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32 Long Books for Readers to Savor
There's something to be said about luxuriating in the world of a long book. To help add to your list of readerly accomplishments this year, we took a look at some of the most popular heavyweights that are beloved by your fellow Goodreads members.
With genres from nonfiction to fantasy, this roundup covers favorites more than 600 pages long. This includes recent releases such as Priory of the Orange Tree and The Alice Network as well as classics including War and Peace and Gone with the Wind.
Which long books would you recommend? Share them with us in the comments!
Which long books would you recommend? Tell us in the comments!
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Chloe wrote: "Les Misérables! Longest book I've ever read and one of the best!"Yes!! Les Miserables is my favorite book of all time! It is the longest book I have ever read, but I savored it all the way through! A treasure!!
Yay! Someone mentioned TALE OF GENJI!
I was goinf to mention two Chinese classics: DREAM OF HE RED CHAMBER as well as THE GOLDEN LOTUS, and there is also TRUE NOVEL.
I was goinf to mention two Chinese classics: DREAM OF HE RED CHAMBER as well as THE GOLDEN LOTUS, and there is also TRUE NOVEL.
3 of my favourite books (the goldfinch, les miserables, a little life) are on here cool cool
Lucie wrote: "Thank you to those who posted about Stephen King’s The Stand and DT series; They have long since been on my TBR list from the many I ask “What’s your favorite book?”I just started The Stand last n..."
Actually, there is an expanded reading list for The Dark Tower series and The Stand is included in it.
Here is the list, in order, from Geek, Unchained:
The Stand
The Eyes of the Dragon
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
“The Little Sisters of Eluria”
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
‘Salem’s Lot
Hearts in Atlantis
Insomnia
“Everything’s Eventual”
The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
Black House
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
Here is the link: https://geekunchained.wordpress.com/2...
Lucie: great list! Read most of them and would agree! Another good one is A Suitable boy vikram Seth
I love books that are long enough to live in for a while. I read The Stand last summer and The Terror the summer before. I can highly recommend both, they are superb. Also, Gone with the Wind became a classic for a reason, one of my favorites.The longest book I have planned for this summer is The Hunchback of Notre-Dame which isn't quite 600 pages. I may try to fit in NOS4A2 or The Name of the Wind if I can find the time.
I read the passage 3 books ago and I have real anxiety that I will never find anything comparable. 😱😂
The Luminaries is an immersive and wonderful treat and I loved every moment of it!
How could I forget The physician. Amazing book
house of leaveswar and peace
Count of Monte Cristo
Allison wrote: "The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye - 955 pages, but so good!"This is on my to read list.
All of the Outlander books and The Mists Of Avalon are all big books with wonderful stories.
Atlas Shrugged is pretty hefty! And so well written.
Heather wrote: "Shantaram for me. Such a good read"Shantaram - YES! That book was so wonderful.
Now, Goodreads, this is the kind of content I like to see you post about: something meaty, and worthwhile to the reader I am. I LOVE lengthy reads, substantial books that go deep and explore flawed characters, their life lessons, with rich symbolism and affecting prose. 550-850 pages is the sweet spot for me, but in general, the longer the better.
I've read a handful of these titles, with several others on my to-read list. A couple others I will add. This blog post is a winner! More like it, please.
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The Stand is my favorite book. Each time I read it, I find something I missed on previous reads, and it is always timely.
Allison wrote: "The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye - 955 pages, but so good!"Love it !!
Kelly wrote: "Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon"Yes!!! One of my favorites!
A nice, long travel book like Black Lamb Gray Falcon by Rebecca West would be a nice addition. It boasts 1181 pages.
Never thought that an absolute classic, Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, would be missing from this list!!
Surprisingly, I've read seven of these. Guess I like long books. Of those seven, The Stand was the best but it was close with GWtW and Pillars of the Earth.
Already included in comments, but another vote for 2666 and The Power Broker. TPB might be the longest book I've read but I finished it faster than some books half the length. 2666 is difficult at times but few writers can enchant the way Bolano does.
Loved Murakami. Other recent long favorites: SevenEves by Neal Stephenson snd Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese and The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Alastair wrote: "Proust should be here"but he's dead :)
Own a few of these, but haven’t read.....yet. I’m absolutely thrilled to see Ken Follett
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are the two books which took my love for reading to the avid, crazy, book nerd level I’m at today. Okay, life took me away for quite a bit, but I’m back, this article is an awesome one and to see the book which catapulted my extreme love for reading to this level.....I’m a very happy reader right now. Especially since POTE is one which is mostly a love it or loathe it book so I didn’t think I’d see it here. Thank you GR’s!!
A few to add to the list: The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 by L. Ron Hubbard
Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
War and Peace was a very long read, but I did enjoy it. I liked that book far better than Anna Karenina.
You could use more books by female authors:Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley
In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Kristen Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lapore
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts and Tantu-The loom of life by S.L.Byrappa
I have read few books less than 600 pages long and almost none of those longer than 600 pages that I have read are listed here. My list of books longer than 600 pages will exceed the hundreds and they all are excellent reads.
Calvinist wrote: "I know it's not a classic (yet!) but I am shocked to find NO Stormlight books like The Way of Kings from Brandon Sanderson on here. Oathbringer is stil..."Right!? I love The Name of the Wind but I didn't consider it a long read. The Stormlight books are absolutely worth noting in this list seeing as they are each 1000+ pages and damn near impossible to put down!
Ernesto Bolano's 2666 should be here! From this list I definetely recommend East of Eden as well as Middlemarch.
I love so many of these books and many others are on my to-read list. I love long books.
Dan wrote: "Calvinist wrote: "I know it's not a classic (yet!) but I am shocked to find NO Stormlight books like The Way of Kings from Brandon Sanderson on here. [book:Oathbringer..."After reading Sanderson, my idea of what constitutes as a long book has definitely changed. Heck, some of the WOT books aren't long IMO.
The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
This Thing of Darkness, Harry Thompson. The story of Robert FitzRoy, the troubled captian of HMS Beagle and his journey with Charles Darwin.
The Amazing Adventures of Kabbalist and Klay by Michael Chabon,
I just started The Stand last n..."
I loved this book! I cried quite a bit during it, too.