The one hundred and first book: #1018 The Albigenses - Charles Robert Maturin
I'm giving up on this book very early. Aside from the one copy that I could find being low quality, it has all the downsides of the historic novels like Walter Scott's that I've found before - overwrought language, too many unneeded historical details and just nothing that managed to draw me in. It's not worth making it through a full four volumes of this.