#long books

[mysharona1987]

[elsa-carlone]

I need to know what happened to the Queendom of Sepul so bad like why is it not a Queendom anymore? What happened? I need answers so bad

I also need more Roots of Chaos books but alas there is only three and I have them all so there’s no more new ones for me to read (I say that as I’m not even finished atbf but shhhh I’m almost onto the second half I have like five pages)

One day I’ll hunt down and buy all the special editions just you wait

[andreai04]

All he had were: his own past, which was so short; his present - so sombre; and his future - so uncertain: nineteen years of light to contemplate, in what might be eternal darkness!

[ria-lina]

No bc the SEXISM in the reading community is crazy Rick Rordian writes a billion series percy jackson universe and people beg him for more. Jenifer Lyn Barnes writes 5 books and is “ MILKING IT” YALL MAKE ME SO MAD I CAN SCREAM. ALSO LIKE DO YK HOW MANY BOOKS R IN THE SHATTER ME SERIES, if you want to talk about milking books LOOK THERE

[stephenkinginanutshell]

i was reading insomnia in phys ed last semester and some random girl came up to me, gasped, and asked me if i was reading some sort of bible 🫢💔 (it’s not even king’s longest book)

[conniesburrow]

me: I should read something short and snappy in order to make myself more motivated and comfortable with reading again. yeah! that's a good idea :))

also me:

[ub-sessed]

The thing about reading books on Libby is that it's very easy to start reading a book without realizing how long it is. Today I realized that I'm only HALFWAY THROUGH The Count of Monte Cristo.

So what are the longest novels I've read? These are from longest to shortest by page count, according to Goodreads (I looked up word counts too, but the results varied wildly).

The Witching Hour, by Anne Rice (200,000-300,000 words)

The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu (100,000-800,000 words)

Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace (400,000-600,000 words)

The Cider House Rules, by John Irving (100,000-300,000 words)

Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell (~420,000 words)

Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes (300,000-500,000 words)

Bleak House, by Charles Dickens (200,000-400,000 words)

Middlemarch, by George Eliot (200,000-400,000 words)

The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James (100,000-200,000 words)

Ulysses, by James Joyce (200,000-300,000 words)

The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins (100,000-300,000 words)

Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (200,000-300,000 words)

The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand (100,000-400,000 words)

Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie (100,000-300,000 words)

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon (100,000-300,000 words)

I think that if I read War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, and A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth, I will be happy with my long book collection.