I am into classics so dont need a modern one. I have decided to read a long novel or two 800 pages plus this year.
If you guys can suggest a combo of two novels or a single long novel, please help.
I can read anything until it's good. That's it
Thanks
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Neal Stephenson’s *Cryptonomicon* if you’re even remotely interested in sci-fi/tech.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas or The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
*War and Peace* + *Anna Karenina* by Leo Tolstoy
*The Brothers Karamazov* + *Crine and Punishment* by Fyodor Dostoevsky
*Don Quixote* by Miguel de Cervantes (best translation by Edith Grossman)
The Magic Mountain by Mann. It’s wonderful.
jane eyre and rebecca for gothic atmosphere and similar/not similar character studies.
Shantaram, A Fine Balance, A Little Life
Bleak House. All human life is there.
North and South. John Jake’s. Three part
Series.
GONE WITH THE WIND — one of the most remarkable books I’ve ever read.
Sharon K Penman books are long but really enjoyable. Stories set in the Plantagenet era.
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
If you want more recent: The Recognitions, Gass; The Garden of Seven Twilights, Palol; 2666, Bolano, Praiseworthy, Wright, The Catholic School, Albinati, A Blended Circuity, Stickley. For older and not mentioned already: Buddenbrooks (that some say is even better than Magic Mountain).
Stephen King’s **11/22/63** A man goes back in time in an attempt to prevent the assassination of JFK.
Middlemarch!! I’m reading it again, and every page is just so beautiful.
4 3 2 1 – Paul Auster
2666 РRoberto Bola̱o
1Q84 – Haruki Murakami
In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust
War and Peace – Lev Tolstoy
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope.
Surprised no one has suggested *The Stand* yet. I totally agree with a lot of suggestions here, but the 1990 version is Stephen King’s longest stand-alone novel and is one of the greatest works of modern fiction I’ve ever read.
Lonesome Dove is just around 800-900 pages.
I can’t remember the exact number but Gone With The Wind was up there as well. Both are great books.
Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Shogun. Lonesome Dove. The Goldfinch.
*Anna Karenina* by Leo Tolstoy has been mentioned here but it’s excellent. *Les Miserables* by Victor Hugo is pretty fantastic as well. *Trinity* by Leon Uris will break your heart in a great way.
Technically they’re by a modern writer, but the *Pillars of the Earth* series by Ken Follett are all historical (from roughly 900-1500) are very good, and every book meets your minimum page count.