2019 BFB Challenge Running Total

I hope that we will still manage 100 BFB's during 2019 as 2018 was an exceptional year with the numbers read and I for one will not get anywhere near the 30 (including my last read of 2018 which is near to completion) and others may not read as many.

I set a goal of 15 for 2018 and I'm currently reading my 15th – which I don't think I'll finish in time, so it will be my first for the New Year.

2018 was the first year I've been in the BFB challenge and it did push me to get a few big guys off the shelf. I had a goal of 6 but read 5 so I'm setting my goal for 5 in 2019.

Hmmm... I never set a goal for BFB's. I just read what appeals to me, whatever the page count.

I will read 6 or more BFBs this year.

I'm a newbie here, so thought I would set my goal as 5.

I’m new to this group too. I read 29 books over 600 pages last year, and tentatively targeting 25 this year.

>8 Andrew-theQM:, Sounds like this is the group for you Andrew, welcome.

1. Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati 647 pages 4 stars

>10 Tess_W:, Nice one Tess, first of the year my dear.

>11 johnsimpson: TY, John!

Just started my first BFB of the year today. Ireland : Awakening by Edward Rutherfurd that comes in at a whopping 944 big Pages! May take a while. 😂

>10 Tess_W: Well done! 👏

2. Carolyn Chute, Merry Men @695pp

3. Gone With The Wind 1042 pages

4. SPQR by Mary Beard, 608 pages

5. The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larrson - 752pp

6. Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky

7. Lamentation by C J Sansom ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 768 Pages

8. The Recognitions by William Gaddis, 956 pages.

10. Ireland : Awakening by Edward Rutherfurd ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 944 Pages

11. Lethal White by Robert Galbraith - 656 pages
12. Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami - 668 pages

13. Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami, 681 p. !

14. David Copperfield by Dickens. 736 pages

15. Echoes by Maeve Binchy 752 Pages ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

16. Een fractie van het geheel by Steve Toltz 630 pages ****

17. Son Excellence Eugène Rougon by Émile Zola, 620 pages

18. The Emperor Waltz by Philip Hensher, 615 pages.

20. Second Hand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Sevtlana Alexeivich 699 pages

21. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, 657 pages.

22. Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon, 773 p.

Another newbie here. I've set a goal of 10 and read 2 so far

23. Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb - 688 pages
24. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan - 753 pages

My pages from The Eye of the World seems to differ from Jim's (>33 drneutron:) - I suppose it's due to different copies?

>35 rretzler: Yeah, different editions, I think.

25. The Far Pavilions M.M. Kaye - 960 pages

26. Maan by Lucinda Riley 603 pages

27. Ursula Le Guin, The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition @992pp

28. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 1005 pages

29. Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy 736 Pages ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

31. Etty. De nagelaten geschriften van Etty Hillesum 1941-1943 by Etty Hillesum 893 pages

32. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope, 779p.

Hi guys, you lot are motoring on with the big ones, I hope to add a couple by year end. I am enjoying a bit of a break after last years effort but think I may have to do the BIG BOOKS challenge for a year again soon as I have still got lots to go at.

33. The Corfu Trilogy by Gerald Durrell, 757 pages.

34. Witte dood - Robert Galbraith 732 pages

35. Muriel Spark. The biography by Martin Stannard, 627 pages

36. The pike. Poet, seducer and preacher of war by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, 694 pages

37. The Kellys and the O'Kellys by Anthony Trollope, 680 pages

38.✔☊Lamentation by C.J. Sansom - 2014 - 768 pgs. - ★★★★★ - 1/18/2019
39.✔Echoes by Maeve Binchy - 1985 - 752 pgs. - ★★★★★ - 1/28/2019
40.✔Tombland by Sansom, C. J. - 2019 - 881 pgs. - ★★★★★ - 2/19/2019
41.✔Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchey - 1991 - 736 pgs. - ★★★★★ - 2/28/2019

42. Hundejahre by Günter Grass, 748 pages

43. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, 864 pages

44. The Shadow's Edge - Brent Weeks - 636 pages

45. Alone in Berlin by Hans Falada 600 pages (included afterword and original Nazi files on the Hampels).

46. Joseph Balsamo by Alexandre Dumas, 2048 pages. Yes, that's right, 4 volumes at 512 pages each.

47. Tombland by C J Sansom 880 Pages. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

48. The Rommel Papers by Erwin Rommel, edited by H.D. Lidell-Hart. 621 pages (including 2 forwards and an introduction)

49. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset 45 hours of audiobook = 1168 pages

The BFB's are mounting up guys and gals, I wonder which one of you will be the one to post the 50th of the year, at this pace this will be the best year yet for BFB's.

50. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J K Rowling 640 Pages

>61 Andrew-theQM: Congrats, Andrew on the 50th book!

>62 Tess_W: Thanks, also hoping to add to it tomorrow with another book I’ve been reading for two weeks!

Congrats Andrew on reading the fiftieth BFB of 2019.

