London the 1st, 3d, 4th, and 5th of September 1670 by Penn, 27p
Trial of C. B. Reynolds For Blasphemy Defence by Robert G. Ingersoll, at Morristown, N. J., May 1887 by Ingersoll, 64p
June Total: 641
July
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe, 100 p
Apocolocyntosis by Seneca, 192p
The Raven by Poe, 64p
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie by Longfellow, 126p
Beauty and the Beast by Beaumont, 48p
To Be Read at Dusk by Dickens, 54p
Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way by Pittenger, 50p
Lecture on the Aborigines of Newfoundland Delivered Before the Mechanics' Institute, at St. John's, Newfoundland, on Monday, 17th January, 1859 by Noad, 40p
The Last of the Huggermuggers by Cranch, 32p
The King in Yellow by Chalmers, 224p
The Velveteen Rabbit by Williams Bianco, 40p
An essay on the American contribution and the democratic idea by Churchill, 38p
Of Captain Mission by Defoe, 42p
The City of the Sun by Campanella, 100p
The Teacher by Abbott, 37p
The Game by London, 103p
The Silverado Squatters by Stevenson, 74p
The Contest in America by Mill, 48p
Maitre Cornelius by Balzac, 54p
The Red Inn by Balzac, 42p
The Country Doctor by Balzac, 244p
History of the Thirteen by Balzac, 392p
Ursula by Balzac, 204p
July Total: 2348
August
Freedom from the Known by Krishnamurti, 124p
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays by Santayana, 127p
A Little Swiss Sojourn by Howells, 61p
Alcestis by Euripides, 57p
Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing by Tetrazzini, 61p
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle by Potter, 57p
Proserpine and Midas by Shelley, 112p
Stonehenge Today and Yesterday by Stevens, 52p
August Total: 651
Previous Total = 422,809
+ April 502
+ May 428
+ June 641
+ July 2348
+ Aug 651
New Total 427,379
Rosemarie wrote: "The Glorious Pool by Thorne Smith197 pages
Group total: 427 599"
The group total should be 427,919
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Rosemarie wrote: "Thanks, Luis!"You're most welcome!
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We are a great fellowship!!
Lesle wrote: "Rosemarie I am so grateful for everyone's updates!! and your help with the totals along with the Members helping as well!!We are a great fellowship!!"
Indeed, we are.
Family Ties 160 pages
Streets Of Laredo
589 pages
A Zoo in My Luggage
195 pages
Current group total: 429,868
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