2024: 800,000 Page Challenge COMPLETED!! Showing 1,201-1,250 of 1,353

[Michael]

Great Gatsby - 180 pages
Stories of John Cheever - 693
Huckleberry Finn - 327 pages
Old Man and the Sea - 128 pages
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - 509
total = 1837

group subtotal = 716,470

[Richard]

The Life of Nelson: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain - 1020 pages
Lord Jim - 402 pages
The Last Angry Man - 492 pages
The Mill on the Floss - 579 pages
Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings: A Bilingual Edition - 496 pages
Slaughterhouse-Five - 275 pages
Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes - 512 pages
Mao: The Unknown Story - 801 pages
Man's Fate - 368 pages
Rusalka - 312 pages
A General's Life - 752 pages
Magellan - 280 pages
In the Presence of the Creator: Isaac Newton and his Times - 623 pages
Odd John - 191 pages
The Caine Mutiny - 537 pages
Lonesome Dove - 960 pages
The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft - 1102 pages
Cancer Ward - 576 pages
Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence - 400 pages
Dragon's Teeth - 837 pages
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold - 240 pages
The Kinsman Saga - 544 pages
Leonardo da Vinci - 600 pages
The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (The Biblical Resource Series - 337 pages
John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life - 432 pages
The Tales of Guy de Maupassant - 472 pages
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - 815 pages
The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth - 270 pages
Towing Jehovah - 371 pages
Germinal - 592
Total: 16,188 pages
Total for Group: 732,658

[Amanda]

The Millstone, Margaret Drabble - 196
Pure Gold Baby, Margaret Drabble - 305
The Diary of Anne Frank - 275
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury - 243

Total pages - 1,019

Total group pages - 715, 652

[Niva]

Amanda wrote: "The Millstone, Margaret Drabble - 196
Pure Gold Baby, Margaret Drabble - 305
The Diary of Anne Frank - 275
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury - 243

Total pages - 1,019

Total group pages - 715, 652"
Hi! Add the total pages to 732,658, that's the subtotal right now

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Calculated from message 1192, the new group total is 735,395 pages.

[Steven]

A tree grows in Brooklyn 493
Growth of the soil 395
Slaughterhouse Five 288
Breakfast of champions 295
God bless you Mr rosewater 218
The wayward bus 352
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest 320

[Christine PNW]

In response to Lesle's email, I'm here to help. I haven't added any of my books for the year, so this will probably take a few posts!

Beast in View by Margaret Millar: 160 pages
Miss Plum and Miss Penny by Dorothy Evelyn Smith: 253 pages
These Names Make Clues by E.C.R. Lorac: 254 pages
Death at the Deep End by Patricia Wentworth: 205 pages
Centennial by James A. Michener: 1105 pages
They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie: 368 pages
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens: 801 pages
Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie: 261 pages
Above Suspicion by Helen MacInnes: 337 pages

Total for this post: 3,744 pages

[Christine PNW]

They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie: 272 pages
Death in Fancy Dress by Anthony Gilbert: 256 pages
Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner: 329 pages
Death in High Heels by Christianna Brand: 234 pages
The Rhinemann Exchange by Robert Ludlum: 486 pages
The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: 112 pages
East of Eden by John Steinbeck: 601 pages
The Bostonians by Henry James: 414 pages
The Fortune of the Rougons by Émile Zola: 301 pages

Total for this post: 3005 pages

[Richard]

Here are some other books I read this year (my record keeping leaves something to be desired).
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph - 784 pages
The Works of Josephus - 940 pages
As I Lay Dying - 288 pages
Angle of Repose - 569 pages
Blood Sport - 288 pages
The Life and Death of Lenin - 720 pages
Children of Time - 608 pages
Master and Commander - 384 pages
Total: 4,581

[Christine PNW]

Calculated from message 1207 - new total: 749,086 pages

[Planxti's Imaginary World]

I also have not participated this year in this thread\post. Let me see:

Seven Years in Tibet 330 pages
The Black Cat 15 pages
The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin 466 pages
I, Robot 224 pages
Anna Karenina 964 pages

My total: 1,999 the running total is a little nuts right now.

[Lisa]

I read:
We Have Always Lived in the Castle ( 182 pages) and The Haunting of Hill House (146 pages) by Shirley Jackson.

Also, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (231 pages).

