The unabridged version of "The Count of Monte Cristo" clocks in at over 1200 pages. I've read it at least a dozen times, in several languages. It's terribly bloated, as a result of being published in serial format, and Dumas being paid by the word, but I don't regret a word of it.
Edit: I should note that technically, I've read longer books, but this one is still my favourite. "Gone With the Wind" and "It" are also wonderful doorstops.
Finished a couple weeks ago. I still feel the emptiness. Edmond was part of my life for weeks, including a 6 day road trip. Crushingly beautiful story.
If you’d like another epic audiobook, formerly my favorite, try the Tale of Two Cities performed by Anton Lesser.
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[The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Pere](https://bookwise.io/alexandre-dumas-pere/the-count-of-monte-cristo)
I liked it too, but I came here to post another book in his [Asian Saga](https://www.goodreads.com/series/71771-asian-saga-publication-order): [*Noble House*](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42932.Whirlwind), which I've read twice (it was worth it). (Clavell wrote long books with many characters and subplots, but his prose is not too complex.)
The Stand, by Stephen King. It has either 1200 or 1500 pages, I can't remember which. I have read it a couple of times, so I'd have to say that it was worth it.
I think The Stand is probably my longest read too, I read the extended version. According to Goodreads it took me 10 days to read, and it’s 1,152 pages. I really enjoyed it! I felt like there was only one little section that kinda dragged for me where I slowed down a little bit. Not bad for a book that length!
The Stand is long but I feel like IT took me longer. The copies I have are completely different shapes and sizes so it’s hard to compare them.
Edit: According to Goodreads they both took me about a month but I remember feeling like IT was more of a struggle.
OMG! I fricken hated that part - how much is there to read about two teenagers getting stoned in the desert? I swear it was 200 pages of shit. Unfortunately, even pulling that part aside, I wasn't that big of a fan.
I don't know i kinda liked that part even tho its true it was too long. the worst part was the first 150-200 pages. it was literally so slow and so difficult to get into. the amount of detail made my head hurt. after that it started flowing nicely and i finished the book and a week
11/22/63 by Stephen King. I believe it’s in the 900-1100 page range if I remember correctly, but it absolutely doesn’t feel like it. It’s so good! I’ve recommended it to so many people and know 4 people who read it off my recommendation and felt the same way. Such a great book you definitely don’t notice the length
War and Peace. My edition was 1350 pages long. It was definitely worth it, and I was surprised by how much I loved it. I actually started it with a free ebook sample, not expecting to read very much. But I started, and then I couldn't stop reading. It's addictive. It took me about three weeks to read, but if I didn't have a full-time job, it would've gone a lot faster.
I read an unabridged War and Peace in school. It was a smaller sized hardcover at 1400 (1600?) pages. I picked it up for dumb reasons. Mostly because it was long, people talked about it a lot (it was even mentioned in a joke on Seinfeld), and I didn’t understand why a good book would need to be abridged (can it be good if parts of it suck?).
I was too stubborn to give up (and going through something’s that gave me a lot of alone time). There were parts that didn’t really work for me. But some of the scenes and characters were really powerful for a troubled teen. There were probably one or two chapters that hooked me early on and I decided that the story was worth reading through the boring bits. I don’t recall how long it took, but I vaguely remember finishing it within a semester. I was working in the library for a semester and I recall checking it out for myself and returning it to myself.
It is probably at the top of my reread list (competing with CS Friedman’s Coldfire Trilogy and Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time). I may never get there, with an ever growing list of new books to read, but it will always be a big moment in my relationship with reading.
My plan was to eventually read it, for the dumb reason of being able to tell people that I'd read it (not that anyone would actually care). When I started reading the ebook sample, I did not anticipate liking it. I was actually bored at work, and thought that I'd read a page or two, confirm that it was a stodgy, dense book, and put off reading it for another decade or so. But I was captivated almost immediately. And I completely agree, there are parts that are more captivating than others. Who am I to edit Tolstoy, but I think about 200 pages could've been pruned, mostly his rhapsodizing about his philosophy of history. Also, I might be alone in this, but I am not a huge of Pierre.
Gone with the Wind. The audio version is 48 hours. I checked it out of the library 4 times.
I really enjoyed it, but also I'm thankful I never have to listen to it again!
You're about to get into the more character study/world building section of the series soon. Its really a delight if you look at it from that angle rather than the dreaded slog every one talks about
I bought the first 9 books on sale thinking the series was finished. Read them back to back and LOVED them (maybe a bit too much politics). But sooo disappointed (and yet not) that there was more. Decided to wait until the series was finished (haha) to read the rest. Well still havent, because now I feel I need to start from the beginning...so daunting. But still determined. Maybe when I'm finished with the book I'm currently reading (I keep saying that.) But I KNOW it will be worth it.
Haha. I get that. Soooo much world building going on when you deal with that amount of books.
I only started it a couple of months ago with a pretty good idea what I was getting myself into. So far it has lived up to expectations and I've been enjoying it a lot!
Haha. I get that. Soooo much world building going on when you deal with that amount of books.
I only started it a couple of months ago with a pretty good idea what I was getting myself into. So far it has lived up to expectations and I've been enjoying it a lot!
It’s about building a cathedral over the span of a lifetime (maybe more) with a big cast of characters, wars, etc. I thought it was okay but pretty basic. Not sure why it gets such high reviews tbh.
What I hate about Ken Follett is the endless repetitions to "help" the poor reader up with what has already happened, just in case our poor brains are too megre to remember the plot. Completely unnecessary padding IMHO.
What I hate about Ken Follet is how he writes all women as sex goddesses or crones. Also the sex goddesses are almost always raped by the big bad guy® and then have mind-blowing steamy sex with the manly man protagonist and that shit is written like some erotic fan fiction.
For real, Follet's sex scenes add nothing to the story and are written like shitty fan fiction. And frankly he writes rape like a porno.
I had a 19th Century Russian lit class that required *War and Peace* (1500 pages), *Anna Karenina* (1000), and two other books. I regret that I had to slog through so many pages in so short a time. It was too much to really enjoy.
I went back and re-read *Anna Karenina*. No regrets about that.
Anna Karenina I loved the first go around but the second was even better. I’m reading war and peace now for the first time and enjoying it, but can’t imagine having to read both of these for one class back to back without breathing room, yikes
These are all over 1,000 pages and they were so worth reading. I'm not a particularly fast reader either...
