Hooked on Books discussion

Fantasy Marathon
Start Date: June 10, 2025
Goal: 354,957


In 2023, according to data from Publishers Weekly (based on Circana Bookscan) nearly 354,957 were sold in print format. Since that goal seems doable, we are leaving it intact. As a group, we will read fantasy books trying to read 354,957 pages. Remember they must be tagged fantasy.


Please use this format when recording your books:

Book:
Date:
Pages:
Group Total:

Challenge Rules:
*For this challenge ONLY, you may use books of any length. There is no minimum.
*Books must be completed on or after the start date (use your time zone)

Are we using common sense to not add something that is obviously sci-fi/horror/whatever, even if it's tagged fantasy (as so many are), or do we just add anything with the tag?

Book: Foundation
Date: 06/11/25
Pages: 340
Group Total: 340

Book: Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board by Zoe Aarsen
Date: 6/10/25
Pages: 385

Group Total: 725

Book: Beasts of Prey
Date: 12 jun
Pages: 474
Group Total: 1,199

Book: Spellslinger
Date: 14 jun
Pages: 416
Group Total: 1,615

Book: Thoroughly Disenchanted by Alexandra Almond
Date: 14/6 3.5★
Pages: 311

Book: Strata by Terry Pratchett
Date: 15/6 4★
Pages: 204

Group total: 2130

Book: Raybearer
Date: 16 jun
Pages: 343
Group Total: 2,473

Book: Network Effect by Martha Wells
Date: 6/18/25
Pages: 350

Group Total: 2,823

Book: The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant
Date: 23 jun
Pages: 300
Group Total: 3,123

Book: Beneath a Bloody Moon
Date: 23 jun
Pages: 100
Group Total: 3,223

Book: Hearts in Atlantis
Date: 25 jun
Pages: 622
Group Total: 3,845

Book: Elric of Melniboné
Date: 26 jun
Pages: 752
Group Total: 4,597

Book: Paladin's Hope
Date: 26 jun
Pages: 300
Group Total: 4,897

Book: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Date: 27 jun
Pages: 336
Group Total: 5,233

Book: Shadowblack
Date: 28 jun
Pages: 273
Group Total: 5,506

Book: The Chosen by J.R. Ward -
Date: 6/28/25
Pages: 544

Group Total: 6,050

Book: Imager
Date: 30 jun
Pages: 432
Group Total: 6,482

Book: Sorceress of Darshiva by David Eddings
Date: 27/6 3★
Pages: 396

Book: Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
Date: 28/6 3★
Pages: 243

Book: Replay by Ken Grimwood
Date: 28/6 4★
Pages: 313

Group total: 7,434

Book: Spellbreaker
Date: 3 jul
Pages: 305
Group Total: 7,739

Book: Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
Date: 2/7 3★
Pages: 320

Group total: 8059

Book: Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire -
Date: 7/4/25
Pages: 160

Group Total: 8,219

Book: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Date: 6/11
Pages: 504
Group Total: 8,723

Book: Grandghost by Nancy Springer
Date: 5/7 3★
Pages: 203
Group total: 8,926

Book: Dearest Ivie by J.R. Ward -
Date: 7/5/25
Pages: 157
Group Total: 9,083

Book: Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
Date: 9/7 2★
Pages: 327
Group total: 9,410

Book: Tigana
Date: 6/12
Pages: 686
MPG Fantasy
Group Total: 10,096

Book: ~ Jackknife
Date: 6/13
Pages: 45
MPG Fantasy

Book: ~ The Indigo Room
Date: 6/13
Pages: 35
Tagged Fantasy 1x

Book: ~ The Blanks
Date: 6/13
Pages: 35
MPG Fantasy

Book: ~ Night and Day in Misery
Date: 6/13
Pages: 34
Tagged Fantasy 1x

Book: ~ Letter Slot
Date: 6/13
Pages: 45
MPG Fantasy

Group Total: 10,290

Book: ~ Beasts of Prey
Date: 6/18
Pages: 496
MPG Fantasy
Group Total: 10,786

Book: ~ Spellslinger
Date: 6/18
Pages: 416
MPG Fantasy

Group Total: 11,202

Book: ~ Graveyard Dog
Date: 6/26
Pages: 162
MPG Fantasy
Group Total: 11,364

Book: ~ As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
Date: 7/6
Pages: 467
Tagged Fantasy 232x
Group Total: 11,831

Book: ~ Spellbreaker
Date: 7/9
Pages: 305
MPG Fantasy
Group Total: 12,136

Book: ~ End of Watch
Date: 7/10
Pages: 411
MPG Fantasy
Group Total: 12,647

Book: Seeress of Kell by David Eddings
Date: 13/7 3★
Pages: 452
Group total: 13099

Book: Little, Big: Or, the Fairies' Parliament
Date: 17 jul
Pages: 538
Group Total: 13,737

Book: The Librarian of Crooked Lane
Date: 18 jul
Pages: 284
Group Total: 14,021

Book: ~ Just A Couple Of Days
Date: 7/13
Pages: 353
MPG Fantasy
Group Total: 14,374

Book: ~The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Date: 7/16
Pages: 608
Tagged Fantasy 18x
Group Total: 14,982

Book: ~ Ulysses
Date: 7/17
Pages: 933
Tagged Fantasy 29x
Group Total: 15,915

Book: ~ Summer Sons
Date: 7/18
Pages: 384
MPG Fantasy
Group Total: 16,299

Intrigues
Date read: 06/8/25
Pages: 340
MPG fantasy

Closer to Home
Date read: 06/26/25
Pages: 362pp
MPG fantasy

Closer to the
Heart
Date read 7/6/25
Pages 330
MPG fantasy

Closer to the
Chest
Date read: 07/12/25
Pages: 340
MPG fantasy

Redoubt
Date read: 07/19/25
Pages: 340
MPG fantasy
Total Pages: 18,011

Book: ~ A Single Swallow
Date: 7/19
Pages: 305
MPG Fantasy
Group Total: 18,316

Book: ~ The Sword of Kaigen
Date: 7/19
Pages: 651
MPG Fantasy
Group Total: 18,967

Book: Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
Date: 19/7 3.5★
Pages: 336
Group total: 19,303

Book: The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike -
Date: 7/22/25
Pages: 334

Group Total: 19,637

Book: The Beatrix Potter Collection
Date: 23 jul
Pages: 400
Group Total: 20,037

Book: Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells -
Date: 7/23/25
Pages: 168

Group Total: 20,205

(About date stamp: I'm Finnish, I am used to having the day first, and then month, and then year.)

Book: The River Has Roots
Date: 7/7
Pages: 133

Book: When the Tides Held the Moon
Date: 7/7
Pages: 464

Book: Half a Soul
Date: 8/7
Pages: 304

Book: Raybearer
Date: 11/7
Pages: 343

Book: Redemptor
Date: 12/7
Pages: 336

Book: Fireheart Tiger
Date: 14/7
Pages: 103

Book: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Date:14/7
Pages:174

Book: The Time Invariance of Snow
Date: 14/7
Pages: 25

Book: Jade City
Date: 15/7
Pages: 540

Book: Before They Are Hanged
Date: 20/7
Pages: 441

Book: The Fisher Queen
Date:20/7
Pages:10

Book: Necrovet. Usługi weterynaryjno-nekromantyczne
Date: 22/7
Pages: 320

Book: Skeleton Man
Date: 24/7
Pages:114 pages

all in all pages read 3,307
Bringing the
Group Total 23,512

Book: Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris -
Date: 7/25/25
Pages: 293

Group Total: 23,805