For long novel reference, I just finished Pillars of the Earth (LOVED) and have listened to 11.22.63, the stand and anna karenina, the bee sting, of which, are all phenomenal. a little life, reamde, dune, the savage detectives were meh imo. I’m looking for my next enrapturing 25++ hour listen.
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Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts – a fictionalized version of the author’s experiences in Bombay/Mumbai in the 1980s after he escapes from an Australian prison. It’s a 43-hour audiobook and I was hooked from beginning to end.
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
If you liked Anna Karenina, may I suggest more Tolstoy?
War and Peace is right this way, sir…
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Count of Monte Cristo – absolutely riveting from beginning to end.
*Bleak House* is 39 hours and every word of it is worth it; same with *Great Expectations*.
I was also going to say *The Monk* but it’s only like 19 hours, it’s so good though! *North and South* is just under 25 hours, same with *Tess of the D’Urbevilles*.
Following this thread …
I listened to the Julie Rose translation of Les Miserables narrated by George Guidall on audible a couple years ago and absolutely loved it. It’s 60 hours.
Trinity – Leon Uris.
Count of monte cristo
East of Eden perhaps?
Under the Dome is like 40 hours or something like that. I probably loved it as much as I did partly because I love Raúl Esparza (Barba from SVU) who did the audiobook.
*Swan Song*
*The Stand*
*Shogun*
If you’re willing to get sucked into the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, you will have many thousands of pages ahead of you!
The Mists of Avalon is absolutely bonkers long, like 50 hours, if you can stand an Arthurian retelling that focuses on the female perspective.
The Rosy Crucifixion – Henry Miller
The powerbroker by Robert Caro
Since you’ve already read a Ken Follet book and enjoyed it, you should definitely consider his Century Trilogy. Riveting historical fiction. Three books, each around 1000 pages featuring multiple generations from 4 or 5 different families from different countries and walks of life. The first book deals with the WW1. The second, WW2, and the third, a combination of Vietnam, The Cold War and the Civil Rights movement. I read the entire thing last summer. It took a month and a half, but it was rewarding.
Gravity’s Rainbow