Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

1) The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux - 336 pages

2) Aura by Carlos Fuentes - 50 pages

Total no. pages.:386

Group total: 116 948 pages

Pippi Longstocking p. 160



Group: 117,108

1. Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo - 124 pages

2. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis - 240 pages

Total number of pages: 364

Group total: 117 472

George Orwell: A Life by Bernard Crick - 716 pages (excl. notes/index)

Group total: 118,188

Topovi s Navaronea by Alistair MacLean


250 pages

Preobražaj by Franz Kafka


118 pages

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton


192 pages

Group total: 118,748

Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope

234 pages

Group total: 118 982

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

246 pages

Group total: 119,228

1984 by George Orwell

Five Go Adventuring Again by Enid Blyton
150p

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
262p

group total: 119,640

⋆˚✿˖°Isabella ⋆˚✿˖° wrote: "1984 by George Orwell"

Adding her 368 pages

New Group Total = 120,008

Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
216 pages

Group total: 120 224

The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively

224 pages

Group total: 120,448

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder - 448 pages

Group total: 120,896

Armed With Madness: The Surreal Leonora Carrington by Mary M. Talbot
(graphic novel about Leonora Carrington, set mostly in 1930s-1940s)


144 pages

Group total: 121,040

10 pages The History of England by a partial, prejudiced & ignorant historian (Jane Austen) 📖 ✅ 3.5* my review .


new group total: 121 050

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier

267 pages

Group total: 121,317

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky


998 pages

Group total: 122,315

Louange de l'Ombre by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki 1933 112 pages
The Queen of Spades. Alexander Pushkin 1834 52 pages
Giovanni’s room. James Baldwin 1956 178 pages
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and other sketches. Matsuo Basho 1694. 167 pages
Les Mandarins V1. Simone de Beauvoir 1954. 507 pages

1016 + 122,315= 123,331

64 Six Characters in Search of an Author (Luigi Pirandello) 📖 ✅ 3.5* my review

64 + 123 331 = 123 395

new group total = 123 395

quick question? Is this for all the books you've read? or is it just classics that you have read? I'm confused.

Melissa (ladybug) wrote: "quick question? Is this for all the books you've read? or is it just classics that you have read? I'm confused."

Just classics - 50 years or older. Some categories of books have a different guide. See Fundamentals for NTLTRC for details.

The Easy Life by Marguerite Duras


208 pages

Group total: 123,603

Clerambault by Romain Rolland, 204 pages
Group total 123,807

A General's Life by Omar Bradley
670 pages
The Counterlife by Philip Roth
324 pages

Group total: 994 (msg 374) + 123,807 = 124,801

Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home by Harry Kemelman

304 pages

Group total: 125 105

"The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka.

50 pages

Group total: 125,155

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

400 pages

Group total: 125,555

Miscellaneous, Two Administrations, Write it Right by Ambrose Bierce
176 pages

Group total: 125 731

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov



245 Pages



The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky



985 Pages

Group Total: 126,961

Léto dlouhé jeden den by Regina Ezera

184 pages

Group total 127, 145

Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin

116 pages

Group total: 127,261

I haven’t checked in for a while. I felt like I hadn’t been reading very much this year, but seeing them all in a list they have accumulated, I don’t feel so guilty.

Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo 352 pages
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell 590
I Am Lazarus by Anna Kavan 148
The Doomed City by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky 462
Virginia Woolf by Mrs. Dalloway (jk) 194
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams 107
The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt 109
The Pledge by Friedrich Durrenmatt 176
The Damned by Joris-Karl Huysmans 320
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler 379
The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope 207
Artificial Pleasures by Charles Beaudelaire 204
The sailor who fell from Grace with the sea by Yukio Mishima 181

Total 3429
I will have to edit our group total later this evening because I can’t open the last message on my app for some reason but I will try again shortly

Great list, Andrew!

l'immoraliste by Andre Gide - 280 pages.

Adding Andrew's page count above, new total: 130, 970

The Confederate War: How Popular Will, Nationalism, and Military Strategy Could Not Stave Off Defeat by Gary W. Gallagher

272 pages. 01/04/25

Total to Date : 131,242

They Wouldn’t Be Chessmen by A.E.W. Mason
351 pages

Group total: 131 593

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky 128p

group total: 131, 716

DH Lawrence - The Virgin & The Gypsy
85

Elizabeth Gaskell - Cousin Phillis
157

Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows
197

Richard Connell - The Most Dangerous Game
30

Thanks for adding up my totals.

Jenna

group total: 132, 185

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll 320 Pages.
132,185 + 320 = 132,505

Paradoxes of Catholicism by Robert Hugh Benson, 116p

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, 108p

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, 337p

Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard, 287p

Maiwa's Revenge; Or, The War of the Little Hand by H. Rider Haggard, 102p

Allan's Wife by H. Rider Haggard, 131p

Group Total: 132,505+ 1,081 = 133,586

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

290 pages

Group total: 133,876

The "A.L." Bright Story Readers - Grade VI - Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare - 96 Pages
Encontros: Impressões e Viagens by Stefan Zweig - 260 Pages

Group total: 133,876 + 96 + 260 = 134, 232 Pages

Na západní frontě klid by Erich Maria Remarque

228 pages

Group total: 134, 460

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

195 pages

Group Total: 134,610

The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner


336 pages

Group total: 134,946

Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

160 pages

Group total: 135,106

The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe: A Perry Mason Mystery by Erle Stanley Gardner

272 pages

Group total: 135 378

Sempre Vivemos no Castelo by Shirley Jackson 134 pages

Group Total: 135 512