51. These Truths by Jill Lepore

932 pages (including 142 pages of notes, all of which I at least skimmed.)

>64 johnsimpson: Thanks John.

Congrats, Andrew!!

52. The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan - 658 pages

>61 Andrew-theQM: Congrats, Andrew!

53. Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais, 1041 pages.

54. Het legioen van vlammen by Anthony Ryan 680 pages

55. The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, 786 pages.

56. Redemption by David Baldacci 656 Pages ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

57. Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James, 640 pages.

58. Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan, 716 pages

Finally finished a BFB!

59. Het keizerrijk van as by Anthony Ryan 645 pages

60. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, 803 pages.

63. Empire of grass by Tad Williams, 668 pages.

64. Lake in the Clouds by Sara Donati 668 pages 5 stars

65. The Illiad by Homer 604 pages 3 1/2 stars (Alexander translation)

66. Tombland by C.J. Sansom, 880 pages, 3.5 stars

67. 1000 Books to read Before You Die by James Mustich, 944 pages

68. The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan, 698 pages.

69. A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett, 608 Pages

70. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J K Rowling, 816 Pages

71. The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton, 608 Pages

72. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J K Rowling, 768 Pages

73. The Neutronium Alchemist - Peter F. Hamilton - 758 pages

74. The Complete Illustrated Stories of Hans Christian Anderson, 948 pages.

75. The Price of Valor - Django Wexler - 656 pages

76. Mrs Kelly by Grantlee Kieza, 604 pages.

77. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 642 pages 3 stars

78. The Blue Cliff Record trans. by Thomas Cleary, 648 pages.

79. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson 1534 pages 3 stars

80. Anathem - Neal Stephenson - 981 pages

81. The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, 830 pages.

82. The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan, 656 pages.

83. A Rose for the Crown by Anne Easter Smith 674 pages 5 stars

84. A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan, 684 pages

85. Metamorphoses by Ovid, 670 pages.

86. Proust's Duchess by Caroline Weber, 715 pages

87. The Fall of Dragons - Miles Cameron - 688 pages

88. De torenheer - Anthony Ryan - 745 pages

89. The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan - 832 pages

90. De vuurkoningin - Anthony Ryan - 778 pages

91. Not Alone - Craig A. Falconer -738 pages

95. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling 784 Pages
96. The Camel Club by David Baldacci 704 Pages
97. The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse 608 Pages

98. The three clerks by Anthony Trollope. 996 pages in the original 3-volume edition

99. Shock Wave by Cussler. 672 pages
100. The Once and Future King by White. 872 pages

>107 Yells: Congrats! We have reached our tentative goal!

>107 Yells: Well done on reading the hundredth BFB.

>108 MissWatson: At this rate we need to target 150 books.

101 Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy 608 Pages

102 Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb 896 Pages

103 India: A History. Revised and Updated by John Keay, 640pp

104. The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan, 1007 pages.

>109 Andrew-theQM:, we hit 162 books last year, can this be matched or surpassed?

105. Four Past Midnight by Stephen King, 763 pages

I have one on the go too.

Wow! I can see that I haven't posted for some time.

106. Golden Fool by Robin Hobb, 736 pages
107. The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo, 626 pages
108. The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan, 673 pages
109. Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb, 928 pages

Which brings my total to 7 for the year. 3 more until I reach my goal of 10.

110. De glazen boeken van de dromeneters - Gordon Dahlquist, 887 pages

111. Jackdaws by Ken Follett 608 Pages

112. The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan, 907 pages.

113. Hawaii by James Michener 936 pages

114. The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman, 689 p.

115. Fire Along the Sky by Sara Donati 688 pages 5 stars

116. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 607 pages

117. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri translated by John Ciara 932 pages

118. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, 870 pages.

119. Dawn on a Distant Shore by Sara Donati 647 pages

120. The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan 604 pages

121. Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan, 1023 pages.

(13 of them are Robert Jordan's, with 2 more to come from me this year !)

122. Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini - 608 pages.

123. The Endless Forest by Sara Donati 640 pages

124. Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson 2110 pages

125. Waverley by Walter Scott. 731 pages

128. A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan, 750 pages.

129. Original Sin by PD James, 603 pages.

Ugh, my reading has slowed drastically in the past few months...this may be my last >600 pager for the rest of the year, sadly. I'm off my estimate by 2 books.

130. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas, 1312 pages

Sorry I didn't set up a thread for 2019 - promise to be more pro-active in 2020! :)

131. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, 674 pages

132. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, 832 pages

133. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 728 pages

134. The Moon Sister by Lucinda Riley 768 Pages

135. The Dark Tower by Stephen King 736 Pages

136. The Third Twin by Ken Follett 656 Pages

137. Night Over Water by Ken Follett 672 Pages

138. Roots by Alex Haley 912 Pages

139. The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett 619 Pages

140. Het beleg van Laken. Moorddroom by Walter Van den Broeck, 1084 pages

Moved to 2020