Top Ten Longest Books I’ve Ever Read
TTT for October 9, 2018
#TopTenTuesday
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Click on the covers to know more about the books,
but as most are classics, you have probably heard about them
Have you read any of these?
Which one is your favorite?
What’s the longest book you have ever read?
Words And Peace 
I have actually read the first two from your list and “Les Misérables”. all of them brilliant books. I love chunkies.
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Links to my reviews:
Tolstoy, Leo “Anna Karenina”
Follett, Ken “Fall of Giants”
Hugo, Victor “Les Misérables“
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cool, 3 in common!
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thanks, and thanks for the links to your reviews, I just left a comment on your latest post
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You have read some daunting books. I have Anna Karenina and The Count of Monte Cristo on my to-read list, but I keep shuttling them to the side because they are so intimidating to me. I’m now off to see what I can find out about Therapy of Spiritual Illnesses and the book of homilies. Thank you for sharing your list.
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The Count of Monte Cristo is amazing.
Therapy of Spiritual Illnesses is actually an awesome global presentation of Eastern Orthodoxy. I have a post abut it here, highlighting the table of contents, which is great by itself: https://wordsandpeace.com/2013/12/25/short-eastern-orthodox-book-reviews/
and more about the book here: https://wordsandpeace.com/2014/12/20/reviews-of-orthodox-books-larchet-and-tikhon/
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Anna Karenina just missed my top ten. I remember reading that (for fun!) in college.
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yes, so good, like many Russian classics
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I’ve not read any of these. The longest book I’ve ever read (if you consider it ‘one’ book, given it was traditionally published in 3 volumes) is The Lord of the Rings. The longest book I’ve never reread is IT by Stephen King (of my top ten longest ever read I’ve reread 7 of them multiple times!)
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yes, I did not count The Lord of the Rings and similar examples, because it’s 3 different physical books.
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Fair 🙂 I have it as a single volume edition (in hardback), which I’ve read. It was murder on my wrists 😀
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oh wow! Ebook format is helpful for these, lol
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I have read Anna Karenina. A few I have read that come to mind: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, 1152 pp. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, 830 pp. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke 782 pp.
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Neal Stephenson intrigues me and I have 3 (no, 5!) of his books on my TBR, time to dive in. and yes, I would start with this one
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I am impressed that you have read Les Miserables! It’s a good one.
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well, I’m French, so I read it back when I was around 12 or 13 – unabridged version of course. My Mom was a fan of Victor Hugo, she had ALL of his works
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I LOVE big books. I read a lot of great history books that are BIG but my favorite long books of literature are War and Peace, Middlemarch (we named our farm after the book but changed it to Middlemay since that’s when we were married) and Gone With The Wind. I really enjoy complex characters.
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I love it about your farm! Though I did DNFed Middlemarch, possibly because I tried it in audio, same for War and Peace. I usually enjoy Russian classics, so I need to retry it in print this time
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In order to learn about the French culture through the eyes of Victor Hugo, I read Les Miserables (unabridged French edition) while studying abroad in Paris (fall 2012). My husband, back in the United States, read the unabridged English version. This was a magical way to stay connected and have fascinating Skype sessions. He loved the sections about the politics and wars and I loved the character study of Jean ValJean, my fictional hero , and the beautiful love stories. It was worth the 1100 pages!
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wow, this is so cool, to stay connected through literature, and even better, with French literature, lol!
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Great list!! So many good books seem to be very long. My list overlaps a good deal with yours, and I would add Kristin Lavransdatter and the Tale of Genji as very long and very high on my favorites! My cherished novels in general seem to be the long ones, probably because of the breadth of what the authors had to say, but also because one lives with the characters such a long time.
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I am not surprised we would have a lot in common. The younger bloggers mostly have fantasy, very few classics, sad… I also read Kristin Lavransdatter, but I guess I would have counted it as 3 different books. I tried to take into account only those for which each PHYSICAL book was looooong. One day, I’ll have to dive into The Tale of Genji… I also love long novels, for the same reason, but I’m more and more picky, they need to be really well written
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I want to read Les Mis someday, actually!
* TTT: Top 10 longest books I’ve read in 2018 🌻❤🌻❤
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go for it, great book!
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I’ve been meaning to read more Classics (the only ones I have read are the ones in school [mainly Charles Dickens and such]), Les Mis has been catching my attention for a while now. Everyone seems to love it so I want to read it…. but it is also huge and scary and I am very spooked XD
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it actually reads fast. it’s not scary like a ghost story or that type of things. I actually would never have thought of the adjective scary to describe it
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You definitely have some BIG ones! Whew! IQ84 and The Count of Monte Cristo made several of the lists that I’ve seen.
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I’m a big fan of Murakami. So far IQ84 was my favorite, BUT I’m going to the library right now to pick up the one released yesterday!
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