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Apr 17, 2015 07:01PM
I'd like some recommendations for "big books." Preferably over 500 pages, any genre except sci-fi and classics. Thank you so much.
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There's Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth series (historical fiction).
I don't know if you want series or standalones, but Elizabeth George's Inspector Lynley series is good, and they're all pretty fat.
Norman Rush writes fat literary fiction, set in current-day Africa.
Tom Wolfe: The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and others. His books are kind of a hybrid of literary and mass market fiction. He likes to write about contemporary social issues, like race, class, promiscuity on college campuses.
The Thorn Birds
The Magus
Midnight's Children
Letting Go
Sacred Hunger
Perlmann's Silence
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Northern Clemency
Angle of Repose
Freedom
The Secret History
Possession
American Wife
Memoir from Antproof Case
I'll add to the pot -Lonesome Dove
Gone with the Wind
Aztec
Sacajawea
The Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough - The First Man in Rome
North and South plus sequels
Shantaram
Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland 750 pagesThe Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell 621 pages
The Eight by Katherine Neville 598 pages
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness 579 pages
The Lost Sisterhood by Anne Fortier 575 pages
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown 572 pages
The Firebird by Susanna Kearsley 539 pages
If you enjoy the first three books in the Harry Potter series, books 4 through 7 are what you're looking for.
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My favorite genre is True Crime. Not sure if you like that or not, but I'll throw these out there, just in case:The Stand (not true crime, but a good book, and thick)
Fatal Vision
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
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Laura Warholic or, the Sexual Intellectual, 892 pp.
Women and Men, 1,191 pp.
The Fountainhead, 695 pagesWild Swans: Three Daughters of China, 544 pages
2666, 1,126 pages
Infinite Jest, 1,079 pages
A Dual Inheritance, 472 pages
Revolution, 472 pages
Sharon Kay Penman has written a lot of good, very long historical fiction novels. Here be Dragons is a great one to start with. Or When Christ and His Saints Slept. Many of her books are set in trilogies, though I sometimes find the first one in the series is satisfying enough.
My library has many of these books, so I'll pick them up
Definitely second the recommendation of Lonesome Dove. And it really flies along - excellent storytelling.
The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan conists of 14 massive books. If you like fantasy, you'd enjoy it.
Sorry I'm late to the party. Almost anything by James A. Michener. Hawaii describes the history of Hawaii's settlement through its becoming a state. Centennial describes a settlement on the Platte River from the original Native American settlements to wagon trains and on. Very long books covering a great period of time but extremely well written and entertaining.
Do you only want fiction? Most of the suggestions (but not all) have been fiction.
Dorothy Dunnett, has two historical fiction series which will keep you reading for months, the Lymond Chronicles and the House of Niccolo. I've re-read them several times.
Margaret George has written several "autobiographies" and novels about/of royals that are quite long: Elizabeth I, The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers, Memoirs of Cleopatra, Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles and Helen of Troy
Otherwise I definitely agree with other suggestions already made, such as Dorothy Dunnett (suggestion by Jai), Sharon Kay Penman (suggested by Teri-k), James A. Michener (suggested by Kathy), Ken Follett and Edward Rutherford (suggested by Lobstergirl), and Colleen McCullough (suggested by Michele) -- all authors that immediately also came to my mind when I read your quey.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. you'll either love it or hate it. It comments strong opinions. The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. best science adventure sorry ever told.
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin (and he's a good source of more),probably The Poisonwood Bible is a brilliant book, just over your 500 pages :)
The Goldfinch is very good. 771 pages. Outlander series by Diana Gabaldan. This is a very satisfying series that starts in Scotland, but moves to France, Jamaica, and finally America in subsequent books. (This is definitely not sci-fi. There is a bit of mystical time travel through standing stones.) The last book I read by her was 1400 pages!
Jerusalem by Alan Moore (urban fantasy/historical/general weirdness, 600,000 words, one of the longest novels in existence - the physical book is the size and weight of a brick)The Memory, Sorrow, Thorn trilogy by Tad Williams (fantasy, first book, The Dragonbone Chair)
I can't believe no-one has yet mentioned JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (fantasy, 1200 pages in the 1-volume edition I read)
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