[Jeremy]

The Warmth of Other Suns-Wilkerson 622 pages
Clouds-Aristophanes (Hickers translator)-101 pages
Death of a Bookseller-Farmer 256 pages
The Wide Sargasso Sea-Rhys-176 pages
In This House of Bride -Godden-390 pages
Post After Post Mortem- Lorac-322 pages
The Weary Blues-Langst on Hughes-128 pages
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine-Murdoch-365 pages
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton 488 pages

Total 2848 pages

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Calculated from message 1212. New group total is 759,212 pages

[Cody]

The Diary of Anne Frank - 352 pages

The Old Man and the Sea - 96 pages

In Cold Blood - 368 pages

The Stranger - 123 pages

939 pages

[Jono]

Hi,
I haven’t added any of my totals but I’ve read 53 books so far in 2024 that total 19,004 pages.

614,178 + 19,004 =633,182

[Richard]

A few others I remember:
1919 - 464 pages
Tolstoy - 896 pages
The Ipcress File - 342 pages
The Oak and the Calf - 568 pages
Total: 2,270 pages

[Sarah]

The picture of Dorian Gray 272
The death of Ivan Ilych 86
Dubliners 352
A room of one's own 114
O Pioneers! 159
A tree grows in brooklyn 496
The mill on the floss 529
The palm-wine drinkard 125
Molloy 241
East of Eden 601
Phantastes 212
A room with a view 119
Daddy-long-legs 249
Go Tell it on the Mountain 256
Frankenstein 273
The Tain 256
The count of Monte Cristo 1276
The sorrows of young werther 149
Catch 22 453
The Bridge of St. Luis Rey 160
Laughing Boy 206
The Yellow Paper 64
Treatises on Friendship and Old Age 54
The Legend of sleepy hollow 108
For Woman's Love 406
Total - 7216
Group Total - 721,462

[Karin]

The Scent of Water 349 pages

I can't find the right version of the books of the Bible I've read, so will skip. I'm reading another classic now.

721,462 + 349 = 721,811 group total

[Valerie]

A Surprise For Christmas: And Other Seasonal Mysteries

317 pages

Group total: 714,950

[Samantha, Creole Literary Belle]

The group total is a hot mess, and my tired mind does not have the encouragement to fix the math currently. If anyone does, please find the most recent, accurate total and just add individual totals from there. Or, I will fix tomorrow, if no one does before me.

Thank you to everyone who is throwing in their classic page totals from 2024!

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

I've retabulated the numbers as far as message 1210. The total there is 744 444!

I'm taking a break-hopefully the numbers are correct. The mistake occurred when two members posted at exactly the same time!

[Samantha, Creole Literary Belle]

Piyangie posted a higher group total than that, so I'm curious what the actual total is currently.

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Samantha wrote: "Piyangie posted a higher group total than that, so I'm curious what the actual total is currently."

I'll continue using Piyangie's numbers. I think I missed one of Christine PNW's totals.

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

The page numbers in 1212 are accurate.

So far we have 788 990.
I'm going to add the pages from Ava's books. She didn't give the page numbers so I'll use the most common editions.
Little Women 449
Bleak House 880
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again 366
Great Expectations 544
Oliver Twist 531

Total: 2770

Group total= 791 760

[Samantha, Creole Literary Belle]

If you figure out the true number, Rosemarie, you're a champion.

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Samantha wrote: "If you figure out the true number, Rosemarie, you're a champion."

I'm just stubborn!

[Callie]

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl - 153 pgs
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot - 56 pgs
True Grit by Charles Portis - 224 pgs
A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken - 240 pgs
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle - 199 pgs
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - 351 pgs
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - 206 pgs
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard - 288 pgs
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - 336 pgs
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle - 240 pgs
His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle - 208 pgs
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - 279 pgs
The Aeneid by Virgil - 442 pgs
Sense and Sensibility - 409 pgs

My total: 3,631
Group total: 795,391

[Erika]

A Chess Story by Stefan Zweig - 112 pages
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi - 224 pages
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu - 156 pages
Letter from the Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - 48 pages
Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono - 193 pages
The Damned Thing: Weird and Ghostly Tales by Ambrose Bierce - 208 pages

My total: 941
Group total: 796,332

[abigail]

Jane eyre by charlotte bronte - 576
1984 by George Orwell - 328
The adventures of huckleberry Finn by mark twain - 368
The outsiders by s.e. Hinton - 136
Are you there god? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume - 176
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - 376
The legend of sleepy hollow by Washington Irving - 70
Murder on the orient express by Agatha Christie - 288

My total - 2,318
Group total - 798,650

Good luck on your reading goals everyone! 🫶🏽📖

[Samantha, Creole Literary Belle]

These page numbers coming in are amazing! Y'all, if we meet this group goal of 800k, Lesle might be so happy she cries.

