2024 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.
We managed 187 BFBs last year, lets go for 200!

1. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith, 550 pages.

2. The Book That Wouldn't Burn - Mark Lawrence - 578 pages

3. A Clash of Kings - George RR Martin - 768 pages

4. Helen of Troy by Margaret George 636 pages 4*

5. The Armour of Light by Ken Follett 1024 Pages

6. The Poet by Michael Connelly 515 Pages

7. A Dance to the Music of Time. 1st Movement by Anthony Powell, 732 p.

8. The Bachman Books by Stephen King, 992 p.

9. Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shards of Earth 558pp (Kindle)

Fourth Wing (iPhone Books) - 1176pgs

Iron Flame (iPhone Books) - 1667pgs

From Blood & Ash (Kindle edition) - 604pgs

A Kingdom of Flesh & Fire (Kindle edition) - 623pgs

The Crown of Gilded Bones (Kindle Edition) - 719pgs

A Shadow in the Ember (Kindle Edition) - 703pgs

16. A Column of Fire by Ken Follett, PB - 885 pages.

17. Dune by Frank Herbert, 577 p.

18. Portrait of Clare by Francis Brett Young - 873 pages

19. Eldest by Christopher Paolini, 681 pages

20. A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell 2,430 pages

21. De storm van de echo's by Christelle Dabos - 572 pages

22. IQ84 by Haruki Murakami - 1157 pages

23. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros, 884 Pages

24. Maximum City Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta, 542 pages

25. The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice, 640 pages

26. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, 1207 pages

27. Possession by A. S. Byatt, 557 pages

28. Shards of the Earth - Adrian Tchaikovsky - 560 pages

29. Kingdom of Ash - Sarah J Maas - 984 pages

30. A Gathering of Shadows by V. E. Schwab, 512 p.

31. Next of Kin by John Boyne, 502 p.

32. The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles. 576 pages.

33. Star Wars : Victory’s Price by Alexander Freed, 576 Pages

34. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 636 pages

35. Extinct Birds by Julian Hume 604 pages 5*

36. The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore 560 pages 3.5*

37. Bleak House, Charles Dickens (1853); 770 pages; a re-read on audiobook narrated by Simon Vance. Finally! my first BFB finished in 2024.

38. Black House by Stephen King & Peter Straub, 625 p.

39. Danse Macabre by Stephen King, 512 p.

40. The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith, 580 p.

41. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 568 p.

42. Eyes of the Void - Adrian Tchaikovsky - 608 pages

43. Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution, Sam Willis. Audible: 15h,50m and hardcover = 608 pages

44. Aurora’s End by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, 512 Pages

45. The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis, 720pp

46. Tell it to the Skies by Erica James. 544 Pages

47. Believing the Lie - Elizabeth George - 624 pages

48. A Banquet of Consequences by Elizabeth George - 740 pages

49. A Dance to the Music of Time. 2nd Movement by Anthony Powell, 738 p.

50. Elizabeth Taylor: Complete Short Stories 626pp

51. A Conjuring of Light by V. E. Schwab, 667 p.

52. Fallen Dragon - Peter F Hamilton - 832 pages

53. After the ice by Steven Mithen, 622 pages

54. Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb, 896 Pages

55. Stromend graf - Robert Galbraith. 1117 pages

56. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese 724pp

57. The Witchwood Crown by Tad Williams, 736 p.

58. Waverley by Sir Walter Scott (1814); 514 pages, which includes detailed notes by Scott himself.

59. Babel R F Kuang - 560 pages

60. Wounded Tiger: A True Story by T. Martin Bennett - 578 pages - 4.5 stars.

61. Poopie Suits & Cowboy Boots: Tales of a Submarine Officer During the Height of the Cold War by Frank Hood and Charles Hood - 550 pages.

62. Guy Mannering by Walter Scott, 720 pages.

63. Die Henkerstochter by Oliver Pötzsch, 512 pages.

64. Heaven's River - Dennis E Taylor - 640 pages

65. Country Doctor; Quest of the Absolute ... other stories - Balzac ~760pp ... Centenary Edition originally published in 34vols, then condensed to 17vols by combining 2vols w/in single hardbound cover but without changing pagination. Total pp computed by adding consolidated arabic pp and approximating small-roman pp numberings.

66. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel, 587 pages.

67. The Malta Exchange by Steve Berry, 576 Pages

68. Lethal White by Robert Galbraith, 650 p.

69. A Dance to the Music of Time. 3rd Movement by Anthony Powell, 725 pp.

70. Skeleton Crew by Stephen King, 770 pp.

71. Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens (1857); 804 pages on audiobook, read by Simon Vance.

