Size Doesn't Matter - The Long and Large Classics of Literature (164 books)

Size Doesn't Matter - The Long and Large Classics of Literature

Any novel that is more than 600 or 700 pages long can sound like a chore to read. It can feel like a daunting task, one that casts doubt in the minds of readers who come across such a book.
But still, some dare to take the challenge of reading the imposing large novel. And in the end? They discover the joys which have come from reading these novels, the large classics of literature.
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1	Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 4.16 avg rating — 266,971 ratings score: 7,108, and 74 people voted	My rating:
2	Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 4.03 avg rating — 384,675 ratings score: 5,142, and 54 people voted	My rating:
3	The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 4.02 avg rating — 250,219 ratings score: 5,132, and 53 people voted	My rating:
4	Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 3.96 avg rating — 78,824 ratings score: 5,087, and 52 people voted	My rating:
5	War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 4.02 avg rating — 35,738 ratings score: 4,177, and 43 people voted	My rating:
6	The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 4.38 avg rating — 108,654 ratings score: 4,019, and 42 people voted	My rating:
7	Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 3.92 avg rating — 208,680 ratings score: 3,457, and 36 people voted	My rating:
8	Little Women (Little Women, #1) by Louisa May Alcott 3.93 avg rating — 473,763 ratings score: 3,087, and 33 people voted	My rating:
9	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 3.60 avg rating — 111,087 ratings score: 2,794, and 29 people voted	My rating:
10	The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 4.25 avg rating — 40,177 ratings score: 2,568, and 27 people voted	My rating:
11	David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 3.88 avg rating — 32,549 ratings score: 2,414, and 26 people voted	My rating:
12	Bleak House by Charles Dickens 3.94 avg rating — 16,059 ratings score: 2,325, and 24 people voted	My rating:
13	The Pillars of the Earth (The Pillars of the Earth, #1) by Ken Follett 4.17 avg rating — 107,474 ratings score: 2,322, and 25 people voted	My rating:
14	East of Eden: by John Steinbeck 4.30 avg rating — 88,658 ratings score: 2,297, and 24 people voted	My rating:
15	Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 4.09 avg rating — 90,219 ratings score: 2,267, and 24 people voted	My rating:
16	Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke 3.74 avg rating — 40,490 ratings score: 2,259, and 23 people voted	My rating:
17	Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 3.79 avg rating — 32,979 ratings score: 2,159, and 23 people voted	My rating:
18	Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 3.65 avg rating — 18,386 ratings score: 2,118, and 24 people voted	My rating:
19	The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 3.81 avg rating — 136,539 ratings score: 2,086, and 22 people voted	My rating:
20	Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 3.74 avg rating — 59,482 ratings score: 1,681, and 19 people voted	My rating:
21	The Odyssey by Homer 3.59 avg rating — 342,134 ratings score: 1,673, and 18 people voted	My rating:
22	Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot 3.90 avg rating — 20,717 ratings score: 1,644, and 18 people voted	My rating:
23	Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 3.59 avg rating — 41,468 ratings score: 1,572, and 17 people voted	My rating:
24	Moby Dick by Herman Melville 3.31 avg rating — 203,572 ratings score: 1,537, and 17 people voted	My rating:
25	Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 3.75 avg rating — 73,137 ratings score: 1,471, and 15 people voted	My rating:
26	The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 3.98 avg rating — 41,548 ratings score: 1,440, and 16 people voted	My rating:
27	Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 3.93 avg rating — 5,330 ratings score: 1,397, and 15 people voted	My rating:
28	The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 3.97 avg rating — 19,513 ratings score: 1,301, and 14 people voted	My rating:
29	The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo 3.82 avg rating — 22,461 ratings score: 1,286, and 14 people voted	My rating:
30	The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy 4.10 avg rating — 3,295 ratings score: 1,245, and 14 people voted	My rating:
