Reading 1001 discussion

Next year's year long read is U.S.A. and the first book of the trilogy is available right now as Audible Play (free) if you have membership.

The year long reads list ;
2012 1. One Thousand and One Nights 8974 pages and some less or more. the accepted is Burton's translations
2014 2. Remembrance of Things Past,
2015 3. A Dance to the Music of Time
4. The Taebaek Mountains, Korean 1250 pgs, translated 3800
2016 5. A Dream of Red Mansions
2017 6. Romance of the Three Kingdoms
2018 7. The Water Margin
2019 8. Pilgrimage
2020 10. 9. Monkey: Journey to the West
2021 11. The Man Without Qualities
2022 12 Jahrestage ( Anniversaries)
2023 13. Clarissa
2024 14. Joseph and His Brothers
2016 15. A Suitable Boy
16. Les Misérables
2012 17. War and Peace
2025 18. The Tale of Genji
2026 19. U.S.A.
2018 20. The Count of Monte-Cristo
2027 21. Your Face Tomorrow
2017 22. The Lord of the Rings
2914 23. Kristin Lavransdatter
2015 24. 2666
2018 26. Blonde
2017 27. Infinite Jest
2028 28. Against the Day
2029 29. Cecilia
30. The Cider House Rules
2030 31, Gargantua and Pantagruel
2031 32. Gone With the Wind
2018 33., Don Quixote
2017 34. Bleak House

2012: One Thousand and One Nights, Burton Translation
2013.
2014: Rememberance of Things Past, Proust
2015: Dance to the Music of Time
2016: A Dream of Red Mansions
2017: Romance of three Kingdoms
2018: Water Margin
2019 Pilgrimage
2020: Monkey
2021: The Man Without Qualities
2022: Anniversaries or Jahrestage
2023: Clarissa
2024: Joseph and His Brothers
2025: Tale of Genji
2026: U.S.A.
2027. Your Face Tomorrow
2028 Against the Day
2029 Cecilia
2030 Cider House Rules
2031 Gargantua and Pantagruel
2032 Gone With the Wind
2033 Tom Jones

I wonder if we should do two annual reads per year with the decreasing page account. Any comments or thoughts.

I would be fine with doubling up. If there are some about to complete in the next 5-7 years doing it this way, that totally makes sense, of course I'm newer so I have read many fewer of the long books than others so its mostly open for me. But in one of the threads it sounded like maybe there are others that people have missed along the way, so is there any interest in circling back earlier than 2033? Maybe choosing amongst those people have not read the way we do for the quarterly reads?

My 2 cents. Many of these books we have read as quarterly reads. We could expand page count for quarterlies. Here is a list of the past quarterly reads. I am fine with whatever the group wants though.

2012
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Middlemarch, by George Eliot
The Swarm, by Frank Schätzing
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy

2013
Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo
The Arabian Nights, by Anonymous (and can you blame them?)
1Q84, by Haruki Murakami

2014
Kristin Lavransdatter, by Sigrid Undset
Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens
The Good Soldier Švejk, by Jaroslav Hašek
The Forsyte Saga, by John Galsworthy

2015
2666, by Roberto Bolaño
Ulysses, by James Joyce
A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth
Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens

2016
Cloudsplitter, by Russell Banks - Discussion questions are here
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski - discussion questions are here
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy - discussion questions are here
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - discussion questions are here (less)

2017
The Idiot
Infinite Jest
Lord of the Rings
Bleak House

I find it is not always, strictly speaking, about page count. Clarissa could easily have taken two years for example, it was so slow going for me. I would be okay with more a year in general. I have read very few of the longer books so I have a lot of catching up to do.

Some read as quarterly reads should never have been as it kept people from succeeding at reading them. At least that is true for me.

I think a person could pair them if they are 1000 pages or so and that gives people choices because many have read some of these but not all have read them all. Except Amanda maybe!!!!