72. Guns of the Dawn by Adrian Tchaikovsky, 658 pp

73. From Here to Eternity by James Jones 972 pages 3*

74. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 630 pg.

75. Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu, 653 pg.

76. Abaddon's Gate - James S A Corey - 566 Pages

77. The Escapades of Tribulation Johnson by Karen Brooks, 541 pp.

78. The Book that Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence, 559 pages

79. The Rift - Walter Jon Williams - 944 pages

80. Children of Dune, Frank Herbert, 609 pp.

81. A Storm of Swords - George R R Martin Pages: 1216

82. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese 727 pages 3*

83. Dossier 64 par Jussi Adler-Olsen - 665 pp.

84. The Way We Live Now , Anthony Trollope (1875); 825 pages
85. John Adams, David McCullough (2002); 651 pages

86. Stop Them Dead by Peter James, 512 Pages

87. Empire of Grass by Tad Williams, 668 pp.

88. Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris (Oxford World's Classics, trans Alban Krailsheimer), ~xxx plus 561 = ~591pp

>88 CurrerBell: I think your book is #88., not 68.

>89 kac522: Thanks! That's what comes of trying to get info entered into LT in the witching hours and without wearing my 3x magnifying glasses.

89. The Lords of Uncreation - Adrian Tchaikovsky -
PAges: 625

90. A Tree Grows in Booklyn by Betty Smith - 517 pages (counting the postscript)

91. Troubled Blood, Robert Galbraith, 929 pp.

92. Close to the Bone by Stuart MacBride, PB - 542 pages.

93. Hellburner by Mike Maden, 512 Pages

94. The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse 592 pages 3.5*

95. Freedom of the Mask, Robert McCammon, 594 pp.

96. A Dance to the Music of Time. 4th Movement, Anthony Powell, 804 pp.

97. Into the Narrowdark, Tad Wiliams, 600 pp.

98. Distant Music by Charlotte Bingham, 580 Pages

99. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story created by Nikole Hannah-Jones, 624 pages

100. The Ink Black Heart, Robert Galbraith, 1013 pp.

101. Trick of the Dark by Val McDermid, 544 Pages

102. The Rembrandt Secret by Alex Connor, 561 Pages

103. With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz, in Modern Translation by W.S. Kuniczak; first book in trilogy; 1135 pages - 5 stars.

104. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater, 648 pp.

105. The Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugh, 579pp.

106. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 735 pages

107. 2666 by Roberto Bolano 881 pages

108. Sing Them Home by Stephanie Kallos 560 pages

109. Discord of Gods by Jenn Lyons - 512 pages

110. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson - 880 pages

111. Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day, Giles Milton, 15h, 48m (512 pages).

114 I’ve read 3 out of my 5 Big Fat Books for 2024
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon 947 pages
Emma by Jane Austen 512 pages
Never by Ken Follet ( hopefully not prescient of today’s world) 813 pages

115. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen, 557 pp.

116. Eugénie Grandet; Country Parson ... other stories - Balzac ~815pp ... Centenary Edition originally published in 34vols, then condensed to 17vols by combining 2vols w/in single hardbound cover but without changing pagination. Total pp computed by adding consolidated arabic pp and approximating small-roman pp numberings.

117. The Running Grave, Robert Galbraith, 947 pp.

Little Thieves by Margaret Owen, 502 pages.

119. The Tyranny of Faith, Richard Swan, 548 pp.

120. Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki, 548 pages

121. The King of Shadows, Robert McCammon, 605 pp.

122. Blood Gospel - James Rollins - 732 pages

123. A Feast for Crows - GRRM - 784 pages

124. The Tommyknockers, Stephen King, 979 pp.

125. A Wanted Man by Lee Child, PB - 524 pages.
126. The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett, PB - 897 pages.

127. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, audio - 37.22 hours (776 pages according to Amazon)

128. The Trials of Empire, Richard Swan, 531 pp.

129. Just One Evil Act - Elizabeth George - 723 pages

130. Seven Shades of Evil, Robert McCammon, 590 pp.

131. Billy Summers by Stephen King - 514 pages

132. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse - 702 pages

I always read quite a few of these every year, and call it my 'doorstop' challenge. So far this year, I've read:

1. Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone 571p
2. David Treuer – The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee 526p
3. Dorothy Sayers – Gaudy Night 591p
4. Les & Tamara Payne – The Dead Are Arising 601p
5. Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White 672p
6. Tom Beaujour & Richard Bienstock – Nöthin’ But a Good Time 549p
7. Dorothy Sayers & Jill Walsh – Thrones, Dominations 527p
8. Daniel Brown – Facing the Mountain 558p
9. Anthony Doerr – Cloud Cuckoo Land 637p
10. Rachel Khong – Real Americans 610p
11. Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass 618p

I'm currently reading Erik Larson's The Demon of Unrest @565p. Right after that will be Chris Whitaker's All the Colours of the Dark @586p.

