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2024: 800,000 Page Challenge COMPLETED!!
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin242 + 86,160 = 86,402
On the Far Side of the Mountain 176 pagesHorton Hears a Who! 64 pages
The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories 72 pp (the stories are all classics even if they were dug out of old magazines and put into a book later)
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street 32 pp in the edition I read which is blue, not yellow
344 + 86,402 = 86,746
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen 144 pages
Ship of Fools byKatherine Anne Porter 512 pagesgroup total: 87,565 pages
The Once and Future King by T.H. White800+ 87,870= 88,670
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- published 1969313 pages
The Chequer Board by Nevil Shute
- published 1947272 pages
Group total: 90,229
The Writings-Kethubim: A New Translation of the Holy Scriptures According to the Traditional Hebrew Text
642 pages
Total so far: 90,501
The Shot by Alexander Pushkin
19 pages
The Coffee-House of Surat by Leo Tolstoy
24 pages
Gigi and Julie de Carneilhan by Colette
159 pages
Total to date: 90,703
Là où dansent les morts by Tony Hillerman256 + 90,991= 91,247
The Fortune Of The Rougons - Émile Zola 348Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell 437
Right Ho, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse 257
1042 + 92078 = 93120
A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson 228 pThe Sibyl by Pär Lagerkvist 155 p
228+155 = 383 + 93355 = 93 738
Group Total = 93 738
Native Son. Richard Wright557 + 94,058= 94,615
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov422 pages
Group total: 95,301
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte - 226Emma by Jane Austen - 474
Group Total: 96,969
The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) by Oliver Goldsmith. Finished 3/27/2024. 222 pages.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland[book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. 102 pages. Finished 3/29/2024.
Current Group Total: 83,284
A Rebelião das Massas by José Ortega y Gasset
264 Pages
Group total: 98 829 + 222 (last post) = 99 051
99051 + 264 (current post) = 99 315
Current Group Total: 99,315
Mod
Adding Alice at 102 pages as well.
New group total: 99 417
Rosemarie wrote: "Thanks for catching that, Luis.Adding Alice at 102 pages as well.
New group total: 99 417"
Thanks.
The Erasers
rs|101996] by Alain Robbe-Grillet 256 pagesAjax
by Sophocles 122 pagesApril: Die Geschichte einer Liebe byJoseph Roth 24 pages
The Power and the Glory
byGraham Greene 222 pagesGroup total: 100,041 pages
The Scent of India by Pier Paolo Pasolini
96 pages
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
464 pages
Total to date: 100,601
The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata164p
Babette's Feast and Other Stories by Isak Dinesen
238p
The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
218p
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
1024p
Dubliners by James Joyce
234p
Group total: 102, 704
A Tale of Two Cities432 pages
The Killer Inside Me
229 pages
The Honjin Murders
189 pages
Pedro Páramo
129 pages
Daniel Deronda
847 pages
= 1,826 pages
Current Group Total: 104,873
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
247 pages
Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell
275 pages
Total to date: 105,873
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The Legacy of Cain by Wilkie Collins 415 p
Five Great Novels by Philip K Dick 848 p
Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees 230 p
Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock 160 p
A Lady's Guide To Etiquette And Murder by Dianne Freeman 262 p
The Panther by Nelson Demille 648 p
Total no of pages 2885+82 960 = 85 845
Group Total 85 845