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2023: 800,000 Page Challenge
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles DickensTwo more stories...
A Christmas Tree - 17 pages
The Seven Poor Travelers - 12 pages
Total to Date: 544, 731
Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season, collected short storied edited by Tanya Kirk288 pages
Group total: 545,204
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll378 pages
Total to date: 545,582
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl146
Three Landmark Novels by Charles Dickens
778
146+778+545,582= 546,506
The Father Christmas Letters by J.R.R. Tolkien
48 pages
How Santa Claus Came To Simpson's Bar by Bret Harte
17 pages (in an anthology)
Striding Folly: A Collection of Mysteries by Dorothy L. Sayers
176 pages
Total to date: 546,958
A Mind to Murder by P.D. James256 pages
Group total: 547,216
The Great Cover-Up: The Truth About the Death of Michael Collins by Gerard Murphy
259 pages - 21/12/23
Total to Date : 549,284
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396 pages
Group total: 549 680
Die unendliche Geschichte by Michael Ende 350 pagesThe Gremlins bu Roald Dahl 56 pages
Very Good, Jeeves! by P.G. Wodehouse 272 pages
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 289 pages
Seven Brothers by Aleksis Kivi 345 pages
The Horse and His Boy by C.S.Lewis 224 pages
Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper 196 pages
The Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg 366 pages
Unto a Good Land by Vilhelm Moberg 371 pages
Līgavu mednieki by Anšlavs Eglītis 231 pages
The Settlers by Vilhelm Moberg 399 pages
Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis 240 pages
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 378 pages
The Last Letter Home by Vilhelm Moberg 230 pages
Zaļā grāmata by Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš 440 pages
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 256 pages
Dune by Frank Herbert 658 pages
Ride This Night by Vilhelm Moberg 252 pages
Kalle Blomquist Meisterdetektiv by Astrid Lindgren 160 pages
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov 184 pages
Kalle Blomquist lebt gefährlich by Astrid Lindgren 192 pages
Kalle Blomquist, Eva Lotte und Rasmus by Astrid Lindgren 184 pages
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 455 pages
The Red and the Black by Stendhal 577 pages
The Maid Silja by Frans Emil Sillanpää 313 pages
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis 223 pages
Lielais Mēmais: filmu žurnālista piezīmes by Anšlavs Eglītis 336 pages
The Wreath by Sigrid Undset 305 pages
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle 195 pages
The Wife by Sigrid Undset 402 pages
Job by Joseph Roth 220 pages
His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle 242 pages
Ķēves dēls Kurbads by Jānis Turbads 157 pages
Mio, manu Mio! by Astrid Lindgren 137 pages
Madicken by Astrid Lindgren 184 pages
Kamerlugas by Mārtiņš Zīverts 535 pages
Als ich ein kleiner Junge war by Erich Kästner 208 pages
Greenwitch by Susan Cooper 147 pages
The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe 326 pages
If Only They Could Talk by James Herriot 206 pages
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet by James Herriot 229 pages
pages - 11 670 pages
group's total - 561 740 pages
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You have a great list of books there, and I really admire the patience and ability required to add up all those numbers.
Rosemarie wrote: "Thank you, Inese!You have a great list of books there, and I really admire the patience and ability required to add up all those numbers."
Rosemarie, did we beat our 2022 total? I can’t recall.
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Last year we had a record year for us. But we're doing better than the years before last year.
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The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers: 179 pagesThe Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse: 288 pages
The Fall by Albert Camus: 92 pages
In a Grove by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa: 14 pages
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: 1276 pages
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas: 139 pages
My Sweet Orange Tree by José Mauro de Vasconcelos: 192 pages
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor: 193 pages
Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig: 448 pages
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes: 186 pages
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger: 230 pages
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima: 183 pages
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson: 246 pages
In Love by Alfred Hayes: 128 pages
The Woman In Black by Susan Hill: 240 pages
Rain by W. Somerset Maugham: 40 pages
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai: 177 pages
The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers:128 pages
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene:300 pages
For Esme - With Love And Squalor by J.D. Salinger: 13 pages
A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J.D. Salinger: 26 pages
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham: 215 pages
Pages: 4933
Current Group total: 566,673 pages
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286 pages
Group total: 567 549
Le Chat maigre by Anatole France 72 pages
Erasmus of Rotterdam by Stefan Zweig 124 pages
The Zemmganno Brothers Edmond de Goncourt unknown number of pages
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello 160 pages
Wuthering Heights byEmily Brontë 464 pagesGroup total: 568 369 pages
Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust by Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar 251 pages
De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period by J.D. Salinger 33 pages
The Issa Valley by Czesław Miłosz 288 pages
The Crime of Father Amaro by Eça de Queirós 471 pagesGroup total: 569 412 pages
Something wicked this way comes. Ray Bradbury (1962) 294 pagesChasseur au Harpan. Markousie Patsang (1969) 128 pages
Blade Runner. Philip K. Dick (1968) 242 pages
La Conquête de Plassans. Emile Zola (1874) 480 pages
The Age of Innocence. Edith Wharton (1920) 368 pages
The Military Philosophers. Anthony Powell (1968) 198 pages
De Sang Froid. Truman Capote (1959) 512 pages
How do you Live? Genzaburo Yoshino (1937) 289 pages
Berlin Alexanderplatz. Alfred Doblin (1920) 628 pages
La Grande Rivière au Coeur Double. Ernest Hemingway (1925) 64 pages
Pot-Bouille. Emile Zola (1882) 538 pages
Le Temps Retrouvé. Marcel Proust (1927) 447 pages
Desperate remedies. Thomas Hardy (1871) 465 pages
Total 4653
Group Total: 574,065
164 👦 Little Lord Fauntleroy102 🍬 Nutcracker
204 🌹💍 The Rose And the Ring
24 ⛵ Amos & Boris
224 👾 The Changeover
135 👻 The Haunting
122.🐶🐱 All About Doggie and Pussycat: How They Kept House and All Sorts of Other Things As Well
110 🙆♂️ Münchhausen
Group total 📚576,572
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140 pages
Group total: 576 712
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Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
1023 pages
Group Total: 543,691 pages