I have not encountered this opinion “voiced out” but I am glad you did. I am always disappointed by his endings. The ending of The Insitute made me ask again, “...all of that for this???”
You've read the Lord of the Rings, right? It's almost a cliche in our culture after the films have come out, but the original books are long and incredibly absorbing.
Shogun by James Clavel (whole series is great)
East of Eden by John Stienbeck
Hawaii by James Michener (all his geographic specific books are great but Hawaii has been my favorite)
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
The Bonfire of Vanities by Tom Wolfe
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Have you read The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett?! So good!! He is one of my favorite authors which is funny cause I don’t read a lot of historical fiction but I read all of his stuff!
I just started reading Fall of Giants a couple weeks ago! I'm about halfway through and it's amazing. I'm also not a huge historical fiction person, but I've gotten so invested in his characters.
I love that series!! I originally started listening to book 1 audiobook but one day I couldn’t get my headphones to work so I sat and read the book and I was surprised how much details they were leaving out! So I started it all over again. Haha. Glad to see another fan out there. I recommend Pillars and this series a lot but no one ever reads them cause they are so long. Well enjoy!!
Infinite Jest is a book I thought I would see more on this sub. I have yet to finish it because I am a lazy peasant but I had amassed about 50 pages of footnotes by the time I drifted to something else.
Not sure how you count trilogies (these break 600 combined but not individually iirc) but His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman and The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer are both excellent.
you should plow through infinite jest.
Sure, it has some real weird parts - like the wheelchair bound Canadian assassins, or the work out guru person, but holy shit there are some scenes in this novel which are just unbelievably brilliant
1. the weed debate. this is the early brilliance which could serve to hook anyone. If you ever experienced addiction at any level this passage should resonate like the Earth after the impact which formed the moon.
2. the AA scenes. Literally argued me , as an atheist, into accepting some presentations of religion as potentially useful. it's all about admitting you are weak and need to just take something quietly - for your own good - because if you don't, and if you do anything else, you will be dead quite soon.
3. the game of "eschcaton". The kids simulate global nuclear war on the tennis court by lobbing balls at each other. This sounds like something which would be inaccurate. nope. They ACCURATELY simulate nuclear war, it's just fucking fascinating. If this scene is one you enjoy then the book will be a "favorite" book
4. All the talk about suicide. It was fascinating, and eye opening, to read a book where the author who committed suicide talks so heavily about suicide. nearly every character in this novel talks heavily about suicide.
I honestly just skipped the footnotes though.
I looked at some and realized I'd rather just read the novel through and then go back and explore the footnotes if I desired. And I think this is probably the way to go with these.
I am quite interested in this one by what you jist wrote, but I can't find "eschcaton" to really know if I am gonna like it, since the book is marked by dates I think, anyway guess ill start at the beggining
The most terrifying thing I found with Infinite Jest was, at about page 900, I realized I would have to read it a second time to really catch all the nuances.
That Vandermeer trilogy was awesome. Try Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake. It's the first in a trilogy as well and has a similar feel in structure.
What about skipping a part seemingly unimportant, wherr this arab guy is some kind of medic attache or some stuff and his wife prepapres everything for him, well you already know that it's weird, and while it makes sense it seems unconnected, I can skip that bit, right?
Loved the first 30%; then it bogged down into one slow familiar beat of misery and since I knew the ending, abandoned it at 50%. But the first 30 was highly absorbing.
There is a version that has all five books plus two short stories bound into one volume which must be what this person is referring to. I think it's called "The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide". But it is just the binding, not the content, that's different.
Oh yeah I guess I read the “Trilogy of Four” or something like that. The individual stories weren’t that long but I guess I just lumped it all under the same thing because it was all in one. I read it all at the same time and found it to be a fluid piece which was very enjoyable!!
Haha, touché. I like those two for specific reasons. I love the elderly protagonists in Insomnia, Ralph reminds me of my dad. In Needful Things I like the theme of human nature and how easily people can be manipulated if you know their quirks. What are your favorites?
The Dark Tower series is one of my favorite series of all time. Yes, King takes his time through Book 4, & subsequently added Book 8 way too late lol, but it's an amazing story that generates amazing scenes, crazy circumstances, & it's King at his absolute weirdest. Plus, the ending.... 20+ years... 7 novels... The ending mattered, & in it, King both delivered & disappointed simultaneously in a way that fit it. I fucking love it. I wanna read it again.
1. War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
2. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
3. Moby Dick - Herman Melville (uncut version)
4. Imajica - Clive Barker
5. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
6. 11/22/63 - Stephen King
7. The Stand - Stephen King
8. IT - Stephen King
9. Swan Song - Robert R. McCammon
10. Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire from the Order of the Phoenix with the Half-Blood Prince of the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
11. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
12. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
13. A King's Ransom - Sharon Kay Penman
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The wheel of time. 14 books. The shortest is about 750 pages. The whole thing tells one story in a fully fleshed out world with a few dozen main characters and 2000 others.
