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2023: 800,000 Page Challenge
A gata e a fábula by Fernanda Botelho
Maigret e o caso do ministro by Georges Simenon
247 + 170 pages = 417 pages
Total to date: 114,370
75 pages Five Children and It
by E. Nesbit
267 pages The Chocolate War
by Robert Cormier
Total pages=115,562
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev: 200 pagesWhat Is to Be Done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky: 464 pages
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky: 176 pages
Pastoral by Nevil Shute: 225 pages
Augustus by John Williams: 336 pages
Total: 116963 pages
Diary of a Provincial Lady - E. M. Delafield 201 pagesThe Comedy of Errors - Shakespeare - 216 pages
Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell - 305 pages
The Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare - 291 pages
The Two Gentlemen of Verona - Shakespeare - 245 pages
The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie - 201 pages
Titus Andronicus - Shakespeare - 268 pages
Lucrece - Shakespeare - 160 pages
How Much Land Does a Man Need? - Leo Tolstoy - 35 pages
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - 1,440 pages
Henry VI, Part One - Shakespeare - 304 pages
Henry VI, Part Two - Shakespeare - 260 pages
Henry VI, Part Three - Shakespeare - 352 pages
Venus and Adonis - Shakespeare - 42 pages
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen - 112 pages
A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen - 122 pages
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf - 320 pages
Absent in the Spring - Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie) - 190
Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas - 121 pages
My total so far: 5,185
Group total: 122,311
Lord of the rings trilogy: 1312 pagesGroup total: 123,623
I just finished Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. 188 Pages
1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 209 pages2. Collected Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay, 187 pages
3. The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers, 163 pages. Next 2 are also by her.
4. Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, 416 pages
5. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, 359 pages
Total 1,334 pages
Mod
125 644 pages.
You have a terrific list, Helene, but somehow a modern book, Hamnet, managed to sneak its way among the classics, so I deducted 305 pages from your total.
Julietta, I'm not sure where the 9820 pages come from, so I didn't count them.
Kathy, I only used Moby Dick once.
Hopefully the page count is accurate.
I just finished Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck a month or so ago. Forgot how profoundly moving it is. Just extraordinary.
Ms. Dalloway Virginia Woolf 168 Mevrouw DallowayDe valsemunters pages 418
Vergelding: roman pages 191
The Martian Chronicles pages 241
Confessions of a Mask 191
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation I-II pages 516
We Can Build You pages 190
Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children's Crusade pages 174
Hadzji Moerat pages 141
Good reading.
Bert
Ms. Dalloway Virginia Woolf 168 Mevrouw DallowayDe valsemunters pages 418
Vergelding: roman pages 191
The Martian Chronicles pages 241
Confessions of a Mask 191
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation I-II pages 516
We Can Build You pages 190
Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children's Crusade pages 174
Hadzji Moerat pages 141
1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 864 pages
2. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
294
3. Animal Farm by George Orwell
112
4. To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
209
My total: 1479
I'm not confident in figuring out how many pages so far since people aren't posting the group total, but here are my contributions:
The Stranger: 123 pages
The Three Musketeers: 784
To The Lighthouse: 209
My total: 1116
Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy361 pages
Group count is unsure for me
To the best of my ability (there was some repeated books from Bert I only counted once) the new group total is: 131,946 pagesPlease make sure to always add your pages to the total so other people can follow, otherwise we get lost :)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glassby Lewis Carroll - 239 pages
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - 1796 pages
My total Pages = 2035
Group Total= 133,981
Ok, wow, so I just reread the email, and it sounds like we're doing ALL classics we've EVER read like a To Date total? I was just doing what I've finished this year so far. If that's the case, when I have a chance...I'll have to come back and do the rest.
Mod
If you're not sure about the group count, no worries. It can be adjusted and added up any time.