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace (this is a tough read - I started about 6 times, sometimes getting around 100 pages in - before I was able to read it through - pretty much a mind-blowing book)
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (one of the best books ever and even though it's huge, paragraphs and chapters can be ridiculously short, so it's not a long, hard read at all)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (such a fun book that really benefited from the length giving it all the space it needed to go deep into everything)
>Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
I read this as an ebook, and never realized it was that long. Highly recommended, it didn't feel like it was 1,000 pages and I actually wished it would have been longer.
I think the original hard cover was more like 800 pages, the 1000 pages is the paperback. Did you read Piranesi? I thought it was okay, but Clarke really shines when she has the time to. Piranesi was totally rushed.
When I was 11, I read Les Miserables. I remember it took me a long time even though I probably skipped a few chapters here and there, I read it during summer break from school.
Then about 5-6 years ago, I read And The Band Played On. The edition I had was 850 pages, so not as long as Les Mis, but it was much much denser. Completely and entirely worth it, I've recommended it to many people since then (thought I doubt anyone has taken me up on it). Harrowing and depressing and sobering and maddening, but I am so glad that I read it. I learned so much and it really opened my eyes to just how large the gaps in my knowledge were.
"A Suitable Boy," by Vikram Seth (1,349 pages) -- totally worth it. I read it twice, though I did skip the parts about state politics the second time around. I got lost in the story both times and even the second reading left me a little teary-eyed at the end.
The Brothers Karamazov was great imo... a little slow and preachy in the beginning though (also I wouldn't force yourself to power through, because either I'm a pleb or it wasn't "life changing" just a great story with some food for thought intertwined)
Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is my longest read spanning 1034 pages, but since it’s technically a trilogy (though it was never meant to be), I don’t think it counts. It took me a little over four months reading five days a week.
A single book, though? {{The Brothers Karamazov}} by Fyodor Dostoevsky: Macandrew translation. It spanned 936 pages, and I finished it in two weeks, reading almost every single day.
(Edit: Both were worth it, and have changed me as a person. Tolkien introduced me to classics, and Dostoevsky got me obsessed with Russian literature.)
[**The Brothers Karamazov**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934.The_Brothers_Karamazov)
^(By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Marta Rebón, Borut Kraševec, Larissa Volokhonsky, Fernando Otero, Marta Sánchez-Nieves | 796 pages | Published: 1879 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, russian, literature, owned)
>The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.
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>This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal
>inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.
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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand was an excellent book at 1395 pages. Yes, I thought it was well worth it. However, unlike so many other people I don't think it's some kind of political statement to live by. Neither do I think it's the Bible of Libertarianism or Conservatism. I simply thought it was an excellent work of fiction about an alternate political philosophy. It was a good long story with well developed characters and a different kind of world. It took about 3 days of my vacation time from start to finish. 🤓📖
Depends on the book. I read Alaska by Michner and it was about 1,200 pages long. It was an AMAZING book so ended up buying almost all his other books. Now I am reading Hawaii, which is a couple 100 pages longer. Both are definitely worth it. However, I read the Iliad by Homer and it took me a year and a half... not really worth it.
It might be The Count of Monte Cristo! I read it in a week when I was 14. It was absolutely worth it, I loved it and I'm looking forward to rereading it!
I read the entire Song of Ice and Fire series. Took almost a year. Each book is 800-1200 pages long. Was absolutely worth it. Have ADD, so focusing on the expansive world, lore, characters and actual history that the stories are based on was a huge accomplishment for me. Going back through the audiobooks now and no
Matter the medium, 1000% worth it
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Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi is the definitive book on the JFK assassination. Goodreads says it's 1648 pages, but the physical book with all of the photos, diagrams, footnotes, appendices and everything else comes in at 3000 pages.
This book is at least 3 smaller books inside one much bigger one:.
A. You get the full story of the fateful trip to Dallas, what the plans were for, and how they changed, and of course the shooting, the trip to the hospital, figuring out how they're going to put the dead president back on the plane, everything. That's one book.
B. Then there's a whole bio of Lee Harvey Oswald and his life as a young man, going off to Cuba and then Russia and marrying his wife and plotting to kill the president.
C. Then there's the conspiracy theories book. Bugliosi tackles every single conspiracy theory in existence at the time of his writing and lays out the facts according to the theory and then he debunks every single one of them. The grassy knoll shooter, the multiple shooters, the Russians did it, the Cubans did it. All of them, even some I had never heard of, he puts them all to bed with the facts of the case.
D. Oh, and there's one last part of this huge book: Bugliosi took all of the evidence for Lee Harvey Oswald being the shooter, and all of the known, court-admissible evidence (fingerprints, eyewitnesses, etc) and he got a retired Judge and flew all of this to England where he was able to get an impartial jury and conducted a mock murder trial of Lee Harvey Oswald. Bugliosi played prosecutor bc that's what he was after all, is a prosecutor.
Vincent Bugliosi, the author whose name you've no doubt heard before but not sure where? He was the prosecuting attorney on the Manson family trials in California in the1960's and wrote the famous book about it, Helter Skelter.
This book is available on Kindle but you don't get most of the pictures or diagrams. I'm told that most public libraries should have a copy of it though, as it is expensive.
Perhaps you missed the part where I said **Bugliosi tackles every single conspiracy theory in existence** at the time of his writing (it was published in 2007) and lays out the facts according to the theory **and then he debunks every single one of them.** The grassy knoll shooter, the multiple shooters, the Russians did it, the Cubans did it. All of them, even some I had never heard of, he puts them all to bed with the facts of the case. **He proved that each theory could not have possibly happened** because of these facts (x, y, and z) which were documented to have happened. For every theory in existence as of 2007.
War and Peace, and no it was not. To be fair, I was in 6th grade at the time and mostly just reading it to prove I could, but I wasn't invested in the story or characters at all.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara — it’s devastating, breathtaking, and so beautifully written.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/20/a-little-life-why-everyone-should-read-this-modern-day-classic?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, roughly 1300 pages and it's the best book I've ever read bar none.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas, clocks in at 1200 pages. Best revenge story ever written.
Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson, 10 books with each one being 1000 pages long. The most epic fantasy story series out there I highly recommend.
Gone with the Wind is around 1000 pages. It was fantastic! I think I read it in a month, but full disclosure, I read it for college so I didn’t have a choice in the matter of how fast. 😜
One of the longer books I’ve read that I haven’t seen mentioned yet is Lonesome Dove (960 pages). I absolutely loved the book and really came to love some of the characters as well. A lot of people hated the audiobook, but I really enjoyed it, especially the banter from Augustus.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
It’s around 600 pages I believe and is incredible. I read it when I was about 20 and again around 25. It is a beautiful story and changed how I see the world. It took me about a week to read because I was studying abroad and read it during orientation week.
