CurrerBell's Doorstoppers 2017

I had 13 doorstoppers for 2016 and may have more for 2017 if I fulfill my goal of getting through a decent number of my Library of America collection. Anticipating that, I may wind up reducing my 2017 ROOTs goal accordingly.

Since I count a BFB as of the date completed, I'll have an early one this year, Mark Twain: Historical Romances. All I have left to read on that one is The Prince and the Pauper (actually, a reread like the other two), and I'm saving it for January for the Reading Through Time group's quarterly read of the 16th Century.

1. January 2: Mark Twain: Historical Romances (Library of America) 1031pp
2. January 11: James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales I; The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie (Library of America) 1347pp (including reread of Mohicans)
3. January 26: James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales, Vol. 2: The Pathfinder / The Deerslayer (Library of America) 1051pp
4. February 8: Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi (Library of America) 1333pp
5. February 18: Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (Library of America) 770pp of Redburn and White Jacket only
6. March 10: Henry James: Novels 1881-1886 (Library of America) 1249pp
7. March 24: The Complete Greek Drama (vol i): All the Extant Tragedies of Aeschylus... (ed. Oates & O'Neill)
8. April 8: Charles Dickens, Bleak House (Oxford Illustrated) 880pp
9. April 27: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House The First Five Novels (BN Classics Edition) (The Little House on the Prairie) 618pp
10. June 7: Willa Cather: Later Novels (Library of America) 988pp
11. June 27: John Milton, Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Edition), 2d ed 688pp & 3d ed 624pp
12. July 16 John Milton, Selected Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical) 704pp
13. August 11: Gordon Teskey, The Poetry of John Milton 640pp
14. August 23: James Anderson Winn, Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts 816pp
15. September 12: David McCullough, John Adams 751pp
16. September 14: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) 616pp
17. October 13: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (Library of America) (ed Peter Straub) 750pp
18. November 7: Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories 644pp
19. November 19: Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman / Surfacing / Lady Oracle
20. December 22: Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
21. December 25: Wordsworth's Poetry and Prose

Good luck with your BFB's this year!

Hi Mike, welcome again to the magical mystery tour of BIG BOOKS, have a good 2017 with the BFB's.

Hi Mike, I'm looking forward to following your reads!

Good luck with your goal!

I joined!

Hi Mike, thanks for the invitation. Hoping to do as you are and combine the ROOTs and chunksters where possible! Good luck with the LoA goal, I hadn't heard of that series but it looks comprehensive and a great resource.