Hello readers! This week for Top Ten Tuesday, it was a freebie. So, I was looking at the list for a long time and found one about the longest books I’ve ever read. I know I’ve read at least 3 over 1k pages, so I’m excited for this one!
I’m actually going to skip any books that are bind ups of other books or stories because that seems like cheating. I own this ebook of the entire Wizard of Oz collection that is 1700 pages, but does that really count?
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme that was created by The Broke and the Bookish in 2010 and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week, you pick your top 10 of the topic provided.
Prompt: Freebie – Longest Books I’ve Ever Read
1,232 pages
Les Miserables was a book I never planned to read. My dad bought me this book for Christmas in 2013.
He then died in 2014 and I never could bring myself to get rid of it. I mean, I never thought I would read it. For one, HUGE and secondly, it’s a classic.
In December 2019, I just had a random urge to try the dang book and I loved it. It took me half a month to read it, but there were no regrets. I think, if you enjoy really immersive books that give you details about a person’s life over multiple decades, this could be for you.
It follows a character named Jean Valjean who escapes from imprisonment and spends his entire life pretending to be other people. For the most part, it works. He does amazing things and lives very many lives.
This is the type of classic that won’t be for everyone, but I really loved it. I honestly want to read more Victor Hugo in the future. He also wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which I’d love to read one day.
1,166 pages
The second biggest is one that I have actually read twice, being It. This book is phenomenal and honestly one of King’s best.
This one follows a group of friends when they are kids and adults. They band together both times to take down this alien who appears to be an evil clown.
We start out in the adult version of the group and then go back and forth between the timelines and characters. Honestly talking about this is making me want to go watch the movies again.
1,007 pages
The Way of Kings is the first book in the Stormlight Archive. This one was the hardest one to read of the three I’ve mentioned.
I had never read a fantasy book quite this immersive in my life. If you are considering trying out Sanderson’s books, don’t start here unless you’ve read other books like it.
It took me over a month to read, and I had to restart it. I started it the first time on audiobook, and I felt like I was so lost. After being roughly 200 pages in, I decided to go and buy a copy of the book to restart it.
When I restarted it, I read 30 pages a day until I was done. And, I loved it! But, it was exhausting to get through. One of these days I’m going to read the sequel, which is 80 pages longer than this one.
870 pages
I do not talk about Harry Potter often, for obvious reasons, but I did LOVE this series once.
I actually never read these books as a kid. I was planning on saving them, which I did, until the movies were all out. It helped me to keep the magic a little longer, until JK ruined it all.
Anyhow, this book was the craziest one for me. I HATED movie 5 of the Harry Potter series, but this was honestly one of my favorites in the book series. I don’t know what it is, but that 5th movie just didn’t do this book justice.
Why did JK have to go and ruin it for us?
849 pages
11/22/63 is another great book from King. It’s sort of an alternate historical fiction.
This one follows Jake who goes back in time to prevent Kennedy from being assassinated. And, then we also get to see what the world may have been like if he didn’t die. It’s like those what if books, but written by King.
Everything about this book is intriguing. The present, past, new present, and even rules for the time travel was interesting. I highly recommend!
837 pages
Next up is Game of Thrones! I really enjoyed this book. The hardest part of reading it is how different many of the characters look and their ages.
But, I don’t regret reading it one bit. I just won’t be reading on until another book comes out because this publishing schedule is ridiculous.
824 pages
Winter is the final book in the Lunar Chronicles. I read this series back in 2019. It’s a dystopian retelling of a few different fairy tales.
I remember loving this book, but the ending was underwhelming for me. I just felt like the story wrapped up and I wanted to see a little bit more.
816 pages
A Little Life. This was said to be the saddest book many people have ever read. I think it is a little too much.
Don’t get me wrong, this book was moving. It was emotional and depressing, but honestly it felt like the author thought of every trauma one person could go through and put them all on one character.
I don’t regret reading it, but I know not many people are going to be able to get through this book. If you have a trigger regarding trauma, trust me, it’s in this book.
803 pages
House of Earth And Blood. This has to be my favorite SJM book to date and my most annotated. Though, I haven’t read any of the other books in the series.
I really want to reread this book before I go into the rest of the series, but I don’t know when that will be.
773 pages
The last one for this post is another Sanderson. The Well of Ascension is the 2nd book in the 1st era Mistborn. This is such a great series.
This is where you should start if you want to get into Sanderson. Sure, there is a complex magic system, but it isn’t as dense.
I do have to say Mistborn era 2 is my favorite, but I still loved this series. Era 2 is much shorter because we get an entire series of backstory instead of getting it within the books.
What is the longest book you’ve ever read? I absolutely love big books, but I don’t read them as much anymore.
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