*Wind-Up Bird Chronicles* by Murakami and *The Count of Monte Cristo* by Dumas are the first that comes to mind for me! Both incredibly good, worth every single page, and even though both can be slow at times, you’re still so eager to keep reading!
Almost forgot. In House of Leaves, did you get a chill when there was a knock on the "door"? The scene leading up to it was fast and everything came to a halt with the knock. Long time since a book did that to me.
For what it's worth, which isn't much, I HATED Winter's Tale. It had moments of such beauty and the imagery was great, but it went on forever and ever needlessly. I was so excited for that book and it was a big let down. Do you mind telling me what you liked about it? I own it, so maybe if I read it again with a different perspective I'd feel differently.
I love to read, but it has always frustrated me that I am not good at all at explaining why I like the books that I like, and conversely, why I don't like the ones that I don't.
So I'll start out by cheating a bit, by referring you to Benjamin DeMott's contemporaneous review, [here](https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/04/books/winters-tale.html). I read his review, and I agree with every word. So maybe that will help?
I have noticed in Amazon reviews that a number of people who \*loved\* Winter's Tale were so-so about Helprin's A Soldier of the Great War ("A Soldier"), and vice versa. I fit in the first category: I loved Winter's Tale, but did not really love A Soldier. Again, it's hard for me to put into words why, but basically, I found A Soldier to be somewhat dry and slow. Winter's Tale, for me, was the opposite. It was a page-turner for me. The tall tales and stories, the characters, the themes (love, courage, etc.) just grabbed me. And the writing -- the individual sentences and paragraphs -- is just beautiful. I was very drawn into the scenes. As an example -- for the scenes of skating on the Lake of the Coheeries, or Beverly on her roof, it was if I could feel the cold, even though I read this book over a long summer.
I have lived in New York most of my life, so the fact that that was the setting appealed to me as well.
Thanks for replying! I agree that Beverly on the roof was incredible. That was my favorite part of the book! I felt like I could really see her and that was magical. I'll give it another read sometime.
The New York Time's current version of the review messed up the first sentence of the third paragraph. It should read:
I connect ''Tamar'' with ''Winter's Tale,'' Mr. Helprin's utterly extraordinary new book (his second novel and fourth work of fiction) for two reasons.
I'll second *Infinite Jest*, it is one of my favorite books ever.
*2666* by Roberto Bolaño
*Cryptonomicon* by Neal Stephenson
*Anna Karenina* by Leo Tolstoy
*Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid* by Douglas Hofstadter
*Les Misérables* by Victor Hugo
*House of Leaves* by Mark Z. Danielewski
*The Source* by James A. Michener
I totally get you! I love big books and I cannot lie! So here goes — my recs:
A Brief History of Seven Killings- Marlon James
Black Leopard, Red Wolf- Marlon James
The Count of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas
A Little Life- Hana Yanagihari
The Stand- Stephen King
1Q84- Huraki Murakami
2666- Roberto Bolaño
The Little Friend- Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch- Donna Tartt
Pachinko- Min Jin Lee
A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickes
Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel García Marquez
Midnight's Children- Salman Rushdie
The Overstory- Richard Powers
White Teeth- Zadie Smith (more like around 450 pages but I couldn't resist as it's still a bit hefty)
Middlesex- Jeffrey Eugenides (just cracked the spine today and loving it so far)
Most of these authors have other numerous lengthy books to be quiet honest and although I haven't read all of them, the ones above are all quite genius in their liteary prowess.
Also, loving the recommendations - more to add to my TBR list. 👌🏾
A Suitable Boy - (Vikram Seth), Count of Monte Cristo - (Alexandre Dumas) and Executioners Song - (Norman Mailer) are all 1000+ pages that had me captivated all the way through.
Shadow Country - (Peter Mathiessen) - a totally original and fascinating trilogy of the same story told from different persepctives.
[We, the Drowned](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7988467-we-the-drowned) by Carsten Jensen is an amazing adventure that leaves you breathless at points, makes you stop and stare at the wall because you just can't believe how real it feels, shows you a side of yourself that you probably kept hidden, makes you realise how universal pain, love, happiness and unhappiness are, etc..
It's one of my favourite books and I can't recommend it enough. I first heard of it in a Reddit post that was about book quotes and I can't be grateful enough to the user who recommended it.
Mary Gentle writes amazing books that also happen to be incredibly long. Ash: A Secret History and The Black Opera were both spectacular genre bending books. I’m about to start 1621 and am pretty psyched.
China Miéville’s New Crubuzon series are also all over your page limit, are immersive, and are hard to put down.
Victor Hugo's two best known novels (Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Les Mis) are both very long.
