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BIG FAT BOOKS RUNNING TOTAL

1johnsimpson
Jan 4, 4:43 pm

Please post your Big book read in numerical order, on average we read 200 BFB's but the record is 300. Can this be beaten?

2LisaMorr
Jan 11, 2:12 pm

1. Lethal White by Robert Galbraith; 771 pages

4mahsdad
Jan 17, 6:32 pm

3. End of the World as We Know It edited by Christopher Golden/Brian Keene 🎧 : 27:12 hrs (800 pg)

5PocheFamily
Edited: Jan 18, 7:54 pm

4. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson, 544 pages (15h, 26m)

6PaperbackPirate
Jan 18, 11:17 pm

5. A Girl Is A Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - 545 pages

7bryanoz
Jan 19, 12:35 am

6. Otherland, Tad Williams, 770 pages.

10walbat
Jan 20, 4:53 pm

9. Capitalism and Its Critics - A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI, by John Cassidy - 609 pages.

11Christine_Taylor
Jan 22, 12:32 pm

Of Human Bondage , by W. Somerset Maugham - 610 pages.

12CurrerBell
Edited: Jan 25, 10:10 pm

14marell
Jan 28, 9:13 pm

13. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese - 724 pages, including Acknowledgements and Notes.

15bryanoz
Jan 31, 4:40 am

16Tess_W
Feb 1, 4:49 am

17PocheFamily
Feb 1, 5:02 pm

16. Black Wind, Clive Cussler - 544 pages hardbound; 688 paperback; 15h, 54m audiobook

18PocheFamily
Feb 2, 3:10 pm

17. The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann - 709 pages hardbound; 720 pages paperback; 30 hours audiobook

19LisaMorr
Feb 4, 3:06 pm

18. The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo; 553 pages

20kac522
Feb 5, 2:10 am

19. Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens; 800 pages; a re-read on audiobook, read by Simon Vance

21connie53
Feb 5, 8:38 am

22MissWatson
Feb 7, 8:50 am

21. Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann, 767 pages

23Christine_Taylor
Feb 8, 8:32 pm

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 696 pages on audio read by Wanda McCaddon.

24Tess_W
Feb 9, 10:41 pm

#22 listed above

23. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 632 pages 3 stars

25bryanoz
Feb 10, 10:27 pm

26ArlieS
Feb 19, 5:12 pm

27marell
Feb 23, 9:01 pm

28bryanoz
Feb 27, 7:09 pm

27. Sketches by Boz, Charles Dickens, 680 pages, keeping with the Dickens theme!

29bryanoz
Mar 1, 3:53 pm

30kac522
Mar 3, 2:14 am

29. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume II, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 662 pages.

33bryanoz
Mar 6, 4:26 am

34MissWatson
Mar 6, 6:40 am

33. Escape from Rome by Walter Scheidel, 670 pages

35JayneCM
Mar 6, 7:27 pm

34. The Nurses War by Victoria Purman, 580 pages

36Cecilturtle
Mar 7, 10:08 am

35. The Jealousy Man by Jo Nesbo, 511 pages

37bryanoz
Mar 7, 6:54 pm

38mahsdad
Edited: Mar 8, 8:49 pm

37. John Varley Reader: Thirty Years of Short Fiction by John Varley 🎧 : , 26:36 hrs (624 pages)

39PocheFamily
Mar 9, 12:44 pm

38. Power & Empire, Tom Clancy 582 pages hardbound, 15h, 52m audiobook

40kac522
Mar 11, 1:43 am

39. Ayala's Angels, Anthony Trollope (1881); 631 pages

41CurrerBell
Edited: Mar 18, 1:42 am

40. Alexandre Dumas pere, Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics) 788pp

42MissWatson
Mar 23, 4:50 am

41. Eline Vere by Louis Couperus, 525 pages.

43connie53
Mar 23, 1:11 pm

44Christine_Taylor
Mar 24, 1:13 pm

Greenwood by Michael Christie - 504 pages

45AnishaInkspill
Mar 25, 10:06 am

46MissWatson
Mar 27, 7:05 am

Krokodilwächter by Katrine Engberg, 506 pages

47bryanoz
Mar 27, 6:57 pm

48PocheFamily
Mar 28, 10:30 am

47. Battlegrounds, by H.R. McMaster, 592 pages (paperback); 17h 30m audiobook

49mahsdad
Mar 29, 2:33 pm

48. Wish You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan : 517 pages

51bryanoz
Apr 5, 4:16 am

50. King Sorrow, Joe Hill, 881 pages.

52kac522
Apr 7, 1:59 am

51. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo (1862); 1,304 pages.

54bryanoz
Apr 9, 1:26 am

53. Shirley, Charlotte Bronte, 701 pages.

55bryanoz
Apr 12, 6:30 am

54. Shadowmarch, Tad Williams, 848 pages.

58JayneCM
Apr 18, 10:11 am

57. The Sisters of Sugarcreek by Cathy Liggett, 550 pages

59marell
Apr 18, 7:06 pm

60LisaMorr
Apr 20, 2:24 pm

59. Shirley by Charlotte Bronte - 572 pages

61benitastrnad
Apr 20, 10:13 pm

60. Last Chairlift by John Irving - 912 pages

62kac522
Apr 21, 10:24 am

61. John Caldigate, Anthony Trollope (1879); 656 pages.

63MissWatson
Apr 22, 5:36 am

62. Cézembre by Hélène Gestern, 655 pages

64connie53
Apr 22, 1:16 pm

63. De gemerkte man by Robert Galbraith - 1059 pages

65bryanoz
Apr 23, 3:59 am

64. Shadowplay, Tad Williams, 765 pages.

66Christine_Taylor
Edited: Apr 23, 2:36 pm

2666, by Roberto Bolano, 898 pages.

67MissWatson
Apr 27, 3:12 am

66. Der erste Frühling by Klaus Kordon, 511 pages

68ArlieS
Edited: Apr 27, 2:29 pm

67. Legalist by L. E. Modesitt Jr., 560 pages - fasntasy

69Cecilturtle
Apr 29, 5:56 pm

68. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts, 933 pages

70bryanoz
Apr 30, 3:12 am

69. Shadowrise, Tad Williams, 592 pages.

71mahsdad
Apr 30, 2:28 pm

70. East of Eden by John Steinbeck 🎧 : (25:18 hrs, 608pp)

72rhondak101book
Edited: May 17, 11:41 am

71. Summerland by Michael Chabon 500 pp.

73ArlieS
May 3, 4:41 pm

74bryanoz
May 8, 8:37 pm

75Cecilturtle
May 15, 5:43 pm

74. Different Seasons by Stephen King, 588 pp.

76bryanoz
May 16, 8:23 pm

75. Shadowheart, Tad Williams, 736 pages.

78rhondak101book
May 17, 11:41 am

79johnsimpson
May 19, 3:48 pm

78. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, PB - 1232 pages.

81CurrerBell
May 20, 4:06 am

80. Lois Lowry, The Giver Quartet Omnibus 768pp ... reread of first three volumes (I'd forgotten much of the second and third) and original read of the fourth

82Tess_W
May 23, 12:09 am

81. Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina 502 pages 4*

83benitastrnad
Edited: May 23, 10:33 am

84MissWatson
May 25, 4:25 am

83. L’œuvre au noir by Marguerite Yourcenar, 511 pages

85rhondak101book
May 26, 9:23 pm

84. Hild by Nicola Griffith, 536 pages

86LisaMorr
May 27, 3:10 pm

85. The Sign by Raymond Khoury, 552 pages

87Tess_W
May 30, 2:06 am

86. Europe Central by William Vollmann 837 pages 3*

89rhondak101book
May 30, 4:50 pm

90kac522
May 31, 1:21 pm

89. South Riding by Winifred Holtby, 515 pages

91MissWatson
Jun 1, 2:21 am

90. Die Legende der Adlerkrieger by Jin Yong, 563 pages

92PocheFamily
Jun 1, 7:14 pm

92. The Magician, by Colm Toibin, 500 pages (16h, 37m)

93PaperbackPirate
Edited: Jun 3, 11:21 am

92. The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub - 735 pages

94mahsdad
Jun 3, 7:36 pm

93. The Talisman by Stephen King/Peter Straub 🎧 : 17 days : 28:00 hrs (735 pages)

>93 PaperbackPirate: To funny that two of us finished Talisman on the same day.

95PaperbackPirate
Jun 3, 9:11 pm

>94 mahsdad: How random!

96Christine_Taylor
Jun 3, 11:34 pm

The Red and The Black by Stendhal, 534 pages (18 hr, 7min)

97mahsdad
Jun 4, 12:12 pm

95. More Weight: A Salem Story by Ben Wickey (GN) : 75 days : (534 pages)

98bryanoz
Jun 7, 7:45 am

96. No Name, Wilkie Collins, 645 pages.

100Tess_W
Jun 8, 8:19 pm

101kac522
Jun 10, 1:57 am

99. The American Senator, Anthony Trollope (1877); 557 pages

102rhondak101book
Jun 11, 6:00 pm

100. (Yay!) The Dark Monk by Oliver Pötzsch; 515 pages

104Tess_W
Jun 16, 10:14 pm

102. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann 1033 pg. 3*

105MissWatson
Yesterday, 3:09 am

103. Le ventre de Paris by Émile Zola, 520 pages

106connie53
Yesterday, 5:16 am

104. Het rozenveld by Philip Pullman - 667 pages

107atozgrl
Yesterday, 6:25 pm