Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

To echo Rosemarie, thank you all for jumping in to add your contributions pages read from classics in 2023! Our number towards 800,000 has truly jumped over the weekend.

Rosemarie wrote: "From the Bibliophile Doctor. She emailed me her list.

Burning Bright by John Steinbeck -93 pages
Hills Like Elephants by Ernest Hemingway- 6 pages
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee -..."


Thanks a lot, Rosemarie. I was trying since few weeks but i always got some error.

Agatha Christie-And Then There Were None

16 Apr


264 pages


Group total to date: 160 412

And Then There Were None , Agatha Christie - 191pages
Total Pages: 160,603

The Bibliophile Doctor wrote: "Rosemarie wrote: "From the Bibliophile Doctor. She emailed me her list.

Burning Bright by John Steinbeck -93 pages
Hills Like Elephants by Ernest Hemingway- 6 pages
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?..."

Glad I could help.

Thank you everyone! Let us keep growing the page numbers!!

A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe (1966) - 150 pages

Group Total: 160,753

A Time for Trolls: Fairy Tales from Norway
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, Joan Roll-Hansen (Translator)
First published January 1, 1962 82 pages

Group Total: 160, 835

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life by Maurice Sendak 69 pages
Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie 224 pages
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 201 pages
Aeschylus I: Oresteia by Aeschylus 171 pages

Total Group Pages: 161,500 pages

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald - 46 pages
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - 107 pages
The Trial by Franz Kafka - 255 pages

Group Total: 161,161

The Mutiny on HMS Bounty (Bligh): 189 pp.
Edgar Allan Poe: Great Tales and Poems (Poe, duh): 436 pp.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitysn): 182 pp.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Doyle): 389 pp.
The Time Machine (Wells): 118 pp.

Group Total: 163,222

The Scent of Water by Elizabeth Goudge


320 pages

Group total: 163 542

The Body in the Library - 191 pgs

The Magic Shop - 32 pgs

Mimsy Were The Borogoves - 30 pgs

Rendezvous with Rama - 246 pgs

Death of an Author - 222 pgs

Total to Date: 164,263 pgs

Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust

758 pages
Total to date: 165,021

The Reluctant Dragon - 58
Rendezvous with Rama - 243
Dolphin Island - 188
Masters of the Dew - 192
James and the Giant Peach - 151
Miguel Street - 222
Wide Sargasso Sea - 176
A High Wind in Jamaica - 279
House of Mist - 256
The Cat Who Went to Heaven - 72
Pedro Páramo - 128
A Canticle for Leibowitz - 334

Group Total to Date: 167,184

Mrs. Mike 313
Native Son 504
Hard Times 353
subtotal of mine 1170

1170 + 176,183 = 168,354

A Bell for Adano by John Hersey - 269 pages

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster - 256 pages

Total to date: 168,879

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - 279 pages

Total to date: 169158

Demian by Herman Hesse

Group total to date: 176 + 169,158 = 169,334

The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic (344 pages)
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (254 pages)
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (64 pages)
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (66 pages)
The Private History of a Campaign that Failed by Mark Twain (12 pages)
TOTAL: 740

Group total: 169334 + 740 = 170,074 !!!


question for the group: would you all consider ray bradbury’s short stories to be classics? i listened to a bunch of them on audio, and i wanted to check before adding :)

Carmen, Bradbury's work that was published 1973 or earlier would be considered classics for the purpose of the group. We go back 50 years. Some more modern authors are tricky, because not all their works are considered classics.

Also, when it comes to audiobooks, just count the page number of the equivalent physical book. I hope that helps!

The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling
192 pages
Group total: 170,074+192=170,266

thank you samantha!!

Confessions of a Humorist by O. Henry (7 pages)
Asleep in Armageddon by Ray Bradbury (17 pages)
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury (12 pages)
A Little Journey by Ray Bradbury (26 pages)

TOTAL: 62 pages

170074+62 = 170,136

a small contribution, thanks to Samantha for clarifying the guidelines!

for those who are wanting to read some short classics, on spotify Jon Hagadorn has a podcast where he reads short classics (called “1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales”) and does a fantastic job narrating and selecting interesting stories. there are a TON of audiobooks for the classics on spotify, so if you are driving or on a walk, you can knock out some books/pages for your reading challenge AND the group challenge :)

Blanca wrote: "A Time for Trolls: Fairy Tales from Norway
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, Joan Roll-Hansen (Translator)
First published January 1, 1962 82 pages

Group Total: 160, 835"

I just bought this book this weekend and will be reading it shortly. How surprising to see it pop up here!

You're very welcome, Carmen.

La hojarasca by Gabriel García Márquez

176 pages

Group total: 170 312

Electra and Other Plays by Sophocles


218 pages

Group Total: 170 530

carmen wrote: "for those who are wanting to read some short classics, on spotify Jon Hagadorn has a podcast where he reads short classics (called “1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales”) and does a fantastic job narrating and selecting interesting stories. there are a TON of audiobooks for the classics on spotify, so if you are driving or on a walk, you can knock out some books/pages for your reading challenge AND the group challenge :)"

Thanks for this, Carmen! Not like I can fit anymore listening into the current 24 hour a day format! :)

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Published: 1970
Pages: 216


170,136 + 216 = 170,352

Groups Total: 170,352

Tayjah wrote: "The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Published: 1970
Pages: 216


170,136 + 216 = 170,352

Groups Total: 170,352"

One of the greatest and most moving novels I've read in my life! When I read it some 20 years ago, or so, I knew that she would receive the Noble Prize for literature. She just told a story so deep and with such heart and passion and hurt and tears that she had to receive the Noble Prize. May the Lord grant her a great prize in heaven some day.