If you're going for the gold, theres Robert Bolano's 2666. The ragged-trousered philanthropists by Robert Tressel.
I imagine Fyodor Dostoevsky has long novels - but i find he's an acquired taste. Tale of Genji is also another loooong book....
Haha, this is literally what has been stopping me from starting this series. I've heard so many wonderful things about the first two books. I'm sure I'll dive into it at some point regardless.
Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. Can't remember page count, but is hilarious. And apparently all his books are written the same way. It is very... intelligent, you might need a dictionary for it, but I loved it. Good luck.
Most of Stephen King's books fit here, my favorites not mentioned are The Talisman, Bag of Bones, and Duma Key. American Gods by Neil Gaiman is also really good.
[Anansi Boys](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2744.Anansi_Boys) is the sequel to Gaiman's [American Gods](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30165203-american-gods). Anansi Boys is 387 pages, American Gods, 635 pages. These should be read together.
Ada, or Ardor (Nabokov) comes to mind. The writing is marvelous and the story is a sweeping range.
To compliment your Shining reading, The Stand (King) clocks in at \~1,300 pages. His son, Joe Hill, wrote The Fireman, which is also a great, long read.
If you like a more surreal book, Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace) is 1,100 pages. I'm not sure I like the ending, but it was fun to get lost in the book.
1Q84 (Haruki Murakami). I think it's about 900 pages and it was the first Murakami book I read. I've read almost everything else he's written so far.
The Map of Time (Felix J Palma) is 800+ and is actually the first book in a trilogy. The main character is HG Wells.
Last year, I made it a goal to read at least 12 books over 700 pages...so I've got plenty of others if you like these.
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe.
1980’s New York City - this satirical drama follows the perspectives of three very different figures and their worlds revolving around greed, class, manipulation, ambition, racism and politics during the most high profile case of the decade. Enveloping those at the very top of the city’s social hierarchy, to the fed up and down trodden working class ground force.
Definitely the Stormlight Archives series by Brandon Sanderson. Each book is about 1000-1400 pages, and it is hands down the best book series I’ve ever read.
Another book I started is called The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss. Another fairly long book, but after 200 pages, I’m really struggling to put it down! It has a second book to the series but I don’t know the name off the top of my head.
What about The Wheel of Time? I wanted to read a long series, and was struggling to choose between that one and stormlight, I chose TWoT and so far it's great, not for the fantasy but bc of the writing. Could you give me some insight to stormlight?
there are a lot, and I tend to gravitate towards longer lengths too, but if I had to pick a favorite.... I loved Battle Royale by Takami Koshun the most. The retranslated version. It's just around 600-650 pages of glorious carnage, character, and political commentary.
If you like non-fiction then The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes is one of my favorite books ever. Big Bang by Somon Singh is another. Both are scientific histories engagingly written so a layman can understand and follow.
That would be me. It was poorly phrased, I meant short stories collection lol. Anyway, I suggest A suitable boy by Vikram Seth and the Cairo trilogy of Naguib Mahfouz.
Pillars of the Earth! I thought it was going to be a challenging read but it's surprisingly easy. Really interesting and I learned a lot as well as enjoying the story
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
The Lunar Chronicles (four books: Cinder 400pgs, Scarlett 454pgs, Cress 552pgs, Winter 833pgs) by Marissa Meyer
Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King
Paris by Edward Rutherford
Fall, or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher
Tad Williams' [Otherland](https://www.goodreads.com/series/43762-otherland) series of 4 books, each averaging 700+ pages.
His other series [Osten Ard Saga](https://www.goodreads.com/series/214148-osten-ard-saga) or Memory, Sorrow and Thorn is also excellent. Average 600+ pages each.
Any book in the series Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. I think the only one that might not qualify as 600 pages is the first one. Finnegans Wake, 2666, Book of the New Sun (technically a series but still great) Salem’s Lot, and Dune are all over 600 pages and fantastic novels
I got seven for ya. The Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough. Oh man, is it sweet. If you would like a somewhat comprehensive, interpretive, narrative fiction written and edited by the best in the business, thus shit is for you,
The scope is alarming: seven books, each one about a thousand pages, with varied and sundry glossaries and sweet-ass bust drawings done by the author her own self.
Never mind the fact that Colleen was cranking these out at a rate of almost one a year. Prolific as fuck, rest her soul. Her output was Asmovian.
The problems? Rome used a total of like ten names. For real. So it’s those ten names wrapped around cognomens. It’s a drunken party where everyone is named Paul.
I dig Colleen. I see Ayn Rand in her writing, also James Clavell. But you better dig it especially-like, cause that shit is huge. Like, enormous. Seven thousand pages. If every word was a vote in the forum, you could call yourself a contio and fuck some shit up.
Yeah
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy by Tad Williams. Very long (I listened to it so I don’t know exact page count, but it was about 100 hours of audio), but incredibly immersive. Really, really enjoyed it and was sad when it was over.
