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2025 Reading Challenges
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2025: 1,000,000 Page Challenge
The Banquet Ceases by Mary. FITT - 280 pgsThe Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich - 187 pgs
Mimsy Were The Borogoves by Lewis Padgett - 30 pgs
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot - 561 pgs
Total to Date: 388,698 pgs
Endless Night by Agatha Christie - 332 pgsPity for Pamela by Mary Fitt - 238 pgs
By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie - 227 pgs
Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie - 249 pgs
Lonesome Road by Patricia Wentworth - 243 pgs
Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie - 292 pgs
Total to Date: 390,279 pgs
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima 193 pages390,472
Can You Forgive Her?...Anthony Trollope - 848 pagesTotal: 391 320
Who's keeping track of the adding up?
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Haha! What if it's neither? Will we get in trouble?
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No, we're a friendly bunch here!
The average book length is a bit over 300 pages, and it looks pretty much like people are adding from very short to very long books, so the average is probably working out.All things being equal, you need ~3300 contributions to get to a million pages. Some are putting in more than 1 book, which'll bring it down a bit.
Here are some of the (really) big questions:
Will we make it?
How recent is "recently" in terms of reading a classic?
What defines a "classic"?
Is it ok for someone to list more than 1 book - or does that set up some sort of unsolvable ethical dilemma?
I have lots more questions but will leave it at that and finish with:
Does anyone care that I'm asking these questions?....No, I didn't think so.
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All things being equal,..."
Our Fundamentals thread gives you all the information you need regarding this group's definition of classics.
Stoner by John Williams- 292A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie- 220
White Nights by Dostoyevsky- 82
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig- 104
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells- 192
4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie- 288
Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy- 86
Notes From Underground by Dostoyevsky- 136
Total: 1400 pages
Group Total: 394, 774 pages
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Will we make it? Doubtful. We almost made a Million last year!
How recent is "recently" in terms of reading a classic? It's a yearly challenge. Anything read this year.
What defines a "classic"? As Rosemarie stated it is detailed answer and in our Fundamentals
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Is it ok for someone to list more than 1 book - or does that set up some sort of unsolvable ethical dilemma? No a lot of our Members read classics but not the ones we have in our group reads. I send out reminders as a group message when we are running behind in our challenge as some actually forget this is one or our challenges. It is what you have read this entire year. That could explain the mutliple listings.
Your more than welcome to keep asking questions in Rosemarie's I have a question thread:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
or even message me through my profile.
Thank you for your questions!
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Lol that is funny!
We do not critique you on your math skills, if it is not a classic read or typing for that matter. Most regular members double check our additions. Ive been off by transposition plenty of times.
Anyone can make an honest mistake.
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Group Total: 394,774
Nancy Wake; SOE's Greatest Heroine by Russell Braddon281 pages
Group total: 395 361
The First Men in the Moon...H.G. Wells170 pages
Nine Stories...J.D. Salinger
196 pages
Dubliners...James Joyce
359 pages
Crime and Punishment...Fyodor Dostoevsky
558 pages
James and the Giant Peach...Roald Dahl
150
The Communist Manifesto
275
Mansfield Park...Jane Austen
450
Birds, Beasts and Relatives...Gerald Durrell
238 pages
The Garden of the Gods...Gerald Durrell
194 pages
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights...by Someone-or-Other(s)
401 pages
Ugh - I can't believe I'm putting these next 2 in. They're dreadful rubbish.
The Wings of the Dove...Henry James
501 pages
Absalom, Absalom!...William Faulkner
378 pages
170 + 196 + 359 + 558 + 150 + 450 + 238 + 450 + 194 + 401 + 501 + 378 = 4045 + 395 361
= 399 406
Interview with the Vampire Pages: 368
399,406 + 368=399,774
Group total: 399,774
Appelez-moi Ismael by Charles Olson 288 pages400,414
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268 pages
Group total: 400 682
Including Jenna's 400p aboveThe Haunted Lady by Mary Roberts Rinehart
264 pages
Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang
321 pages
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll
140 pages
Group total: 401,807
Prelude to a Certain Midnight by Gerald Kersh
- (published 1947) - 267 pagesOrdeal by Nevil Shute
- (published 1939) - 217 pagesGroup total: 402,291
A Maravilhosa Viagem de Nils Holgersson Através da Suécia by Selma Lagerlöf
712 Pages
Group total: 403, 003 pages
A small one:
75 pages
Group total: 403 078
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Fannie it all adds up!
Singing Wilderness by Sigurd F. Olson
245 pages
Group Total: 403,323
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Group Total: 403,499
The Long Run, Edith Wharton, 48 pages The Adventure of the Clapham Cook: a Hercule Poirot Short Story, Agatha Christie, 20 pages
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving, 108 pages
Miss Pym Disposes, Josephine Tey, 238 pages
Total listed: 414
Group total: 403 913
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay204 pages
Thanks,
Jenna
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.416 pages.
by The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo.576 pages.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.144 pages.
Group total: 14,105
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus
336 pages
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
1074 pages
Group Total: 407,977
Kamouraska by Anne Hébert 245 pagesGroup Total : 409,677
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens- 928 pagesTotal page count
410,605
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