Reading Challenge: And the Winner is...

Yesterday I posted results for the Foreign Language Challenge; now it is time to announce the winner of the Reading Challenge.

First, two honorable mentions go to a pair of students who both read three or more books and over 1,000 pages: Seth Greene (3.5 books; 1,030 pages) and David Kralt (4.5 books; 1,220 pages).

I myself read a whopping 10.5 books and 1,701 pages. Could anyone beat that...?

Well, in fact -- yes! Or partly. No one managed to read more books than I did, so I have not been totally embarrassed. However, one impressive student managed to read 7 books weighing in at a massive 4,100 pages. Drum roll...

Congratulations to Adam Brown, who seized the challenge as motivation to read the entire Harry Potter series for the first time!

For those who are interested, I include below complete lists of the books read by all these students as well as yours truly.

Seth Greene

Dorothy Sayers - Gaudy Night (528 pages)

C.S. Lewis - Letters to Malcolm (167 pages)

John MacCormack - Watch for a Cloud of Dust (193 pages)

G.K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy (read 142/168 pages)

David Kralt

Christie Golden, Twilight (328 pages)

Nate Kenyon, Spectres (416 pages)

Christie Golden, Flashpoint (314 pages)

Chris Hadfield, You are Here (197 pages, about 40 of them text, the rest photos)

Stephen Leacock, Canada: The Foundations of its Future (122 out of 257 pages)

Adam Brown

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: 309 pages

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: 341 pages

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: 435 pages

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: 734 pages

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: 870 pages

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: 652 pages

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: 759 pages

Jeremy Adler, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Critical Lives), 219 pages

François Grosjean, A Journey in Languages & Cultures: The Life of a Bicultural Bilingual, 180 pages

Gert Jonke, Schule der Geläufigkeit, 191 pages

Martin Swales, Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther (Cambridge Landmarks of World Literature), 112 pages

Arno Camenisch, Herr Anselm, 100 pages

Wilfred McClay, Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story, 154 pages

Serge Pey, The Treasure of the Spanish Civil War, 135 pages

Bertolt Brecht, Die Dreigroschenoper, 102 pages

Friedrich Glauser, Wachtmeister Studer, 255 pages

Paul Althaus, The Ethics of Martin Luther, 160 pages

Felix Philipp Ingold, Alias, oder Das wahre Leben, 93 out of 290 pages

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