Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books with a High Page Count. I’ve definitely done variations on this topic before, focusing on the longest books I’ve ever read, plus the longest read in particular years (here are my lists from 2021 and 2017/2018) — but it’s been a while, so why not give the topic an update?
To kick things off, here are (more or less*) the longest books I’ve ever read, according to my Goodreads stats:
*this is actually somewhat changeable, depending on the edition… but let’s just say these are among the longest I’ve ever read!
- A Breath of Snow and Ashes – 1488 pages
- Les Misérables – 1463 pages
- The Fiery Cross – 1443 pages
- A Storm of Swords – 1177 pages
- The Stand – 1152 pages
- Shogun – 1152 pages
- A Dance with Dragons – 1125 pages
- Under the Dome – 1074 pages
- A Feast for Crows – 1060 pages
- War and Remembrance – 1042 pages
(Hmmm… I suppose without Diana Gabaldon, George R. R. Martin, and Stephen King, I’d have a lot more free reading time on my hands!)
To keep things fresh, I’ll add in the longest books I’ve read from 2022 until now. My ten longest recent books are:
- Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon – 902 pages
- Daniel Deronda by George Eliot – 796 pages
- Paper Girls: The Complete Story by Brian K. Vaughan – 784 pages
- Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros – 623 pages
- Fairy Tale by Stephen King – 607 pages
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah – 593 pages
- Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7) by James S. A. Corey – 560 pages
- Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan – 546 pages
- My Calamity Jane by Cynthia Hand et. al. – 546 pages
- Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6) by James S. A. Corey – 541 pages
- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab – 535 pages
More Gabaldon and King… and yes, that makes 11 books, simply because the 11th longest book is too good to leave off my list!
Which are the longest books you’ve read in the past few years?
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