2025 Big Book Challenge discussion

2024 (Goal is six books of 400 pages or more)
1. Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany by Katja Hoyer (516 pages ebook)
2. Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union by Robert Robinson (435 pages)
3. From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe by John Connelly (c.704 pages of the 1,235 page ebook)
4. Labour And The Gulag: Russia and the Seduction of the British Left by Giles Udy (c.645 of 688 page ebook)
5. Water Over Stones by Bernardo Atxaga (411 page ebook)
6.

2021
1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (audiobook) - 532 pages
2. Modern European History by Birdsall S. Viault 577 pages
3. A True Novel by Minae Mizumura 862 pages
4. Some Day by Shemi Zarhin 451 pages
5. Russia's Empires 402 pages
6. Oblomov 624 pages

Cheryl wrote: "I failed this challenge in 2020!

This year I will aim for a more modest goal of at least six books of 400 pages or more."

Good luck Cheryl! :-)

Debra wrote: "Cheryl wrote: "I failed this challenge in 2020!

This year I will aim for a more modest goal of at least six books of 400 pages or more."

Good luck Cheryl! :-)"

Thank you Debra!

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (a re-read)- I listened to the audiobook but the Penguin Classics Paperback is 532 pages

Modern European History by Birdsall S. Viault (a re-read) - 577 pages excluding the Index

A True Novel by Minae Mizumura
Translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter
Kindle edition is 862 pages

Some Day by Shemi Zarhin
Translated from the Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan
Ebook is 451 pages

Russia's Empires by Valerie A. Kivelson, Ronald Suny
402 pages excluding index

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
Translated from the Russian by Natalie Duddington
Ebook is 624 pages

I'm going to aim for 6 big books in 2024!