Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

Web by John Wyndham

141 Pages

Group total: 273 178

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov - 586 pages
The Daughter of the Commandant by Alexander Pushkin - 92 pages

Group total: 273 178 + 586 + 92 = 273 856

Egil's Saga by Snorri Sturluson

254 pages

Group total: 274 110

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster


376 pages

Group total: 274 486

The Red and the Black by Stendhal
715p

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
279p

group total: 275 480

Psmith in the City by P.G. Wodehouse

154 pages

Group total: 275 634

A Curva do Rio by V.S. Naipaul

416 Pages

Group total: 276 050

Emma by Jane Austen


359 pages

Group total: 276,409

The Case of the Careless Kitten by Erle Stanley Gardner

383 pages

Group total: 276 792

The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

304 pages

Group total: 277.096 pages

Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus

54 pages

Group total: 277 150

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus

338 pages

Group total: 277 488

Master And Man by Leo Tolstoy

57 pages

Group total: 277.545

Lucerne by Leo Tolstoy

35 pages

Group total: 277 580

The Persians by Aeschylus
32 pages

Group total: 277 612

The Birds by Aristophanes


104 pages

Group total: 277,716

The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns

133 pages

Group total: 277,849

The Fall of Icarus by Ovid
56 Pages

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman
62 Pages

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
667 Pages

Group total: 278.653

The Three-Body Problem - Liu, Cixin, Liu, Ken: Books
416 Pages

Sapiens - Brief History of Humankind by Harari
464 pages

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
364 pages

group total :
279,897

Lady Susan by Jane Austen

180 pages

Group total: 280.077

The sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 368 pages

Group total 280,445

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 581 pages

Group 281,026

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith, 496 pages.

It Can’t Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis, 400 pages

Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier, 449 pages

New group total 282,371

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou : 281 pages

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin : 150 pages

Wide Sargasso Sea & Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys : 151 pages & 176 pages

Orlando by Virginia Woolf : 336 pages

Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'une femme by Stefan Zweig : 128 pages

The Pearl by John Steinbeck : 96 pages

The Nun by Denis Diderot : 301 pages

group total : 283 990

Kate Hardy 213
What Happened to the Corbetts 248
An Old-Fashioned Girl 288
Lois the Witch 94
South Riding 539
The Diaries of Adam and Eve 95
Phineas Redux 768
Sweet Thursday 249
The House Opposite 311
The Wall 399
A Fable 394
Lassie Come-Home 248
My Brilliant Career 278
The Folded Leaf 306

total: 4430
group total: 288,420

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, 288 pages

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 194 pages

The Stranger by Albert Camus, 124 pages

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie , 274 pages

Animal Farm by George Orwell, 141 pages

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 178 pages

The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie, 191 pages

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie, 174 pages

Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie, 288 pages

The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie, 299 pages

Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley, 152 pages

A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie, 288 pages

84, Charring Cross Road by Helene Hanff, 106 pages

The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie, 199 pages

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, 449 pages

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, 107 pages

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, 214 pages

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 62 pages

The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery, 218 pages

Carmilla by J Sheridan Le Fanu, 108 pages


Total: 3942 pages

New Group Total: 286,313

The Scarlet Pimperel by Emmuska Orczy --281 pages

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman--62 pages

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie --247 pages

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain --327 pages

The Clockwork Twin by Walter R. Brooks --256 pages

Freddy the Politician by Walter R. Brooks --272 pages

Freddy's Cousin Weedly by Walter R. Brooks --220 pages

Freddy and the Ignormus by Walter R Brooks --288 pages

1,953 pages total (group total seems to be off, so I'm not updating that)

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

343 pages

Thanks

Jenna

Yellow Wallpaper - 62 pages
The Pearl - 90 pages

224

group total: 13,193 ?

1. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay 204 pages
2. Klee Wyck by Emily Carr. 155 pages
3. 1984 by George Orwell. 328 pages
4. The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien. 352 pages
5. The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien. 416 pages
6. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. 343 pages

For a total of 1798 pages to add to the group total. I’m not sure how to find or do that, though….and now I have to leave.

Catching up—reported from March through August 2025.

I think these all meet the criteria:

The Birds by Daphne du Maurier 75 p.
The Midnight Bell by F. Lathom 256 p.
Vathek by W. Beckford 141 p.
Fall of the House of Usher by E. A. Poe 36 p.
Jaws by P. Benchley 288 p.
The Old English Baron by C. Reeve 176 p.
Rosemary's Baby by I. Levin 246 p.
Castle of Otranto by H. Walpole 107 p.
Claudine at School by Colette 245 p.
The Unlit Lamp by R. Hall 308 p.
Earth Abides by G. R. Stewart 370 p.
I am a Bunny by R. Scary 24 p.
Ethan From by E. Wharton 160 p.
The Bluest Eye by T. Morrison 226 p.
Dragon Quest by A McCaffrey 350 p.
Dragon Flight by A McCaffrey 320 p.

