2024: 800,000 Page Challenge COMPLETED!! Showing 1,101-1,150 of 1,353

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

On the Beach by Nevil Shute
267 pages

Group total: 568 546

[Anisha Inkspill]

348 pages read, Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others

(568 546+348 = 568 894)

New group total: 568 894

[Kathy]

Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers


451 pages

Group total: 569,345

[Lesle, Appalachain Bibliophile]

I think I forgot to post this:

Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J. Farmer


266 pages

Group Total: 569,611

[Theresa (mysteries.and.mayhem)]

I just finished The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham.

256 pages

Group Total: 569,867

[Nike]

I've read The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler. The edition I read has got 399 pages.

Group total: 570 266

[Sarah]

Pride and Prejudice + The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray + Jane Eyre

276 + 260 + 532 = 1068

570,266 + 1068 = 571,334

[Andreea]

Aphorisms on Love and Hate by Friedrich Nietzsche @ 55 pages

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith @ 274 pages

Group Total: 571,663

[Lorraine]

Le Pavillon d'Or. Yukio Mishima

376+571,663= 572,039

[Tim]

Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain - 108 pages

Group Total: 572, 147

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Surfeit of Suspects by George Bellairs
226 pages

Group total: 572 373

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

The Five Orange Pips by Arthur Conan Doyle
26 pages

Group total: 572 399

[Luís]

Água Viva by Clarice Lispector

88 Pages

Group total: 572,487

[Luís]

O Ladrão Honesto e Outras Histórias by Fyodor Dostoevsky

208 Pages

Group total: 572,695

[Kathy]

Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym


256 pages

Group total: 572,951

[Beth]

Jamaica Inn Daphne du Maurier 320 pages
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 368 pages

Group total: 573, 639

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

By the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benét
25 pages

Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton
40 pages

Group total: 573 704

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European by Stefan Zweig

480 pages

Group total: 574, 184 pages

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Thomasina: The Cat Who Thought She Was a God by Paul Gallico

352 pages

Group total: 574 536

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Where There's a Will by Rex Stout
258 pages

Group total: 574 794

[Josefína]

Temné Aleje by Ivan Bunin
212 pages

Group total: 575 006

[Josefína]

Román o Tristanovi a Isoldě by Joseph Bédier
192 pages

Group total: 575 198

[Mbuye]

1) Diary of a U-Boat Commander by Stephen Hall-King 272 p
2) Born in Exile by George Gissing 316 p
3) The Necromancers by Robert Hugh Benson 282 p
4) The Lawyer's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 120 p
5) Hieroglyphic Tales by Horace Walpole 120 p
6) The Goddess - A Demon by Richard Marsh 292 p
7) Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe 32 p
8)The Marble Fawn by Nathaniel Hawthorne 432 p
9) Rukmini, Krishna's Wife by Saiswaroopa Iyer 254 p
10) Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by 544 p
Isabel Wilkerson

Total number of pages 2664 p
+575198
Group Total: 577 862

[Anisha Inkspill]

394 pages read The Journals of Sylvia Plath

(577 862+394 = 578 256)

New group total: 578 256

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens

648 pages

Group total: 578 904

[Andreea]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey @ 325 pages

Group Total: 579,229

[Skadi]

1.- The Saga of the Volsungs 160 pages
2.- Confesiones de una máscara by Yukio Mishima 240 pages
3.- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 233 pages
4.- Presencias by Vernon Lee 215 pages
5.- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 514 pages
6.- El extranjero by Albert Camus 128 pages

Total number of pages : 1490

Group total: 580.719

[Chad]

The Bride Wore Black 288 pages
Cannery Row 196 pages
Sweet Thursday 249 pages
No Longer at Ease 194 pages
The Dry Heart 88 pages
The Fire Next Time 106 pages
Surfeit of Suspects 226 pages
The Slave 320 pages
Hedda Gabler 112 pages
A Doll's House 122 pages
The Real Cool Killers 159 pages
The Death of Ivan Ilych 86 pages
On the Beach 312 pages
= 2458 pages

Current Group Total: 583,177

[Lorraine]

Vingt ans après. Alexandre Dumas

1095+ 583,177= 584,272

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

The Parenticide Club by Ambrose Bierce
27 pages

Group total: 584 299

[Chad]

Death on the Nile
333 pages

Current Group Total: 584,632

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

159 pages

Group total: 584,791 pages

[Mario]

Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw 288 pages

584,632 + 288 =584,920

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

New total is 584,791 + 288 = 585,079

[Vince]

On the Beach by Nevil Shute

238 pages

Group total: 585,158

[Vince]

whoops: 585,317

[Luís]

A Sombra de Mart by Stig Dagerman

128 Pages.

Group total: 585,445

[Kathy]

After the Divorce by Grazia Deledda


174 pages

Group total: 585,619

[Anisha Inkspill]

302 pages read, Jamaica Inn (Daphne du Maurier) ---As a whole this didn’t gel for me but in parts this has left an impression. 3*

(585,619+302 = 585 921)

New group total: 585 921

[Samantha, Creole Literary Belle]

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

560 pages

585,921 + 560 =

new group total: 586,481

[ForestGardenGal]

August (not yet reported)
Areopagitica by John Milton, 228p
The Negro Problem by Booker T. Washington, 65p
The Vital Message by Arthur Conan Doyle, 68p
September
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn, 256p
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82 by Charles Darwin, 224p
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, 70p
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 188p
October
Favorite Father Brown Stories by G.K. Chesterton, 140p
Carrie by Stephen King, 322p
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens, 622p
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, 254p
She by H Rider Haggard, 404p
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin, 308p
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, 259p
November
The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom by James Romm (published in 2021, but it's a history book re Classical Greek warfare), 288p
Total Recall by Philip K. Dick, 31p

Previous group total: 586,481
Aug 361
Sept 738
Oct 2,309
Nov 319
(My total 3,727)
New group total: 590,208

[Luís]

Léxico Familiar by Natalia Ginzburg

200 Pages

new group total: 590,408

[ForestGardenGal]

@Luis, looks like we nearly posted simultaneously!

New group total is 590,408

[Luís]

ForestGardenGal wrote: "@Luis, looks like we nearly posted simultaneously!

New group total is 590,408"

Thank you, Forest!

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

A Surprise For Christmas: And Other Seasonal Mysteries by Martin Edwards

305 pages

Group total: 590 713

[Anisha Inkspill]

278 pages read, Measure for Measure (William Shakespeare) --- A second read. Easier to read then the others, I'm thinking it's because of its small cast. 3*

(590,713+278 = 590 991)

New group total: 590 991

[Delirious Disquisitions]

Charlotte’s Web

Pages: 184

Group Total: 591,175

[ForestGardenGal]

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, 192p.

Group total: 591,367

[Liane]

Getting caught up:
Love's Labor's Lost 115p
The Enchanted Wood 238p
Henry IV part 3: History 124p
Lord of Light 296p
Invisible Man 581p
Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century 115p
The Power and the Glory 222p
Persuasion 250p
Timon of Athens 101p
Ubik 227p
Richard III 158p
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test 416p
The Taming of the Shrew 113p
Cold Comfort Farm 233p
A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts 114p
The Prophet 127p
The art of fiction 50p
Coriolanus 139p
Fathers and Sons 200p
Total 3819
New total 595,186

[Tr1sha]

Catching up…

The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov, 96
Stancliffe's Hotel, Charlotte Brontë, 96
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë, 532
The Haunted House, Charles Dickens, 126
The Poor Clare, Elizabeth Gaskell, 96
My Life, Anton Chekhov,120

Total: 1 066

New total: 596 252