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2025: 1,000,000 Page Challenge
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger (1919-2010). Centennial Edition. 277 pages.Group total: 343,564
No, it's the dreaded goodreads page glitch! It doesn't always take you to the correct spot when a new page is started!
Thanks for spotting that, Jim!
Thanks for spotting that, Jim!
The Sorrows of Young Werthe by Goethe - 149 pages.Collection of four plays by Euripides (Alcestis, The Medea, The Heracleidae, Hippolytus) - 221 pages
Group total: 349,733
NEW TOTAL - 353,219The Trail - Franz Kafka - 255
The metamorphosis - Franz Kafka - 201
The Old Man and The Sea - Ernest Hemingway - 96
The Land that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs - 148
The Box car Children - Gertrude Chandler Warner - 97
The Lottery and other stories - Shirley Jackson - 302
Dune - Frank Herbert - 704
We have always lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson - 204
Men Without Women - Ernest Hemingway - 232
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson - 213
Slaughter House Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr - 199
The Plague - Albert Camus - 236
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte- 279
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol - 302
TOTAL PAGES ADDED = 3,486
"The Island of Dr Moreau" by HG Wells = 168 pages"The Epic of Gilgamesh" Maureen Kovacs translation = 156
total = 324
Group Total = 354,590
Death Walks in Marble Halls by Lawrence G. Blochman
64 pages
Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles
289 pages
The Case of the Careless Kitten by Erle Stanley Gardner
288 pages
Group total: 355,231
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
132 pages
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington
212 pages
Group Total: 356,069
132 pages
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington
212 pages
Group Total: 356,069
The Dream of Reason, New Edition by Anthony Gottlieb - 512 pagesCamille by Alexandre Dumas fils - 238 pages
Black Boy (unabridged) by Richard Wright - 419 x 2 (read twice this year)
356436+512+238+838= 358 024
Group total: 358 024
The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad 304pp
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Judith Kerr 191pp
Three Summers Margarita Liberaki 271pp
Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald 430pp
The Swiss Family Robinson Johann David Wyss 496pp
Little Women Louisa May Alcott 504pp
Herland and The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman 216pp
Alexander's Bridge Willa Cather 196pp
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 742pp
A Pair of Silk Stockings Kate Chopin 64pp
Demian Hermann Hesse 176ppGroup total: 361 672
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' by William Hope Hodgson
132 pages
Group Total(adding in The Metamorphasis form Abigail): 364,783
132 pages
Group Total(adding in The Metamorphasis form Abigail): 364,783
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and for some reason, the MPE has 400 pages, so I'll use that!Group Total: 366,067
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116 pages
Group total: 343,287