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All the months for the year have been updated! Add your May totals here!

January 2026: 13,408 pages
February 2026: 12,966 pages
March 2026: 15,471 pages
April 2026: 11,285 pages

YEAR GOAL: 135 books/25 nE, 33,000 pages

JANUARY: 13 books, 1 nE, 2,615 pages, avg. 201 pages
FEBRUARY: 7 books, 1 nE, 2,990 pages, avg. 427 pages
MARCH: 9 books, 1 nE, 2,565 pages, avg. 285 pages
APRIL: 7 books, 1,836 pages, avg. 262 pages
MAY: 11 books, 2 nE, 3,347 pages, avg. 304 pages
TOTAL: 47 books, 5 nE, 13,353 pages, avg. 284 pages

MAY BOOKS:
37. Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls, Part II [Posthumous reconstruction of four chapters, bef. 1852] 146 pages
38. Ananda Devi, Le Jour des Caméléons [2023] 267 pages [Kindle, in French]
39. Ivan Turgenev, The Vintage Turgenev v.2 [1850-1859] 391 pages
40. Sunil Gangopadhyay, Those Days [1982, Eng. tr. 1997] 589 pages [Kindle]
41. Lázló Krasnahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East [2003, Eng. tr. 2022] 130 pages
42. Ambrose Bierce, In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians [1891] 403 pages [Kindle, Open Library]
43. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations [1923-1940; Eng. tr. 1985] 278 pages
44. Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories [1896] 296 pages
45. Walter Benjamin, Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit [1937] 107 pages [in German]
46. Lázló Krasnahorkai, Seiobo There Below [2008; Eng. tr. 2013] 451 pages [Kindle]
47. Simon Wiesenthaler, The Sunflower: The Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness [revised and expanded ed., 1998] 289 pages

Read in May:
59) The Son of the Wolf by Jack London, 114 pgs
60) The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner, 214 pgs
61) These is My Words by Nancy E. Turner, 384 pgs
62) The Astral Library by Kate Quinn, 293 pgs
63) The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett, 656 pgs
64) Snow Flower and Secret Fan by Lisa See, 269 pgs
65) Golden Hills by Jennifer Weiner, 52 pgs
66) Sting-Ray Afternoons Steve Rushin, 336 pgs
67) Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie, 288 pgs
68) The Killers by Ernest Hemingway, 11 pgs
69) The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout, 224 pgs

Total = 2,841 Pages

GROUP TOTAL = 6,188 PAGES

MAY
43. Kisses From Kate by Katie Davis Majors 280 pages
44. Enshittification by Cory Doctorow 334 pages
45. Judge Stone by Viola Davis and James Patterson 432 pages
46. Wonderful Tonight by Patty Boyd 307 pages
47. Mary &Lou&Rhoda& Ted by Jennifer Armstrong 293 pages
48. The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 229 pages
49. This Is Me by Hayden Panittiere 305 pages
50. The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp 314 pages
51. Run Girls by Jenny Cafaro 248 pages
52. Chasing Hope by Richard Cohen 275 pages
53. Sundays At Tiffanys by James Patterson 311 pages

Total For May: 3,328

Group Total: 9,446