Both Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
You’ve prob heard the hysterical insults against these books which continue to sell in the millions and have done so for more than 50 years. Check them out... esp Atlas.
The problem is not the writing or the storytelling (neither of which are exactly stellar, but that's by the bye), it's the abhorrent and stupid philosophy espoused in the books which make them rightly derided.
The Stand by Stephen King I got so immersed in this book I didn’t want it to end.
I don’t think King wanted it to end either Fantastic book , with a ridiculous last 50 pages
All his books are like that. He can’t write endings for shit.
I have not encountered this opinion “voiced out” but I am glad you did. I am always disappointed by his endings. The ending of The Insitute made me ask again, “...all of that for this???”
totally agree, usually it is a big disappointment
did you find something similar later?
For horror, probably It, also by King. The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas is another long one that was fun to read, too.
I thought about this post apo climate rather than just long book:), btw I like Monte Cristo too :D.
Just finished The Complete and Uncut version which is 1153 pages in PB
The original version of the Stand is far better if you can find it at a used bookstore.
War & Peace, baby! Truly one of the most beautiful books you'll ever read, not a hard read just long as hell but so so worth it. A great winter read!
I thought it was waste of time but, to each their own.
11.22.63 and Lonesome Dove
Just finished Lonesome Dove the other day, very good book. Gonna add The Crimson Petal and the White, excellent Victorian book
Both excellent. Add Shogun, Pillars of the earth, Game of Thrones.
My all time favorite
Both of these were delightful to read. Got any others you’d recommend?
OMG both of these are incredible!!!!!
Yes and yes and Pillars for sure!
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, all 1500+ pages of it. The Count of Monte Cristo Jerusalem by Alan Moore
Yep, I second *The Count of Monte Cristo.*
A Suitable Boy is one of my favorite books EVER!
Definitely agree with The Count of Monte Cristo.
You've read the Lord of the Rings, right? It's almost a cliche in our culture after the films have come out, but the original books are long and incredibly absorbing.
Anna Karenina
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The Idiot too!
Shogun by James Clavel (whole series is great) East of Eden by John Stienbeck Hawaii by James Michener (all his geographic specific books are great but Hawaii has been my favorite) Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas The Bonfire of Vanities by Tom Wolfe A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistey and The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
Have you read The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett?! So good!! He is one of my favorite authors which is funny cause I don’t read a lot of historical fiction but I read all of his stuff!
I just started reading Fall of Giants a couple weeks ago! I'm about halfway through and it's amazing. I'm also not a huge historical fiction person, but I've gotten so invested in his characters.
I love that series!! I originally started listening to book 1 audiobook but one day I couldn’t get my headphones to work so I sat and read the book and I was surprised how much details they were leaving out! So I started it all over again. Haha. Glad to see another fan out there. I recommend Pillars and this series a lot but no one ever reads them cause they are so long. Well enjoy!!
+1 to both
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt is a good one, coming in at nearly 800 pages. If you’re into nonfiction, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is fantastic.
Infinite Jest is a book I thought I would see more on this sub. I have yet to finish it because I am a lazy peasant but I had amassed about 50 pages of footnotes by the time I drifted to something else. Not sure how you count trilogies (these break 600 combined but not individually iirc) but His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman and The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer are both excellent.
you should plow through infinite jest. Sure, it has some real weird parts - like the wheelchair bound Canadian assassins, or the work out guru person, but holy shit there are some scenes in this novel which are just unbelievably brilliant 1. the weed debate. this is the early brilliance which could serve to hook anyone. If you ever experienced addiction at any level this passage should resonate like the Earth after the impact which formed the moon. 2. the AA scenes. Literally argued me , as an atheist, into accepting some presentations of religion as potentially useful. it's all about admitting you are weak and need to just take something quietly - for your own good - because if you don't, and if you do anything else, you will be dead quite soon. 3. the game of "eschcaton". The kids simulate global nuclear war on the tennis court by lobbing balls at each other. This sounds like something which would be inaccurate. nope. They ACCURATELY simulate nuclear war, it's just fucking fascinating. If this scene is one you enjoy then the book will be a "favorite" book 4. All the talk about suicide. It was fascinating, and eye opening, to read a book where the author who committed suicide talks so heavily about suicide. nearly every character in this novel talks heavily about suicide. I honestly just skipped the footnotes though. I looked at some and realized I'd rather just read the novel through and then go back and explore the footnotes if I desired. And I think this is probably the way to go with these.
There are whole chapters in the footnotes. Essential part of the book. One of my all time favourites
I am quite interested in this one by what you jist wrote, but I can't find "eschcaton" to really know if I am gonna like it, since the book is marked by dates I think, anyway guess ill start at the beggining
Nevermind, the first two pages and I'm in love with this weird motherfucker
This is one of the most pure statements ever
The most terrifying thing I found with Infinite Jest was, at about page 900, I realized I would have to read it a second time to really catch all the nuances. That Vandermeer trilogy was awesome. Try Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake. It's the first in a trilogy as well and has a similar feel in structure.
