I have taken part in this reading challenge since 2013. The moment I saw that post, I know this was the most interesting challenge for me. I signed up for the highest of the four levels "Mor-book-ly Obese" which meant eight or more chunksters (books over 450 pages) of which three must be 750 pages or more.
I have carried on with that challenge without setting goals, I love big books and I will always read some. And I am more than willing to tell my friends about them.
If you are interested in the challenge, check out this link. They discontinued their challenge in 2015.
You can still find suggestions by page number, in case you can't find any chunksters yourself. 😉
Or you can check out my lists from the previous years (below), maybe you are interested in a couple of them.
I read in
2013: 38 chunky books, 13 of them chunksters
2014: 37 chunky books, 15 of them chunksters
2015: 26 chunky books, 8 of which chunksters
2016: 28 chunky books, 3 of which chunksters
2017: 35 chunky books, 6 of which chunksters
2018: 29 chunky books, 6 of which chunksters
2019: 20 chunky books, 7 of which chunksters
2020: 18 chunky books, 7 of which chunksters
2021: 24 chunky books, 10 of which chunksters
2022: 11 chunky books, 3 of which chunksters
2023: 12 chunky books, 3 of which chunksters
2024: 16 chunky books, 4 of which chunksters
I will be posting the books I have read here:
(I add the German title, if available, for my German friends)
[I add my own translation of a foreign book title if it's not available in English.]
Austen, Jane "Sense & Sensibility" - 1811 (The Motherhood and Jane Austen) - 462 pages
Abel, Susanne "Stay Away from Gretchen. Eine unmögliche Liebe" [Stay Away from Gretchen] - 2021 - 544 pages
I read 2 chunky books in 2025 of which 0 are considered a chunkster.
If you want to do this challenge or just check at the end of the year what category you are, here is the list:
The Chubby Chunkster - this option is for the readers who want to dabble in large tomes, but really doesn't want to commit to much more than that. FOUR Chunksters is all you need to finish this challenge.
The Plump Primer - this option is for the slightly heavier reader who wants to commit to SIX Chunksters over the next twelve months.
Do These Books Make my Butt Look Big? - this option is for the reader who can't resist bigger and bigger books and wants to commit to SIX Chunksters from the following categories: 2 books which are between 450 - 550 pages in length; 2 books which are 551 - 750 pages in length; 2 books which are GREATER than 750 pages in length (for ideas, please refer to the book suggestions page for some books which fit into these categories).
Mor-book-ly Obese - This is for the truly out of control chunkster. For this level of challenge you must commit to EIGHT or more Chunksters of which three tomes MUST be 750 pages or more. You know you want to.....go on and give in to your cravings.
LOVE the categories....! [lol]
ReplyDeleteSo do I, Kitten. As I said, they discontinued it but since I love chunky books, I always carry on.
DeleteI love the idea of this reading challenge!! I use to read more chunksters in my younger years than I do know. I did begin reading Anna Karenina two years ago, but didn't finish reading it. I want to read this novel... Maybe I should start reading it from the beginning and hopefully finish it this year!
ReplyDeleteThat's a great idea, Lisa. I love Tolstoy. And I never read just one book at a time, so it might take me longer to finish a chunky book but in between I finish others.
DeleteWhat a fun challenge. I love that you're still doing it, even though the original challenge has been discontinued. There are a couple of chunksters on my TBR list that I'm hoping to finally get around to reading this year. Maybe I could even make the level of the Chunky Chubster. Good luck reading all your long tomes this year! :D
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lark. I love this challenge so much, I don't care whether anyone else does it. But I still know a few who also list their chunky books. Maybe you will be one of them?
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