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message 1101: by Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar (new)

Rosemarie | 16436 comments Mod
The House by the Churchyard by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
544 pages

Group total: 411 149


message 1103: by NN (new)

NN | 27 comments Candide, 129 p.
Seneca: On Anger, 118 p.
Meditations, 254 p.
Theophrastus: Characters, 71 p.
Lysistrata, 132 p.
Zadig and L'Ingénu, 192 p.

New group total is 413 514


message 1104: by Lesle, Appalachian Bibliophile (last edited Nov 02, 2025 02:39PM) (new)

Lesle | 9112 comments Mod
Cat in the Rain by Ernest Hemingway

Cat in the Rain by Ernest Hemingway

pages 5

Group Total= 413,519


message 1105: by Spartacus7 (new)

Spartacus7 | 47 comments 5!

As J.P.McE would say, "You cannot be serious!"


message 1106: by Lesle, Appalachian Bibliophile (last edited Nov 02, 2025 04:36PM) (new)

Lesle | 9112 comments Mod
Spartacus7 wrote: "5!
As J.P.McE would say, "You cannot be serious!""


Every page counts!

Short stories are a powerful form of literature that can enhance your reading skills and experience.
This one had me filling in the paragraphs inbetween adding many more pages than 5.


message 1107: by Lesle, Appalachian Bibliophile (new)

Lesle | 9112 comments Mod
Total brought forward

Group Total= 413,519


message 1108: by Spartacus7 (new)

Spartacus7 | 47 comments Lesle wrote: "Spartacus7 wrote: "5!
As J.P.McE would say, "You cannot be serious!""

Every page counts!

Short stories are a powerful form of literature that can enhance your reading skills and experience.
Thi..."


Of course it does. If this gets over the line by 1, 2, 3, or 4 pages, we'll look back on this moment.


message 1109: by Laurel (new)

Laurel (thislolak) | 137 comments Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
237p

group total: 413,756


message 1110: by Piyangie, Classical Princess (new)

Piyangie | 3874 comments Mod
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell 264 pages

Group total: 414,020


message 1111: by Sara (new)

Sara (phantomswife) | 47 comments Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) - 293 pages

Martin Chuzzlewit - 829 pages

1122 pages

Group Total: 411,727


message 1112: by Luís (new)

Luís (blue_78) | 4935 comments The group total should be 415, 142.


message 1113: by Jeri (new)

Jeri Spargo | 9 comments The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
372 pages

Group Total: 415, 514


message 1114: by Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar (new)

Rosemarie | 16436 comments Mod
Poor Man's Orange by Ruth Park
Poor Man's Orange (Harp in the South #3) by Ruth Park
395 pages

Group total: 415 909


message 1115: by Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar (new)

Rosemarie | 16436 comments Mod
The Shadow on the Dial and Other Essays by Ambrose Bierce
168 pages

Group total: 416 077


message 1116: by Jeri (new)

Jeri Spargo | 9 comments A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
489 pages

Group Total: 416, 566


message 1117: by Lesle, Appalachian Bibliophile (new)

Lesle | 9112 comments Mod
A Haunted Island by Algernon Blackwood
A Haunted Island by Algernon Blackwood

30 pages

Group Total = 416,596


message 1118: by Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar (last edited Nov 07, 2025 07:32PM) (new)

Rosemarie | 16436 comments Mod
Pinky Pye by Eleanor Estes
Pinky Pye (The Pyes, #2) by Eleanor Estes
258 pages

The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
10 pages

Group total: 416 954


message 1119: by Carol (new)

Carol (carolfromnc) | -567 comments Kappa by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Kappa by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

80 pages

group total = 417,034


message 1120: by Piyangie, Classical Princess (new)

Piyangie | 3874 comments Mod
The Years by Virginia Woolf

The Years by Virginia Woolf 448 pages

Group total: 417,482


message 1121: by Luís (new)

Luís (blue_78) | 4935 comments Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
Alamut by Vladimir Bartol

478 Pages

Group total: 417 960


message 1122: by Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar (new)

Rosemarie | 16436 comments Mod
The Cosy Room and Other Stories by Arthur Machen
81 pages

Group total: 418 041


message 1123: by Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar (new)

Rosemarie | 16436 comments Mod
Miss Pinkerton by Mary Roberts Rinehart
272 pages

Group total: 418 313


message 1125: by Luís (new)

Luís (blue_78) | 4935 comments Riso Vermelho by Leonid Andreyev
Riso Vermelho by Leonid Andreyev