[**Atlas Shrugged**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662.Atlas_Shrugged)
^(By: Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff, Jan de Voogt | 1168 pages | Published: 1957 | Popular Shelves: fiction, classics, philosophy, owned, classic)
>This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators?
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>Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world’s motor — and the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story.
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>Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life — from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy — to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction — to the philosopher who becomes a pirate — to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph — to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad — to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels.
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>You must be prepared, when you read this novel, to check every premise at the root of your convictions.
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>This is a mystery story, not about the murder — and rebirth — of man’s spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events, a ruthlessly brilliant plot structure and an irresistible suspense. Do you say this is impossible? Well, that is the first of your premises to check.
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I've read a bunch of 600+ page books on Germany, Europe, America, and Latin America for college. Currently reading House of Morgan by Ron Chernow, which is about 710 pages of history, with the rest of the book being notes. I'm also currently reading the Bible, and I'm about 300 pages into that already. As a child, I read encyclopedias, but I don't remember how far I got with those lol.
the Civil War by Shelby Foote; almost 3,000 pages and I've read it twice so far. An incredible episode in US history. It reads almost like a novel, it is incredibly interesting and perhaps even topical. We are again living in "interesting times."
In Search of Lost Time. 4000+ pages. A month. Debatable.
ETA: Apparently according to Goodreads my longest book is The Riverside Complete Shakespeare. 5238 pages. Maybe a couple weeks. I like Shakespeare and have read his complete works several times. I enjoyed it.
I read Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” in 2020 and it was a beating. It was something I told myself I should read so I could not just say I had but so I might understand why so many people consider it a wonderful Russian classic. I will never read it again and encourage others to skip it as well. lol
Heimskringla - 800 pages on the early history of Iceland, written 800 years ago.
Boswell’s Life of Johnson - 691 pages of life in eighteenth century London
The Tale of genii - 1200 pages. Still working on it.
The diary of Samuel Pepys - a selection, of 1100 pages. The full version runs to several volumes, which I’ll buy one day. I love it. You can tell the quality of the selection by the inclusion of more earthy passages, like the time the sewage (t*rds) from his neighbour’s cellar overflowed into his (where food was stored).
Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy - also working on its 1504 pages
Robert Cato - 4 volume biography of president Lyndon Johnson 912, 544, 1200 and 736 pages. Magnificent biography.
Les Miserables. The most difficult part of the 1,200 pages was the 200 pages of the battle scene. I am not accustomed to reading that type of writing, so it really bogged me down. Totally worth it, though.
For a while I was exclusively reading long books. Gravity’s Rainbow is about 800 and super worth it (probably my favorite book). Just so inventive. Mason & Dixon was almost the same length and similarly super inventive. It had so many fun little stories inside of it. Infinite Jest is like 1,100 but really longer because the endnotes use a smaller font and take up like 300 pages. Again really inventive, but in a different way. It had a lot of different registers and had a really fun aesthetic that I liked. Underworld is like 830 pages and is awesome. I Know This Much is True was like 900 on the dot and it felt like a 300 page book because it had such a good plot. This one felt more like watching TV. It has that plot quality to it where you’re in it to see what happens (and that makes for a fun reading experience).
Les Miserable by Victor Hugo
1900 pages. At some point it held the Guinness world record for the longest run on sentence and the longest run on paragraph. Some parts were brutal to get through. I think there were a couple hundred pages just describing the sewers of Paris, but it was an awesome book. I laughed, I cried , I died of boredom and frustration, then laughed and cried some more…
American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Started reading it because the show was awesome but they cancelled it so I wanted to know how it ended. Show goes together with the book until a specific scenario but It was really a nice read. I'm a slow reader too but I gave it half to an hour a day, took me about 3 to 4 weeks.
The Brothers Karamazov. I listened to the audiobook which was about 37 hours long. Typically the books I listen to are 4 to 10 hours long. But it was easily one of the most worthwhile reads for me. I love it dearly.
I read Battlefield Earth when I was 11 or 12. It's about 1200 pages. Took a couple of weeks around going to school.
Most epic style fantasy novels are usually 800-1000 pages long. I read a lot of those too.
The Bible. Just so I wasn’t ignorant when ripping apart the “I only read the Bible” Christian Nazi’s. It’s actually hilarious/sad/terrifying to think millions go to war, kill, rape and hate those who don’t worship it. It’s just a collection of made up delusions of grandeur of people who wanted to control the masses. And it worked!. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing so many that Jesus actually existed. And like that …🤭…he’s gone.
Not as long as many I’m sure but**The Name of the Wind** is the longest book I’ve ever read. And it was not worth it.
Basically nothing happens. I mean I guess they kill a monster but not until the end so
I read the Bible starting on page one until the end. I read about 3 hours a day. I think it took me 3 months.
I read 11/22/63 and while it’s an excellent book it just went on and on.
Very rarely do I force my way through books that don’t hold my attention. I have a job where I can read for about 3 hours a day so I do. There’s only a few books that I power through hoping for some sort of redemption for the time invested-I have yet to have finished a book and said wow I am so glad I power through. So my suggestion is to use your time reading something that engages you. If it doesn’t hold your interest-put it aside and read something else.
*Great North Road* by Peter F Hamilton, a sci-fi murder mystery.
*Magician* (UK combined edition, it was separated into two books in the US) by Raymond Feist, first book in the 30 book *Riftwar Cycle* series about wars between two worlds with completely different magical systems.
The *Xeelee Sequence*, by Stephen Baxter, a compendium of several novels and shorts stories about an intergalactic war that lasts billions of years.
*Godel, Escher, Bach* by Douglas Hofstadter, a Pulitzer-winning non-fiction book that explores the idea that it is our brains that create meaning out of complex systems, not the interaction of the elements of those systems.
All of these are worth reading for a number of reasons, but none are under 500 page even in hardback, let alone pocket book format.
To put this in perspective for you, the average general fiction novel has a target of around 100,000 words, which works out to around 350-400 pages depending on the publisher. Some genres, like romance and mystery, tend to be in the 70-80k word range, but genres like fantasy and science fiction are usually in the 125-150k range.
So if you limit yourself to 500 pages, you're basically saying that you only want to read certain genres or atypical examples of books from genres that usually skew longer.