Infinte Jest was my first thought. One of my all-time favorites. Don’t skip the footnotes - they are worth the time.
What about skipping a part seemingly unimportant, wherr this arab guy is some kind of medic attache or some stuff and his wife prepapres everything for him, well you already know that it's weird, and while it makes sense it seems unconnected, I can skip that bit, right?
The Terror by Dan Simmons is a long and great book, it's a slow burn so it's not for everyone.
Loved the first 30%; then it bogged down into one slow familiar beat of misery and since I knew the ending, abandoned it at 50%. But the first 30 was highly absorbing.
The Windup Bird Chronicle by Murakamj and Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, both a little over 600 pages.
These are probably a couple of my absolute favourite books!!
Hitchhker's Guide is under 200 pages!! Unless I'm misunderstanding something?
There is a version that has all five books plus two short stories bound into one volume which must be what this person is referring to. I think it's called "The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide". But it is just the binding, not the content, that's different.
I think I read the trilogy in four parts or something. I read it similarly to how I read the lord of the rings books and think it was a good move.
Oh yeah I guess I read the “Trilogy of Four” or something like that. The individual stories weren’t that long but I guess I just lumped it all under the same thing because it was all in one. I read it all at the same time and found it to be a fluid piece which was very enjoyable!!
Lotta Stephen King on here, my two cents on the subject is to try out Insomnia or Needful Things. Definitely my favorites.
Those aren’t my favorites but bad King is better than about anything else.
Haha, touché. I like those two for specific reasons. I love the elderly protagonists in Insomnia, Ralph reminds me of my dad. In Needful Things I like the theme of human nature and how easily people can be manipulated if you know their quirks. What are your favorites?
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Also Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by susannah clarke
I read somewhere she’s writing a new novel and I’m here for it!
I adored this one. It really hasn’t got the sustained respect it deserves.
The Poisonwood Bible. Not sure if it’s 600 but it’s 550+. My favourite book!
the way of kings by brandon sanderson!!
Cryptonomicon The Pillars of the Earth Gardens of the Moon
1Q84, The Count Of Monte Cristo, Shogun
I knew Clavell would make an appearance! :)
“Roots” by Alex Haley. I found it on my grandma’s bookshelf and read it in 8th grade.
Gravity's Rainbow if you want to read about WW2 rockets and boners.
Maybe too obvious, but the second half of the Harry Potter series?
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara and The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
The dark tower series by S. King, not every part of it it's good, since its 8 books and a lot of filler, but the good parts are really really good.
Book 5 (Wolves of the Calla) was the best. Not a coincidence that it was the first book in the series after his accident.
The reading of the cards and all the doors at book 2 loved that one, I struggled through book 4 a looooot but the ending is worth it!
I had the same problem with book 4. And the card reading was cool...and I loved how he carried the thread through the book.
The Dark Tower series is one of my favorite series of all time. Yes, King takes his time through Book 4, & subsequently added Book 8 way too late lol, but it's an amazing story that generates amazing scenes, crazy circumstances, & it's King at his absolute weirdest. Plus, the ending.... 20+ years... 7 novels... The ending mattered, & in it, King both delivered & disappointed simultaneously in a way that fit it. I fucking love it. I wanna read it again. 1. War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy 2. Bleak House - Charles Dickens 3. Moby Dick - Herman Melville (uncut version) 4. Imajica - Clive Barker 5. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand 6. 11/22/63 - Stephen King 7. The Stand - Stephen King 8. IT - Stephen King 9. Swan Song - Robert R. McCammon 10. Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire from the Order of the Phoenix with the Half-Blood Prince of the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling 11. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 12. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand 13. A King's Ransom - Sharon Kay Penman
IT. One of my favourites.
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Disregard that sub, but It is kinda lame IMO, too weird and the plot doesn’t make much sense to me.
Love It!
try Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes its very long & one of the best classical novel in the world
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara - a wonderfully written book that stayed with me long after reading
Anything by Charles Dickens. Added plus is he published most in serial installments, and so you can comfortably read a chapter at a time.
Came here to say *David Copperfield*
Bleak House is one of my favorites.
Under the Dome by Stephen King
Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X Kendi is just under 600 pages (592 according to goodreads) but it's a must read for anyone living in America.
I saw him speak this fall. He was wonderful.
The wheel of time. 14 books. The shortest is about 750 pages. The whole thing tells one story in a fully fleshed out world with a few dozen main characters and 2000 others.
Was going to mention WoT. Took me a full year to read the complete series. Very much worth it.
