Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

Selected Stories by Saki - 146 pgs


Continental Crimes - 320 pgs


Murder of a Lady by Anthony Wynne - 266 pgs


The Long Arm of the Law: Classic Police Stories - 288 pgs


The Two-Penny Bar by Georges Simenon - 164 pgs


Total to Date: 220,927 pgs

The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne

211 pages

Total group: 221,138 pages

The Five Orange Pips by Arthur Conan Doyle


40 pages

The Adventure of the Yellow Face by Arthur Conan Doyle


32 pages

New Grub Street by George Gissing


560 pages

Total to date: 221,770

Remarque Erich-maria-The Road Back


352 pages

Total to date: 222,122

The Tales of Rabbi Nachman by Martin Buber

214 pages

Group total: 222 336

The Blue Room by Georges Simenon


139 pages

Total to date: 222,475

A Case of Conscience by James Blish

192 pages

Group total: 222 667

I'm a bit late to the party but here goes:

1. The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig

461 pages

2. The Swedish Cavalier by Leo Perutz

192 pages

Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy


252 pages - 07/05/23

Total to Date : 223,572 (including Ila's two books)

The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers


297 pages

Total to date: 223,869

A Wreath of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor


206 pages

Total to date: 224,075

304 My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
209 Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers

New group total= 224,588

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell


480 pages

Group total: 225,068

The Three Musketeers - 814 pgs


The Moon is Down - 148 pgs


Total to Date: 226, 030 pgs

8,076 pages (various, see below) between Jan 2023, and 5/7/2023

Total to Date: 234,106

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
260 pages

The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Richard Howard (Translator)
96 pages

Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
408 pages

The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss (Translator/Editor)
1,276 pages

Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
188 pages

Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
671 pages

Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
368 pages

The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
189 pages

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
Herman Melville
skipped "biology" chapters, so zero pages from book are included in page count

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
171 pages

East of Eden
John Steinbeck
691 pages

The Stranger
Albert Camus
159 pages

The Plague
Albert Camus
308 pages

Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
581 pages

As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
288 pages

Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Ormsby (Translator)
1,123 pages

The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
479 pages

The Brothers Karamazov (5/7/2023)
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (Translator)
820 pages

Greg, Shakespeare plays and poetry as well definitely count, as does non-fiction- as long as they were first published before our cut-off dates.
All plays count if they're old enough.

The Land Beyond the Blow by Ambrose Bierce

64 pages

Group Total: 234 170

The fall of house of usher by Edgar allan poe 36 pages

A hunger artist by Franz Kafka -84 pages

Before the law by Franz Kafka - 4 pages

Total -124 pages

Group total 234,294 pages

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

304 pages

Total to date: 234,598 pages

John wrote: "Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy


252 pages - 07/05/23

Total to Date : 223,572 (including Ila's two books)"

Oh dear, the page count slipped my mind. Thanks for including my books too, John.

No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym 238 pages
Burning Bright by John Steinbeck 112 pages
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy 256 pages

Group Total to Date: 235,204

The Sexes by Dorothy Parker

83 Pages

Group Total to Date: 235,287

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells (large print edition)- 194 pages
Total pages read: 235,481.

The York Buildings Company;: A chapter in Scotch history, read before the Institutes of Bankers and Chartered Accountants, Glasgow, 19th February, 1883 by David Murray

131 pages - 08/05/23

Total to Date : 235,612

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper



443 pages.

Total to date: 236,055

City by Clifford D. Simak


264 pages

Total to date: 236,319

Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Villette

672 pages

Total to date is 236,991 pages.

The Lake District Murder by John Bude

286 pages

Group total: 237 277

Of Love and Dust by Ernest J. Gaines- 288 pages.
total pages read: 237, 565.

The Scent of Water by Elizabeth Goudge


472 pages

Group total: 238,037

The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense by Edward Lear

624 pages

Total so far: 238,661

The Mystery of Marie Rogêt by Edgar Allan Poe

61 pages

Group total: 238 722 pages

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

264 pages

Group total: 238,986 pages

Frankenstein
Pages: 220
Group total: 239,205 pgs

Le Sphinx des glaces by Jules Verne

512 pages

Group total: 239 717

Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany 249 pages

Bambi by Felix Salten 218 pages

Total to date: 240,184

The Idiot; Dostoevsky, Fyodor; 652 pages

On the Beach; Shute, Nevil; 296 pages

Thank you Karen!

Karen's total is 948

Group Total to Date = 241,132

by Amor Towles 466 pages

by Fredrik Backman 337 pages

Lynda
Rutledge 381 pages

Liane Moriarty 455 pages

Sarah Addison Allen 290 words

David Grann 359 pages.

Ken Follett 976 pages

Harold Schechter 56 pages

Total pages 3,318

Group total 244,450

Here is some general information about the challenge for our newer members.
Since this is a classics group, novels, poetry and short stories need to have been first published at least 50 years ago (1973), Children's and YA 40 years ago (1983), Frontier Western and Drama 30 years ago (1993).
Thank you to everyone has been participating!

Any classics you have read since the beginning of 2023 count for this challenge, even if you have only recently joined the group.

Happy continued reading, everyone!

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

496pages

Total to date: 244,946

Possible Worlds by Peter Porter


70 pages - 12/05/23

Total to Date : 245,016

Few of books posted by Dotty won't fit into our challenge. So the total needs to be corrected.

Thanks for spotting that, Bibliophile.

Our amended total is 243 065 pages.

After reading the parameters recently posted, I have three more books I've read this year to add to the list:
Their Eyes Were Watching God; Hurston, Zora Neale; 238 pages
Ordeal By Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party; Stewart, George R.; 392 pages
Very Good, Jeeves; Wodehouse, P.G.; 272 pages

Another 902 pages to add!

Rosemarie wrote: "Here is some general information about the challenge for our newer members.
Since this is a classics group, novels, poetry and short stories need to have been first published at least 50 years ago ..."

Thank you for restating the parameters!

BTW: Possible Worlds was published in 1989

With Karen's 902 pages and minus 70 pages of possible worlds

243,065 + 902 - 70 = 243,897

New grand total is 243,897

Thanks for all the help with the numbers and dates, Bibliophile and Karen.