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    Suggest me a big, fat book

    I love loooong books. I’m reading The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton at the moment.

    Nothing particular, I like a bit of everything (but not fantasy/romantasy). I read really fast so I like reading big long ones and feeling like I’m in the same place for a long time.

    Thanks !

    by gcsmt23

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    45 Comments

    1. Remarkable_Table_279 on

      Count of Monte Cristo…make sure it’s unabridged…on onion skin paper it’s 3 inches thick…and it’s soooo good 

    4. occasionalskiier on

      Count of Monte Cristo.

      War and Peace.

      Brothers Karamazov.

      Cant go wrong with any of them in term of both fatness of length and mastery.

    6. clumsystarfish_ on

      *11.22.63* by Stephen King. A man goes back in time trying to prevent the assassination of JFK. Meticulously researched and a brick of a book, but thoroughly enjoyable. There’s an adapted mini series, too.

    14. lennybriscoforthewin on

      The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. A little in the future a historian travels back to Medieval England.

    15. TrueObsidian11 on

      The Host by Stephenie Meyer is a chunky one and it’s a nice popcorn read for sci-fi romance. Low stakes, because SMeyer couldn’t write high stakes if you put a gun to her head, but I really love the way she describes emotions and character interactions in this book. It’s very easy to get into the MC’s head and feel the world through her. Nice novel to give yourself a break from those complex, big brain reads.

    23. SenseIntelligent8846 on

      I’d suggest *INFINITE JEST* by David Foster Wallace for fiction, and *THE PRIZE* by Daniel Yergen for nonfiction. Each is pretty long.

    24. Past-Magician2920 on

      Johnathon Strange and Doctor Morrell – great story, great world-building, great writing, and tremendously long which is also great

    32. yangyang25 on

      From the 1800s, “The Way We Life Now” by Trollope, “Bleak House” by Dickens, or “Kenilworth” by Sir Walter Scott. all long, I liked them a lot.

    33. Annual-Research1094 on

      Pillars of the Earth, The Secret History, Cutting for Stone, Lonesome Dove, The Poisonwood Bible, All the Light We Cannot See, Anna Karenina, Sophie’s Choice, Gentleman in Moscow, A Little Life, 1Q84, Demon Copperhead, The Name of the Wind, East of Eden, The Stand, Outlander, Les Miserable, The Book Thief, One Hundred Years of Solitude, several of the books by Robert Galbraith are long

    34. Thymestep on

      A big fat book that I loved is I know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb. Enjoy. It’s present day and goes back to the past. It is an extraordinary book! Again, enjoy!

    35. ShowMeYourHappyTrail on

      Hild and Menewood by Nicola Griffith (these two go together). The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab. Fairy Tale by Stephen King. Not necessarily a big, fat book but one of my faves was Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

    40. AdZestyclose7592 on

      War and Peace is definitely what you want haha. I also found Demon Copperhead a bit of a tome but it’s very readable and if you read fast, you’ll fly through it. Covenant of Water is a bit lengthy and will keep you busy for a bit. Pachinko is very acclaimed and pretty long. Finally, Cloud Cuckoo Land is somewhat long and one of my favorite books I’ve read in a while (I liked it better than All the Light We Cannot See if you know that one.)

    41. BASerx8 on

      I am going through the Modern Library abridged version of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It is quite a doorstop, but also a very fun read if you have any interest at all in the subjects he covers.

    42. SchroedingersTRex on

      Are you open to serial reads? I thoroughly enjoyed the Bobiverse series as well as the Murderbot series. Neither one has terribly LONG books, but you can string them together for a nice, long immersion experience!

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