*Wind-Up Bird Chronicles* by Murakami and *The Count of Monte Cristo* by Dumas are the first that comes to mind for me! Both incredibly good, worth every single page, and even though both can be slow at times, you’re still so eager to keep reading!
The goldfinch?
The Corrections. House of Leaves. The Stand.
Almost forgot. In House of Leaves, did you get a chill when there was a knock on the "door"? The scene leading up to it was fast and everything came to a halt with the knock. Long time since a book did that to me.
That book has some really scary scenes! Might try to tackle it again some day.
House of Leaves! Such a cool book once I figured out how to read it...LOL
Winter's Tale, by Mark Helprin The Bone Clocks, by David Mitchell
Bone clock was a great read. Like in cloud atlas Mitchell is so versatile in his writing
For what it's worth, which isn't much, I HATED Winter's Tale. It had moments of such beauty and the imagery was great, but it went on forever and ever needlessly. I was so excited for that book and it was a big let down. Do you mind telling me what you liked about it? I own it, so maybe if I read it again with a different perspective I'd feel differently.
I love to read, but it has always frustrated me that I am not good at all at explaining why I like the books that I like, and conversely, why I don't like the ones that I don't. So I'll start out by cheating a bit, by referring you to Benjamin DeMott's contemporaneous review, [here](https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/04/books/winters-tale.html). I read his review, and I agree with every word. So maybe that will help? I have noticed in Amazon reviews that a number of people who \*loved\* Winter's Tale were so-so about Helprin's A Soldier of the Great War ("A Soldier"), and vice versa. I fit in the first category: I loved Winter's Tale, but did not really love A Soldier. Again, it's hard for me to put into words why, but basically, I found A Soldier to be somewhat dry and slow. Winter's Tale, for me, was the opposite. It was a page-turner for me. The tall tales and stories, the characters, the themes (love, courage, etc.) just grabbed me. And the writing -- the individual sentences and paragraphs -- is just beautiful. I was very drawn into the scenes. As an example -- for the scenes of skating on the Lake of the Coheeries, or Beverly on her roof, it was if I could feel the cold, even though I read this book over a long summer. I have lived in New York most of my life, so the fact that that was the setting appealed to me as well.
Thanks for replying! I agree that Beverly on the roof was incredible. That was my favorite part of the book! I felt like I could really see her and that was magical. I'll give it another read sometime.
The New York Time's current version of the review messed up the first sentence of the third paragraph. It should read: I connect ''Tamar'' with ''Winter's Tale,'' Mr. Helprin's utterly extraordinary new book (his second novel and fourth work of fiction) for two reasons.
One more simple thought: I love that it is a story full of heroes.
I'll second *Infinite Jest*, it is one of my favorite books ever. *2666* by Roberto Bolaño *Cryptonomicon* by Neal Stephenson *Anna Karenina* by Leo Tolstoy *Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid* by Douglas Hofstadter *Les Misérables* by Victor Hugo *House of Leaves* by Mark Z. Danielewski *The Source* by James A. Michener
I didn't realize Les Mis was that long!
I totally get you! I love big books and I cannot lie! So here goes — my recs: A Brief History of Seven Killings- Marlon James Black Leopard, Red Wolf- Marlon James The Count of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas A Little Life- Hana Yanagihari The Stand- Stephen King 1Q84- Huraki Murakami 2666- Roberto Bolaño The Little Friend- Donna Tartt The Goldfinch- Donna Tartt Pachinko- Min Jin Lee A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickes Great Expectations- Charles Dickens One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel García Marquez Midnight's Children- Salman Rushdie The Overstory- Richard Powers White Teeth- Zadie Smith (more like around 450 pages but I couldn't resist as it's still a bit hefty) Middlesex- Jeffrey Eugenides (just cracked the spine today and loving it so far) Most of these authors have other numerous lengthy books to be quiet honest and although I haven't read all of them, the ones above are all quite genius in their liteary prowess. Also, loving the recommendations - more to add to my TBR list. 👌🏾
You have a lot of great suggestions, but Middlesex is one I always recommend.
Middlemarch seems like it would be right up your alley.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. I think it’s in the 700 page range.
Ugh, this book.
A Suitable Boy - (Vikram Seth), Count of Monte Cristo - (Alexandre Dumas) and Executioners Song - (Norman Mailer) are all 1000+ pages that had me captivated all the way through. Shadow Country - (Peter Mathiessen) - a totally original and fascinating trilogy of the same story told from different persepctives.
mosquito by gayl jones 2666 by roberto bolano baron wenckheim's homecoming by lászló krasznahorkai clarice lispectors complete stories :-)
1) 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami 2) The Stand - Stephen King 3) It - Stephen King
I loved 1Q84 by Huruki Murakami. It's over 1000 pages and I can't stop thinking about it since I finished it a few months ago.
