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2025: 1,000,000 Page Challenge
581 pages Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) 📖 ✅ 4* my review .(47 114+581 = 47 695)
New group total: 47 695
The Odyssey (c. 700 BCE) by Homer (dates unknown). Started 29 January 2025, finished 12 February 2025. 541 pages. Group Total Pages Read: 541 + 47,695 = 48,236.
As of 2/13/25
2/12/25 @ 182 pagesLord of the Flies by William Golding, 1954
2/13/25 @ 249 pagesPersuasion by Jane Austen, 1817
(Pages Read: 431)
Group Total: 49,601
1) Quarantine by Jim Crace 242 p2) The Gentleman From San
Francisco and Other Stories
by Ivan Bunin 224 p
3) The Colour of Murder by
Julian Symons 254 p
4) Excuse Me! by Rupert Hughes 262 p
5) Oleanna by David Mamet 80 p
6) Initiation by Robert Hugh
Benson 456 p
7) The Iron Heel by Jack London 354 p
8) Headlong Hall by Thomas Love
Peacock 141 p
9) Noises Off by Michael Trayne 176 p
10) A Single Thread by Tracy
Chevalier 336 p
11) An Old Fashioned Girl by
Louisa May Alcott 288 p
12) Paul the Traveller by Ernle
Bradford 288 p
13) Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter
Naslund 668 p
14) The Sorrows of a Showgirl
by Kenneth McGaffey 77 p
15) No Holly for Miss Quinn
by Miss Read 148 p
16) The Answer is No by Richard
Backman 68 p
17) The Devil's Garden by WB
Maxwell 449 p
Total: 4865 pages
Previous Group Total: 50 997 pages
Current Group Total: 55 862 pages
Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service
496 pages 15/02/25
Group total to date: 56,884
Estimating 420* pages The Jane Austen BBC Radio Drama Collection 📖 ✅3.5- 4* my review .(58 502+420 = 58 922)
New group total: 58 922
*Each of the 6 dramas here runs 2 hours or just over, using the same calculation as before (where I’ve compared the abridged length of an audio book with its full length version, I’ve calculated 70 pages is 2 hours.
1984 by George Orwell
- 339 pagesSense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- 384 pages= 723 pages
Group total: 13,692
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Websterp. 249
I think the group total is:
58,922 (message 176) + 723 (message 177) + 249 (this message)
Group: 59,894
The Glass-Blowers Daphne du Maurier 368p
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 801pGroup total: 63 560
Chocky by John Wyndham - 164 pgsThe Angel at the Grave by Edith Wharton - 34 pgs
Before the Party by W. Somerset Maugham - 47 pgs
Mr. Know-All by W. Somerset Maugham - 28 pgs
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie - 291 pgs
Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp - 273 pgs
The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 250 pgs
Unexpected Night by Elizabeth Daly - 180 pgs
The Secret Search by E.R. Punshon - 227 pgs
Cécile is Dead by Georges Simenon - 192 pgs
The Sea-Gull by Anton Chekhov - 58 pgs
The Ten Teacups by John Dickson Carr - 264 pgs
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope - 481 pgs
Total to Date: 67,041 pgs
180 pages You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (Alice Walker) 📖 ✅ 4.5* my review .(67 897+180 = 68 077)
New group total: 68 077
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 by Milton Sanford Mayer
346 pages
Group total: 68,791
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)The Lottery (1948)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Rebecca (1938)
And Then There Were None (1939)
New Group Total (68791+1465)=70256
Flush 120 pagesThe Flowers of Evil 495 pages
Notes from the Underground 143 pages
Dubliners 207 pages
The Stranger 144 pages
The Waste Land 22 pages
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 880 pages
New Group Total (70 256 + 2011) = 72 267
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75 pages
Group total: 46 758