2024: 800,000 Page Challenge COMPLETED!! Showing 1,301-1,350 of 1,353

[JenniferAustin]

This is my first time to participate. I am being careful to exclude items less than 50 years old.

Vintage Mysteries
The Bar on the Seine - 160 pages
Forfeit - 205 pages
Rat Race - 216 pages
The Laughing Policeman - 211 pages
Blood Sport - 288 pages
Striding Folly - 176 pages
The Big Four - 272 pages
The Man in the Brown Suit - 381 pages
The Lady Vanishes - 240 pages
Dead Cert - 277 pages
Sparkling Cyanide - 336 pages
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories - 368 pages
Odds Against - 239 pages
Unnatural Death - 264 pages

Vintage SF/Fantasy
Rocannon’s World - 258 pages
Dune - 604 pages
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again - 366 pages

Vintage Children' & YA Lit
Tintin in Tibet - 62 pages
The Enchanted Castle - 291 pages
The Secret of Red Gate Farm - 202 pages
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective - 128 pages
The Wind in the Willows - 197 pages
The Beast of Monsieur Racine - 32 pages

Classic Literature
Notes from the Underground - 136 pages
Three Men in a Boat- 185 pages
Seize the Day - 114 pages
The Mustache - 1 page
Down and Out in Paris and London - 213 pages
How Much Land Does a Man Need? - 26 pages
The Beauties - 8 pages
The Shadow-Line - 192 pages
Footsteps in the Dark - 352 pages
The Return of the Soldier - 112 pages
Middlemarch - 853 pages
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - 281 pages
The Zimmermann Telegram - 244 pages
The Canterville Ghost - 112 pages
The Diary of a Nobody - 176 pages
We - 256 pages
The Man Who Would Be King - 32 pages

Total as of 12/26/2024: 9,066

Total pages in the group (including post from whttr, 387 pages): 723,699

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Fantastic list, Jennifer! Thank you.

Group total is 924 387

[Sundee]

Adventures of Huck Finn- 327 pages
Adventure of Tom Sawyer 244 pages
The Iliad- 848 pages
Rebecca - 449 pages

926,255 total pages

[Richard]

Look Homeward, Angel - 544 pages
Crusade in Europe - 559 pages

927,358 total pages

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf 192 pages

Group total: 927,550 pages

[Lesle, Appalachain Bibliophile]

I cannot get over how well we have done in surpassing our goal!!

Thank you to all our Members for taking the time to help in this group challenge!

Remember we will do this every year! So keep commenting your pages!

[Christine]

War and Peace by Tolstoy - Maude translation - 1,308 pages

[Luís]

I think the total group pages aren't correct. Please check them out. Thank you. Luís.

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Group total: 928 979

[Luís]

Rosemarie wrote: "Group total: 928 979"

Thank you!

[h13]

Rosemarie wrote: "Group total: 928 979"

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

pages 121


total group = 928 979

[Luís]

Group total: 929, 100

[Kathy]

Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford


178 pages

Group total: 929,278

[Mbuye]

1) Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene 272 pp
2) Flaming June by Mrs George de Horne Vaizey 343 PP
3) Buried Child by Sam Shepard 72 pp
4) Friday the Rabbi Slept Late 208 PP
5) The Story of The Other Wise Man 112 pp
6) The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman 75 pp
7) The Voyage Home by Pat Barker 320 pp
8) The Beetle by Richard Marsh 364 pp
9) 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig 112pp

Total no of pages 1878 pp

Previous Total 929 278 + 1878 = 931 156

Current Group Total 931 156

[Nike]

I've read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving The version I read had 46 pages.

Group Total: 931 202 pages

[Tim]

The Holy Bible, (compact print edition), 1516 pages

Group Total: 932, 718

[Zoe]

The Vampyre, John Polidori- 35 pages

The Call of Cthulhu, H.P.Lovecraft- 43 pages

North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell- 496 pages

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas- 1276 pages

Total pages: 1850
Group total: (932,718 + 1850) = 934,568

[Richard]

Citizen Hearst: A Biography of William Randolph Hearst - 576 pages

[Lesle, Appalachain Bibliophile]

New Group Total = 935,144

[Susan]

NTLTRC 2024 Challenge toward 800,000 pages!

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - 954 pages
Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell - 115 pages
Sylvia’s Lovers by Gaskell - 131 pages
Heidi by Johanna Spyri - 210 pages
Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope - 1043 pages
Brighty of the Grand Canyon, by Marguerite Henry - 216 pages
The Eustace Diamonds, by Trollope - 344 pages
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett - 175 pages
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith - 493 pages
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - 85 pages
Christmas at Thompson Hall by Trollope - 35 pages

[lish]

The Great Gatsby - 240 pages
Picture of Dorian Gray - 288 pages
The Art and Decay of Art and Lying - 40 pages

[Brianna]

Previous Group Total: 939,513

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - 352 pages
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - 870 pages
Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope - 848 pages
Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope - 752 pages
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope - 818 pages
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle - 276 pages
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder - 372 pages
Let Me Be a Woman by Elisabeth Elliot - 192 pages
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs - 245 pages
Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley - 317 pages
Elsie's Holidays at Roselands by Martha Finley - 320 pages
Elsie's Girlhood by Martha Finley - 364 pages
Elsie's Womanhood by Martha Finley - 352 pages
Elsie's Motherhood by Martha Finley - 330 pages
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - 106 pages
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - 319 pages
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - 160 pages
Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss - 352 pages

Total: 7,345
Plus Previous Group Total: 939,513

New Group Total: 946,858

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

283 pages

Group total: 947 141

[Cristina]

