2023 BIG FAT BOOKS RUNNING TOTAL

Please log your BFB reads on here and follow the numbering so we can see how many BFB's we can read between us this year.

01. The Arabian Nights, Tales of 1001 Nights: Volume 3 Nights 719 to 1001 translated by Malcolm C. Lyons 763 pages (total pages for all three volumes 2486)

>2 chiliihead: Congrats on the first 500 pager of the year!

2. Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Gabaldon 928 pages

3. Absolution Gap - Alastair Reynolds - Series: Absolution Gap #4 - 768 pages

4. To Sleep In a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini 880 pages, I did a lot of traveling this month so this was an audiobook

5. The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams, 783 p.

6. The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy by Terry Pratchett, 560 p.

7. Inktzwart hart - Robert Galbraith, 1185 pages

8. The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1182 p.

9. Sufficiently Advanced Magic - Andrew Rowe - Series: Arcane Ascension #1 - 623 pages

10. Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens 637 pages 2.5*

11. The Bone Shard Emperor by Andrea Stewart, 548 p.

12. The Years of Salt and Rice by Kim Stanley Robinson 784 pages 4.5*

13. Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith, 1073 pages.

14. Surrender by Bono, pages 573

15. Billy Summers by Stephen King 527 pages 5*

16. Careless in Red - Elizabeth George - 871 pages

17. Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov 654 pages 2.5*

18. A Dragon of a Different Color - Rachel Aaron - 524 pages

19. In Distant Fields by Charlotte Bingham 610 pages 3*

20. Stone of Farewell by Tad Williams, 589 p.

21. Four Past Midnight by King. 960 pages

22. Kruispunt by Jonathan Franzen , 572 pages

23. The Dark Half by King. 529 pages

24. Finnegans Wake by Joyce (read/listened to it over a few weeks - didn't understand much but enjoyed the wordplay). 656 pages

25. The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ozeki. 560 pages

26. Salem's Lot by Stephen King, 751 p.

27. Greenwood by Christie. 528 pages

28. The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman 656 pages 3*

29. What Ho! The Best of Wodehouse by P.G. Wodehouse, 560 p.

30. The Overstory by Powers. 512 pages

31. Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac, 682 p.

32. The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough, 781 pages.

33. Jade War - Fonda Lee - Series: Green Bone Saga #2 - 608 pages

34. Worth Dying For by Lee Child, PB - 511 pages.

>35 davesnothere:, Please number your reads, please.

36. Jade Legacy - Fonda Lee - Series: Green Bone Saga #3 - 678 pages

>37 majkia:, Hi Jean my dear, will you re-number your book to 35, i've taken an admin decision and deleted the post Davesnothere. Thank you.

36. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, 526 p.

37. Framley Parsonage, Anthony Trollope (1861), 576 pages, on audiobook, read by Simon Vance.

38. The Dark Between the Stars - Kevin J. Anderson - Series: Saga of Seven suns #8 - 692 pages

39. L'enfant perdue by Elena Ferrante - 550 pages

40. The Court of Broken Knives - Anna Smith Spark Series: Empire of Dust #1

512 pages

41. To Green Angel Tower by Tad Williams, 1083 p.

42. The Storm of Echoes by Christelle Dabos, 540 p.

43. Ashes of the Sun - Django Wexler - Series: Buring Blade and Silver Eye #1 - 592 Pages

44. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King. 640 pages

45. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust 510 pages

46. Independent People by Halldor Laxness, 544 p.

47. Gridlinked - Neal Asher - 532 pages

48. Winston Churchill, The World Crisis: 1911-1918 (one-volume abridgement), 880pp

49. Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope, 593 p.

>52 bryanoz: ...one of my all-time favorites. I'm just finishing up a re-read of the whole series--just started The Last Chronicle of Barset on audiobook.

Which reminds me....

50. The Small House at Allington, Anthony Trollope, 752 pages on audiobook, read by Simon Vance.

51. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, 657 pages.

>53 kac522: Hi Kathy, I wonder what the chance is of both of us reading the same series at the same time!
I'm enjoying Trollope's writing and will probably read his Palliser series sometime next year, regards.

>56 bryanoz: For me, the Barsetshire books are even better the second time around, and I'm enjoying them on audiobook. I will probably continue with a re-read of the Pallisers on audiobook as well. What's interesting is that Mr Palliser has a significant presence in The Small House at Allington. I didn't pay much attention to him on the first reading, but this time his story has more meaning.

52. Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende 595 pages 4*

53. Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan, 556 p.

54. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, 640 p.