112 Pages

Group Total: 419, 114


message 1126: by Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar (new)

Rosemarie | 16436 comments Mod
The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
278 pages

Group total: 419 697


message 1127: by Laurel (new)

Laurel (thislolak) | 137 comments Le Rêve by Émile Zola
256p

group total: 419,953


message 1128: by Luís (new)

Luís (blue_78) | 4935 comments Group Total must be 419, 648


message 1129: by Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar (new)

Rosemarie | 16436 comments Mod
Luís wrote: "Group Total must be 419, 648"

Thank you, Luis.


message 1130: by Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar (new)

Rosemarie | 16436 comments Mod
Aniara by Harry Martinson
237 pages

Group total: 419 885


message 1131: by Kim (new)

Kim (kimborams) | 46 comments So Disdained by Nevil Shute So Disdained by Nevil Shute - 182 pages

Group total: 420,067


message 1132: by Jeri (new)

Jeri Spargo | 9 comments Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
544 pages

Group Total: 420, 611


message 1133: by Luís (new)

Luís (blue_78) | 4935 comments Rosemarie wrote: "Luís wrote: "Group Total must be 419, 648"

Thank you, Luis."


My pleasure.


message 1134: by Lorraine (new)

Lorraine | 415 comments Le bruit et la fureur. William Faulkner

372 + 420,611= 420,983


message 1136: by Lindenblatt (new)

Lindenblatt | 761 comments Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

322 pages

Group total: 322 + 421,466 =421,788


message 1137: by Valerie (new)

Valerie (valroos) | 43 comments Amber Reeves - A Lady and Her Husband

341 p.

Group total: 422,129


message 1138: by Luís (new)

Luís (blue_78) | 4935 comments O Tempo, Esse Grande Escultor by Marguerite Yourcenar
O Tempo, Esse Grande Escultor by Marguerite Yourcenar

208 Pages

Group total: 422, 337


message 1139: by Carol (new)

Carol (carolfromnc) | -567 comments The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins

269 pages

group total 422,606 pages


message 1140: by Luís (new)

Luís (blue_78) | 4935 comments Anátema by Camilo Castelo Branco
Anátema by Camilo Castelo Branco

451 Pages

group total: 423, 057 pages


message 1141: by Sylvain (new)

Sylvain | 11 comments Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky : 671 pages

Total : 423 728


message 1142: by Kathy (new)

Kathy E | 2503 comments The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich
The Bride Wore Black (An American Mystery Classic) by Cornell Woolrich

288 pages

And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

54 pages

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

488 pages

The Unsuspected by Charlotte Armstrong
The Unsuspected (An American Mystery Classic) by Charlotte Armstrong

240 pages

Adding 1,070 pages

Group total: 424,127


message 1143: by Lindenblatt (new)

Lindenblatt | 761 comments Of Ghosts and Goblins by Lafcadio Hearn
Of Ghosts and Goblins by Lafcadio Hearn

203 pages

Group total: 423,728+1.070+203 = 425,001


message 1144: by Hanyu (new)

Hanyu | 7 comments 小公务员之死 - Anton Chekhov - 308 pages
Frog - Mo Yan - 384 pages
Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel García Márquez - 120 pages
A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf - 112 pages
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges - 174 pages
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 62 pages
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - 329 pages
Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky - 209 pages

new total: 426,699


message 1145: by Barbara (new)

Barbara Wyrowinska | 12 comments Równi bogom by Isaac Asimov (The Gods Themselves)
by Isaac Asimov
247 pages

total: 426,946


message 1146: by Luís (new)

Luís (blue_78) | 4935 comments Alexis by Marguerite Yourcenar
Alexis by Marguerite Yourcenar

102 Pages

Group Total: 427, 048


message 1147: by Samantha, Creole Literary Belle (new)

Samantha Matherne (creolelitbelle) | -202 comments Mod
The October Country by Ray Bradbury

334 pages

Group total: 427,382


message 1148: by Michael (new)

Michael Thomas | 24 comments "The God Gene" by Dean Hamer = 241 pages
"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by RL Stevenson = 224 pages
"Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf" = 194 pages

Group total = 428,041


message 1149: by Kathy (new)

Kathy E | 2503 comments Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm922] by Stella Gibbons
Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
I only read two stories from this book:
30 pages

A Blue Tale and Other Stories by
A Blue Tale and Other Stories by Marguerite Yourcenar

114 pages

Group total = 428,185


message 1150: by Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar (new)

Rosemarie | 16436 comments Mod
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
133 pages

Group total: 428 318


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