January 20231. On achève bien les chevaux. (They shoot horses, don’t they?). Horace McCoy 224 pages
2. The tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Anonymous. 180 pages
3. Gabriela, girofle et cannelle. Jorge Amado 504 pages
4. The Blithedale romance. Nathaniel Hawthorne. 219 pages
5. A question of upbringing. Anthony Powell. 244 pages
6. NorthAnger Abbey. Jane Austen. 260 pages
7. Nous. Yevgeny Zamyatin. 240 pages
8. Uncle Tom’s cabin. Harriet Beecher Stowe. 438 pages
9. North and South. Elizabeth Gaskell. 540 pages
2849 + 133,981= 136,830
February 20231- Du côté de chez Swann. Marcel Proust. 671 pages
2- Le joueur d’échecs. Stefan Zweig. 128 pages
3- Le Royaume de ce monde. Alejo Carpentier. 186 pages
4- Les oiseaux. Tarjei Vesass. 180 pages
5- A buyer’s market. Anthony Powell. 292 pages
6- La Reine Margot. Alexandre Dumas. 800 pages
7- Les affinités sélectives. Goethe. 346 pages
8- Sense and Sensibility. Jane Austen. 409 pages
9- Passing. Nella Larsen. 175 pages
10- Miguel Street. V.S. Naipaul. 224 pages
3411 + 136,830 = 140,241
March 20231- La Prisonnière des Sargasse. Jean Rhys. 238 pages
2- Mrs Dalloway. Virginia Woolf. 302 pages
3- Sur James Joyce. Italo Svevo. 112 pages
4- Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont. Elizabeth Taylor. 232 pages
5- Une journée d’Ivan Dennissovitch. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. 189 pages
6- Au pays. Vilhelm Moberg. 288 pages
7- Au cœur des mers. S.J.Agnon. 176 pages
8- The acceptance world. Anthony Powell. 320 pages
9- Emma. Jane Austen. 474 pages
10- À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs. Marcel Proust. 667 pages
11- Le pauvre cœur des hommes. Natsume Sôseki. 308 pages
12- Cette sacrée vertu. Winifred Watson. 223 pages
13- Une si longue lettre. Mariama Bâ. 176 pages
14- Madame Bovary. Gustave Flaubert. 513 pages
15- To the North. Elizabeth Bowen. 320 pages
4538 + 140,241= 144,779
Chéri by Colette - 198 pagesLes misérables Tome 1 by Hugo - 899 pages
Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis - 172 pages
Total group: 146048
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck - 121 pages The Plague, Albert Camus - 252 pages
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde - 220 pages
The Stranger, Albert Camus - 110 pages
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez - 422
A Gentle Creature, Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 57 pages
White Nights, Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 113 pages
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway - 99 pages
Now We Are Six, A. A. Milne - 103 pages
My total: 1497 pages
Group total: 147545 pages
Read in 2023:Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky, 1013 pages
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, 122 pages
Study in Scarlet, Conan Doyle, 95 pages
The sign of four, Conan Doyle, 129 pages
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle, 389 pages
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, 189 pages
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Conan Doyle, 288 pages
My total: 2,225 pages
Total Group: 149,770
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A Fantasy of Dr. Ox, Jules Verne - 96 pagesGog, Giovanni Papini - 496 pages
The Idiot , Dostoyevski - 711 pages
What Is to Be Done , chernyshevsky - 584 pages
The Plague, Camus - 303 pages
Storm of Steel, Ernst Jünger - 320 pages
Iza's Ballad , Magda Szabo - 224 pages
My Total: 2734
Total Group: 152,504
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradburyp. 194
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane p.155
my total: 349
group total: 152,853
Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalım - Chingiz Aitmatov - 144 pagesThe Inspector General - Nikolai Gogol -
129 pages
Sarnıç - Sait Faik Abasıyanık -
124 pages
The Shining Pyramid - Arthur Machen - 144 pages
Medea - Euripides - 79 pages
Türk Masalları - Naki Tezel - 525 pages
The Railway Children- E. Nesbit - 104 pages
The Raven- Edgar Allan Poe - 35 pages
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
- 158 pages
- A Short Organum for the Theatre - Bertolt Brecht - 114 pages
- Destroy, She Said - Marguerite Duras - 134 pages
My total: 144+129+124+144+79+525+104+35+158+114+134 = 1,690
Group total: 154,543
Ein Kampf um Rom. Zweiter Band by Felix Dahn - 360 pagesEin Kampf um Rom - Dritter Tail - 456 pages
Sturmhöhe (Wuthering Height) by Emily Brontë - 398 pages
Hotel Savoy. by Joseph Roth - 126 pages
Das kunstseidene Mädchen by Irmgard Keun - 256 pages
Group total to date: 156,803
Mod
He PM'd me his list. Great!!
message: I have read the following classic books this year:
1. The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells, pgs. 192
2. Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., pgs. 320
3. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, pgs. 624
4. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, pgs. 1056
5. Night, Elie Wiesel, pgs. 115
170 above + 2307 = New Group Total:159, 280
Mod
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary by Anonymous or Marta Hillers 261 pagesTotal to date: 159,541
Mod
Burning Bright by John Steinbeck -93 pages
Hills Like Elephants by Ernest Hemingway- 6 pages
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee - 272 pages
To Build a Fire by Jack London -32 pages
The Signalman x 2 by Charles Dickens -56 pages
Paul's Case by Willa Cather -48 pages
The Kimono by H.E. Bates -12 pages
Hunter Quatermain's Story by H. Rider Haggard -26 pages
The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs -32 pages
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson -30 pages
Total number of pages-607
Group total to date: 160 148
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Total to Date : 113,375