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.