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2024: 800,000 Page Challenge COMPLETED!!
The Huguenot by G P R James 448 pagesGroup Total: 27033
Brothers of Karamazov by Fjodor Dostojevski.975 pages.
Group total: 28232
The Adolescent (1875) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81). 368 pages. Finished 15 January 2024.Group Total Pages: 368 + 28,884 = 29,252.
Animal Farm by George Orwell140 Pages
Group Total: 29,683
Territory of Light by Yūko Tsushima 128p The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura 147p
Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain by Ueda Akinari 265p
Clouds above the Hill: A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 1 by Ryōtarō Shiba 425p
Clouds above the Hill: A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 2 417p
Clouds above the Hill: A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 4 394p
Clouds above the Hill: A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 3 397p
In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 52p
Night on the Galactic Railroad and Other Stories from Ihatov by Kenji Miyazawa 115p
my total: 2,340
GROUP TOTAL: 32,143 pages
"I Say No" by Wilkie Collins388 pages + 32143
Group Total: 32531
Le Tunnel. Ernesto Sabato140+ 33,096= 33,236
New Grub Street George Gissing 360 pagesThe Man Who Laughs Victor Hugo 672 pages
Seven Who Were Hanged Leonid Andreyev 99 pages
Oblomov Ivan Goncharov 586 pages
The Outlaws Selma Lagerlöf 48 pages
L'Assommoir Émile Zola 480 pages
Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 236 pages
2481 + 33,236 = 35717
Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes227+ 36 132= 36,359
Grendel by John Gardner 174 pages
The Chase by Alejo Carpentier 121 pages
El arpa y la sombra byAlejo Carpentier 184 pagesTotal group: 36,838 pages
The Rider of Lost Creek198 pages
The Mountain Valley War
246 pages
Of Human Bondage
565 pages
Group total: 39,406 pages
In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing 408 pages + 39, 631
Group Total = 40 039
Ubik by Philip K. Dick216 pages
Group total: 40,699
The Cabala by Thornton Wilder 200 pages
Group Total: 41, 539
Le plus beau tango du monde by Manuel Puig280 + 42,199= 42,479
Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de LautréamontThe Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
Satan's Diary by Leonid Andreyev
1134 + 42479 = 43613
One I hadn't added to the thread as I only just read the Fundamentals thread regarding history/events - this is based on events in World War Two and therefore over 50 years ago:The Bletchley Girls by Tessa Dunlop
352 pages
Total pages: 44,642
Les miserables manga classic - 337 pagesGroup total : 45,266
Histoire de la grandeur et de la décadence de César Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac
322 Pages
Group total: 45 856
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