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Yours, Plum The Letters of P.G. Wodehouse by P.G. Wodehouse

269 pages

Group total: 798 919

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Wohoo! We're going to make it this time!

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Thanks to everyone!

[Tim]

The City in the Sky by Max Brand - 252 pages

Group Total to Date: 799, 171

[NN]

Cleland, Fanny Hill, y: 1748, p: 224
Beckford, Vathek, y: 1786, p: 180
Polidori, The vampyre, y: 1819, p: 72
Gogol, The night before Christmas, y: 1831, p: 65
Dickens, Great Expectations, y: 1861, p: 544
Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla, y: 1872, p: 108
Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray, y: 1890, p: 272
Steinbeck, The grapes of wrath, y: 1939, p: 545
Highsmith, The price of salt, y: 1952, p: 262
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, y: 1953, p: 194
My total: 2466 p
Group total: 799171 + 2466 = 801637 🥳

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Yay, we made it! Thanks, everyone.

[Lesle, Appalachain Bibliophile]

This is thrilling!!
I love everyone's support <3
Thank you Piyangie for keeping us on track!!

Keep adding your total pages!!

[Michelle]

YAY! Congrats everyone! I wonder how high the total can get by Jan 31?

Group total: 799171 + 2466 = 801637 🥳

Youth, Tove Ditlevsen p. 128

Dependency, Tove Ditlevesen p. 160

Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Mary Wollstonecraft p. 266

The Christmas Stories by Selma Lagerlöf: A Christmas Guest, The Holy Night, The Legend of the Christmas Rose, Selma Lagerlöf p. 45


Group: 802,236

[Anisha Inkspill]

yeyyyyy!!! Congrats!!! Just Amazing. And seriously fun. It will be interesting to see what total we finally reach.


65 paged read The Lifted Veil (George Eliot) --- I'm new to George Eliot and starting with this short, and it was a good start. 3.5*

(802 236 +65 = 802,301)
New group total: 802 301

[Luís]

We did it! Congratulations everyone!

[Christie]

57 books for the year. 19,533 pages. Puts current group total at 821,834.

[Andrew]

800k pages is an impressive amount of good reading, congratulations.

My final contribution of 2024:

Can You Forgive Her? - Anthony Trollope 847
The Testament Of Francois Villon - Francois Villon 154
Picnic At Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsey 189
Journey To The End Of The Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline 453
Death On The Instalment Plan - Louis-Ferdinand Céline 592
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark 150
The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch 408
The Driver’s Seat - Muriel Spark 103
The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch 528
Murder On The Orient Express - Agatha Christie 274
Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu 108
Hunger - Knut Hamsun 243
A Sound Of Thunder - Ray Bradbury 15
The Autiobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson 212
The Nargun And The Stars - Patricia Wrightson 168
The Autobiography Of Benvenuto Cellini - Benvenuto Cellini 465
Maigret Sets A Trap - Georges Simenon 182
The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain 116
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - John le Carré 212
The Chant Of Jimmy Blacksmith - Thomas Keneally 192
Dirty Snow - Georges Simenon 244
El Verdugo - Honoré de Balzac 20
A Passion In The Desert - Honoré de Balzac 46
The Red Inn - Honoré de Balzac 42
The Recruit - Honoré de Balzac 26
An Episode Under The Terror - Honoré de Balzac 20
The Concubine - Elechi Amadi 216
The Chouans - Honoré de Balzac 236
The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kozinsky 234
The Moon Is Down - John Steinbeck 144
Miserable Miracle - Henri Michaux 200
Lenz- Georg Buchner 200
The Peyote Dance - Antonin Artaud 105
Cousin Betty - Honoré de Balzac 420
Cousin Pons - Honoré de Balzac 336
Total 8100
Previous group total 821834
New group total 829934

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner 316 pages

Group total: 830,250 pages

[VeronicaR]

A Prayer for Owen Meany- 637 pages

[Celia]

The Murder at the Vicarage - 384 pages
The Big Sleep - 234 pages
The Souls of Black Folk 252 pages
Rascal - 192 pages
Cannery Row - 182 pages
Little Fadette - 236 pages

Total: 1480 pages (not much, very sorry)
Total pages in the group: 715726

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[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Every little bit helps, Celia!

New group total is 832 367!

[Audrey]

Farewell to Manzanar 223 pages
Group Total: 832,590

[Kathy]

Christmas In The Adirondacks by William Henry Harrison Murray


63 pages

The Mistletoe Bough by Anthony Trollope


48 pages

The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories by Martin Edwards


288 pages

63+48+288 = 399

Group total: 832,989

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Cosima by Grazia Deledda

137 pages

Group total: 840 126