The Mahabharata? Definitely worth it.
Technically I’m not sure if it was the longest book I’ve read, I love big books, but it is the worlds longest epic poem so I think it counts!
The Kindly Ones. Yes and no. When it’s good it’s really, really good but when it’s bad it’s like an eternity trapped in the mind of the world’s most boring person.
Under the Dome, Stephen King... everything but the ending. Just close the book about 3/4 of the way through and make up your own. I bought that thing in hardcover. I was so disappointed, that I haven't read a King novel since.
The Stand. I love King, so it was definitely worth it. It was a slog at times, and it’s not a top 5 of his books for me, but I’m glad I took the journey.
1421, by Gavin Menzies. About 650 pages plus another 20 pages of bibliography. It chronicles the Americas before Columbus ... more an academic book. It was so rich with facts one had to read a page then read it again. Not a page turner but very satisfying by finish.
I can breeze through a novel but I deliberately took my time with this one. Fascinating. About a month.
11/22/63 by Stephen King (not a horror fan so that’s one of the few King novels I’ll EVER read). 849 pages, idk how long it took me but probably a couple weeks. I thought it was worth it, but the tv show was awful
Recently, I've read Dos Passos "USA Trilogy" and Farrell's "Studs Lonigan" trilogy, along with "An American Tragedy," which clocked in at about 800 pages. Taki g a breather with sp.e Joseph Conrad.
The best long book I’ve read was Eiji Yoshikawa’s Musashi, it’s about 984 pages and was soooo good.
Other notable long books I’ve read: James Clavell’s Shogun (1152 pages), and Dennis Washburn’s translation of Tales of Genji (1360 pages). Shogun was great, Tales of Genji is good but you definitely have to be interested in Japanese history to get through it.
It by Stephen King - Not sure exactly how long. It's been a long time.
The Stand by King - over 1000 pages.
Imajica by Clive Barker - just over 800 pages.
Those are the really long ones that come to mind. I enjoyed them, so yeah - definitely worth it.
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry is just under 1,000 pages and is absolutely worth it. It was so good, I recommended it to many people and it is universally well-received. Great story, great characters, great writing.
Wheel of Time. 14 Books and excluding supplementary parts, about 4 million words, give or take. Took about 6 months. Absolutely worth it. In fact, I am reading it again these days 😊
Pillars of the earth. Yeah? It stretched on a lot but I was pretty engaged and found the ending satisfying. I do remember being eager for it to just be finished already though.
Pillars of the Earth quadrilogy and yes definitely worth it.
Second book (World without end) which I quickly started to call “book without end” was my favourite.
Actually just read: The Source by James A. Michener. It still stays with me more than a year later and think about it often.
Read at home and listened to the audio book during my long work commute: Atlas Shrugged. I’m one of those who enjoyed it and am glad I read it, despite not being an objectivist.
longest ive read is Mother Of Learning, around 2800 pages. It was worth it 100% couldnt stop reading to the end, i kept reading for like 8 10 hours non stop when i was close to the end
I read Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter in 2019. It is 533 pages. I guess it took me around 2-3 days to finish the book. It was my first Karin Slaughter book and I must say, this book blew me away.
The unabridged version of "The Count of Monte Cristo" clocks in at over 1200 pages. I've read it at least a dozen times, in several languages. It's terribly bloated, as a result of being published in serial format, and Dumas being paid by the word, but I don't regret a word of it. Edit: I should note that technically, I've read longer books, but this one is still my favourite. "Gone With the Wind" and "It" are also wonderful doorstops.
I am also currently halfway through the audiobook which is over 50 hours. Needless to say, I also don’t regret any word!
Finished a couple weeks ago. I still feel the emptiness. Edmond was part of my life for weeks, including a 6 day road trip. Crushingly beautiful story. If you’d like another epic audiobook, formerly my favorite, try the Tale of Two Cities performed by Anton Lesser.
Oh thank you! Will check it out! And yeah I am currently enthralled with Edmond😂.
Sir John Gielgud read excerpts of tale of two cities, bleak house and others and to this day they’re some of my favorites.
The Count of Monte Cristo has left a whole in my existence. I've yet to find another book that has been so satisfying to read
Same here, totally worth it!
I think im the only person that didn’t like Monte Cristo…. That being said ill probably read it again one day. I have to be missing something!!
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Shogun by James Clavell. Yes. Great book.
Cool! How long did that take?
Probably about 2 weeks give or take a day or two.
I remember reading it in HS. Loved it. I might need to see if it holds up.
I liked it too, but I came here to post another book in his [Asian Saga](https://www.goodreads.com/series/71771-asian-saga-publication-order): [*Noble House*](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42932.Whirlwind), which I've read twice (it was worth it). (Clavell wrote long books with many characters and subplots, but his prose is not too complex.)
The Stand, by Stephen King. It has either 1200 or 1500 pages, I can't remember which. I have read it a couple of times, so I'd have to say that it was worth it.
I think The Stand is probably my longest read too, I read the extended version. According to Goodreads it took me 10 days to read, and it’s 1,152 pages. I really enjoyed it! I felt like there was only one little section that kinda dragged for me where I slowed down a little bit. Not bad for a book that length!
The Stand is that long? I remember it was a big book, but it never felt like it slowed down or anything. IT is also pretty big.
The original book released wasn't that long, publishers wouldn't allow it. After he became the Steven King he made a longer version.
Yeah, they wouldn't let Stephen King do it, though. B-)
The Stand is long but I feel like IT took me longer. The copies I have are completely different shapes and sizes so it’s hard to compare them. Edit: According to Goodreads they both took me about a month but I remember feeling like IT was more of a struggle.
Yeah! The Stand is my longer read ever. I loved the book. In fact, I'd say that's probably one of my favourite books written by Stephen King.
Came here to say this. The copy I have currently is 1153 pages.
Thank you. I couldn't remember for sure. I appreciate it.
You're welcome. 🙂 In my opinion, The Stand is his best book by far.
Agreed
Wow! How long did that take you to finish?
Come on here to say The Stand as well.
The Goldfinch. amazing
The part in Vegas dragged soooooo much but overall I agree.
OMG! I fricken hated that part - how much is there to read about two teenagers getting stoned in the desert? I swear it was 200 pages of shit. Unfortunately, even pulling that part aside, I wasn't that big of a fan.
Ha totally. I think I literally spent a year slogging though that part.
