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Hi all. I subscribed to this community some months ago, and forgot to post. I'm trying to read a minimum of 50 books per year (graphic novels don't count, neither do rereads) and a minimum of 15,000 pages, and also engage in a big planned reading project of a list of classic novels in chronological order. So far this year I've read 22 books, 9713 pages, and 9 books on my list of classics (of which I'm aiming for 21 this year.) I'm also planning to read the Bible this year: the whole thing, in 90 days, towards the end of the year. So I'm hoping to get the rest of my planned reading done before then.

This is my planned list for this year: (ones I've read so far in italics)
Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Samuel Richardson, Pamela
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Frances Burney, Evelina
Ann Radcliffe, Mysteries of Udolpho
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (reread)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (reread)
Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Harriet E Wilson, Our Nig
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn

Next year's list goes from The Red Badge of Courage to the present day. It's based on Susan Wise Bauer's novel list in The Well-Educated Mind, but with additions and substitutions - in particular, a lot more women and POC. I was going to read the whole list this year, but I realised I wasn't keeping up, and chopped it in half.