The longest books I have read, in no particular order:
Vanity Fair
War and Peace
Les Miserables
The Faerie Queene
The Stand - unabridged
Tom Jones
Don Quixote - in Spanish
The longest books I have read, in no particular order:
Vanity Fair
War and Peace
Les Miserables
The Faerie Queene
The Stand - unabridged
Tom Jones
Don Quixote - in Spanish
hmm, lord of the rings being three books and the bible being(unless you count the Apocrypha) 66, so can you strictly include them by the reasoning some have stated on here?
Lord of the rings
'The Pillars of the Earth' (Ken Follet)
The longest books I have perused include Boswell's "Life of Johnson", which is over 1200 pages, Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" which at 4 volumes tops some 2500 pages, Robert Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholia" which tops some 1400 pages, and my current read... one of the mothers of all monster novels, Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" which stands at 4 volumes and some 2500 pages.
Among the longest books I have completed I might count Tolstoy's "War and Peace" (1400 pgs+), Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" (1200 pgs+), Cervantes "Don Quixote" (900 pgs+), Ariosto's "Ormando Furioso" (2 vols. 1200 pgs+). Of course there are even longer books... the complete Arabian Knights and various works of Indian literature which go on for volumes (John Barth discusses any number of these in his essays).
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Either the whole LOTR, or np- definitely- the entirety of Bulfinch's Mythology. Charlemgane, Arthur, and Zeus all in on book? Be still my heart...
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Anna Karenina and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
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This is probably the shortest book I've ever read, but one that felt like the longest book I've ever read: The Heart of Darkness!
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The longest book I have read recently is Gone with the Wind. I disliked Scarlett O'Hara so much that I could hardly stand finishing the book. I believe it should have ended about half way but the torturous thing kept on going on.
Other long books I can remember having read are the Lord of the Rings books, and Les Misérables.
I don't know..which is longer, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix or Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell?
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Don Quixote. Still not finished, in fact. Striving to finish book 2.
The Harry Potter books (I forget which are the long ones) and The Three Musketeers
Robin Hobb's The Farseer Trilogy's final volume Assassin's Quest, 975 pages, paperback. I think it's thicker as a hardcover book.
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I don't remember how long it was, and I'm not even sure, but when I was a kid I read a book called "Amy's Eyes" and I was so proud of myself for finishing it because it was so huge...
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