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2025: 1,000,000 Page Challenge

by Václav Hrabě (published posthumously in 1996, written in 60s, Hrabě died in 1965)
142 pages
group total 90 758 (including 82 pages from Jenna)

322 pages
I’m listening to audiobooks and that’s how I’m finishing them so quickly. 🙂
Thanks
Jenna

(92,140+268 = 92 408)
New group total: 92 408
Der Untergang des Abendlandes: Umrisse einer Morphologie der Weltgeschichte by Oswald Spengler
1471 pages
Group total: 94 845
1471 pages
Group total: 94 845

Edited by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell
163 pages
Group total: 95,872

The Twelve Days of Christmas
by John Julius Norwich. 32 pp
James by Percival Everett. 303 pp
Blind Man's Eyes by
William McHarg. 116 pp
The Congressman's Wife by
John Daniel Barry. 235 pp
The Anarchy by William Dalrymple 544 pp
City of Endless Night by Milo
Hastings 314 pp
Bernard Treves's Boots by Laurence
Clarke 152 pp
The Princess of Cleves by
Mme Lafayette 192 pp
The Gods of Olympus by
Barbara Graziosi 290 pp
The Joss: A Reversion by
Richard Marsh 272 pp
The King of Alsander by James
Elroy Flecker 74 pp
The Girl in the Window by
Diane Wilkerson 346 pp
Goodnight, Mr Tom by Michelle
Magorian 304 pp
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout 285 pp
The Tale of the Tailor and the
Three Dead Kings by Dan Jones 96 pp
A Marriage Under the Terror by
Patricia Wentworth 202 pp
The Angel of the Revolution: a Tale
of the Coming Terror by George
Chetwynd Griffith 464 pp
Craven House by Patrick Hamilton 337 pp
Letters for a Spy by Alice
Chetwynd Ley 200 pp
The Wrong Daughter by Dandy Smith 353 pp
The Band that Played On by Steve
Turner 259 pp
Total Number of Pages = 5420
Previous Group Total = 99 254
Total = 104,674
Current Group Total = 104 674
Mbuye wrote: "Eleven Numbers by Lee Child 50 pp
The Twelve Days of Christmas
by John Julius Norwich. 32 pp
James by Percival Everett. 303 pp
Blind Man's Eyes by
William McHarg. 116 pp
The Congressman's ..."
Please double check the dates on some of your books, Mbuye. To find out which qualify please check our Fundamentals Thread, thanks.
James is fiction and only one year old, so that one doesn't count, for sure.
The Twelve Days of Christmas
by John Julius Norwich. 32 pp
James by Percival Everett. 303 pp
Blind Man's Eyes by
William McHarg. 116 pp
The Congressman's ..."
Please double check the dates on some of your books, Mbuye. To find out which qualify please check our Fundamentals Thread, thanks.
James is fiction and only one year old, so that one doesn't count, for sure.
For our members who will be posting books, please use this page count when adding your books:
99 254 pages (the total from message 286)
Thanks.
Message 287 has a a mixture of classics and non-classic books so it needs to be edited before the page count will be accurate.
99 254 pages (the total from message 286)
Thanks.
Message 287 has a a mixture of classics and non-classic books so it needs to be edited before the page count will be accurate.

The Twelve Days of Christmas
by John Julius Norwich. 32 pp
James by Percival Everett. 303 pp
Blind Man's Eyes by
William McHarg. 116 pp
The ..."
Thanks, Rosemarie. Please disregard my post while I edit my entry.
Here is our total. Please follow the guidelines for Classics.
If your not sure please ask.
Group total: 99,254
If your not sure please ask.
Group total: 99,254

If your not sure please ask.
Group total: 99,254"
Hi Lesle, would you be able to clarify about non-fiction for challenges? In the group reads if the subject matter is covering a period over 50 years old, it counts. Does that also work for challenges? Or is it only publication date?
Ex: I just finished Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon publication date 2023 -- subject matter a 1938 expedition.
Thanks!

The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham 220 pages
His Excellency Eugène Rougon by Émile Zola 376 pages
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin 172 pages
Lady Susan by Jane Austen 119 pages
253 + 220 + 376 + 172 + 119 =1,140
+ 99,254
Group Total = 100,394

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson 128 pages
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis 151 pages
The Honor Girl by Marcia MacDonald (AKA Grace Livingston Hill) 208 pages
A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe 28 pages
My Reads: 222+128+151+208+28= 737
99,254 + 1,392 + 1,140 + 737 = 102,523
Grand Total: = 102,523

* Henry VI: Parts I, II, and III by William Shakespeare, 455 pages.
* Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo, 136 pages
* Maurice, by E.M. Forster, 238 pages
102,683+455+136+238= 103,512
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218 pages
Group total: 88 546