Please recommend a book with roughly 500-800 pages? I've read plenty of short books this year so I'd like to end my reading challenge on a strong note, I considered Underworld and IQ84 but wasn't committed to either. Thank you for any suggestions, you folks do amazing work on this sub <3
Yes: literary fiction, horror, true crime
Maybe: mystery, thriller, sci-fi, biography/memoir
No: high fantasy, romance
by btwnplanets
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The corrections, the overstory, pachinko, and kintu. All fantastic longer reads.
I really liked Underworld
The Magus by John Fowles. It’s literary fiction. Read it for the first time when I was 24. Raced through it in a couple of days (and it’s a long book). Finished it in the middle of the night, slept fitfully for a couple of hours and woke up so depressed I could no longer live in it that I started over from the beginning. This has only happened to me once.
I turned 60 this year, and I’ve now read it about 20 times. I’ve read thousands of books, this is my all time favourite – it has everything.
Don’t want to say too much about the plot, so I’ll just leave you with the last sentences of part one:
“I did not think about the future. In spite of what the doctor at the clinic had said I felt certain that the cure would fail. The pattern of destiny seemed clear: down and down, and down.
But then the mysteries began.”
War and peace by Tolstoy, Lost Illusions by Balzac
Demon Copperhead
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Or the Count of Monte Cristo but that’s a few hundred more pages than you’ve asked for