When I have a doorstop read, I tend to divide the #pages by #days I want to devote to it. Most of the time, that's 5-7 days. So the Whitaker will mean reading ~84 pages per day if it's a 7-day read. Meanwhile, I read other books that I can wrap up more quickly.

Of course, if a doorstop hits all my sweet spots, then I'll ditch the per day plan and read it straight through. Most of the time, though, I'm content to have the 'backburner' chunky book to keep things interesting.

144. Four Past Midnight, Stephen King, 1008 pp.

145. Cibola Burn - James S A Corey - 592 pages

146. Der Thronfolger by Ludwig Winder, 572 pages

147. The Deadly Deep: The Definitive History of Submarine Warfare, Iain Ballantyne, (Libby audiobook) 28h, 38m (752 pages).

148. Persephone Station - Stina Leicht - 512 Pages

149. The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson 565 pages

150. The Conquering Tide, Ian W. Toll, (Audible) 27h, 22m (656 pages)

151. Magician, Raymond Feist, 681 pp.

152. Geschichte der Spätantike by Alexander Demandt, 604 pages

153. Daniel Deronda, George Eliot, (Kindle and Audible) 36h, 51m (955 pages)

154. Cress by Marissa Meyer - 565 pages

155. A Darkness at Sethanon, Raymond Feist, 527 pp.

156. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, 783 pages

157. Rise of the World Eater by Jamie Littler, 502 pages

158. Can You Forgive Her?, Anthony Trollope, 847 pp.

159. Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser 684 pg. 4*

160. Little Women: An Annotated Edition by Louisa May Alcott (1869); edited by Daniel Shealy; 597 pages.

161. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco; 579 pg.

162. Consider Phlebas - Ian M Banks - 545 pp

163. Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Stephen King, 970 pp.

Homecoming by Kate Morton - 544 pages.

165. The Living Dead by George Romero/Daniel Kraus - audio : 27:13 hours (656 pg - Amazon Hardback)

166. Nemesis Games - James S A Corey - 544 pages

167. Shaman's Crossing, Robin Hobb, 632 pp.

168. Het lied van leven en dood - Marcelo Figueras, 607 pages

169. Les Misérables (Modern Library) - Victor Hugo (trans Julie Rose), 1376pp

170. Kwaad bloed - Robert Galbraith, 936 pages

171. Column of Fire by Ken Follett, 916 pages

172. Phineas Finn, Anthony Trollope, 746 pp.

173. American Gods, Neil Gaiman, 565 pg.

174. Flag of Our Fathers, James Bradley, 562 pages

175. The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks - 589 pages.

176. Forest Mage, Robin Hobb, 818 pp.

177. Iain Pears, Arcadia 510pp

178. The blighted Stars - Megan E. O'Keefe 544 pages

179. Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens (1865); 800 pages; a re-read on audiobook, narrated by Simon Vance

180. Four Tales, Philip Pullman, 631 pp.

181. Fairy Tale by Stephen King - 599 pages

182. The Borrowed Years: 1938-1941: America on the Way to War by Richard M. Ketchum - 796 pages. Finally finished this dense tome I’ve been reading all year.

183. Germinal by Émile Zola - 538 pages

184. A Dance with Dragons - GRRM - 1008 pages

185. In steen gebrand - Rebecca Yarros - 589 pages

186. House of Earth and Blood by Sarah Maas (800 p)

187. Sylvia's Lovers, Elizabeth Gaskell (1863); 504 pages

188. Een ijzeren vlam - Rebecca Yarros - 797 pages

189. Insomnia, Stephen King, 650 pp.

"We managed 187 BFBs last year, lets go for 200!" We will eclipse this target easily, well done big book readers and keep on reading!

190. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen 562 pages

191. Crippen, John Boyne, 506 pp

192. The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson (592 p.)

193. The Fall of the House of Dixie by Bruce Levine 561 pgs.

194. Lethal White by Jo-Bob Row-Braith, 647 pages (Finished 2/29/24)
195. Keith Haring by Jeffrey Deitch, Suzanne Geiss, and Julia Gruen, 512 pages (Finished 5/18/24)
196. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, 607 pages (Finished 7/26/24)

197. On a Sunbeam, Tillie Walden, (hardbound) 544 pages (no audiobook).

198. House of Sky and Breath, Sarah Maas (816p)

199. Renegade's Magic, Robin Hobb, 760 pp.

200. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars - Christopher Paolini - 880 pages

201. The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie Thomas, PB - 500 pages.

202. Can You Forgive Her?, Anthony Trollope (1865); 675 pages; a re-read on audiobook narrated by Simon Vance

203. House of Flame and Shadow - Maas (838p)

204. The Art of Prophecy - Wesley Chu - 512 pp

205. Rose Madder, Stephen King, 595 pp.

206. De familie Aubrey - Rebecca West - 605 pages

207. For the Throne by Hannah Whitten - 513pp. This one's perhaps a stretch. The novel itself ran to 452pp, but it was a Barnes & Noble "Exclusive" with supplementary material – author interview, a short story, and some teasers for new releases – so I'm including it here since I read the full length, including all the supplementary material.

208. The Eustace Diamonds,Anthony Trollope, 794pp.

209 Al het blauw van de hemel - Mélissa Da Costa - 636 pages

210 A Banquet of Consequences - Elizabeth George - 784 pages

211. The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud - 529 pages

212. Swan Song, Robert McCammon, 862 pp.

213. The Heir of Redclyffe, Charlotte Mary Yonge (1854); 594 pages.

214. Dictionnaire amoureux d'Albert Camus by Mohammed Aïssaoui, 505 pages

215. Green Rider, Kristen Britain, 562 pp.

216. The Summer Before the War, Helen Simonson, 585 pp.

217. Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope (1869); 714 pages; a re-read on audiobook

218. Desperation, Stephen King, 545 pp.

219. Man and Wife, Wilkie Collins (1870), 642 pages

220. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The Illustrated Edition by J. K. Rowling - 565 pages

just found his thread, so far:

Les Miserables by Donougher Christine,Victor Hugo--1416 pages
Red Comet:The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark--1035 pages
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel--653 pages
The Iliad by Homer; Peter Green--611 pages
Madly, Deeply:The Alan Rickman Diaries by Alan Rickman--506 pages
Republic by Plato, Robin Waterfield -- 561 pages
Aeneid by Virgil, Robert Fagles -- 574 pages

listing them, I hadn't realised

228. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke, 1024 pp.

229. Event - David L. Golemon - 512 pages

230. Donovan: America's Master Spy, Richard Dunlop - 592 pages (25h, 1m audiobook)

231. The Water Margin: Outlaws of the Marsh by Luo Guanzhong and Shi Nai'an 1003 pages

232. Armor of Light by Ken Follett 737 pages

233. La mort entre autres by Philip Kerr - 565 pages

234. Babylon's Ashes - James S A Corey - 608 pages

233. The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante 504 pages

>217 chiliihead: Looks like the count should be 235, not 233

236. Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett - 936 pages

237. The Navigator's Children, Tad Williams, 745 pp.

238. Bag of Bones, Stephen King, 660 p.

239. Edgar Rice Burrough, Venus series, 990 Kindle pages. Includes all four Carson Napier novels as well as the shorter "Wizard of Venus" story.

240. Daughter of the Moon Goddess - Sue Lynn Tan - 528 pages

241. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas : audio 46:56 hrs (1,276 p according to Amazon)

242. The Bee Sting, Paul Murray, 645 p.

243. The Promised Land by Barack Obama 732 pg. 2*

244. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer - 628 pages

245. Empire of the Vampire, Jay Kristoff, 723 p.

246. The Book of the New Sun, Part 1 (523 p.)
247. The Book of the New Sun, Part 2 (512 p.)

both by Gene Wolfe

248. Felix Holt, the Radical by George Eliot 578 pgs 3*

249. Lord Peter by Dorothy Sayers - 501 pages

250. Romola by George Eliot, 692 pages

251. Hearts in Atlantis, Stephen King, 500 p.

252. Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtain - 564 pages.

253. Samuel Delaney, Dhalgren 801pp

254. The Eustace Diamonds, Anthony Trollope (1872); 587 pages, on audiobook, read by Simon Vance.

255. The Sand Pebbles, Richard McKenna - 671 pages (22h, 27m)

I reached my goal of 5 BFB. My last two are:
The covenant of water by Abraham Verhese 748 pages and Elon Musk by Walter isaacson 615 pages

258. Lisey's Story by Stephen King, audio - 18:56 (544p from Google Books)

259. Het teken van de vogel - Deborah Harkness - 541 pages

260. La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas - 635 pages

261. Deep Black - Miles Cameron - 576 pages