Total pages = 3 328

Group Total = ????? not sure

1. The Caxtons by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1849) 472 pp
2. Silence in Court by Patricia Wentworth (1945) 224 pp
3. The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky
(Ignat Avsey translation) (1880) 1058 pp
4. An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope (1861) 236 pp
5. Maria Chapdelaine' by Louis Hemón (1913) 218 pp
6. Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy (1871) 512 pp
7. Lotta Schmidt and Other Stories
by Anthony Trollope (1874) 560 pp
8 Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf (1938) 352 pp
9. The Silk Stocking Murders
by Anthony Berkeley (1928) 280 pp
10. The Layton Court Mystery
by Anthony Berkeley (1925) 278 pp
11. Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope (1882) 880 pp
12. The Bride Wore Black
by Cornell Woolrich (1940) 224 pp

Total number of pages read: 5354 +
Previous Group Total ( so far as I can work out) 288361
Total 293715

Current Group Total 293 715

The Bostonians (Henry James), 1886
527 pages

Current Group Total 294 242

1. 206 pages The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
2. 35 pages The Machine Stops by EM Forster
3. 528 pages The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
4. 185 pages Three Men in Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
5. 212 pages The Moffats by Eleanor Estes

My Total Pages 1,166
Previous Group Total 294,242
Current Group Total 295,408

The Americanization of Edward Bok
c1920 Scribner.
[My copy is 1965 Pocket Book edition]
331 pages
This is my first time posting here. Please add my pages to the current total and thank you for doing that ! 🙂

By the way I forgot to add “An Autobiography” to the Bok book. I see it is on the cover and title page of the book but underneath a graphic and in smaller print so I missed it.
I cannot copy photo of cover into this text.

I think the group total is still wrong.
I get 307,237. I think Emily and I posted simultaneously, which threw it off.

Sula by Toni Morrison : 208 pages

Pilgrimage 1 by Dorothy M. Richardson : 490 pages

Group total based off Sara's last post: 307 935

L'Œuvre by Émile Zola : 493 pages
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin : 197 pages
Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki : 245 pages
Printemps by Sigrid Undset : 410 pages
Ida by Irène Némirovsky : 119 pages
Down Below by Leonora Carrington : 112 pages
Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali : 176 pages

Group total: 309 687

The numbers aren't accurate starting at post 826, but you can still keep posting the number of pages you've read. It's not necessary to add them to the total, which we will update with the accurate count once we've done all the math.

Thank you to everyone who has posted so far!

josie wrote: "224

group total: 13,193 ?"

Josie, which book did you read?

The total I have is 309 764 pages, not counting Josie's page numbers since we don't have the name of the book.
If some one has time to check on my math, feel free to do so!
It's not necessary to add your pages to the group total if you've never done it before, or if you don't like math.
Some one will do it for you.

Appreciate everyone helping us get closer to our goal!

Thank you Rosemarie for catching us up. I was short by 3 but Im good with your total.

- "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys: 192 pages.

- "Free Lance" by George Shipway: 400 pages.

- "The Day of the Jackal" by Frederick Forsyth (Author): 361 pages.

- "The Drowned World" by J.G. Ballard: 224 pages.

- "En el día de hoy" by Jesús Torbado: 361 pages.

- "A Caribbean Mystery" by Agatha Christie: 304 pages.


Total no. pages.:1842. I haven't added the group total since it seems there's some accounting problems...

The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft - 50 pages


Total pg count. 311,656

White nights- 82
Metamorphosis-76
To kill a mockingbird -323
Group total = 312 137

Sorry, I cannot resist a numbers game. I think I am related to Count van Count ...

Errors appeared in msg 818 (total), 826 and 833 (sub-total).

At message 840, I have 33 pages more than Rosemarie and come now to a total of:

312 170

I wish I could keep this to myself and not add to the confusion, but as a numbers person, it's impossible for me to ignore this. Apologies to all! 😅

That said, for non-fiction, a book published in 2024 about courtship and marriage in Jane Austen's time would qualify? (Non-Fiction - General subject matter: 50 years and older)

1/1/2025 @ 34 pages


1/1/2025 @ 128 pages


1/5/2025 @ 160 pages


1/5/2025 @ 103 pages


1/16/2025 @ 48 pages


1/16/2025 @ 336 pages


3/10/2025 @ 136 pages


3/21/2025 @ 159 pages


7/13/2025 @ 564 pages


8/2/2025 @ 610 pages


8/3/2025 @ 180 pages

Total pages I read = 2,428
312,170 + 2,428 = New Group Total 314,598

Lindenblatt wrote: "Sorry, I cannot resist a numbers game. I think I am related to Count van Count ...

Errors appeared in msg 818 (total), 826 and 833 (sub-total).

At message 840, I have 33 pages more than Rosemarie..."

It would qualify.