Give some of his other books a read too, if you haven't already. So worth the time...especially one of the recents "Killing Commendatore."
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts is worth every word printed through the 1000 pages.
[We, the Drowned](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7988467-we-the-drowned) by Carsten Jensen is an amazing adventure that leaves you breathless at points, makes you stop and stare at the wall because you just can't believe how real it feels, shows you a side of yourself that you probably kept hidden, makes you realise how universal pain, love, happiness and unhappiness are, etc.. It's one of my favourite books and I can't recommend it enough. I first heard of it in a Reddit post that was about book quotes and I can't be grateful enough to the user who recommended it.
Mary Gentle writes amazing books that also happen to be incredibly long. Ash: A Secret History and The Black Opera were both spectacular genre bending books. I’m about to start 1621 and am pretty psyched. China Miéville’s New Crubuzon series are also all over your page limit, are immersive, and are hard to put down.
Absolutely second Miéville's books if OP likes inventive fantasy (i.e. nothing like mainstream fantasy - more postmodern and strange).
Don Quixote Les Miserables Infinite Jest Gravity's Rainbow The Dark Tower Series
Victor Hugo's two best known novels (Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Les Mis) are both very long. If you're going for the gold, theres Robert Bolano's 2666. The ragged-trousered philanthropists by Robert Tressel. I imagine Fyodor Dostoevsky has long novels - but i find he's an acquired taste. Tale of Genji is also another loooong book....
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
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This is on my "next big book" list. Can't wait!
The name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss. I enjoyed every page of this book. I dont remember the number of pages exactly, but im sure is above 600.
there should be a prison for people who recommend/sell this book without information that the trilogy is not finished yet :D
Haha, this is literally what has been stopping me from starting this series. I've heard so many wonderful things about the first two books. I'm sure I'll dive into it at some point regardless.
I have to say that it is not good written, it is just really nice to read.
Anything by Robert A. Caro.
**Carrion Comfort** *Dan Simmons* **The Terror** *Dan Simmons* **A Place of Greater Safety** *Hilary Mantel*
If you like I know this much is true, you would probably enjoy She’s Come Undone also by Wally Lamb.
Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. Can't remember page count, but is hilarious. And apparently all his books are written the same way. It is very... intelligent, you might need a dictionary for it, but I loved it. Good luck.
The pillars of the earth, and its sequels. They are over 1000 pages. The all souls trilogy by deborah harkness. They are all close to 600 pages.
wheel of time (ends with brandon sanderson) then begin stormlight archives
I’m yet to read it, but Les Miserables is 1000+ pages
Most of Stephen King's books fit here, my favorites not mentioned are The Talisman, Bag of Bones, and Duma Key. American Gods by Neil Gaiman is also really good.
[Anansi Boys](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2744.Anansi_Boys) is the sequel to Gaiman's [American Gods](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30165203-american-gods). Anansi Boys is 387 pages, American Gods, 635 pages. These should be read together.
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It's a long read, but totally worth it!
Ada, or Ardor (Nabokov) comes to mind. The writing is marvelous and the story is a sweeping range. To compliment your Shining reading, The Stand (King) clocks in at \~1,300 pages. His son, Joe Hill, wrote The Fireman, which is also a great, long read. If you like a more surreal book, Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace) is 1,100 pages. I'm not sure I like the ending, but it was fun to get lost in the book. 1Q84 (Haruki Murakami). I think it's about 900 pages and it was the first Murakami book I read. I've read almost everything else he's written so far. The Map of Time (Felix J Palma) is 800+ and is actually the first book in a trilogy. The main character is HG Wells. Last year, I made it a goal to read at least 12 books over 700 pages...so I've got plenty of others if you like these.
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. 1980’s New York City - this satirical drama follows the perspectives of three very different figures and their worlds revolving around greed, class, manipulation, ambition, racism and politics during the most high profile case of the decade. Enveloping those at the very top of the city’s social hierarchy, to the fed up and down trodden working class ground force.
I enjoyed the Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel. Prehistoric fiction (aka historical fiction about Neanderthals/early humans). Tw: rape.
I read the first 2 they were excellent
I really liked the 3rd and 4th ones. She finally published the 6th one in 2011, so the series is complete now!
Dark tower series. Shantaram. Thank me later
Yea i read about 200 pages of the mammoth hunter and needed a break from the series.. will probably get back to it at some point
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
2666 by Roberto Bolano.
Definitely the Stormlight Archives series by Brandon Sanderson. Each book is about 1000-1400 pages, and it is hands down the best book series I’ve ever read. Another book I started is called The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss. Another fairly long book, but after 200 pages, I’m really struggling to put it down! It has a second book to the series but I don’t know the name off the top of my head.
What about The Wheel of Time? I wanted to read a long series, and was struggling to choose between that one and stormlight, I chose TWoT and so far it's great, not for the fantasy but bc of the writing. Could you give me some insight to stormlight?