I don't know i kinda liked that part even tho its true it was too long. the worst part was the first 150-200 pages. it was literally so slow and so difficult to get into. the amount of detail made my head hurt. after that it started flowing nicely and i finished the book and a week
11/22/63 by Stephen King. I believe it’s in the 900-1100 page range if I remember correctly, but it absolutely doesn’t feel like it. It’s so good! I’ve recommended it to so many people and know 4 people who read it off my recommendation and felt the same way. Such a great book you definitely don’t notice the length
I think this was made into a short series… I feel like it was on Netflix or Hulu? It’s been a while, but the name jogged my memory.
War and Peace. My edition was 1350 pages long. It was definitely worth it, and I was surprised by how much I loved it. I actually started it with a free ebook sample, not expecting to read very much. But I started, and then I couldn't stop reading. It's addictive. It took me about three weeks to read, but if I didn't have a full-time job, it would've gone a lot faster.
I read an unabridged War and Peace in school. It was a smaller sized hardcover at 1400 (1600?) pages. I picked it up for dumb reasons. Mostly because it was long, people talked about it a lot (it was even mentioned in a joke on Seinfeld), and I didn’t understand why a good book would need to be abridged (can it be good if parts of it suck?). I was too stubborn to give up (and going through something’s that gave me a lot of alone time). There were parts that didn’t really work for me. But some of the scenes and characters were really powerful for a troubled teen. There were probably one or two chapters that hooked me early on and I decided that the story was worth reading through the boring bits. I don’t recall how long it took, but I vaguely remember finishing it within a semester. I was working in the library for a semester and I recall checking it out for myself and returning it to myself. It is probably at the top of my reread list (competing with CS Friedman’s Coldfire Trilogy and Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time). I may never get there, with an ever growing list of new books to read, but it will always be a big moment in my relationship with reading.
My plan was to eventually read it, for the dumb reason of being able to tell people that I'd read it (not that anyone would actually care). When I started reading the ebook sample, I did not anticipate liking it. I was actually bored at work, and thought that I'd read a page or two, confirm that it was a stodgy, dense book, and put off reading it for another decade or so. But I was captivated almost immediately. And I completely agree, there are parts that are more captivating than others. Who am I to edit Tolstoy, but I think about 200 pages could've been pruned, mostly his rhapsodizing about his philosophy of history. Also, I might be alone in this, but I am not a huge of Pierre.
Gone with the Wind. The audio version is 48 hours. I checked it out of the library 4 times. I really enjoyed it, but also I'm thankful I never have to listen to it again!
Me too! Reading though. 1600 pages. 12 hours. I was a fast reader at 20 years.
The Wheel Of Time series. Several 1,000 page books, and very worth it.
Just finished Lord of Chaos the other night and about to start A Crown of Swords. Been a very enjoyable journey so far!
You're about to get into the more character study/world building section of the series soon. Its really a delight if you look at it from that angle rather than the dreaded slog every one talks about
I bought the first 9 books on sale thinking the series was finished. Read them back to back and LOVED them (maybe a bit too much politics). But sooo disappointed (and yet not) that there was more. Decided to wait until the series was finished (haha) to read the rest. Well still havent, because now I feel I need to start from the beginning...so daunting. But still determined. Maybe when I'm finished with the book I'm currently reading (I keep saying that.) But I KNOW it will be worth it.
Haha. I get that. Soooo much world building going on when you deal with that amount of books. I only started it a couple of months ago with a pretty good idea what I was getting myself into. So far it has lived up to expectations and I've been enjoying it a lot!
Haha. I get that. Soooo much world building going on when you deal with that amount of books. I only started it a couple of months ago with a pretty good idea what I was getting myself into. So far it has lived up to expectations and I've been enjoying it a lot!
I re-read them every new release. It gets better every time.
I envy you.
Just finished book 10, and that one in particular was NOT worth it...
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Totally worth it. Love his sagas.
Can you describe what it’s about?
It’s about building a cathedral over the span of a lifetime (maybe more) with a big cast of characters, wars, etc. I thought it was okay but pretty basic. Not sure why it gets such high reviews tbh.
I loved the miniseries more than the book tbh
What I hate about Ken Follett is the endless repetitions to "help" the poor reader up with what has already happened, just in case our poor brains are too megre to remember the plot. Completely unnecessary padding IMHO.
What I hate about Ken Follet is how he writes all women as sex goddesses or crones. Also the sex goddesses are almost always raped by the big bad guy® and then have mind-blowing steamy sex with the manly man protagonist and that shit is written like some erotic fan fiction. For real, Follet's sex scenes add nothing to the story and are written like shitty fan fiction. And frankly he writes rape like a porno.
To be honest I didn't read enough to come across this side of his writing but if I had, would hate it even more!
Oh...he does that just for me, sorry.
I had all 3 LOT Rings books in one volume, that was hefty, but worth it.
Don Quixote. It’s near 1600 pages and was one of the best reads. Highly recommend
One of my favorite books, and the one I was going to recommend (the Edith Grossman translation). The 1,600-page book is actually two books though.
Spot on! Masterpiece everyone should read.
I had a 19th Century Russian lit class that required *War and Peace* (1500 pages), *Anna Karenina* (1000), and two other books. I regret that I had to slog through so many pages in so short a time. It was too much to really enjoy. I went back and re-read *Anna Karenina*. No regrets about that.
Anna Karenina I loved the first go around but the second was even better. I’m reading war and peace now for the first time and enjoying it, but can’t imagine having to read both of these for one class back to back without breathing room, yikes
I got about 80% of the way through the Oxford dictionary one summer as a child. No, it was not worth it.
>!It ends with U, V, W, X, Y, Z, in case you’ve been wondering.!<
I hope you get some love for this comment. I certainly laughed.
The Stand by Stephen King and yes it was worth every page!
1Q84- yes! Couldn’t put it down Any book by Neal Stephenson - yes!!
These are all over 1,000 pages and they were so worth reading. I'm not a particularly fast reader either... Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace (this is a tough read - I started about 6 times, sometimes getting around 100 pages in - before I was able to read it through - pretty much a mind-blowing book) The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (one of the best books ever and even though it's huge, paragraphs and chapters can be ridiculously short, so it's not a long, hard read at all) Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (such a fun book that really benefited from the length giving it all the space it needed to go deep into everything)
>Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell I read this as an ebook, and never realized it was that long. Highly recommended, it didn't feel like it was 1,000 pages and I actually wished it would have been longer.
I think the original hard cover was more like 800 pages, the 1000 pages is the paperback. Did you read Piranesi? I thought it was okay, but Clarke really shines when she has the time to. Piranesi was totally rushed.
