Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

NTLTRC we can reach our goal this year! 1,000,000 for our completed 10 years of being NTLTRC Group. 📘📚📗

How It Works:
Any Member may join this challenge.

What is required:
1. A Classic you’ve recently finished reading (Name & Author)
2. The page count of the Classic you read
3. Book Cover (If you like to share)
4. Add the total Pages of your Classic to get a Group Page Total.

Example
Msg 1 by Lesle:
1/1/2025 @ 275 pages
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley

Current Group Total = 275 pages
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Msg 2 by Mark:
1/3/2025 @ 432 pages
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Current Group Total = 707 pages
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📗 + 📘 + 📕 = 📚
Lots of books read = Lots of pages added to Group Total!!!

We can do this!

If you finished the book today or after but started it in 2024 please post your total here as the 2024 Challenge is completed!!

Our Group TOTAL for 2024 was an EXCITING = 963,860

We can do a million easily!!

1) The Lost Word by Henry Van Dyke 112 pp
2) Saturday the Rabbi Slept Late by 224 pp
Harry Kemmelman
3) The Blind Musician by Vladimir Korolenko 264 pp
4) Stand By for Mars by Carey Rockwell 132 pp
5) Pereira Declares by Antonio Tabucchi 136 pp

Total no pages. 868 pp
Previous Group Total 707 + 868 = 1575

Current Group Total is 1575

Message 1 was just examples so our actual group total is already:

868 pages

Thank you for catching that Rosemarie!

Winds of Evil by Arthur W. Upfield

1/1/25 - 256 pages

Group total: 1124

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

122 pages

Group total: 1246 pages

Ain't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth
p. 106


Group: 1,352

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll, 128 pgs.

Group Total: 1,480 pages

A Princesa de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette

160 Pages

Group Total: 1,640 pages

Un hivernage dans les glaces by Jules Verne

83 pages

Group total: 1723

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

274 pages

Group total: 1,997

Ljubavnik by Marguerite Duras


94 pages

Group total: 2,091

The Captive / The Fugitive by Marcel Proust

957 pages

Group total: 3,048 pages

The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge 286 pages

Group Total: 3,334 pages

We, The Accused - Ernest Raymond (509)
Against Nature - Joris-Karl Huysmans (288)

797 + 3334 ‎ = 4,131

1984
4131+ 328= 4459

The Brothers Lionheart p. 231


Group: 4,690

I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan

200 pgs

Group total: 4,889

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson


152 pages

Group Total: 5,041

133 pages read A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen; Bryony Lavery) --- 4*

(5,041+133 = 5 174)
New group total: 5 174

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner.

Pgs 222

Total pgs: 5,396

06/01/25 188 pages
On Zionist Literature by Ghassan Kanafani

Current Group Total : 5,584

The Annotated Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen


742 pages

Current group total: 6,326

Se questo è un uomo by Primo Levi

222 pages

Group total: 6 548

1- La maison du Chat-qui pelote, le Bal de Sceaux, La Bourse. Balzac 1830. 389 pages
2- Pedro Paramo. Juan Rulfo 1955. 192 pages
3- The Angel at the Grave. Edith Wharton 1901. 34 pages
4- Passage des Miracles. Naguib Mahfouz 1947. 422 pages
5- La Princesse de Clèves. Madame de La Fayette 1678. 256 pages
6- The Raid. Leo Tolstoy 1853. 61 pages
7- Master and Men. Leo Tolstoy 1895. 62 pages

1 416 + 6 548= 7964

Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

64 pages

Group total: 8,028 pages

Anger, Mercy, Revenge by Seneca (English translations of De Ira, De Clementia, and Apocolocyntosis), 247p.

Group Total: 8,275

I was searching for the link couldn't find it. Thank you very much piyangie. I have always contributed in this challenge. Didn't want to miss this year too. Excited already.

You're most welcome, Bibliophile!

08/01/24 - 248 pages

The Iron Heel by Jack London

Current Group Total : 8,523

Kings of Beasts by Ambrose Bierce

113 pages

Group total: 8 636

The Iliad by Homer, translated by Samuel Butler (1898)

414 pages

Group Total: 9,050 pages

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

333 pages

Group Total: 9,383 pages

I read this on kindle, no page numbers and guessing 35 pages read Contemplation (Franz Kafka) 3* my review .


(9,383 +35 = 9 418)
New group total: 9 418

Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin

379 pages

Group total: 9797

Miss Silver Deals With Death by Patricia Wentworth
228 pages

Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe
11 pages

Group total: 10 036

Ethan Frome: the original 1911 edition by Edith Wharton, 110 pages

Group Total: 10,146

Memories of Silk and Straw: A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan by Junichi Saga

257 pages

Group total: 10,403 pages

À Boca de Scena by Pedro Bandeira

144 Pages

Group total: 10,547 pages

50 pages read The Trojan Women (Euripides) 📖 ✅ 4* my review .


(10,547+50 = 10 597)

New group total: 10 597

Stefan Zweig - Six Stories

282 pages

Group total: 10,879

The Iron Heel by Jack London
251 pages

Group total: 11,130

A Millionaire of Rough and Ready by Bret Harte, 70 p

Group Total: 11,200

The Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart
340 pages

Murder After Christmas by Rupert Latimer
320 pages

Group total: 11,860

Eirik the Red's Saga by Anonymous, 24p

Group Total: 11,884

Winter in Thrush Green by Miss Read

239 pages

Group total: 12 123

The Iron Heel by Jack London


288 pages

Group total: 12,411

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

186 pages

Group total: 12,597

My Antónia by Willa Cather

372 Pages

Group total: 12,969