Sorry to all, but I think that The Group Read Total hadn't the total correct pages.

Thanks for spotting that Luis. It happens when two members post at the same time--or the dreaded goodgreads page glitch!😱

Our new total: 170 938

Crittenden: A Kentucky Story of Love and War by John Fox Jr.

156 pages

Group total: 171 094

Mere Christianity by CS Lewis 191 pages

Total to date 171,285

255 pages

Total pages: 171,540

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 607 pages

171285 + 607 = 171892

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
pages: 1312

Total pages: 173 204

In the Heat of the Night
Pages: 247

And

The Souls of Black Folk
Pages: 268

173, 204 + 247 + 268 = 173,719 total pages.

Karma: A Reincarnation Play In Prologue, Epilogue And Three Acts by Algernon Blackwood

102 pages

Group total: 173 821

Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov

123 pages

Group total: 173,944 pages

An Academic Question by Barbara Pym


Published in 1986, written in 1970-1972

182 pages

Total to date: 174,126

Voss by Patrick White

464 pages

Total to date: 174,590

I haven’t documented my reads on here before, so I guess this’ll have to be a bit of a list for me to catch up.

One hundred years of solitude, Gabriel García Márquez, 417 pages.
The sign of the four, Arthur Conan Doyle, 129 pages.
The case-book of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, 303 pages.
The valley of fear, Arthur Conan Doyle, 210 pages.
The wind in the willows, Kenneth Grahame, 197 pages.
Moby Dick, Herman Melville, 654 pages.
The scarlet letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne, 279 pages.
The yellow wall-paper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 64 pages.
The scarlet pimpernel, Baronessan Emmuska Orczy, 182 pages.
Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse, 195 pages.
The pilgrim’s progress, John Bunyan, 324 pages.
Through the looking-glass, Lewis Carroll, 228 pages.
The red badge of courage, Stephen Crane, 149 pages.
Guitarr och dragharmonika, Gustaf Fröding, 187 pages.
Charlie and the chocolate factory, Roald Dahl, 176 pages.
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen, 260 pages.
Fantastic mr. Fox, Roald Dahl, 96 pages.
Nya dikter, Gustaf Fröding, 177 pages.
A room with a view, E.M. Forster, 325 pages.
To the lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, 209 pages.
James and the giant peach, Roald Dahl, 146 pages.
The red pony, John Steinbeck, 95 pages.
Stänk och flikar, Gustaf Fröding, 74 pages.
The second jungle book, Rudyard Kipling, 142 pages.
The brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 796 pages.
The emigrants, Vilhelm Moberg, 443 pages.
Unto a good earth, Vilhelm Moberg, 490 pages.
The settlers, Vilhelm Moberg, 681 pages.
The last letter home, Vilhelm Moberg, 398 pages.
The sound and the fury, William Faulkner, 366 pages.
Ungdomsdikter, Gustaf Fröding, 100 pages.
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish, Dr. Seuss, 64 pages.
The Lorax, Dr. Seuss, 72 pages.
Horton hears a who, Dr. Seuss, 64 pages.
How the Grinch stole Christmas, Dr. Seuss, 64 pages.
Fox in socks, Dr. Seuss, 64 pages.
Green eggs and ham, Dr. Seuss, 64 pages.
The cat in the hat, Dr. Seuss, 61 pages.
Nytt och gammalt, Gustaf Fröding, 88 pages.
Gralstänk, Gustaf Fröding, 92 pages.
Brideshead revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 351 pages.
Efterskörd och Reconvalescentia, Gustaf Fröding, 258 pages.
Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie, 352 pages.
Lady Susan, Jane Austen, 180 pages.
The magic finger, Roald Dahl, 67 pages.
Charlie and the great glass elevator, Roald Dahl, 159 pages.
The overcoat, Nikolai Gogol, 57 pages.
The nose, Nikolai Gogol, 53 pages.
Nevsky Prospect, Nikolai Gogol, 96 pages.
The lion, the witch and the wardrobe, C.S. Lewis, 206 pages.
Prince Caspian, C.S. Lewis, 240 pages.
The voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis, 248 pages.
The silver chair, C.S. Lewis, 243 pages.
The magician’s nephew, C.S. Lewis, 221 pages.
The horse and his boy, C.S. Lewis, 224 pages.
The last battle, C.S. Lewis, 288 pages.
Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne, 161 pages.
The house at Pooh corner, A.A. Milne, 180 pages.
When we were very young, A.A. Milne, 100 pages.
Now we are six, A.A. Milne, 101 pages.
Yertle the turtle, Dr. Seuss, 80 pages.
Middlemarch, George Eliot, 904 pages.

Total number of pages: 13 894


Group total to date: 188 484

Rosemarie, I find Filip having read all these books in 2023 as totally believable. It's only about 60 and some are shorter. I'm already at almost 40 for the year, between audiobooks and print/ebooks. Looks like someone is knocking out a lot of classics!

I read a lot, and usually more classics by now in the year. I'd love to trim my classics TBR list by that much this year, but I find too many classics in a row feels like a lot mentally with the generally older writing styles.

Over My Dead Body by Rex Stout

272 pages

Total to date: 188 756

I have a question- are all books originally published before 1973 ok to be added? if so, I'll edit this comment to include all those in this criteria that I've read this year. Thanks.
Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams
Pages: 416
188,756 + 416 = 189,172 Pages Read.

They are fine to be added, Kim. For children's and teen books the cut-off date is 1983.

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Published: 1948
Pages:177

189,172 + 177 = 189,349


(How do I include the link for the book by using the title and author name? Is that only for desktop version?)

That only works on the desk top version, you're right about that, Tayjah.
No worries if you can't do the link.
The title, author and page count are all we need.