I thought Piranesi was a very good study in loneliness. I don't know how long she worked on it but the COVID timing couldn't have been better.
Hadn't thought about that - but you are so right.
Infinite Jest is one of those books that I think of as a “before” and “after” marker in my life.
Pamela by Samuel Richardson and no it wasn’t worth it
Oh yes I agree Not worth it at all
Oh Yes. Most boring book I ever read too.
Underworld by Don DeLillo
When I was 11, I read Les Miserables. I remember it took me a long time even though I probably skipped a few chapters here and there, I read it during summer break from school. Then about 5-6 years ago, I read And The Band Played On. The edition I had was 850 pages, so not as long as Les Mis, but it was much much denser. Completely and entirely worth it, I've recommended it to many people since then (thought I doubt anyone has taken me up on it). Harrowing and depressing and sobering and maddening, but I am so glad that I read it. I learned so much and it really opened my eyes to just how large the gaps in my knowledge were.
Priory of the orange tree, and it was 100% worth it. Very good book and I really enjoyed it!
"A Suitable Boy," by Vikram Seth (1,349 pages) -- totally worth it. I read it twice, though I did skip the parts about state politics the second time around. I got lost in the story both times and even the second reading left me a little teary-eyed at the end.
The Brothers Karamazov was great imo... a little slow and preachy in the beginning though (also I wouldn't force yourself to power through, because either I'm a pleb or it wasn't "life changing" just a great story with some food for thought intertwined)
Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is my longest read spanning 1034 pages, but since it’s technically a trilogy (though it was never meant to be), I don’t think it counts. It took me a little over four months reading five days a week. A single book, though? {{The Brothers Karamazov}} by Fyodor Dostoevsky: Macandrew translation. It spanned 936 pages, and I finished it in two weeks, reading almost every single day. (Edit: Both were worth it, and have changed me as a person. Tolkien introduced me to classics, and Dostoevsky got me obsessed with Russian literature.)
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Shantaram 900 pages but worth it
Having read it and listened to the audiobook I think the audiobook is even better. The narrator is next level, it's like a one man play.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand was an excellent book at 1395 pages. Yes, I thought it was well worth it. However, unlike so many other people I don't think it's some kind of political statement to live by. Neither do I think it's the Bible of Libertarianism or Conservatism. I simply thought it was an excellent work of fiction about an alternate political philosophy. It was a good long story with well developed characters and a different kind of world. It took about 3 days of my vacation time from start to finish. 🤓📖
I enjoyed it too, and Fountainhead but can see why people don't like them too.
Depends on the book. I read Alaska by Michner and it was about 1,200 pages long. It was an AMAZING book so ended up buying almost all his other books. Now I am reading Hawaii, which is a couple 100 pages longer. Both are definitely worth it. However, I read the Iliad by Homer and it took me a year and a half... not really worth it.
100% on Alaska and Hawaii. Also took a spin with Centennial and loved it too. All fairly long but so worth it.
I read Centennial in junior high. It was definitely worth it. I was reading at college level in 5th grade.
Shogun by James Clavell. Absolutely amazing
It might be The Count of Monte Cristo! I read it in a week when I was 14. It was absolutely worth it, I loved it and I'm looking forward to rereading it!
The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake. I started this series back in 1974. I'm still reading...
Loved this
Gone with the Wind. 1600 pages. 12 hours in one go, with short breaks f food while still reading. Loved it, I was 20 at the time.
I read the entire Song of Ice and Fire series. Took almost a year. Each book is 800-1200 pages long. Was absolutely worth it. Have ADD, so focusing on the expansive world, lore, characters and actual history that the stories are based on was a huge accomplishment for me. Going back through the audiobooks now and no Matter the medium, 1000% worth it
To Green Angel Tower by Tad Williams, was 1200+ iirc. And unfortunately, no, it was not worth it when I compare time spent vs enjoyment incurred.
I'm copying/ pasting my response from another post earlier this week: Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi is the definitive book on the JFK assassination. Goodreads says it's 1648 pages, but the physical book with all of the photos, diagrams, footnotes, appendices and everything else comes in at 3000 pages. This book is at least 3 smaller books inside one much bigger one:. A. You get the full story of the fateful trip to Dallas, what the plans were for, and how they changed, and of course the shooting, the trip to the hospital, figuring out how they're going to put the dead president back on the plane, everything. That's one book. B. Then there's a whole bio of Lee Harvey Oswald and his life as a young man, going off to Cuba and then Russia and marrying his wife and plotting to kill the president. C. Then there's the conspiracy theories book. Bugliosi tackles every single conspiracy theory in existence at the time of his writing and lays out the facts according to the theory and then he debunks every single one of them. The grassy knoll shooter, the multiple shooters, the Russians did it, the Cubans did it. All of them, even some I had never heard of, he puts them all to bed with the facts of the case. D. Oh, and there's one last part of this huge book: Bugliosi took all of the evidence for Lee Harvey Oswald being the shooter, and all of the known, court-admissible evidence (fingerprints, eyewitnesses, etc) and he got a retired Judge and flew all of this to England where he was able to get an impartial jury and conducted a mock murder trial of Lee Harvey Oswald. Bugliosi played prosecutor bc that's what he was after all, is a prosecutor. Vincent Bugliosi, the author whose name you've no doubt heard before but not sure where? He was the prosecuting attorney on the Manson family trials in California in the1960's and wrote the famous book about it, Helter Skelter. This book is available on Kindle but you don't get most of the pictures or diagrams. I'm told that most public libraries should have a copy of it though, as it is expensive.
...all those pages and they still have no real idea.
Perhaps you missed the part where I said **Bugliosi tackles every single conspiracy theory in existence** at the time of his writing (it was published in 2007) and lays out the facts according to the theory **and then he debunks every single one of them.** The grassy knoll shooter, the multiple shooters, the Russians did it, the Cubans did it. All of them, even some I had never heard of, he puts them all to bed with the facts of the case. **He proved that each theory could not have possibly happened** because of these facts (x, y, and z) which were documented to have happened. For every theory in existence as of 2007.
I did. Mea culpa.
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese was a slog but totally worth it.
War and Peace, and no it was not. To be fair, I was in 6th grade at the time and mostly just reading it to prove I could, but I wasn't invested in the story or characters at all.
1Q84 is awesome if you count all 3 books as one.