31	Ulysses by James Joyce 3.74 avg rating — 22,084 ratings score: 1,196, and 13 people voted	My rating:
32	It by Stephen King 3.93 avg rating — 73,570 ratings score: 1,169, and 12 people voted	My rating:
33	The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 3.97 avg rating — 19,260 ratings score: 1,124, and 12 people voted	My rating:
34	Shōgun by James Clavell 4.23 avg rating — 24,973 ratings score: 1,047, and 12 people voted	My rating:
35	Paradise Lost by John Milton (Author) 3.75 avg rating — 24,825 ratings score: 1,018, and 11 people voted	My rating:
36	The Iliad by Homer 3.72 avg rating — 59,564 ratings score: 1,016, and 11 people voted	My rating:
37	Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 4.09 avg rating — 6,159 ratings score: 999, and 11 people voted	My rating:
38	The Stand by Stephen King 4.26 avg rating — 94,303 ratings score: 979, and 11 people voted	My rating:
39	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 4.18 avg rating — 888,822 ratings score: 940, and 10 people voted	My rating:
40	Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 3.82 avg rating — 15,403 ratings score: 893, and 10 people voted	My rating:
41	Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 4.40 avg rating — 27,790 ratings score: 831, and 9 people voted	My rating:
42	The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Antoine Galland 3.97 avg rating — 10,563 ratings score: 813, and 9 people voted	My rating:
43	World Without End (The Pillars of the Earth, #2) by Ken Follett 4.11 avg rating — 34,992 ratings score: 793, and 9 people voted	My rating:
44	Possession by A.S. Byatt 3.82 avg rating — 18,975 ratings score: 791, and 9 people voted	My rating:
45	Ivanhoe by Walter Scott 3.64 avg rating — 13,774 ratings score: 787, and 9 people voted	My rating:
46	John Adams by David McCullough 4.26 avg rating — 26,155 ratings score: 772, and 9 people voted	My rating:
47	I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb 4.08 avg rating — 64,726 ratings score: 767, and 8 people voted	My rating:
48	Outlander (Outlander, #1) by Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 115,489 ratings score: 763, and 8 people voted	My rating:
49	Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 3.85 avg rating — 6,551 ratings score: 761, and 9 people voted	My rating:
50	The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu 3.64 avg rating — 2,487 ratings score: 751, and 8 people voted	My rating:
51	In Search of Lost Time (The Modern Library: complete 6-volume edition) by Marcel Proust 4.35 avg rating — 1,625 ratings score: 745, and 8 people voted	My rating:
52	The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 3.42 avg rating — 47,811 ratings score: 726, and 8 people voted	My rating:
53	The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1) by Caleb Carr 3.96 avg rating — 26,834 ratings score: 670, and 8 people voted	My rating:
54	The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 4.01 avg rating — 42,195 ratings score: 664, and 8 people voted	My rating:
55	Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 4.06 avg rating — 4,221 ratings score: 644, and 7 people voted	My rating:
56	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling 4.29 avg rating — 937,846 ratings score: 635, and 7 people voted	My rating:
57	The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 3.69 avg rating — 13,324 ratings score: 587, and 7 people voted	My rating:
58	The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 4.28 avg rating — 30,327 ratings score: 582, and 6 people voted	My rating:
59	The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding 3.67 avg rating — 5,332 ratings score: 558, and 6 people voted	My rating:
60	Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally 4.26 avg rating — 17,159 ratings score: 557, and 7 people voted	My rating:
61	Hawaii by James A. Michener 4.02 avg rating — 11,306 ratings score: 540, and 6 people voted	My rating:
62	Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens 3.83 avg rating — 1,861 ratings score: 528, and 6 people voted	My rating:
62	The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 3.71 avg rating — 5,221 ratings score: 528, and 6 people voted	My rating:
64	Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham 4.01 avg rating — 12,139 ratings score: 523, and 7 people voted	My rating:
65	Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 4.03 avg rating — 22,527 ratings score: 518, and 6 people voted	My rating:
66	Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 4.02 avg rating — 8,635 ratings score: 490, and 5 people voted	My rating:
67	The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 3.66 avg rating — 65,424 ratings score: 487, and 5 people voted	My rating:
68	Le Morte d'Arthur, Vol 1 by Thomas Malory 3.91 avg rating — 910 ratings score: 472, and 6 people voted	My rating:
69	Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann 4.09 avg rating — 2,501 ratings score: 462, and 5 people voted	My rating:
70	Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 4.11 avg rating — 70,216 ratings score: 456, and 5 people voted	My rating:
71	The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 4.02 avg rating — 522,580 ratings score: 441, and 5 people voted	My rating:
72	House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 21,357 ratings score: 398, and 4 people voted	My rating:
73	Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R.D. Blackmore 3.63 avg rating — 2,008 ratings score: 392, and 5 people voted	My rating:
74	Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope 3.96 avg rating — 997 ratings score: 375, and 4 people voted	My rating:
74	The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber 3.71 avg rating — 9,102 ratings score: 375, and 4 people voted	My rating:
76	The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann 4.07 avg rating — 5,435 ratings score: 370, and 4 people voted	My rating:
77	The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn 4.03 avg rating — 3,770 ratings score: 362, and 4 people voted	My rating:
78	The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 3.88 avg rating — 234,951 ratings score: 361, and 4 people voted	My rating:
79	The Wings of the Dove by Henry James 3.71 avg rating — 2,861 ratings score: 360, and 4 people voted	My rating:
80	The Quincunx by Charles Palliser 4.01 avg rating — 1,238 ratings score: 356, and 4 people voted	My rating:
81	East Lynne by Ellen Wood 3.74 avg rating — 286 ratings score: 342, and 4 people voted	My rating:
82	The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 4.08 avg rating — 18,670 ratings score: 336, and 4 people voted	My rating:
83	The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell 3.89 avg rating — 588 ratings score: 333, and 5 people voted	My rating:
84	The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope 4.20 avg rating — 618 ratings score: 331, and 4 people voted	My rating:
85	Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann 3.99 avg rating — 1,665 ratings score: 327, and 4 people voted	My rating:
86	Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson 3.21 avg rating — 1,139 ratings score: 321, and 4 people voted	My rating:
86	The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk; Palace of Desire; Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz 4.37 avg rating — 957 ratings score: 321, and 4 people voted	My rating:
88	Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco 3.82 avg rating — 14,865 ratings score: 318, and 4 people voted	My rating:
89	The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 32,591 ratings score: 311, and 4 people voted	My rating:
90	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 3.79 avg rating — 3,412 ratings score: 300, and 4 people voted	My rating:
91	Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville 3.84 avg rating — 4,060 ratings score: 296, and 4 people voted	My rating:
92	Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 3.71 avg rating — 539,236 ratings score: 293, and 3 people voted	My rating:
93	The Clan of the Cave Bear, the Valley of Horses, the Mammoth Hunters, the Plains of Passage, The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #1-5) by Jean M. Auel 4.40 avg rating — 272 ratings score: 281, and 3 people voted	My rating:
94	The Diary Of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys 3.83 avg rating — 421 ratings score: 269, and 4 people voted	My rating:
94	A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth 4.06 avg rating — 7,155 ratings score: 269, and 3 people voted	My rating:
96	North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 4.11 avg rating — 13,356 ratings score: 264, and 3 people voted	My rating:
97	Chesapeake by James A. Michener 3.96 avg rating — 4,519 ratings score: 263, and 3 people voted	My rating:
98	Finnegans Wake by James Joyce 3.66 avg rating — 3,068 ratings score: 262, and 3 people voted	My rating:
99	The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe 3.66 avg rating — 16,469 ratings score: 257, and 3 people voted	My rating:
100	Cancer Ward by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn 4.12 avg rating — 2,421 ratings score: 254, and 3 people voted	My rating: