41 - The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list

[Milena]

Teri wrote: "Milena wrote: "For those reading War and Peace, what translation will you be reading?"

Whatever the library gives me."

Good point, I only had 2 choices from the library.

[Wendy]

My longest is The Stand, and the second longest is London. Hmmmm....

[Mahi]

Charlotte wrote: "Mine is going to be The Count of Monte Cristo... this is part of my lifetime list that I've wanted to read and I've found that I like listening to these long classics rather than read t..."

Mine is Count of Monte Cristo too! I don't know if I'm intrigued or terrified.

[Christina]

1. Complete Fairy Tales & Stories by Hans Christian Andersen
2. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm
3. Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Since I don't think I'll be able to get my hands on either one of the complete fairy tales, I'll have to go with my third option - which is already quite a lot shorter! Maybe I can still find one of my first two options at the library though!

Nevermind, I just bought both fairy tale ones for my kindle app as they were less than €1 each.

[Ozun]

I’m happy that War and Peace is longer than Infinite Jest.

[Gabi]

If I go strictly with my TBR list here on GR, than it is Das achte Leben (1280 pages). I thought I'd go for War and Peace as well, but it looks like I've never put it on my TBR only had it in my head to read it.

[Melissa]

After some maneuvering, adding books from my library's For Later shelf and my Amazon wish list, as well as adding owned books, I would up with The Far Pavilions as my longest book. It's historical fiction about the Raj period in India that I tried to read in high school. I did not get very far, knowing nothing about India. Thinking this year I try again. I also asked my library for book recs about the history of that time period, so will read that first. (The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India)

However, if people do end up making a reading group for Les Mis, I'm in.

[Kelly]

Probably Count of Monte Cristo 😅

[E.R.]

I'm going by books I own and haven't read (rather than Goodreads tbr), which makes my book for this prompt The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon.

[Jenn]

My longest book on my TBR is Chernow's Alexander Hamilton. Guess it's finally time that I get around to that. Only 818 pages, though, so it could be a lot worse.

[Chelsey DiBacco]

Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky is the longest on mine at the moment !

[Elinore]

Milena wrote: "Well that means I have to read War and Peace in 2021. I should just start now."


I got the same book >.< Please, please don´t be to boring :P

[Lisa]

Chrissy wrote: "Lots of long classics are available on the Serial Reader app, where you are delivered about 15 minutes of reading each day. I’ve used it for War and Peace, The Count of Monte Cristo, Anna Karenina,..."

Thanks for this suggestion. The longest book on my TBR is War and Peace. I've already started it once so this app may help me get through it this time.

[Katy Grace]

Just started The Stand the uncut version...is it worth the read (and the 1,152 pages)?

[Kiley]

I feel very fortunate that mine is I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb. However, it's also one of the 12 books I added the same day when I signed up for goodreads in 2011, so I'm either reading two of those or double-counting things

[Megan]

Katy Grace wrote: "Just started The Stand the uncut version...is it worth the read (and the 1,152 pages)?"

yes

[Melissa]

Melissa wrote: "After some maneuvering, adding books from my library's For Later shelf and my Amazon wish list, as well as adding owned books, I would up with The Far Pavilions as my longest book. It'..."

And, the copy of Les Mis I found is the movie tie-in version (Les Misérables) with 1232 pages, thus passing The Far Pavilions at 1191. I may just read both, since Far Pavilions qualifies as the book I'm too intimidated to read for Read Harder.

[Adrianna]

I will be reading House of Earth and Blood.

[Meagan]

my longest book is technically The Count of Monte Cristo BUT I'm not reading that. I literally have no desire to read a classic that is that long right now. it will probably be years before I finally get to that. I will be reading my second longest tbr book: Kushiel's Dart.

[Nicole]

The Tale of Genji is 1,184 pages and one of the first books I saved to my reading list. Double dipping.

[Arunimaa]

So I had The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes as the book on my TBR with the most number of pages, i.e. 1700 something.

However I knew, I will not be able to finish the entire collection in time, it would be a little too much to me. I'd read it later sometime. I prefer reading individual SH stories or volumes but not the entire thing of 1700 pages together.

The second book, however, is one that I have been dying to read for a long time - The Lies of Locke Lamora which is 752 pages. Long but not too bad either. And it is supposed to be really good. So yes, I am going with that. However, I will read it somewhere in the middle of the year. This book has a lot of parts which may/may not fill other prompts and once I start reading, I will not be able to stop midway through the series.

[Tabitha]

Meagan ✊🏼 Blacklivesmatter ✊🏼Blacktranslivesmatter wrote: "my longest book is technically The Count of Monte Cristo BUT I'm not reading that. I literally have no desire to read a classic that is that long right now. it will probably be years before I final..."

Mine is Count of Monte Cristo too! I totally understand not wanting to read it but it's actually WAY more exciting than I anticipated. I'm reading it via the Serial Reading app too, so I get short installments every day and it makes it way less overwhelming. Good luck with Kushiel's Dart!

[Tara]

Dear God. Mine would be Les Misérables
I'll be reading it all year long!

[Claire]

I'm currently reading The Stand by Stephen King for this one - my edition is over 1300 pages :)

[poshpenny]

I bought some chunky books recently for a good price, so I went to the page of my longest Goodreads TBR book to see if I actually still want to read it.

London

It has a good score. I skimmed some reviews and saw:

From Gary: "Incredible men and unforgettable ,often extremely sensual, women"

Um... what.

From Laura: "Ugh. Every physical description of a female character began and ended with her breasts."

I have decided I do not want to read London.


My longest book is now 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die: The World's Architectural Masterpieces at 960 pages

[Leona]

poshpenny wrote: "I bought some chunky books recently for a good price, so I went to the page of my longest Goodreads TBR book to see if I actually still want to read it.

London

It has a good score...."

I have London on my bookshelf. Thanks for the info. It may just sit there.

[Ira]

The five longest books on my TBR are

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 1056 or 926 pages (I have two editions of the book)
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin 1010 pages
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss 994 pages
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 994 pages
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 963 pages

I was surprised by this but I guess it depends on the edition of the classic that you have. I guess I'm reading The Count of Monte Cristo or A Clash of Kings

[Lynn]

My longest book on my TBR is It by Stephen King. I am debating to just commit to reading and get it done. Or to reading a little each month so I can read some others. What is everyone else doing?

[Evil Secret]

I read Les Misérables finished on 1/12 it was extremely long

[Heather]

I read Les Mis last year. Unfortunately, mine is War and Peace. Tolstoy is wonderful, but he digresses a lot.

[Heather]

Milena wrote: "Well that means I have to read War and Peace in 2021. I should just start now."

I am right there with you.

[Miranda]

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice (it's like 1200 pages)

[DeeAnn]

I'm going to read And the Ladies of the Club. It's over 1400 pages. I hope it's a good one.

[Cheryl]

I'm leaving this for last. With COVID, a really long book just doesn't work for me. So, I will get to it. or I won't.

[Milena]

Heather wrote: "Milena wrote: "Well that means I have to read War and Peace in 2021. I should just start now."

I am right there with you."

I am actually really enjoying it so far. I am about 11% in.

[Rachel]

I limited myself to books that I own and that are on what I consider my "active" TBR (as opposed to the classics, etc. that have been on my list for years as a more long-term goal) and I chose Queen of Air and Darkness, which is around 900 pages.

[Kaia]

I went for books that I actually own, which means it's Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected. I just opened to the final page, and it's 816 pages. However, it's a book of short stories, so should be easy to get through. I'm trying to read one short story a day this year.

[Duygu]

Mine is A Course in Miracles a whopping 1312 pages.

[Jenn]

Even though I started it October 2020, I finished it January 2021. So, I'm counting it!

The Stand by Stephen King has 1,308 pages and I read every single one. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

"Society will reappear... Notice I didn't use the word 'reform.' That would have been a ghastly pun. There's precious little reform in the human race."

The Stand is a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy novel. The book focuses on a super-flu pandemic that was created as a weapon by the United States military. Once the super-flu destroys most of the world's population, the survivors begin to establish a new order. One takes place to the east of the Rocky Mountains and the other to the west. With different social and political ideals the confrontation ensues.

Loved this one by Stephen King, and would definitely recommend it if it is on your TBR list. I'm rewarding myself by watching the current series on CBS All Access.

[poshpenny]

Hmmm 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die: The World's Architectural Masterpieces is a bit longer but mostly photos and dry notes. I need to read Mozart: The Reign of Love which is 832p or 30+ hours so I'm going to use that.

[Emily]

I read The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. The version on my ipad clocked in at 1863 pages!

[Kim]

So this is the year that I finally read Hawaii, my son has lived there a dozen years, I have a Hawai'ian granddaughter. It was 937 pages and interesting, if long.

[Brandon]

For those of you reading The Way of Kings for this prompt, I created a discussion thread in the Book Discussions section. Feel free to use it for encouragement, support, discussion, or anything else that will help enhance your reading experience.

[9987]

Drakeryn wrote: "Okay so I just said in the other topic I don't know page counts for my TBR

But according to Goodreads, Worm by Wildbow clocks in at 6680 pages (it's webfiction) (I've been avoiding..."

This one also showed up for me as the longest. I don't even remember adding it and at first I thought the page count must be a mistake!

When I read the summary and some reviews though, it did sound awesome, so I am actually going to attempt it this year. Oh boy.

[Sarah]

I was ordering books online and added a cheap copy of War and Peace just so I didn't have to pay postage, totally forgot about this prompt until it arrived. Guess I'm switching from Middlemarch to this! I looked through the first few pages and even the contents are 10 pages long :D

[Laurie]

I finished the ebook version of The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon which was over 1700 pages. I listened to the audiobook years ago but decided to reread it after watching the Starz series.

[JessicaMHR]

I'm reading a collection of Walt Whitman poems, Leaves of Grass. It's not really my thing and since poems are often already hard for me to 'get', the Old-English style of writing doesn't help. I'm only 11% through its 613 pages. I've been reading it for about a year now (I think). Maybe...hopefully, this will be the year I get it done. I've been trying to read at least one a day but, most days that doesn't happen. UGH!

[Ashleigh]

I finally bothered to have a look at this one on my TBR and it's The First Man in Rome

Is it cheating that my library has an audiobook version of this lol?

(for the record I always grab the format of a book that is the most easily accessible at the time of wanting to read - I use audiobook, ebook and physical so the prompt aside I wouldn't be doing anything out of the ordinary for my reading habits)

This may change anyway as I'm always adding books :P)

[Nadine in NY]

I do not like long books. I tried to get started early but I put it off so long that I had to borrow the book a second time, and now I'm struggling through Kushiel's Dart (901 p) - it's so long. Why is it so long? I'm on page 50 and I feel like it's been forever. I'm already thinking I might DNF (in fact, I might just keep DNFing every damned long book until I get to a book of reasonable length!) so I took a look at my full TBR list to see what else is there:

Shakespeare After All - 1008 p - but that's a book of essays that's on my TBR just in case I ever need more info on a Shakespeare play I read. So that doesn't really count, since I never intend to read it cover-to-cover.

Anna Karenina - 964 p - is this the year I finally give this a go? I've been waiting for the Maggie Gyllenhaal audiobook to show up on Overdrive, but it's been a few years now and it's not showing up so I guess it's Wanda McCaddon for this one.

Digger: The Complete Omnibus - 823 p - a graphic novel! Does that even count? I'd be happy to read this, but my library doesn't have it (not even on Hoopla).

The Eye of the World - 814 p - happily, there's an audiobook version, so if I fail at Kushiel's Dart and Anna Karenina, I'm in good hands with Michael Kramer & Kate Reading.

John Adams - 751 p - why is this even on my list? Do I want to read this? Is there an audiobook version?

Fish Tails - 720 p - I actually do want to read this book and I forgot it was on my list and I had no idea it was so long!!


I'm thinking about coming up with a new rule: no books over 700 pages on my TBR. Life's too short to get weighed down by an anchor.

[Duygu]

Nadine wrote: "I do not like long books. I tried to get started early but I put it off so long that I had to borrow the book a second time, and now I'm struggling through Kushiel's Dart (901 p) - it..."

"Life's too short to get weighed down by an anchor." I LOVE THIS :)