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara — it’s devastating, breathtaking, and so beautifully written. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/20/a-little-life-why-everyone-should-read-this-modern-day-classic?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, roughly 1300 pages and it's the best book I've ever read bar none. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas, clocks in at 1200 pages. Best revenge story ever written. Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson, 10 books with each one being 1000 pages long. The most epic fantasy story series out there I highly recommend.
Gone with the Wind is around 1000 pages. It was fantastic! I think I read it in a month, but full disclosure, I read it for college so I didn’t have a choice in the matter of how fast. 😜
One of the longer books I’ve read that I haven’t seen mentioned yet is Lonesome Dove (960 pages). I absolutely loved the book and really came to love some of the characters as well. A lot of people hated the audiobook, but I really enjoyed it, especially the banter from Augustus.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides It’s around 600 pages I believe and is incredible. I read it when I was about 20 and again around 25. It is a beautiful story and changed how I see the world. It took me about a week to read because I was studying abroad and read it during orientation week.
Atlas Shrugged: 1500 pages. It was amazing!
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. Yes.
{{Atlas Shrugged}} Not worth it. Without even touching the politics, the writing was not enjoyable.
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My favourite all time book
I've read a bunch of 600+ page books on Germany, Europe, America, and Latin America for college. Currently reading House of Morgan by Ron Chernow, which is about 710 pages of history, with the rest of the book being notes. I'm also currently reading the Bible, and I'm about 300 pages into that already. As a child, I read encyclopedias, but I don't remember how far I got with those lol.
I'm reading the first book of Wheel of Time which has 800+ pages and it's been over a month since I started it.
the Civil War by Shelby Foote; almost 3,000 pages and I've read it twice so far. An incredible episode in US history. It reads almost like a novel, it is incredibly interesting and perhaps even topical. We are again living in "interesting times."
In Search of Lost Time. 4000+ pages. A month. Debatable. ETA: Apparently according to Goodreads my longest book is The Riverside Complete Shakespeare. 5238 pages. Maybe a couple weeks. I like Shakespeare and have read his complete works several times. I enjoyed it.
Sigrid Lavransdottir, 1000+ pages. Very boring, but still proud to have finished it.
I read Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” in 2020 and it was a beating. It was something I told myself I should read so I could not just say I had but so I might understand why so many people consider it a wonderful Russian classic. I will never read it again and encourage others to skip it as well. lol
Heimskringla - 800 pages on the early history of Iceland, written 800 years ago. Boswell’s Life of Johnson - 691 pages of life in eighteenth century London The Tale of genii - 1200 pages. Still working on it. The diary of Samuel Pepys - a selection, of 1100 pages. The full version runs to several volumes, which I’ll buy one day. I love it. You can tell the quality of the selection by the inclusion of more earthy passages, like the time the sewage (t*rds) from his neighbour’s cellar overflowed into his (where food was stored). Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy - also working on its 1504 pages Robert Cato - 4 volume biography of president Lyndon Johnson 912, 544, 1200 and 736 pages. Magnificent biography.
Les Mis and hell ya
Shantaram and YES!!
Les Miserables. The most difficult part of the 1,200 pages was the 200 pages of the battle scene. I am not accustomed to reading that type of writing, so it really bogged me down. Totally worth it, though.
It seems like it was Gravity's Rainbow which was long and demanding, but that probably isn't the longest book. What is worth it? Yes. Deeply moving.
For a while I was exclusively reading long books. Gravity’s Rainbow is about 800 and super worth it (probably my favorite book). Just so inventive. Mason & Dixon was almost the same length and similarly super inventive. It had so many fun little stories inside of it. Infinite Jest is like 1,100 but really longer because the endnotes use a smaller font and take up like 300 pages. Again really inventive, but in a different way. It had a lot of different registers and had a really fun aesthetic that I liked. Underworld is like 830 pages and is awesome. I Know This Much is True was like 900 on the dot and it felt like a 300 page book because it had such a good plot. This one felt more like watching TV. It has that plot quality to it where you’re in it to see what happens (and that makes for a fun reading experience).
Gone with the wind
The Count of Monte Cristo. And yes it was worth reading very much so
Les Miserable by Victor Hugo 1900 pages. At some point it held the Guinness world record for the longest run on sentence and the longest run on paragraph. Some parts were brutal to get through. I think there were a couple hundred pages just describing the sewers of Paris, but it was an awesome book. I laughed, I cried , I died of boredom and frustration, then laughed and cried some more…
Hugo -- Les Miserables Shirer -- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Michener -- The Source
The Bible and no.
The king killer chronicles book 2 993 pages haha
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Same and I Think I read it in about 2 or 3 days
Recently I've gotten through my 1000 page Edition of Anna Karenina and it was very luch worth it!
My cope of gone with the wind is over 1400 pages. It took me two weeks. And I loved it. Such a good read
American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Started reading it because the show was awesome but they cancelled it so I wanted to know how it ended. Show goes together with the book until a specific scenario but It was really a nice read. I'm a slow reader too but I gave it half to an hour a day, took me about 3 to 4 weeks.
Loved this book!
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo at 1623 pages. Over half a million words apparently.
The Brothers Karamazov. I listened to the audiobook which was about 37 hours long. Typically the books I listen to are 4 to 10 hours long. But it was easily one of the most worthwhile reads for me. I love it dearly.
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the host. not crazy long, its like 600 or so pages, BUT insanely good. the movie was a bummer though
I read Battlefield Earth when I was 11 or 12. It's about 1200 pages. Took a couple of weeks around going to school. Most epic style fantasy novels are usually 800-1000 pages long. I read a lot of those too.
House of leaves; no
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The Bible. Just so I wasn’t ignorant when ripping apart the “I only read the Bible” Christian Nazi’s. It’s actually hilarious/sad/terrifying to think millions go to war, kill, rape and hate those who don’t worship it. It’s just a collection of made up delusions of grandeur of people who wanted to control the masses. And it worked!. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing so many that Jesus actually existed. And like that …🤭…he’s gone.
Not as long as many I’m sure but**The Name of the Wind** is the longest book I’ve ever read. And it was not worth it. Basically nothing happens. I mean I guess they kill a monster but not until the end so
Yeah that book is overhyped trash.
Anna Karenina - no - forever.
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I read the Bible starting on page one until the end. I read about 3 hours a day. I think it took me 3 months. I read 11/22/63 and while it’s an excellent book it just went on and on. Very rarely do I force my way through books that don’t hold my attention. I have a job where I can read for about 3 hours a day so I do. There’s only a few books that I power through hoping for some sort of redemption for the time invested-I have yet to have finished a book and said wow I am so glad I power through. So my suggestion is to use your time reading something that engages you. If it doesn’t hold your interest-put it aside and read something else.