55. Boy's Life by Robert McCammon, 610 p.

56. The King's Grace by Anne Easter Smith 610 pg. 5*

57. Under the Dome by Stephen King, 1074 p.

58. Reckless by Andrew Gross, 519 pages.

59. Blood of the Cosmos - Kevin J. Anderson - Series: Saga of Seven Suns #9 - 608 pages

60. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope (1867); 861 pages on audiobook, read by Simon Vance.

I have now finished my re-read of the whole series, which I started in July 2022. Such a joy.

61. The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch, 603 p.

62. Daughters of War by Dinah Jefferies, 520 pages

63. Eternity's Mind - Kevin J. Anderson - Series: Saga of the Seven Suns #10 - 576 pages

64. Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope, 580 p.

65. Two of Swords - K.J. Parker - 512 pages

66. The Hidden Palace by Dinah Jefferies - 509 pages

67. Different Seasons by Stephen King, 679 p.

68. Leviathan Wakes - James S A Corey - Series: the Expanse #1 - 592

69. The Crimson Campaign by Brian McClellan, 596 p.

70. La Soif by Jo Nesbø, 605 p.

71. Witch of the Federation - Michael Anderlee - 627 pages

72. Royal Mistress by Anne Easter Smith 522 pages 5*

73. De valkentroon by Karen Miller 778 pages

74. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing - 635 pages

75. The Ferryman by Justin Cronin, 538pp

76. The Dead Zone by Stephen King, 595 p.

77. The Spellsong War by L.E. Modesitt jr, PB - 656 pages.

78. City of Brass - S A Chakraborty - 544 pages

79. Atlas, het verhaal van Pa Salt by Lucinda Riley & Harry Whittaker, 698 pages

80. book:The Guermantes Way by author:Marcel Proust 566 pages

81. Kingdom of Copper - S A Chakraborty - 640 pages

82. The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope, 745 p.

83. Robert der Schiffsjunge by Sophie Wörishöffer, 525 pages

84. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 706 pages 5*

85. Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window (Library of America) 1199pp

86. La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert by Joël Dicker - 859 pages

87. Augustus by J.D. Barker - 668 pages

88. To Serve Them All My Days, R. F. Delderfield (1972); 624 pages

89. The Autumn Republic by Brian McClellan, 580 p.

90. Blitz - Daniel O'Malley - 688 pages

91. Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy, 522 pages

92. Het vijfde meisje by J.D. Barker, 525 pages

93. The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century by Jane Webb Loudon - 680 pages

94. Vergeef me - J.D. Barker - 534 pages

95. Barnaby Rudge, Charles Dickens (1841); audiobook re-read; 688 pages.

96. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, 731 p.

97. Ulysses by James Joyce 736 pg. 2.5*

98. Wool by Hugh Howey - 509 pages

99. The Empire of Gold - S. A. Chakraborty - 816 pages

100. Needful Things by Stephen King, 933 p.

101. De Bronzen Stad by S.A. Chakraborty, 600 pages

102. Battle Mage - Peter A Flannery - 652 pages

103. The Betrothed, Alessandro Manzoni (1840 revised edition); 720 pages.

104. Sycamore Row by John Grisham, PB - 516 pages.

105. Duma Key by Stephen King 801 pages 2.5*

106. De Koperen Koning by S.A. Chakraborty - 579 pages

107. Le Guerrier solitaire by Henning Mankell - 553 pages

108. Dune by Frank Herbert 896 pages 3*

109. The Dover Cafe At War by Ginny Bell, 528 pages

110 - Het Gouden Rijk - S.A. Chakraborty - 720 pages

111. The Forgetting Moon by Brian Lee Durfee, 775 p.

112. The Prefect - Alastair Reynolds - 576 pages

113. The Dover Cafe On The Front Line by Ginny Bell - 523 pages

114. Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon, 792 p.

115. Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens, 766p.

116. Het geheim van het familiehuis by Kate Morton, 555 pages

117. Sur la dalle by Fred Vargas, 509 pages

118. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope, 928 p.

119. Conventions of War - Walter Jon Williams
Series: Dread Empire's Fall #3
688 pages

120. Collected Stories and Other Writings by John Cheever, 1040 p.

121. The Claverings by Anthony Trollope, 650 p.

>128 bryanoz: Thanks for the reminder! I, too, finished:

122. The Claverings, Trollope (1867), although my OUP edition was 560 pages.

123. The Affair by Lee Child, PB - 526 pages.

>130 johnsimpson: That link to The Affair is to the title by C.P. Snow. Click on "Others" and Lee Child should come up second on the list, right after Snow.