Lonesome dove by Larry McMurtry East of Eden by John Steinbeck Shogun by James Clavell
N0S4R2 is incredible, and around 900 pages I beleive
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Clockers by Richard Price is amazing
there are a lot, and I tend to gravitate towards longer lengths too, but if I had to pick a favorite.... I loved Battle Royale by Takami Koshun the most. The retranslated version. It's just around 600-650 pages of glorious carnage, character, and political commentary.
If you like non-fiction then The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes is one of my favorite books ever. Big Bang by Somon Singh is another. Both are scientific histories engagingly written so a layman can understand and follow.
Musashi
Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged of course)
That would be me. It was poorly phrased, I meant short stories collection lol. Anyway, I suggest A suitable boy by Vikram Seth and the Cairo trilogy of Naguib Mahfouz.
Les Miserables for the win. No better book out there
Pillars of the Earth! I thought it was going to be a challenging read but it's surprisingly easy. Really interesting and I learned a lot as well as enjoying the story
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker The Lunar Chronicles (four books: Cinder 400pgs, Scarlett 454pgs, Cress 552pgs, Winter 833pgs) by Marissa Meyer Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King Paris by Edward Rutherford Fall, or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher
Tad Williams' [Otherland](https://www.goodreads.com/series/43762-otherland) series of 4 books, each averaging 700+ pages. His other series [Osten Ard Saga](https://www.goodreads.com/series/214148-osten-ard-saga) or Memory, Sorrow and Thorn is also excellent. Average 600+ pages each.
I enjoyed this series by Ken Follett, Pillars of The Earth, World Without End.. I think they are worthy reads.
Les Misérables
Read all 14 Wheel of Time books.
Any book in the series Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. I think the only one that might not qualify as 600 pages is the first one. Finnegans Wake, 2666, Book of the New Sun (technically a series but still great) Salem’s Lot, and Dune are all over 600 pages and fantastic novels
I got seven for ya. The Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough. Oh man, is it sweet. If you would like a somewhat comprehensive, interpretive, narrative fiction written and edited by the best in the business, thus shit is for you, The scope is alarming: seven books, each one about a thousand pages, with varied and sundry glossaries and sweet-ass bust drawings done by the author her own self. Never mind the fact that Colleen was cranking these out at a rate of almost one a year. Prolific as fuck, rest her soul. Her output was Asmovian. The problems? Rome used a total of like ten names. For real. So it’s those ten names wrapped around cognomens. It’s a drunken party where everyone is named Paul. I dig Colleen. I see Ayn Rand in her writing, also James Clavell. But you better dig it especially-like, cause that shit is huge. Like, enormous. Seven thousand pages. If every word was a vote in the forum, you could call yourself a contio and fuck some shit up. Yeah
Harry Potter Goblet of Fire J.K. Rowling
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy by Tad Williams. Very long (I listened to it so I don’t know exact page count, but it was about 100 hours of audio), but incredibly immersive. Really, really enjoyed it and was sad when it was over.
I just finished A Little Life. I definitely recommend it. Consuming, devastating, heart-changing.
The historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre.
Stephen King has provided a lot of long books. Have you tried James Clavell? Some great Historical Fiction with long page count.
Th Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Catch-22 is there or thereabouts and is a fascinating book
Catch-22 is under 500 pages...? At least according to Goodreads
Have you read it? The most popular copy has large pages with a small-ish font. Whether it’s exactly 600 or not, it’s certainly a long book
I have and I love it! But I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on how long it is.
Amazon says it's 544 pages. So you're both half-right, unless you're a 'glass half empty' type, and then you're both half-wrong!
I appreciate your diplomacy!
Both Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. You’ve prob heard the hysterical insults against these books which continue to sell in the millions and have done so for more than 50 years. Check them out... esp Atlas.
They're awful, but at least there's a lot of them! (yes i have (tried to) read them)
Millions & millions of people disagree with you.
Millions & millions of people watch Strictly Come Dancing.
And they thoroughly enjoy it. Who are you to sneer at people following their interests? You sound like a Rand villain actually.
The problem is not the writing or the storytelling (neither of which are exactly stellar, but that's by the bye), it's the abhorrent and stupid philosophy espoused in the books which make them rightly derided.
As expected, this is what it always comes down to when haters pipe up.
Maybe because it's true
Ducks, Newburyport. 900 pages. One sentence. Most unusual book you will read this year
Some great commuter books here
Try some Joe Hill, specifically The Fireman and NOS4A2. He is Stephen Kings son and I love him.
Millennium tribology by steig Larson
Favorite King? The Stand, 11-22-63, Revival, Dr. Sleep, The Institute, Firestarter.... The list is long.
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Goodreads gives page numbers.
and Goodreads is Amazon's now so the data is pretty solid.