Sophia`s World by Jostein Gaarder 552 pages
Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hide by Robert L. Stevenson 139 pages
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by J. Verne 352 pages
Enchiridion by Epictetus 64 pages
Cuore by Edmondo de Amicis 362 pages
Iliad by Homer 344 pages
Il barone rampante by Italo Calvino 246 pages
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 209 pages
Der Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse 256 pages
The little Prince by Antoine de Saint Expert 91 pages
My Total page number: 2,615
Group total: 949,756

[Anisha Inkspill]

178 paged read Christmas Pudding (Nancy Mitford) --- wacky and fun. 4*

(949 756+178 = 949 934)

New group total: 949 934

[Rosemary]

Read January 2024
Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner 176 pages
Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson. 224 pages
Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson. 192 pages
The Darling Buds of May by H E Bates 160 pages
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. 527 pages
Thé Exploits of Moominpappa by Tove Jansson 176 pages.
Total 1455 pages
949,934 + 1445 = 951,389

[Rosemary]

Read February 2024
Le Bal by Irène Nemirovsky 106 pages
Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson 192 pages
Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson 176 pages
Tales from Moominvalley by Tove Jansson 208 pages
Moominpappa at Sea by Tove Jansson 272 pages
Moominvalley in November by Tove Jansson 208 pages
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 410 pages
The Ladies’ Paradise by Émile Zola. 438 pages
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford 205pages
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell 216 pages
Our Mother’s House by Julian Gloag 270 pages
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford 256 pages

Total = 2,957
951,389 + 2,957 = 954,346

[Rosemary]

Read March and April 2024

I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 281 pages
Lady Susan by Jane Austen 119 pages
Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford. 169 pages
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh 560 pages
The Murder of My Aunt by Richard Hull 240 pages
A London Child of the 1870s by Molly Hughes 173 pages
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goodge 288 pages
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers 576 pages
Crock Crack Monkey by Merle Hodge 112 pages
Enter Jeeves by PG Wodehouse by 256 pages

Total = 2,774

954,346 + 2,774 = 957,120

[W]

Pride and Prejudice - 311
Little Women - 285
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - 50
The Wind in the Willows - 210

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Group total is 957 976 pages.

[Kathy]

Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark


162 pages

Group total: 958,138

[Audrey]

10 Days in a Madhouse (104)
My Cousin Rachel (374)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (186)
The Horse and His Boy (217)
A Wrinkle in Time (190)
Mystery Mountain (156)

1227

Group total: 959,365

[Shaina]

The last of my 2024 reads.

The Golden Dagger - 232 pgs

Stories for Winter: And Nights by the Fire - 193 pgs

Tea on Sunday - 268 pgs

Christmas at Thompson Hall and Other Christmas Stories - 225 pgs

Giovanni’s Room - 178 pgs

Accident by Design - 229 pgs

Death in White Pyjamas - 302 pgs

Total to Date: 960,992 pgs

[Lesle, Appalachain Bibliophile]

Oh my goodness! Thank you for adding in your Classic page count! This is so exciting!

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin 89 pages

Group total: 961,081 pages

[Richard]

5 Classic African American Slave Narratives Combo: Twelve Years a Slave, Narrative of the Life of an American Slave, My Bondage and Freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Interesting Narrative of the Life - 404 pages

Group total: 961,485 pages

[Michelle]

Amazing job everyone!


Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh p. 236

Group: 961,721

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Grimms Märchen by Jacob Grimm
68 pages

Group total: 961 789

[Peter]

Ogniem i mieczem by Henryk Sieńkiewicz - 528 pages
King Stakh's Wild Hunt - by Uladzimir Karatkievich - 296 pages
The Left Hand of Darkness - by Ursula K. Le Guin - 290 pages
Der Meister und Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - 576 pages
Die Möwe by Anton Chekhov - 78 pages
Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 135 pages
Krieg by Louis-Ferdinand Céline - 168 pages

Group total: 963,860

[Karin]

Wow, this is amazing!

[James]

I started to read Bleak House by Charles Dickens but read only 214 of 1,036 numbered pages by midnight 12/31/2024 going into 1/1/2025.

[Lesle, Appalachain Bibliophile]

James wrote: "I started to read Bleak House by Charles Dickens but read only 214 of 1,036 numbered pages by midnight 12/31/2024 going into 1/1/2025."

It's ok James just add it to next year for our total there. It's when you finish it that counts.

[Lesle, Appalachain Bibliophile]

Karin wrote: "Wow, this is amazing!"

I totally agree Karin!!

I would like to thank all our Members for helping out to get us way past our goal for this year! That is why the jump in 2025 Challenge. It is totally doable!!

This thread is closed for adding pages. We have our new thread for 2025 Challenge is open.

Our Group TOTAL for 2024 is an EXCITING = 963,860

[ngọc.ᐟ.ᐟ]

Pride & Prejudice - 400 pages
Of Mice and Men - 107 pages
Wuthering Heights - 359 pages
Resurrection - 562 pages
Oliver Twist - 608 pages
Total pages in the group: 716,282

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Adding these late additions, our total in 2024 was 965 896.

[Julia]

Late Entry:

My 2024 pages of Classics:


Great Gatsby - 180
A Farewell to Arms - 293
Old Man and the Sea - 96
A Hero of Our Time - 185
Death in the Afternoon - 496
Wuthering Heights - 464
Picture of Dorian Grey - 272
Jane Eyre - 532
East of Eden - 601
Fellowship of the Rings - 432

[Piyangie, Classical Princess]

With the additions by Julia, our total page count for 2024 is 969,457.

[Hanyu]

Late to the post but my classics in 2024:

The Stranger - 123 pages
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited - 349 pages

[Hanyu]

New total: 969,929

Looking forward to a great reading year of 2025 :)

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

Yay!