124. A Conspiracy of Faith by Jussi Adler-Olsen - 504 pages

125. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - 1243 pages

126 ,,, Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire 647pp

127. Texas by James A. Michener, 1322 pages.

128. Field Marshal: The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel by Daniel Allen Butler. 798 pages 4*

129. Wild Ass' Skin; Chouans ... other stories by Honoré de Balzac (trans Ellen Marriage), ~775pp (including prefatory material, etc). This is a volume of the 1899 17-volume Centenary Edition, of which I have the complete set. A more deluxe version seems to have been published in 34 volumes which were then consolidated into an apparently less expensive set of 17 two-in-ones, which is what accounts for the BFB size. These two-in-ones retain the pagination of the individual originals, so you have to add the numbers together.

130. Oog om oog by M.J. Arlidge - 587 pages

131. Pamela by Samuel Richardson, 538 p.

132. The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus, 603 pages

133. The Blackest Heart by Brian Lee Durfee, 960 p.

134. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 607 pages

135. Rot ist mein Name by Orhan Pamuk, 925 pages

136. Exile by Richard North Patterson, PB - 699 pages.

137. The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon, 656 p.

138. The Purity of Vengeance by Jussi Asler-Olsen - 500 pages.

139. New Moon by Stephanie Meyer - 563 pages

140. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 964 pages

141. De Lincoln highway by Amor Towles - 574 pages

142. Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire 648pp

143. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson - 545 pages

144. Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension 792pp

145. Fleet Elements - Walter Jon Williams - Series: Dread Empire's Fall #5 - 512 pages

146. The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence, 556 p.

147. Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages 784pp

148. Night Shift by Stephen King, 538 p.

149. Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens; 726 pages on audiobook, read by Sean Barrett.

150 The First Man in Rome - Colleen McCullough - 1152 pages

151. This Body of Death - Elizabeth George - 692 pages

152. Firestarter by Stephen King, 575 p.

153. The Ruin of Kings - Jenn Lyons - 560 pages

154. The Ember Blade by Chris Wooding, 824 p.

155. The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning (NYRB) 924pp

156. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - 515 pages

157. The Shadow of What Was Lost - James Islington - 736 pages

158. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese, 784 p.

159. Belinda by Maria Edgeworth, 537 p.

160. A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin - 720 pages

161. The Shadow Casket by Chris Wooding, 834 p.

162. The Hanging Girl by Jussi Adler-Olsen - 502 pages.

163. Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens (1848); 1024 pages; on audiobook read by David Timson.

164. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust complete translated by Moncrieff, Kilmartin, Mayor. Revised by Enright 2,658 pages

165. Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan, 503 pages

166. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 543 pages

167. Just After Sunset: Stories by Stephen King - 539 pages

168. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, 667 p.

169. Christine by Stephen King, 749 p.

170. All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr, 531 p.

171. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell, 884 p.

172. Collected Plays by Tennessee Williams The Franklin Library Edition 665 p.

173. The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett 521 pages

174. Ces enfants d'ailleurs by Arlette Cousture - 595 p.

175. Shirley by Charlotte Bronte, 681 p. including a foreword by Mrs Humphrey Ward.

176. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens (1850); 737 pages; on audiobook read by Simon Vance. This was a re-read, and part of my 2-year journey to re-read most of Dickens in publication order.

177. Caliban's War - James S A Corey - 624 Pages

178. The Lonesome Crown by Brian Lee Durfee, 1067 p.

179. Der Mann, der nicht mitspielt by Christof Weigold, 630 pages

180. New Grub Street by George Gissing, 556 p.

181. Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy by Eric Weitz 571 pages 4*

182. The Thief of Time by John Boyne, 523 p.

183. Making Hay by Veronica Henry, PB - 512 pages.

John Le Carre Omnibus of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold / Call for the Dead / A Murder of Quality / The Looking-Glass War / A Small Town in Germany (his first five novels, all including George Smiley except for Small Town) - 832pp

#126 (>134 CurrerBell:) and #142 (>151 CurrerBell:) Terrible mistake on my part. I accidentally entered the same book twice, so the count is in excess by one from every entry from #142 onward and should be revised downward by one. Seems like the simplest way to correct this, rather than asking everyone to revise their entries, is for me to enter John Le Carre Omnibus without giving it #184.

Hence, the correct current total should be #183 and whoever (if anyone between now and the new year) enters another BFB on this list should number it as #184.

Just noticed my error a few minutes ago, so I've edited this entry to take note of it and make the correction to the numbering sequence.

184. The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub, 981 p.

185. Eragon by Christopher Paolini, 517 pages

186. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson 918 pages

187. Ralph the Heir, Anthony Trollope (1871); 700 pages, finished Dec 31.

Just a shout-out to all the BFB readers, especially Brian, with his 47 BFBs! Well done, everyone!

See you next year---