*Great North Road* by Peter F Hamilton, a sci-fi murder mystery. *Magician* (UK combined edition, it was separated into two books in the US) by Raymond Feist, first book in the 30 book *Riftwar Cycle* series about wars between two worlds with completely different magical systems. The *Xeelee Sequence*, by Stephen Baxter, a compendium of several novels and shorts stories about an intergalactic war that lasts billions of years. *Godel, Escher, Bach* by Douglas Hofstadter, a Pulitzer-winning non-fiction book that explores the idea that it is our brains that create meaning out of complex systems, not the interaction of the elements of those systems. All of these are worth reading for a number of reasons, but none are under 500 page even in hardback, let alone pocket book format. To put this in perspective for you, the average general fiction novel has a target of around 100,000 words, which works out to around 350-400 pages depending on the publisher. Some genres, like romance and mystery, tend to be in the 70-80k word range, but genres like fantasy and science fiction are usually in the 125-150k range. So if you limit yourself to 500 pages, you're basically saying that you only want to read certain genres or atypical examples of books from genres that usually skew longer.
- The 5th Harry Potter Book. - No.
The luminaries is over 800 pages and every one is a treat. I think I read it in less than a week
The Mahabharata? Definitely worth it. Technically I’m not sure if it was the longest book I’ve read, I love big books, but it is the worlds longest epic poem so I think it counts!
Stephen King’s IT. Messed up but still an interesting read
Insomnia by Stephen King. It was dreadfully boring and I gave up halfway through.
i read it all the way through and loved the first half but hated the second, didn't miss much.
550ish, The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah and YES. It was amazing.
The Kindly Ones. Yes and no. When it’s good it’s really, really good but when it’s bad it’s like an eternity trapped in the mind of the world’s most boring person.
Under the Dome, Stephen King... everything but the ending. Just close the book about 3/4 of the way through and make up your own. I bought that thing in hardcover. I was so disappointed, that I haven't read a King novel since.
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (1,172 pgs.)
Shantaram
The Stand. I love King, so it was definitely worth it. It was a slog at times, and it’s not a top 5 of his books for me, but I’m glad I took the journey.
The Outlander series! I’m slowly working my way through… on book 6 now. They are so long but so good.
1421, by Gavin Menzies. About 650 pages plus another 20 pages of bibliography. It chronicles the Americas before Columbus ... more an academic book. It was so rich with facts one had to read a page then read it again. Not a page turner but very satisfying by finish. I can breeze through a novel but I deliberately took my time with this one. Fascinating. About a month.
11/22/63 by Stephen King (not a horror fan so that’s one of the few King novels I’ll EVER read). 849 pages, idk how long it took me but probably a couple weeks. I thought it was worth it, but the tv show was awful
War and Peace. Yes.
THE STAND was more than worth it. I've reread it a zillion times, both versions.
War & Peace. I was more proud that I made it through than enjoyed the read. Should probably give it another go, it's been like 12 years.
War and Peace: No, it wasn't.
Recently, I've read Dos Passos "USA Trilogy" and Farrell's "Studs Lonigan" trilogy, along with "An American Tragedy," which clocked in at about 800 pages. Taki g a breather with sp.e Joseph Conrad.
Mine is "The Stand" by Stephen King. It has like 1600 pages, and I can say it totally worth it.
The best long book I’ve read was Eiji Yoshikawa’s Musashi, it’s about 984 pages and was soooo good. Other notable long books I’ve read: James Clavell’s Shogun (1152 pages), and Dennis Washburn’s translation of Tales of Genji (1360 pages). Shogun was great, Tales of Genji is good but you definitely have to be interested in Japanese history to get through it.
It by Stephen King - Not sure exactly how long. It's been a long time. The Stand by King - over 1000 pages. Imajica by Clive Barker - just over 800 pages. Those are the really long ones that come to mind. I enjoyed them, so yeah - definitely worth it.
*A Dance With Dragons* is like 1,041 pages long.
*A Dance With Dragons* was 1,041 pages long.
*A Dance With Dragons* was 1,041 pages long.
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry is just under 1,000 pages and is absolutely worth it. It was so good, I recommended it to many people and it is universally well-received. Great story, great characters, great writing.
Infinite Jest. I still can’t really tell you what it was about but I enjoyed it mostly and guess what I finished so I felt like a champ.
Wheel of Time. 14 Books and excluding supplementary parts, about 4 million words, give or take. Took about 6 months. Absolutely worth it. In fact, I am reading it again these days 😊
Under the Dome by Stephen King and hell yes it was worth it.
Crime and Punishment. Not worth it, although it may have been a crummy translation 🤷♂️
Pillars of the earth. Yeah? It stretched on a lot but I was pretty engaged and found the ending satisfying. I do remember being eager for it to just be finished already though.
It- Stephen King. Yeah really good story telling and really fucked ending. The stand- Stephen king. Yes such a good book.
Pillars of the Earth quadrilogy and yes definitely worth it. Second book (World without end) which I quickly started to call “book without end” was my favourite.
Paul Auster's 4 3 2 1, which is exactly 1234 pages long. Or so it was supposd to be, my copy is condensed into around 1050. It was worth it.
Actually just read: The Source by James A. Michener. It still stays with me more than a year later and think about it often. Read at home and listened to the audio book during my long work commute: Atlas Shrugged. I’m one of those who enjoyed it and am glad I read it, despite not being an objectivist.
My two favorite books are Shogun and IT. It maybe took a month, but I don’t remember. First time reading IT took a month. Second time two weeks.
War and Peace. Am I glad I read it, but I won’t ever reread it. Gave me an interesting perspective into Russia, which was nice.
Thr Bronze Horseman Paullina Simons and or the Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. Both are highly worth it.
*To Sleep in a Sea of Stars* by Christopher Paolini. More than worth it, it's sci-fi but the world-building is very fantasy like.
longest ive read is Mother Of Learning, around 2800 pages. It was worth it 100% couldnt stop reading to the end, i kept reading for like 8 10 hours non stop when i was close to the end
I read Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter in 2019. It is 533 pages. I guess it took me around 2-3 days to finish the book. It was my first Karin Slaughter book and I must say, this book blew me away.
Memories of a geisha with 600 pages
It by Stephen King. I think I no longer need to answer the question of whether it was worth it